fun fondue

okay so i went to the melting pot with my friend tonight. YUMMY!! now i want to go there again..and again...the cheese fondue and the chocolate fondue are by far the best. and this stuff they have for dips for the entree' was really good. it was called goddess something or another, basically cream cheese, sour cream, chives, onions and i am pretty sure garlic. oh it was good. plus i had a really nice time with melissa. our waiter was 'new' and we gave him a hard time, so it was fun. even tried to get him to foot the bill. he didn't though. but he was a very good waiter and that paid off for him in the end. my bill was about 26.00 and i tipped 8. melissa tipped 8 too. sooooo he had a good night at our table alone. the girls and i had to deliver a show in darboy this morning so i hit some rummage sales. scored good too. i got a basketball hoop for the girls for only two dollars!! and amelya was praying for bunk beds for her dolls and the FIRST rummage sale we went to....had baby doll bunk beds. it was so cool for me to share with her how jesus answers and hears our prayers. but i also had to tell her sometimes he says no like mommy and daddy but that's because he loves us so much and has something even better planned for us. we had to deliver the show at burger king, so that's where we ate lunch, and shaun's sisters ended up being in appleton so they came too. then i had to pick up my pampered chef stuff from a girl from church's house. then i we came home. it wasn't tooo long after getting home i had to get 'all dolled up' to leave for dinner. so much cleaning didn't get done. BUT BUT BUT my kitchen is near spotless. praise the lord. and shaun and the girls blessed me by picking up all of their toys. so now i just have to finish cleaning off the dining room table, and my house may possibly have some sort of order to it. and tomorrow is the big day to clean out the messy room. i'm so very excited, if you haven't already figured that out. danielle is coming sometime in the morning and shaun's other sister is coming a little later to watch the girls while we get stuff done. oh yay!! i so am looking forward to that. so so much. i think amelya is excited to have the 'red room' as she calls it all clean too. the room has (bright) red carpet and some sort of patterned red wall paper on two walls and panels on the other. it was shaun's parent's bedroom when they lived here. did i ever mention we live in the house shaun grew up in, and his dad grew up in? if i didn't now you know. and if i did, well if you don't know me by now you'll know that i tend to repeat myself. i think it's when i get around adult conversation i get all excited to share lots of things and end up repeating most if not all of it at some point. and of course i have all the freedom in the world to repeat myself on here because no one is standing there saying you already told us that...a THOUSAND times. so for you out there reading this. sorry. shaun's cousin is in the hospital. she is only 15 and fell last night cut her knee open on a rock and had to have surgery because she got air in it. yuck. now the poor thing can't bear weight on it for at least six weeks. she's an active girl. but god will see her through it. i told amelya this morning after i found out and she started crying because kelsey was hurt and in the hospital. it brought tears to my eyes, but i explained that she was in the hospital like caitlyn and she'll be okay. it touched me to see how affected she was that her friend was hurt. she's only three for pete's sake. it's cool though how god works it all out. so i suppose it's a little after ten and i have a big day ahead of me. so off to take out the contacts get in some jammies, and wake shaun up off the couch. which he's probably been sleeping on since putting the girls to bed. he should've just went to bed. lol. i think he's thinking of a different idea though. boys boys boys. :) so have a fondue dipping night. amanda

green is the color of my countertop

green. yep. green. i tell you this only because i haven't seen it all in awhile. and over half of it is clean in my kitchen. praise the lord for ambition and a daddy who works too much. only because then he played with the girls after supper and i stayed in the kitchen cleaning up. i still have stuff to do but felt like sitting down a little. my back has been hurting me a lot lately. not as severe pain as i have normally had, but pain nonetheless. thankful for the chiropractor. because i think if i wasn't seeing her i'd have the normal severe back pain i've had with the last three pregnancies. the girls were good today. we had story time, then went to penelopy's (a pizza place) and then to my friend's house. yay for her being home from vaca!! we usually spend a day together so it was nice to get back into the 'routine'. lol. tomorrow night i'm going out to eat with another friend. i'm excited about that too. it's a place where it is mandatory you 'dress nice'. i'm super excited to dress nice and feel pretty. unfortunetly it's with a girl friend and not my husband. but what can i do? maybe shaun can reap the benefits of my boosted self esteem later. lol. i'll keep it g rated. sorry. but seriously if i feel pretty things have a better chance of happening. although shaun is a boy and probably does not care a bit. i know other boys are the same way too. it must be in them. ahhh okay enough. shaun's out cutting the lawn now. well part of it. it takes a good two hours to cut ALL of the lawn. but he's cutting the main part where the girls' toys are and they play. apparently when he went to start the mower after getting home from work the key was turned and the battery was drained. hmmm wonder how that happened?? ask one of the two older girls...because i think they'll have an idea. they love playing on the lawn mower and the 4-wheeler. and because shaun had them parked outside lately that's what they have played on a lot. my house is getting cleaner...and i'm getting in a better mood about it. i feel like if i have a messy cruddy looking house that's how i feel. so my goal is to not let it get this way again!! because i don't like sighing every time i walk in the door. i'm having another baby...i need to get 'in a groove' and STAY in it. FOREVER...shaun is a big help and i am so appreciative of that. he's not perfect by any means...but he's a help. i think it helped in high school he worked for a cleaning service. when we first started dating my mom said i couldn't go somewhere til i did my chores. so shaun and his friend came and did them for me. a lot better then i would have done too. true love right there when your boyfriend comes and cleans your parent's house. :P it was super nice of him. and i got to go to the track meet i believe it was. we don't have any plans yet for the weekend. but i know soon something will come up and we'll end up super busy on shaun's weekend off. that always happens that way. it is still supposed to rain on friday so it looks like that will be the best day to clean the messy room. did i tell you how excited i am about that??!!?? because i SO AM. to have no more messy room. well at least a room that has been labeled that for almost five years. because i know i have other messy rooms. it'll be fun to see what i find in there actually because i know some of the boxes in there are stuff i packed up of my bedroom at my parents house way back when. it'll be interesting to see stuff i thought important to save then. as a young wife to be, now i'm a four-time mom to be and we'll see if i deem it as important as i must have then. but i suppose my green counters are calling me back into the kitchen. plus i have show to organize and thank you notes to write out for the orders. :) so have a find the color of your (fill in the blank) kind of night/day/whatever. amanda

a quiet tuesday morning...so far

it is a little after 8 AM and breigh and amelya are still sleeping. now amelya doesn't surprise me, but breigh. yay!! two days in a row she's slept 'late'. caitlyn was up a little after 7 so i fed her breakfast and picked up the kitchen some more. i got some done yesterday. but of course with going to town much didn't get done later. shaun ended up getting home around 2. he had to wash our tractor up at work and bring that home because his uncle wants to rent it for first cutting of hay. which is good for us! the girls spent the afternoon watching him take the duals off and change the oil. not to mention get a little dirty with daddy too. they love it. i love it. i stayed out side too. basically so i could keep an eye on the girls and make sure that they weren't actually getting into the oil, and to make sure they weren't in shaun's way. amelya and breigh each had a pliers and were tightening all the bolts on the tractor. it was fun to watch them. i don't want to have 'girly girls' but i want them to be girly, just not afraid to be a little dirty and have some fun. my theory is they can play in the dirt but i hope i can have them dressed in pink while doing it. lol. we went to danielle's for supper and she had a pool set up for the girls. i was surprised they went in it, the water was cold and even though it was nice outside it was still chilly. but we had to ask amelya to come out when her teeth were chattering but she just sat there!! breigh went in with no suit on. good thing because after she was all dressed and dried off she wanted her suit on over her clothes. we had brats and hamburgers and really good potatoes and very yummy fresh fruit (i mainly ate the strawberries with cool whip) and then of course the stuff i don't eat: salad and asparagus. caitlyn tried the asparagus and she actually liked it. i was surprised because she tends to stay away from the green veggies. her favorite is usually carrots. shaun tried some too. he has never tried it before, he liked it. we have an aspargus patch in our yard, i keep it because shaun's mom and sisters and i guess now shaun like it and it's a very well established patch. it was here before shaun's mom and dad were married. shaun's grandma had it. there is also rhubarb. which i also don't eat. i just pick the asparagus and hand it off when we have a bunch of it. it didn't smell too bad though. i don't think i'll try it any day soon. but that's besides the point. i was really excited that shaun came along to town. i think the main reason was because shaun's mom called him and said they'd come out and help pick stones and fry out here. and shaun knows i don't like anyone at our house when it is messy so he said don't worry about it. :) it was a nice night to spend together as a family. well actually an entire afternoon. i asked shaun if it'd be nice to get done at 2 everyday. he said yeah i'd get more done in a days time. oh well. our hay is going to be cut in one of these next few days. i hope they do it when we are home. i know the girls will like looking at the tractors cutting it. or if not we may be home when they chop it too. breigh is fascinated by the tractors and amelya likes watching them from afar. speaking of amelya she is sleeping in her bed again. three nights in a row. she won't sleep the 'right way' but with her head at the end of her bed. i don't care. as long as she's in her bed. it's been over a month i think since she's been in it. she had a super bad nightmare and would only sleep on her floor. we asked her and sort of made her try her bed and it's been successful. praise the lord. her nightmare involved snakes and must have been very scary because she remembered it the next day and showed me how they stuck their tongues out at her. and the first night after that when we tried putting her in her bed she screamed and was shaking. i felt bad that the dream was that scary. but we've been praying for her and her dreams and to sleep in her bed, and god has faithfully answered our prayers again. now we just have to work on the potty training thing. i don't want to force her into it, but am running out of ways not to. i just don't want to make the whole thing frustrating for her or for me. but she also knows that she cannot stand up in amy's wedding until she's wearing underwear. so that gives me about five months. long enough i can imagine. :) but i am hearing breigh now. and i suppose she's hungry and wants to get out of her bed. so have a frosting on your nose kind of day. :O) amanda

