Double Digits!

Happy Birthday Kaylee! welcome to double digits!
For our Birthday Dinner she has asked for homemade stuffed crust Pizza, salt and vinegar chips, home made mac and cheese and hot chocolate to drink with Oreo ice cream cake to top it all off. She took cookies to her class today.( And I am just hoping that everything I have to make for tonight is edible!)
Tomorrow we are going to Olive Garden for our Date and to walk around the mall(It is happening I have a girl who just wants to look around the mall!) I am alittle nervous that soon she will ask me to drop her off at the mall and not walk around with her!

The Bathroom is FLOODED!!

Everyday I go to work fearing that a student will throw up and Candy will not be there to help clean it up and I will be on my own. Well the other day I was by my lonesome and a 6th grader comes and tell me that there is a "mess" in the boys bathroom. I cringed. I cried a little inside. I went to check the damage...someone should not have been at school...enough said.
The next day I am almost done working when a fourth grade girl comes and tells me the girls upper hall bathroom has flooded! water is everywhere! She has no idea where it is coming from because there is so much!  I am shaking. I don't know how to turn off water! Should I be rolling up my pants to keep them from getting wet? So I reach the bathroom and the floor is dry, minus a puddle of water that looks like some one cupped water in their hands and dropped it on the ground. So I laughed and turned back around trying to figure out if that girl needs glasses or just wanted to see how fast I would run!
Different day...same week I am hunted down by a fourth grade girl yet again....Some one just throw up in the girls upper hall bathroom and it is all over the floor! I grab my throw up stuff and start my walk up there. Scared I might loose my lunch. I walk in and the other girls in there tell me it is in the first stall...I assess the scene, not throw up on the floor to be seen...apparently the girl was a champ and made it all in the toilet! Crisis averted!
What have I learned this week? I never seem to be able to find Candy when I am fear for my life!
Also that these kids love a good story!

While I was visiting teaching this week I heard something that made me laugh and cry a little...One was talking about how a sister that visited her was saying that she had no idea what she wanted to do with her life.(story of my life) and she thought that as the girls was about to turn 30 she better figure it out real quick as she was getting up there(where is this place called there?) And I am listening to this thinking oh my gosh zip my mouth bite my tongue...I am 31(?) and I have NO IDEA what I want to do.. I mean yes some people know what they love and what they want to do forever...but not I! I love tons of things, I loved doing hair...hate the working weekends, hate the working your butt off to make "Cinderella" and yet it is not good enough. I loved being a CNA(didn't even mind the dirty work) hate that they make CRAP out here. I always thought I would be a teacher....it is rough out there now kids are rude parents can be worse. The hours would be great tho. I wanted(still do kinda) be a lactation consultant, This I think I would like if you didn't have to be a RN first...my lack of science/math abilities really hold me back here! what I know is I like to be busy, I like to be able to be around others or on my own too.
But seriously how do you pick something and say this is it, what I want to do forever...I did pick that but I need a back up now(as I heard cuz I am thirty and I am supposed to have it all figured out) I want to be June Clever...how do I apply for that position? I want to stay home and clean and (learn how to) cook and volunteer.
Is it really possible that everyone else has it all figured out? That I am a dying breed lost and alone wondering around?

back to school

 Baylee had her first day of 4k on Tuesday. Bryce dropped her off and walked her into the cafeteria to eat breakfast, she was sooo excited when she woke up she told him she did not need to eat cereal because she could eat at school. When I got home from my work meetings at 4 she told me it was the best day of her life! She ate french toast for breakfast got to play with friends took a nap when she was tired and then played on every single slide she could. She LOVES going all day and taking her lunch like a big girl( if only she could actually eat her food in the 20 minutes she has!) she brings most of her food home and eats it for snack.

Kaylee Taylor and I had to report on Wednesday for school. Kaylee is in 5th grade and loves it she is so excited to be back at school learning and reading and being around other kids. She has started Harry Potter book 5 and is hoping they start AR testing soon so she cane get her 50 points from the test. Her goal this year is to beat everyone in AR points. She says she is pretty confidant because the only girls that beat her last year were in 6th grade and are now gone.
Taylor is in 3rd grade and loves her class her teacher does "brain breaks" which Taylor tells me is when they stand up and do a dance and listen to music for  few minutes to get all the wiggles out. She now knows Boom chicka boom(idk what that song is called for real) but I told her she has a jump on girls camp now and she will already know that song. Lol.

