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Hello all!

Sorry I have been MIA again... Things here crazy..... School have began so i now offically have a 4th grader a 1st grader and a preschooler. Not to meantion I have one playing soccer, one in karate and one in tumbling. All 3 kidos attend different schools. ALthough this may sound like pure chaos to some... (which it is) it keeps CLint and I busy and leaves little time for sadness to take its place... August once again has been a challaging month for me... I am knee deep into my classes currently, Aubrie has been hacking up a lung since coming home from TN, Now i am hacking both of my lungs, as well as Andrew having a fractured bird finger thanks to big sister Aubrie and her handy dandy flying barstool. Kylee is Sick now, we have a Cat 4 hurricane headed into our vacinity ...(which after living in the panhandle for 3 years I dont underestimate these freaking storms) .....Its finally hit me that everything with my Father in law really did happen and it wasnt a dream. ...better yet a night mare... I have tryed my best to be strong for everyone .. that i pretty much was in denial my self... ugh... i hate grief... I HATE YOU grief, i would love to punch you in the face... I just feel like i am on a marrigo round of bad happenings that I cant get off of. Many of you arent aware but my love was injured a few yrs back he hurinated a disk in his back.... it never got any better. Now after another MRI we found out that Back surgery may be in our near future... as well as that D word that I hate so much... So moma needs a break.... a MAJOR break from reality.... for real...

so there ya have it..... <3 my month....please September be Kind...

Learning to live again...

Everyday ... everyday we are learning to live our new lives.... well when you hear "new" it almost sounds exciting and new......well its nowhere near... but the fact is these are the cards we have been dealt... so now we are trying to find our new way....
Since being back from TN, we have had alot of changes in our lives, other than the MAJOR change we just endured. My love has switched units at work, which changes alot about our lives itself. When my father in law passed I hit a bump in the road with my school so it pushed me back a few months for grauation, but again.... we are learning to accept the things we cannot change... so with school, there ya go.
A new development is that 2011 is going to be a challenging year.... I am bracing myself and for all the things the year will be throwing at me alone as that damn "d" word approaches.

I just want to flash back... back to June the 30th 2010, when my biggest worry was what oufits the kids were going to wear on the 4th of July... when my family was happy,healthy,ALIVE, and well..... we were all HAPPY.... HAPPY...a word that seems so foreign at the moment... a word that has a new meaning now... and that I think my defination of "happy" changed that day forever... I want MY life back....my life where my love is happy and whole and eager about the future... where my kids were whole and happy and carefree kids, where my mother in law was working and enjoying life, my father in law was healthy happy and so full of life... this will never be again...hes gone... hes gone and it has forever changed all of us. My father in law was more than an inlaw to me... he was my dad too... an d i miss him terribly... and i know the rest of the family does too... I just feel like we are on a mary go round of bad events and i feel like i cannot get off.

I am a worry wort and I want to fix everything for everyone that I am close to... I want to take all there pain away, I worry about my family becuase this ugly little thing called grief... is an ugly ugly thing, I worry about all of my friends whose loves are deployed, becuase this time last year I was alone and my love was in a far away land, so i remeber how lonely and nerve racking it was, but these ladies have it 1000000X worse than I did. I want to stretch my arms as wide as the BIG sand box and keep each and everyone of them safe and sound and get to witness first hand that priceless moment of seeing the love of your life "GET OFF THAT BUS"... but i am pissed... I am PISSED... because every day more and more I am reminded that I cant protect everyone I love, from death, pain and despare... and I freaking hate it...

I want to be NORMAL again... I want it all to just go go go away....

so many changes....

SO once again I have been MIA for weeks, I have been reading blogs, just really been at a loss of what i could blog about. The month of June seemed to fly by getting things ready for big sister to go to TN, getting settled back in from being in TN, getting ready to go to TN again for the fourth of July for a quick weekend, as well as preparing for a big change in our lives... little did we know the REAL MAJOR life change that was headed our way.

