My Olympian

The Winter Olympics came to Kansas... And Turner was such a good athlete, he got to participate in all of the events.

There was bobsledding, curling, snowball bouncing (which included both the super G and combined), SPEECH skating, curling, ice hockey, ski-jump, the biathlon, and several others.

He was on the red team...they won the gold medal ;-)

I had such a wonderful day with him. After all of that Olympic fun, he took me on a date to Applebees. I LOVE being a mom of four, but sometimes it is really fun to have a special day with just one!

Happier Monday

Happy Monday!

Happy Monday

Big Girls don't cry...

Maybe she is crying because she found out that she is not "big". We recently took Carly for her two year check-up to find out she is "below average" She is now 21.5 lbs, and has a small head, and she is short... Poor girl! She wasn't on the charts for anything but her height 5th percentile.

They drew her blood to see is she might have any problems with growth hormones (or something like that) and guess what, we found out...

She is wonderfully made, it's just the way God intended.

Busy... and blaming vampires

I am always busy... As I am sure most of you are. Some things that take up my time are things that HAVE to be done (laundry, cooking, cleaning, errands, finding toothbrushes... you know the normal day-to-day-with four kids stuff) Some things I am busy with because I want to be (working out, sewing, making hair bows, playing silly games with the kids) But there is something I am embarrassed to admit... so (deep breath) until last month, it has been OVER 8 years since I read a book for pleasure (not counting the Bible, and a few college books I actually found myself enjoying)... children's books don't count, they are in a whole category of their own, I am talking ACTUAL books without pictures people...

Then I was at gymnastics practice and was peer pressured into reading the Twilight Chronicles.

And well let's just say that many of the things that NEEDED to get done didn't.

I read all four books in about a week...

There, I got it off my chest. I became a Twilight freak... I never saw myself as a vampire/werewolf kind of gal.
Just don't tell anyone.
Plus, I am just letting the world know, as a bias mother, I think that Carly should be casted as Renesmee Cullen.... What do you think?

(This photo was NOT ahem... AT ALL edited... Ahem wink wink)

New things!!!

So, I'm still working on loading up the new shop! Notice on the right side! I love creating everything, but I don't like taking photos and editing them, and uploading them to etsy... TIME CONSUMING...But I promise (not that you were waiting with baited breath or anything..) that when I'm ready, it will all be worth it! HMMM.... maybe even a GIVEAWAY. See the blog button??? I even think that if you click it, it works... YAY me!