a thankful interview

Here is a quick interview I did with Lila. 

Completely verbatim. 

Pretty cute if I do say...

What I was thinking and not saying aloud is in italics.

Oh and by the way, this is my 400th post.  Woot Woot!!

 

ME: what is your full name?

LILA: Lila McAulay E I D B 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 17 AND 18. Ok then!

M: How old are you?

L: uh...3.  Said "SWEE". 

M: What is Thanksgiving?

L: When you make turkeys.

M: What is your favorite thing about being a big sister?
L: Helping get Blake in his jammies and helping him eat his lunch all gone. She likes to eat his snacks...

M: What is your favorite thing to eat?
L: Dino chicken nuggets.  Oh and I like apples too!

M: Do you like preschool?
L: Yep, its beautiful. Odd choice of words.

M: What is your favorite thing to watch on TV?
L: Charlie and Lola!! Surprise surprise.

M: And your favorite thing to do?
L: Go to the park and throw the stick for Rusty with Daddy.

M: What is your favorite color?
L: Purple and orange. I like it!

M: Who is your best friend?
L: Fallon. What? Not me? Sniff sniff...

M: How much do you love me?

L: This much!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!

Baby it's cold outside!

Lila is hoping for some snow to play in.

wordless wednesday {back in '84}

my mother and i

one of the greatest people to ever grace this earth, my aunt, and i

my mom, dad and i

I know this isn't wordless per say but whatever...you will just have to deal. ;)


I had to share these old photos.
I love these pictures. 
My parents divorced oh so long ago so its such a trip to see pictures of all of us together. 
Its so wonderful to see old pictures...

Thanks Kim for sending these to me! 

words

Blake has been saying a few words lately. He says them here and there. Its pretty stinkin cute.

•NO. He says this whiny and cute like. "nnnnoooooohhhhh". Yeah, kinda like that.
•MOMMA. More like "mmmooooaaammmmaaa".
•DADDA. "Daddddaaaaaa". It's cute.
•NIGH NIGHT. Every night he repeats "nigh night" when I tell him its time for bed. I think my sister taught him how to say this. Its adorable because he says it when he truly wants to go to sleep!

Happy Monday!!

the up and coming holidays and all that crap part 2

Who knows what they are going to get their kids this year for Christmas?


Not I, said the fly.
I have no clue what I am going to get.
Well at least my 3 year old is hard.
My baby boy will love balls and trucks.
Easy peasy.
But Lila, she wants EVERYTHING.
Its all the little silly stuff that will just end up in her closet along with everything else she doesn't play with.
What is a fabulous toy she could ask Santa for that I will be happy with too?

She was talking about wanting a Baby Alive doll.
One that walks and talks.
Really?!
I don't need one of those walking around the house.
I already have a baby crawling everywhere!

the up and coming holidays and all that crap part 1

I am going out on a limb here but I am sure more then half of you agree with me.
I wish Christmas wasn't just a little over a month away.
I am not even close to being ready.
It seems like every year something comes up financially to make it even harder.
That speeding ticket and our bathroom construction hasn't helped the situation at all.
Oh and the speeding ticket isn't mine. Promise.
What bathroom construction you ask?
Well let me tell ya.
Our toilet was leaking slowly for the past few weeks (maybe even longer, who knows) and ended up molding our sub flooring.
Yes, it is as gross as it sounds.
But Super Hubs to the rescue and its almost as good as new.
Almost meaning he still has a few things to finish so its still a chaotic mess in there.
And yes, its our only bathroom in our house. Gah.

So needless to say I am freaking out a bit.

say cheese!

Some cute bloopers from our photo shoot of the kids

at my dads house last Monday.

  We got quite a few good ones but those are for the holiday photos and cards.

You know, hush hush stuff.

 

These are the silly ones that I love.

enjoy

i love their smiling faces here. 
can't tell they are related, can ya!? ha!

eating leaves and goofing off

delicious leaves

not a happy camper

silly kids

Oh yeah...

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hold the phone...

