Veggie Tales Live

We had so much fun at the Veggie Tales live Show as you can see in the pics. Poor Lily fell asleep but the rest of them were full of energy the entire show. My sister Heather and neice Sophie Grace, My friend Tiffany and her daughter Jessie and Sean's good buddy Will and his mom Cheri all came with us. It was a sold out show. I had forgotten how much I liked Veggie Tales. It was so much fun. I acted like a kid, singing all the songs and dancing with the kids.

Quote of the Day

"I learned about fire safety today. You have to STOP, DROP & ROLL! And then call: nine woneee wonee nine one".
- Lily Murphy -

Boy behaving badly?

The following story goes under the category of "most embarrassing moments".

First let me say that today what not a very good day for me. The phrase "when it rains it pours" comes to mind.
I guess it all started last night when I realized our dishwasher was broken. Well, maybe it started a few weeks ago when I noticed my "check engine" light coming on in my car. I was thinking it may end up costing some $$$ dollars but I was not sure if it was just a small glitch with the gas cover not being on tightly enough or what.

So anyway, I took the car to Mcconell Honda first thing this morning and got a shuttle ride to work. The morning went well enough, Buddy picked me up and we had lunch at Eastside. (best part of the day)
I went to pick the car up late this afternoon and took Sean in with me to do the business of paying and such. I was already upset because of the money we were having to pay (it was not just a small glitch) and remembering that we were also going to have to buy a new dishwasher (agghhhhh) when it finally happened. One of those things I only ever heard about from other mommys. A most embarrassing moment finally happened to me.

I have a sweet kid but he must be going through a speak his mind and be brutally honest phase.

One of the ladies working behind the desk came out and lets just say she was not a small lady. She was a rather large lady and I don't mean tall or big boned. As she walked in our direction to wherever she was going, Sean walked over into her path forcing her to stop and said the following and I quote his exact words: "OH my gosh, this is something you don't see everyday! You sure are a fat lady"!
Are you laughing, or thinking that I have a rude little brat???? I shoot him a mean look and the lady walks away without a single word. Tears a welling up in my eyes but for some reason a laugh comes out and the checkout lady just looks at me. Then I turn around where all the other ladies are just red faced chuckling under their breath. Sean kept saying over and over, what mommy, I just said she was fat. She is fat she is.... I grabbed his arm and ran out. I went over to Buddy's truck and tried to tell him what happened but a lady came out with my car and my keys.
This is when my bad day gets worse. Sean and I get in my car and leave. As I am explaining to him about teasing (even though I don't think he meant any harm) and about bodys, feelings, being rude and all that good stuff I start to hear a steady knocking sound and feel an awkwardness about the car. I immediately call Buddy's cell and head back to Mcconell. I pulled the car back under the garage and explain the situation.

Long story short, #1 there was a bolt or rather large screw of some sort in my tire, #2. I picked it up somewhere else (yeah right) and #3. we are going to have to pay for the repair. This is where poor Buddy's pent up stress came out and he let them have it. By this I mean he voiced his disapproval and then told them they just lost a customer and then drove off very abruptly.
Wait, did I tell you that he got in my car and drove off with my purse and cell and I had a sleeping half dressed Lily and Sean and needed to stop by the grocery store.
I took his truck home and Buddy took the car somewhere else to get the tire repaired. By the time he got home it was a little late to go to the store. I washed a sink full of dishes and still have the ones in the dishwasher to go. But, it is late and I am physically and emotionally exhausted. I am going to bed and will dream of a better day tomorrow.

You need a what??????

I think this may be the most shocking thing Lily has said yet! I was tucking her in bed and she very sweetly looked up at me and said, "mommy, I need a diary." Can you buy me one?"

So I am thinking either she is watching way to much t.v. or learning way to much on the playground at school!

Oh wait..... did I mention she is only 3 years old?

Making New Friends

Click here to see a very sweet post from a new blogging buddy of mine about our luncheon yesterday.

Blog Par-tay!

Thanks to Kristi, a great new blogger pal, I went to my very first blog event today. Some of us local bloggers got together and met for lunch at Eastside Grille. She arranged this event along with another blogger (I think) and I am so glad I went.

