NOT me and THAT'S that...

here's another great edition of not me monday...enjoy...and do it too...it's fun!

it was NOT me that debated wearing the same thing i wore to bed the night before as clothes for two days in a row because none of my clothes fit...that would be stinky...and i only debated it...

i did not tell the girls to go play in the playroom so i could lay on the couch and fall asleep for the fifteen minutes they did play in there

i didn't get a little jealous when my husband did his sister's dishes and asked her if she needed help for supper last night...because of course he always does that at home...ha

i did not feel bad when the 'octoberfest fish' i bought for the girls died with in hours, who gets sad at a thing like a gold fish dying...

i didn't feel bad either when amelya's replacement freddie died the next day...and i had to see her tears AGAIN...

i didn't get bummed at all when our little d baby wouldn't move it's hands and feet so we could see the face, how is the baby supposed to know i wanted to SCRAPBOOK it!!!

i absolutely didn't spend 85 on clothes and such for the girls from a lady off of craigslist, because they don't need anymore clothes

i absolutely didn't ignore the dishes in my sink, because i always consistently load and unload the dishwasher and always have a clean sink...always

i didn't look at the three week old baby getting her baby dedication and think, i should really do caitlyn's, because caitlyn is over a year old and probably should have had her dedication...and then i didn't rationalize it'll just be easier to do baby d and her at the same time...

i didn't look at three week old mollie and go crazy with excitement that all too soon we'll be holding our newborn

i didn't get excited that it'll be cool out this week so i can wear jeans and don't have to dig to find some shorts or capris that actually fit me...

i never ever once forgot that i let my parent's dog outside and realized it an hour later...who does that?!? (good thing we have a big yard)

i didn't ask shaun to get up all weekend with the girls during the night because i'm too pregnant, exhausted, tired, etc., because it was his weekend to work and he has to get up early

oh and i didn't sit here thinking man i didn't do too much at all this week...

hope you enjoyed. it's early. i'm tired and probably could've come up with some more creative ways to say these...oh well..you'll deal...have fun telling the world what you absolutely didn't do...because you would never ever do it...

freddie and spot...

we have two new family members. fish. freddie and spot. amelya's is freddie and breigh's is spot. the girls won them today at octoberfest. it was kind of nice actually all you had to do was put the bobber in the bowl and you won. it cost me four bucks for the two fish, so hopefully they'll last a little bit. we made a trek to wally world and got 77 cent bowls (from the craft section, i was not about to pay six bucks for a 'fish bowl') and some decorative stones and auntie danielle bought them some stickers to put on the bowls. the girls love it. i'm not going to love cleaning out spot and freddie, but they're happy, so i'm happy. :)

we went to octoberfest in appleton with shaun's sister. we had a nice time. and ate some yummy food. i go for the food. next year hopefully i can find someone to watch the girls. it'd be easier to walk around the craft stuff without them. it'd be easier not pregnant too. which i also do not plan on doing for next year. or the year after that. i'm 'done' with this pregnant thing. i truly feel god is telling me that too. i don't waiver at all. i feel 'done' and complete. soooo that means shauny boy has to call the dr. because then it'd be official. ;) whatever god leads.

tomorrow we have church, a dinner after, and then we're going to shaun's sister's for supper. his other sister has a boyfriend who is crazy and wants to meet her family. so we're meeting this said boyfriend tomorrow. it'll be interesting. very. i'll be sure to let you know.

i'm tired. big suprise. and caitlyn isn't wanting to nap. so i'll go for now. have a great rest of the weekend...

Dr. Appt and other things...

well my dr. appt was yesterday...because you didn't already know THAT! baby d was a stubborn little baby though. we didn't get any face shots of the baby. because baby decided to cover it every time the lady tried. and she did try very hard. i think she felt bad because we couldn't get any. oh well. we got one, that i have labeled, because otherwise it may be hard to see.

do you see it all? The umbilical cord is covering right over baby d's little eyes. and of course the rest of the face is covered by the leg, foot, and hand. I just couldn't believe how this baby wouldn't move for anything. It was still a lot of fun to see this awesome miracle God is creating inside of me though. I don't know how anyone can NOT believe in God after seeing that. i mean there's a HUMAN BEING growing INSIDE of me!!??!! it's all just very crazy to me. baby d weighed around six and a half pounds. but my dr. said she thinks it may have been off a little bit and that the baby actually weighs a touch more than that. she also figured by delivery time baby will be around eight pounds. so a good size little baby without going over board like amelya did.

after the appt i picked up the cute clothes and tights i got from that lady off of craigslist. i love craigslist. i have yet to sell anything on there, but have bought a few times. mainly it's been clothes. the lady yesterday said it's much easier then having a rummage sale. so it gets me thinking about doing that instead of taking the time to do a rummage sale...we'll see when the time comes how ambitious i am.

then we went to culver's. it was around five so we decided to eat supper. originally i just wanted to go because my sister was talking about a banana split, and then that's all i could think of. so we ate supper first and then i had my banana split. mmmm...yummy. i bought bananas yesterday. to up the potassium...but i don't know if i can bring myself to eat them. when i was pregnant with caitlyn i ate a banana. i sneezed. then i puked. so all i can think of is the banana taste coming up. i'm fine with banana splits, just not plain banana...so i guess i'll just have to eat four or five banana splits til they're gone...that never hurt anyone.

