New Tree

I am slightly addicted to trees right now. I just love them and am always on the lookout for a good one to plant in our yard. This is our new weeping cherry tree. I just love how the branches fall towards the ground and it is just about to bloom too. It is perfect for the corner of the garage where the ugly utility boxes are.

Stone Soup

Paisley has been a bit of a crab the past few days with not getting her normal naps and staying up late. However, today she was happy for more than an hour playing outside with Phoebe and Luke. They made some stone soup and fed it to the plants. It was really cute to see her mixing everything up and playing in the water like the bigger kids.

tightrope walker

Cousin Campout

We had lots of cousins here this weekend and they had a night of camping out in the tent in the backyard. I went out there after it was pretty dark and took some pics and they were all screaming, "my eyes, my eyes" because the flash was really bright. It got a little cold and only 2 of the boys ended up staying out there most the night, but they even came in in the a.m.

Hmmm

Why is it when you need your kids to leave you alone for a minute they won't stop. But when you want them to stay they keep going? I guess living on a hill doesn't help them to stay close.

Passing

Our sweet nephew/cousin Peter passed away this afternoon. He battled a brain tumor for 15 months. We will miss his sweet smile. Please keep his family in your prayers.

March Madness

Happy Happy, Joy Joy

I don't know how this happened, but I am not going to question it either. Luke is potty trained!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I had totally given up and put him back in diapers a few weeks ago and then last week he just started coming to me and telling me he had to go potty. After 2 days of this I realized that he hadn't had a wet diaper all day so I got the Go Diego Go underpants back out and put them on. He hasn't had 1 accident since!! He even went to church yesterday in them. It is really crazy the joy this has given me. I am completely elated at not having to change him anymore. YEAHHHHHH.

High Style

Scott came in with the mail yesterday and tossed a flyer to me and said "if they're sending me this I must be able to afford it, maybe that is what I should get." It was a trifold mailer with a picture of a couple Maserati's on it asking to come in and take a test drive. I laughed and then scott said it was addressed to him so they must be right. This was all funny enough, but then I looked at the address and it was addressed to my Dad! I totally busted out laughing. I guess we AREN'T yet qualified to get the high style mailers like some people i know. Why we get "junk" mail for my father who has never lived in Texas is beyond me, but we just throw it out with the other "junk" we get that is addressed to my mom and my mother-in-law and the builder's that used to have the lot our house is on as the office trailer for the subdivision. Seems like a lot of people live here :) By the way the price tag for this little baby is $120,000 give or take a few $1000.

Munchkin Walking

Quite A Gap

Phoebe lost tooth #3 and now has quite the gap since the top and bottom are gone. She can stick her tongue through pretty good too!

Happy Birthday Daddy/Pappa WE LOVE YOU!

Paisley's 1st snow

March Snow

Late last night we looked out and the snow was falling in huge chunks! It is so beautiful when you know it will only last a short time! The kids had fun playing in it all morning with a 2 hour delay to the school start. We thought we had missed getting any snow this year, but luck just had us waiting a bit longer.

Out

I have been hit with some kind of bug this weekend. Must be leftover from what the babies had last week. It totally put me out yesterday, I didn't get out of bed all day for more than a few minutes. Today is much better, but I still feel weak. With all the laying around I have finally started the Twilight books. I am probably the last person on earth to read them and I can say I was expecting to be disappointed in them. Everyone has talked about how great they are, but I was pleasantly surprised to find myself totally captured by the book and am already into book 2. It's been awhile since I really read a book I loved and this has filled that void. Luckily reading doesn't require too much energy and I can at least do that in my state for now. Hopefully pushing the vacuum won't take too much energy either and that will get done today.