Paul's Stats!

Today was Paul's 4 month old checkup!! He is a healthy 17 lbs, 7 oz. and he is 26 inches long! Dr says he looks great! Paul got 3 shots today, but only cried for a second. When I picked him up, he was fine!


Well, I stayed up till about 1 last night ordering stuff for Chris' party. It's going to be fun! Chris grandparents and uncle are coming up from Florida and I just heard that they will be staying with us. That will be nice - Gracie hasn't had the chance to spend much time with them. Trying to figure out what we will have for the meals.. any suggestions? Typically I would make a lasagna for parties and such, but I'm just not in a lasagna making mood. We've also been eating mainly organic and it would cost a fortune to feed everyone at the party organic food.

I don't suppose I've mentioned that we're eating organic, huh? Let me just say that the food tastes a thousand times better than the regular stuff. Especially organic spighetti sauce! WOWSA! I am now back to my prepregnancy weight but I'm striving to still lose more and it's neat watching the pounds drop with no effort by just eating organic.

Gracie had a hard time at first getting used to more raw veggies but now she's doing fine. We're somewhat going by the book "Raw Food Detox Diet". Definately not strickly, but the basic idea. Seriously - organic food tastes SOOO much better. We haven't had to not eat sweets either - Kashi makes an AWESOME whole grain cookie! And you can have as much real dark chocolate as you want!

Anyways, it's working for us and we're loving it. It's been a lifestyle change.

Busy Week!

This is going to be one busy week! Today I have been doing lots of laundry. Tomorrow is Paul's 4 month old checkup. Then Wednesday is the playgroup's trip to the Yellow River Game Ranch since we got rained out last week. Then Saturday, we are taking the dogs to my moms and Sunday I leave for my trip with the kids and Chris goes to EVOC training. I'm really going to miss him. But very much looking forward to my trip and spending time with my sister-n-law and my nephew. Well, it's a gorgeous day - time to take the kids out to play! No jackets needed!

Such a Big Boy!

Paul is eating cereal now! He's doing sooo well with it!

Weekend Weariness!

After a long, exhausting day... it is done... I've found the dress to wear to Chris' graduation. Would you believe how HARD that was? Everywhere I went had these awful looking dresses with giant polkadots and weird squares and shapes on them. Totally NOT ME. And they were EVERYWHERE! Not a store that didnt have one! All I wanted was a simple BLACK dress with not weird things on it... IMPOSSIBLE! Finally after searching through the ENTIRE MALL OF GEORGIA ALL DAY LONG, I found it... at Target! LOL!

So glad that Chris is going to graduate soon - I'm soooo proud of him! However, there are the side effects that come with his job. For example.... Friday night, we are minding our own business going grocery shopping at Kroger. These two tall trouble-maker looking guys walk by. I asked Chris if he knew them. He says that he didn't think so. A couple minutes, they walk back by, whispering to each other. Then I looked at Chris' face and could definately tell they knew him. They walk a few more feet away, turn around and say our last name. There is nothing worse than having inmates know Chris in public, and even worse when they try to talk to him. For obvious reasons, it always makes Chris absolutely livid, especially when the kids and I are around. You would think that they would have better things to do than to try to talk to him. It's so uncomfortable. Let's just say that we took about a 10-20 minute detour on the way back to the house to make sure that no one was following us. Chris and I actually have a code word that basically means grab the kids and get the heck out of wherever we're at. Most of the time we're able to duck away before any of them recognize him.

Hope everyone has a GREAT weekend!

BEAUTIFUL DAY!

What a GORGEOUS day today has been!! The kids and I played outside for a while! Paul got to sit for the first time in the baby swing on Gracie's swingset. He loved it!! Gracie was being so silly outside. Must be all the fresh air! Today has been a GREAT day! The kids have behaved well, Chris just called and he's already done with school for the day (an hour and a half early!!!), and everything is just going great! SOOOO glad spring is almost here! Off to pick up a few things and vaccuum before Chris gets home :-)

Happy 4 Months PAUL!

Would you believe that my little man is 4 months today? WOW!!! Here's a few pics of the kids taken this morning in FABULOUS sets by Rachel of Nikki Knits. If you ever need any fantastic lounge sets, bling shirts, or family matching, be sure to check out her site! Not to mention how sweet Rach is!