CONFESSIONS OF A CUSTODIAN:
I have left the kitchen. I looked at all my burns and cuts over the summer and I sat through two days of meetings telling me how to be healthier in the school kitchen. BTW the people who spoke all stood up and first thing out of their mouth was I am not a nutrition...well then sit back down bcz all they did was speak mumbo jumbo. Honestly and they work for usda so that tells ya right there they had an agenda/ I am sorry but chicken strips that in the ingredients say color added...hmmm Idk think that is healthier for the kids! and the new paper work and also instead of hairnets this year they were switching to visors, yes i said a visor! now one looks good in that thing why don't they just let us wear hats and tuck our hair up in them!
Anyway my old position opened up  and I jumped. I no longer have to wake the girls up and yell at them to run them out the door only to arrive 2min late no matter what time we left. then to get in trouble for that 2min. so now I am back to cleaning, I show up btwn 7-8(doesn't matter when) and I leave about 1230 or 1. so much more relaxed and less crazy I also basically work by myself( minus mr. candy) so I am not biting my tongue anymore! Hopefully I am still as happy about my transfer come 177 days from tomorrow!

Imagination

Imagination no longer needed to picture us at the Beach...Courtesy of My Moms Fabulous IPhone camera here are the girls in the sand!

Beaches!

The girls and I drove down to spend the day at the Charleston beach with my Mom. With only a two hour drive I drove 90% of the drive on cruise control! thank goodness for mostly empty SC highways!  Minus the bridges which is when I stopped breathing! As I cam up to the Santee bridge and say that not only did it go OVER a large body of water but it was up hill. The panic attack was upon me! I think that if some one would have seen me I would have been white as a ghost! Why oh why must there be so so many bridges! Grace wanted to put her own sunblock on because she was unsure of my skills to apply! AND she was right to be concerned because at the end of the day the back half of her...which I SWEAR I sprayed...was burnt. Clearly I need to stick with the old school rub on kind and not the sprays!
With out Bryce there I was on my own when it came to the ocean. I had to actually go into the water! Strange how as I age I am more paranoid about...EVERYTHING...the whole time I am in the water I am thinking that the seaweed is not seaweed but some strange ocean creature about to take me down! I went out as far as I could but would not let the girls go to far...as I thought that if a shark was to come close to the shore I needed them to be within arms reach so I could yank them out of the wild animals mouth.( I am completely not rational) Then the girls asked me if I knew if there were jelly fish...to which I was highly frightened that now a jelly fish might come out and get me! When we left I could breath way better.
 We were off to the outlets...now this is what I drove two hours for! Love me some outlets. The girls were each given $10 so every store we went into the girls would find something and then hesitate for fear that they would find something better at a different store! So now we are good to go in the taking the girls shopping for the next 2 years. Did I mention the GI-normous rain storm that came in the middle of our shopping trip so much to where we were stuck in a kitchen store for about 30 minutes!
We had tons of fun...and you will just have to make pictures in your head because my camera, it sat in my purse. In the hotel room. Not at the beach.

Ivory Clean

This last week we played with Ivory soap. Put the bar of soap in the microwave( be prepared this is messy in the microwave and it will smell ivory clean for a little while)and watch it grow. It doesn't just grow as a whole a little bit will come out of the top and then more and more til it looks like a little cloud right there in your hand...it will be hot for a minute. The blog I got this from said to then put it in the Bosch and add some water and voila you have a super fun activity but in all the excitement the kids just ran away with plates of soap to the back yard and crumbled it and flaked it and had a good time basically cleaning the play picnic table and the patio itself! we entertained Cage by giving him the hose which then it was like an outdoor bath! But the kids had a lot of fun and I had fun watching the soap grow in the heat of the Microwave.

My Mom Jen and Onna and I are taking a water aerobic class twice a week. I love it! It is so much fun and I am so super uncoordinated much more so in the water so I really feel it working...when I say I feel it working I mean I only feel it working1 I am having trouble having the patience to see if after 4 weeks of torch er if there will be some magical results! lol

School starts in three weeks. I am crying daily for this reason. My work meetings start on the 15th. I cry by the minute for this reason!

