Peggy Sue, we love you

Well, those of us who have kids know that all your child has to do is look at something like they want and not even ask, but still you want to give it to them. Peggy Sue was one of those things. Christmas day we went to my niece's house and her mother-in-law was there with Peggy Sue. Peggy Sue aka "Peg-leg Sue" had to have her foot amputated when she was 3 days old. My 5 year old was carrying that puppy around everywhere. She was so good with her that we decided to try her out for the night. Three days later and we still have Peggy. She is a Chihuahua. I can not stand Chihuahua's, but this one is special! As Olivia went to sleep Christmas night with her new Puppy she said, "Mommy this is the best Christmas present ever!" She also always says that what the puppy needs is lots of love! David thinks that is the cutest thing ever! Okay, I know it is said that the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, that's only true if he doesn't have a little girl!! If I play it right, I can also have everything I want!

Crazy Eights: Tag Game

Eight T.V. shows I like to watch:
1. NCSI
2. Boston Legal
3. Family Feud
4. According to Jim
5. Everbody Loves Raymond
6. Dora
7. Deigo
8. Backyardagans
Eight favorite Restaurants:
1. Taco Cabana
2. Olive Garden
3. Mamacitas
4. Taco Casa
5. Chilis
6. Spaghettis Warehouse
7. Jalepeno Tree
8. Rita's Famous Tacos
Eight things I did this weekend: (including Friday)
1. grocery shopped
2. went to get family pics printed for Christmas cards, but they were too bad to print and send
3. went to the Fudge shop and tasted fudge
4. ate popcorn jelly beans
5. Visited my sister-in-law, Sylvia
6. watched A Christmas Story
7.drove 6 hrs roundtrip to buy a Nubian milk goat
8. milked the Nubian and got a lot of milk on my pants
Eight things I look forward to:
1. Christmas Eve Church Service
2. Christmas Eve and watching the kids open 1 gift
3. Christmas day
4. Watching my kids open their gifts and their delight on their faces
5. spending time with family and friends
6. going to see my mom and dad
7. Getting to know my goat
8. making goat cheese
Eight things on my wish list:
1. Going on a date with my husband to see a good movie
2. going shopping without kids and not feeling guilty
3. For my house to be done
4. For David to achieve his goals in his work
5. To visit my mom sooner rather than later
6. To be able to get a horse for my horse loving girls
7. to milk my goat and get a gallon a day without any wasted milk
8. to lose 20lbs!! before June (good luck Lacy!!)

Our Newest Addition

Here is the newest addition to our family, Coco (the big goat in the pic). She is our Nubian milk goat. She was producing a gallon a day for her family, which is really good. They got rid of her because she was producing too much milk and they didn't have the time to milk her as much as she needed. She is trained to the milk stand, a huge plus.
She's a bit nervous since she is away from everything she knows. She finally allowed me to milk her with David's help. I got 2 1/2 cups of milk from her and David said I should bring it in case she decided to step in the bucket. Good thing I did, cause sho enuff, she stepped in it. Oh well, we will try again 2 or 3 times tomorrow until she gets used to me. I am still so excited to have her. A Nubian milk goat is so hard to find that we drove 3 hrs to pick her up.

A Horse Of Course

We had Christmas with David's parents tonight. The girls got there favorite animal, a horse! It's not exactly real, but it does everything except go potty! The kids love it! Olivia said "this almost makes me thankful cry," and she wiped her eyes! I almost cried! She's just too sweet!!

This horse is amazing! The eyes blink, the head moves, it neighs, it eats it's carrot, it moves it's tail, it gallops and I'm sure I'm forgetting a few things! It's so close to the real thing!

There was a stinky smell in the room and Olivia thought she better check to see if it was the horse! She also checked to see if it was a boy or girl, she's knows her anatomy!

My Merchandise

Here's what I bought today with all my coupons: 5 longsleeves shirts for myself, 1 pair of longjohn pants for David, longjohns for Olivia, longsleeve pajamas for Olivia, a scarf/glove/hat set for me, and 1 skirt for me! 5 items I got for free and the remaining 6 items I paid $18! I had such great fun today! Oh, I used 10 coupons today not all 14.

