Tagged

I got tagged thanks to Jamie, and I have to tell you 7 random things about me.

1. I like to play on Webkinz, I win money for NJ but I play when she isn't here.
2. I would love to be a hippie and live off grid and have no TV and stuff like that but
I just can't give everything up.
3. I miss living in Maine but don't think I will ever live there again, winter is way to long.
4. I can't go a day without Smile (the off brand fruit snacks), I don't like name brand fruit snacks
5. I still have Christmas decorations, Easter decorations, fall decorations and Emma's happy birthday sign up in my house right now.
6. I spell so badly that spell check can't always help.
7. I haven't had a check registry in many many years (I am the one that pays the bills so that is very bad).

OK so I don't have 7 people to send this to but I will send it to
Amy
Courtney
Jessica


Here are the rules:Link to the person who tagged you.Post the rules in your blog entry.Share 7 random, or weird, facts about yourself.Tag 7 random people at the end of the post, linking to them.Leave a comment on their blog so that they know they’ve been tagged

Happy Birthday Emma!!

Thursday was Emma's 2nd birthday. Thursday morning Emma woke up to NJ and Mama singing "Happy Birthday" and from then on she had a huge smile on her face. On are drive, to Little Rock, Mark called her and she was able to talk to her daddy which is one of her very favorite things to do. Then the crazy started, a huge storm moved across the state hitting Little Rock around 11. All the classes had to get in a small hallway behind the baptistery and wait the storm out (if you have never sat in a small hallway with 9 young children you don't know fun). The storm blew through and the weather was much nicer. NJ convinced Emma to let her pick where we ate supper so Applebee's was the location of Emma's birthday supper. After dinner we went to Granddad and Grams' house for presents and cake. Emma opens a little different than most people, she rips every gift open and never looks at it, she jut picks up another gift and moves to another location, needles to say she left a little tornado of paper all over the floor. After Cars cake we headed home for 13 hours of sleep.

Things everyone should know about Emma: she calls "Cars" Ka-choww, she ask for Ham for every meal, she can not keep her shoes on in the car, she wears her shoes on the wrong feet, she loves any kind of doll and likes to have one at all times, she talks non-stop, she is afraid of large dogs but loves little dogs even the ones that bite, she has OCD and loves to have everything in order we call her Monk (if you don't know who this is look on USA), she climbs on everything, she is a tomboy, she will argue with anything if NJ isn't around to argue with, she is very sweet and will give hugs and kisses all day long. Emma is lots of things and we love her for everyone of them. Emma has made the last 2 years wonderful for everyone that knows her.

Knitting

When unpacking boxes, that had once been my mom's, I found her knitting needles. I have held on to these needles for several years and late last fall I found a wonder website that taught me how to knit. I made myself this wonderful headband that was kind of "hippie" and was really great at holding my wild hair back. This morning NJ ask me to make her a headband like mine. Mine is made for an adult head so I did some figuring and made a pattern that would fit NJ's head. I completed NJ's this afternoon and Emma is so in love with it that I already have my Friday project mapped out. (I found the pattern for the large headband on blog I like to read and after I finished mine I found some other bloggers must have been checking out the same blog.)

Rain, Rain Go Away...

My girls love to sing this song, it seems that here lately I have wanted to sing this song everyday. Don't get me wrong I love the rain but I don't like big bad storms blowing through every other day.


With all this rain our current footwear is a little different than my most favorite footwear-flip flops. NJ and Emma love rain boots!!! Emma puts hers on at least once a day and stomps around the house showing us her boots.

It is really strange that the girls and I are somewhere that the rain seems to be never ending and Mark is somewhere that they pray for rain. While Mark was in Mississippi (January-March) they were pounded with storms on a weekly bases. It was so bad there that the building next to his was destroyed in one of the storms and then he flies out and within 24 hours he is in a place that never sees rain. It is strange that we all live on this planet and there are such extremes of weather. Growing up in Arkansas I have always feared tornadoes, I can remember living in Maine and getting very afraid during a very bad storm and no one knew what a tornado was really like. Moving back to Arkansas most people don't know what it is like to live 5 months with snow on the ground. I am very thankful that the Lord lets me spend time on this crazy planet with all the different types of weather.

Girls, Girls, Girls

If you don't know my family is made up of mostly girls. My father has 3 daughters and 5 of his 6 grandchildren are girls. My girls are also 2 of Mark's parents 3 granddaughters. We are a girlie family!! Over Spring Break my sister came down to visit with her daughter and her two friends, we had a girls day shopping and hanging out. NJ enjoyed the day hanging out with the big girls, they really made her feel like she was a big kid.

NJ is already ready for the girls to come back.

SCHOOL BUS!!!!!

"SCHOOL BUS" these are the words I hear screamed, at the top of Emma's lungs, every time we see any type of bus. Emma has a love for buses that is unbelievable. Twice a week when we make our hour plus drive to Little Rock, Emma gets an entire morning of joy, she sees every bus and she yells and points and waves. Emma's great love is this old school bus across the street from Sonic that we see on my several trips to Sonic each week. Maybe this bus will still be for sale when Emma is old enough to drive and we can get it for you first car.


I made the mistake of taking this picture in front of Emma and now every time we drive by she yells "Bus Cheese" so her bus can smile for its picture.

Update

Emma used the potty for the first time tonight! What a great birthday present for me.

