Crafts

My sister Courtney has always been my craft and baking buddy.  Earlier this year we were crafting all these baby shower items for our younger sister and my niece.  That was our last big craft its been 7 months and know that my sister has moved I haven't felt the craft bug!  I have been wanting to make Beckett a new pacifier clip but been putting it off.  Then I had a friends baby shower coming up and I decided to pull out the sewing machine.  I finally made B a new pacifier clip and I made my friend a few burp cloths for her first baby boy.  I even made a glitter pumpkin last week!  A few years ago I was in charger of the glitter pumpkin craft at a Craft day at our church.  I cant believe it took me three years to finally make my own.  I have a few more projects I want to do for Christmas, so it looks like my crafting bug is here to stay!

Soccer, throw up, and a birthday party!

This week as flown by for me, Cooper got the stomach bug and was out for nearly three days!  It was the first time he has ever caught the tummy bug, luckily no major messes he never missed the trash can!  Also my poor baby B was cutting his molars which finally pocked through, he was so clingy the last few days.  I am a bit behind on posting on the blog due to mommy duties.

This past weekend was super busy both kiddos had soccer games in the morning.  It also started out as a cool day it even misted at Cooper's game.  Last Saturday was also the Saint Ann's Fair which we haven't missed in 15 years!  In between the kids games we stopped to check it out and eat lunch.  Then it was off to Allison's game, poor thing is playing her heart out with a new team that is lacking in the talent department.  Then we were back at the fair!!  We always get the kids arm bracelets and they ride every ride over and over.  Plus we played several games at the Saint Ann's side and enjoyed funnel cake and fried snickers.  I was super bummed that I couldn't eat the corn with my darn braces!  Around two Beckett was getting pretty fussy and was ready for nap so he and I went home and Richard stayed with the big kids.  About an hour later I got a phone call from Richard saying that he and Allison got thrown up on!  Richard was letting Cooper play at the playground and he was teasing Allison about riding this fast adult ride as they were looking up, someone vomited and more than a dozen people were hit!  Poor Allison who had her hair french braided got it all in her hair.  They drove home using my in laws car and took showers and changed!  That was an experience we would like to forget!  We all went back to the fair to ride a few more rides.  My sister and her family were in town and the cousins had a blast riding rides together.  Beckett even rode his first ride at the fair!  Around 6 we left to go to our friends son's birthday party.  My friend Jessica went all out for a Lego themed party for her son Kaleb's 5th bday.  We all had such a blast.  The adults enjoyed the catered food by Cane d'Oro Pizza and the kids played a ton of games and loved the Lego man piñata!  It was definitely a day to remember.

A mother

Some days run together and remind me of the movie groundhogs day, but there are a few days that stand out.  Most of my days consist of waking kiddos up, feeding children, dressing children, finding shoes, getting everyone to school on time, entertaining a walking baby, feeding/changing/bathing/nap schedules, making lunches, washing clothes, making beds, cleaning the same thing over and over, dishes, sweeping, mopping, dusting, oh the toilets (BOYS), cleaning the tub, cleaning the yard, soccer practice, piano practice, where are the sheen guards, lost soccer ball, homework times two, and more sweeping!  Some days like yesterday I was at my kids school 4 times! We were picking up two of the kids friends after school, one kids mom had a Dr. apt and the others grandma was out of town.  Its so very easy to lose your identify and only be MOM!  It so easy to get caught in the constant making kids lunches for school, wash and lay out there clothes, drop off/pick up.  Especially the baby (I refuse to call him my toddler) he needs me constantly, or he can very easily get him self into trouble.  Yesterday was one of those days where I believe life reminds you hey its all for something!  That morning was a little rough, I was getting on to Cooper for the hundredth time about something.  We were in the drop off line and he looked up at me with his big blue eyes with tears filling up.  He told me he loved me and shut the door to go to school.  I felt terrible all morning and thought what a trivial thing I was mad at him about and decided to surprise both kids for lunch.  Both the kids lunches are thirty minutes apart from each other.  Cooper was of course surprised to see me, I brought him a sprinkle donut which he devoured.  he kept putting his arms around me hugging me.  I told him I was sorry for getting on to him earlier, he kissed me on the check.  After lunch was over he went to line up and I hugged him.  I watched him walk outside talking to his friends, he caught a glimpse of me out of the corner of his eye and ran back to hug me and whispered to me "Your the best mommy."  Then Allison's class came in and she saw me, we sat down and chatted for a minute.  When we were about to leave she was talking to Beckett and he was reaching for her and she gave him a hug and he didn't want to let her go.  As we left Beckett kept waving good bye to Allison.  Some times life slows down just enough for you to see the little things.  The love between siblings, or the thoughtful words from one of your children.  I am so thankful to be my children's mother. I don't have a job where I clock in every morning, answer to a boss, or can call in sick.  My job is 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a year forever.  I wouldn't change a thing about my life, I love my kids fiercely and am so thankful for the opportunity to stay home with them.  I am thankful for the tender mercies the Lord grants me.