today we have nothing planned. but amelya asked me to go somewhere because she wants to go bye bye. well i don't know where she wants to go and i told her when she does to tell me. i kind of like just staying home today. we do have to go get ernie later though. we're dog sitting for my mom and dad this weekend. we haven't done it in a while and it's really not a big deal to me. he's a small dog and pretty much lays around.

the girls are fighting right now. ahhh sisters. they'll be over it shortly and then love each other. see look at that they're done. yay. caitlyn is still being a sleepy head. i wish they all were today i'm tired. i feel crabby. i hate feeling this way. so instead of going on about it, i'll stop. so til next time....have a great day...

my leg still hurts...

yesterday's leg cramps turned into tight muscles since yesterday. boo hoo. i know it's probably because i don't drink enough water, actually i usually don't drink JUST water, it always has something in it. and of course low potassium. so today when i go to walmart, i'll buy some bananas. i didn't get any actual cramps while sleeping last night, so that was good. and i prayed that IF i did, shaun would be home to help me.

yesterday was a good day. a friend of mine came over with her girls after story time. she had a 'crafty idea' to make with the girlies and thought our girls would like to do it together. we just made pinecone bird feeders. the girls all liked it, and of course tasting the peanut butter also. lol. it was nice to get together with them. i used to watch her older daughter before i had caitlyn. she is the same age as breigh and i know that they enjoy seeing each other. her younger daughter is just a baby so she just hung out wherever. after that they left breigh napped and stayed asleep after i left to close my show.

my show. it ended up being over 1800!! yay!! i was so excited. it was all worth the two trips to depere and back. the lady got tons and tons of free lia sophia jewelry. i gave her 50 extra for being my top show and lia sophia was giving away 100 for 10 in september. plus she got 40 percent in free. over all she ended up with about 900 in free stuff. awesome, right? sorry to go on about that, but i am still super excited, and boys like shaun don't appreciate the crazy excitement over that!!

today!! is my ultrasound. yay!! i'm super stoked (notice how i kept out excited) for my appointment later. i also found some cute outfits and tights for the girls on craigslist, so i have to go pick those up too. over all it is bound to be a wonderful day. but truthfully what day isn't. god is good all the time, so each and every day is good.

but i suppose. i really don't have much more to babble about. and my leg is falling asleep now...til later...because i will TRY to post the ultrasound pics...i promise...i will TRY...

leg cramps hurt.

ouch. this morning i was rudely awoken by a foot cramp that led to a calf cramp that led to a thigh cramp...that was basically a whole leg cramp. ouch ouch ouch. it hurt like absolute crazy. i prayed my way through it. but then couldn't get back to sleep. so here i am. i've sent out a few emails of our pics from last night and figured now i could quick blog. don't forget to look at the pictures from last night though. they turned out so nice. the link is here again:

http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=34685&l=8635b&id=508028986

but you can read the rest of this first!! lol...or come back...i know you're dying to know what i'm thinking today...

i must say all this week i am already thinking about what to say that i 'didn't do'. i like the not me monday thing...look down to monday if you don't know what i'm talking about! then i also remember a whole lot of things i 'didn't' do that i could've put on mondays list. it's fun. you all should try it next week.

so pictures last night went well. the girls were good. we didn't have pictures scheduled til 7, but we got there early and got in actually. we were done with pictures by 740. but then it took til 8 to get them so we could see them, and then til 9 before i made up my mind on all of them. a worker at sears had to walk us to the door because sears was closed. i hadn't eaten much of a supper...so i was hungry too. the girls were getting antsy...i know after 2 1/2 hours they'd get antsy! lol. so we stopped at wendy's on the way home. the girlies were up and enjoyed some fries and shaun and i ate some supper in the van. we got home late. but i of course put the pics on the computer first.

today is story time. after story time i don't know what we're doing. maybe nothing. which is fine. maybe going to my mom's. who knows. we'll see what happens. all i know is that the past two days has been super crazy busy. and the rest of the week is like this too. tomorrow is my ultrasound. oh yay! i am so excited for that, and excited that it is already tomorrow. too bad i have to wait until the afternoon for it!! so i'll have to try and post pics of that. we don't have a scanner, but i can figure something for my blogging buddies. :)

the baby is running out of room i think. well i am running out of room. my hips and ribs have to be bruised from the inside. i probably look like i am having a seizure sometimes as much as i jolt around from the moving and kicking. i can't believe it. it will be fun to see if this baby is as active after it is born as well. it better be. lol. either that or it will learn to just chill, because of all the other commotion going on around this place. i'm getting super excited to meet this baby. and i'm continuing to pray to not get anxious. anxiety not good. not good not good. i just am getting excited to finally see this little person on the outside. and tomorrow god's blessing me with that. and then in a few weeks after we'll get to meet our baby d. and you'll find out if it's a girl baby d or a boy baby d. :) i know you cannot wait. we also aren't going to share our induction date with people. i know we're mean! but i think it will be nice to surprise everyone when this baby comes. we've always told everyone when we'd be having the baby. so now everyone will be surprised. except for the one person who is watching the girlies that day. ohhh i love the excitement!!??!! or is it the control?! mmmm...both. he he he

so okay...i think i'm done. i don't know what else to write about today. i know you're even more surprised i have nothing to babble about! :) so til later or tomorrow or the day after that...

