Thanks but no thanks

Last night Kaitlyn was saying her prayer. Now on Tuesday night she went on and on, thanking God for everything and everyone. But last night she says this "Thank you for the good sleep I am about to have, even though I don't want to go to bed and thank you for the rain, even though I don't like the thundering and lightening, Amen."

Then Kyle wanted to read books. He read to me and he wanted to read the book to me. Very entertaining! We had to read 5 books but I was waiting on the washing machine to go off so I could put the clothes in the dryer.

Hey Grandma

Tonight John and I wanted to go to Tops to eat so we stopped at McDonald's to get the kids something to eat. An older lady took the money at the window and Kyle yells out Hey Grandma. She took the money and shut her window, I don't know if she heard it or not but John and I could hardly contain ourselves. Kyle says that lady was a Grandma. I guess he thinks once you reach a certain age you must be a grandma.

And Kyle talked John into letting him stay home with him today. He told him his leg hurt and then limped around all day. I don't think his leg really hurts, I did see him run earlier. And it is slightly scary that he already figured out at the age of 4 that you can fake an illness and get to stay home with Daddy.

Our new building

The new church building is almost finished. Today was the last Sunday for worship in the gym, or Family Life Center as some say. The building was open today as they have cut out the connecting doors and are working on just having the frames. It is so nice and spacious. It is going to be decorated very nice too. We have jokingly gone in the new auditorium tonight to claim our spot. You know where you sit the first Sunday will be where you will sit from now on. Next Sunday will be wonderful, I can't wait.

Shaving Cream party

Kyle and I went to Noah's birthday party today. They started by painting pumpkins. Then Abbie got out some balloons she had filled with shaving cream and the kids threw them at each other and the ground. Then they figured out how to take the shaving cream cans and squirt them on each other, a natural progression of events if you have boys. This type of fun could have lasted them for hours. They played in the shaving cream for about 30 minutes. The parents had about as much fun laughing at them as they did playing in it and of course one of the dads got in on the fun also.



Kyle was the cleanest one as he did not get into the getting messy aspect as the other boys. He got mad when a couple of boys tried to squirt him.




We stuck around after the party for some chili. Noah, Lucas and Kyle played very well together, they usually do. Kyle was real good until the last about 15 minutes when it was time to clean up and leave. I guess that is somewhat expected though.

Yard sale

At the last minute I decided to have a yard sale today. I needed some extra money but more than that I need to get rid of some of this stuff in my house. I was a little worried at the beginning, we did not have very many 'customers' at first. From about 9:30 to 10:30 we had several people. I made $118. Not bad for a few hours of sitting outside and talking to your friend (Paula came over and did this with me).

I have also listed a couple of stamp sets on ebay. They are ending on Friday. We will see how they do. I think I could really get into this selling on ebay thing. A lot better than getting into buying things on ebay. :)

I once was lost but now I'm found

Yay! I found my phone. It was of course in the one place I had not looked: on my bed. I had not looked there because when I was looking there were people sleeping in my bed. So this afternoon I decided to call it one more time. I heard it vibrating and lo and behold there it was. It must have fallen out of my pocket last night when I was laying on the bed talking to my mom (on my home phone). Well at least that is one worry put to rest.

Ugghh, my phone

You know how when you lose something it takes over your life until you find it. Well that is what has happened to me last night. I had my cell phone in the car on the way home from church. Now it is nowhere to be found. I have searched everywhere. In the car, under the car, in the bathroom, in the kitchen, in the couch, in my purse, etc. Now you would think finding your phone would be easy, just call it and follow the ring. Well I still have it on vibrate from being at church. I called it hoping I would be able to see it light up, no such luck. This is all I can think about, it is driving me crazy. I have no idea where it could be but it has to be around here somewhere.

40 days of Thanksgiving

We began 40 days of Thanksgiving today at church. They had these devotional type books printed and gave one to everyone. The devotionals in them were even written by members of our church. It is neat to have a book to guide your daily devotionals and helps to to be reminded to actually have even a short daily devotional on your own time. This book can be downloaded from our church website if any of you would like a copy. The website is www.bartlettwoods.org and then click on the 40 days of Thanksgiving link.

Read with me

Kaitlyn and Aaliyah were reading to each other the other day. Kaitlyn would read a page and then Aaliyah would read a page. They were so cute.

Best deal ever

I am on a local message board for mommies where there is a buy-sell-trade board. Someone posted this basket for sale:



I about passed out when I saw it. This a the picnic basket from Longaberger. It retails for $126. I paid $10 for it. This is by far the best deal I have ever gotten.

keeping my niece and nephew

So I have the day off from work, I took my kids to school and was going to come back and clean up some things around my house. My sister-in-law wants me to keep my nephew. So I really can't say no even though I really wanted to. Here he is sleeping which is a rare thing for him so needless to say I did not get anything done that I had planned.



