Just another Manic Monday

Monday's seem to come and go around here about like Collin's pacifiers. This Monday was very exhausting for all of us. Chad's brother was sick so Chad had to work @ Parts Center plus everywhere else. It is the beginning of closing week for me which means all the accountants wanted their information yesterday.

Mimi watches Collin for me on Mondays to help give my mom a break. I think she really enjoys it. She also gets my house in tip top shape. I love coming home to a clean house and all the lamps are on. It really gives it a homey feeling.

We are into Scentsy. If you never heard of it, you need to get one. It is a wax that melts in a dish and smells wonderful. It comes in all fragrances. Right now I have Cinnamon and Clove, which really puts you in the fall mood.

Facebook has now become my enemy. I mean I still get on there some, but I am going to try my best to stay away. It can be so negative and disappointing.

We had chili tonight and you had your choice, chili, chili Frito pie, chili dogs, or nothing. Anna chose the nothing and had a grilled cheese instead. Collin had two wieners and the rest of us ate some of all it was really good.

I'm pretty tired and I think I'll turn it. I sure hope my post become more interesting.

Oh yeah! Today Anna had mini corn dogs in the lunch room. I was trying to explain to her that if she opened the corn bread there would be a wiener inside and she would love it. She got it confused with the pancake on a stick and kept telling me that you have to put syrup on it.

she didn't eat the mini corn dogs, she ate the beans instead. Tomorrow they are having pancakes on a stick she will be confused for sure.

Anna before school one morning last week, she thought she was cool! Peace Mama!

Every night we have been working on writing our letters. She is doing a great job and enjoys bedtime. I enjoy the routine. It makes for a nice evening.

PS...my blog in under much need construction, please bare with me as changes may occur.

Weekend Wonders!

This weekend was very uneventful, but like I said before, I would try my best to blog everyday. So here it goes exciting or boring, its all gotta start somewhere.

Right now I'm hearing the most precious little boy say MOMMMA. He likes to hold out the middle part and right now he is pooping and saying shew! i'll be back in a few...

ok now where was I, oh yeah the weekend. Saturday the kids and I played outside a lot, cleaned the house a lot, and the kids took a nap, I edited the first group of peewee football pictures and got them ready to order, ate at Mimi's and then took the kids to the park, and then Chad and I went to Mr. Robert Abbott's 75th birthday party.

Wheeew! That was a lot. Right now I'm getting ready to review some engagement ideas because JASON and HOLLY are on there way here for their engagement shoot. I'm praying the wind settles down. I'll save this post and hopefully add some pictures to it this evening.

It was a lot of fun and I have a ton of pictures of the happy couple! Congrats to both of ya'll.

1 Vacation Day Down 3 to Go!

As of Thursday I had 4 vacation days left that I have to take before December. It always seems to amaze me that even if we have earned our vacation days, the company always seems to still dictate when you can use them.

After I started working, the office staff received a memo that basically said you can NOT take off during closing week, unless it was an emergency. Ok well that now left only 3 weeks out of the month that you could take off.

Now we received a memo that says if you have vacation you need to take it as soon as you can because being off in the ending months of November and December would be nearly impossible because we are so short staff.

So that left me with 4 days, and I used 1 yesterday.  Anna Grace was out of school because of a teacher workshop and so what better day to use a vacation day.

It was pretty busy but relaxed the same. We slept in well it wasn't 5:00 when I got up. ha! Then we cleaned the kitchen then headed to El Dorado to get the oil changed in my car. We took Mimi with us and we went and ate lunch where the kids were very, very good. Then we headed over to get the oil changed in my car only to find out it didn't need it.

It seems the last time (which was the first time) I had my oil changed @ Landers Toyota, that they put this new oil in that you only have to have the oil changed every 10,000 miles. Wow! that's nice but it would have been nicer if we knew that. The oil change sticker they put in my car was for every 5,000 miles, which I thought I was due.

Anyway, then we headed to Wal-Mart where it was "check" day and it looked like Christmas Time according to the parking lot. The kids were good there too and Anna got some school stuff (to help her learn to write and to use scissors). She also got a Punzel aka Rapunzel and Collin got a cool little dozer.

I had to take pictures for the Bearden PeeWee Football team and I was so excited. I guess really this is my first paying job, since I got my photography degree. Yeah! Can't wait to start looking at them. Anna is wanting to play Max and Ruby on the computer so I guess I need to do the laundry and house work first. :(

We are all battling snotty noses and sore throats, I guess it is the change of the weather, but it is so nice. I'm going to raise all the windows in a little while and get that fall air in my house.

Collin is saying new words everyday. He said donkey yesterday and rabbit the day before. It is so funny I will try to get it on video....more to come.

India

The Importance of Blogging

I am notorious for starting projects and never finishing them. Prime example, this blog. Oh yes, I was going to blog everyday, which then turned to every week, which then turned to maybe every month, which then turned to yes you guess it, NEVER. Why am I like this, I have no idea.

Last night I discovered the "importance of blogging". Sure its fun to share pictures or cute stories, but the most important part is if you blog then you have a hard digital copy of your life.

Memories stored on here will last forever. Now I have read this on blog after blog from The Pioneer Woman or Kelly's Korner. They always say blog even if you have nothing to say. Blog even if it is just today I dropped the kids off at school, etc. Yeah that's not real exciting, but it told what happened and what you did that day. WOW!

So you ask why in the world would you want to know what you did on a particular day. Do you plan on doing something and you need an alibi? No silly, the reason why is what occurred to me last night. Reference paragraph 2. It takes me forever to get to a point. Sorry!

We were visiting with my sister-in-law Nikki and her little cousin Ada Beth, who is two. Now Ada Beth is the cutest little thing ever and Anna adored her curly hair. For some reason, Anna was having a hard time remembering her name was Ada Beth and she kept referring to her as Lilly.

Which made me think of when she was smaller (not that she is big now), but she had two imaginary friends. Lilly and ???, that's right I could not remember the other friends name. When I asked Anna she of course looked at me as if I had totally lost my mind.

I knew I had blogged about, there is even a picture of them on here somewhere. Finally I remembered the friend's name. It was JOY!!!! How could I forget Joy? What else will I forget about the things my kids do or I do or Chad does?

So that is it, I will make it a part of my daily routine to blog. Even if it is I just took the kids to school today!

The End
India

Weekend Fun!

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The weather was wonderful Saturday and we spent most of the day outside.  We hung the baby swing on the big swing set and Collin swung for the first time and LOVED it.

Anna loves outside and we had to raise her swing 3 chain links since last year. Boy is she growing.

We pulled both of them in the wagon and the loved that too.  It was such a nice weekend and the kids were exhausted by the time dinner came.

We BBQ at Mimi and Paws house and boy was it good.

I hope all weekends are this fun.

Look whose almost Crawling.

Collin is 8 months old and 2 days. He has grown so much and is own his way to mobility. He usually rolls where ever he wants to go, but this afternoon he really wanted this balloon and Chad and I got a kick out of his new way of "crawling" so to speak. Man he is growing.

We Wish You a Merry Christmas!

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We love pictures and these are so funny! Anna is at the age where just about every picture she either has her eyes squinted as she is smiling or her mouth is open because she needs to tell you why she doesn't need a picture taken.

So needless to say a picture of her was hard, but a picture of both of them. Ahh! Almost IMPOSSIBLE!








Almost ALL the time Anna Grace is very sweet and loving to Collin...


and then there are times, Well... See for yourself




MERRY CHRISTMAS!