Sunday, January 30, 2011
Friday, January 28, 2011
Sweeping (and mopping)
I don't like to sweep.
I feel like I should sweep the floors in my kitchen (and extra room about every 4 hours these days.)
I don't remember having this problem in our old house. Maybe it was because we didn't walk in our kitchen straight from the garage(we didn't have one... in our old house.
Or maybe it's because when you walked in our old house you walked onto a tiny scrap of hardwood and then onto carpet.
Side note: I thought Berber carpet was U-G-L-Y when we first moved in our old house. That was until I realized how well it hid all kinds of stuff amd subsequently how infrequently it HAD to be vacuumed. Then we moved into our current house with crappy crappy carpet that is stains and hides NOTHING!! (I'm considering Berber again when we replace the carpet... Hopefully later this year)
Ok back to my original point... I hate to sweep.
I used to like to mop when I was growing up... It was the one chore I didn't mind doing when it was chore time... Then I grew up and became the one responsible for making sure the floors were mopped. And before I moved into a house with light wood floors that show everything.
BUT I still prefer sweeping AND mopping to the hated VACUUMING!!!! That is my least favorite chore of all! I'd rather clean the toilet!! For real though!! (hence the reason we have a deal... Brian vacuums, I clean the toilets.)
Ok so maybe I have a problem with just cleaning floors. Thanks for tracking allnthat crap in my house Kennebecks! :)
Well if I'm being honest I hate cleaning period. But somebody has to do it! And these days a wonderful wonderful twice a month maid just isn't in my budget!! Oh how I miss those days...
I think I'm going to sleep soon... My chores are done for today, but there are more tomorrow! Kids rooms and bathrooms are left... Fun times!
P.S. Bet ya can't guess the last chore I did that sparks this post...
P.P.S. If you were missing your daily dose of randomness... You can thank me later. You have just gotten it.
I feel like I should sweep the floors in my kitchen (and extra room about every 4 hours these days.)
I don't remember having this problem in our old house. Maybe it was because we didn't walk in our kitchen straight from the garage(we didn't have one... in our old house.
Or maybe it's because when you walked in our old house you walked onto a tiny scrap of hardwood and then onto carpet.
Side note: I thought Berber carpet was U-G-L-Y when we first moved in our old house. That was until I realized how well it hid all kinds of stuff amd subsequently how infrequently it HAD to be vacuumed. Then we moved into our current house with crappy crappy carpet that is stains and hides NOTHING!! (I'm considering Berber again when we replace the carpet... Hopefully later this year)
Ok back to my original point... I hate to sweep.
I used to like to mop when I was growing up... It was the one chore I didn't mind doing when it was chore time... Then I grew up and became the one responsible for making sure the floors were mopped. And before I moved into a house with light wood floors that show everything.
BUT I still prefer sweeping AND mopping to the hated VACUUMING!!!! That is my least favorite chore of all! I'd rather clean the toilet!! For real though!! (hence the reason we have a deal... Brian vacuums, I clean the toilets.)
Ok so maybe I have a problem with just cleaning floors. Thanks for tracking allnthat crap in my house Kennebecks! :)
Well if I'm being honest I hate cleaning period. But somebody has to do it! And these days a wonderful wonderful twice a month maid just isn't in my budget!! Oh how I miss those days...
I think I'm going to sleep soon... My chores are done for today, but there are more tomorrow! Kids rooms and bathrooms are left... Fun times!
P.S. Bet ya can't guess the last chore I did that sparks this post...
P.P.S. If you were missing your daily dose of randomness... You can thank me later. You have just gotten it.
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Who Knew?
Who knew that a lego cat and a cup could be so much fun? Apparently Dylan did!!
It all started with talking to the cup and cat.
Then the cup had to go in the mouth. (DUH!)
Hmmm... what to do next?
I know! Put the cat in the cup!
Yep, in the cup.
Oops! I dropped it!!
Back in the cup again!
P.S. I can't decide if I like the edit on these pictures or not... Hmmm....
