It's already March??

Do you ever just look at your kids and think, "wow, why did I end up with something so beautiful??" I know that sounds a little conceited, but I just look at them some times and wonder how in the world do people on this earth hurt them?? God is great and His children so precious.

This is Claire in some Matilda Jane, my new addiction. An unpredictable clothing company for little girls. I love their clothes and the girls love to wear them too!

Here is more of my stinka!

More Books

This past Christmas I was blessed enough to get 2 e-readers. My sweet mother got me a nook and my sweet husband got me a Kindle. So, after not wanting to disappoint either of them I kept my moms. Mom and I can lend each other some books so I thought that would be cool to have that as a feature. And then Chris didn't have to spend a dime!! : ) not really sure how he got out of all that but he did. Anyway, it is really my new friend!! I take it with me EVERYWHERE!! I really enjoy it and it is so neat to use. I am reading on it and still reading up on a few paper books too that I had before receiving the nook. I recently read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. While it was a good mystery, I thought the language and some of the sexual content could have totally been eliminated from it. Why oh why do authors think that mess makes a fictional novel good?? Anyway, I don't know if I will purchase the other 2 in that series or not. I finished Sarah's Key on my nook and it was okay. Right now I am reading another book by Jen Lancaster. She wrote Bitter is the New Black. She is hysterical!! While I don't like the bit of language in her "documentory" books she does crack me up! The 3rd book she has published is Such a Pretty Fat and it is cracking me up!! I really have enjoyed reading it, while back on the WW kick.

I also purchased Lineage of Grace by Francine Rivers and I am excited to get started on it!!

Hope you all are reading in your spare time!!

Snow Fun Stewart County Style!

We got a small ice/snow storm on Thursday afternoon. We ended up measuring around 2.5 inches in our backyard. I was home Thursday and left to get Addie from early dismissal around 10am. Chris didn't get in from a few calls in Joelton and Clarksville until 8pm. Friday we both had to work, so the girls were promised a snow/sledding day from their daddy on Saturday after he got home from work.

Addie and Claire all suited up for their adventure. I decided to let Claire skip her nap Saturday and she actually held in there like a trooper. (don't their Barbie rain boots go so well with their outfits??)

And off we go!! I am just excited that we won't be huffing it up and down a hill on a sled....The Polaris Ranger saves the day! We used it to pull Addie on the sled (not a car hood I know for all you rednecks, but it still was fun!)

Addie ready to get the sled out of the back

Addie and Claire before take off!

They actually are both smiling!! I had Chris stop driving after a few minutes because Claire's hat was coming off and when I fixed it she decided she wanted off!!

The fearless Addie!

Chris and Addie sledding. No, there is not a picture of me and Addie because I am always behind the camera, right? AND because after so many minutes (ok, maybe only 2 minutes) I was ready to get off. Addie said it was because I was too fat and I laughed at that because children are so brutally honest aren't they?

2011

Claire bear and E with Connor. Claire loves Easton and wants to call him on the phone all the time!!

Addie at Nana's

The girls kicked back in our bed watching Annie for the 100th time!! They got it for Christmas and I have it memorized.

Justin, Nat, and Easton came to visit us the weekend of the 1st. We had a fun/lazy weekend and we laughed a LOT!!!

The End of 2010

Wow, what a goal I set for myself! I only blogged twice in December. Well, we all know how busy we are right? Here are a few Christmas photos. We had a blessed year! Chris enjoyed reading the Christmas Story from Luke and reading The Night Before Christmas. This year Claire was still awake for it, last year she was in bed before we could read it to her.

Santa brought Addie a Barbie bike, and an American Girl Doll. Claire got a vet clinic and a baby and a stroller and crib.

December 2nd: Lost Elf

Well, the Elf on the Shelf is a big hit!! Addie woke up this morning and that was the first thing she asked Chris this morning; "I wonder if the Elf (whom she has named Hagen after a little boy in her classroom that she thinks is cute) has moved? Do you think he is in my room and is going to bite my toes?" She got up to find him sitting in the water/ice maker dispenser on the fridge door this morning. She thought it was so cool when she found him!! Every night if she has been good he brings her and Claire a little treat in their tree that counts down the 25 days till Christmas.

We had a little elf/Hagen scare tonight as mommy could not find him! I searched for 30 minutes for him. I didn't know the little booger would hide from adults either. I thought, great here we are 2 nights into it and we can't find him already!! After looking in the car, outside in the garage, then outside with a flashlight in the backyard in case Sallie the heeler took Hagen off, I found him back in the box he came in on the bookshelf!! I guess Addie did that, or he REALLY is magical : )

Had a good day over all. Lots to get done cleaning before Chris's work Christmas party here on Saturday night.

Good night all

December 1st

After reading my friend Allison M's blog tonight and through out the last weeks I am motivated to TRY to post everyday in December. HA HA HA, that is me laughing out loud!! Well, we will see how it goes. Today was a good day, I am so so tired. I spent 4 and 1/2 hours in a dogs abdomen last night and didn't get home until 10pm. A six month old puppy thought it was cool to eat a cassette tape!!! 1. I know you are a puppy, but really what on a cassette tape tastes good?? (maybe only Gilmore Cumby could answer this for us : ) ) 2. Who still owns cassette tapes???? This thing was the worst kind of foreign body that you can try to remove from a dog's intestines. A linear FB gets wrapped all down the guts and then they can plicate or stack on each other and it is a nightmare!!! AS I experienced last night removing a large part of bowel and opening several other sites. The poor little thing has had it in there since before Halloween!!! Anyway, I am tired from that and need to go to bed two hours ago : ).

My post today is about The Elf on the Shelf. My sweet sister who's Love Language has to be giving. Sherri is the biggest giver and she always has been, I guess because she is the oldest of us 4. Well, she sent Easton the elf on the Shelf and she mailed us one. We got it last night when I got in from my late night. The girls opened it this morning before Addie left for school and we read the book. It is really cute. You have to remember to move the elf every night. He is supposed to be in a different spot each morning and you make a game of it for the kids to find where he is the next morning after he has gotten back from the North Pole to report to Santa how the kids have been. I think it is really cute, and wish me luck to remember to move him every night for the next 24!!!

Merry Christmas everyone