Jackpot

I have to say, I am not above digging in trash cans, not for these babies anyway! JcPenney's has my favorite coupons, you spend $10 or more and you get$10 off! That means play it right and you go home with a bunch of free merchandise! I went to 2 Post Offices and was able to find 11! I was so stinkin' excited I started shaking!! What can I say, I really, really love to save money! Thanks cousin Jerilynn, I may never have thought of digging in trash cans if it weren't for you! I'll post what I was able to buy with all my coupons.

Girl Scouts

Tonight, Olivia had her first Girl Scouts meeting. She was hesitant to go, but I was persistent. She didn't talk on the way to the meeting, so I knew she was a little nervous. I told her that if we don't try things we won't know what we like or what we're good at. She sat on my lap once we got there, but it didn't take too long and she was participating. She played a game with 3 M&M's and I didn't realize it until we were in the car that she had put one of the M&M's in her pocket for her sister. They also had grahm crackers for part of their snack and she saved one of hers for Caroline. This child amazes me of her love for others! We have had one heck of an emotional ride the last 5 years, but boy is she worth it!! Life with Olivia is so great and unpredictable! We all love our kids and think their the greatest and nobody can tell us different! Children are a true gift from God!

You Might Be a Hillbilly

We had somewhat of a hillbilly Thanksgivin'! Our menu consisted of squirrel quarters simmered in gravy, chicken fried deer steaks, sweet taters, CORNMEAL dressing, green termator pie. We had a great time with David's brother and his family coming over. I completely forgot to take pictures. I have one picture of the squirrels before they were butchered. The girls thought they made the best stuffed animals ever!! I guess everyone has figured out by now that we are a slightly strange family, so it's okay to go public with it!!

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, now go get ready for Christmas 'cause here it comes 'round the corner!

Life with Caroline

Life with Caroline is never boring. She keeps us laughing most of the time. Here she is doing the airplane. She says this is what Big Mama does.

She is not much of an eater. What she does eat is sometimes very strange. This day she was eating spaghetti O's and decided that raisins would be yummy in it. Olivia and I said YUCK! However, Caroline ate it all, which is unusual for Caroline to eat all of anything.

We were at Belk's and Caroline saw this woman and said "Take a picture of me and put it on the blog." Then she told Olivia to get her picture taken too.

Just in case you can't tell, this is not an ordinary woman, this is a cardboard woman! That's life with Caroline, always interesting!

Sweet Girls

Olivia says we should put this verse on our blog "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son, that whosever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life."

I know it's probably the most quoted verse, but does anyone ever get tired of it, I think not. Isn't it wonderful news!

Here's a picture of my precious girls wearing there new hats and dresses from Scotland.

I love children, they are so full of truth! I love watching my girls interact with each other and other people, I can see if I am teaching them what needs to be taught or if we need to work on something a little harder.

Life would not be what it is without my beautiful, sweet girls!

Not a Deer!

The mighty hunter

This is not exactly what I pictured eating for dinner, but what the heck I'm up for anything!

Just kidding, I wouldn't eat Coyote!

What a Weekend!

Here's my decorated self. I was quite full of school spirit on our homecoming float in the parade. I was made fun of by my dear classmates, but that's okay. Oh, I also said how fun it would be to hit a little kid in the head, and then I did, on accident, oops! I was trying to let the kid catch it and it hit him right in the forhead, I said I was sorry and then pitched one in the road for him to fetch!

Not only was this Halloween, but it was homecoming, and re-union weekend. Thank goodness I got an extra hour of sleep, I so needed it!!

Here's my other child, Ava, you've seen her on my postings before. She's in a roll the pumpkin race, isn't she cute?!

Here's Olivia rolling her pumpkin. Go, Olivia, go!

Here's Edna, Ava's mother. She's such a great friend, she watched my kids so I could go out with David and my classmates! Thanks, Edna! Edna is such a crafter. Her costume is raining cats and dogs if you didn't get that from the picture. Nothing is boring after she touches it!!

Here's my adorable princesses! Nothing more precious than my girls!

Me and Amanda. I remember taking a picture in the same spot 11 years ago. Time flies!

Here's Ryan Doyle, Misty Garrett and Amanda Benkula. Amanda was my buddy in high school and we still keep in touch.

Here's Stephen and Kim. Such a sweet couple! I was so excited to see them!

This is Ryan and Misty. This picture is so funny because Misty bought her hat from Bandera and Ryan made fun of it and said she could have gotten it from a gas station. We walk into a gas station and sure enough there were hats similar to hers. I told him to put one on and walk up to her. He gave her a complex, but we had a lot of laughs!