This week I learned how to hem my jeans while keeping the original hem. This is like a whole new world for me! no more dragging my pants and looking like I don't love my jeans the way that I really do! Some day when I get all my stuff I cant wait to hem and be able to wear all my jeans that didn't make the cut to come out here.

Moon Sand

 This last week at "camp T" we made moon sand...the pinner said it was a blast and so easy to clean up. IT was not! Took me days to get it off the floor! It was however a complete blast! If we did it again we would move the whole thing outdoors and THEN the clean up would be easy! I mopped twice swept two or three times and vacuumed countless amounts of times! And I still think I find it in the grout of the tile! The kids played for hours even Cage!
Makes me sad to think I only have four weeks til the girls and I start our travels back to school/work, Oh the joy! 6am mornings are everyones Favorite!
Last week we made home made bouncy balls they lasted a day but they were really fun!

The Long road home

 Notice we are both sitting the same!

We dreaded having to come home, back to reality back into the car. We had to take all of our stuff in the car(this is why I wanted to car top carrier) On the way there I had my parents car to shove bags and pillows into but on the way home I had all the kids and all the junk. We took toll roads for about two hours...Dear Chicago you made way to much money off me! I think we did great driving until it was my turn come the bottom of Indiana, I took over and as soon as I got behind the wheel a bridge popped out of no where and I hate a bridge even more so when they are over ginormous bodies of water suspend in the air with construction and off ramps on said bridge I think I did not breath the whole time I was on it. Then I went up and down mountains I went on a road and passed sign that said last gas station for 20 miles....and I missed the turn so I panicked the whole drive down as I had 40 miles left on my tank came around a corner and I hit a stop...one lane for ten miles! On a Mountain! I was crying hard! We got to the bottom then a gas station and I was done! only ten miles away from the hotel but No more driving for me!  Easy peasy from there on out with four hours to drive nbd to us professionals! SO happy to be home and back to my todo lists...if I can find my notebook!

**While on Vaca Kaylee learned to use a knife to cut celery...I have control issues and don't even let her pour milk! So today I loosened my ocd and let Taylor shred cheese...It took a lot of effort but we survived!

***New callings came today...Me RS meeting coordinator...and Bryce Scout Master. We are both very afraid, as should everyone else be!

Wynnsconsin Dells

yes this is how I say it I know I pronounce it wrong. After Nauvoo we went on up to the Dells by way of freeport we got pulled over, I thought I would Die Bryce and Police do not mix well...something about authority. Anyway this cop looked to be idk maybe 20 right off the train and asked all our info which I handed and talked to him about our travels and some how he let us go...FYI speed on Ill highways is 55...not 75! thank goodness for Nice young police men! we drastically slowed after that! We went to Krape Park which is the BEST Park ever! Kaylee said  as soon as she started playing " is this the park you grew up with?! This is the best park ever!" I know it is a great REAL park with ducks and paddle boats and Sunday night band concerts lighting bugs and a huge wooden castle and a fire truck a merry go round and like three other play pieces! It doesn't get better then that. We went to the Madison zoo the next day which is Free and a great zoo for being free! We saw giraffes so close up(closer then PHX zoo) we saw polar bears and fat little prairie dogs and oh so much more! On the way out we passed an "adult superstore" with models in the windows...my poor girls look out and say Oh my Goodness who in the world would wear something like that! I laughed and said No one I know! the Dells were amazing so much water and food and Nice cabins and family fun. The weather was WAY too warm every single minute of the day, even at 6am when we went for our walks. the water parks were so much fun the girls loved all the slides, Baylee It took me three days to get her down one slide and then she loved it but she refused to try any other slide. I went down I think three...I HATE water slides that are enclosed I need to see the sky or I am afraid I might get stuck.