Actually, Leigh is the reason I went but Kristi was the one who came up with the great idea of meeting. I had pretty much decided not to go. (anxiety) I was only going to know one other person there and was feeling a little insecure. Soooooo, I did not even get ready to go. In fact, I had just gotten back from Sean's soccer game and about 5 minutes till time to be there I thought I may actually regret not going. (I really just did not want Leigh to be mad at me) :)

I met some cool new friends and can't wait to get together again. My only regret was not bringing Lily to play with those sweet little girls. She would have had a blast.

Click the link below to see some pictures and more details. I forgot to bring my camera.

http://mrsaudvm.blogspot.com/2008/10/blog-par-tay.html

I love the Fair again!

We took the kids to the fair today. It was quite nice actually. The weather could not have been better and crowd was very tolerable. Jennifer, my co-worker and bestest friend:) met us with her family and we all had alot of fun. The kids rode an elephant which was cool. Sean rode all the "scary" rides and has recruited Lily into the scary riders club. She surprised us with how confidently she was getting on everything. There were some tears though because she is still to tiny for many things and she really wanted to do it all....

Click here to see the new presidential nominee

http://www.tsgnet.com/pres.php?id=46832&altf=Ifjej1Fxfmm&altl=Nvsqiz

It's a Girl.......

I have a brand new neice and I just loooooove her little feet.........

Little Miss Bossy

I always loved the Little Miss and Mr. books when I was a kid. I love attaching the appropriate books titles to the kids. Lately Lily has been Little Miss Chatterbox. Today she suddenly became Little Miss Bossy! This was a conversation I overheard the kids having in the kitchen this morning.

Lily: "Hey! You almost tripped my toe, SAY OOPS!!!!!!"

Sean: "oops."

Lily: "You should be more careful", "SAY OK!!!!!"

Sean: (sheepishly) "ok."

Julia's new Christmas launch now on ebay

Julia has done two fabulous new sets for Christmas. We had so much fun modeling and photographing them for her. Of course little Miss got frustrated you know. So many things for a three year old to do! People to call, friends to see, Barbie dolls to play with, cartoons to watch. Oh... my busy little bug!

Seriously though, please check these sets out:)

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=180293483500

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=180293464954

I got the kids each one of those ring pop like suckers except these had teeth on the top instead of a ring. Lily was so sleepy last night but really wanted her sucker. I told her we could save it for later but she was determined to finish it. She kept dozing off as she was sucking on it and when I looked over at her a few minutes later she was fast asleep with it in her mouth sucking it like a pacifier.

Sean showing off his Spiderman moves

Soccer Days

Sean is much better at soccer this year then he was last year. I think he understands the game much better now. He is more aggressive in going after the ball and has even kicked a goal. Even though it was in the other team's net, we are still proud of him. :)

After a 9:00 soccer game this morning, Lily and I went to Olive Garden for a Baby Shower Luncheon. My brother's wife is having their second baby (another girl) this Thursday. We had fun and were a very loud bunch for those poor people I am sure. Anytime you get my mom and her two sisters and me and my sister together you are in for some interesting moments.

A post about Sean coming soon

To be fair, I feel I need to do a post about Sean. We had a really funny episode last night about hiding m&ms from daddy! I can't post it tonight. I had a really long day at work and am just too tired. Stay tuned.....

I also have some pictures of his first soccer game and some funny spiderman shots that he wanted to do for his "best friend" Ian.

Poor baby is not feeling well right now. He is so sweet but even sweeter when he is sick. He seems to have picked up whatever Lily had and it seems to be really lingering.

Ponytails

I love Lily's ponytails. I think they are perfect for her personality. Anyway, we have been in a ponytail phase lately and I kept remembering the cutest picture I took of her the first time I ever fixed her ponytails. She was so little. I finally found it. I had actually done a post on it back in 2005 "Lily's first ponytails".

I always wanted a little girl so I could do ponytails. Maybe because my mom always put them in my hair. :)

THEN

NOW

She's Frusrated.....