monday. (i'm not too creative on this title thing)

well shaun's mom called before and we're invited over to a grill out for supper. i'm kind of excited about that and i'm also bummed. i'm only bummed because shaun probably won't come. he has stones to pick in the fields and i doubt i'll be able to talk him into letting them wait. they need to be picked amanda. is what he'll say to me. but we'll see i guess. he told me that the guy he works with said they'll be done at noon today. frankly i don't believe it. number one because it is already after noon and two he never does what he says. the guy not shaun. i told shaun just leave, he said you were going to be done. shaun isn't like that though. he'll stay until the work is finished. what can i do i guess. i have some dishes in the dish washer. that's all i pretty much accomplished so far in the kitchen. which i guess is an accomplishment. my goal is to have the kitchen FULLY cleaned by friday. i know that is a long time away, but give myself lots of time i figure. i am also going to see if shaun's sister will come over friday to clean out the messy room. the weather looks like rain (now anyways) and i guess that'd be the best day so she doesn't have to give up any nice weather time helping me. so we'll see. but i am still super excited to get that clean. i have all of amelya and breigh's clothes off of the table. super yay!! god gave me loads of ambition and i got loads of clothes cleaned off the table. breigh is napping. i'm surprised actually that she went down for a nap. she slept 12 hours last night until 830 this morning. so i figured she might fight the nap. she was up for a little bit talking but has been quiet ever since. caitlyn was falling asleep in her high chair after lunch so i layed her down and she's sleeping too. i should really shower. but instead i plop my butt here. i'm sure amelya is wanting to watch a movie so i'll have her find a movie and enjoy a shower. i'm starting to treasure the shower time i have because after the baby comes for awhile they will have to be quick ones. i'm getting excited more and more every day for this baby. i have been feeling it move around more and it is so much fun. plus i really am feeling pregnant not just 'chubby' so that's fun too. i get to wear all the fun maternity clothes. i borrowed some to our neighbor when she was pregnant so now i am starting to need those that she has too. so we'll see if she drops them off soon, or i'll have to get up the courage to say something. i have lots here too, but i am getting sick of wearing the same stuff, or only have a limited selection to choose from i guess. so i'll have to get those from her. i really have a lot of maternity clothes. after my pregnancy with amelya i counted and i had 60 shirts alone!! and i have had two more babies after her and now this one. i probably have well over 100 shirts, tank tops etc. that doesn't even include pants, shorts, and capris. or i guess dresses! i love maternity clothes and can't resist the cute things they have. i'm a sucker for a sale too. if it's buy one for half off. i buy two because it's getting two for the full price of one!! :) plus then i can get two colors or whatever. so my friends will have a wide variety of clothes to pick from when i am done with this pregnancy. because folks, this is it. number four is the completion to our family. i thought when i was pregnant with caitlyn that i was done, but then i totally changed my mind. i was very wishy-washy. not this time. i'm not sad that this is the last pregnancy i take it for what it is. even if it's a girl. we aren't 'trying for the boy'. we will take what god gives us. because like i've said before, we don't deserve these little blessings. not one bit, not for a single moment. my friend is home from vacation. yay. we've missed getting together with them. it'll be nice to see her again after two entire weeks. lol. shaun makes fun of us because of how much time we spend together. not serious though. i think he likes it that i have such a good friend that we can hang out so much together. and not even get sick of it!! lol. her son might grow tired of breigh, but soon he'll be fighting back. which i might say that breigh needs a little of that. amelya just starts whining and jumping up and down when breigh takes something from her. i make her go after breigh and take it back herself. i'm not going to raise someone who lets someone else take what they want and get away with it. i want her to defend herself. but i still need to take a shower. and brush my teeth for that matter. like you wanted to know. :) so til next time have a fresh smelling day. amanda (ps it's almost 1230 and shaun still isn't home) work.

a surprise purchase

well i sit here writing on a new computer. something bad got on our other one a virus of some sort and i couldn't get it off. so instead of investing in an 'old' (only 4and a half years) computer we decided to just get a new one. and even better the monitor was on sale yesterday and the computer was on sale today so they price adjusted it when i picked it up. we saved 200 bucks!! yay. plus the monitor was on sale for 100 off the regular price. god totally blessed us. the girls went by shaun's mom while we did our computer shopping. we went out for a nice supper at machine shed. i had baked potato soup (very good) and of course 'shedder' melts and for the main course i had steak and fries. and besides a few fries i ate everything. yummy. today we had church. it was good. and the church purchased a swing set for the children's ministry so the girls took full advantage of that after their church was over. our girls are the only 'faithful' attending children at children's church so until more children start coming they get full 'ownership' of the swing set. sometimes our pastor's grandchildren come, but not as consistent as our girls do. i love our little church. today we had a nice discussion about boldness and there was plenty of laughter too. i love our church i really do. it is nice to be a part of a small fellowship instead of getting lost in the mix of a big church. we're held accountable, and i like that. caitlyn got called a 'little guy' today. she's wearing a green shirt with a butterfly on it. she is clearly not a boy. i don't know why people see green and think boy. it's frustrating. my girls wear all colors and even john deere tractor shirts. i'm not going to only dress them in pink or purple because they are girls. oh well i guess. but i suppose. i bought a photoshop program yesterday too. i have yet to install it and am anxious to see it. so until next time. may you be virus free. amanda

it's friday...no big deal

yay. friday. but it's also shaun's weekend to work. so really it's no break for this mommy. i'll have to get up early each day and spend most of the day tomorrow by myself again. sunday will be church so that means shaun will go in extra early so he can get home in time for church. i love his dedication to his job. and more important the dedication to his family. i've been reading pretty faithfully some other blogs. one in particular has really caught my heart and attention. it is at www.cfhusband.blogspot.com if you wanna read it too! but it is a story about a husband going through having his wife just getting a double lung transplant and the story of their daughter born at 24 weeks. it's a truly lovely story and suggest you read it if you already don't. it's amazing to see god's faithfulness in their family. god is truly faithful to all of us. but this family has so much to give him credit for. and they do. we went by my mom's this morning. first time we've seen her all week. the girls had fun playing and hanging with grandma for awhile. before she had to go to work. after we left we hit a few rummage sales. didn't find anything too exciting. some lady let amelya pick out a stuffed animal for her and breigh (who was sleeping in the van). i smiled and said thank you. knowing that in a few weeks they'll be in a goodwill box. speaking of goodwill i'm cleaning out my 'messy room' this week!! yay! shaun's sister is coming over to help and we're going at it. i can't wait. i have stuff in the room when i moved in. that's four and a half years. if i haven't needed it by now...i don't think i need it. so we'll be making lots of loads to the trash and goodwill i'm sure. i'm turning the room into a MUCH MUCH needed playroom for the girls. then they can have all of their toys in there and make a big ole mess and if someone calls me to say they're coming over i can just shut the door instead of trying to find some excuse as to why they cannot come over. my kitchen is still a mess. but i have all of amelya's clothes off our dining room table. they've been there since february...no kidding. no all i have is breigh's to go through and get upstairs or packed away. see the week before caitlyn was in the hospital i got all of their clothes on the table with intentions of the next week working on it. well sunday to thursday caitlyn was in the hospital and then the next tuesday i found out i was pregnant and then i started feeling very sick and very tired. so needless to say nothing really got done. i was still nursing for awhile until i was too exhausted i had to quit. and i felt really yucky all day long and didn't want to do anything. but now i have no excuse. i'm feeling better and i am SICK SICK SICK of everything ALL over my house. so lord willing this week will be a 'clean sweep' kind of week on my 'messy room' living room dining room and kitchen. then i can work on the other rooms that really should be organized. caitlyn is still sleeping in our bedroom, we need to get her in with the girls one of these days. so that'll be an upcoming project too. shaun still has his old bedroom from before we were married to finish cleaning out as well. for if this baby is a boy that will be his room. if it is a girl it will be her and caitlyn's room. we'll have to wait awhile ( i think) for that to be determined. but it needs to be cleaned out regardless. we also debated moving the girls into our room, because it is big, and us moving into their room. i don't think shaun wants to do that. so for now anyway they will share their current bedroom. until they get older and not only want but will probably need the bigger space. they'll always have to share. so i figure might as well start them on it while they are younger and don't care as much. maybe. we'll see how it works out i guess. i know caitlyn and the baby if it is a boy, could share a room for awhile but i don't know how i feel about doing that then eventually having to move her. i guess i'd rather have her with amelya and breigh right away. plus i have a feeling that those three are going to be thick as thick can be. so i'm sure they'll enjoy sharing a room. :) i truly pray for their relationship as they grow up. they are so blessed to have each other and i want them to always remember that. i'm sure i'll be reminding them of it as they continue to grow up too. well breigh is up from her nap calling for me. so i'm off to mommy land again. what a beautiful land it is. have a super duper day. amanda