On June the 28th I called my dad and told him happy birthday, and that I wouldnt be there for long but I was super happy to be coming to see him and my mom as well as Clints Parents. Clint talked all week about being super excited to get to go home and spend the weekend with his dad... even if it were just for a few days, it was worth it in Clints eyes for that time with his dad. Clint is very very close to his dad.



So I spoke with my mother in law two nights before we were heading to TN, about C's new deployment schedule, and then I talked to his dad about it.... I told them both I love them, but not to tell CLint... I wanted him to be able to tell them, but I told so I could brace them for what he was fixing to tell them...

So Thursday July the 1st was a normal Thursday,..... hubster was at work getting things ready to go on leave for the weekend, and I was running to the grocery store to get a few things to cook an anniversary dinner for my love since we would be out of town on our actual anniversary. July 5th.

On thursday afternoon I got a call that I have always feared, "Todd has passed away, come quickly, call and tell Deana and Robby, as well as CLINT.....I argued with the woman on the phone informing her there was a mistake, My Father in law was young and invinsable it seemed this could NOT be Todd.... CLINTS TODD, MY TODD, MY Kids PAPA TODD... No way no how....Clints aunt countines to reasure me it was true. I lost it ... We were coming home tomm... .so we could see them TOMM!!!! I collapsed in the driveway as i am talkig to clints aunt because i couldnt breath and could not bealive this has just happened. I called B ( the bestie) and immediately took the kids to her house.... I am rushing to clints work... which of course the 12 minutes it takes to get there felt like an eternity, in the mean time driving to clints work to tell him becuase i refused to over the phone... you cant tell someone their hero there world there person is gone over the phone... but i had to call his sister and brother.... those were the worst phone calls i have ever had to make in my entire life.

Finally I get to clints work walk right in and hes white as a ghost,his mom had called in while i was on my way..... he was crushed.... so i get him home go on a turbo packing spree and we are TN bound,,, by no means for reasons that we wanted... the next 2 weeks were a major blur, we went thru the motions but it didnt feel real. Here we are at 3 weeks and it still doesnt feel real, now we are home in NC, preparing for clints job change, as well as his twin sister leaving Monday for over seas for a year... There are WAY too many changes going on...

Todd will forever be missed, he was a wonderful father, father in law, Husband, grandpa... so now we are taking in day by day to try to cope, but its difficult

MIA

So Im very sorry for being MIA for so long... the last couple of weeks have been rather uneventful, since my last post, My oldest daughter went to TN to spend the summer with her dad, :( i Miss her like crazy, but at least time is going by and shes having a blast with my parents as well. Also since my last post my best friends hubby headed off to the sandbox, and it really hit me. I tagged along to take some pictures for her of their parting and i never not once thought or hesitated to go, she is my best friend and as close to me as family of course I am going to be there with her and her kidos and her hubby, I love them all soo much, but I never realized at that moment why I would break down, but I did. I didnt want her to hurt that way, ad it all hit way to close to home, at this time last year my love headed to the sandbox, and our next tour was coming WAY too quickly. anyway... enough of that hard crap, since then we have filled our days with pool days, going to the beach and all out just enjoying the HOTT freakin weather here.. I mean come on... I like it to be warm and all but this is ridiculous...
In the mean time my internet has been practically out the entire month of June, so i have had way too many of the little charter guys here, as well as crazy amounts of standing water underneath my house... ugh... so not enough matience men have been out.(gotta love base housing) also we had a freakishly crazy storm where my drive way looked like a boat ramp *&* my wooden swingset was hit by lightening and is no more...
On the bright side looks like the hubster is moving to a different command WOOHOOO :) cant wait for that ... hopefully this is the move thats whats needed for our family at the moment, as well as getting away for the 4th of july weekend :) and then weekend with some old friends at the end of the month :) The Rumseys and there sweet babies were stationed with us @Quantico way back when we were all newbies to the Good Ole Marine Corps life, and we have remained close since and learned the ropes together.. In 2005 my love and I got orders to FL from VA and not long afterwards the Rumseys moved to KS so we were WAYYY far apart, now finally fate (and the corps) have put us all back on the same side of the US, so this will be the actual first time we have see them in 5 yrs :) I sooo cant wait.. I love them, you know how in this military life you meet friends that when you move away you are like what was i thinking and you never talk again, but then there are those that truly become family and you stay close... Well the Rumseys are family to us...:) so lots and lots to look forward tooo :)

7 technical years today...