Lately I have had a hard time getting Lily to cooperate with me taking her picture so I was not sure what to expect from her today when I prepared to photograph her in two new sets for Julia's Christmas launch. I talked her through it as I dressed her and prepped her as I usually do.
She was acting silly so I had to give her this sob story about a little girl wanting the outfits but she needed to know what they looked like before her mommy bought them. She reluctantly agreed but was very cooperative when we eventually got outside.
I was finishing up the first outfit when she told me she did not want to model. I sat down with her on the ground (she was very serious) and asked her why. She said in her most sincere, sweet little voice "because I just get so frustrated". I could not hep but laugh. I mean really laugh. Deep, belly laughter. Literally rolling on the ground outside laughing. I was wondering if our neighbor, (a family court Judge) or Buddy heard me. Lily just sat there beside me looking at me and asking me why was I laughing.

We came in and changed into the second set. She was still pretty cooperative for that one, even pointing me to where to take her picture. She pointed to the mail box and instructed me to take her picture there, and the camera battery suddenly went dead. I can tell this broke her heart because she looked at me with glee and screamed "oh yes, the battery is dead", and ran inside the house.

The outfits are gorgeous and I can't wait to share the pics. I will wait for Julia to get them listed first though. Keep looking.

My NEW favorite picture of Lily.......

Lily's Bug

Lily and I have felt a little blah today. She woke up Saturday with a tummy bug and was still not over it as of this morning. I had been on another round of antibiotics and steroids from last week for a small lung infection so we both stayed home today. We took Sean to school and came home and napped most of the morning.

I promised a while back to start doing "Lilyisms". Every time she says something funny we are in the car and by the time we get home I forget it. Anyway, this morning she said something so out of the blue that I immediately called my friend to tell her so I would be sure not to forget. She reminded me that I needed to do the "Lilyism" so here goes.....

"Mommy, will you please get me some juggling balls so I can practice my juggling"

We then pulled up under the carport and she asked me why we were coming in for a landing right there. I told her we were home and that we were not landing, we were parking.

I don't know where she comes up with these things.......But I love them!

Sophie, Sean & Lily

Sophie came over after school today with her library book. Sean had just gotten his library book that day too so we had fun reading. Also, Lily was super excited that Pinkalicious and Purplicious came from the big brown truck man (Sean & Lily's favorite person) and a scholastic book order had come in at school that day so we read all those too. Well, most of them.

You can never have too many laptops....

Sean is holding my computer playing Purble Place, Buddy had Sean's doing and update (I think) and I am on Buddy's tablet checking my email. I looked up and thought "this is crazy"!

Spencer was here so he took the picture - not Lily :)

This I am actually a little embarased about. We gave the old Dell laptop to Sean. At least we won't be fighting over mine anymore. He does not nor has ever had any kind of video gaming system (nintendo, x-box, wii) so it makes me feel a little bit better about giving a perfectly good laptop to a five year old. The kid is good on the thing too. He has actually helped me. He can get on and off websites by himself (we restrict to only Noggin, PBS, Disney) and he has some installed software that he uses. Gotta love these 21st century kids.

This week is promising to be a better one already!

A nice change

Today was a much better day and not just because it was Friday.

One nice surprise was that I finally got a new computer. Buddy ordered me a new Dell notebook in my favorite hot pink :) (Lily was pleased). Sean got my old one. We were sitting today, the three of us, with our laptops. I told Buddy that it would be a blogging moment. I will have to post a picture of the scene. Of course, I am not sure who will take the picture. Lily?

Another nice surprise came in the way of a telephone call late this afternoon. It was a lady from "that interview" I went to yesterday telling me that the CFO loved the way the interview went and wanted to make me an offer. We talked and I let her know I would take the weekend to think, talk to Buddy and pray about it. It feels good to be impressive to someone though.

The day went smoothly, we saw relatives we had been missing and nothing went really wrong today at all. It was just a good day.

About 8 tonight Lily spiked a high fever. She is sleeping well now after Tylenol. Probably has the same fever virus Sean had earlier this week.