just a parking space...really

wow it's been two days since i've been on here. we've had a very busy two days though. yesterday was wednesday so storytime at the library. my friend melissa came with her two girls. i used to baby-sit maddie last year until a few months before i had caitlyn. after storytime we went to mcdonald's for lunch so the girls could run around and play and then melissa and i could talk. we had a nice time. our neighbor came too with her two kids for awhile. we ended up at mcdonald's for THREE hours!! then we decided to go to melissa's. the girls had lots of fun playing and we had lots of fun talking. when i babysat maddie she'd come and pick her up and we'd talk for awhile too. i missed our chats so it was nice to get together with her. today we went to the chiropractor and before hit a few rummage sales. i bought some more maternity clothes. they were cheap i know i don't NEED them. oh well. then i had to close a show at burger king. i've had a circle of girls keep booking. it's nice. then the girls who had this show got THREE bookings for me. that was such a huge blessing and surprise for me! my sister came along to help watch the girls. burger king also has a nice play area so they pretty much played the entire time, but it was nice to have amy there anyways. 'just in case'. after amy took the girls to her house in the van and i ran to walmart to get a few things. that's when the choas started. i saw a car back out of the 'ideal' spot. front and center. so i was turning into the lane and took the spot. as i was half way in a saw another car coming down the lane and needless to say apparently i took her spot. well she layed on the horn and stopped directly behind be and so i could see her in my mirror gave me the finger. i got out and said. i can move if you really want me too. i also said i didn't see her. which i didn't until i was already in the spot. she wasn't even waiting for the spot! she said you did too but you just zoomed on in. i said no. but she didn't want to listen then she said 'you're a b****. and drove off. i just smiled and said okay. inside i wanted to say lots of mean things but god kept my mouth shut and i walked into the store. shaking! i wanted to ask the police officer if i could press charges for harrasement. not seriously but at least to show the lady how silly she was being. she was in her 40's or older. but acted pretty childish to me. i dunno. i seriously didn't see her until it was too late and i really is just a parking space. and i'm the one who's four and a halfish months pregnant and my back has been killing me. let me have a break. i couldn't even remember what i came in the store for and in all reality wanted to sit down and cry. but i was NOT going to let her do that to me. i've never been called that before ever. well to my face i don't know if people have said it about me or not. it hurt me a lot. lord willing i will never see that lady again. but if i do i pray that it's in heaven. i prayed for her on my way home. that she meets jesus and knows his love and peace. and lets people have the parking spot. she acted like i stole her diamond earrings or something. i just couldn't believe it. i guess what i really hate is that she thought i was lying to her. i wasn't. ahhhh. that's my pet peeve when someone accuses me of lying or doesn't believe me and doesn't even try to see my side. she wasn't having any of me. she actually was blocking the entire lane of traffic and some van wanted to get down the lane. so she eventually moved and found a decent stall up a ways in the next lane over. i watched where she parked and saw her from a distance in the store and just avoided the area. i didn't know what she'd do to me if she didn't have her seatbelt restraining her. i seriously was scared of her and she was just in her car. but enough about that. i get worked up just thinking about it. shaun and i have been together nine years today. wow. nine years seems like forever. you already read about our little love story so i don't need to go into that again. if you missed it look down a few posts. :) you'll get the whole story and then some. but i suppose i hear the shower is off and i'd like to spend some time with shaun. it's our anniversary i should have been in the shower with him...lol...i'm sure that's exactally what you were thinking. and if you weren't probably better that way. sorry for giving you the image. anyways. hope you had a nice lady in the parking lot kind of day. :) amanda

some super cute pictures of my super cute girls...and one with their super cute mom. :)

breigh and caitlyn are napping and amelya is chillin' on the couch. i needed a break from picking up so i thought i could post some pictures. :P as an added bonus our computer is so slow i can pick up while they are loading! :P

this is amelya from at the park earlier this month...i just love her blue eyes

me and the girls on the swing. caitlyn fell alseep on my lap and amelya just is a habitual eye closer and breigh...well at least i got all three of them to sit by me!!

here's caitlyn on her 8th month birthday, i can NOT believe how big she is getting

breigh climbing around outside but of course will always stop to scream CHEESE

amelya rarely takes naps. she fell asleep in the van and STAYED asleep after i brought her in the house. and of course no nap in complete with out wearing your wedding veil. :)

here is breigh on the same nappng day. i just love the look of innocence they have when they're sleeping.

caitlyn's pic that i accidentally deleted last time. enjoying the sunshine outside while sitting up.

breigh outside on the swing. what a big girl!! last year she was only in the infant swing! :(

here is amelya in the process of cutting out her barbie cards, from the box of barbie cereal. she cut them all out all by herself. so proud of my little munchkin. and yes she's wearing a swim suit. it was a purchase she was very excited about from a rummage sale. :)

here's caitlyn. she started scooting last saturday (tear) but she loves it and is always full of smiles to share with everyone. people often ask is she always this happy. i'm not ashamed to say well yeah she is. praise the lord.

so by the time i've loaded these pictures, i DID get some more picked up. got amelya a snack, caitlyn a bottle both of their diapers changed and a few more things. and now because amelya was so patient waiting for me to be done she gets to play her preschool game on the computer. :) love that kid. and breigh is still napping!! yay. i can get some more done before she gets up too. :) loves loves loves and more loves. amanda

busy day = fun day

yesterday was a BUSY day!! but fun. we had mom's group in the morning. it was just two of us. but we had a nice time talking and listening to a great speaker on tape, jill savage. she's a very funny lady. i brought along lunchables for the girls to eat during mom's group so after i didn't have to stop for lunch for them and we headed to sam's club. the girls needed diapers-AGAIN. and sam's club is way cheaper and makes more sense to get them there. i also got a few other things there. i like sam's. and the girls liked the free samples of food. especially the trail mix cereal. i was surprised by that since they usually eat sugary cereal. i myself like the sugar cereal. my latest craving has actually been fruity pebbles. i'm just not a crazy healthy eater and figure that i have survived as long as i have and ate all that stuff too. back to yesterday. after sam's we went to the chiropractor. that went well. i was glad to go because my back has been bugging me. plus i love the new dr. she's very nice and very helpful and the girls seem to like her too. i was worried how they were going to react to the new dr because they really liked dr. doody. (yep it's pronounced how it looks) but they have taken to dr. jamie just as well. i think the cool little kid adjusting table helps too. after the chiropractor we went to womankind. i got my free ultrasound. it was so much fun. i am so glad i went. the baby was SO fun to see. it kept putting it's hands by it's face and even them in it's mouth. the baby was also very very active. i can't believe i don't feel the baby move more. it was ALL over the place. you could even count all of it's fingers. it's just so amazing to me how you can see all of that. the baby even was in the crawling position in there. the nurse said it's rare to see a baby do that in utero. i don't know. the nurse enjoyed the ultrasound too. she kept saying. amanda did you see that. i of course did. i went by myself with the girls but a nice receptionist watched them for me across the hall and played a movie for them and played with them. it was so nice to not have to worry about them being in the room with me or getting freaked out with me on the table. i do plan on having them along next month for our 20 week ultrasound. but that'll be different because shaun will be there. i still don't know about finding out. we'll have to see. i don't think we will. but ask me later and i might say maybe. who knows. shaun figured out a name for the baby this weekend. ready for it. diet middle name soda and of course our last name is popp. so diet soda popp. what a guy!! then he said diego. i said we can't name our blonde hair blue eyed child diego. just wouldn't work. so anyways. the girls are asking for my attention. so i must be going. til later. have a prancing through the tulips kind of day. amanda

sunday morning.

it has been a not typical sunday morning. usually the girls all sleep in and we have to rush around and get ready to leave for church. well breigh was up at 6 and caitlyn 630 so we've had lots of time to get ready. i even blow dryed my hair and have make-up on!! lol. plus i wanted to look half way decent for shaun's mom's graduation today. the girls are going by mom mom's house. i don't expect two toddlers and an eight month old to sit through any graduation. plus i think it will be kind of nice to hang out with shaun's family just with 'us adults'. yesterday was a good day. the two older girls got to go with shaun's mom and sisters plant/flower shopping. then they planted at danielle's house. they had lots of fun. shaun stayed home with caitlyn and i had my show. went pretty well. i got two bookings. not til later on in the summer and fall, but bookings anyway. then we went to danielle's house to get the girls and shaun helped dig holes for the big stuff. we had spaghetti for supper. mmm. it was good. especially because i didn't have to come up with anything to make. :) that is one thing i don't like is always trying to think of something for supper. i'm not much of a cook and try to do things as easy as possible. amelya just woke up a little while ago. she's in on okay mood, but refuses to come downstairs because i won't carry her. well i figure she'll come down eventually. i would carry her, but she's whining and not doing what i asked her, so then she gets no benefits. i'm the 'tough love' kind of person. i think this world needs A LOT more of it too. caitlyn is sounding better today. she's been wheezy the past few days and i've been trying to hold off on the albuteral treatments that she got when she was in the hospital. but i gave in today and gave her one. lord willing it will help and she'll start sounding better. she's napping already. but i suppose that's what happens when you wake up almost an hour before you normally do. i should get going though. i have a diaper bag to pack and a three year old who needs to eat and get dressed before we head off to church. :) later. amanda

drs appt and pictures

well my drs appt went well today. the baby's heartbeat was high 160's. and i've only gained one pound so far! crazy. and actually i lost six when i got pregnant so i'm not even in the 'gaining' column technically speaking. lol. like it matters. i gained 45 with amelya 33 with breigh and i'm pretty sure 37 with caitlyn. so i know i have quite the ways to go with this baby. and the nurse even commented on how i'm getting a belly...so people it's official i have a BABY BELLY!! yay. well i downloaded some pictures at walmart on to cds. that way i can't lose the pictures!! and now you can see the girlies a little more updated. the three of them are from outside yesterday and the one of all three is from sometime in the past few weeks. cuties i tell ya! but i am very very biased. oh yeah i did good rummaging today!! found lots of great deals. like a little tykes tool bench with all of the tools and extra sets of tools from fisher price and tonka!! great deal for only 35 bucks!! LOVE IT! anyways off to make supper. it's mac and cheese tonight. shaun's working late again, so i go for the easy out. :) and i really truly love mac and cheese. it's the spiral kind even more fun!! so tomorrow i have a party so i don't know if i'll blog, sunday shaun's mom is graduating from college...so we'll be busy then too...you just might not hear from me until monday!! try and hold back the tears, i know it's hard. smiles, loves and loads of laughters. amanda

okay side note...i accidentally deleted the picture of caitlyn outside and supper is getting ready and our computer is sllllllllllooooooooooowwwwwwwwww. sorry. so you'll have to wait til next time.!! ahhhhh

Breigh at the park. This was from earlier in the month.

