Very First Day of School

It happened, Josh & Ella's very first day of school.

I am so excited for the new adventures they are going to have but I am also scared. I have so many what-ifs going through my mind; what if they make bad choices or friends, what if they hate school and then hate me for making them go, what if I didn't teach Josh well enough and he's way behind in his class.

I can't wait to pick the kids up from school so I can see if they hate me or not!

Ella at her new desk, she sits right across her friend from Church.

Josh at his new desk, he sits across from a girl that is 3 times his size.
Ella dressed and ready to go
Joshy is really looking so grown up.
Ella had to sleep in curlers last night, I love her hair curly!

Josh's best friend Connor, who is 2 months younger than Josh!

Kristy & D

I came across this today so.....

Kristy, this picture looks like you!

High School Musical 2

Tonight we attended a High School Musical party.
The kid's didn't quite understand the concept of having a party just to have a party nor did they
understand the concept of sit down be quiet and let the Mommy's watch the movie! At any rate we had a nice time with our friends.

I thought I would throw one in of Oscar.After the movie the kid's had a jam session.
I don't know!

This one is not mine however I couldn't resist.

GO ME!

I WENT RUNNING TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was only a mile but I did it with out stopping.

I am so excited that I can work out that I have worked out every day

this week and I can't wait to work out more!

I love parties!!

I love to have parties!
I love getting ready for them, planning and then preparing the food, I love
having guests in my home, the mingling,
I love the formality of the whole thing.

I really do love everything about having parties, especially the clean house beforehand!
Okay, so I am giving a baby shower for a friend and have been wracking my
brain to come up with the "thank you" gift. So finally after weeks of thought (seriously) these are what I have come up with. For those that have r.s.v.p'd they get a monogrammed candle and for those that haven't they get the apple candle.
I just love these and can't wait to give them out so that is why I am blogging about them, I have to show somebody! (for those of you that are coming to the shower and read this please pretend you have never seen these. Thank You)

Oscar's Blessing Day

Oscar's blessing was last Sunday and when ever we get everyone dressed up I like to take pictures and since this was a special occasion I really wanted to take GREAT pictures.

Well, we kind of forgot and we were all changed out of our church clothes.

We had eaten and were about to take a nap when I realized my over site and I knew if we didn't do it today we wouldn't have a family picture taken till Christmas.

So we rounded all the kids up got them dressed (which freaked them out, they thought we had to go back to church) and stood out in the Hot Texas Heat, Ian didn't want to wear shoes and threw a fit when we put them on him, Ella wanted to pick flowers (weeds), Josh kept making funny faces and Oscar was hungry.
We got a couple of shots and I thought everyone looked good.

When we got in the house and looked at the pictures, every picture I was in is garbage due to the fact that I looked just like my Mother!

Gordon wanted me to let everyone know his hair has been cut since these were taken.

Mr. Mark

For an early surprise birthday present I flew in Gordon's best friend Mark from Colorado

to spend a few days cheering Gordon up from the turning 30 blues.

We spent the 5 days stuffing our faces, laughing to the point of tears, staying up late and

stuffing our faces!

Did I mention we stuffed our faces!?

Thanks Mark for helping my wonderful husband feel 17 no....15 no....13 again!

Welcome Timothy COLE Garland

Tuesday August 7th

My baby brother and his wife welcomed their first Child into the world

Weighing in at 7 lbs and 19 in. long

Congratulations you two!

Seeing these 2 together made me sad.

Why is my "little" baby so HUGE!?

Bye-bye Kristy-pooh

There is something about having

a best friend that you have known forever to help you

feel like a 17 year old again!

Thanks for the fun Kristy-pooh!

Can you believe we didn't shop at North Park while you were here, What's wrong with us?

Tia (kristy's sweet daughter) and Ella.
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Cloth Diapers

Before I was pregnant I was introduced to cloth diapers from my friend Farrah and

since I have been trying to be more environmentally conscience

they were right up my ally.

While I was pregnant I was so excited about getting to use them but once

Oscar was born I was a little afraid; I was worried they were going to be too nasty, leak all over the place and just be too much for me to handle with 4 children.

Once I finally started to use them fell in love (even Gordon likes them).

They are so easy to use, soft, cute and most of all they are good for the Earth.

This is a link to my cloth diaper of choice (Farrah did all the research on cloth diapers and I just reap the benefits. Thanks Farrah!)

http://www.fuzzibunz.com/

Sunday School lessons

A few Sundays ago Josh's Sunday school class was learning about the Holy Ghost. One of the things that was talked about was the fact that he can protect us; Josh quickly raised his hand and asked "Can the Holy Ghost protect us from Aids"?
After his teacher picked herself up off the floor the other children quickly began to ask what Aids was and not knowing what to say she told the kid's that the Holy Ghost can help us make right choices so we don't get aids.
My questions are: how does Josh know about aids and did the other children go home and tell their parents that they learned about aids in church.
Seriously who is this boy I’m raising?

The last 9 months

I couldn't help myself.


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Can't get enough of that baby!

My three boys

A good angle
I really do sit and look at him this way
The whole crazy group
His hands are huge!!
I am too tired to actually blog anything good so pic's with captions will have to do.

A week of wonderful!

This has been such a wonderful week!