7 years ago today I married the lover pants! My love and my best friend~! In 7 years we have lived in 3 different states, procreated twice and have fallen in love all over again! We have our 3 gorgeous kidos if I do say so my self! This is our "technical" anniversary.... we got married on June the 7th 2003 because we were going through a custody fight with the baby daddy so we just fast forwarded a month ahead of our BIG wedding and tied the knot early. Our BIG anniversary is JUly 5th! Thats the day our big wedding took place at 4 pm in the afternoon However some may ask today why am I in such a funk... on a happy day.... My heart is heavy and hurting.... Anyone who knows me knows I am a MAJOR thinker.... i am a worry wort.... My Big girl turned 9 this week which I must say made me feel super old... and the lover pants birthday is friday and our anniversary is right here smack in the middle. So this has been a week of celebrations, parties and fun times, yet I am kinda bummed. How can I be happy and celebrate all these things when someone who is sooo dear to my heart is sad:( and fixing to go through the thing alll of us military wives hate..... that damn D word.... My heart is heavy becuase I am sad for her... I was in this same situation last year this time and I am rapidly finding myself in it again and I am sooo not ready. I want to be stong for her ... and tell her its not hard and the months will fly by... but in my heart i want to just sit and cry with her because its one of the hardest things I have ever had to do and i DONT want her to have to... although she has done it before ... this crap never gets easier.... but i will be here.... no matter what... sorry for the whole darn outpouring of my heart ... im just very conflicted today....

A little piece of home.....

So today was a really fun time.... I felt like I had a little piece of home with me here in NC. I have 2 homes... I love our home in Tn with our families... but Clint and I's home is Pensacola Fl. We were stationed there for 3 years and fell in love with it. We absolutly love it... I miss it there so much, and when we got orders from there I felt like i let a little piece of me there.... A few weeks ago I was able to go and watch the Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon... (which are FYI AMAZING) very good friends. My friend B and her hubby were stationed there back in the beginning of their Marine Corps Journey, so it was amazing to get to experience that with them.... and them to share a part of there past, with us.... and today I got to return the favor... The blue angels have been dear to my heart for years... I know your thinking they are just airplanes... but they are sooo sooo much more than a plane to me.... they are home....
When we lived in Florida my past time was sitting on my front porch watching the blues do there practices, several days a week. Aubrie and Andrew loved it as well. Andrew was 18 months old and we would sit on the porch hearing him scream... HAIR PLANE>... look momma Hair plane! I miss those days... I really do..life in Florida was .......easy... it was amazing to get to share the blue angels... A little piece of home with B and her Family and My dear friend K and her family.. was amazing!!!...

So now i have my home fix and I am anxiously awaiting one day moving back there....:) here are some pictures from the show...

ITS JUST A little RETAIL THERAPY

How funny... that those 2 little words can make all my woes all better.... spend a little moola and ....poof better mood. Anyone who knows me knows that I am kind the impulsive shopper type, and when things are bad or im sad.... i dont eat.... I SHOP and I really shop.... thats how i deal with my problems... WELL..... the bestie has been gone for a week, and I have found my self in a funk... not just cause the bestie was gone.. Another bestie kept me busy while she was away.... the funk i have found myself in again is sue to many things... my dads sickness, deployment, dress anxiety for a wedding,finishing college, finals, final grades, financial aide, bills, LONG CAR RIDE, deployment, friends loved ones deployments, crappy small little casa.... and getting the girls the perfect little pillowcase dresses made,all of these things have contributed to my current mood... So the bestie asked me to go out tonight shopping with her, so i said sure. (Mind you I had no intention on purchasing anything because i dont want to spend before our trip) anyway.... so we went about our shopping ventures.... and found things that we both needed... SO now after a little retail therapy i am out of my funk..... Thank you Bestie for snapping me out of it :) I LYU!!!! and Everyone in the miles house thanks yoU!