three in one day?!?!

yep. it's late. i'm tired. but here's the link to my belly shot photos!! too much fun it was...night night my friends....

http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=34685&l=8635b&id=508028986

pictures...kind of...

okay so i admit, i'm a little lazy, and i posted pics on my facebook page and instead of loading them again on here...i'm just going to leave you the link to check them out. :) the first link is for the day of fun at little farmer...the other link is a link to the photos of our playroom that is FINISHED. thanks for appreciating my laziness. :0)

http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=34610&l=1e19f&id=508028986

http://www.new.facebook.com/album.php?aid=22312&l=120aa&id=508028986

ENJOY!!

my promised update...

looky here i'm keeping my promise and going to post about the bridal shower and the other weekend FUN!

soooo the bridal shower. went well. i hate the fact that i didn't plan well enough and we ran out of punch and water. but oh well. i really can not do much about that. we made enough for two punch bowls i thought that would have been enough. apparently not! anyways...the two games i made up went over pretty well i thought. they all seemed to have fun with them. and not a lot of people got all the answers right. i was worried about that. lol. i know it's weird, but i had this crazy fear that over 24 people would all have the correct answers for one game and i wouldn't have enough prizes. weird? yes i know. amy seemed to like her gift that we got her. we got her the rachel ray pots and pans and the big oval pan to cook in. i have them...and LOVE them. so i told her to register for them, and i was super excited to get a great deal on them that i could get more then just the one set. they didn't register for the other pan we got her, but i knew she'd like it because i do. they are really nice pans. and of course i'm not partial to the fact that i was on the rachel ray show either. well not on the set on the show, but our kitchen was featured during the week of the ugliest kitchen in america...so i have some sort of connection right? the producer knew her so then it's like i kind of do too...or not...either way i'm off track. so shaun's cousin made the cake. that went over well. she did a super job. it's her dream to be grandma hoerth when she grows up...and i think she is well on her way. overall the shower was a success. and i am relieved to have it o-v-e-r over. one less thing off of my plate.

sunday after church we went to the little farmer, an apple orchard, not far from our house. they have goats and chickens to feed, a playground and hay rides. we skipped the hay ride though. it was way super busy due to the fact it was nice out and i'm sure because the packers didn't play until late. i could truthfully care less about the packers and actually wish that they would have been playing, because then i know it would not have been as busy. oh well. the girls had so much fun. they played on the straw bales a lot and loved checking out the pumpkin patch. it was a nice family day. oh and of course we could not leave with out a caramel apple. yummy yummy it was. you bite in and you don't even hit apple, that's how much caramel is on it.

yesterday was so busy. we had mom's group. then i took the girlies to appleton for lunch and the chiropractor. after that we went to the mall. originally to just buy shaun a black shirt for our pictures tonight. well i bought him THREE black shirts, i figure i'll return the ones that he doesn't want to wear. i bought the girls each a pair of black dressy shoes at stride rite. and the i bought some stuff from that dead sea salt lady at mall...truly i just love her accent and she could've talked me into anything...i think i have sucker written on my forehead. then on our way out of jc penney we saw a great sale and i ended up buying them all something there. but praise the lord not ONCE did my credit card come out. i paid for it all. yay. i'm usually very bad at using my credit card. but god has been helping me through it and by the end of the year my goal is to be credit card debt free...and keep it that way. so pray for that for our family. winter is the hardest time because we don't have crop checks coming in and only shaun's paychecks. so then i tend to use the credit card, because i seem to think i need whatever it is i want.

tonight is our pictures. caitlyn's one year...and i'm doing belly pics. i'm super excited to see how they turn out. plus i'm getting a haircut and highlight this afternoon so i don't have to worry about doing my hair, my aunt will make them look nice for me. yay! amy is going to and carol is going to do a run through on her hair.

well i'm going to go now. i've done what i promised and now am off to give amelya a bath. the other two will get one when they wake up. i figured to get one out of the way now works out kind of nice actually. :) so til next time...

Not ME at ALL...

well over at mckmama's blog (check the sidebar for my charming kids) she's started this little not me monday thing. i've decided to follow suit...mainly because it's fun. and it's even more fun to read everyone elses!! lol...so here i go..


i so did not get mad at shaun for doing absolutely NOTHING while i was gone at my sister's shower and breigh and caitlyn were sleeping...nope not me


i so did not eat out TWICE with my girls today...at least once was at fazoli's


i so did not tell my girls not to stare at people and then proceeded to stare myself...i would NEVER stare...EVER...


i so did not want to give the waiter guy at fazoli's a big hug for bringing me a booster seat, high chair, my food, and for throwing my food away...that would just be creepy...


i absolutely DID not walk around with my belly hanging out most of today because none of my clothes fit me decent because i'm way pregnant right now...


i absolutely did not wish a thousand and three times today that tomorrow i'd be having this baby and i could be holding this baby on the outside and not being kicked in the hip...


i absolutely did not even think about it nope not at all buy anything from the 'dead sea lady' at the mall because she talked me into it with her cool accent and nothing else...


i did not buy my girls all a new pair of black shoes because well...i didn't...


i so did not buy a bra with a D CUP because of this crazy pregnancy...nope not at all...

i so did not believe the weather man yesterday and dress too warmly for going to the apple orchard and sweat like crazy..what crazy person BELIEVES the weather man when he says it's going to be a cool fall day...not me not me at all...

