Since I last Posted

WOW!! So much has happened since my last post. Hailey and Hannah started and ended a new school year. I also found out that a new baby was coming to our family. This fourth pregnancy was not a good one. Morning sickness turned into all day sickness and lasted for 20 weeks. Then Gestational diabetes started at week 28, insuline shoots and all.


We potty trained luke, this was not fun. With the new baby on it's way we turned the play room into the girls room. Painted, bought new beds and bedding. unfortunatley the beds took 5 weeks to be delivered instead of 2. Because of this luke is stuck with purple walls and mix matched bedding. It's a good thing he is only 4 and doesn't really care.


Cash, my baby boy, arrived a few weeks early in April. This girls and Luke adore him, and so do I.

In June we our yorkie past away after being part of our family for 10 years. I never thought lossing a pet would be as hard as it was. We buried Cody in our back yard under my flowers.

The Last month of summer has been tons of fun. Our street has many great families, and the kids would play around the clock if we let them. I have loved having all the kids in the house.

Cash is starting to get on somewhat of a schedule and I am getting ansy to start crafting. I have a great craft room that full of supplies, the only problem is that it is a disaster. I can't find anything let alone walk in the room with out stepping on things. My craft room needs to be my next project. So I will post pictures so you can see my progress.

More Fun Hair Styles

Kat is one of my neighbors, she often comes over to play with Princess and asks me to do her hair. I'm not sure if she likes the snacks she gets to eat or the cartoons that she get to watch more. For Kat, this time I did a zig zag part, then three ponies on each side in the front.

I then divided the middle pony and placed two more ponies in. Then I combined from two ponies into one. I then pulled each side into one pony tail.

This is my neice, Jules. She way cute. She has really fine hair. I Parted her hair in a zig zag front to back. Then I put in pony tail around her head starting in the front and going around each side.

When I reached the back I wnet up into two pony tails.

Fancy updo

I really love this look on Monkey.

I did 10 flippie/pull throughs, all around the head (5 on each side). Then I split each flippie into another row of flippies (9 flippies) Then I pulled all of the hair into one pony tail.

After all of the hair in the final pony. Seperate 4 small section of hair on the top and clip them up. (More Photos to come of that.) Then add curls as desired.

Let me know if you would like more instructions on this hair style.

Landscaping

These are Pictures of my home from 2007. We had just moved it and were so happy to have more room for the family.

After 2 years I am so pleased with the new landscaping. It was lots of work but as you can see, well worth the time.

Fourth of July

For the Fourth of July I borrowed the star idea from Its a girl Thing. Instead if using ribbon I tried the red, white and blue ponies. I made the hairbow acouple of months ago, not thinking about how I would do the girls hair. I think it all came together pretty well. I should have taken more pictures. Monkey

Princess

Lost Tooth

Princess lost her first tooth a couple of days ago. It was so ready to come out, I told her how to pull it out. She was too nervous and asked me to do it. So I did. It was almost too easy. Monkey we had to talk through the process for an hour before she would let her uncle pull the tooth. Her uncle has older kids so he must know the best way, that is what she thought. So once he got to the house it still took another hour getting all of her special things ready for her to hold onto. Monkey was the tough one, we thought, maybe Princess is a lot tougher then we give her credit.

Me venting

So the month of June is almost over, and I have done lots of hair but I forget the camera. I had a birthday a couple of weeks ago, # 33. I remember thinking that 30 was old, but I don't feel sooo old, just a little. Probably because I need to loose 25 pounds, which is my goal by January when I'm going to FL. with a great friend. Angie is wonderful and so thoughtful, I'm not sure I would know what to do with out her. I think my first move to loose the weight would be to stop drinking Pepsi, well I kind of did that, but I now drink Vanilla Coke. So NO soda. I'll let you know how that goes.
Monkey and Princess only have one week of school left, so summer fun is up to me. Hopefully Sprinklers and bikes will take care of most the fun. A few trips to grandmas and a visit with Aunt Sharkie will fill the rest.

Bruce and I started the girls on chores a couple of weeks ago. Things like refilling the TP in bathrooms, collection of laundry and garbage, simple things to you and me, HUGE to the girls. We have tried a chart before where they get a star for the chores done during the day. It was a disaster if they ran out of time because they chose to do other things. The chart would be destroy and lots of yelling would take place, mostly be Monkey. We have let the girls pick out toys as rewards for doing their chores for one full week, the toys were never earned.
So now we just have a list that needs to be done, no reward.

Well yesterday I ended up packing away a bunch of toys that were left around the house, one of the chores is to put all of their things away at the end of the day. I did give them several days to clean up on their own but nothing happened, so I broke.

hopefully with summer we can refine our checks and balances so that the house can be a little cleaner and my life a whole lot easier. I mean isn't that why we have kids so that they can work for us, ha ha ha.