Amelya inside our tunnel

Amelya Caitlyn Breigh

(because they both have to hold "Cakey's" hand)

fun sun shiny day

oh it was such a beautiful day outside. we played outside this morning and then later this evening after getting home from town. shaun is working late so it's just 'us girls'. i was teaching the girls tennis today!! it was so fun...except for the dog stealing the balls. amelya liked it and breigh loved it. i loved playing tennis so i hope i can enstil this in my girls too. i played singles mostly and liked it a lot better than doubles. my sister played too...so we'll have to take the girls to the courts. of course i'll be careful of my growing belly, but i have read in some pregnancy things tennis is okay. so that's good. not like i'll be working up too big of a sweat anyways. when we got in and changed diapers and stuff we played don't break the ice. i loved that game as a child, and amelya and breigh love it too. it's a fun game and not to complicated. breigh has even got down how you only hit one at a time. too cute. the girls were well behaved at our trip to walmart. people could think i'm crazy for going all by myself. but how else am i supposed to do it? breigh sits in the cart, caitlyn's carseat is in the back, and amelya walks with me. we have it down to a 'science' i guess. i don't mind going by myself, but take help when i can too!! i'm not THAT crazy to turn down help. we have lots of help and are so blessed because of it. but i've rambled only a short while and feel like chilling on the couch...so that's where i'm headed. :) swee dreams

short 'n' sweet

ohhhhhh it's nice out again today. amelya is finishing up a puzzle then we are going to pick up toys and head OUTSIDE!! the girls love love love it outside. i bought this big ole blanket that folds into a bag for the van and i'll lay caitlyn on that so she doesn't have to sit in the stroller or in my moby wrap. which i LOVE, but don't want her to have to stay in it the entire time we are outside. tomorrow looks pretty decent too, but rain later. i got to go to a rummage sale early last night. spent double what i normally spend at her sale, but had lots of time to look, and no one else competing for the same things i was. i got lots of clothes for amelya for summer and next winter, if i guess her size right. but i also figure one of the three girls will wear it. and tomorrow is a city wide right down the road!! :P the whole concept of rummaging is fascinating to me...who thought of this? let's put all our stuff in the garage and have people come buy it. it's a crazy but wonderfully GOOD idea. so anyways. i changed my template. getting pretty good at this stuff. even added a picture of myself. it's way old from the day we left the hospital with caitlyn. but it's picture regardless. so anyways. i said short, and short it will be the puzzle is put away and now there are other toys to pick up. have a bright sunshiny daaaaaaaaaaay. amanda

oh happy day...

the sun is shining bright this afternoon. waking up this morning i thought it was going to be a rainy day. yay! that it's not. we went to story time this morning. before going amelya said, are they going to talk about dinosaurs? i said yep. they told us LAST week that dinosaurs was this week's topic. i couldn't believe she remembered. i should though. she remembers everything. we went to go ole mickey d's afterwards. and actually two of the other moms who go to the library and their kids came too. it was nice to chat with them and amelya had lots of fun playing with her friends from the library. it's crazy to think how fast amelya is growing up. she has friends for pete's sake. and it's so fun to see her talking and having conversations with them. she's normally very shy so it's nice to see her 'stepping out of her box'. i don't think we'll have to worry about breigh, but amelya i worry about. tomorrow we don't have anything planned. so hopefully i can get some ambition to hard core pick up. friday my sister is coming before work and we're going rummaging and then i have a drs appt. yay!! i really like my dr too. and it's nice that she comes to chilton so i don't have to run to appleton. she's been with me 'from the begining'. and we're the first ones of her patients to get pregnant after a miscarriage...and we haven't stopped since. :) did i mention how excited i am for this baby!! amelya is excited too. she keeps telling me my belly is getting bigger. and everytime we hear a name she thinks we should name the baby that! she still says it is a boy, but she still wants a girl. lol. it's funnier to hear her say it because she says girl cute. i don't think breigh really knows yet. but i do know she will make a fantastic big sister too. she and amelya are very good big sisters to caitlyn. caitlyn laughs the hardest and smiles the biggest at them. i totally LOVE being a mom. i couldn't imagine my life with out these precious little girls. they make me smile each day. i'm so so so so blessed. i've done nothing to deserve them, yet have been given them. : O ) people keep asking if we're hoping for a boy. and i keep saying, i don't really care but i'd love a boy. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh. and if we have a boy people will say oh good now you can be done. and if we have a girl people will ask if we're gonna try for a boy. caitlyn was only a few days old!! when someone asked me if we were going to try for a boy! seriously what business is it of theres. and after having a newborn your mind is not clear anyways!! oh well i guess. people have always been nosy and it ain't about to change i am sure. but anyways. there is wash in the dryer...and in the washer...and it is not switching and folding itself. til later gator. amanda