We went to the Barnum and Bailey circus one day and I have never been to a circus before, SO much fun! the illusion show and the main show were amazing there was an old couple with a pekineses show and that was the best along with the elephants and the clowns! The clowns loved Grace which added to the fun of it all.
One more for laughs, picture in your head Fibi From friends, picture her running. Now listen...I was walking one day with my dad and I had a fly buzz around my face I swat it and I think it is gone..it got stuck in my hair I think because it never went away after about three swats when i start to fear that it could bit the heck out of me So I run swatting as I go  I holler back to my Dad who tells me the bug is still there So I run faster and swat more all the while I am also screaming the bug away! I finally get far enough ahead and the bug is gone...I am thinking the bug was never flying with me and my dad just got a kick out of me running like that...and I would have to.

Summer Time!

We just go back home from a huge road trip! we drove from Hartsville to Springfield Ill to Carthage Ill To Nauvoo Ill to Freeport Ill to Madison WI To Wisconsin Dells WI. and Back again. I think it was like an 18 hr trip? took us two days. One VERY long day and one good day. The girls were total and complete champs. Not having to stop constantly and hardly bickering. I had things for them to do and movies to watch and books to read but mostly they just sat and looked out side. I was seriously impressed with Bays as she had not done our road trip with us before(she flew out here). She mostly slept. She didn't want to read or color she would look out that window an when she got bored she would take a nap. We also dragged Gracen along with us...I seriously regret not taking our car top carrier on this trip! I did pack, amazing! each outfit per day for the girls were packed into airtight zip loc bags and each girl had a back pack for  the whole week! There was no wondering and searching to find things it was all in the bag! When we got to Springfield for our over night stay  and for church soon as we walked in Gracen was making friends and A man asked B if we wanted to move in as someone was moving out. All the girls bore their testimonies. I I took three different girls to the bathroom three different times, the last time I just stayed out! We were on our way to Carthage Jail. I have see it Numerous times but it never gets old. Gracen cried while listening to the tape the play of the reenactment of the shooting, and I was told people were touched by my daughters spirit...it is the only time Gracen has not jumped right back and said I was not her mom! Back in the car to Nauvoo and to tour it all I love to see the houses and the farms to feel the "nauvoo spirit" and to see the temple. It is AMAZING. We took an oxen ride  and I stood right there next to them and I loved every minute(they were really cows) They had huge horns and they were so pretty! We learned how to make bread in an oven fire thing and make rope how to make candles weave rugs.  I should have taken notes of every day so I could remember it all...But I could not find my notebook!

8 is great!

Taylor turned 8 this last week and she had a great week of birthday! We spent the whole week sleeping at Jens as the wood floors got redone at my Moms, so late nights good treats playing outdoors with Grace all day long! What could be better! Her Birthday was Wednesday- Sonic was giving half price shakes so we had a few runs to Sonic to help spread more cheer for her day! Jen was trying to make different kinds of homemade ice cream all week( we finally had success!) Then Jen was watching some kids from the Ward so once again Tay had extras for her day! She was even more excited because Grandma was gone on her bday so then she would get presents on more then just one day...three days of bday she told us!
For her cake(don't laugh) She wanted a cookie...I tries to make an 8 and write her name pretty...I need to practice that more! for her ice cream we tried to make little mice scoops... they kinda look more like panda bears! It was a struggle those mice! And I forgot the whiskers!
She was so worried that her earrings would fall out when she got baptized! poor girl she threw her hand up and had to be a double dunker! I think I saw her check her ears as soon as we got back to the bathroom. when the door shut I turned around and she was practically redressed and dripping still! I tried to dry her alittle more and then in record time...long before Bryce was dressed Tay was waiting for the next part!
She had a great birthday and is so excited to be now baptized...until the first Sunday in July! lol We are proud of her choice to be baptized! it is so "fun" to see how my kids are more and more like me every day! ( so if you love me you will love my Mini me's)
Taylor while getting her ears pierced started to cry, and then laughed instead, enough said.

If only I had some bling!

If I would have had some bling on my "spanks" like this lucky girl I do believe the remarks that were made toward me and my 12 yr old body wearing the spanks would not have been made! A little bling would surely have added to my babydoll and spanks outfits!

Bleach is Ruining my life...

