81.) i am not a morning person... it takes me while to wake up before i can even speak to someone.
82.) i dont like putting clothes away after they are washed and folded
83.) i love eating apples with peanut butter and chocolate chips
84.) i dont like that we only have one bathroom. lately we have all needed it at the same time.
85.) i like playing with raelyns hair
86.) i dont like how fast boys hair grows, especially b/c i am the one who cuts it and i am not very good at it.
87.) i dont handle dave working in ministry very well. i know that comes across terrible, but camps always fall on the weekends and during summer so they times when most families spend together are the times that dave is usually working, then the other times he has to work his other jobs. pretty much i am just selfish and want him all to me and the kids. i am praying already that the lord changes my attitude for this summer.
88.) i love dave for how hard of a worker he is, and hate myself for how selfish i am
89.) we use a citibank rewards credit cards and it is awesome. we use it like a debit card and only buy the things we know we can afford and then pay it off every month, then we earn points we can redeem for anything we want.
90.) we got a new stove, dinner gift certificates and part of a washer and dryer with our points
91.) i am saving up points for a dyson next
92.) i cried when dave gave me the camera, i didnt want it, i thought it cost to much money and our old little point and shoot was just fine.
93.) now i LOVE my new camera and never want to take a pic with the other one again.
94.) have i mentioned my hubby is the best.
95.) we eat pancakes as a family ever sunday afternoon
96.) we eat dinner at the table as a family every night (except during summer camp) this might be my favorite time of day
97.) i love working on a Macintosh
98.) i know i should read more, but i have never been a big reader
99.) i buy stuff sometimes just because it is on sale.... i need to be so carefull of this
100.) i am thankful i am finally done with 100 things about me. hope i didnt bore you guys.
Friday, March 13, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
25 things about ME
56.) i am a stay at home mom and so thankful that the Lord has provided for me to be able to do so. being a mom is the hardest thing i have ever done, cant imagine doing it while working outside of the home too.
57.) i have a BFA in Painting and a art teaching certificate from FAU.
58.) i started out going to UCF and then transferred when i got married.
59.) i was only 20 when i got married.
60.) i look like a baby in my wedding pictures
61.) i did my own flowers for the wedding and my mom made the bridesmaid dresses
62.) i love art, always have, it was my favorite class even when i was little
63.) i dont have a lot of time to create art anymore and i miss it
64.) i try to MAKE time for it, i am a better mom and wife when i can create.
65.) i started making fun creative cakes when garret turned two and have been making them since. this is a pic of raelyns third b-day cake. (third fondant cake)
66.) this is my sweet friend Tara who got me hooked on blogging in the first place, getting to do a crafty project with her.
67.) garrets third birthday cake
68.) brennas first birthday cake and my first fondant cake. i think my favorite of all the cakes if made.
69.)my art room
70.) i love to scrapbook and have made a book for each of the kids first years.
71.) my good friend carrie started a MOPS group in greeneville and asked me to be the creative activity leader. it has been a good challenge for me. i probably would not have said a word to anyone if i wasnt forced to. i am a shy introverted person.
72.) garret 5th birthday cake
73.) i miss my blazer
74.) i became a mini van mom right before brenna was born, but i am adjusting
75.) i oppologize for the cake pics not being in order.... i am lazy blogger too i guess.
76.) i have been trying to exercize 4 times a week
77.) i make my own marshmellow fondant for my cakes
78.) i love roller coasters
79.) i have very fair skin and freckles, i always wished i had tan skin.
80.) i like to change my hairstyle often but getting it cut is hard to do when you have to sceduale three kids.
yeah... excited i only have 20 more to go. so what do you want to know about me? i am running out of things to say.
57.) i have a BFA in Painting and a art teaching certificate from FAU.
58.) i started out going to UCF and then transferred when i got married.
59.) i was only 20 when i got married.
60.) i look like a baby in my wedding pictures
61.) i did my own flowers for the wedding and my mom made the bridesmaid dresses
62.) i love art, always have, it was my favorite class even when i was little
63.) i dont have a lot of time to create art anymore and i miss it
64.) i try to MAKE time for it, i am a better mom and wife when i can create.
