Valentine's Day

Our Valentine's weekend was spent in Oklahoma so that we could be at 2 of our neices birthday parties. We have a neice that was born on February 14 and one born on February 15, a year apart. We had a great time! Before leaving town Friday though, Terry came home with a dozen red and white roses for me and flowers and a teddy bear for the girls. They loved it...and I did too! Its hard to believe that 8 years ago this Valentine's Terry proposed! After almost 5 years of dating, I had thought that it would never happen! It did though and I am thankful for him! He is a awesome husband and daddy. Not everything is always perfect but I cannot imagine how my life would be without him and my girls! Valentine's Day is not my favorite holiday but it is a special one. And to prove my TRUE LOVE for Terry...for Valentine's Day this year, I bought him tickets to Kenny G! It will be torture for me but Terry has always liked his music so we will be heading to WinStar Casino next Friday night for the concert. (and maybe some slot machines!!) I hope everyone had a great Valentine's Day!

This past week we had some extremely great weather! The girls and I took advantage of that and spent almost the whole day both this past Thursday and Friday outside! We had a couple of picnics, played ball, and went to the park. It was so nice!! Although we are in an ice storm warning now, with this Texas weather I am sure we will be outside playing in a few days!

I know that I have not stayed on top of this blog thing but you must know that the holidays are tremendously busy for us!! The month of December was total chaos! From the first week of the month having a very sick Zoe to graduations to Liv's choir program to graduations to a bad car accident to Liv's school program to a stomach bug that attacked Terry and I to Christmas to New Years and EVERYTHING in between.......what a very hectic month!! It seemed like my favorite time of year was very hard to enjoy!
December 13 made it that way when a kid ran a red light and nailed us in the side while I was making a left hand turn. It wasn't just me that the kid had no regard for but also my sister-in-law who was 7 weeks pregnant at that time, my 2 1/2 yr old neice, Zoe, Liv, and my mom. God was absolutely watching out for us that day seeing that we all walked away with only bumps and bruises even though it totalled out my suburban. The stresses of having a paid off truck totalled and looking to add another car payment to the budget were all I could think about! God has blessed us though and it has all worked out just as He promises!
Christmas did turn out to be a very wonderful time for us! We started on Christmas Eve morning when we open presents at my moms house! All Liv had begged for from Santa for well over a month was a "potty baby" that sits on her potty and then lifts her hands in praises that she "tt in the potty!!" To save ourselves from seperating 3 girls in an argument....Liv,Zoe, and my neice all 3 got their very own potty baby! They got so much stuff I think that it took the majority of the day undoing those twisty ties in the packages and putting stuff together! We spent the day at moms and then went to my Grandaddy and Grandmothers house that night for supper and a visit from Santa. Liv was the only one who liked him though so he didn't stay long. We read the Christmas story and sang Happy Birthday to Jesus before the girls opened more presents and then headed back to moms to spend the night.
We went to Terry's parents house for Christmas Day. The girls found more presents from Santa and enjoyed playing with their cousins. It was a whirlwind of 2 days but we had a great time!
December 30 was a great day too!! I became an aunt for the 5th time but this time to a nephew!! We are so excited about this baby boy but can see that he is in BIG trouble with all of these girls. See...counting all the cousins.....on my side we have 6 girls and on Terrys side there are 8!! You can see why we fear for the little guy!!
New Year's was pretty uneventful. When you have kids you can't really go do to much! We stayed at moms and played her new Wii system. It was good just to stay in and have that time together.
We all made it home finally this past Saturday after spending almost a full month in Oklahoma. It feels really good to be home and get back into the routine of things. If I can just get my kids well from a nagging cough we will all be good!!
I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Years!