I am happy to say that the children have welcomed Oscar with open arms, especially Ian who can’t get enough of his baby brother; he sits and "pets" him constantly. Josh has really impressed us with his level of responsibility; he is always asking what he can do to help out. Ella loves Oscar too but has very little to do with him because the brother scene is old news for her.

I loved having Gordon at home with me and I wish he would never have to go back, luckily his boss is very understanding and is cool with him working from home.

We are so happy that Oscar is here and I am especially happy not to be pregnant anymore!

Oscar

Our sweet boy;

Robert Oscar was born Yesterday

at 4:55 p.m

weighing 8lbs 14oz's and 20 3/4 in long.

We are feeling so blessed and are so grateful for all the

help that our friends and family are giving to us.

I'll keep you posted on all the new adventures we will soon be

embarking on.

The story of my life

It seems, when I am pregnant that there are no cute maternity clothes and then when ever I am not pregnant there are tons. Right after I had Ella they came out with Gap maternity I was so mad that I missed out on all the cute clothes that would have helped me feel so much better about myself and the only thing I had to wear was from Motherhood maternity store and Target and the clothes they had were not all that cute. Now, for the second time I am going to miss out on the greatest maternity collection ever, Ann Taylor Loft http://www.anntaylorloft.com/catalog/department.jsp?N=1200121&categoryId=619 (my favorite store, where everything looks good on me or did before I was pregers) has now come out with a maternity line. Again I am so mad that I am missing out! Why does this happen to me? All I have ever wanted was to have cute maternity clothes.

Just something else that ticks me off while I am in an never ending ticked-off state.

On second thought

Okay, so after 2 hours of "contractions" every 5 min. apart 1 min. long I've decided that I am not so ready for this baby, in fact I don't think I want to do this whole give birth thing. Can I back out now?

I am so ready to have this baby!

New Shoes

For my birthday I got a kick-a pair of shoes, the only problem is that my feet and ankles are so swollen they kind of look silly.

I am determined not to let this stop me, in fact the whole time I wore them I thought of this song.

ENJOY!

Baby Shower

A few weeks ago I had the greatest baby shower ever. Not only did I get all the cloth diapers I needed but I got a ton of other stuff as well. It was a really fun party (Thanks to Farrah the wonderful hostess) except for the fact that I was stinking hot and the person taking the pic's of me was sitting on a chair that was quite a bit shorter then mine and almost every picture of me was horrible. I was so amazed by all the gifts and by how many people took the time to come to my shower, it really made my day.

Nastics

Ella has successfully completed her 2nd year of gymnastics. At the end of the year for the parents they do some what of a show and tell, I absolutely love it! Mostly because Ella struts around with a huge smile on her face making sure Gordon and I are watching her at all times.

I don't know if Ella will stay with nastics or not but she sure does look like she has the upper arms for it!

Birthday

In keeping with Birthday tradition I will give 28 somewhat scary facts about myself. I can't promise that this will be good but it should be entertaining!

1. I love to shop. My favorite place to be is at North Park.
2. I am a great friend but a better enemy
3. I love to bake
4. I love to throw parties big or small.
5. I talk to Gordon on the phone at least 5 times a day
6. I don’t really like other people’s children (except for my friend’s children)
7. I don’t really like other people!
8. I love being right.
9. I am a night owl
10. I have to eat by a certain time or I get MEAN.
11. I have a fowl temper
12. I crave working out
13. I would rather sleep in the nude
14. I love to read but don’t want to waist my time on a bad book so I wait for friends to pass books they like on to me when they finish.
15. I love TCBY
16. I love to be in the mountains, they feel like home.
17. I wear a retainer to bed
18. I am legally blind
19. I spend way too much money on craft supplies
20. I hate long song endings
21. I like being in charge.
22. I don’t like animals (after owning 3 cats and 1 dog I finally realized this).
23. Ice cream always makes me happy.
24. I hate being woken up from naps
25. I am a crier and I have duck-lips when I do so.
26. I love properly pruned trees
27. I am becoming somewhat of an environmentalist
28. I really love who I am!

In keeping with Birthday tradition I will give 28 somewhat scary facts about myself. I can't promise that this will be good but it should be entertaining!

1. I love to shop. My favorite place to be is at North Park.
2. I am a great friend but a better enemy
3. I love to bake
4. I love to throw parties big or small.
5. I talk to Gordon on the phone at least 5 times a day
6. I don’t really like other people’s children (except for my friend’s children)
7. I don’t really like other people!
8. I love being right.
9. I am a night owl
10. I have to eat by a certain time or I get MEAN.
11. I have a fowl temper
12. I crave working out
13. I would rather sleep in the nude
14. I love to read but don’t want to waist my time on a bad book so I wait for friends to pass books they like on to me when they finish.
15. I love TCBY
16. I love to be in the mountains, they feel like home.
17. I wear a retainer to bed
18. I am legally blind
19. I spend way too much money on craft supplies
20. I hate long song endings
21. I like being in charge.
22. I don’t like animals (after owning 3 cats and 1 dog I finally realized this).
23. Ice cream always makes me happy.
24. I hate being woken up from naps
25. I am a crier and I have duck-lips when I do so.
26. I love properly pruned trees
27. I am becoming somewhat of an environmentalist
28. I really love who I am!