tuesday already

is it just me or does it seem that the weeks go by even faster when you're 'older'. as a kid the weeks never went this fast, especially at this time of year waiting for school to be over with for the summer. and then when summer came it flew by. that's one thing that still hasn't changed. summer still seems to fly by.
i know the girls are excited to just get outside and play. today i think the weather is looking pretty decent, so maybe we'll get a chance today. we had a busy day yesterday, after mom's group we went over to my mom's house and to walmart. we took a short walk at my mom's house, just around a few blocks, i was only wearing flip flops. that were a super cute gift from my girls for mother's day. i love to get gifts from them because i know they picked out whatever they wanted to get me. i got a pink and black pair from amelya and a blue pair from breigh. they also each gave me an orchid plant. shaun gave me a computer program but he thought it was the one i had been wanting but i was one like i already have. so he told me to return it and get the one i wanted. i really want a GOOD photo editing program. i didn't get anything yet, i would like to do some research and find out which one is the 'best' for someone who doesn't necessarily know a whole lot.
well i've been thinking about writing about me and shaun. you know how we got all our babies, but have no idea about the love story behind it. ;) and we'll be together for NINE years next week so i thought i could fill you in on that part of my life. if you don't mind, or if you don't already know it.
let's see it all started at a sweetheart dance nine years ago. shaun is cousins somehow with my friend emily, and the same age as her brother. emily decided she should dance with shaun and her friend kim should dance with her brother. it was like the last dance of the night or something. so that's what they did.
then emily came up to me and said shaun wants to dance with you. i didn't even know him or really who he was, but i said okay.
(as a side note all shaun did was ask emily about me because he noticed me at a grocery store i worked at with a friend of his and emily said i'll be right back and i came walking up to him)
so we had a little dance. he asked me if i was having fun and i said sure. he said what kind of answer is that. lol.
soooo the following monday in school emily said shaun liked me. i was kind of 'school girl' excited. but i didn't really know him and he was a senior and i was a sophomore so we really didn't see each other in classes or anything.
so i know it was february when we danced and i don't remember really chatting much after that. one thing i did know was that shaun met his friend after band class every day. so i tried to make sure i talked to his friend and walked up the stairs with him so i could see shaun. (a side note shaun purposely made sure he waited for his friend so he could see me, we didn't know any of this til after we were together)
so prom was coming, in may. but in march/april shaun called my house AND left a message on the answering machine. with his friends laughing in the background. i don't even remember what the message said, i was impressed the guy LEFT a message.
the talk of prom kept coming up and rumor was shaun was going to ask me. the plan was he was going to ask me and his friend was going to ask my friend. it'd be a nice double and not too awkward. so one day my friend said shaun was going to come to my house at lunch and ask me! i was so nervous, especially because the door bell rang when i was home on lunch. it wasn't him. but he was there after lunch by my locker and asked me to prom.
i of course said yes.
so i was super excited to have a prom date. it was the first time ever i just had a date and not a 'boyfriend'.
we talked on the phone a few times before prom and of course saw each other in school. prom day came, my aunt did my hair and i loved my pretty blue dress. (by the way my original friend didn't go with shaun's friend, but another one did) shaun picked me up and we took a few pictures at my house. then we went to a whole bunch of other people's house to take pictures. including shaun's. i got to meet his mom, who hugged me. it was different but nice for me to be hugged by a stranger really.
we went out to eat at chili's and then got ice cream at culver's. there was a whole group of us so it was a kind of nice way to have a 'first date'.
funny story from chili's after supper i was putting on chapstick and shaun asked me how was it. i said i'm addicted to it (chapstick). and he was totally talking about MY FOOD!! i got embarassed and said oh the chicken was good!! lol. too funny. and shaun doesn't remember that. i will NOT forget it.
so prom went well. we danced and after prom went to his cousin's house for a bonfire. it was a nice time.
one thing i do remember thinking is that he laughed goofy. but i can't describe it and he doesn't do it now, so i think it must've been a nervous laugh type thing.
the next weekend shaun and i went to a movie with his cousin and his girlfriend. bad movie but fun time.
the weekend after that he came over to my house and we watched a movie. much better movie, but as we were watching it shaun remembered that he had already seen it...lol...because HE HELPED PICK IT OUT!! boys.
i'm sure we talked on the phone a little too during the week but i don't remember.
the next friday at school my friend emily was in the middle of telling me 'guess who's going to ask you out if you do something this weekend?' then standing right behind her was SHAUN. but he didn't hear her and emily and i just started laughing so he wouldn't know. well he asked if i wanted to go do something after work that night. so we did.
all night i was so nervous because i THOUGHT he was going to ask me out.
shaun is the first guy i ever dated before we were 'together' it was kind of nice.
so we're driving home and he asks me a block before my house!! if i would go out with him. now mind you i was also trying all night to decide how to answer him: yes, sure, yeah, hey why not...etc etc. so i said yes. and he says...really?. i said yes.
then i was at home and that was that. but i was so super excited.
soooooooooo we talked on the phone a lot and saw each other in school. which we only had a few weeks left.
i always remember him telling me before i left i like you, a lot. i thought that was so cool because instead of saying i love you. he said i like you a lot. and he let the like turn into love.
so a few weeks later was his graduation. we had our picture taken and put our arms around each other. :) awww.
before graduation we had held hands. i remember sitting on the couch and he gradually moved his hand over and wrapped his pinkie around mine and then eventually we were holding hands. (one thing you must know shaun is shy, very shy. his mom ran into my mom once and said he must really like her because he actually talks on the phone to her)
so after i went to my cousins grad party shaun called me and we went to dairy queen for some ice cream with his friend. then after that his friend wanted to drive his car and shaun sat in the back seat with me. shaun tells me now this was not 'staged' but i so thought it was. anyways. we had our first kiss then. shaun also says i kissed him. i thought he wanted too because he was looking at me so i just turned and kissed him. he says i was just looking at you. he did that a lot. just stared at me. which i secretly liked but was NOT about to tell him then.
a month or so(i think it was july...i could look it up but i won't) later we had our first i love yous. something else we talked about was not having sex until we were married. shaun told me that really on in our relationship when i wasn't even thinking about it. when we talked about it we were never even close to being at the point of thinking about it. i think that was a good thing because of course later on in the relationship when it could have happened we were able to say no.
we made the decision to wait.
i am not saying it was easy to wait and we struggled, but i am also happy to say that we did wait. we always were doing stuff together and if we weren't together we talked on the phone a lot. during that summer my mom and i had a huge fight. it really bugged me and i was really upset about it. and shaun had a 100 curfew.
i didn't have one at all. so we went to a going away party for an afs student and when he was dropping me off he wouldn't let me leave until i talked about what was wrong with me. i was in shock...he cared!
he wanted to know!
it was that night i KNEW there was something different about this shy boy.
i was also having a really hard time with my before mentioned friend. long story short we ended a very long term friendship over something i don't even remember now. shaun cared and asked me all the time about that stuff. i think shaun came camping with us over summer or when i got home we did something together. i
loved being with him.
his friend did lots of stuff with us too. i didn't mind, it was fun to hang out with him too. my junior year was just around the corner. at the end of sophomore year i had a friend sign my yearbook that i hadn't talked to in a long time. again something i don't remember now ended our friendship. so over the summer i had emailed her too and we were talking again. it is the before mentioned mommy friend i have still. anyways.
i don't remember much about junior year besides prom. my friend wanted to go with this guy from her church and i made her ask him to prom. it took some prodding from me but she finally did it and we all went to prom together. (side note they are MARRIED and have a BABY(major update 11/21/08 they are having a SECOND BABY) now)
prom was fun with them. we went out to eat and mini golfing. our one year anniversary was coming up and shaun was starting a new job working for his uncle. i was getting upset because i didn't know if we were going to be able to see each other. but we were. yay!
the summer between my junior and senior year changed me. shaun's aunt invited me to a bible study. i went. i had been searching out something and thought it would help. i went to the study and that is where i made a decision to have a personal relationship with jesus. however not a whole lot changed with my and my attitude.
i blame most on me but also my home life, they were against a lot of things they thought 'different' 'weird' etc. so i wasn't able to make my walk much of a walk until college.
anyways. shaun's mom and sisters also went to the bible study too. shaun was still trying to figure things out. and deal with his dad. i am the first person shaun ever talked to about his dad. he cried and i cried. anyways.
senior year went well. we still did lots of stuff together and called each other. i had decided to go to uw-oshkosh the next year for a degree in elementary education and special education. i have a heart for special needs people. i worked in the CD room for two years of high school and LOVED it. the whole summer before college i almost dreaded it.
leaving shaun.
but it came and i went.
and bawled.
i hated being away from him.
i lived with a girl from chilton so i thought that would help. it really didn't. although in college i could walk like i should be with jesus. i started attending intervarsity christian fellowship. i joined the worship team and had a blast. i went home from school every weekend to see shaun. and talked to him every night on the phone before bed. even if it was only for a few minutes we talked. every sunday (except the last one of the year) i cried when shaun brought me back to my room.
i tried my hardest to wait until after he left to cry. because he'd be crying too. but we stuck it out and sooner then later the year was over. i did enjoy my year of classes and i tutored and had a 'little sister' through big brothers/big sisters. i also made a good friend. that helped me through stuff. i attended a few bible studies and enjoyed it a lot. when i would be home i attended the bible study i mentioned before.
i was making my walk more important and the MOST important even more important than shaun, which it should be.
that summer i worked at a daycare my dad's cousin ran. as the summer drew to a close i started to get ready to go back to school. i was dreading every second of it.
as i tried to plan stuff nothing was working out. i couldn't find a phone i wanted, the computer would not work every time i tried to order a loft. i talked about it and prayed about it and decided it was god closing the door and i shouldn't be going back.
my parents supported my decision all the way. i was able to keep my position at the day care and loved my job.
in september shaun's aunt started talking to me about my relationship with shaun. how we were 'unequally yolked'.
which we were.
but up to that point i hadn't cared.
i should have but didn't.
i struggled with this a lot but ulitmately made the decision to end my relationship with shaun if he didn't do what he needed.
(what he need was to make that decision to have a relationship with jesus)
the time came for shaun and i to talk.
i cried he cried.
and in the end he accepted jesus and has never looked back.
we had already been going to church together. he went before he 'got saved'. and then he started coming to bible study on tuesdays. it was so awesome.
our relationship changed so much for the better. i felt more complete than ever.
in january shaun proposed. nothing romantic at all, but that's okay. he gave me the ring i had wanted forever.(and for our FIVE year anniversary got me a bigger diamond)
we decided to get married in november. on the 22nd. it was our four and a half year anniversary.
we got married so quick because we didn't live together until our wedding night and i so wanted to just be with him already!!
the wedding planning went okay. i didn't care about all the little details. all i wanted was to be married and start our lives together as one.
about a month before our wedding my grandma died. that was really hard for me. my grandma was my babysitter growing up. shaun helped me through a lot of it. i was sad my grandma couldn't be there at my wedding, but god had better plans for her.
so we got married at calvary chapel in appleton. our pastor from bible study was able to marry us there.
(we meet in our pastor's basement so it was easier to get married in the church)

so i guess there are some things missing from our little love story...like the fights we had,
or the one where he left and didn't come back,
but called,
the love notes he left me on my car,
and the silly names he had for me...bunny. i don't even know why he called me that.
i try to keep the romance in our marriage though.

we'll be married five years this november. i can't believe it. we've been through so much in a short period of time. i make sure we hold hands when we can, cuddle after the girls go to bed, and most important to us praying together. we're still doing the couple's devotional before bed. we're laughing more than ever and i love hearing his response to the questions at the end.
i HIGHLY recommend doing devotionals together. ours is good. it's songs in the key of solomon. under it it says (in the word and in the mood) good book for guys. lol. and girls too i guess.
we're still going to that church in a basement and still loving every minute of it. i have gone on a long time about this. but now you know. :) is there anything you don't know? lol. oh well. so til next time. have a perfectly manicured day. :) amanda

**update** i totally spaced things out for you who are coming from my november 21st post. it used to be one big paragraph. and hard to read!! but anywho hope you enjoyed it!!

ahhhhhh monday morning.

it does not feel like monday to me. caitlyn is first up around 7. not too bad. i'm surprised breigh isn't awake yet. she fell alseep last night at 7 so i figured she'd be up EARLY. but she's still asleep. shaun's sister is out of the hospital (yesterday) so we went over to her house to celebrate mother's day. we ordered chinese for supper and watched the survivor finale. (which btw i am very disappointed that amanda did not win) after church shaun and the girls and i went to red robin. it was pretty good. it was nice to do something with just him and the girls after not seeing him all weekend. my weekend went pretty well. my dad came up so he watched the two older girls and we took caitlyn with us for the sole burner walk. a 5k walk/run...which we walked! i would've probably been able to run it when i was in high school and on the tennis team, but definitely not now. it was a really nice walk and a beautiful day for the walk. when we were done we went to IHOP. yummy breakfast food. i love breakfast food this pregnancy. we returned to the camper a few minutes after my dad changed breigh's poopy diaper. what a guy!! i was really blessed to see how happy he was watching them and to see the girls interact with him so much. my dad worked a lot when we were little and i don't think we got time like that with him. it's fun to see my girls get it. especially when he's their only 'papa' who is alive. it cooled off a lot in the afternoon up there and rained in the evening so we didn't get to do a campfire. crazy WI weather. next time i guess. which i don't know when it will be except next time. shaun did LOTS of stuff when we were gone. he cut the lawn...which DESPERATELY needed to be done. put in our dryer...which as been sitting in our garage for like a month or longer. (our old one wasn't broke, we needed a washer and i talked him in to getting an entire new set) he burned the garbage...which was piled EVERYWHERE in the entryway. and he cleaned up the kitchen quite a bit. i was so so thankful for all of that work he did. plus he worked til after 6 on friday and for awhile on saturday. it's nice to be back home though. sleeping in my own bed. the girls slept together in the same bunk at the camper. now amelya says she wants bunk beds. which i would buy her IF she would sleep in her bed. so we'll see what happens i guess. she wants to sleep on top though...that scares me a bit. she is only 3 after all. but it was so cute to see the girls sleeping together. i'm surprised amelya let that happen. when i woke up saturday morning they were laying really close together with their heads touching. i took a picture on my mom's camera...i forgot to bring mine. i'm watching fox11 news. cara artman is getting her hair cut on the show!!!!! i'm so excited. ever since she has started i've felt she's needed a haircut. maybe they've just been waiting for this. we have mom's group this morning. but my friend is gone to washington so it'll probably be just me and the mom who runs it. which is fine too. the girls like to play with her son too. he is a few days younger then breigh. i can't believe she is going to be two in almost a month. and i have my ultrasound a month from tomorrow!! yay! i have a dr appt this week too. i'm starting to feel like i look pregnant. any tshirt i put on feels tighter in the tummy. but when i put on some maternity i just look silly. this is the hard stage of is she or isn't she i guess. i should just wear a shirt that says i am. lol. i do have a funny shirt that i got when i was pregnant with amelya that says eating for two. sooooooo caitlyn is done munching on her cheerios so i should get her out of the high chair. have a sparkles in your hair kinda day. amanda