And Paul can sit for a little while now!

I'm so happy to be a mommy to those 2 kiddos. I truly have been blessed. It's so awesome to see them play together too!

Well, Gracie just went and picked out new sheets for her bed last night since she's sleeping in the bottom of the bunkbed now - would you believe she picked PURPLE sheets that had a SILKY Comforter? They are soooo neat! I think I want to sleep in her bed! I'll have to take a pic later. The kids are now sharing a room so we can have my background, sewing, crocheting, and chris' workout thingie in the other room. Well, they aren't really sharing a room yet since Paul still sleeps in the playpen in our room. Their is also a guest bed in the extra bedroom now.

Hope you all have a great day!

New Paul Pics!

It's been a while since I posted my little man. He'll be 4 months on Thursday! Can you believe it??

He's filled to the brim with personality and loves to voice his opinion.

I hope everyone had a nice weekend. Chris actually got the whole weekend off. We did some grocery shopping yesterday and spent today just the 4 of us at home. This week should be fun - we're going to the Yellow River Game Ranch on Wednesday! It's supposed to be close to 70 degrees! WOO HOO!

Well... I'm not so disspointed with my upcoming birthday now! It was just going to be me and the kids. My sister in law and I have decided to go down to Pine Mountain to see the Wild Animal Safari and also to check out callaway gardens. We are going to stay in a 2 room cabin! So excited about that! No men allowed! Just us and the 3 kids - Gracie, Paul, and Bo.

I finished the cupcake purse! It turned out cute! This one is Gracie's but I'll be listing one like it soon!

TGIF!!!

What a long week this has been! Thank goodness it's Friday! I got some new things listed last night - some of my favorite things!

I also listed a shrug and another purse. You can CLICK HERE to view the rest of my items! My strawberry purse is FEATURED on an awesome site called Designer's Notion. Neato!

A Great BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my sister-in-law DEBORAH who turns 16 today!!

I hope everyone has a nice weekend - my hubby is actually NOT working this weekend! WOO HOO!

Happy Valentine's Day! (LATE)

Hope everyone had a great day filled with Love! I had a nice day - the kids and I went and had lunch with Chris and then we all went to dinner at Chuck E Cheese (HOW ROMANTiC! LOL!) last night. Had some pizza and played games. We had fun though! I impressed some cute guys! LOL! But that's a story for another day ;-) I was definately correct that Chris wouldn't get me anything. Good think I didn't expect anything. I did give him a dvd that he wanted and some of those Nasty candy hearts. Blah! I can't stand them but he likes them. I gave Gracie some candy hearts too. Grandma Brooks gave Gracie a little red stuffed pony. She loves it!


I've got a big debut launch for my group - Oasis Boutique today! You can view our stuff by clicking HERE. I should have my new stuff up this evening. I've got a cute shrug, and a toddler bag. I am working on another bag but it might not be ready to list until tomorrow. Here's a sneak peak!

How True!

How true is this saying:

"No good deed ever goes unpunished".

It's as true as true can get.

Well I got tagged!

I got tagged by Beki so I have to post 5 things about myself that I've never posted... here goes...

1. I can't find my crochet hooks... they are burried somewhere in the chaos in the kitchen.

2. I am so ready for spring.

3. I hate wearing shoes. Much rather be barefoot or have sandels

4. I hate being stuck in the house - Chris got rid of his car about a year and a half ago and we just have the durango. I am stuck in the house with the kids all day whenever he's at work. I am just about to LOSE MY MIND... I'm not a "homebody". I like to take the kids to the park, library, and wherever... but NO I'm stuck. It wasn't that bad when he's on his regular shift at the jail but since he's been in the police academy, being stuck in the house 5 days in a row is awful.

5. I am very grouchy today....

Soooo... I'm tagging Chris' little sisters Deborah and Lois because they are the only other ones besides Beki that I know has a blog!

Who all is reading this? Anyone? Anyone out there?

Too tired.... too sore...

carpet is in... everything in the house was in the kitchen... me... sore...

Blah!

