The Dead Lizard

Last week after my angels left the house (sidebar - They are the 3 woman who restore order to my house of chaos. I am blessed that they come to my house and make it smell clean and fresh. They make me look good). I sat in the in the living room. I could get this horrible smell. Hmmmm, that isn't right. So, I did the rounds - Keegan's diaper was okay, Halle's diaper was okay. Checked with the bigger kids. Trey admitted that he "farted" - love having boys. I tried to think back at what we ate the night before and just decided to chalk it up to the spinach....


Then Halle lost her paci - not sure how someone who adores a little object so much could constantly lose that priceless possession - but she did and does. In a frantic attempt to find it I ripped the cushions off the couch. A wave of the world's most awful smell came upon me.

Then I saw it, laying there all icky and gross. I thought for 2 seconds about leaving it for my husband. There was no way I could tolerate the smell.

So using gloves, lots of paper towels, a bag and a nose plug, I put that thing in the trash. Scrub the couch and cushions. It was a dead lizard. I had that seen that little lizard outside the day before, poor little fella. Now here he was, death by couch cushion. I think.

Everyone denied having brought that thing in.....


BOYS ARE AWESOME!!!!!

Giving Praise to our military Moms!

Not only do you give your husbands or boyfriends to us to serve and protect, you hold down the fort at home.


Chris went out of town this week and I thought I was going to go crazy! First of all he left Monday after work, guess who worked from 11p-7a on Monday/ Tuesday - this girl. So I had to find a babysitter. Let me tell you, not very many people want to come to your house and get paid to wake up in the middle of the night to feed a baby that should be sleeping thru the night.

Then I had to rush home because our babysitter had to get to her real job on time. Of course that was one of the days that I was running late. ACK!

Then, kids off to the bus stop, Keegan off to school.

Then it was just Halle and I.

This is when I teach you that tech is not always a good thing.

My Dad is a tech guy. He has security cameras set up outside his house. Well, he sends me an email (as does my Mom and my sister) to tell me to run by the house and get a package. So, after being up for 26 hours, I drive to the other side of town to retrieve this package. I get to the house, let myself in and go to the front door. Grab the two phone books and then search for this package. It's nowhere to be found.

I email. Grabbed the phone book, don't see any packages.


Well, apparently on the security camera the packages was really a phone book. ARGH! I drove to the other side of town exhausted for phone books?!?!?

So, I went to bed for a few minutes and woke up late. Which if I was at my house wouldn't have been a big deal but I wasn't - so I was late. 2nd day of preschool and I am late. AWESOME!

Then it was homework, snack, pick up from cheer, drop off at football, home dinner, pick up from football.

I am exhausted. So kudos to you Moms that do this alone all the time! I am WORN out! Come home husband, I miss you!

First Day of school

Okay so I am still "learning" the new camera but here are some cute images I took about 2 weeks ago.

These are from the first day of school. My mighty 3rd grader, my super sweet 1st grader, and last but not least the uber happy 3yr old when he woke up and discovered I was all his....almost!

The new camera

So ever since I've had the iphone I had retired my regular camera. I had enough.



I found my old file and box containing all of my old photography stuff including all of my dark room equipment. It made me really sad that I just neglected that little hobby of mine (one of many hobbies I have lost since becoming a Mommy).


I asked for a DSLR camera for my birthday, Christmas, and my anniversary.


I had internet shopped and was just concerned over the price. But I went to Best Buy on our anniversary to get Chris a present (which I did). But Best Buy had this amazing price on the Nikon D5100 - so I treated myself. I am so happy I did. I am just trying to learn how to use it (I think that I mentioned that yesterday)


So you all can watch me learn...YAY~ I can sense your excitement

My newest obsession

or one of them. I've gotten a few new addictions over the summer. One of them is subscription boxes. I stumbled into the Teetheme box and the Cravebox. Both are pretty cool! I am so excited when the boxes appear on the doorstep!

I have to say the Teetheme is super exciting to me. LOVE LOVE LOVE!


I need to review these awesome products as they come in.


I know that Teetheme just shipped - YAY!


Side note, I also got a new Camera which I am slowly learning to use.


I should post some of my current pics so we can watch me improve. Especially when I turn the darn thing off auto!

SUMMER 2012

As I type this, it is incredibly hot. What is truly mind boggling is that my little babes will return to school one week from today.


The kids had an amazing summer!


Trey went to summer school which did put a damper on June but we made it work! I added a tumbling class for Naomi several days a week to give her something to do - she was bored out of her mind waiting for Trey everyday.


July brought a lot more fun! We skipped the last day of summer school with my Mom was my "helper" we loaded the 4 kids in the car and in a Mini-van driving Mom marathon we drove the kids from Tulsa to just west of Green Bay WI stopping only for gas, to pee and twice to eat. I can't believe that we did it, but we did. We left Tulsa around 11am and pulled into the driveway at 3:45(am). The last 2 hours was awful, but it would have been worse to stop and try to manhandle them into the van the next day.


Mom and I sadly left a few days later leaving the children for their annual Grandma and Papa spoiling. I worked...a lot...

But on the weekend between my trips up north Chris and I went to Branson. That was hecka fun! We went to Silver Dollar City, zip-lining and rented a waverunner. We had so much fun!

Came home and worked one more night and left early in the morning to get and see my babies!

My mother in law fought the good fight with me to get them home. I wore her out! We did the same thing and just drove and drove and drove.

Then it was 2 weeks of camp, one week of cheer and that gets us to today. I feel like we haven't had any time just the 6 of us without going somewhere or doing something. I guess that maybe next summer...right?!?!