I found Piglet in my house!!!!

Thanks.....

To my WONDERFUL family (mostly brotherinlawS) for the help in making this office/spare room dream a reality! It looks great! So good in fact, that I'm not sure where to start with filling it!

Oh, and Auntie Evelyn, according to your nieces, your room is done. And IF you come to visit (they don't think you are, yet they insist on calling it Auntie Evelyn's room) they would like to have a sleepover in there one night!

Pics will be forthcoming LATER....maybe I'll post a sign on the door of the room that says 'finished room' and take a picture of that..... :)

Thanks again for ALL your help. The floor is beautiful, the paint so fresh and the trim perfect! Thank you thank you thank you!!!!!

Full house

So today is the day we are done!!! Well, done to the point of ready to move in!

My wonderful brotherinlaw is finishing up the 'spare' room today!! Yay for sisters who marry great guys!!

So now my house is ready to hold more then just our family! Yayayayayayay! Looking forward to the many days my house is full!! Come on over!

Words Cont.

Today, after making my nephew say "Yes Auntie Laura" (for doing something, don't remember what...) He walked past me and said "Auntie Laura, you're cool!"
And that coming from a 2 1/2 year old!

Yay!!! I'M COOL!!!!

Words

We've been discussing how the kids pick up a lot of the words we use around the house, as well as in a song. We really have to clean up our act! :S

Evangelene has been using our words LOTS! Today, while pretending she was talking on the phone it was.."horken-nelly...I'll be right there!"...Jason and I laughed loud and long over that one!

Oh, and yesterday in the van she was singing along to a Pixar Cars song, one of the first ones on there. Real Gone...of those lines, "i have a big mouth" "gotta say it" and "Uhh" (empasis on the uhh!) were the ones she really got! Hee hee! Cutie!

Vultures

Jason and I are trying to set up a photography busines....slowly everything is coming together.
This week we had news that the only other 'professional photographer' in town passed away. Without disrespectin him or his family, we wanted to get in touch with his family to see what they were doing with all his stuff, and maybe (hopefully) aquire his studio/photography stuff. The only thing is how do you do that without being like a vulture???
J's dad came to the rescue with a 'I know so-and-so who knows so-and-so' ....so it is in the works! Now we're just praying everything works out!

On a completly other note, how do I get a 2+yr old to stay in his crib and not climb out and tip his sister's pack and play over while she's in it!?! We've tried the dutch sleeping bag and even pinned the zipper closed...at a loss here! Poor Peyton!

Oh, and I'm grumpy today! :( Poor kids!

Life with kids.

Who would've thought!???!! Not me! I imagined a fall from a bike, a trip out of a tree, even a fall while skiing....but slipping while climbing into my bed??? Nope! Didn't even cross me mind as my first trip to the ER for stitches!


And Felicity??? NO WAY!!! I totally thought Evangelene!!!


But as these things go, there is never any positive way of predicting them correctly...only that with 4 kids, it's bound to happen sooner or later! :P

So instead of a lovely quiet evening scrapbooking...
** It started out that way! Was a lot of fun! Thanks Auntie S. + B. Although that was still full of adventure and mishaps!**
....I got to spend my evening at the local ER....a mere 45min drive away!

Thankfully the roads were clear and the Lord saw fit to allow us to arrive there with no further adventures!

A talk with some nice ladies in the waiting room, half an episode of Reba, and we were on our way to seeing a Dr.

By then Felicity had started to feel better and was talking lots. She told the nurse all about valentines day and all the fun stuff she did at preschool.

The Dr. finally visited us (although I must confess...he was not that long in appearing!) and decided glue would not work, stitches were needed.


My brave little girl told me she was scared. So we prayed. And prayed. It made mommy feel better, able to be a little more confident.But the little girl wanted a hand to hold. So while we prayed, we held hands and both of us came out blessedly stronger.


With stitches comes a needle....poor girl let the whole ER(not really that big, even after the renovations) know that the needle hurt. What she didn't know was that the needle hurt her mom too! And then one stitch, then two! With each one, my heart broke a little more. With each one, the rest of the hospital(well almost the whole thing! :P) knew that a little girl was hurting.

After all was said and done, a look in the mirror confirmed it! Felicity said she was like Uncle Jakob! ( a skiing accident earlier this past month!)


A treat was in order! Timmies let us down so 7-11 came thru with a muffin and a blue/purple slurpee...Chatting all the way home,we were again blessed with an uneventful drive home.


A snuggle with daddy, a drink and bed for us all!
Thanking the Lord that all is ok and that we can rest in Him, sleep mercifully took us away, to renew us for another day!