Then my niece joined him after she got out of school. Kaitlyn and Aaliyah are getting along better for longer periods of time. They are just like sisters, they love each other and love to play together but get to where they fight and argue. They were stamping and coloring here.

Where's the buzz?

Kyle had originally wanted to be a Transformer for Halloween. So I went to two different Targets last night to find the costume (I am still on the hunt for a Hannah Montana costume but that is a different post). At the Trinity Target they had one transformer costume left. I was appalled to see that it cost $29.99 but seeing as though this would be a difficult costume to find I bought it anyway. I made sure to put the receipt in the bag and I put the bag in the top of my closet.


So out of nowhere today Kyle says he wants to be Buzz Lightyear for Halloween. Okay good so I could probably get that costume for a little cheaper. Then I pulled out the Toys R Us ad and they have their costumes for 50% off making them $14.99. I called Kyle over and showed him the picture and said "do you want to be Spiderman, a Power Ranger or a Ninja Turtle for Halloween?", thinking he would see the pictures and want to be one of those. He stared at it for a minute and then said "Well where's the buzz?

Sisters

One of my sister-in-laws got married today (or so I assume). She went off to Jamaica and got married. They left Wednesday and are coming back Monday so the actual wedding was to be today.

Here is a picture of us at her shower:

G.N.O.

It was a Girls Night Out tonight. First the new scrapbook store in Memphis, Archiver's opened this weekend. We were so excited to finally have this store in Memphis. It was fantastic. My Christmas list grew ten times tonight. They have so many things I wish for. We spent 2 hours in the store. While there we got to make a card.
Here we are making our card:



And here the employees let us wear their aprons and took our picture for us. They are all scrapbookers that work there so they understood.



Then we went out and got some dessert and cheese dip at On the Border. Much needed laughter and girl talk. And just for the record we could have picked up two guys if we had wanted to because there sure were these two guys who kept checking us out all night. We had one of those moments where I said "look those guys keep looking over here at us" and all the rest of the girls in the group turned around to see. Either that or they were having a good time just laughing at us (this is probably the more likely story).

I can't stand it

I am so excited right now I can't stand it. We have a new scrapbook store, Archiver's, that opened in Memphis this weekend. Some friends and I are going tonight to check it out. It is currently 2:45 and we aren't meeting until 6:00. I am worse than a kid the night before Christmas. This is the best weekend I have had in a while. :)

Hot Air Balloon ride

My number one thing on my list of things to do before I die is to ride in a hot air balloon. I just think that would be really cool. Now this list really only exists in my head, I really should write it down. Anyway tonight at the Bartlett Celebration they had several balloons that you could take a little ride up in. Now these were tethered balloons and the ride was short but only cost $5.00. While this does not technically fulfill my number one thing on my list it does come close (and maybe as close as I ever will get), so I was super excited about it. Pat and Kyle rode up together and Kaitlyn and I rode up together. Then Paula and I went up in a different balloon so I got to go up twice. It was also real neat to watch them from afar. This was the coolest thing I have done in a while.





Here is me and Kaitlyn up in the balloon.


Here is Pat and Kyle going up in the balloon.


And here is me and Paula in the balloon.

Bartlett Celebration

Tonight we went to the Bartlett Celebration at Freeman park. It was really good. It was kinda like a mini fair. They had all the good fair food (corn dogs, turkey legs, cotton candy, funnel cakes, etc.), some carnival rides, and the best part hot air balloons. Pat went with us and Kaitlyn and Kyle really had a good time.

Here they are riding some of the rides:






Pat, Kaitlyn and Kyle all rode the sizzler. I was a little worried about whether or not they would not like this ride after it started going so fast but they loved it.




They also had some craft/vendor booths set up. One of those booths was a store called Once Upon a Time. They do birthday parties and other things of that nature. Sleeping Beauty and Captain Jack Sparrow were there.

A road turned into a castle

So my kids have played outside pretty much all afternoon. It was so pleasant outside now that it has stopped raining. They took the bricks and now say they made a castle.

I really should get them some real toys to play with I guess, you know ones that would not hurt them if they drop them on their foot. I know that the tip of a finger cost $2000, I do not need to find out how much a toe or a foot costs. And yes they are playing outside in their pajamas.

Little Civil Engineer

Kaitlyn and I went to a baby shower this afternoon. When I returned Kyle said "mommy come look what I did". So I went outside and he said "I built a road".

94 days and counting

I love Christmas. I love it for all kinds of reasons. Some I really can't explain. This is inherited from several family members of mine. My father loved decorating for Christmas. He was actually a little obsessed with it. When he died I got all his Christmas lights. He could give the Griswald's a run for their money. I am still waiting to use them. My Grandmother always cooked way too much and my Mother always gives way too much (not that I think you should stop this, in case you are reading). But that is what I love. All the "too much". The overdoing. The going insane with it. All the shopping, all the parties, all the agonizing over the perfect gift. Anyway I found this cool little Christmas tree countdown thing to go on my blog (it is on the right side). So I can't wait, 94 days to go.