Or my clothes one or the other! I don't know how many of my clothing items don't have a bleach spot here or there on them! I don't even understand how it gets on them! I will think I am being extra careful with the Clorox cleanup and then whomp the next time I wear it there is a spot on my shoulder! But I can throw my whites in the laundry I throw the bleach in I turn it on and walk away, later when I switch it I find that I had a non white item in there. I quickly check it over and yet there is no evidence that it was washed with bleach! Do you think my laundry bleach is dead??? I think I need to find something else to clean with! Also about bleach I typically smell like bleach Monday Tuesday and Thursday. Wednesday is a bleach free day...that I completely need to recover my nose! And today while I am cutting the never ending salad at work I was asked to when I was done please wash the sinks out with bleach and the pans that raw chkn had just been cleaned in with bleach! REALLY today! and you want me to stick my arms up to my elbows right on into it! I put gloves on but it was no help to me at all and so I sit here smelling of bleach as I type away. NO nothing can cover it up.

Kaylee and Taylor had really great games last night Tay got a few hits and her long legs still adjusting to the daily exercise were slow to go I thought I was watching her run in slow motion! But then when she ran to second it was like she kicked it into gear and took off leaving the dust behind her!
Kaylee's team did great too! They were down 4-9 when the girls realized they were the visitors not winning they kicked it into high gear and tied it up forcing the game into over time....3 times! I have never been so excited about a game before!

Moving on from the red, we are now working on the yellow and blues too! We have mastered the red...kind of. and are on to the other colors too! Everything I read just makes me crazy mad about the lack of regulations in our country, The FDA desperately needs to step it up...if something in the food way is not ok in the UK or Canada I think it should be gone from our foods as well!

"If if the food is handed to you through a window it is not real food!"

Hey Batter Batter Batter Hey...

Softball season is upon us once again... It is a crazy busy season here. softball is no joke around here. VERY competitive! But the girls love it. We have practices 3-4 times a week for about 1hr to 1.5! I keep wondering if I am the only crazy person who makes my kids go to bed at 7pm! I must be! LOL. Tonight Kaylee is practicing at a girl on the teams house who happens to have batting cages at her house! OMGOODNESS! Are you kidding me! Bryce says, Wow that is cool, would not be hard to put in...Who has batting cages! But Whatever it will be a great advantage for her team!
Last week we caught a break it rained and rained and rained all week...so practice was canceled, I guess that was my mulligan to get ready for this week. I am thinking that perhaps I might go on a cooking hiatus! Cereal it will be! Poor Bryce will be the only one who suffers! as the girls and I love breakfast for any meal of the day!
I am truly saddened by our mild winter I was really needing those snow days we had last year again so I would be able to do some deep cleaning in the house...now it will have to wait for the summer...WHICH is not far away! thank goodness! I am dying for days in flip flops and sweat shorts! Days spent at our super cool Sonoco Pool. Being able to clean the houses I clean earlier in the day. Reorganizing the upstairs so maybe I can be more functioning!( probably not)
The summer means that We can go get our things...and our dog! IDK where in the world we will be putting our things most likely in storage. I just need to have my things closer and ready in case we find a place. Not a easy task out here. The market is SUPER cheap...unless you want to rent...that seems to be hard to come by...and they don't seem to like craigslist like they should! So We will be going out to Az, picking it all up, sedating the poor dog and bringing it back.

In other news yesterday while making sure I looked ok with the shoes I picked I noticed one of my calves has shrunk! How in the world IDK!! But it is noticeably smaller! Worst thing ever!!!

Chemical Freeze

I swear I need a constant recorder to follow me around and catch my thoughts of what I want to write up here on my blog...then when I go to type I wont draw a complete blank. I am in need to do my Mormon.org account set up...but every time I go on to do it I draw a complete blank of who I am...who I am? well I am a crazy what is in my food basically boring person who loves to run and loves flavored water...and also I am hating all my foods that I am giving up. That is me. I am a sew-er wannabe I am a crafty wishIwas-er and a baker inmydreams.