a (old) picture of my girlies

so for awhile i've been writing about my girls but give you no pictures. this is a pretty old one, but on my computer and just easier for me to do right now. caitlyn is in the middle and breigh is on the left and amelya on the right. the really only big difference is caitlyn has thinned out quite a bit. and YES they are all three wearing matching shirts and pants for that matter. i love love love to match them up when provided the opportunity to do so. i say i'll do it til they won't let me anymore. but quite honestly amelya and breigh love looking like caitlyn...so i guess that kind of helps a bit. later i will post a picture of myself...so you can get an idea of the crazy person behind the blog. but i am still a little nervous to put my card into the computer considering what happened the last time i did. :) so i'll have to wait til i go to my mom's house or something. sorry. not that it is that important anyways. but i need to keep this really short this time. caitlyn i think is getting hungry for an early lunch or something. plus i STILL have to pack!!!!!! good thing we're leaving only for two days and not two weeks.

just me awake...what??

well this morning it's just me up at 730. i didn't do this all by myself however, and i really should be packing for our 'trip' up north...but given this rare opportunity i thought i'd blog instead. :) and besides i will not be able to do it tomorrow, and sunday is mother's day. so you're left with no babbling for the weekend. sorry. so the reason i was up at 730 was because shaun's younger sister in the hospital. in the words of one of her friend's daughters "she had her independence taken out" lol. actually it was her appendix. because it was so bad the doctor wants her to stay another night and shaun's mom was just updating me. and she was trying to figure out how to get her car up to her. i am pretty much not able to help. sooooo my haircut. i decided to go short. and i LOVE it. it's also nice to have my hair highlited again...i'm blonde all over instead of just the bottom half. i haven't had my hair highlighted since right before caitlyn was born...so august. that's a long time of growout. good thing i don't have really super dark hair otherwise it would have looked even worse then it did. i'm super excited to 'look cute'. maybe that's kind of egotistical or something, but with my hair cut like this i feel better and feel cuter instead of 'ugh my hair' type of feeling. we'll see how it goes today when it's left up to me to style. my aunt totally blessed me too because she gave me my highlites for my birthday (which was a month ago) so she just charged me 20 bucks!! still she was only going to charge me 45, which is still way cheap. guess it pays to know someone. lol. i got to go through the taco bell drive thru yesterday. i was so craving it and i was a little hungry...so i went through it with my sister. (as a side note, i craved taco bell with all my pregnancys. it was the worst with amelya...when we still had one in chilton i ate there 5 times in a two week period) mmmmmmmmm it was SO good at totally hit the spot. i even ate while driving...maybe a bad thing, but i was surprised i did it with minimal spillage. my sister and i also found my mommy's mother day present. score. we did it without much problems to think of what we should get her too. the girls were troopers through it all, and were super good at the hospital. i was kind of bummed though, apparently they're trying to buff up security at the hospital so now you can't look at the babies at your own free will you have to be buzzed in to get to that section. i guess i understand it, but amelya was all excited to see the babies. when caitlyn was in the hospital for broncholitis in february amelya and breigh loved going down the hall to see the new babies. it would have been a longer 4 days had they been constricted in a smaller space. i have to pack yet and find and type out a guest list for a party and and and and....our to-dos never end do they. :) it's all a part of being a mom, or maybe even part of being an adult. i'm not sure how to pack either, so i usually end up packing three different outfits for each day so we can change our minds depending on the weather. i wish shaun didn't have to work so he could come along. but there's always next time. plus i don't think my dad is coming, and neither is grant...so he'd be the only boy along. i know he used to it but i'll let him slide....i keep thinking maybe he'll finish cleaning up the kitchen. but i will place no expectations and be pleasantly surprised if he does and oh well if he doesn't. he does so much around here the way it is. my guess is he'll pick some stones. which amelya will be bummed about if she doesn't get to help. we'll have to see. i called shaun to let him know that i will stop by his work so the girls can say good bye to him later. they didn't get to spend a lot of daddy time with him last night and won't see him now for two days...so at least they can say bye. breigh will probably feel bummed the most. she's a daddy's girl on the weekends. well i suppose it is 800! i'm still the only one up!! so now i should get some other things done while i'm blessed with the opportunity. til next time have a zip a de doo da day!!

well it was an early morning at our house. caitlyn was up by 6. very unusual for her. yesterday i had to wake her up at 840ish. breigh was up too. but they are both in good moods and have been since they got up. shaun was also home still when they got up, so they got to say goodbye to daddy. it's been a LONG time since i've been up when shaun has left for work. i do like seeing him 'off' though. breigh is currently dressing herself up in pretty much any dress up clothes she can find. she is so funny. she was singing her abc's before. well not ALL of them but most of them...she has the 'tune' down very well. i cannot believe how much she has grown up in the past few months. she's turning into a big girl and not so much a baby anymore. amelya keeps getting bigger too. yesterday eating lunch she was leaning up against the table and nudges me and says "the table is hurting my boobs" i about DIED. first off i wanted to ask WHAT BOOBS!! lol. but she was very serious so i just told her to quit leaning on the table. that kid is hilarious! it was even funnier how she nudged me when she said it. today i am getting a haircut. i think i am getting them cut shorter. i just always want something different. i haven't gotten my hair cut since october. super long time for me. i'm getting them highlighted too. i'm excited, but still not 100% how i want my hair. maybe i should search styles...my aunt is cutting them. she should be good at telling me what to do too. shaun called this morning and said his sister was admitted to the hospital overnight. last week she was in the ER. i don't think they know exactally what is wrong, but whatever is wrong is causing her a lot of pain, and that's why they admitted her. so i'm imagining later we'll be there if she is still there. shaun is a cool brother like that. some brothers might not go visit or 'show they care' but he isn't afraid to do that. when his sister was in the hospital last year (other sister) she was there for a week or longer and shaun visited every day. i hope my girls are like that with each other too. the girls are relatively well behaved when we visit. spend some time walking the halls, but considering their ages (3, almost 2) they do very good. my sister is watching them while i get my haircut. i have to go to the chiropractor, where she works, for an appt then she's leaving with me to go get my hair done. my sister pretty much does whatever whenever i ask her to. her future husband is graduating next week and now is job searching, she does not want to move far away. we have been doing something with her once a week for as long as i can remember so i'm sure it'd be hard to leave and not see the girls as much. best buy called me the other night. i can go pick up my card. now i just need to find someone cheap to fix it!! lol. still praying about that. so i have to say i think i'm done babbling for now. breigh has decided to start not being in a good mood and i don't think she knows what she wants. on or off my lap? giraffe or no giraffe? to be two years old and faced with decisions like that!! lol. at least she doesn't have to worry about a hair cut yet. :) so be happy. nothing else better. amanda

the crops are all in...

yay! shaun got all of our crops in today. he's cleaning out the soybean drill as i write this. he'll have to take it back, but other than that at least it'll be an 'early night'. i dread planting time because it can sometimes mean a longer night for more than one night in a row. all we have to do is pick stones in the fields again. shaun did it the first time all by himself. well actually his uncle dropped off his cousin to help. steven helped last year too. i know shaun appreciated it and i'm sure steven had fun. amelya and breigh got to ride along in the tractor today a lot too. i (finally) closed that hostesses show so they rode with him and i took caitlyn with me. i stopped in stockbridge on the way home and got paninis for supper. mmm good. i've been craving them since going to the mom and pop place last week. while i waited for the food to be prepared i got a wildberry smoothie...yuuuuuuuuummmmmy. the lady's show ended up being over 600. yay for me. i made almost 200 bucks off it. nice easy money. i love love love (love) to stay home and that provides the perfect opportunity. even when they're fighting or crying or whatever-ing. i love it. having 15 months between them could be considered on the verge of mental institution, but really it isn't that big of a deal. i'll tell you...have them close! you will love it. because our lives will never be 'perfect' or 'right' enough for a baby. you'll never be able to afford one. you'll never have a big enough car, house etc etc. let god do the planning and you do the raising. our plans are crummy compared to the ones our loving god has for us. you have to have to have to come to the point of knowing that god loves your kids more than you do. a whole lot more. and i love my kids A LOT!! i love watching shaun be a daddy to them too. he didn't have a lot of experience with kids before we had them, but he is a wonderful dad. and of course the girls have him wrapped around each one of their fingers AND toes!! he'd do anything for them. me too. but you know what. god gave his son for us. can you imagine giving up your one and only son to die. a cruel awful death. just so others can live. we have a very unselfish god. most unselfish person i know. well twice in one day is a record for me. just needed a sec to sit down and blab. we went to visit the newest member of our neighborhood today. caiden is SO cute. seeing an 8 lb baby makes me realize just how big the girls have gotten. caitlyn is 8 months old today. she started out as big as he is. and in a mere 8 months has grown so so much. ahhhh motherhood. well i'm going to cut it short? now.