boy that was fun! and i'm tired, so sorry to cut this short...i'll be sure to post soon about the bridal shower and yesterday at the little farmer, and tomorrow i'll be getting a haircut and maternity pics taken...oh yeah! super excited...have a great night people!!

relaxing can wait for later...

well i got everything done. finally. the shower door prizes are all wrapped or bagged, the card is made, and the sign for the shower is done. good thing i have my nice cricut. the sign and card turned out cute. i really love my cricut. so much so that i bought more cartridges for it yesterday. the new michael's store opened in appleton. and they were on sale for only 39.99. regular 89.99. so yay! i bought four of them. but i used three out of the four since yesterday. so there. i'm using them.

wednesday was a nice day at gage's house. the girls and him played really well together. before we went there story time was at the library. that went well too. amelya was wearing the perfect shirt for the day all full of butterflies, and that is what the topic was. next week is bugs. which i'm hoping stays bugs, and not yucky halloween stuff. when we went shopping yesterday for the shower decorations, i couldn't believe all the scary stuff they have out. i kept the girls away from it as much as i could, but was honestly suspecting nightmares after all the gross and dead stuff they saw. i don't understand it. nope not one bit. i've gone on and on about halloween already. but i don't understand how as a parent, knowing and understanding the REAL meaning behind what halloween is about, how i could let them celebrate it. now if you don't know or understand then i see why you may think it's harmless. but it's not harmless, nor cute. argh. okay enough.

yesterday was spent doing that shopping stuff and making the shower stuff. today was...nothing. yep nothing...i love not having to worry about doing anything right away in the morning. it gives the girls time to relax and play and have fun at home. later shaun's mom is picking them up and they're going to go to her house til shaun gets home from work. i'm actually going with shaun's sister to have a 'game night' at a co-worker's house. i'm excited for that. i'm super competitive and love to play games. it should be a nice time. and hopefully not TOO late. :) shaun has off this weekend so it'll be okay.

tomorrow is the shower, finally. i say finally, because it'll be good not to have to worry about it. i've done a lot of stuff myself. mainly because two of the other girls are kind of far, and in school, and the other girl, well i don't want to divulge too much, but i'd rather just not deal with her. but they've helped how they can. so that's nice. plus it is hard for me to ask people for help. but they're taking care of all the paper products we need, so that's nice. and then the 'other girl' is coming early and bringing a finger food. i don't have much trust in her. only because she has basically not been the best friend in the world to my sister and well that breaks my trust in someone. i've told amy what to do pretty much her whole life, and still do, but i'm trying not to, and i never wanted to say...don't ask this girl. so i never did. i just asked if she was sure. well at the time she was. now she isn't. i feel bad that she feels that way. i just keep praying for everything to go well and stay civilized. and we'll all be just fine. basically we only have to deal with each other tomorrow and the rehearsal and the wedding. i feel bad though because me and the other two are closer, we're first cousins, and then my sister is close with us. but the other girl is really only close with my sister. oh well. it'll be just fine. and it's not like any of us hate each other, we all just don't know her that well. i'm fine with her, just irritated with choices she chooses to make.

choices. i've been giving amelya them. she seems to listen better when i tell her to make good choices. my sister tried it with breigh yesterday. breigh's response...i choose amelya. lol. too funny. alright well i've gotta shower. :) i love being a stay at home mommy and can stay in my jammies til noon!!

wednesday already!?!

i can't believe it's wednesday already. this week is going by so fast. but we've been kind of busy too. so i guess that explain the fastness.

yesterday morning was dance. it went pretty...okay. i guess. breigh was a little teary and wanted me with her, but i sent amelya in the room with her and that helped a little bit. she still cried a little but i wasn't going to 'rescue' her when i told her and showed her i was right outside the window. she was better by the end of the half hour class. amelya did great in her class too. i love watching her. she again asked to be in tap. ahhh. i explained to her it would cost lots more money to have her in two classes and the girls in tap only have one of them in class. the mommy in me just wants to sign her up for it. but the mom in me says nope. there needs to be limits. so we'll see what happens next year for dance. plus caitlyn is already sitting and waiting for an hour, i don't want to add another half hour and in a few weeks add in another baby. one thing i am irritated about is amelya's tights. she got a hole in them. i specifically bought dance tights for like seven bucks. they're nice thick ones. they should not already have a hole in them. i know she didn't do it, i'm not irritated at her. i'm just irritated i spent that ridiculous money on tights that got a hole in right away. the hole is small, she's wearing them like that until the hole is too big!

i went to a funeral yesterday too. my mom watched the girls and shaun's mom picked me up to go to the funeral. it was for shaun's aunt's father in law. i don't like going to funerals, well who does? but i know that seeing someone's familiar face helps a little bit. and i was relieved to see he was cremated. something about the open casket thing too...i just don't like it. i don't need to 'see' them one last time. they aren't really there anyway. so it was more comfortable for me. that was nice.