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Throwback Pics
I'm having problems getting my camera to upload my new pics, so instead I'm going to reminisce and look at some throwback pics of Mackenzie.
Man how the time flies... ok off to bed before I start crying when I realize her baby brother will be 1 in a couple of weeks and she'll be 5 in May. "Sniff! Sniff!"
I don't think I have to explain when this picture was taken... :)
Mackenzie is 3 months old in this picture and silly as always... I loved this outfit! Plus check out the bow and bracelet! When she was this age she always had one or the other on! Now I don't even bother with bows, because they only succeed in getting her in trouble because she won't leave them alone at school!
Every time I think about Mackenzie as a baby this picture comes to mind, it was Christmas night (she was 7 1/2 months old) and when I went to check on her she had all 3 paci's in her hand! This is one of my most precious memories as her as a baby. (And yes after this pic I took the clip off the paci in her mouth! Can you tell we were trying to make sure she stayed asleep when we put her in bed?)
This picture was in Aug of 2007, I had just come back from my first business trip (yep, I traveled even less then...) and I had gotten her a Mickey and a Minnie at the Disney store in the Riverwalk Mall. She LOVED them and carried them with her everywhere! I still have this picture framed in my house!
Check out those curls!! Mackenzie was almost a year and a half old in this picture. And she was always saying "I Cook" and pulling all the pots and rubbermaid containers out of the cabinets. She loved it! (Dylan has already started... wonder where he got the idea?)
This was taken probably a week after the "I Cook" picture. At this time Brian and I were both helping with Awanas on Wednesday nights and Mackenzie LOVED going to Puggles! She wanted to wear her Puggles shirt all the time and in this pic she was showing it off to me while saying "CHEESE!!"
Man how the time flies... ok off to bed before I start crying when I realize her baby brother will be 1 in a couple of weeks and she'll be 5 in May. "Sniff! Sniff!"
Sunday, January 23, 2011
My Beautiful Family
Right before the first of the year we had a friend of ours (she's the wife of one of the hubby's childhood best friends) take family pictures. I knew from seeing her pictures that they were going to be good, but they totally exceeded my expectations!! She lives in El Paso, so unless you live around there you are out of luck!! But believe me next time I want more pics, I'll be asking when is she coming to visit her family next!! Jemimah is a wonderfully talented and creative lady! Check out her blog, Life of a Fritz or her photography website, Jemimah B Photography. She's amazing!!
I couldn't pick just a few pictures to put here, so bear with me... But at least I didn't post ALLL of them! Ha! That's improvement right??
What is going on in that little brain of hers??? Scary!!!
My boyfriend!!
Awww!!!
Yeah, I know I'm cute.
I love the composition of this one! Little Dude just chillin and us watching over him in the background.
My sweet girl!
My boys! (The look on Dylan's face trips me out!)
I love this shot... plus it catches Dylan appopriately... never still!
Lil Ole Me
If one shot could capture my daughter... this would be it, with a silly look on her face!
I can still hear them laughing every time I look at this! They are always laughing about something together!
Oh my goodness!! I love the hair blown in her face because it gives the picture movement.
My big boyfriend!
This is just a testament to Jemimah's skills! I threw Dylan up over my should as we walked across the street to keep him in a good mood and out came this pic! I didn't even know she had it until she posted it as my teaser from the shoot!!
Big Boy Walking!! (Check out his fat wrists... I LOVE them!)
My overall favorite family shot!
I love this background! And I love how we're all looking at at Dylan, Big Sis included!
I mean honestly... what do you say about this?? I die every timeI look at it!!
This one makes me cry every time! I never get in a pic with my kids because I'm always taking the pictures... And this one couldn't be perfect because this is my kids right now... Mackenzie being silly and Dylan grinning and trying to reach for something. (plus his belly and diaper hanging out... )
Yeah, I still kinda like him. :)
I really like this shot too.. I think its a precious shot of the two of us, plus I don't hate myself in this pic. Ha!