Lily is sooo having a Pinkalicious Birthday Party!

Well it would not be a proper birthday party in the Murphy house if I did not start planning like 10 weeks in advance right?

I started asking Lily what she wanted to do about her party about 2 weeks ago. She wanted Kim Possible and I wanted to do an official tea at Gracie's English Tea Room. I was thinking what in the world I could do for a K.P. party. She met her at Disney world a few months ago and fell in love. I looked up some stuff online and got a few ideas but was thinking the party would be best for someone aged 6 or 7 and not 3.

I was driving home today and viola, I had the brilliant idea that we could do a Pinkalicious party. If you are not familiar and have a little girl, I highly recomend getting this book. They also have the Musical, probably in New York (I don't know) which is out of the question for us.

Anyway, Lily loves this book and was thrilled when I told her about the party idea. I gave her the K.P. choice again just to see what she would say. She looked at me like I was crazy and said "no way, I want Pinkalicious of course".

I checked out some sites for ideas, even though I had already jotted down a few I thought of, and got some really good ideas.

1. Girls must wear all pink, will give pink boas as they walk in

2. We will serve all pink food (but will have 1 table with "green" food)

3. We will decorate pink cupcakes in our pink aprons (will try to have monogrammed)

4. Will definitely read the book to the girls

5. Pink peonies (sp?) on all the tables

...... still looking and thinking.

I found the cutest blog though featuring an interview with the authors. (precious)

http://cupcakestakethecake.blogspot.com/2006/11/our-pinkalicious-cupcake-interview.html

My twirly girly has hit big business... :)

Julia's newest set is featured on two more websites..... Lily, or course, is her model so I had to let you know to check it out.
http://designerroundup.blogspot.com/ and

http://www.kiddlins.com/
on Kiddlins, scroll down to about the 3rd pic and you will see her. The set is called "feelin twirly". I am not sure about the designer roundup yet since I have not yet checked that one out....

I told Buddy last night that since our girl was in the modeling business now, maybe I need to put her a portfolio together. Ha ha! Seriously though, I am always glad to help Julia out. And it also gives me more practice with one of my newest hobbies, photography.

Julia's new creation (Lily inspired)

This one was actually created just for my girl and it came out sooooooo cute. Check it out on ebay here :

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=180287897374

Lily loves to twirl as most of you know. She always tells me that she has to do her "twirly twirls". She wants to wear something that "twirls" every single night to bed. I just had to have some major twirl get-up for the girl. I called Julia and told her what we wanted. She used her ultimated creativity and came up with the cutest little set. I am so excited that she had enough stuff to make another and list it. I hope everyone will go check it out.

Mama said there'd be days like this........

Yesterday was a stressful and very busy day. It was one of those days when nothing seems to go right. At one point I actually sat in my car, put my head in my hands and cried. It was just that kind of day. I was down. I pulled myself together though cause I really wanted everything to go smoothly and for me to be mentally prepared for the first night of stepping up. The kids were also starting the new fall series with Children's Worship Arts so we all needed to be on time. Well, I did not manage my time just right because we needed to all be there at 6:00 and at 5:00 I was just getting home from a very busy afternoon with the kids and a car full of groceries. We all needed to be fed and changed (slightly cleaned up) and out the door in an hour. Usually that can be done. But, by the time I unloaded the groceries and put them all away, started dinner, ate, changed the kids and loaded up I realized it was 2 minutes until 6:00. I made it to church in exactly 8 minutes and ran the kids to the appropriate classes (one upstairs in one section of the church, and one downstairs in another section) whew! I was now over 20 minutes late for my Bible study which was upstairs on the other end of the church. By the way, Frazer is huge!!!! Look it up (Frazer UMC) Needless to say, the study was great. I love Beth Moore. I got in the door just as they were finishing up introducing themselves around the room. I got to take my turn and then we started so I did not miss anything. The first session was amazing and I am so glad I decided to do it. She actually talked about having "down" days and just crying for no reason at all. I totally related to everything she said. I had experienced it all that very day.