Here we are eating at Chili's. We had so many laughs my face hurt! David is with us, he's taking the picture.

Here's 7 out of our 23 classmates. Nine of us showed up. We rode in the homecoming parade together and then we went to the school to talk and be a part of an assembly. Two of our classmates walked out of the assembly because they refused to get up in front of everyone and tell about themselves. In this picture we have Stephen Moffet, Kim Moffett (they were high school sweethearts), Amanda Alexander Benkula, Misty Garrett, Me, and Jana Rowan.

Later we went to dinner and then went to Moffet Park in Medina for old times. We talked a lot and of course made jokes about old times. I laughed so hard! We created memories I'll never forget! I hope to see everyone in 10 years if not before that!

Class of '99

Today is my 10 year high school reunion, why they have it in 2008 and not 2009 I'll never know, but anyway. I couldn't decide what to wear so I made an outfit! I am so crappy with crafts, but hopeful it will look okay. I couldn't sleep last night and the idea came to me to use my stained up favorite jeans and black shirt that I never wear (oh, I really am looking forward to the black shirt to cover all my back fat and front fat!) and decorate them with sparkling paints. I'll post pictures later. Almost forgot, of course they are the paints that dry really slow and of course I thought of all this at 11:00pm last night and I have to be at the homecoming parade at 9:30 and of course I had to decorate front and back. I've been using the blow dryer a lot to help me get the darn things dry. Is it just me or is everything more fun when your trying to beat a deadline! Our school colors are blue and yellow. Just thought I'd show a little more school spirit! Go, Bobcats, Go! Can't you just hear the cheering!!

holycoast.com

Go to holycoast.com and in the search box type Obama and his radical abortion views. Then watch the video on it. It's unbelievable, I feel like vomiting after watching that!

Fun at the Pumpkin Patch

Here's Caroline with her scarecrow she dressed.
Here's Olivia, Ava, and Caroline. Ava is a favorite friend. They both wanted Ava in their lap, although Ava is almost as tall and out weighs Caroline by 10lbs!

Here's the cuties again. Ava calls her mother Mommom and calls me Mommy.

She is so cute and sweet!

Here's Olivia as Johnny Appleseed.

What's Been Going On

Cute Kids! Here's Carley, Caroline, Olivia, Eli, and Corbin riding the Strawberry at the County Fair.

Here we are on vacation in a cave in Arkansas. We had to crawl to get to this big room with a waterfall in it. The kids did fine on the way in, but on the way out, Caroline, wanted David to carry her out. Try carrying a kid and crawling, doesn't work so well!!

We went on a tour of this house in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. It is so neat. This woman collected rocks since she was a kid, so when she got married her husband took those rocks and together they began to build this house. There is a neat story behind it, but I won't go into all the details, it's called the "Quigley Castle" if your interested in finding the story. There are trees growing inside that are growing up to the second story. The inside is amazing. Rocks, shells, fossils, butterflies and other things she collected are everywhere. The garden is as incredible. It has rock birdbaths, arches, pots, baskets everywhere, she made all of them.

This Church is also in Eureka Springs. It's made out of just glass except for the framing. Incredible!

Here's Caroline waiting for our pennies to be smashed by the train we were riding. She's such a stinker!!

Here's Big Mama and Caroline riding the Carosel at the County Fair.

Here is Olivia letting a monkey climb on her arms at the Grayson County Fair, I never thought she would do it!

Look Who's 3!

My baby turned 3 today! She's no longer a baby but, a big girl, so she says. She said good-bye to her good friend, the sippy cup yesterday. Bittersweet memories! We celebrate birthday weeks, so yesterday was the first day we celebrated. We had a little party with us and David's parents. Olivia and David decorated with crepe streamers everywhere, it looks so cute! Today is the official birthday! We will go to the pumpkin patch in Medina with our good friends and have all kinds of fun I'm sure! She's so proud when we tell her that she looks 3. For some reason she thinks she has to get naked and so we can tell that she is bigger now, it's hillarious!

Yearbook.com, you gotta try it!!

I think this is a cool do on me!

I think I could sport this look!

I look like leave it to Beaver's mother!

How lovely! Theses are a bit fancier than my do, I think I like them!