after that i went by my mom's until i had to leave for my show. and my show. let me tell you...she had tons of people there. and is on her track to be my biggest show ever!! i'm so excited. she had ONE LADY!! spend THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS!! i couldn't believe it. i've never had anyone spend that much. i was afraid to tell her how much she owed, so i just showed it to her. her response...okay. WHAT?!? crazy. plus she booked her own party! her and a neighbor are going to do a joint party in february when the new book comes out. so i'm so excited to see what this lady's show ends up on being. she has like five or six people to get orders from yet. i'd love to have my first 2000 dollar lia sophia show. i've never had it. my biggest now is 1272. and right now the lady is at 1147. so she'll beat that for sure. yay!

today is story time. and possibly gage's house. caitlyn is coughing and we don't want to get gage sick, so i have to see what his mommy wants us to do.

well the girlies are done with breakfast...and i want to give them a bath. well i don't 'want' too. they need a bath. it's just difficult to work over this belly of mine. especially when it lives in my rib cage 99.9% of the time. drop baby drop!!!

not feeling creative enough to come up with a title...

well well well i am not feeling creative like i said. i did a lot of that this weekend. being creative. but let's back up a bit shall we? too bad i am anyways.

i never mention caitlyn's drs. appt the other day. she is my first baby at a year to NOT be 20 pounds. please don't tell that i already turned her seat around two weeks ago! but she's like 19 and a half...close enough right? everything else for height and weight and of course her big ole head was fine. my girls have always had big head. all of them have always measured in the 90th or higher percentile. i'm fine with it. i just don't understand it because they don't LOOK like big headed children. i mentioned her pooping issues that she is STILL having. then when her dr checked her 'down there'. he said that it looks like her anus is too close to her vagina. (if you don't like the correct terms..too bad..i'm all for teaching my kids the 'real' words and not making up silly ones...although shaun's face still turns beat red at the sound of them) sooo that means we have to see a pediatric gi dr. to see if that is the case and if she will need some sort of surgery. i originally scheduled for appleton but could not get in til december. so i called today and just scheduled it for madison, it's worth the drive, and then we can start anything that needs to be started before i have this little baby d. so keep us in your prayers my blogging buddies. i'm just so thankful that god allowed this to come to light now, and not later in life when she'd have more issues to deal with. i'll be the mommy and deal with and help her recover now. and she won't remember it. so praise the lord for drs. who can fix her, if that is what needs to be done.

baby d and i had our check up on friday. NO MAJOR WEIGHT GAIN!! wahoo! prayer answered. i love how god answers those 'crazy' little prayers like that. my dr also scheduled my growth ultrasound...for NEXT WEEK!! ahhh. it is getting so close to the end i can SEE IT! i'm excited to see little d again and to see how much d has grown since last time. my sister and i were supposed to have hair cuts, but we rescheduled for tuesday and now she can come with me. that works out nice, because i don't know how i would have done with all three girls for a 45 minute ultrasound and dr appt after by myself. so amy gets to see d too and the girls of course will. i hope i get the same lady who did caitlyn's growth ultrasound, she gave us LOTS of pictures, and even gave each of the girlies their own picture. at any rate i am excited to see this baby again. and then in mere weeks actually be holding this baby d. and let my secret if it is a girl or boy out! i've been doing really good at keeping it a secret. i'll be honest i have slipped up two times. so three people know, because once it was in front of two people. but they've kept it quiet, and no one knows who knows except for them. but i also will tell strangers if they ask. so i've told loads of strangers, so unless you stalk me, you won't find out. :0)

saturday we had a wedding. i spent friday night being all creative and using my cricut to cut out vinyl and make a plate with their name on it. it turned out so cute. then fast forward to saturday walking out of the house carrying breigh and the plate...on to our wet deck...and boom. we all go down. ouch first of all. and bummer second of all. i broke the plate. so i wrote out a check and gave them boring money instead. bummer. oh well. the wedding went well though. we didn't leave immediately after supper either. we talked...and SHAUN TALKED. to quite a few people. i was so blessed to see my husband SOCIALIZING! it doesn't happen a lot, and yet another answer to a prayer.

saturday before the wedding i spent more time being creative making cards. i made two of them. a baby congrats card, and the card for the wedding. i cut out using the paper doll cartridge from cricut, the bride and groom. oh they turned out so cute, but took awhile to do. i also bought a sticker maker...that makes life so easy. all i do is run the pieces through there and i have a sticker and don't have to worry about adhesive. so nice. at any rate both cards turned out cute and i like how they turned out. this week i'll have to work on making my sisters for her shower saturday.

we spent yesterday after church shopping for the gifts for the shower attendees and my sister. got like 50 gifts but it ends up being 20 prizes. so it should be good for the shower. my sister read this...and has promised to NOT check her registries this week...so we'll see if she knows before hand or not what she's getting from us girlies in the wedding. this week is finalizing stuff for the shower.

today we went dress shopping for the wedding for my mom. and found a super beautiful dress at macys. for only 48.00. it was regular 180! i know. fantastic. she was excited and so was i. i LOVE a good deal. :) but after two days of shopping i'm pooped. and now have to go make some supper. and i didn't even go into all the fun stuff i bought today at children's place and bath and body. or the fun day we had at the mall on friday. oh brother. be thankful i'm pooped or you'd be reading a novel. :0) off to supper land...oh what to make...i need a cook...

gotta hurry...