Her encouraging words and the scripture had me on a high most of today. That is until I spilled my Mac & cheese all over myself. If I were not a work I would have cried again.
I knew today would be busy. I had to work my regular hours then go to an interview for a possible job and come back and work till close. Then I was doing an in service which would last until 8pm. So, I brought some of my favorite stouffers mac & cheese and came dressed for the interview. By mid morning I had a stain on my dress and by lunch one of the kids spilled pineapple juice all over my skirt. I was cleaning the juice up when all of the mac & cheese got dumped on me, my shoes and all over the floor. (this is where I want to start sobbing) The interview went well (more later) The in service went a little late and I ended up getting home at 9pm. I had left the house at 7am and hated being away from my kids that long.
To top it all off, I had a pretty intense headache.

Oh well, there will be good days and bad days right?

I am still here....

I have had several fellow bloggers and a few friends express concern over my lack of posting over the last few weeks. So, I guess I better get back on here and let ya'll know what is going on with the Muphys!

Busy, Busy, Busy! I had no idea how busy I would be working and having the kids so involved with sports (ballet, soccer) and in school. School has been a job in itself for me. Each day I have to go through backpacks and do "homework" with the kids (mostly Sean). It is unbelievable that a kindergardner would have so much work. He has vocabulary words to learn, words like mellow, and new words to read. I am excited about how much he is learning though even if it is extra work for me. We are required to read each night to him and record on provided sheet how much time we spent. All of this plus all the other normal mommy duties is keeping me busy.

And, I am doing two new Bible studies this fall. I am excited about finally doing Beth Moore's study called Stepping Up.

I really have been meaning to post. I get sidetracked everytime I sit down though.

I went to Nashville a few weeks ago with a very dear friend. We went to see Pricilla Shirer at a "Going Beyond" conference and had a great time. Vicky Yoho, a favorite singer of mine, was there and led the praise and worship. She was amazing and as usual.

We got lost, toured Nashville, did some shopping, saw some crazy people, ate at Hard Rock Cafe (yum), hugged Elvis, but most of all met with God in a very powerful way.

My very dear, long time, and very sweet friend Candace has been here visiting before she and her husband leave for Europe. They will be there for three years and I am sad. We have been able to spend some time with her and the boys though and hopefully will see them when we go to Europe next year for vacation (yay).

I will try to catch up more soon. Sean has been sick today and had to miss school.

I will post some pictures of Lily in her awsome new Lily inspired "twirl set" from Julia.

Just look at how cute my boy is even when he is sick. Poor fella has had fever of over 102 all day.

He prayed for himself at the dinner table tonight. Such faith.

She just keeps getting better!

Julia never ceases to amaze me with her creativity and skill in coordinating fabrics and creating custom made, top quality, boutique style clothing. I love this set and want to bid on it for Lily in fact. She has listed it on ebay. You absolutely must check it out. There are more pics.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&item=180279648754

Lily's first pedicure

Have I mentioned enough on this blog how much fun having a daughter is?

Today we had our first official girls day out together. First stop, pedicures. We sat side by side in the chairs and she kept looking over at me with a huge grin on her face as the dangled her feet in the "blue water". I snapped a few pictures of her even though I was a little embarrassed to do it. Lily picked out her own color and chose to get flower on her first toe. The lady even did a little leg and foot massage on her. She found this pretty funny. I decided to have my eyebrows waxed and the poor thing looked a little worried that it might happen to her next.

Buddy took some pics of our feet together. I know you really don't want to see my feet but they are in the pics.

While we did our thing Buddy took Sean to a sporting goods store and then they went to Starbucks. The kids have had a theme lately about Sean being "another daddy" and Lily being "another mommy" so I think they really enjoyed having special time with us.

Murphy kids go to school

First day of school for Sean & Lily

Today was not nearly as bad as I expected.

We woke up early and took some video of the kids still sleeping and again as they ate and got dressed up in their uniforms. They were both very excited. I was spazzing out about paperwork, folders, juice money, extended day blah, blah, blah..........

