House of Clouds

Kristin Wilhelm is really to blame for my downfall!! We took a little weekend trip and went to see Kristin and Richard labor day weekend last year and she introduced me to a new clothing company called Matilda Jane. She had been going to in home parties for her daughter Grace. Grace's clothes were just precious and so I became addicted that weekend while drooling over Grace's closet (not a sin right??? thou shalt not covet, but little girls clothes???). So, the next week I placed my first order for the fall clothes. The kids loved them and so did I so I ordered another BIG order of the spring line called House of Clouds. I love this company because one lady named Denise started it 3 years ago. She has a very kind heart and donates clothes and money to orphanages in Uganda as well as here in America. Read her blog at matildajaneclothing.com. With the spring line she sent each child a little house piggy bank. The purpose of the piggy bank house is to fill it up with change and send it back in when it is full. Denise is donating all the proceeds to Habitat for Humanity. She will also donate clothes for the little girl/girls that will be living in the house. Addie has loved this idea and even went to school talking about it for show and tell with her little house bank. I was very proud of her!!

It has been like Christmas waiting for the clothes to arrive, so I FINALLY got the shipment a couple of weeks ago and couldn't wait to play dress up with the girls. I also got me a few things from the women's line and LOVE them.

Here are just a few pictures of them in two outfits for Aunt Sherri. I will have to take more pictures of their outfits soon.

little Miss Priss was batting her lashes!!

"cheezzz"

Addie with her "Matilda James" as she says it, still with tags attached!

Valentines 2011

These are my silly girls after we got home from church one Sunday the week of Valentines. They were putting on a show!

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.