Busy, but I didn't know it!

At the beginning of the week we had planned to have a low key kind of week.  Just stay around the house and maybe a trip to the grocery store but that was about all we had planned.  Little did I know that we would be super busy this week. 

I was able to be at home Monday during the day and tackle a mountainous pile of laundry that had been daunting me for a week or so but that is about all I have accomplished for the week.  Monday night we went to watch our old highschool basketball team in the area tournament finals, they lost, but it was a good game and they still get to move on to the next round.  Tuesday was a busy day full of errands to walmart, the grocery store (there are some things, like meat products, that I don't buy at walmart).

Today we have been out running errands and now I am at home fixing food for a funeral and I have to be at the church by 1 to help get everything ready for the meal for the family and then our church cooks meals on Wed. night for people and I will have to stay up there to help with that then have our regular Wed. night bible study.  So we won't be home until about 8:30.

Tomorrow we don't have anything planned and maybe it will stay that way. 

Friday night we are going to a dinner/fundraiser for the Child Advocacy Center, Saturday night we have a birthday party that Kylie was invited to.  Sunday we have church and ANOTHER birthday party, and somewhere in there I will try to tell Kyle that I love him since it will be Valentines Day! :)

Whew....

Next week doesn't get any slower considering my mom's birthday is Monday and my Father in laws birthday is Tuesday. 

By the way I have some super cute pictures of Kylie and her friend Halle at the basketball games that I will post as soon as I find my cord that connects my camera to my computer! :)

Friends for life

While this topic may sound sentimental I am referring to how close you need to be to someone before you play the games that we played on Saturday night with some of our very good friends the Eckleys and the Mobleys.  We first humiliated ourselved with a dancing game on the wii called just dance.  It is basically a dance competition between all of the players and you are scored.  I wish I had video to show you Kyle and Brandon dancing...lets just say that rythm is not there thing.  After they played they watched Jessica, Emily and I dance to MC Hammer and Brandon says "wow, you are all together" I then had to inform him it was called "rythm" and that it's probably not a good idea to dance without it. :) 

Then we played the MOST RANDOM GAME EVER called Quelf.  It is impossible to explain this game but we had to do random things like wear a mask through an entire round, sit under the table, stay in the bathroom until someone finally comes to check on you.  Me, I didn't have to do any of these things, but I kept getting rule cards.  Every time someone said my name I had to make a W on my forehead and say whatever, I had to make the sound of a pickle "squish, squish" every time I moved my gamepiece, and I had to yell at every game piece like a drill sargeant whenever anyone moved their piece.  I recommend this game under two circumstances...1. play when you don't have your kids with you (we spent a lot of time chasing kids around) and 2.  only play with people that you are comfortable being embarrassed in front of. 

We had a great night and I am so glad that our friends got to come visit us in the booming metropolis of Rainsville!  We can't wait to do it again!

Ice Cream!

On Sunday we went and ate at a Mexican place after church with my mom and dad.  They give kids free ice cream after the meal.  Kaitlyn always gets an ice cream, on Sunday Kylie wanted one too so we decided to let her have one.  They fixed her a little cone with sprinkles and the tiniest bit of chocolate syrup.  She LOVED it!  Suprisingly, she actually stayed fairly clean considering it was her first ice cream cone that I let her hold all by herself. 

Speaking of church, on Sunday night we had a very convicting sermon for me.  It was talking about being the salt of the world.  I got to thinking about it, and the characteristic of salt is that it spreads easily and gives things flavor.  I want to be better salt...If we are truly children of God then we should have a desire to be just like salt and spread His word everywhere.  I think we as Christians all need to remember to be SALT!

This is a picture of Kylie eating her ice cream. 

All I had to take a picture with was my cell phone

so it's not very clear but it is super cute!

Go Rams Go!!!

We had a full but great weekend. On Friday night we went and ate at a BBQ place that has the best ribs and after that we went to some of our friends house. Candace has been my best friend since we were in kindergarten and I have known her husband for years. They have a little girl that is 3 weeks younder than Kylie. It is so amazing how the Lord works because we had no idea that two girls who have been basically inseperable their whole lives would have two little girls only three weeks apart! It makes me wonder what they will be like when they get older, will they want to spend every minute with each other the way that we did? I think about all of the fun and silly times we had together as kids and I can't wait for our girls to get to experience that.

Saturday night we went to watch our high school basketball teams. For my friends in Huntsville just go ahead and take a big laugh because yes...this is a big night out here in the "sticks." Anyway, our B-team boys and Varsity boys had both made it to the finals in the county tournament so we decided to go watch. It was lots of fun to watch especially since BOTH teams won. GO RAMS! While we were there the school secretary came and brought me and Kyle some old pictures that a photographer had, from several years ago, of me in my cheerleading uniform and Kyle his freshman year in his football jersey. It is funny (and kind of sad) to see what 10 years will do to you. I had to put the pictures away because they were making me depressed, all I could think about was how thin I used to be! Anyway, we had a great time and Kylie did too. We had to go beside the bleachers and let her play a little bit, but considering we were there from 5 til 10 that night I would say she did great! Here are our blast from the past pictures and Kylie in her Rams cheerleading uniform (thanks Eryn for letting us use Kate's hand-me-downs).

Dance Fever

Today we just ran some errands and hung out at nana's house.  After that, we went to pick up Kaitlyn (Kylie's cousin) from school.  When Kylie was just learning to walk Kaitlyn taught her to dance.  She could dance better than she could walk for a long time.  At first it was just sort of a bounce and then she learned to swing her hips and now she shouts "get down" and starts dancing almost any time she hears music.  She has also added marching, spinning in circles and jumping to this thing she calls dancing.

Kylie loves to shake her booty and it is hilarious to watch!  Here are a few snap shots of her and Kaitlyn shaking their booties this afternoon in Kylie's room.

Mommy, Daddy, Toys

Kylie is at the age where she seems to be learning or discovering new things every day.  She loves to talk up a storm.  Most of the time it is gibberish coming out of her mouth but she looks at us like we should know exactly what she says.  She is saying all kinds of words and trying to make sentences.  Her biggest "sentence" so far is "Mommy, Daddy, Toys."  This means that she wants us to come to her room and play with her toys.  She is also very good at saying Please which sounds more like Pea's.

Another thing that she is doing is when we sit down to dinner we tell her it is time for the prayer and she grabs our hands (we hold hands when we pray) and bows her head.  The only hang up is that if Kyle's pray last very long then she starts saying Amen before he finishes.  She normally says Amen about 3 times during his prayer.  She sat in church with us this morning and she "Amened" my dad (our pastor) twice! 

Re-trying

Ok, it has been six months since I have blogged and I was going to delete the blog and just give up. When Kylie was younger I struggled with what to write about and I just thought it was boring. I have been reading several blogs lately and I really look forward to reading them every couple of days so I decided to give this another shot before I declare myself a total failure at blogging. My goal is to update at least 2-3 times a week. We will see how it goes!