i have a quick minute, by myself, early this morning, so i figured i'd quick blog. it's going to be a busy day and i set my alarm to get up early so i can shower before the girlies start waking up. and it's a good thing i had my alarm set..because shaun was still in bed when it went off...oops! he's usually at work for a half hour by that time...i think because it's a dreary day outside he must've just felt like staying in bed, well really i'm sure he just didn't hear his alarm or just shut it off and went back to sleep with out knowing it. at any rate he showered and grabbed breakfast to go in about 10 minutes. why can't he get ready that fast when i have somewhere that we need to be?? hmmmm

today is going to be busy. i have to be to town by 930 to report something for our crops. not exactally sure what i have to do really, all i know it's for the farm plan and the gov't gives us 'free money'. ha free money. not really, but it helps out. then i'm going to pick up my friend and her neice who are going to come with to my dr's appt and then we're going to the mall to eat and play. and if there is time we just may squeeze in a chiro visit as well.

i'm also supposed to have scrappin' tonight. but shaun is going to have to work late, so that
means i'm not sure if i'll get there. but miss chantae also hasn't been feeling well either. so we'll see what happens today. i plan on scrappin' at home even if i don't leave. because now that my house is IN ORDER!! (still super excited) i have a 'spot' for my stuff and can have easy access to it once the girlies are in bed. oh by the way, i've known for a few weeks, but now can spill it, miss chantae is expecting a baby! yay. i've known since day one. do you know how hard it is to keep somebody else's pregnancy a secret? it is pretty hard. i've almost wrote about it on here. just like i've almost typed, well i have, and then backspaced, what our baby is. only a few more weeks and i'll let you all know. either that or i will tell you dustynn/dustin is born. he he he he i'm still debating doing that to family when we call. just telling them 'd' is here and that's it. he he he he
i like the control.

tomorrow we have a 'distant relation' family wedding. it should be fine. just awkward for me because i know i won't know a ton of people. and well, my husband is shy. so it'll probably be an early night. oh well. shaun has to work anyways.

well i better get my butt movin' it's ten to seven so i really only have about 40 minutes (wow that's a long time) to get showered. i may even get to blow dry my hair. cool. so have a great day. and don't oversleep...

i just don't wanna...

...have to walk all the way down the stairs to go to the bathroom in the middle of the night. i've been bad and basically just hold it til morning. i know pretty soon i'll be having to get up, but for now...i'm just being naughty. one never realizes just how far the bathroom is until you've 'gotta go'.

i'm keeping this short though...i still have a little bit of work to do. nothing major though. just finishing up the kitchen and the entryway. it feels SO good to have a nice looking house. i LOVE it. now it's my goal to keep it looking this way. which may be easier now that the toys have their own room and not my entire house! the girls love the playroom and are in it a lot. and have been super good at keeping it picked up and putting the toys back where they go. i'm so proud of amelya's anal retentiveness like her mommy's. :)

so i said short, and that's what i mean. i have to finish cleaning out the dishwasher to get the last load in...then it's the misc stuff on the table...then...i'm DONE. sigh. so til later gators i'm gettin ready for my purse party!! whoooo hooo. :)

taking a quick break

just taking a break from cleaning. got lots of stuff done already, and i've only been at it for an hour or so. we had mom's group this morning. a mom came and shared about homeschooling. it was nice to hear her talk. but she takes a way different approach to it then i will. it works for her family but don't think it'd work for mine. which is fine..i seriously don't see me and the girls sitting down for tea and poetry once a week...i don't drink tea and i haven't really read much poetry since my forensics days....

one thing i took away from her talking though was this. public school kids miss out on stuff too. i think that's an arguement that home-school kids miss out on too much. well kids who leave home and go to school miss out on extra snuggly time with mommy on the couch, getting super close to their siblings, going to the zoo anytime that works for a field trip, going to grandma and grandpas to do special stuff for two weeks (well our family that doesn't fit with, but the mom who spoke it did) and the flexibility to do stuff... it was kind of encouraging to me. so they don't have a valentine's day party to share valentine's...but my girlies know so many other little kids to give valentine's to, they aren't missing out on anything there. i truly feel though homeschooling is a calling. you have to be 'called' by god to do it. you can't wake up one morning and decided yep today i'm homeschooling. he'll lead and direct ONLY if you are seeking and willing to do what he tells you. (that's with everything i guess) for me i knew before i was even married and had kids i wanted to homeschool. and now i'm so excited to start with amelya. we worked on some letters today even. for me i see no real downfalls to homeschooling. and if there are any, for me, the positives definitely out weigh the negatives. i'm not too sure how others feel in my family about our decision to homeschool, i just pray that they can accept it, and then move on. i'm not going to judge you for deciding to send you kids to school, so don't judge me for deciding to keep my kids at home...

halloween is coming. i dread this 'season' the most. i hate the looks from people when i say oh we don't do halloween. they act like i'm infected or something. i know i've gone on about this before, so i'll save the repeat stuff. but one thing i will repeat for those of you who truly want to known why we don't do halloween, is watch the Halloween: Trick or Treat? video/dvd. pastor chuck smith, of calvary chapel costa mesa, is the main speaker of the film. they interview REAL witches and share the true meanings about the seemingly innocent halloween traditions. shaun couldn't even finish the whole movie when he watched it because it is so disturbing. and it is. i get the chills remembering the stories kids shared in the movie whose parents were part of the satanic cults. do you know they purposely have babies just to sacrifice them on halloween? scary stuff. i want absolutely no part in that. i don't care if my kids look cute in costumes...they can play dress up anytime of the year, but will not be trick or treating or carving out pumpkins. i'm not going to conform to this crazy world. not for anything. okay. that's that for now on halloween. soon i'll be going on about christmas and how santa isn't real and how i'm not going to lie to my kids about it...i'm sure you're looking forward to that already...