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Snow Day
The title says snow day... but it was more like Sleet/Freezing Rain day with a little bit of snow mixed in! :)
We were supposed to get up to 4-6 inches of snow on Sunday, but of course there was a big wide open pocket in the storm so all we got was Sleet and Freezing rain and a tiny bit of the snow we were supposed to get. SURPRISE! Not!!
I haven't sorted thru all my "real pics" from my camera, so I decided to just post my faves from my iPhone! (I just love the Histamatic app!!)
Mackenzie loved placing outside in it even if it was just sleet that accumulated. School was cancelled yesterday and today, work didn't open until noon yesterday, and I couldn't get to our babysitters house yesterday because her road was totally iced over so I stayed home with the kiddos until BK got off. While Dylan took his morning nap Mackenzie and I went outside to let her play.
Dylan didn't play in it... I didn't think a baby who was still trying to get the art of walking mastered and puts everything in his mouth was a really good combination!! Ha! Plus he's fighting a cough and I didn't want a sick baby on my hands! :) No, I'm not a horrible mother, I didn't make him miss his first snow!! His first snow was the day he was born!! Literally it started snowing within 10 minutes of him being born... don't remember if it was before or after he was born... wonder why!! Ha!
We were supposed to get up to 4-6 inches of snow on Sunday, but of course there was a big wide open pocket in the storm so all we got was Sleet and Freezing rain and a tiny bit of the snow we were supposed to get. SURPRISE! Not!!
I haven't sorted thru all my "real pics" from my camera, so I decided to just post my faves from my iPhone! (I just love the Histamatic app!!)
Mackenzie loved placing outside in it even if it was just sleet that accumulated. School was cancelled yesterday and today, work didn't open until noon yesterday, and I couldn't get to our babysitters house yesterday because her road was totally iced over so I stayed home with the kiddos until BK got off. While Dylan took his morning nap Mackenzie and I went outside to let her play.
Dylan didn't play in it... I didn't think a baby who was still trying to get the art of walking mastered and puts everything in his mouth was a really good combination!! Ha! Plus he's fighting a cough and I didn't want a sick baby on my hands! :) No, I'm not a horrible mother, I didn't make him miss his first snow!! His first snow was the day he was born!! Literally it started snowing within 10 minutes of him being born... don't remember if it was before or after he was born... wonder why!! Ha!
Thursday, January 6, 2011
I've been challenged
I've been challenged... I don't really do New Year's Resolutions, but I've been thinking how the New Year is the perfect time for me to make some changes I need to make in my spiritual walk.
As many of you know, the first few years with kiddos can be totally insane and all about them! Add in a job like I've got (a 24/7/365 type job) and a wonderful husband, that's a recipe for staying too busy to take time to work on my walk with my Abba Father. I'm almost ashamed to admit how much my personal walk with God has taken a back seat to all the other "stuff" that is going on. That's why they say if the Devil can't have you then he'll make you too busy. Me - Case in point.
This last year has had some really high moments, hello Dylan joined our crazy house and our daily joy, Mackenzie continued to entertain us! And some really rough ones, my 3rd grandparent died from cancer in as many years, and I can't begin to explain the stress of Brian's old job.
BUT God carried us thru all the highs and all the lows! It's in the in-between moments, when everything is ok that I tend to stop taking the time. Do I pray during the day? Yep. Do we go to church? Yep. Do we teach our kids about our faith? Yep. Do we listen to KLove all the time? Yep. Did I take regular time out of my daily schedule to develop my personal walk with Christ? Nope. (Ouch that's painful to type... As I sit here reading this, it breaks my heart)
Here's the big BUT, I'm not doing all of those things to just go thru the motions, because they really do mean something to me... BUT I am not doing ALL I should be doing! I'm not concentrating on my daily walk with my Abba Father that will help me grow and develop into a better wife, mother, employee, friend, and many other things. If I take the time for this one thing, then all else will be even better because God will bless it!