I know that it has been a VERY long time since I have posted anything! It seems that when I get on here to write something I get side tracked and then run out of time. Today I am making time though!
I have had my sis-in-law and neice here staying with us for the past few days. They came just to shop some and hang out. We had a great time and enjoy them being here! The girls miss each other so much!
We have been so busy for the past month and the next month doesnt look any different! We will be in and out of town all month and Liv has so many little recitals and programs in the next few weeks! It is going to be crazy!!
Liv had a great day at school today. She really didn't want to go this morning (which is a first) because she wanted to stay with her cousin but she went anyways. I guess she had an encounter with a round hair brush and spent quite sometime with one of her teachers as she was trying to get it out of Liv's hair without having to cut it out! Liv is going to be a flower girl in June and so I am not going to cut or trim her hair til after that but I believe that she is determined to have that happen. Within the past month I have had to cut a piece of gum and a fruit snack out of her hair. Luckily it was not noticable!
Zoe has become my challenging child! If anyone has any suggestions on how to discipline a 21 month old please send them my way! She just tortures Liv with messing up her toys or taking them away. She bites me..very rarely anyone else. She pretends to give kisses and hugs and then slaps you in the face. Now don't get me wrong...she is a very sweet baby but she is just such a mess. She also will not leave her clothes on..or her diaper for that matter. I have been having to put her in those one piece jump suits so she can't strip as easily! I never had ANY of these issues with Liv so I am at a loss with this child!!
On to a happier note...we had a great time in Oklahoma over Thanksgiving. We spent almost a full week up there. Lots of family time!! It really was good though! I went shopping at 3:30 am on Black Friday and shopped for a good part of the day. I have no idea what I bought but my thinking was that I would just buy and sort later. I can always make returns but wanted to buy sale items! We were suppose to come home on Sunday but Terry decided that he wanted to hunt Sunday night and we would head home when he got done. Me and the girls were getting our things together when we got a call from Terry saying that he got a deer! He shot a 15 point buck!! How great is that?!? (I will post pics later) By the time he got done doing what you do to a dead deer it was way to late to come home so we got up at 5am Monday morning and drove home so he could start seeing patients at 8! It was a long day but it all turned out ok!
Anyways, I will try and do better with posting! I do read all of yours though!!
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!

From Last Week to Halloween

It has been well over a week since I have posted anything. We have been so busy it is unreal! The last post I wrote was the night before Liv's school pumpkin patch. She was so excited that night and even more so the morning of. I took her to school that day and they were setting it all up when we got there. It was so darn cute! Liv had a great day and got to ride the blue choo-choo train and brought home a pumpkin of her own.

We have also been to Oklahoma since the last post. My sister-in-law, Emmy, is having the first boy in the family this December (and when I mean 1st boy...there are currently 6 girls on my side and 8 on Terry's side) and her baby shower was this past Saturday. We had a great time getting to visit and spend time with everyone and the shower was lots of fun! She got lots of great stuff...so weird seeing all the blue and the camo in actual green and not pink!

This week started off busy with Liv's dance class she has first thing on Monday morning. She did great and is getting the routine down that she will be performing at Christmas time and also her big recital at UNT this next May. The week continued to be busy with everything from Liv's school to work and to shopping for Halloween decorations. This is Zoe after a day of shopping!

Then the really busy day...Friday...Halloween! But what a fun day it was! We ran a few errands that day and I actually got the girls down for a GOOD nap! A 2 hour nap! I was thrilled! Terry left the house early to go get the car set up at the church for Trunk or Treat. That left me to get both girls in their costumes and out the door in a timely fashion. It all went relatively smooth. Liv was a princess and Zoe was a bumble bee.

They were adorable and both had alot of fun! We got to the church about 6:15 and didn't get home til about 9:40. Here is a pic of the girls the morning after....looking a bit tired after a night of "trunk or treating"....

What a great night it was though..long....but awesome! Liv had more fun passing out the candy than she did walking around and getting it and Zoe had more fun eating it! Almost as fast as she got it! I just knew that she was going to be sick but she wasn't...just a little more hyper than normal! We saw lots of friends there! Liv was very excited to see Grace and Catherine! She loved seeing Maylee and of course her teacher, Ms. Kristina and Baby Benjamin! Zoe saw her teachers, Ms. Connie and Ms. Michelle and waved at them and didn't shed one tear! She loves them but is still going through the attachment stage so when she sees them she always assumes we are leaving her!

Anyways...we had a terrific Halloween and now I am totally excited that Christmas is near! That is my favorite time of year and I will soon have my tree and decorations put up!

Tagged!

Ok...So I got tagged by Anna. I am to post the picture that is the 6th picture in the 6th folder.
This is it! Sweet Zoe!
We have had a very busy day today. We have been shopping for baby gifts and picture frames. I got home with the baby gifts I needed but not enough frames. Oh well...always tomorrow!
Tomorrow is a big day for Liv. They are having the pumpkin patch and the train at her school tomorrow! She is so excited.
Hope everyone has a great night! Enjoy this awesome weather!

Ready for the Weekend

We have had such a busy day today! Me and the girls spent all morning cleaning the house. My mom is coming to spend tomorrow and Sunday with us so of course I have to welcome her with a clean house! It is times like this that I remind myself that if I just kept it clean all the time then I would not have to rush myself to get it cleaned up for company! After we finished cleaning, we picked Terry up at the office and met our friends Jennifer and Leigha for a yummy lunch at Baris! We started tackling our errands after lunch making several stops before finally getting home later this evening! The girls were exhausted and were asleep and in bed by 8pm! Now Terry is making pumpkin bread and I am relaxing on the couch! We are so ready for the weekend! Hope everyone has a great one!
By the way...we did finally find a blow-up yard decoration. I will post the pictures along with Liv's very first "school" pictures! So Cute!