65.) i started making fun creative cakes when garret turned two and have been making them since. this is a pic of raelyns third b-day cake. (third fondant cake)
66.) this is my sweet friend Tara who got me hooked on blogging in the first place, getting to do a crafty project with her.
67.) garrets third birthday cake
68.) brennas first birthday cake and my first fondant cake. i think my favorite of all the cakes if made.
69.)my art room70.) i love to scrapbook and have made a book for each of the kids first years.
71.) my good friend carrie started a MOPS group in greeneville and asked me to be the creative activity leader. it has been a good challenge for me. i probably would not have said a word to anyone if i wasnt forced to. i am a shy introverted person.
72.) garret 5th birthday cake
73.) i miss my blazer
74.) i became a mini van mom right before brenna was born, but i am adjusting
75.) i oppologize for the cake pics not being in order.... i am lazy blogger too i guess.
76.) i have been trying to exercize 4 times a week
77.) i make my own marshmellow fondant for my cakes
78.) i love roller coasters
79.) i have very fair skin and freckles, i always wished i had tan skin.
80.) i like to change my hairstyle often but getting it cut is hard to do when you have to sceduale three kids.
yeah... excited i only have 20 more to go. so what do you want to know about me? i am running out of things to say.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
daffodils
spring has been showing its colors and warmth the last couple of days and we have been soaking it up! today i took the kids over to an old house that no one is living in, they are working on it but living there. every spring the entire yard blooms with daffodils. i always drive slow when i go by to take in the beauty. i was so nervous that someone would stop and get mad at me for being there, dave calles me a chicken. anyways, here are some shots i got of the kids this afternoon. 
the dress that raelyn is wearing, is one that i wore when i was three. my mom just sent it to me. hope you like these pics mom! 
maybe my favorite shot of the day.
i love how you can really get a sense of how spring has really JUST arrived. the big trees in the background still dont have any leaves.
next 30... 30 things about me and dave
1.) there are 8 years between dave and i
2.) my parents used to do bible study at his parents house. him and his brother were in charge of watching us little kids
3.) one bible study night i remember telling dave i could tie my shoes with my eyes shut
4.) after that i dont think i spoke another word to him til i was in highschool and he was a leader in the youth group
5.) we still didnt talk much, i was super shy and he was always the guy in front of everyone
6.) dave and my dad became accountability partners dave was around our house more and more.
7.) we would always give me a hard time, one time he made my cry and i screamed at him. i think i scared him :)
8.) around the time i went away to college, his parents moved to tn to start a christian camp, so he took my place at the poirier home. i remember calling home numerous times and dave answering the phone telling me how good the dinner was that my mom had made him, while i ate mac and cheese.
9.) when i would come home from school i would hang out with dave, all my other friends went to school in a different state.
10.) he would take me on motorcycle rides and to the beach, but i was trying REALLY had not to fall for him. he was super friendly to a lot of girls and they all fell for him and when he realized he RAN. :)
11.) after a long time on praying on his part (like 9 months), he talked to my dad and asked if it was ok for us to date. my dad was thrilled. so he told me he liked me, i didnt talk to him for 2 weeks!! i was so SCARED!
12.) dave is a great communicator so he made me talk out my feelings. we both ended up with terrible stomach problems through those two weeks. he had an usler and i had a kidney stone.
ha ha... this makes me laugh now thinking back on it.
13.) when we were both sick we took our first of many road trips together. we went to Deleware to run paintball for his unlce.
14.) after 6 months of dating, he asked me to marry him on the day after christmas in Tn.
15.) the proposed by a campfire on his land in TN. there was a little old shed we took shelter in. it was freezing, he wrote a poem and then asked me to marry him. we call this spot the "love shack" now.
16.) 5 months after that we got married. June 10, 2000.
17.) it was a huge party, tons of people. we did it on a really tight and good budget that i am really proud of.
ok so now for some pics. these are in no particular order....
18.) we celebrated our 8th anniversary last summer.
19.) dave has had his private pilots lisence now for a year. we rent this plane and go for little trips some times. here we are in raleigh visiting the dews.
