Friday, December 29, 2006

playing with the presents
K's parents getting the digital camera that they almost had four of!
all playing with the moustaches that our nephew B got as a Christmas gift
S

K


our nephew B



Little K after he and K were playing dress up

K's sister S

K's little brother Little K



Rudolph nose!
Just because he's so cute!
This is how he sleeps!

Casey


Me and my Teddy



I'm sharing this one because I really like it, the way the flag is blowing in the wind and all, I just wish the sunset behind it would have shown up more like it was really. The colors were deeper, made for a prettier picture yet.

Thursday, December 28, 2006

Whew! We survived Christmas! I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas and survived all of the family fun, even if all of it wasn't so much "fun"!
My inlaws came for their annual visit. It was a bit shorter than normal since my sister in law was having a hard time getting time off of work, at Subway of all places! Now, I don't know if you all know or not, but my Mil and I don't always see eye to eye. We look at things from two very different vantage points, she is a perfectionist and things must be done at that moment......me, oh, it will get done...sooner or later, and if it's not perfect.....so what, let's just have fun doing it. Can ya see why we would have a problem there. Oh yeah, and have I mentioned how I take things to heart way to easily, some of her comments can really get to me at times. After almost ten years of marriage to her son I am learning to let some of those things slide a little more, she can still get under my skin, but I am learning to walk away and remember the blessings that I do have. In the infamous words of a good friend of mine, you don't have to be a doormat. You don't know how many times I was chanting that in my mind.
Anyway, I was greatly surprised this Christmas with some wonderful gifts and sweet, sweet gestures by friends. We were caroled to, received many hugs, had our first giving of our gifts to each other by ourselves, and had some wonderful visits with some great friends.
I have one gift that I was truly touched by this year, and I will treasure it always. I put it in a special place where I can see it every day and is hopefully safe and sheltered from the kids and flying toys. I was given an adorable Precious Moments figurine. K is groaning now thinking about this "starting something" but agrees that it was a very kind and thoughtful gift and is enjoying his gift as well! He was given a golf club, don't ask me specifics, I have been out to hit some balls all of one time, I'm sure not the last I will be going as I was also given my own set of clubs, but I am still learning.
I will post lots of pictures soon. I have a few that I can't wait to get printed to frame and put in my album. I will also have to take a couple pictures of some gifts to share with you all, there are a few that really touched me and almost brought me to tears. There were some wonderful memories to go right along with them, and I will write more about them soon as well. I fully realize this year just how blessed I truly am and I am very thankful for my blessings!

Tuesday, December 19, 2006



How to make a Heidi
Ingredients:

1 part competetiveness

1 part humour

3 parts joy
Method:
Layer ingredientes in a shot glass. Add fitness to taste! Do not overindulge!
HHelpful
EExquisite
IInspirational
DDignified
IIdeal

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Monday, December 18, 2006

O Heidi of wonder, Heidi of might,
Heidi of royal beauty bright.

We Three Kings Of Orient Are
from the Christmas Song Generator.

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Rudolph the red-nosed Stuck in the Seatbelt
Had a very shiny nose.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
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Wednesday, December 13, 2006

With everything going on around here lately I have been thinking alot. Thinking about being thankful for all the blessings that we have, thinking about the past, thinking about the future, just thinking.
One thing that I have realized about myself is that I have gotten used to friendship with conditions. I have gotten so used to people who would be my friend as long as I could do something for them and then after that they had no use for me, I find myself still doing those things to make sure I can keep their friendship and fearing that I have done something to offend them or make them upset with me if someone seems distant. I have also realized that I have been trying to "mainstream" myself to be more accepted as well rather than embracing my fun little quirks. The more I think about it the more I think that if they can't accept me as I am then they really aren't true friends. Now don't go thinking that I'm going to be going out and dramatically changing my personality or anything, just embracing the fun little quirks that make me me. Make any sense at all??
I'm tired of worrying about it all, I just want to relax and have fun with my friends. I know that I do have a few who are true blue friends, those who know the real me and who love me as I am too. I'm going to have fun, not too much fun, I still have my standards, but I'm not going to worry about what someone will think when I show up with bright blue nail polish (or chrome as I painted them this afternoon) or worry that my Disney tshirt is going to be too childish to someone, or wonder if someone will think that I'm truly strange because I can quote certain cartoons or sing almost any Veggie Tales song! I'm not going to try to back out of the piano recital coming up because I think it will look odd, me being the only adult in the group ( this teacher has other adult students, but none playing in the recital) I am just going to have fun with it! That's not saying I won't have a complete panic attack once I get up there, but that's another story!
Anyway, I guess what I am trying to say is I am going to be me and have fun doing it!
our decorated house