again

So like I have blogged before... the damn D word is coming much more quickly then i care for it to.... I know i know I signed up for this... your right I did I knew when I married a marine that he would be sent away at times to a foreign land to fight... but it still sucks!!!!!!! We JUST did this.. i feel like we are just now finally getting back into our life rountine together, although i still have a hard time sleeping on duty nights becuase I have gotten used to him being home again... I have heard so many times... It gets easier, the more deployments you go through the easier they get.... I am here to say... its not the case for me.... :( I never got used to my lover pants not being with me while he was in Afganistan last year.... or TRASHCANISTAN as we like to call it... did the routine get easier yes.. we got into a routine being me and the kidos... but the part of not seeing my loverpants and not getting to talk to him often... DIDNT get easier... SO now I am faced with the whole situation again.. and the PANIC is finally starting to set in.... While lover pants was away the first time, i stuck my head in the sand and tryed to stray away from the thoughts of the "bad possiblilities of him being in war" but now as we are preparing for the "D"word... I am petrified... Everytime the "d" thought enters my mind, so does the widows from here that i met through the blogs .... and i am so scared to lose the love of my life... Its a military wives worst fear, yet somehow these brave women have had to go through it.... I feel so selfish when i think about being scared for my love.... there are so many of us here that are going through the"d" word or are fixing to or have done it before .... its so soo hard for me to wrap my head around... again... i hate this fearful emotional rollercoaster that accompanies the"D" word..... Damn you D word~!! I HATE you...

The GYNORMUS tree frog

Last night I was getting ready to head to the good ol walmart to pick up some things... so i walked out on the porch and saw a small little tree frog.. so being the picture nut that I am I run and grab the camera to get a picture of it... so I snap a few pictures.... I took the camera and put it away and then i was on my way to walmart, my front door does close completely so i reached back and shut the screen door and i look up and I swear its slow motion... i sww this GYNORMOUS tree frog taking a flying leap right at me..... and the SPLAT right against my bear chest.... holy crap!..... talk about freaking....! I FREAKED! all who know me know that I am not a nature nuts and berrys kinda girl, and I dont do slimy things... this little sucker with its sticky little feet are stuck to my chest GROSS!...... I swear if this frog had went down my shirt it would have been the moon over Alabama ave... because i was going to strip my cloths off to get this frog off.... LOL.... so i must have slung the frog off in my crazy chicken wing flapping... then i see the after froggy goo on my chest... that is just down right nasty..... so i turn to run in my house and i see that there are 4 other tree frogs on the side of my house like a posse coming to protect their homie from the evil woman... so i opted not to go back to the porch ... so i got into the car and bathed my self with hand sanitizer......I came home through the car port door... and then when i left to take the kids to school i stuck my head out the door to make sure his homies arent waiting for me... LOL so i guess you can say i took on the tree frog... Here is a picture of the GYNORmous tree frog...

