My afternoon

After working this morning, I had a big agenda to get ready for the "HUGE snow storm" here in Arkansas! So I was thrilled to find my baby like this at Kristin's, well rested and hopefully up for errands instead of her usual afternoon nap!

First, we visited my friend Jennifer to chop Miss M's hair! And by chop, I mean 8+ inches!

Isn't it darling? Look at my BIG 5 year old!!!
Then we went to Wally World to stock up on the essentials for the snowstorm!

bread? check!

milk? check!

string cheese? check!

oreo brownies? check!

Birthday girl and boy

Our day started off well. M had pretty crimped hair for school!

Grandma and Lu and I surprised Miss M at school with cupcakes!

I think her friends enjoyed them!!

That night we had an easy, fun dinner, more cupcakes and presents!

The next night, Daddy showed his girls how to break in the new PS3.
I love this picture. I love spontaneous snuggling!

taste the rainbow

I didn't want to make another princess cake. I thought it was time to branch out! Trying to depart from the land of princesses, I showed Miss M a rainbow cake and she loved it!

So, this morning at 7am, I was dying six layers of white cake to make a rainbow.

Lest anyone think W finally realized that he didn't need his own cake, the delicious german chocolate just for my hubby!

I love how it turned out!

And the layers were so pretty!!!

(we still had pink frosting, of course!)

I love how it turned out!

It took much more frosting than I expected! In fact, at the end, everyone had to stop me from adding more to smooth out the sides a bit!

It was TALL!

but darling!

Elephants!

I have elephants on the brain. We just got our February assignment for 12 Squared.

Elephants

I'm having fun with all the ideas out there! Particularly this one. Except I'm going to smooth out Mama's head and make her a bit less masculine, I think.

A fun project for a snowy night!

Happy Birthday to my Groundhogs!

I can't believe she's five!

Five years ago, I was snuggling the most tranquil, beautiful newborn I had ever seen!

Don't believe me?

See? She was a beautiful baby with dark hair.
I told you!

What an amazing, hair-raising, joyous, stressful, wonderful journey this girl has put us on!

After being the easiest baby EVER!!! a very spunky, opinionated PRINCESS emerged and it's been a wild ride ever since! One that I wouldn't trade and will not forget!

This girl loves:

*PINK

*princesses

*dancing

*twirly skirts

*chicken nuggets and ketchup, cake, oranges, pizza, peanut butter, noodles with "karma-john" cheese

*coloring

*being in charge

*talking, talking, talking!!

*making her bed

*taking care of her "babies"

*movies

*BLING!

*dressing up

*books

*snuggles

*fuzzy blankets

*letting her hair down...literally!

I love you, my firstborn girl!

But let's not forget her birthday twin!

Did you know that W has looked the same his ENTIRE life???

See? I told you!
And to his parents, yes, he FINALLY got his UALR hat!

Happy birthday to my wonderful man! I'm so thankful to be on this crazy journey with you!

And not to leave him out! He loves:

-steak

-potatoes

-sub sandwiches

-COLLEGE football

-and hockey, and baseball and golf

-playing golf, football, baseball and hockey :)

-cars

-finance

-eating out

-politics

-Republicans :), and the poor guy's stuck with me! I keep telling him, we don't have to vote because we just cancel each other out!

-romantic comedy movies! I married a guy who would rather watch a chick flick than an action movie!

-John Grisham books

-the Beatles

-Cream... the band

-german chocolate cake

-Diet Coke with fresh squeezed lime

I am thankful for these crazies who make my life wonderful! Happy Birthday Miss M and my W!

My flutist

Miss M and I went with my parents to the all-region band concert last weekend.

My brother Sam was first chair trombone in the second band and they were AWESOME!

Miss M was wiggly but quiet most of the time, but once she got into the music, she wanted to join right in!

Goal Setting: February

January 2011 Goals Revisited

1. Keep monthly goals to keep better track, keep it realistic, and keep after myself! here we are! good start!

2. Throw out 111 things in 1/11! My cousin is doing it and I NEED to do it! Done! The bags are still in my entry, but it's getting there!

3. Read a new book. Done! Read Insatiable by Meg Cabot.

4. Re-cover glider. I put this on hold until our new arrivals come to ensure a good match-I got worried that the fabric ear marked for this project with clash-ironic since the new arrivals are supposed to be "neutral"! :)

5. Cook dinner 4 nights/week. yeah, i got sick. but then we got our credit card bill so this will be reinstated for this month because we need to be good! :)

6. Exercise 2x/week. (we're keepin' it real here, folks!) walking counts, right? i told my doctor yesterday that i'm walking, now i just need to walk longer or faster to get more cardio in!

7. Donate fabric I will never use. in the bags in the hall with the 111 other things! ready to go!

8. Smile more. i think i did? more on this later!

9. Fix my bedskirt. totally forgot about this!

10. Buy storage filing boxes for papers. done!

hmmm.... 4/10 with three partially done. Well hmmm. Here's to February!

1. Read from the Book of Mormon EVERYday.

2. Pray EVERY morning.

3. Actually take my donations to Savers/GoodWill.

4. Cook 3x/week but only eat out 1x/week. (leftovers and thank heavens for Tobler Sunday dinners!)

5. Make the darn stockings!

6. Assemble pinwheel quilt-depending on when the last pieces arrive!

7. Smile more!

8. Actually do something with the filing box! :) Step one: purge unnecessary papers. Shred City here we come! W, take a deep breath!

9. Fix my bedskirt and brainstorm what I want my bed to really look like while I do it!

10. Walk 3x/week at a good cardio pace.