I am Soo soo excited that we are under 100 days of school left I am drooling for the summer! My snow days have yet to come...dang them! and I long for freedom from my scrubs and buns. I am so so tired of doing dishes and mopping floors. making "healthy" school lunches. I dream of cleaning the house all in one day dong laundry and finishing it in the same day. Not having to iron at all(mostly) not get up at 4am for my am Run but perhaps at 530 instead! I dream of doing a weekly science project and swimming away the summer! I am so excited to go to Wisconsin Dells this summer and drive through Nauvoo on the way there! I am hopeful(haha) That the Heber house will sell(hahaha) and I will be able to gather my dog and all of my belongings and be reunited with the things I thought I would not miss( I do) and go to the Beehive store to pick me some some G's, I need new wonder T's from downeast ( I don't want to pay the shipping) and I want so super fantastic highlights from Miss Lacey( perhaps pink or purple)!!! let us all hope this summer is everything it supposed to be!(better be!)

In otter news I am totally and completely obsessed with Jillian Michael's right now I listen to her podcast weekly( wish they were on more) while I clean the McD's house and I take all that she says seriously! We no longer eating fast food chicken(hate spending money on fast food anyway) and I am mostly done with soda(mostly) we are X-ing dyes out starting with the reds! BAD Reds! I am reading labels like crazy and putting things back that I normally buy. I have found a site that gives me meals for a 100 days of processed free meals. I am trying to not buy bread but to make it I am using ground up flour or grinding oats into flour. Today that girls got candy in Primary and I had them trade me the BAD candy for a home made shake! yes I am that crazy mom. The girls go to school with carrots and grapes greek yogurt(that is next on my soon to make list) and brownies made with yogurt instead of oil. Yes there have been comments and Taylor is still trying to sneak the "good" stuff but I feel like we are doing better. Soon I will own master your metabolism and then I will figure out the other dyes and perhaps rid them also... we shall see. But I feel like we are making HUGE improvements to be chemical free...and we are trying to love organic grass fed no hormones cows milk...we almost love it...and we will soon. next up...makeup and shampoo. Wish us all luck I perhaps might have to give up more then just stupid yummy M&M's.( I miss you)

Can you hear me now?

Yesterday I drove the bus. A new route that I had yet to drive. I ran through it in my car a few weeks back but never in the bus. I did get lost while in my car but trusty gps found me. So yesterday I was driving the bus I had a helper and he was great...up a little bit more turn right here left there back up here...you get the point. All day and throughout the route everyone asked if I was ok to get home. "Of course I can get home I am just worried about the route" Well I dropped my helper off last and I tried to follow the directions home cross the road turn right and then left but I was passing things going away from where I wanted to go and the next thing I knew I was passing stops that I had already dropped kids off at. I had to do a turn about in a field and go back the other way. I was lost needing to potty and scared! Kaylee and Taylor where with me and having a great time not knowing that I was having a mild heart attack. I find a street that I knew I took at the beginning of the route turn down it and I see familiar things, I cross a creek. I cross another creek....this is not so familiar. My co worker had said if you get lost call me...um yeah out there in the country! I don't even know if they have cell service way out there I was so far in! I am starting to panic. Concerned about wetting my pants...should I stop park and go squat??? or hope I don't let a little slip!? I pull over I am in sheer panic mode now I check my phone...no service! So no, NO one can hear me now! I tell Kaylee that she needs to say a prayer she says ok and then there is silence...I guess she was saying it in her head! i said I am going to need you to say it so I can hear it please. Bawling my eyes out Taylor starts to cry she think we are going to live on the bus until someone finds us out on some random dirt road with no name posted! I calm down I pull back on the road and with in ten minutes we are back at the school. Was not the right way back but we were found and that is all that matters! Having my nerves shot like that I passed out on the bed while babysitting Cage and Grace! Good thing I had already put Cage to bed!

So no Sprint man I can not hear you now....But some one heard Kaylee!

Pressure

Pressure sucks.
When I first started to blog I did so without a thought, then some one said my post was oh so funny...pressure the next time I blogged all I could think about was this post as funny as the last?
Facebook. I NEVER update my status because I never think I am witty enough in my comments, plus I am afraid I will misspell what I write. I can tweet all the day long because I have so few followers I don't even think about it.
Pressure. Sometimes I ramble on my posts and they go on and on and on, then I feel like it is too long and no one wants to read it...is this still my blog or am I doing this for public viewing?
Pressure to keep up with everyone else and their crafts and their creativity and their fitness and their cleaning abilities cooking abilities and the ever long list of talents that can go on forever. The pressure to be able to do it all.
The pressure to figure out what I am going to do when I grow up and where I should go to accomplish it.
The pressure to make sense...do I ever make sense?
Pressure sucks.
If only we could all be as carefree as Minnie Mouse