well this has turned into a long break. i must quit for now. so til next time...think about things, and what truly is important to you and how you raise your family...

sunday night...

of a busy weekend!!

caitlyn turned one yesterday...because i haven't already been talking about that all week! she had a good birthday...in my opinion. we went to the crafty apple fest in the morning and then to appleton and out to eat in the evening. of course she didn't know it was her birthday but we celebrated it. i just still can not believe she is one.

friday night shaun was not feeling good, so nothing got done in the playroom (i love not calling it the messy room anymore!!) but saturday he finished it up. there is some ceiling trim work left to be done, but no more wood...so it'll be left for a little bit. but i LOVE the playroom. and the girlies do too. they have been playing in there a lot. last night we bought some more bookshelves and last night and just now i got all of the shelves organized with books. we bought two smaller two shelf ones and put them next to each other next to our other bookshelf. it fits nice. it's truthfully really weird to have space in my living room. i am not quite done getting everything organized, but lord willing by tomorrow night i will be. then i just have to clean up my kitchen and bathroom and i'll be ready for my party on thursday. with out having to rush around thursday!! that'll be nice! super nice!! i am too lazy right now to post pics of the finished playroom, but i promise i will...someday...maybe...

today was caitlyn's birthday at doris' house. it went well. my parents and sister and grant came over. we had tacos. mmm. they were good. and there was left overs, so i'll have no reason to not come home after mom's group tomorrow and eat lunch at home. i tend to just run through the drive thru somewhere...not tomorrow. plus i need to get better at not eating out. winter is coming, which means no crop money coming in steadily, which means we need to watch our spending some. so cutting out mickey d's now will help then.

here's a funny story of amelya today...i thought after she said it 'i could blog that' lol

a fly lands on the table

amelya: dad kill that bug

shaun: why? it didn't do anything to you.

amelya: yes it was on my straw and going into my milk...i wasn't going to drink a bug!

too cute. i love it. she's growing up so much lately. i don't have a toddler anymore, she's a little girl. good thing i've still got breigh. although all too soon i'll be saying the same about her.

shaun went in to work a little while ago. brent called and asked him if he could fix something for him that wouldn't be able to wait til morning. shaun is nice enough to do it. i don't really mind, brent lives an hour away and it'd be late before he got all the way here. hopefully it doesn't take too long. but it leaves me time to get more organization done. ahhhhh....big sigh of relief. organization. not much of it in my house. but i'm praying and continue to pray that god changes that. i don't need my kids getting my awful bad messy habits...

so i'm off to organize some more...even though i'd like to just go to bed...but when there's work to be done, and more important, time to do it...i might as well just truck on through it...so til next time my friends...

port a potty update. argh.

well shaun got a hold of the cop this morning. apparently we have to wait. yep, wait. til they catch the crazy children who are moving the port a potties. then i don't know what. probably they'll have to pay for it. so we're supposed to get an estimate on the truck and then turn that over to a detective. argh. i still think that the company who owns the pots are partly responsible for their property. but i guess they can't help that someone was silly and moved it. it's just frustrating. because i want to know who has to pay for our truck if they don't catch whoever is doing this. no one? us? blech. good thing the rest of the stuff that is wrong is minor and CAN wait. we estimated it to be around 300ish for the rest of the stuff, but that's used parts. i don't know what it'd be when we take it somewhere. silly kids. i'm just praying and trusting that god will work it all out. because he always does.

other news a friend from church had her baby today. a little girl. named molly priscilla. they already have a girl melody, and a son michael. so molly fits in perfect. and priscilla is the grandma's name. i'm sure she's a cutie. now we have to wait til our baby is born to see if she'll have a playmate or a future spouse...lol...like i said before only fifty-ish days...

i got the playroom vacuumed and toys...not all...just some...are in it! super big yay. amelya is playing in there now, while the other two are napping. now i just have to wait for my sister to come and help me get the stuff i can't move in there. ohhhh so excited. :)

well that's all for now...again...have a great super sunshiny day.

it's friday...

yay. i'm glad it's friday. another week closer to baby d. and shaun doesn't have to work this weekend. even better. but he'll be working at home!! he got all the baseboard up and the register covers on last night. so all that's left is two other windows and the ceiling trim. so we're almost there. but i'm thinking today i might just start moving toys in, because he can still do the other stuff with toys in there. my sister is coming again today and it'd be nice to have another girl helping me...especially one who worked at a daycare and is anal about things like me. so we'll see.

port a potty update!! we still know not a whole lot. shaun finally just called the owners of this said potty and they said they've been having lots of trouble down here with people moving them on to the road. and the potty shaun hit was from an entire road over. so that's irritating. but anyways they also said then the county's sherriff department should be responsible then for the damage because it's their problem because people are moving them. shaun tried calling the cop again, but he doesn't call back, and any time he calls he gets directly sent to his phone. shaun's getting irritated, which is understandable. i wish people would think before they do something, i mean really hitting the potty is funny because shaun wasn't hurt and neither was anyone else, but it could've been worse. and then it would not be funny. not at all.