Pinterest take 3, I think..

I love Pinterest, it gives me lots of ideas! Helps me plan birthday parties, baby showers, craft projects, baptisms, Halloween costumes, or helps me find the right pair of boots.  But I mainly use Pinterest for finding and making recipes!  I am pretty good about selecting recipes of food that number one I like and number two that I have the ingredients for already. I have yet to have a recipe flop, each thing I have tried is great!  I have added so many Pinterest recipes to my own book and are now regulars in my kitchen, gotta love Pinterest!

Another vistor!

On Sunday night my sister and her hubby stopped by for a visit!  As I have mentioned before on my blog my sister Jamie and her husband are leaving for her second assignment with Chevron to Kazakhstan on Wednesday.  Due to the laws in Kazakhstan and the amount of time they will be there they have decided to leave there two Yorkies with my mom in Fort Worth.  They drove down from San Ramon California and stopped in Midland to visit us and my brother in laws family on there way to my moms.  My sisters birthday was yesterday so we decided to make a lil celebration dinner for them.  Spending time with my sister was bittersweet!  I enjoyed are lil visit and will miss her while she is gone.  Although she will be flying back to the states for Christmas!

House update

Things have really moved along with the house as far as renovations go.  We are finally done with our first wave of renovations.  We pulled out all the carpet in our living room and hall way.  Lets say what a chore that was, whoever glued down that carpet had a ton of fun with the glue!  We had to scrap it off after we laid down this special chemical several times.  The fumes from that chemical were awful!  Then we ripped off all the terrible paneling in the living room and entry way and the base boards.  We are still slowly getting ride of all the trash we complied from the carpet to wood from the paneling!  After getting Lowes to put in the wood floors, tile in the bathroom, and knew base boards through out the house.  We hired someone to sand, texture, and paint the entire living room and entry way.  So glad that's over with, I absolutely hate the smell of paint.  We also decided we could paint the kitchen our selves, BIG MISTAKE!  Painting isn't hard its just time consuming and takes a lot of patience.  We didn't have either!  In between all the work going on in other parts of the house, a walking baby, and parenting it took us 5 days to finish painting!  On top of all this major stuff we bought a lot of knew furniture, its funny how nothing arrives at the same time or at a convenient time.  We have done a lot of little updates around the house like replacing light fixtures, power outlets/light outlets, kitchen cabinet knobs, and painting the mantel etc. We plan to update both bathrooms in the house, but with the holiday's around the corner we are going to wait until after the new year.  For now we just want to continue replacing all the light fixtures through out the home, and replace all the old doors in the house. I have a ton of before and after pictures but I wont post them on here until after we invite all our family and friends over for Richard's big birthday celebration!

My mom also came for a quick visit this past weekend.  She drove into town on Thursday and we got to work!  I cant remember the last time I had that much fun!  We shopped and decorated from Thursday up until the minute she left on Saturday afternoon.  I will never forget the time that we spent together.  We literally went from room to room decorating.  It was fun finally using more of our decorations that have been in storage since we've lived in Hobbs and of course knew stuff is fun too!  In between all the decorating and Richard working this weekend both kids had soccer games at the same time!   I am so thankful I had my mom and in laws to help balance the kids games.  I was very sad to see my mom leave but I enjoyed every second I spent with my mom.

Brand new!

Since the boys will be bunking together we of course had to update Cooper's furniture.  We officially have a bunk bed!  I looked for a long time to find the right type.  A lot of the latter's on bunk beds are movable and are not attached, that was a big negative in my book. The bunk bed came in while the kids were at school and Cooper came home and was shocked!  He loves the bunk bed and doesn't want to get out of it.  All weekend Cooper has asked me if he can have someone spend the night on his new bunk bed.  Did I mention Allison is a bit jealous and wants to know why she doesn't get a bunk bed.  I keep trying to explain to her she is lucky she doesn't have to share a room!  There is also someone else who likes the bunk bed, Mr B!  Beckett likes to bring all his toys and put them on the bottom bunk.  He also likes to crawl up on the bed and sit or lay on the bed.  Eventually Beckett and Cooper will share a room but we still feel like Beckett is still to young and unfortunately both boys are very light sleepers I worry about them waking each other.  We are thinking of moving Beckett in there after Xmas around the time when he is 18 months.