When it was time to go I took pictures of them all dressed and with backpacks. We got to school early and walked them both into the building and waited in the "pod" until the bell rang.
With Lily (as per teacher's instructions) we kissed her in the palm of her hand and said goodbye. I think they were going to read a special book later called the Kissing Hand. She asked her teacher right away where the costumes were. Ha! That's our Lily.

Sean tried to play it cool but whispered to Buddy that he was a little nervous. We said goodbye and walked out.
I started spazzing out again about turning all the forms in paying juice money for the year so we walked to the office to get everything taken care of.
Buddy and I needed to unwind and relax after such stress so we went to Cracker Barrel for breakfast :) That was good!!!!!

We come home for a bit and I went into Sean's room and spotted his beloved pillow. I got very emotional and took a picture of it laying there all alone without him holding it and started trying to write a poem about it. I know, I am cheesy but I just get that way.

Anyway, we picked them up at 10:30 today since it was the first day. They were so pumped and happy. We saw some Montessori friends and a few church friends.

We are looking forward to tomorrow. Pictures soon.....

Everything New

I feel like today is a calm before the storm. (funny, it is actually raining this morning)!

Today is the last day of life as I knew it before I had an official kindergartner.

All is quite right now as I sit here posting this. I have only myself to get ready for work. Yesterday I got a little taste of what is soon to come as it got a little hairy around here.

Sean was registered for the new soccer season and Lily had her first ballet lesson off the 2008 class.

This time tomorrow I will actually be sitting in a carpool line and then trying to get to work myself. It is done everyday by women everywhere and has been for years I tell myself! But, It is new to me so I am a little nervous.

So it will be getting up about 5:30, getting two very hard to wake up sleepyheads dressed and fed, then out the door by 7:00. Ballet on Monday, Soccer on Tuesday and Saturday along with all of our other "life".

Our little baby boy starts kindergarten and Lily will be in a K3 program at his school. I am sad but excited. He is very excited. As we tell him, he has one more "sleep" before he gets to go to his new school. I will let you know how our first day goes.

Tonight is Open House which I am looking forward to since I feel like it will me MY first day at a new highschool. I hope you are all adjusting to whatever is new in your life.

Have great day!

Help Me!

Buddy is teaching our 5 year old to fight!

No really, he was teaching him how to punch (box) whatever!

Today we took him to meet his new teacher at his new kindergarten and some of his classmates were there. One little boy very sternly told him not to touch his toy!

Well, if you know my sweet child at all then you know that he is about the most gentle, laid back little boy ever. He is just a sweetheart (except to his sister).

Bless his heart. He told the kid very sweetly that he would not touch his things and then he let us all know that he would be in big trouble with that boy if he touched his things.

At this point my heart is breaking at how naive my child is and how this is only the beginning of a very "rough" world for my baby.

So, after a long speech by mommy about how the little boy just needs to use kind words and that maybe he could help show him how to remember his kind words

(a montessori thing) daddy decided he needed to take over.......

On a lighter note. As we were walking around Cosco today trying to find things to spend money on Buddy starts singing his favorite "We are in the poor house now" song. To which Sean asks "Daddy, where is the poor house"?

Sean SAID he wanted to model something for Mrs Julia too!

It seemed like a good idea at first........

Then, he seemed a little nervous...

He was absolutely not into it in the end.

I guess modeling is just not his thing......LOL

Lily

Does it seem lately that I post mostly about Lily and not really about Sean?
The truth is that Lily is at such a cute age right now and just so naturally funny that I can't help but post about her.

Sean is at a stage right now where he just wants to sit there playing computer games, watching t.v. or playing with his little boy toys.

Lily is all about twirly skirts, makeup and scooping up dead cockroaches into her glass slipper and walking around the house talking to them.

Yes friends, I have a truely unique daughter. Tender hearted I guess. She found the dead cockroach and wanted to pray for it and then (I kid you not) make desert for it.

I am petrified of them dead or alive.

I did not want to scare Lily or give her my fear so I went along with her.
Plus, I did not want her to touch it so I had to make sure she only kept it in her glass slipper.

I was finally able to convince her that the bugs mommy missed it so we gently put it outside and said goodnight. She then put her head down and slowly walked down the hall and said "I miss my friend".