Potty Training Emma

Emma is trying so hard to be a big girl. She doesn't turn 2 for a couple of weeks but she is thinking about using the potty. She is very willing to sit on the potty but, she will not use it yet. This morning she was sitting on the potty and I told her if she used the potty she could start wearing pull-ups. Little Miss Emma took me seriously and when she got up, without using it, she went and found a pull-up and put it on. To my surprise she showed up in the living room looking like this

Both Legs in one Leg hole!

She is so proud of herself!!!

Easter Sunday

Easter was a very busy day for the girls. We all woke up at 7 (we usually don't get up to 8:30 on Sunday) and checked out what the Easter Bunny brought us. The girls had a great time hunting the eggs the EB hid for them. It was off to Church at 9:20 and the girls loved showing off their new dresses. Granddad and Grams took us out to the Desoto Club for a great lunch where the Villagers just adored the girls. After a quick clothes change we went to Granddad and Grams to hunt eggs and decorate cupcakes. After a short afternoon of play it was back to Church and then our Sunday night ritual-dinner with half the members of our congregation and then Walmart with Nathan. When we did get home at 9 the girls just passed out. The girls really did miss their Daddy but I tried to keep them busy.

She loves her Webkinz but check out that "bedhead"

Emma wants the money in her egg

I got 2 with them looking at the camera!!

Dying Eggs

The girls and I had a lot of fun Saturday dying eggs and just having fun together. I boiled eggs while we picked up the kitchen and living room. The girls thought it took FOREVER for the eggs to cook and to cool off but it did eventually happen. After dying the eggs we were waiting for them to dry before we put stickers on them so Emma went into the dinning room to check on her eggs and I guess she did a little bit more than looking. NJ and I went to check on the eggs later and most of Emma's were smashed. Emma had picked up her eggs and slammed them back down. Poor Emma she really tries to help but sometimes it doesn't always work out that way. We did have a great day and we have some eggs to eat. It was also warm enough in the afternoon for the girls to slide out front for a little while and they played in their cars on the deck until bed time.

Bad, Bad Darrah

IS ANYONE STILL CHECKING?

I have been a very bad blogger. I wont make any excuses I have just not done it. I will try to catch everyone up and then maybe I can start blogging every week.

For those of you who don't know Mark was activated by the military in early September. The girls and I were very lonely but we did get to see him several times a month. Mark got several days off at Christmas and we enjoyed spending time with him. We made a short trip to Nashville and met Big Mark and Taylor. The girls loved playing with their big cousin Taylor and the adults had a great just relaxing. The first weekend in January Mark left for Camp Shelby Mississippi and was there until last weekend when he went to Kuwait. The girls and I did get to go see him the first of March and had a great week. We got a condo in Louisiana and Big Mark and Taylor came down again. It was very hard to say goodbye. On March 13th I travel by myself to Camp Shelby to celebrate Mark's 33rd birthday with him. I was able to stay until the 15th and then headed back to get the girls. Mark flew out the next day and safely arrived early Tuesday morning (Kuwait time).

Christmas at the Williams' house

NJ Lane the next Taylor Swift

Thanks to DeDe, Emma got a guitar too

Emma's first haircut

My girls do love each other sometimes!

Taylor, NJ and Emma in New Orleans

Taylor and NJ at the New Orleans Aquarium

I know that was short but it got everyone up to speed and I will try my best to do better because this will be one of Mark's only ways to see pictures of the girls and see what it going on.

I am off to dye eggs with the girls.

Happy Holidays

The girls and I want to wish everyone a happy and safe Christmas and New Year. I am sorry I haven't posted anything in a while, here is a new picture of the girls.

I will post more soon.

Bathing Beauties

NJ and Emma really enjoy their baths, they would take several baths a day if I would let them. Emma is really getting into being like NJ and wants to wash herself and help with NJ's bath like NJ helps her. Here are some funny pictures from a couple of baths they took recently.

Emma is trying to soap herself up like NJ does.

NJ's turns 4

I guess I should finish my post about NJ's birthday.












NJ loves Applebee's, she knows the restaurant when she see it and she lets everyone know that she saw an Applebee's. So for NJ's birthday we went to Applebee's. She was so happy, Grams had a big princess balloon that sang "Happy Birthday" waiting for at the table when we got there. We had a great dinner and right before we left the waitresses came and sang "Happy Birthday," she got a little nervous but really liked it. We all headed back to our house for cake and presents. NJ got everything she wanted and then some. She really enjoyed the phone calls and e-mails she received from everyone. We are looking forward to a great year with a 4 year old.

Emma was so happy at Applebee's

Look at all I got!!!

Now I am an Indian Princess too!!!

NJ's School Party

NJ had a party Thursday at Mother's-day-out, she really enjoyed herself and loved having kids her age there. Emma and her friend Noah (NJ's teacher's son) came down from that 1 year old class to join the fun. The kids ate cake and then NJ had a special gift from her teacher. One little boy slept through the entire party. It looks like NJ is going to have a great year, she had a great party and she has made some really good friends.

Just some pictures

So I have become the friend that I am always upset with, I have not posted in a very long time. Here are some misc. pictures from this summer.

NJ Blowing Bubbles (Mark dressed her in a 2T shirts)

Emma watching NJ blow bubbles

Emma and Korbeu eating chips off the floor

I just thought Em looked cute with her arms like that.

Emma loves corn!!