Mickey Mouse balls for Holli hehe
Miss A and her new boyfriend K

fun with cookie cutters baking Christmas cookies


K decorating





Torturing Teddy as we decorate the tree

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

We had a homey night tonight. After all the kiddos left and I got back from piano lessons K and I made chili and cinnamon rolls and baked some cookies. We watched some of the Grinch cartoon movie while we were cooking and eating and decided that tonight was the night to pull out the tree and decorate it. Up until last year we had always gotten a real tree, but we found such a good deal on an artificial at the Mart of Wally that we couldn't pass it up. Between last year and this year it has paid for itself compared to the price of a real one around here.
It was fun looking at the ornaments and remembering which Christmas we had gotten this one or that one. I got a few pictures to document the occasion as well. Oh and Holli, you really are a bad influence, K and I could hardly keep from laughing when we were talking about our Mickey Mouse balls that we were going to hang on the tree! I will post some pics for you tomorrow.
Must run for now, need to clean up after all the fun of decorating. Have a good night all!

Monday, December 11, 2006

What a day! I got a phone call around ten from PM telling me that we needed to get a prayer request out to the members of our church (we have an email and a phone list that we send out whenever prayer requests come up) telling everyone to pray for M, a friend of mine, who was in a serious car accident this morning. They were told that she has a spinal cord injury, I don't really know how serious yet, but she will be going into surgery tomorrow morning. Any prayers that you would say for her would be greatly appreciated. We are all thankful that she didn't have any of the kids in the car with her at the time, she has three young children, as it was quite a serious accident.
I really hope this ends soon....first K's grandfather died, then his uncle, and now this accident. I tell you it definately makes you thankful for what you have, and not focus on the material aspects of the season! I will definately be saying an extra prayer of thanks or two for all of the blessings that I have!
Other than that it was a bit of a slow day, I was down two kids because on had a nasty cold and cough and Dad stayed home with them rather than them spread it to all the other kiddos. Gotta love parents like that! I have to say that I have been pretty fortunate with this, only one of my daycre families tries to pull fast ones on me with sick kiddos, and now that I have explained to her that little C was a premie and had to be hospitalized due to difficulty breathing and he is more suseptible to things so I have to be even more careful with illness she has been a bit better.
Well, the laundry is calling so I had better go and get something done.....

Thursday, December 07, 2006

Two posts in two days, shocking I know! It is just me and the S boys today. Monster's great grandfather passed away on Tuesday and so she is gone for the rest of the week. I won't have any kiddos tomorrow! I have plenty to keep myself busy though. I have blankets to make for the kiddos Christmas gifts, quilting to do, Sunday School, house cleaning, laundry, phone calls to make, Christmas cards to make out, and gifts to wrap. Should be enough to keep me out of trouble!
I survived my Counsel Time last night. The kids were all amazed with my story bag, the Sparks were so cute, they kept saying, "How did you do that?!" There were even a few hands raised for salvation last night too! I was so excited, but so very, very glad to have it all finished and over with!
The Christmas store was a big hit too! The kids spent the shares that they had earned saying their verses and points from game time and after Awana was over the leaders could go shopping and pay a quarter a share! K and I got a few things for ourselves and a few gifts for others for Christmas as well! I think we had to have spent around 20 dollars! It was well worth it though, the storekeeper has gotten rid of some things that have been around for a while now and she has money to go and buy some new things for the store for next year. She always finds the neatest things too! Alot of the kids were buying gifts for their parents or siblings or gradparents and they had two tables of ladies who would wrap the gifts for them after they were finished shopping! I saw lots of huge grins when they were finished. So sweet.

Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Ugh I am finally feeling better! Last Wednesday after a long day in daycare and then a long night at Awana my tooth started to hurt. I didn't think too much of it as I do have a bad tooth there, it is broken, but I am waiting for L,T,&C's mom to finish up her schooling and graduate on the 15 before I make an appointment to get it fixed as this will free up my schedule a bit. Anyway....I figured it would hurt a bit and after putting some toothache gel on it and a bit of rest that night would be feeling better. Wrong. The next morning it not only felt worse, but my cheek, ear, and jaw hurt. It throbbed, I couldn't eat much at all, it hurt to swallow and talk. It woke me up early Friday morning and Friday was more of the same. Friday night I was awake multiple times during the night with terrible pain, bringing me to tears. I tried getting a dentist appointment on Saturday, but no one was around. Great, I thought, another night of no sleep. But, finally on Sunday when I woke up I was feeling a bit better, and each day since has been better bit by bit. I was talking to a friend of mine in choir practice on Sunday and she said that she thought I had tmj. I looked it up on the internet and I really do think that is what I had. Not fun, I am just thankful that I am feeling better today as I have a Counsel time to give tonight for Awana and I need to be practicing the song I am going to sing for the Christmas program at church!
In other news...we found out K's uncle died and he was supposed to leave Sunday morning to ride with his brother to go to the funeral on Monday and then home with his parents for a day and then drive back home with a different car today. Well, his brother called early Sunday morning and said that he wasn't going. We talked about it and he decided to drive down for the wake Sunday night and drive home afterwards (a good 3 and a half hour drive) and then he would have Monday off and possibly Tuesday, but instead of having today off he would just go back to work. It sounded great to me because I was not in any hurry to be spending those three and a half days or so with out him, especially not so soon after his trip to Ohio for his grandfather's funeral. He spent alot of his time home these last few days working on some honey do projects that he has been putting off for a while. He patched wall paper, put new contact paper in one of my kitchen cupboards, glued the wooden dining room chairs that were coming apart at the spindles, and fixed part of the kitchen cupboards that had been broken for a good six months! He told me that he was ready to go back to work today though, he couldn't take another day with my schedule, and he told me that he thinks I have a terrible job, all the wiping kids noses, behinds, dealing with attitudes! Now I don't think it's horrible, but I do like the fact that he sees that it's not all playtime and giggles around here. I think he did realize that before, but after yesterday he really sees it, and he can understand why some nights I am just ready to get out of here! It doesn't matter where we go, I am just glad to get out! Ok back from that rabbit trail, sheesh! Anyway, he took my cell phone with him when he went to the wake and he called me when he left and let me know when I could expect him home. He called me an hour and a half or so later to tell me that he would probably be later, that the highway he was on was blocked and there were lots of police cars and fire trucks and things, but that he was ok, he would just be a bit later because he would have to detour around. I turned the news on after I had gotten off the phone with him and saw that they were reporting on a terrible head on car accident there. I found out the next morning that someone had died as a result of this accident. We talked about how thankful that we were that he hadn't left any earlier so he wasn't involved in the accident. The Lord was definately watching over him that night, if he would have left just 20 minutes earlier.....
I am definately very thankful for my blessings this Christmas season!

Well, one kiddo awake and K is off to get me some more construction paper so I can make nametags for each leader in Awana, it's our Christmas store and the girls will wrap the gifts and they will get placed in bags with the child's name on them in a row designated for each leader. At the end of the night the teen helpers will be given a child's name and leader's name and they will go find their purchases and give them to the child just in time to take home, so I had better run so I can finish those and look over my Counsel time message one more time!

Friday, December 01, 2006







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