Nothing too exciting to report - Chris is still doing very well in the Police Academy. I'm starting to plan his graduation party. His Grandma in New York is coming down and his Grandfather in Florida is coming up! So that's really exciting!

I can't wait for the carpet to be installed! It's exciting because while I'm getting everything ready to be moved, I'm decluttering as well! We got rid of a nice bag of stuff while Gracie was at Grandma's. She hasn't noticed anything missing yet! WOO HOO!

Been crocheting up a storm. Got a couple new things that I hope to list tonight. We'll see how they go!

Have you done your taxes yet? We haven't. Still waiting for Chris to have a moment to sit down with me and see if we have everything here so I can go ahead and get them done! The quicker we get them in, the quicker our return will get here. Isn't it great having kids ;-) Nice returns! I actually saw a Onesie in Target for a baby that says "TAX RETURN". Rather humerous, huh?

Well, It's that time of year - Valentine's Day. I've never been big on Valentine's Day, but then my parents weren't early. We're just happy to have a nice dinner and get the kids in bed early. No romantic dinner or outing needed! Do I think Chris will get me something for Valentine's Day? Probably not. Am I upset? Nope - I don't need flowers - they just die. Chocolate? Well... that's always nice. I prefer DARK Chocolate. Jewelry? I just lose it! LOL.... I lost my wedding ring - I'm hoping to maybe find it when we move some of the big furniture for the carpet. I took it off because my hands were swelling toward the end of the pregnancy with Paul and I can't find it anywhere. I found my MOM ring that Gracie and Chris bought me. I found my engagement ring. But no wedding ring. We've been going to some jewelry stores looking for another ring - (Chris wants to go a bit bigger than my other one). When we have both kids with us, they will come up and ask if they can help - we say we're looking for a wedding ring. You should see some of the looks we get - Wedding Ring? You have 2 Kids and you're not married? I saw one that I really liked and the lady says to me "No, you don't want that one - that's more of an anniversary wedding ring for when you've been married a while". I say "We've been married 5 years in March! I just lost my other one!" Good grief. Then she kept trying to talk me into ones where the diamonds all stuck out far. I scratch the kids enough with my MOM ring and my engagement ring without having a big fat diamond stuck out there too! I tried on this one that was really expensive (several grand) and I was like WOOAH... too much BLING for me! Make someone go blind! Sooo... I'm more of simple when it comes to jewelry. I only like white gold, with small amount of diamonds. Maybe we'll find the perfect ring soon so I can be "Married" again! Till then, I live the single life! LOL! NOT!

Crazy Week!

This is going to be one crazy week! I had a nice long weekend - Chris and I went out Saturday night without both kids! They stayed with my mom. We went to dinner and did some shopping. Then we picked Paul up and went home and Gracie spent the night with Grandma. Monday, Gracie had a dentist appointment - everything looks great!

Now this week, I'm clearing off shelfs and getting ready for our carpet to be installed on Saturday! This should be interesting... trying to get everything off the carpeted areas and keep the kids out of their way - pray for no rain!!

Lookie at what I just created! I love it!

Got a couple orders for those already! WOO HOO!

Have a great rest of the week!

Pics!

Gracie in My_Angel_Sophie

Gracie in Painted*With*Ez

Gracie in a hat I made to test a pattern by Jaybird*Designs

Browsing Ebay... a dangerous thing... LOL

Well, I've been browsing ebay again... so dangerous!!! LOL


I think I've found the PERFECT Easter Dress for Gracie!! Whatcha think? DRESS

Just don't outbid me! I hope it stays within the price range that Chris has given me!! I showed it to him as well and he LOVED it! I haven't been so in love with an outfit like this in forever!!


Well, I'm officially a pattern tester! LOL! I am testing a pattern for a crochet friend - I believe she's going to try to get the pattern listed on YOUCANMAKETHIS.com. The pattern is for a cute hat- I'm just about finished with it, then I have to tell her what I think of that pattern and send a pic of what I made.

Today we have some slushy ice on the group and it's sleeting. No snow unfortunately. Chris had to go to the police academy this morning although all the counties have no school for today. He said that the roads were slippery but not too bad. Today is his last day to practice shooting before his test tomorrow on the range.

Have a great day!