Another but... But I'm scared! What am I scared of? The fact that I'll just say that I'm going to do it, but not do it again! I've been trying to get back to where I need to be for a while, but guess what. Not there! Not even close. I feel like I commit to it, and mean it with all my heart, and then nope the "stuff" happens again! And again I feel like a failure.
I pray with all my heart and soul that this time will be different, that I won't let the "stuff" overwhelm me again! That Brian and I can both deepen our spiritual walk seperately and in turn strengthen our walk together! Father God, give me the desires of my heart! To know you and follow you with all of my heart!
My sweet friend Ashley blogged not to long ago about the Siesta Scripture Memory Team that started on January 1st. When I read her post I felt like I got kicked in the gut! I thought this could be what I need to help keep me on track!! I just couldn't get it out of my head, yet the "stuff" kept happening! But tonight I finally took the time, and pray that I can keep my committment to follow thru with it all year!
You learn 24 verses in 12 months, and it's supposed to be a verse that's relevant to YOU not somebody else or what you think somebody else needs to learn... so here's my first verse. It's a little painful to relate it to me, but again, I'm trying to be honest with myself...
So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.
Revelation 3:16 NAS
I'm excited to see where this year takes me personally, as a wife, as a mother, and as a friend, but most importantly as a child of God. I pray that the progress I see from this painful verse #1 to verse #24 is a journey filled with growth and joy. If I let my Abba Father lead the way, how can it not be?
Note:
It's crazy how God works... I mentioned to Brian before I started the post above, how I was thinking about the changes I need to make in my personal walk. And while I was writing the post, he texted me two passages of scripture. (Yep from across the room) They were both special, but this one really fit perfectly.
1 LORD, hear my prayer,
listen to my cry for mercy;
in your faithfulness and righteousness
come to my relief.
2 Do not bring your servant into judgment,
for no one living is righteous before you.
3 The enemy pursues me,
he crushes me to the ground;
he makes me dwell in the darkness
like those long dead.
4 So my spirit grows faint within me;
my heart within me is dismayed.
5 I remember the days of long ago;
I meditate on all your works
and consider what your hands have done.
6 I spread out my hands to you;
I thirst for you like a parched land.[a]
7 Answer me quickly, LORD;
my spirit fails.
Do not hide your face from me
or I will be like those who go down to the pit.
8 Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,
for I have put my trust in you.
Show me the way I should go,
for to you I entrust my life.
9 Rescue me from my enemies, LORD,
for I hide myself in you.
10 Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God;
may your good Spirit
lead me on level ground.
11 For your name’s sake, LORD, preserve my life;
in your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.
12 In your unfailing love, silence my enemies;
destroy all my foes,
for I am your servant.
Psalm 143
Thank you Father for speaking to me thru my husband.
As many of you know, the first few years with kiddos can be totally insane and all about them! Add in a job like I've got (a 24/7/365 type job) and a wonderful husband, that's a recipe for staying too busy to take time to work on my walk with my Abba Father. I'm almost ashamed to admit how much my personal walk with God has taken a back seat to all the other "stuff" that is going on. That's why they say if the Devil can't have you then he'll make you too busy. Me - Case in point.
This last year has had some really high moments, hello Dylan joined our crazy house and our daily joy, Mackenzie continued to entertain us! And some really rough ones, my 3rd grandparent died from cancer in as many years, and I can't begin to explain the stress of Brian's old job.
BUT God carried us thru all the highs and all the lows! It's in the in-between moments, when everything is ok that I tend to stop taking the time. Do I pray during the day? Yep. Do we go to church? Yep. Do we teach our kids about our faith? Yep. Do we listen to KLove all the time? Yep. Did I take regular time out of my daily schedule to develop my personal walk with Christ? Nope. (Ouch that's painful to type... As I sit here reading this, it breaks my heart)
Here's the big BUT, I'm not doing all of those things to just go thru the motions, because they really do mean something to me... BUT I am not doing ALL I should be doing! I'm not concentrating on my daily walk with my Abba Father that will help me grow and develop into a better wife, mother, employee, friend, and many other things. If I take the time for this one thing, then all else will be even better because God will bless it!