OH what a Day

So today was A DAY.... not an ordinary day... but on of those insanily obnoxious days were every single little thing that you can think of annoys the crap out of you.... DAMN you mother nature.... (sorry for the curse....but it goes along with my day) So I went to bed last night like any other night... until i am awakened to a screaming 3 yr old, saying momma.... can i lay by you....... SURE... why not...... so my little adorable sweet pea snuggles up to me and gets all comfy... so we peacefully go back to sleep .......until .... MOMMY.... Im sorry I wet the bed...... AHHH man..... really? .... SO I got up cleaned my beautiful little one up, and sent her packing straight back unto her bed....... So I change my sheets blankets etc... and snuggle up to loverpants.... and back asleep..... then I hear that oh so precious voice AGAIN.... Mommy .... I had anober accidt .... Oh Kylee.... Seriously.... its only been like 30 minutes ..... and she says ... im beary sweepy mommy.... (I bet you are )..... So i get up and change my love ONCE again..... and get her all snuggled in my bed cuttled up to her daddy... while i go strip her bed... and then FINALLy back to bed for me...... ahhhhhhhhhhh...

(Kylee isnt a bed wetter... its very very rare... however I have found if shes getting sick she tends to wet the bet.... )

So morning comes and its time to get my sweet little darlings up and ready for school, some peoples mornings are peaceful and a wonderful family time... .NOT AT ALL THE CASE HERE AT THE MILES HOUSE... OH NO ..... that would be too easy....

SO my other two little darlings wake up and hit the floor fighting about the color of the cerael and who gets to brush there teeth first..... seriouslly ... your darn teeth are not going to get any less clean if you brush your teeth 2nd... GEEZ>..

So My sweet pea goes to school on friday, so since she was up alot last night I let her sleep a little later before getting her up.. then when i do she is screaming saying my belly hurt reawwy rewwy bad mommy,.... and i got her up and fed her to see if the stomach would feel better.... umm... no shes shreaking on the couch about her tummy while Aubrie and Andrew are playing tug of war over beig first in line by the front door... so i was in straight up meltdown mode.....panic .... KKIIIDDDSSS GGGOOOTTTAAAA GGGOOOO TTTOOOO SSSCCCHHOOLLL. So i rushed them to school while sweet pea wwent back to sleep...

SO my simple day turned up side dowmm.... so while little oone was sleeping i started sewing on Aubries dress for our family pictures tomm ... .and it was rather peaceful.. the bestie came over and we sewed on her swimsuit and it was rather peaceful....

After several naps and only a pop tart to eat all day..... my beautiful little sweet pea is finally feeling much bebber.... THANK YOU LORD...

I took this today..... SO the rants of a saty at home mom.....



Some pictures I have taken some new pictures of my family i love... :) enjoy

My Boys ( they were supposed to be doing homework)

My Loves

Marine wife Prayer

Dear Lord,
Give me greatness of heart to see, the difference between duty and his love for me.
Give me the understanding so I may know, when duty calls he must go.
Give me a task to do each day, to fill the time when he is away.
And, Lord, when duty is in the field, please protect him and be his shield.
And, Lord, when he is in foriegn land, keep him safe in your loving hand.
And, Lord, when deployment is long, please stay with me and keep me strong!

A new obsession

My new obession! I love love love it. Loverpants bought it for me for graduation since thanks to the Good Ole Marine Corps hes not going to be able to be here for.... (i am walking early so him will get to see me walk.. but it will be like 3 months early)....

Loverpants has ALWAYS had hobbies, i mean hobby upon hobby upon hobby... which to tell the truth has always annoyed the crap out of me..... like fishing..... umm... i cant get my jollies from putting a discusting worm on a hook and sitting there for hours hoping for a bite... because anyone who knows me knows I severly LACK in the patience area... so fishing is a no...

he hunts, he works on cars, he ties flies for fly fishing, he plays guitars, and he likes to ride motorcycles, whats the ONE thing all this has in common PATIENCE>>>> yep... so not for me... So loverpants has wanted me to find a "hobby" for years, just so i dont pay as close attention to the time and money he spends on his hobbys... Well My dear this is for you.... In the past month in a half I have found 2 hobbys that I am so excited about..... Sewing and this new camera... I love them :)

So thank you Loverpants for the encouragement... and the dolla dolla bills you paid for my hobbys :) I love you :)

Now.... Off to READ the manual!!!!!

Holy Crap... this IS real....