late night and early mornings.

shaun and i stayed up past 11 last night. partly because i didn't get home until after 10 and had his supper from 'town' with me. because i had not seen him all day i stayed up with him so we could have that time together all couples need. then we went to bed, and did some more talking. i bought a couples devotional over the weekend that we've started doing. we've done devotionals but never together. it's fun. the book is called...songs in the key of solomon...in the word and in the mood. (perfect guy devo if you ask me) it has questions for each of us at the end of the devo and i've been so blessed by reading them together and talking about the questions. last night we laughed together more than we have in a LOOOOONG time. it's fun to laugh so hard your tummy hurts with your husband. amelya woke up at 510 this morning when shaun's alarm clock went off. she said she didn't like that noise it woke her up. so she came into bed with us...and is still up there sleeping. breigh was up early at 620, but stayed relatively quiet until 636. yay. that is at least a little extra sleep. i went to a pampered chef party last night. i'm proud of myself for not buying anything i didn't need. and only spending 45. that's good for me at a party. of any kind. i have to close one of my parties today. i sell lia sophia. the lady was supposed to close on saturday morning...called me friday night to set it up. i try calling her to close saturday and she doesn't answer and calls me last night saying she was in door county all weekend. did she not know this friday night at 930 when she called me? whatever. i feel bad for the people at her party though because she had her show 3 weeks ago so they might be wondering where the stuff is at. i haven't gotten any calls from them so i guess that's good. i got a surprise email from someone today saying they'd like to order something from me. love it!! my business has gone down a little bit from what it had been. i'd been averaging four shows a month now i'm down to two. so if anyone out there wants to help me out....i'd love it!! my goal is to do 4 a month until this baby is born to make some extra money. amelya painted my finger nails yesterday. she did a great job. pink on one hand and orange on the other. i had to persuade her to do the orange. she just wanted to do the one hand and save the other for 'next time'. lol. too cute. well breigh is itching and wants lotion...crazy excema. til next time.

mouse turds, field work, and sunshine

okay first off i LOVE living in the country. BUT BUT BUT i do not LIKE the mouse turds that can be found, pretty much inevitable in the country! i am pretty sure i found one on our stairs last night. yuck. i also want to know how it even got up there, IF there is a said mouse. i've praying ever since that if there is a mouse it finds the poison and well...dies. and if there is a mouse that i do not have to see it. i can live with a mouse as long as it knows it's boundries and does not try to confront me...dead OR alive. i hardly got sleep last night because i think about a mouse and it being in my room or something...i think part of me imagines a little mouse family living in my house when i'm gone and asleep or something...kind of like golidlock and the three bears, our story would be mousie and the popps. lol. shaun has to start field work ASAP. fields need to be worked up and stones need to be picked. the weather report looks good for the week so that means after he gets home from work he'll be out in the fields. maybe i'll finally get my kitchen clean. this weekend the girls and i are going up to the camper my parents have in waupaca. it'll be nice to get away. shaun has to work so he won't be coming. but then he'll be able to get loads of work done in the fields and i won't mind as much because i will be gone from home. breigh's awake. guess this will have to be short. i feel bad, she's calling for daddy. she'll be highly disappointed when mommy walks in. til later. or tomorrow. or whenever.

saturday

saturday!! yay!! and shaun has off. he's outside getting the duals on the tractor. he told me this morning that if he would've known it wasn't going to be raining he would have brought the skid steer home so we could pick stones. stones need to be picked...and as soon as possible. i'm nervous to drive the skid steer though. i've never driven it. i've only driven the tractor. it's crazy being in control of such a huge machine to me. i'm always freaked out that i'm not going to stop or something. anywho. the girls are excited to help too. amelya picked out some 'gardening' gloves at walmart the other day...pink barbie ones...and is all excited because she can wear them when she picks stones. i kind of like raising 'farm girls' she won't be afraid to work. i don't think she'll be as big of a wimp as i was and still can be too. i want to raise tough girls. don't mess with me type of kids. ones who stand up for themselves and for what they believe and who don't conform to the world. i try to do my best. it's all i can do. raising kids is a HUGE responsibility and sometimes i wonder why i was worthy enough to receive it. but boy am i glad i did!! i wouldn't trade my girlies for a single thing. i try to be the bestest mommy i can be and then leave the rest up to god. for only he can change their hearts. i can tell them lots and 'feed' them lots, but it's up to god to do the actual work. i do my best to not lie to them-at all. i think i have been doing a pretty good job. not lying means telling them there is no such thing as santa, as the easter bunny, etc etc etc. now some people, even fellow believers, see no problems with continuing to do these things. but then i have to ask why? when my girls are five or six and tell some other kid there is no santa, i will not yell at them. they are being honest with their friend. then their friend is going to have to deal with ultimately the betrayal from their own mommy and daddy. maybe it isn't a 'big deal' to lie to your kid about the 'small things'. but then what happens when they lie to you about the 'big things'. you have only taught them by example it was okay to lie about some stuff. it isn't okay though. i want my girls to know that i have never lied to them. i want them to be able to trust that everything i tell them is true and real. they shouldn't have to doubt the people who raise them. i've run into other people who will say something to amelya that isn't true, and i've outed them. i say don't lie to her. it's interesting to note that their countenance changes and they don't lie to her then. don't waste your time lying to your kids, or anyone for that matter. we don't do halloween either. i didn't even have to struggle with this decision. do you know what halloween REALLY is? and REALLY stands for? ulitmately it is a satanic holiday celebrated by REAL witches. i HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend the video "Halloween: Trick or Treat?" it is NOT for children at all. in fact shaun could not even watch the whole thing because of how scary it was. they talk to ex-real witches who share the things they do on halloween night. do you know they sacrifice REAL babies and children?!? all in the name of satan. scary. so why then do people who don't worship satan and are in church sunday morning before taking their children trick or treating STILL celebrating this 'holiday'? now again people could say it's no big deal. but it IS a big deal. even carving pumpkins have satanic meanings. i am NOT going to be a part of ANYTHING to do with halloween. ever. my kids may be invited to dress up parties on halloween and i could say it's okay we don't believe in the 'real meaning' anyways. but then it is okay to do other things too. no it's not. it is not all in fun. it is a very very real and scary thing. i have access to the video. if you are interested in just becoming more educated i recommend watching it...then making your own decisions after. because we are left with that free will choice. which sometimes gets us where we should not be. you may be thinking then what fun do your kids have? my kids have loads of fun. doing loads of okay stuff.you do not have to believe in santa to be excited about your presents on christmas morning. you do not have to believe in halloween to enjoy candy or playing dress up. my girls do that all year round. don't do something because that is what everyone is doing. research the facts. decide if it's what you should be doing. this got pretty personal today...like it hasn't before right. but in all respect...thanks for reading. have a snowflakes you can catch with your tongue kind of day. :) amanda

short? if at all possible

so it's rainy today. part of me wants to crawl into bed. the other part of me knows i have more important things to do...like start supper. which might be difficult because i picked up a 'cranky pat's' pizza on my way home from town. :) just throw it on the pizzaz and 'pizzaz' it's done in 15 minutes. the pizzaz is an interesting thing. it kind of freaked me out at first. i mean a pizza just sitting 'out' to cook. but i love it. we use it for more than just pizza too. we spent the day at my friends house. we spend at least one day a week there. (and on mondays we see each other at mom's group and on wednesdays we go to story time) but next weekend they leave for two weeks. what am i going to do!?!? the girls get along well with her son. and it's fun to see them play together. we're thinking breigh could easily marry him. they are the only two who 'fight'. in fact today he ran from her when she came up to him with something. i laughed, but kept a close eye on the situation. she's been known to pin him up against the door...literally! i don't know where she gets this need for power thing from. or do i? i've been reading some other blogs lately. i've noticed no one blogs like me. i ramble on and on about everything. they write in complete sentences, probably use their spellcheck, and usually have a point. oh well. i also have one big 'paragraph' they have seperated paragraphs. so i guess i could change like everyone else. nope don't think so. it's so much easier to go on and on. and not have to worry about much of anything. i'm going scrapbooking in a little over an hour. i'm excited. even more excited to get some work done!! and if i don't...well there is always next month. so i said short...after all it is the title. and i didn't put the pizza in the freezer so it's thawing next to me. so til next time...may your pizzas stay frozen. :) amandaroo