I will try to find something to post about Sean soon. Oh! He did tell me tonight that the creme brulee I made for desert looked a little like throw up so he wasn't having any.

Links for Julia's newest creations

Ok moms with little girls, and all my sewing buddies. Here are the links I promised you to Julia's newest creations. They are both listed on ebay.


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=180270248395&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=008


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=180270254137&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT&ih=008

Shhhhhhh! A Sneak Peak!

I can't wait for you to see this one.

This is another great creation by Frogbelliesandblossoms that my neice was able to model for Julia!

I will have a link for you as soon as she gets it listed.

This is a multi peice set with many stunning embellishments and beautiful embroidery so you will definitely want to check it out on ebay.

Just wanted to give you a sneak peak.....

My first blog award!

My sweet new blogger friend Leigh http://grahamshenanigans.blogspot.com/ gave this award to me. There are a few things I am supposed to do like nominate someone else I think. I need to see about the specifics first . Thank you Leigh!

Little Miss Sunshine!

My little Doll is busy modeling again.

Julia of frogbelliesandblossoms boutique has some fabulous stuff this time around. The best yet in my opinion and I can't wait to share when she is able to get them listed on ebay. I will keep it a secret for now though. You will need to check it out for sure and bid bid bid when it's time. I will just give a hint on one of them though and share a picture! hint:Back to school

Wedding Cake Picture

I had the opportunity to photograph a wedding on Saturday. I have been doing some family photographs for other people and children for a year or so now.

I really did not start out loving photography, my sister did. We always called her the family photographer when we were younger.

I married Buddy and he loved taking pictures. He had a nice enough camera already but with everything moving digital he bought us a really nice Cannon EOS 20D SLR, some equipment and several photography books.

Anyway, I still was not too interested until I had my babies and I fell in love with it.

I am still very much an amateur of course! But, I enjoy it and am just grateful that people give me the opportunity and actually trust me enough to do it.

Bye bye car seat

Lily is officially out of the "baby" car seat and in a big girl booster seat. She is very proud. We went to Target and got the VIP - Very Important Princess seat....

Is she not the cutest little thing?

My sister's daughter, also Sean's partner in crime is so adorable. But, don't let that sweet face fool you! She emailed me this picture and it was too sweet not to share.

Happy Birthday Mom!

My sweet mother: AKA (maw-maw) had a birthday this week. Lily & I took her to lunch today to celebrate with just us girls.

We went to MY favorite place (go figure) Eastside Grille. Mom was good and stuck to her healthy eating habits as of late having a salad and some grilled chicken. I on the other hand was in no mood for healthy eating. I just had to have the Chicken fried steak, fried green tomato and mashed potatoes. Three of my favorites. I did have some turnip greens too. Soooo good! Sounds like it was my birthday huh? Lily stuck to her standard chicken nuggets. Silly girl!

Here are a few pictures of Lily and mom sharing some ice cream.

Wheat Twins, A Thins.... Whatever!

My kids are so silly!!!

Lately Lily has been humoring me with her pronounciations of wheat thins. I don't know if she is just being silly or is really having a problem saying it. She calls them tumble wheats. I correct her, but, also think it is kind of cute so I laugh. Today I caught her with the box and she looked at me and said "I was just getting me some A -twins". Confused, I asked her to tell me again what they were called and after thinking for a second she said "uummm, bumble beets".

I thought this was cute enough to share so I ran and got the camera to take her picture with the wheat thins. She was very excited about this.

Of course, you know Sean had to get in on the action so he wanted some food to take a picture with too. I offered him the wheat thin box but he would not have it. He wanted something better he said. He got a container out of the refrigerator and held it up. When he saw that it was spinach wraps he was very disappointed. You know me, I had to take the picture of his disappointment cause it was just too funny not to share.....

Laughter IS good medicine and I needed some today!

Laminin???

I stumbled upon this today after someone recommended I watch it. It is a little lengthy (about 8 minutes) but, amazing. You will touched for sure.....


Oh yeah, be sure to pause my music first or it will interfere!