Relaxation and some other randomness

This is for you Paige!  If anyone remember's when Kase was a baby, you remember "Big Cody"  This is Big Cody's replacement (since the original got thrown in the fire), and Tara loves him just as much as he did.

Is it bad that we have been back in our house for almost 2 weeks, and I STILL don't have everything put back up?  I need to replace pictures, which means order new pictures, so I'm waiting on that.  As for a ton of other things, well, I just don't wanna.  I guess I'm just lazy.....or tired.  Not sure which.  I think I'm just going crazy.  I know my posts have been a little weird lately.  I'm just in a funk, and I don't know why, and I can't get out of it.  But sometimes don't you just need to RELAX!?!?!?!  People tell me to slow down.  When I slow down I get in trouble for doing nothing.  When I don't slow down, I get in trouble for doing too much.  I want to know where that super power is that mom's are supposed to have, because apparantly they forgot to give me that when Kase was born!  I know that I'm just rambling, so I'll stop now. 

Maybe this is why I'm tired???

Two cups at once are always a must.  Milk in one and water in the other.  O yeah, she's standing on our new couch.  Maybe I'll post a picture of the whole thing....later.

I'll end with this, because I just can't get enough of those pigtails!

Perfection - It's The Little Things

Let's go backwards a week shall we?  I'm making a really short story really long here, so read if you want, or you can just ignore me.  Either way is fine really, I'm used to being ignored!  So here we go.  Last Saturday, Robert and I decided we needed a new couch.  I guess we needed something to go with our freshly painted ceilings!  Ha  Who knows, but whatever gave us the idea, we decided to go with it.  So off to Abilene we went, all 5 of us.  If you know us, you know this NEVER happens.  We very rarely go anywhere together as a family.  After hitting up several furniture stores with our perfect children, we decided since it was almost 2:00 we should probably feed them.  Robert wanted to go to Red Lobster.  Me, not so much.  If you know me, you also know that I am severely allergic to shellfish.  BUT, being the awesome wife that I am (enter a little sarcasm here) I decided that maybe if we went it might not kill me......this time.  So as always, I gave in and off to Red Lobster we went.  Kase was excited, he loves fish.  Koy was not.  I'm doing good to get him to eat mac-n-cheese!  Tara, well Tara isn't much fun to take anywhere to eat these days.  She's at that "I want to do it myself" stage so all she ends up doing is making a mess and then she's still hungry!  So, we walk into Red Lobster and there are tons of people waiting and they give us one of those flashy things to hold.  Great!  We sit and we wait, and when it lights up to tell us our seats are ready, we have to give it back.  I'm expecting a huge fit from miss priss because of course a 1 year old is not going to want to give the flashy thing up right?  Wrong.  SHE handed it to them!  We followed the girl to our seats, sat down and ordered our drinks.  So far so good!  The remainer of the time we were there continued to go great.  The boys ate and didn't fight, Tara ate great and even let me help her and no one spilled anything!  There were a couple of ladies sitting at the table next to us and when they were getting ready to leave, one of them looked at me and said something.  I heard exactly what she said, but I guess I was in shock because with my mouth full, I said "what?"  YES, I know better, but like I said, I was in shock!!!  She repeated herself.  "Your children are beautiful and very well behaved."  I finished chewing, told her thank you, and they left.  My day just got a lot better.  We finished up and of course the boys needed to go to the bathroom.  As soon as we got up from the table and started walking off, I see this woman almost running towards me.  I don't know where she came from but she was on a mission!  She stopped me and told me that she just wanted to let me know that she was a teacher and she had been "observing" my family.  She said she could not believe how well behaved my kids were, especially the little one.  Then she told me that I had done a good job.  That really meant a lot to me that someone took the time to tell me that, and the fact that she was a teacher was just icing on the cake!  So while I am fully aware that my children are not perfect, or even close to perfect 99.9% of the time, for 45 beautiful minutes, they were indeed, PERFECT!         

I know this really deserves a post of it's own, but I'll do it here anyway.  My baby boy turned 7 years old on the 11th.  We still weren't in our house so we just had a cake for him at MaMa's house.  Nothing to extravigant, but he enjoyed it and that's what matters!  I also took him to Walmart and let him pick out several toys so he was a happy little boy!  

Playing his new Leapster game

Sleeping...

Work in progress

Finished!

My Valentines! I love them so much!

Dance Yourself Silly!

Making Progress

We seem to have made quite a bit of progress in the last few weeks.

Tara's hair is finally long enough for pigtails...Well kinda.  Haha 

"Pretty good stuff, but don't you dare touch it!!!"

County Show has come and gone.  We didn't do as well as expected, but ended up with a 2nd and 3rd place.  I can say that we definately learned a lot and he's ready to go again next year.  We didn't have a lot of help from dad this year, but now that he knows what's going on, he's "in it to win it" next year! Ha 

Koy got to show too.  Too bad it was a goat!!!



I came home to find this under my carport, which means they are actually getting stuff done on my house.  So exciting!  After a month of living with MaMa, I'm more than ready to go home.  Don't get me wrong, she's been great and we are so grateful she is letting us stay there, but it's time to go home.  My whole family is out of whack, and I want them back!

This reminds me of E.T. for some reason! Ha

Any suggestions on what color to paint our bedroom???  It was this color when we moved in and we just never changed it.  Now we are at a loss about what to do with it.

Footprints on the celing....hmmmm.  I wonder if they stepped on it before or after they put it up!?!  Haha

 We, and by we, I mean I had to pack up the whole house and "move out".  I wouldn't mind so much if I could actually go somewhere else!  We are very quickly outgrowing our first house, but we will probably still be there for a while longer.

My boys have been out of school 4 out of 5 days this week due to ice and snow.  To top it off, Kase and Tara have had asthma/breathing trouble, Tara, MaMa, me, Robert and Kase (in that order) all had the stomach bug, and Tara has been running fever.  Since their doctor is 30 miles away and we pretty much have no choice but to stay home, we are just giving breathing treatments and tylenol and praying they all get better!  This was just a small chunck of ice/snow I pulled off my car this morning.  Robert and I have been going to work, so poor MaMa has been stuck at home with all three of them this week.  I think we all need to leave this weekend just to give her a break!

And last but not least, Tara has finally outgrown her fear of the carwash!  She still doesn't like it, but this is the first time she hasn't had a screaming fit.  Of course, this was the time I had my video camera ready, and nothing!