Well it looks like "that" time is approaching again faster than I am quite ready for.... deployment time.... *sigh* didnt I JUST do this.....?!
Lover pants finally got back into my arms in dec and its soo hard to realize I already know and plans are already having to be made for the next one...:( I have tryed to prepare myself since he got home telling myself he was going on the deployment so it wouldnt hurt sooo bad, when i found out for definate it was true... its so sad to think about .... damn deployment... why cant the world be happy and safe and our husbands would be nothing but toy soldiers... :( so not the case....

I thought I was ready for this and the whole darn cycle of deployment emotions... Im not... not in the least... im going to miss him like crazy... im scared and sad and..... I just dont know.. i am overwhelmed... and sad at the thought of within 2 years I would have spent 1 full year without the love of my life... I dont care what anyone says... its SOOO hard being mom AND DAD ... and a fulltime student, and the soccer mom... and every other title i seem to fall under...

I am rapidly finding my self back in the funk i was in last year before he left... luckily we still have time together to make precious memories that will help us through the next monnths... I made it through the last year with some wonderful ladies who were going through the same thing as me... I am surrounded by wonderful people as well as my very best friend who will be going through the exact same thing around the same time frame... so I am sure there will be many good days together as well as many crying nights...

I love you B we can do this..... <3

Sorry guys... its all hitting me at once... its real... its REALLY real

I QUIT!!!

Yea yea yea I know... i am a stay at home mom so I am supposed to keep the house clean and have the kids clean and fed, the dogs clean, the laundry finished, not to mentiion the MOUNTAIN of homework I am finding myself underneath... but the gazillion other things i find on my plate at any given moment.... well SCREW THAT! This shit is for the birds! I usto enjoy cleaning and keeping the house tidy, now i find it to be an obnoxious mundane task that I am FORCED to do! Its like shovelig snow in the middle of a blizzard... I adore my kidos... but THEY are the BLIZZARD!. So I am speaking out for all the other mommas who are as tired of it as I am... I QUIT! :) at least for the ext 5 miutes.... I find myself overwhelmed and underappreciated and it sucks,... but hey I guess thats life as super mom.... .Sorry people thats my rant for the day! stupid housework has me in a funk!

Marine Wifey!

You Know You're A Marine Wife When...

-You can roll his sleeves better than he can.
(not really but i have watched him do it enough)

-You can have an entire conversation with acronyms

-You can simultaneously be a control freak, change plans on a moment's notice, yet you are not being treated for schizophrenia. (AMEN!)

-You know to stay off base between 1130-1400, unless you absolutely can't help it

-You know his "last four" better than your own.
(I have to think, hard, about what mine is.)

-You find yourself up at night doing his MCI's because he has to get up early and needs to rest.
(Yeppers)

-You get out your ID at Walmart without thinking about it.

-You can read an LES

-You've said, "Good to go", "Roger that", or "oorah" without noticing.


-It only costs you $25 to have a child

-You've had a dog named "Sergeant", "Scout", or "Chesty"

-You've used a crooked-neck flashlight with a red lens during a power outage because it was the only one you can find.

-You think his skivvy shorts are hot.
(till you see an old man marine with his junk hangin out... then they arent cute anymore...)

-At a distance, you can pick out your husband out of 100 men with the same clothes and haircut.
YEP yep!

-You're more "moto" than he is

-You know that "field day" has nothing to do with a field.

-You know the exact day he switches from deserts to woodlands and vice-versa.

-You know the exact measurements of his ribbons and medals on his uniforms.
(I do..)

-You get chills when you hear the Marines Hymn Play.

-You know better than to go to the commissary on or the day after pay day.
(O Good Lord!)

-You know how to cut a "high and tight"


-You know what boot bands are and find them all over the house.

-You can pack his sea bag better than he can.
(nope thats all him i refuse to pack him... cause then i would be assisting his leaving.

-You know what "motomail" is, and it's your lifeline.
Wonderful wonderful...