Another but... But I'm scared! What am I scared of? The fact that I'll just say that I'm going to do it, but not do it again! I've been trying to get back to where I need to be for a while, but guess what. Not there! Not even close. I feel like I commit to it, and mean it with all my heart, and then nope the "stuff" happens again! And again I feel like a failure.
I pray with all my heart and soul that this time will be different, that I won't let the "stuff" overwhelm me again! That Brian and I can both deepen our spiritual walk seperately and in turn strengthen our walk together! Father God, give me the desires of my heart! To know you and follow you with all of my heart!
My sweet friend Ashley blogged not to long ago about the Siesta Scripture Memory Team that started on January 1st. When I read her post I felt like I got kicked in the gut! I thought this could be what I need to help keep me on track!! I just couldn't get it out of my head, yet the "stuff" kept happening! But tonight I finally took the time, and pray that I can keep my committment to follow thru with it all year!
You learn 24 verses in 12 months, and it's supposed to be a verse that's relevant to YOU not somebody else or what you think somebody else needs to learn... so here's my first verse. It's a little painful to relate it to me, but again, I'm trying to be honest with myself...
So because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of My mouth.
Revelation 3:16 NAS
I'm excited to see where this year takes me personally, as a wife, as a mother, and as a friend, but most importantly as a child of God. I pray that the progress I see from this painful verse #1 to verse #24 is a journey filled with growth and joy. If I let my Abba Father lead the way, how can it not be?
Note:
It's crazy how God works... I mentioned to Brian before I started the post above, how I was thinking about the changes I need to make in my personal walk. And while I was writing the post, he texted me two passages of scripture. (Yep from across the room) They were both special, but this one really fit perfectly.
1 LORD, hear my prayer,
listen to my cry for mercy;
in your faithfulness and righteousness
come to my relief.
2 Do not bring your servant into judgment,
for no one living is righteous before you.
3 The enemy pursues me,
he crushes me to the ground;
he makes me dwell in the darkness
like those long dead.
4 So my spirit grows faint within me;
my heart within me is dismayed.
5 I remember the days of long ago;
I meditate on all your works
and consider what your hands have done.
6 I spread out my hands to you;
I thirst for you like a parched land.[a]
7 Answer me quickly, LORD;
my spirit fails.
Do not hide your face from me
or I will be like those who go down to the pit.
8 Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,
for I have put my trust in you.
Show me the way I should go,
for to you I entrust my life.
9 Rescue me from my enemies, LORD,
for I hide myself in you.
10 Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God;
may your good Spirit
lead me on level ground.
11 For your name’s sake, LORD, preserve my life;
in your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.
12 In your unfailing love, silence my enemies;
destroy all my foes,
for I am your servant.
Psalm 143
Thank you Father for speaking to me thru my husband.
Wednesday, January 5, 2011
The Flower Girl
I don't really have alot of words tonight, so here are a few pics of my sweet angel girl as the flower girl in Brian's sister's wedding the weekend before Christmas.
Disclaimer: These are my inexperienced shots... I saw one of the photographers shots earlier and wanted to die!! Don't worry I'll post it here once I know my sis-in-law has gotten all her pics back from the photographer.
Disclaimer: These are my inexperienced shots... I saw one of the photographers shots earlier and wanted to die!! Don't worry I'll post it here once I know my sis-in-law has gotten all her pics back from the photographer.
I think this is the only time she was sitting still!
Melt My Heart!
They were running and sliding all over the rose petals on the dance floor... I just KNEW they were going to slide into a table!
Beautiful Big Girl!
In awe of something...
She was running around like a crazy person so much that she had to stop and come get a drink of water!! Silly Girl!!
I die for this picture!! (and then I saw the photographer's...)
Our little family! (Before we sent Dylan back to El Do with my parents! Ha!)
He had been so good for the 2 days he needed a break! (and we had a reception hall to clean!)
Sunday, January 2, 2011
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