The bottom Fell out

Are these not the Cutest back packs ever! My mom made them for all the girls when we were at Disney for them to carry all their wants and needs...aka snacks and water and autograph books. They were perfect and the girls are still loving them Baylee has taken to using it for her school back pack and Kaylee and Taylor use them for their church bags. We only wish a tinee tiny bit of that sewing ability was genetic and that I could sew...I could try and sometimes I do but my Moms fancy machines are very intimidating...I need mine...which is currently living in storage. I am beginning and probably the girls are too We are all beginning to think that maybe "storage" is actually a big black hole and not really there but simply a myth. The Answer I give for everything we can not find or remember having is it is in storage...someday We will see it again I just know it!

Living out here in Hartsville for the lst two years we are starting to pick up on different things that they say...they are very silly but for some reason they make total sense to me...if you need to talk fast and get a lot out to simply change a phrase and pow it goes faster...for example, I am fixin to go. Is faster then I am getting ready to leave.

Or to say Cut the lights is faster then please turn on or off the lights.

One that I attempted to use and was very unsuccesfull was....The Bottom fell out. Now when you read this think about what that means. I had tweeted " I am at walmart and the bottom fell out" Jen Reads this and tells Amy that I have fallen down in the Walmart parking lot and how sad is that. I have no idea this is going on until Amy asked if I was ok after my fall in the parking lot? I said I dont think I fell today...She then tells me that Jen said I fell. And now I have been told not to use these southern terms until I fully understand them and also the people around me understand!

the girls however bust out terms left and right and no one blinks an eye! Tay constantly says she is fixin to go... I think we are in trouble!

Baylee is FOUR!!!

I can not believe that my little Duck aka Baylee is 4!

For her Birthday we went out to lunch at Sonic and she got a wacky pack and a Oreo blast and it cost me $8! Fantastic date! She played on the play ground and took bites slowly til it was time to go home. She wanted Pink cupcakes with pink ice cream and a pizza braid for Dinner also cereal and Hot Chocolate so we split it on Sunday when we had presents we did the big dinner and Monday we did cereal! Best dinner clean up ever! She got a new booster seat for her birthday and she is more then excited to be out of her car seat and s booster all the time! I am excited she can buckle her self! She also got two new barbies and a barbie car and a cabbage patch kid! She loved it all and is more then willing to get more gifts she says! lol

In two weeks when Beauty and the Beast comes out in 3D we will be there wearing bells! ( it is her absolute favorite movie!)

Disney 2011

For Christmas this year my parents took all of us, 23.5 of us to DW for a week! And it was so much fun! So fun to just run around with our heads cut off being with family and not having to do the normal everyday things. For 5 days we lived and breathed Disney and of course the ToDo list! Nothing maximizes a big trip like a schedule!...If it is followed and you don't lose it or forget it back at the hotel or have cranky kids and or cranky parents! Lol. in the moment Florida can get a little "warm" but when all is said and done I would do it again ! My favorite park of course is Animal Kingdom! I love the safari ride and seeing the animals of course I do wonder how it works at night??? Does the Lion and the tiger REALLY stay on their side or are they creeping over to the Birds and the other unsuspecting little guys? The baby elephant was the cutest the girls favor the giraffe's and the Zebras. The girls loved the Rockin Roller coaster at Hollywood studios, whom also had such a great light display at night! I fear however that Roller coasters are not my all time favo anymore! STINK! I don't know when it happened but now when I am on a ride I am looking around at all the things that can go wrong and what is the best possible exit if need be, also who are my kids riding with and how scared will they be if the ride breaks. I don't know when these thoughts started to come and the girls came off every ride loving it but still I panic...also I strongly dislike start tours, too small of an area the girls loved it so much the second go round I sat with my eyes closed the whole time! Now this by no means that I will stop riding the coasters I just have a slight fear of them while I am on them not before or after just during.

We had a superb time and the girls are already asking when we get to go again! Thank you Mom and Dad for taking us to the Happiest Place on Earth!!!!