tomorrow is caitlyn's birthday. a whole entire year. i can't believe how fast it's gone by. she still only has one tooth, but more are right there. it will be weird to see her with a mouth full of teeth. we're probably going to go to 'crafty apple fest' in town tomorrow. it's fun and they have free blow up stuff for the kids to play on. plus i like looking through the crafty stuff...and of course they have apple stuff to eat. yummy carmel apples. oh i love fall time for that! and while we are all there shaun will stay home and work on the playroom. yay. i may just have a house back before monday. i'd love it. sunday we're doing caitlyn's party at shaun's mom's house. it was so nice to offer her house for us. then we don't have to go out to eat anywhere and she has a nice house and a newly finished backyard patio to enjoy. so it'll be nice. and then i don't have to rush before sunday to get the house in order...gives me a few days.

amelya is playing with the baby while i type this. she loves to feel where the baby is and tries guessing what she is feeling. it's fun to have her old enough to understand what it is. she also keeps saying how she wants the baby out...i say pretty soon. really it's probably under 50 days. i know under 50. that's crazy!! but i'm super excited.

breigh was up at six thirty this morning. but i tried to lay her in bed with me and see if it'd work to get her to sleep some more...it worked!! she's never been one to lay in bed with me. ever. she used to cry and say downstairs. but today she cuddled right into shaun's side of the bed and went back to sleep...yay. then amelya woke up a little before eight along with caitlyn. so that was so nice! but i suppose...nothing more to write about for now...talk to you later gators...or at least tomorrow...:)

handy husband

i know i've mentioned before how i love my handy husband. he has fixed his truck for under 25 bucks. we still don't know anything about what will happen as far as the porta potty people paying for anything, but at least his truck should be driveable. he has yet to drive it...good thing they just chopped our hay, he's trying it out in the field first! the only thing in the field to hit is a deer. which we saw the other night. we were looking at the hay and out of the corn field walked a deer. it was a mommy deer, she let us get pretty close til she ran off into the field and probably back into the woods. pretty soon her little corn field home will be gone though. it's hard to believe that it's that time of year for corn chopping and then soon after they'll be combining our soybeans. thenn soon after that is BABY TIME! ahhh....

i got some more junk cleaned off my table this morning before i left for story time with the girls. my super sweet sister is coming over tomorrow after work to help watch the girlies so i can get more work done. she's coming over friday too...and i'm going to do my best to stay off of the computer and get some work done before she gets here. shaun still has to do the trim work, but other then that the playroom will be finished. like i've said a thousand and three and a half times...i CAN NOT WAIT for it to be FINISHED. complete. done. finito.

i got my cricut yesterday!! super big yay!! i got a few cartridges with it and then ordered some and got them today. ohhh so much fun. i got the paper doll one and cut out both amelya and breigh a paper doll. amelya's is a ballerina and breigh's is a mermaid. they loved them. and i LOVE my new cricut. super excited to be all crafty and creative. i plan on making loads of gifts for the weddings we have this fall and for christmas...for everything. never buying anything again. okay just kidding i probably will. but i loooooooooove the cricut.

we went to story time today. it was a smallish group but fun. the girlies were super good, so that was super nice. afterwards we went to gage's house. the girlies and him had fun and were pretty good...except for the toy breigh threw at amelya....

well i suppose. i'm getting kinda buggy eyed. and my cricut could use some using...he he he. just wanna try it out before i get gutsy and cut out the vinyl to make my gifts...no screwing up then...so have a super duper night. :)

short and sweet

that's what this post will be. i've been doing super good at staying OFF the computer this morning. i NEED to get my house picked up. i am having my purse party next thursday. so that means the playroom MUST be completed as well as the rest of the organization of the house. i haven't had a 'house' since may. that's a LLLOOOOOOOOOOONNNNGGG time. way too long for me. i hate it. absolutely. today is HOT though. makes it hard to want to do anything. i'm sweating writing this. but tomorrow it's supposed to cool off and stay cooler. i'll take 70 over 90 ANY time.

sunday shaun worked on the playroom. the light is now up and functional. amelya and i put up the removable sticker bugs while breigh and caitlyn napped. she had fun. and they turned out really nice. now it's the trim work. the tedious work. shaun has one of the three windows framed out. i've debated not painting them at all and leaving them how they are. primed. i doubt that'll really happen though...but oh it's tempting!!

yesterday my parents watched the girlies and shaun and i went to the demolition derby. there was not as many cars as normal, but still fun to watch. yet i don't understand why i find it fun to watch a bunch of cars purposely smash into each other. oh well. chantae and nathan sat by us, along with two of shaun's cousin who were there. we had a nice time. it was hot though. i even got sunburned. oh well. probably the last time for the year.

caitlyn will be one on saturday! i can't believe it.

amelya and i need to start schoolish time. i think i will wait til after the busy-ness of the beginning of this month and then start working in some worksheets. she's only three and a half. so it's not by any means mandatory we start something. but i know she likes the stuff, so i might as well start a little with her.

breigh has been talking like crazy. it's amazing to me the sentences that are coming out of her mouth...i should say paragraphs. it's so fun. i love hearing breigh talk.

well i said short and sweet. so i'm going to cut it short and sweet. i don't have to much more intersting things to say. i have to get ready for our chiro appt that we need to leave for in an hour...actually less...gotta get a movin'