Our New Book

When I used to dream about having kids I imagined sitting around reading to them and teaching them about important values, God, and how to be strong women. I have had a rough 2 years emotionally and have not had all the visions that I used to dream about come true. I was feeling beaten down but hangin' on.I had a pivotal day this weekend because I decided not to let circumstances cheat me any longer. I have such a strong desire to be an amazing mom and I choose now to go full force. I went back to church this weekend feeling broken and came out feeling alive. I went directly into the bookstore and bought a children's devotional book. The girls were so excited to have a new book and even more excited to have a new activity. We decided to sit together every morning and read one of the stories, talk about it, and possibly do the craft it includes. This is such an awesome book!! It is just at their level and they love it! Ali threw a fit at like 6 am yesterday because she woke up and wanted me to get up at 6 and read them their story! Uh...no! Sorry..I'm not THAT gung ho!! :-) I love my girls with all my heart and just hope and pray that I can be as good of a mom as the role models that I know and have known throughout the years.

Play Time

The girls love to play dress up and often come up with some pretty silly outfits and then ask me "Don't I look beautiful mommy?" and it just warms my heart. Sometimes they look so funny and I have to keep a straight face when I answer and tell them how beautiful they look! Here are a few shots of the girls playing dress up.

Also, just a few follow up things on previous blogs:

#1: My toilet is finally fixed! Yay! I waited forever to fix it because I was trying to locate an auger to have my brother do it(lucky him :), but just ended up calling for help from a professional. I called a couple plumbers that wanted to charge me $55 just to come out and then who knows how much to do the job. My dad suggested a handyman...Awesome idea!!! He had to remove the toilet to get the toothbrush out and replace a part and STILL only charged my a total of $50. Big relief to have that task handled..let me tell ya

#2: My eyes. I haven't been able to fit my glasses in the budget yet so I am still wearing ONE contact! It's pretty silly but the doctor would not let me wear a contact in the right eye but gave me a contact for the left eye..just until my glasses came in. Well, I am hoping to make it in this week to order the glasses finally:)

the flu day

On Monday night, I woke up to Ali getting sick...and you all know how fun that is with a 2 yr old! By morning she was feeling better and the sickness had subsided...and then it was Hailey's turn. Hailey was sick all day but at least she is old enough to know where to aim :) I gave her a bowl that was bright green that was not to leave her side...as you'll see in the pics. It is sooooo fun when both kids are sick with the flu...the day felt so long and I just couldn't keep up with the laundry, if ya know what I mean :).I was never so ready for their bedtime, that's forsure! They are feeling better now, thank goodness.

I am sooo proud of myself

Let me just say that I am not a computer whiz in the least and I would like to pat myself on the back for a moment and say that I am sooo proud of myself for figuring out how to change my background on this blog!! That's all..just wanted to share my excitement with y'all :)

My angels

I just wanted to quickly tell you all about my angels! As with all kids, there are good days and bad days..apparently yesterday was a bad day. I went to work at about 2:30 in the afternoon and up until this point, the day had been good. The girls were tired so I told my roommate she should put the girls to bed early. The girls did not listen all night, were crying and keeping on all night. The best part, and the reason why I'm writing this, was when Bridgett put the girls in their room for some much needed quite time..but sent them with popcorn. Doesn't sound bad, does it?! Until Ali decided to throw the popcorn all around the room...and shove it up her nose! The word is that she shoved the popcorn up her nose until it BLED! Who knew popcorn would even fit up the nose? Good times! Gotta love 2 year olds :)

Revised Halloween pics

So, as I said, my camera died on Halloweeen...so I re created Halloween! I got the girls re dressed up and took their pictures over!LOL It's pretty funny but I got some good pics for the scrapbooks(If I ever get to their scrapbooks!)...We're off to see the Wizard!

Halloween Dancin' Fun

On Thursday, the girls got to go to a Halloween Dance that was being put on by my niece and nephews school. They had sooo much fun and were dancing machines, so I hear. I had to work that night so my brother and his wife took all the kids, all 5 of them! They were all so excited to get into their costumes a day early. Hailey was a scarecrow, Ali was Dorothy, Anna was a witch, Michael was Jack Sparrow, and Frederick was the Cat in the Hat. On Halloween night my camera died so these are all the pics I have for now. Enjoy!