December 2010 pics

November 2010 pics

The worst blogger ever!!

I must be the worst blogger ever!! How do I expect companies to pay me to review their products when I only blog once a year!!???!!!

Ok, I should start where I left off.....

November 2010: Lydia had her 6th birthday party at Express Clydesdales.

I was busy with family pictures.

Caraline was in the groove of things at Peace Preschool.

December 2010: LOVED getting Christmas cards!

Christmas with family in Pawnee & Woodward

January 2011: Started off the new year with good friends & everyone stayed up until midnight, & I mean EVERYONE!!

Caraline wanted to go ice skating for her fourth birthday! She loved it so much!!

Snow storm that was SO bad, we missed almost 2 weeks of school!! Scott was home for 2 days! And I gained like 10 pounds!!

February 2011: Scott's 40th birthday & Katy's 35th birthday!!

We found out that Tori, Russ & Sadie were moving to Florida.

March 2011 : Pictures started picking up again with the warm weather.

Lydia rode the bus for the first time on the kindergarten field trip. She wasn't sure she wanted to ride the bus because there wasn't any seatbelts, but she did & LOVED it!

April 2011: In the final stretch of school, Lydia loved being a Daisy Girl Scout & getting all her patches.

Caraline was performing at the Mother's day program & the end of the year programs at Peace.

A F5 tornado came through May 24th....Russ & Tori & the girls came over & as

Scott was walking in the door from work, the sirens were going off & it was coming

our way!! I was freaking out!! We decided to go to Cimmaron Middle School to

tornado shelter. We sat in there, but the tornado passed to the west of us. It was

VERY scary!!

We found out Russ was leaving in early June for Florida, so we had family pictures

& the next day extended family pictures! 29 people were at Grandpa & Grandma's house!!!

June 2011: June needs it's own post!! Many things happened!! I will do that one soon!

I'll post pictures in order of month:)

"In the GROOVE" of things.....finally!!

I haven't updated this blog since school started....we had some adjustments to make!!!

At first, our mornings were TERRIBLE!!! Girls were crying, I was losing my temper & screaming like a woman possessed!! There were struggles over getting out of bed, breakfast, clothes, brushing teeth & shoes!! There for a while I was parking & walking Lydia down the hall to her class.

But NOW things are MUCH smoother!! We get up with just a little fussing (usually Caraline), eat breakfast, get dressed & ready by 8:25am!:)

Lydia & I used to scream & cry over clothes & shoes every morning because I was picking them out!! NOW, she picks 2 outfits the night before for "approval" from me. Usually she changes her mind in the morning, but it's not bad.

We had some issues with the "twinkle toe" shoes because a girl in her class had REAL ones & Lydia's were from Payless. This girl made some comment & then Lydia didn't like them anymore. At first she told me they were too tight, but I figured it out then we saw this girl with her shoes & I said, "Look, she has shoes like yours!!" (Thinking that was a "good thing") But Lydia said, "My shoes aren't like hers." as to say, that girl's shoes are better then mine.

Then she tells me that this girl won't play with her. I reminded her that she has LOTS of other friends in her class to play with. She has been better since she went to her friend Mary's birthday party. She has more confidence now & has not said another thing about this other girl.

Lydia joined "Daisy's" which is the young division of Girl Scouts. She really likes it & has a real since of belonging to a group.

Caraline is LOVING Pre-school!! She has some good friends: Presley, Lainey & Katie. She LOVES Ms. Marsha! She comes home singing all kinds of cute songs that she gets wrong in some way or another!:) She likes to come home & tell us all about her day!

Here are some pictures of September & a few October.

School's in Session!

After a VERY busy summer, Lydia & Caraline both started school! Lydia is a kindergartener at Chisholm & Caraline is at Peace Preschool.

Lydia was nervous the week before school started, but that first day, she was ready!! She got dressed & was excited. She didn't cry once!! (The next day was a little different!)

I signed up to be co-homeroom mom for her class & Caraline's class. WHAT WAS I THINKING!!??!!!?? I should have known I was going to sign my life away when they had me sign in blood!!:)

Everyday when I pick Lydia up, she says, "I had a great day, mom!!" That is music to me ears!!

Tomorrow is Caraline's turn...she is SO excited!!

BUSY summer!!

My goodness, it has been SO busy this summer!!

Wild Wednesdays are going great & winding down since school is just around the corner!

Here it is, the last week of July!!

July was full of holidays, hosting our first flock social at the park, family pictures, seeing Jenn & the kids and going to the Woodward rodeo, & thrilling Thursdays with the Rosacker boys.

This will be a summer to remember!

WOW!! It's been awhile....

It's been awhile since I've posted anything!! I guess I have some catching up to do!! Our summer is ALWAYS more busy than any other time!! We have something to do almost EVERYDAY!!

I've been in our new house for about 2 & 1/2 months & we have really enjoyed the space!!

I've done some photo shoots & working on new promos to help business of Life Captured by Katy.

We have been very busy this summer!! We have Wild Wednesdays every week. We go with the Rosacker boys, Churchwell girls & the Cox kids. We've been to the Jasmine Moran Children's museum, railway museum, Omniplex, a many parks...& that was just in June!!

Scott & I celebrated our 10 year anniversary this year!! We spent the day in Bricktown, at the Oklahoma City national Memorial museum..it was very moving! Then we went to Stillwater and stayed at the Atheron. Scott surprised me with a new lens for my camera...a 18-200mm lens!! I love it!!

Next on the agenda: hosting the flock social for the first time, getting together with friends, going to spend time with Grandma & Grandpa, going to Mimi & Papa's to the parade & rodeo...& then it will be AUGUST!! (and then the girls will start school!!!)