Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Down the Road...


We made it to Kansas safe and sound. It's green...really green. We are in a really small town that is just a 15 minute drive from a small town. It's very quaint, and cute, and I love it!

Where we are staying the Wi-fi connection (or lack there of) plain ol' stinks! So we went with a Verizon card, and the phone reception here stinks too! Go figure! That's why you're only getting one photo right now (it took me 30 minutes...you should feel lucky!) We drive daily into the town nearby, and visit the public library to mooch off their free Wi-fi, and quiet atmosphere for Kaylee's school. So far everything is just great!

The drive to Chris' work is less than ideal, so next week after Labor day we are moving closer. That's one benefit of living in a trailer I guess! This time I am not even stressed about the move at all!

The kids love where we are at, Chris loves the fishing, and I love having everyone together. We are truly happy, and extremely blessed to be a family again. :)

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

A Big Move.

I don't really have much spare time these days.

You see, we have just decided to pack up our whole family and go on the road with Chris.

We are leaving within the next two weeks.

Watch out Kansas....here we come!

{please send all your sanity my way, I'll be needing as much as I can get}

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

The Nutty Scientist!

This year we have decided to keep Kaylee at home and do an online school. With Chris traveling alot, we thought it would be easier so we could go visit him without pulling Kaylee out of school.

We have finished Day Two, and it's awesome!

Today for Science, Kaylee learned about the Scientific Method. So we held a little experiment where she got to practice the Scientific Method on a bunch of nuts!

She's totally loving the goggles (completely not necessary, but it's fun). Crew on the other hand...not loving that there is only one magnifying glass.

After smelling, touching, tasting, measuring, grouping and classifying, Kaylee drew her conclusions of the nuts. She is soo smart, and I am loving that I am able to teach her. We had two "ah-ha!" moments today where I could literally see it just click with her, and that was amazing! She is loving this too!

Not to be forgotten, Crew is learning to write too. He is doing really well, and loves when he gets his "school time." Emma, is army crawling around, and she practically schools everyone else in cute-ness.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Summer Happenings...

This summer has been pretty relaxed. We just got back from St. George last week, and we had a blast. It's so fun to visit family. Kaylee simply adores all her cousins, and tells everyone about it. Crew loves playing with his boy cousins, cause he's tired of playing Littlest Pet Shop and Princess. Emma just loves the attention she gets from her adoring fans.

Our sweet Emma is growing fast. She's not crawling yet, but she can get where she wants by rolling and shimmy-ing herself there. She is a happy baby that is known to smile at everyone. It's funny when we go out and random people will get a kick out of the fact that she smiles and laughs at them (little do they know that she does it for everyone).  If she's not laughing and smiling, she's sleeping. And that's just as cute!

Ahh yes... the many faces of Crew. This is his go-to face when the camera gets pulled out. He is such an amazing little swimmer! He can swim to the bottom, and just about anywhere he wants now. All without assistance! He loves going swimming, and he also loves playing outside. It's blazing outside, but I let the kids play (with water bottles and hats) until they can't take it any longer. Seems to get them to bed a little earlier.

Kaylee is my little mamma! She loves taking care of her little brother and sister. She is doing great swimming, next summer we are going to try the swim team! She has a current obsession with "The Neverending Story 2," it's really weird. She is starting to like the science-fiction stuff. I am going to start reading the Harry Potter books to her and Crew at night. She is starting 1st grade in just two weeks and she's already counting down the days. Today she told me, "Mom, just 13 more days till school starts!"

So that's what's going on here!

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Before and After.....again!

I have come to the end of another weight-loss competition. The first time I came away victorious, this time, I was up against some stiff competition and only placed 6th. I am still happy with my weight-loss. I wanted to lose another 10-15 pounds, and I am proud to say that I lost 11.

It's a tad embarrassing to show my before picture, but what they heck, ya'll saw me back then anyways. I went from a size {barely squeezing into} 12, to an extremely comfortable 4. {I might be bragging slightly}

I am tempted to continue with the weight-loss, or maybe just continue to eat healthy and exercise regularly and just see what happens. Needless to say, I feel great. I am extremely happy with my results.

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Sweet Giveaway!

Hey guys! I am doing a little Giveaway on

Check it out here! Don't forget to tell your friends!

Hurry because it ends next Monday (7/11) at midnight!!

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Oh Happy Day!

I know it's late in the day....{alright it's just one more hour till July 5th}, but I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Independence Day! I am so happy to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I wont forget the men who died, who gave that right to me....{everyone join in!!} So I'll gladly stand up....ok ok...

Anywho, it's also my sister Heather's Birthday! SO..... HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!

I made her an awesome cake that you just have to check out! But I posted it to my yummy food blog at:

http://www.iwashyoudry.blogspot.com/

{but you can click here  for the direct link to it if you don't want to browse the whole blog}

So go there and look at it!

Have a Happy Day!!