My little man has officially turned 9 months old.  WHAT?! Its so hard to believe.  It feels like I was always waiting for my first to start walking, talking and I was always encouraging her to get older.  But with my little baby...now its a totally different story.  I want him to stay little and baby-ish forever!  I don't know if its because I am 90% sure that he will be our last baby or if its because I just don't have time for him to become a toddler.  Its kind of freaking me out though.  I miss his baby smell and I miss being able to rock him to sleep!  He now pushes me away when he doesn't want to be held and he crawls and gets into everything.  Don't get me wrong...I am so proud he has reached these milestones but it makes me sad all at the same time. 

Here is a list of fun things he does:

• crawls.  fast.

• suffers from a slight case of separation anxiety
• points to everything and does the peace sign a lot too.

• likes to make you laugh by making funny faces

• has 2 teeth on the bottom and just cut one on the top right.  I see the top left about ready to pop thru as well.

• eats a lot.  his favorites right now are cheese and green beans.  oh and cheerios.
• his favorite place to play?  his sisters room.  thankfully she LOVES to have him play in there. 

• down to 2 naps a day.  and sleeps 11-12 hours at night.  its wonderful!

• LOVES LOVES LOVES balls.  he can actually throw it to you too. 

• is drawn like a magnet to the dang cat food.  why must kids like it so much?!
• enjoys swinging at the park

• claps and bounces up and down when music plays. its so cute.
• tries to climb onto everything. and about 30% of the time it ends disastrously.
• always has to be next to his sister

blake

Words can express how much we love you.  Your so much fun to have around and your just too handsome!  When you look at me with your beautiful brown eyes my heart melts.  Happy 9 months old Little Man.  Were so proud to call you our son!

xoxo
mom and dad

just a minute for 5 years...

5 years ago, I married the love of my life.

I can't believe we have hit this milestone already!
We have come so far yet I can't wait to see what another 5 years brings us.
Happy Anniversary Mikey!

I never thought I could love you more today then I did back then.
But I do :)

sick and tired

I am sick and tired.  Not really sick but just sick of being tired, stressed and exhausted!
I woke up this morning with hives.  I mean WTF?!

Stress has been getting to me.  I feel like I am always doing something and I don't have much time to relax and when I do get a few hours I always have a killer headache and end up being miserable.  I am thinking about cutting down on the coffee to maybe a cup or two a week instead of daily.  I know that I need to drink more h2o and that being dehydrated doesn't help with my headaches.
After talking to my doctor about it she told me to start taking B12.  Supposedly its a natural stress reliever.  She made a point to tell me that if it doesn't help to come back in a month and we can talk about other ways to help.  I don't know if I want to start taking medication.  It would be a first for me and it just makes me nervous.  My anxiety levels are crazy and I just feel (I hate to say it) depressed a lot of the time.  Between all my money worries, the dang house, the up and coming holidays and the kids I can't seem to catch a break.  Can anyone relate? 

I am taking a huge leap putting this all out here...please don't bash.  Thank you. 

holiday cards from shutterfly

I totally waited till the last minute to order my holiday cards last year.  I wasn't 100% happy with the picture I chose of Lila and well the whole over all experience wasn't the best.  This year I decided I would order my holiday cards thru shutterfly. 

I started looking thru all the cards a few weeks ago and I love so many of them! 

These are my favorites. 

Isn't this one of the cutest cards!?

I am such a sucker for monograms!

I love the classic-ness of this one. 

There are hundreds of photo cards to choose from.  Check this link out to see some that you might like!

Its so simple to make these cards yours.  Upload your photos here and then choose your custom design.  easy peasy lemon squeezy!

Its going to be so hard to choose one photo card to send out this year.  Now all I need to do is get some cute pictures of the family taken! 

Now go here to order some for your family and friends!

Calling all bloggers! You can receive 50 free greeting cards from Shutterfly! Click here 

flutter flutter and roar

give me some candy...please :)

crawling dino!

come on sissy, share!

mom, she isnt sharing...

happy halloween!