-You know to pull your car over and prepare for colors at the end of the day, if you're really moto you get out of the car .
I dont get out the car but i do stop

-The National Anthem and any USMC recruiter commercials make you tear up

-You have made a nosedive for a phone call that came up on the caller ID as "Private Name Private Number"
to manny times

-You've ever had to say goodbye with tears
yes :(

-You can figure out how to buy groceries for 5 on a budget for 2
:)

-You've had all your children at different hospitals
(Chattanooga TN, Cleveland Tn Pensacola FL

OMG im turning into my mother :)

So I am noticing every day I am more and more like my mom... I love my mom sooo sooo much. But you know as a young adult its always "im not anything like my mom or dad..." YEAH>>> from the time i was big enough to remeber my mom and my nannie were always sewing... and I always watched and found myself overwhelmed..I always wanted to sew like them... but found myself having sewing ADD and gave up trying.... ( why do you think I got kicked out of girl scouts in the 3rd grade when my mom is a seamstress.... WEIRD.... but now beig the old 26 yr old that I am, I understand more and more how i am much more like my momma than I ever realized, and its not such a bad thing. :) Growing up I always thought we were poor and thats why momma made our cloths, truth is we were poor and that IS why she made them however she always said she wanted to make us something special...... With my kidos not so much Andrew because its hard to craft for a boy, but for My beautiful daughters I find myself all the time with the urge to make them something that is the cutest freaking thing you have ever seen.... Often times I have tryed to be crafty and often times... I have failed, I am just not really the artsy fartsy type of gal... although I wanna be... but I have FINALLY found something I can do for my girls!!! I can make them pillowcase dresses... and I am going to make them hair bows to match. here are 2 that I have made and my cute little sewing machine... :) LOVE IT!!!!who would have ever thought someone would get excited over a sewing machine? :) I have been TERRI HOMEMAKER for years... i have mastered cooking and cleaning... ow SEWING :) WOOT WOOT... ( well i havent mastered it but it is really rapidly becoming an obession)

This is the first dress My mom and I made :) too freaking cute!


LOVE LOVE LOVE THEM!!!!!:)




The Zebra dress- The CUTEST FREAKING THING I HAVE EVER SEEN! I DID IT ALL BY MYSELF

:)

So I have been wanting to get one of those adorable huge gerber daises for the girls hair for our family pictures.... but i havent been able to find exactly the one I want.. So I got the idea today that I would try and make one my self! I think they turned out adorable... I even made my niece one... she loves to be girly!!!!!

Oh Happy Day!

So today is supposed to be a happy day.... Right... I am super duper stoked my family is coming to town for easter! YAY! I cant wait to see them... so I was off to the stores to finish easter baskets and things before they get here tomm.. It was a great day until... Kylee :) lord love her heart she had a melt down in every store we went too... the melt down went from not getting another new pair of sandels at ross to wating this ugly little worm for the flower bed at kirklands, to pitching an all out FIT for CICIs pizza, screaming through target becuase an old lady looked at her wrong... to finally pitching the final fit of the day in Michaels because I wouldnt let her get the instrustrial strength glue... Thank the lord its NAP time! :) so thats my day so far

Happies!!!

I stole this from a blogger friend, and thought what a great idea, naming all the things that make you "happy!". Here are a few of my favorite things...

Open windows


Dunkin Donuts French Vanilla Iced latte




The "Welcome to Tenneessee" sign as the cross the line on the way home, nothing like it.


The color Pink

The sound of my children laughing is intoxicating

Tide w/febreze laundry detergent


Pedicure with the cutest designs


fresh cut grass every Spring.


Football Time in TN :)


Lying beside my husband at night... Nothing like it


Gerber Daisies.

Old friends youve had forever, and new friends you will keep for life...


The sight of seeing Clint get off the bus on homecoming day...


Rootbeer

Chaco sandals

Interstate 75 South-bound!

Hearing my Children say "I love you Mommy"