numero theero

hey. got to sleep til after seven today!! yay!! 712 to be exact. love it. love it. yesterday was a crazy day. last week i took my memory card to best buy's geek squad so they could hopefully get my pictures off of my memory card, my computer wouldn't read it. well they couldn't so they sent it out...which cost me over 50 bucks...to their data recovery 'lab'. well i got a call yesterday and they said they could get it off my card, maybe, but it was a level three and in the end would cost 1540 plus a 100 fee for something else. i said, i love my kids, i want the pictures, BUT i DO NOT have over 1500 to spend on that. i'm bummed a little. BUT i also know god knows too. and HE can fix it...for free even!! but if anyone knows anyone who knows anything about getting pictures off of a 'corrupted' card...PLEASE let me know. i'm totally willing to pay them...not 1500 bucks...but a totally fair amount for their work. i also made a trek to bellybeans. my sister gave me a gift certificate for there for my birthday and it has been burning a whole in my pocket since. my plan was to buy a diaper bag. i have seriously wanted a 'petunia pickle bottom' diaper bag since i first saw them in the store. they are way a lots of money. i guess the ppb is like a 'coach' to someone who loves purses. the last diaper bag i bought at gordman's lasted me like a few months...then i bought a 'used' one at once upon a child. i loved that one too...but now that one broke. so me trying to justify this crazy purchase...figures something that costs almost your first born should last awhile...and i'll be needing a diaper bag for awhile...plus after i'm out of the diaper bag stage it could totally serve as an overnight bag. it's really pretty...brown with blue flower pattern. well actually it's more blue floral pattern with brown..if that makes sense. and I LOVE IT! and now i've got what i have wanted for a really long time. the girls were really good at the store too. usually amelya 'looks for her size' and takes lots of clothes off the racks...breigh will push these stacked shirts through the shelf and on the floor. but i had to stop breigh once and not once did amelya take any clothes off the rack. yep i'm proud. then i looked at the clearance racks. big mistake!! there have been these really pretty purple/lilacy shirts that i have wanted for the girls but never got (i could not justify spending over 50 regular priced on a sweater time three sweaters) so they were on the clearance rack...for like 30 ish...then the girl tells me that it's half off of that too!! yay!! so i got to buy them...i could spend like 50ish on three sweaters...for ALL three. they will wear them for their pictures in june. i was so very excited. then i went upstairs. of course all of the maternity was an additional half off the prices too. so i found a shirt that i have always wanted for myself too and paid a quarter of the price for it. i did well. plus the shirt can be used as a nursing shirt for afterwards too. so really i will get loads of use out of it. i really like that store. i was also really happy that the girls were so good. they all fell alseep on the way home too. amelya woke up when we got home and so did caitlyn but breigh took a pretty decent nap. shaun was done by six from work. that was nice too. he is itching to get out in the fields though. he hasn't done anything yet and now he thinks he should get different corn seed because of the maturity date on the corn we have. i really do not know. all i do know is that we locked in a good price on half of our corn...and maybe it'll go up so we can lock in the rest. the hay is coming up nice too. you know i never would have thought i would even THINK things like this. and now i'm writing about this to other people. lol. but when the hay looks nice so does the money we get for it. i like summer because we get those extra checks from hay and stuff. winter seems long sometimes because of not getting those. this year was really good though. i think it has to do with me fully trusting that god WILL take care of it. because he has before so why would he stop now right? that's one thing i have been learning more and more about god. just trust in him and let him take care of it. regardless of what i plan i cannot do anything about it. we see merely a few strokes in the painting of our life, but god..the artist...already knows them all. i may seem very 'religious' to you. but let me tell you...it is not 'religion' that keeps me going at all. it is my relationship with jesus. i grew up doing 'religious' things because i thought that is what i 'should' be doing. but really all jesus wants is you and your heart. and then he takes care of the rest of it. i remember someone asked me once what religion i was i said christian. she said like lutheran i said no like christian. i dunno. are church is considered 'non-denominational'. we actually go to a home church. our pastor and his wife and daughter open there house every week so we can come and get together. when everyone is there we have almost 30 people in our church. i love it. i love the closeness we all have and the friends i have. i think in a bigger church you can get lost among the crowd and then you lose the accountability. i WANT people to care about what i'm going through, and what i'm doing and if they see things i shouldn't be doing i WANT them to talk to me and help me though it. accountability is a BIG thing, but i guess scary too. some people may want to go to church on sunday, then live however else they want monday through saturday. that isn't how i want to live at all. i want to live for god everyday. i can only pray that it shows through my life the entire week. now i am human, i do fail, and sometimes a lot, but god takes me back. but it also doesn't give me the right to go on and do whatever i want knowing god will take me back either. i'd love to get into it more....but mommyhood calls. caitlyn wants her bottle and amelya wants something to drink. breigh? well she's just being breigh. :) raindrops falling on your tin roof....amanda

two days in a row...:)

well two days in a row is probably pretty good. but although like a journal when you first get it you write and write and write. so we'll see. after reading my entry over yesterday i saw some spelling errors. sorry. there is a spell check button...i just didn't utilize it. i got to 'sleep in' today. til almost seven 648! that is quite the feat in our house. and caitlyn was the first up. usually it is breigh at the crack of early. breigh slept til after 7 today. impressive. i'm hoping they sleep in saturday morning. shaun has saturday off and will usually get up with breigh...i'm going scrapbooking friday night...which most likely will produce a late night and not a lot of sleep. so shaun usually lets me sleep and gets up with breigh then i get up when caitlyn does. which lately isn't too far after seven. i need them to all sleep like amelya who is rarely up before 8. in 12 years i'll be complaining because they won't wake up til noon!! lol. it's amazing to see how the life pattern of our sleep changes. i don't think i could sleep until 10 even if given the chance. also after reading my post yesterday i totally forgot to tell you all about finding out about baby d. how dare i!!? so i DID NOT think i was even pregnant at all. for those of you with more than one kid you know how less it happens after that. and it happened not a whole lot and only TWO TIMES without any sort of 'protection'. (i'm also a believer in if it's going to happen it's going to happen so i guess protection isn't really the right word...but the only word i can think of) soooo...i hadn't gotten my 'friend'/period (we're all adults) after having caitlyn and decided that because i had gotten by this point with the other girls i'd just go buy a test. so i did. in the aisle when i bought it a like 16-17 year old girl was also in the aisle and i later saw her hiding her test while in line. not to mention mine was underneath the computer paper i had in my cart as well. so i go to the self check out...of course. :) and buy the test. i feel crazy. anywho...because i 'saved' my pee just for the test i took the girls...yep all three of them. into the stall with me at walmart and did the test. i figured it's negative anyway so i'll just check it. then after like 30 seconds...they say 3 minutes it takes....mine have NEVER taken 3 minutes!! the test says "pregnant". i was in shock. i looked at amelya and said do you know what this says? she said no. i said it says i'm pregnant. now to a three year old she has no idea what i just told her. and didn't care either. so i try to make it out of the bathroom and walmart without fainting! i did. i half debated calling shauns sister who could've taken my blood and done a serum test on it to tell me for sure. the tests are 99.9% accurate i still figured it was wrong...i know i know .1 percent. but hey! i didn't call her. but as i drove past her work she was leaving and waved. i seriously prayed...please don't call me!! so now. how do i tell shaun?? well i took a picture of the test and printed off a whole bunch others of the girls. after he got out of the shower i said look at these pictures. i turned away as he did because i was smiling...out of insanity maybe. well he got to the last picture. his jaw dropped and he said you're kidding. okay first off who would kid about that!! i said no and proceded to tell him how i didn't even feel pregnant. he says...then why did you take the test? (like if i didn't take it it would've changed or something!! boys...) so needless to say he was just as shocked as i was. the next day i spent the day at my friends house. do you know how hard it is not just say IM PREGNANT! well i didn't tell her and actually went that afternoon to 'womankind' they do free pregnancy tests and ultrasounds from 6-18 weeks. i went there and talked with the nurse who asked if i had taken a test. i said yes. she said what did it say. i said pregnant, both times. (i took the second test in the pack later in the night to see if it still said the same thing) she just smiled at me. she was probably thinking...oh like this test i do isn't going to come back positive. well it didn't. because we couldn't figure out dates though she said she wouldn't do an ultrasound because i had probably gotten pregnant on my date night a few weeks earlier. so i plan on calling and getting the free ultrasound pretty soon though. she totally encouraged me to come back. i called my dr. the next day and they took my blood for the hcg levels. then scheduled me for an ultrasound. i got the ultrasound and got to see the baby...about the size of uncooked rice and it's little beating heart. beautiful. the shock has obviously worn off and i couldn't be more excited to add another letter to the family. shaun's excited too. last night i talked to him about cutting the cord. he said i don't know. i said why. he thinks it is gross. i told him to think about it and that he has awhile to decide. so he said okay. so at least he was open to that. this morning i was all excited to eat a donut for breakfast that i got yesterday. it was gone. i called shaun yesterday at walmart and he said he did not like filled donuts. so i got him an unfilled one. i LIKE filled donuts and bought me one. so i called my dear husband and asked him where my donut was. he said he ate it. he said it was too late once he started eating it once he realized it was filled and ate it all. i knew i should've bought more!! lol. he had to work at five this morning. yuck. i don't even remember him leaving for work ever. hopefully he can get done at a decent time today. yesterday he was done at 530. that's early for him lately. he'll have to be done early tomorrow because i have to leave to scrapbook. :) i have all intentions of getting lots done. we'll see. i totally enjoy the fellowship along with the scrapping. last time they made me a yummy cake for my birthday. it was a lot of fun. i could go into a really funny story about the cake...but you probably wouldn't get it. shaun didn't even laugh when i told him the story he just looked at me funny. must be a 'had to be there' thing. breigh ate peas for breakfast this morning. i think that's weird. but that's what she wanted. so okay. i was just praying i wasn't going to puke while warming them up. i didn't. :) i go back and read this and realize how random i can be. sorry. but if you read my journal (and NO you cannot) i'm random and all over the map there too. i should probably go. get the girls dressed...well breigh and caitlyn. no they're not naked just in their jammies yet. breigh usually throws a fit when we take hers off though. shaun got her some cars jammies at walmart and the first day we took them off to get dressed she literally threw herself on the floor yelling cars! cars! she's funny. okay i said i was done. so i'll be done. enjoy your first day of MAY!! :) stardusts, sparkles, and glitters....til next time.