20.) we moved to Tn in Feb 2005 to help his parents run the camp. www.lviewranch.com
21.) dave is a great skiier. he is always pulling me off my skis and throwing me up in his shoulders or something crazy like that.
22.) sebring FL is our favorite vacation spot. been going there since i was like 10.
23.) dave has become a turkey hunter now that we live in TN. we actually ate a wild bird for thanksgiving this year and it was really yummy. we cooked it on the grill on the rostisseri.
24.) dave and i have always gone crazy with halloween costumes. garrets first year he was a pirate. 2nd year he was a shepherd, we made little sheep and then rigged up this belt that made it look like the sheep were following him. next year he was jonah in the whale and rae was a minnow, the next year he was a robot and rae was a cow girl, and last year the girls were butterflies and he was the butterfly catcher. fun times....
25.) i LOVE this pic of just the 3 us before the girls were born, just had to throw it in.
26.) dave has a motorcycle. i love to ride with him. never tried riding myself, dont really care to. one time he asked me to move it over in the garage and it fell on me! not good.
26.) this was our first house in florida. loved this place it was so artsy and cool!
27.) when we first got married we lived in a one bed apartment in Boca Manor. loved that little place, it was perfect for us. it was close to everything we walked a lot of places
28.) then we moved down the hall to a two bedroom apartment so dave could have an office.
29.) when we first moved to tn we lived in a double wide out by the camp. we did lots of work to it. it was huge and the kids had so much room to play in there. then in May of 2007 we moved into town to be closer to church and school and friends. we love it here.
30.) and really random pic at the end.... this picture was taken the day we found out we were pregnant with raelyn.
2.) my parents used to do bible study at his parents house. him and his brother were in charge of watching us little kids
3.) one bible study night i remember telling dave i could tie my shoes with my eyes shut
4.) after that i dont think i spoke another word to him til i was in highschool and he was a leader in the youth group
5.) we still didnt talk much, i was super shy and he was always the guy in front of everyone
6.) dave and my dad became accountability partners dave was around our house more and more.
7.) we would always give me a hard time, one time he made my cry and i screamed at him. i think i scared him :)
8.) around the time i went away to college, his parents moved to tn to start a christian camp, so he took my place at the poirier home. i remember calling home numerous times and dave answering the phone telling me how good the dinner was that my mom had made him, while i ate mac and cheese.
9.) when i would come home from school i would hang out with dave, all my other friends went to school in a different state.
10.) he would take me on motorcycle rides and to the beach, but i was trying REALLY had not to fall for him. he was super friendly to a lot of girls and they all fell for him and when he realized he RAN. :)
11.) after a long time on praying on his part (like 9 months), he talked to my dad and asked if it was ok for us to date. my dad was thrilled. so he told me he liked me, i didnt talk to him for 2 weeks!! i was so SCARED!
12.) dave is a great communicator so he made me talk out my feelings. we both ended up with terrible stomach problems through those two weeks. he had an usler and i had a kidney stone.
ha ha... this makes me laugh now thinking back on it.
13.) when we were both sick we took our first of many road trips together. we went to Deleware to run paintball for his unlce.
14.) after 6 months of dating, he asked me to marry him on the day after christmas in Tn.
15.) the proposed by a campfire on his land in TN. there was a little old shed we took shelter in. it was freezing, he wrote a poem and then asked me to marry him. we call this spot the "love shack" now.
16.) 5 months after that we got married. June 10, 2000.
17.) it was a huge party, tons of people. we did it on a really tight and good budget that i am really proud of.
ok so now for some pics. these are in no particular order....
18.) we celebrated our 8th anniversary last summer.
19.) dave has had his private pilots lisence now for a year. we rent this plane and go for little trips some times. here we are in raleigh visiting the dews.
20.) we moved to Tn in Feb 2005 to help his parents run the camp. www.lviewranch.com
21.) dave is a great skiier. he is always pulling me off my skis and throwing me up in his shoulders or something crazy like that.
22.) sebring FL is our favorite vacation spot. been going there since i was like 10.
23.) dave has become a turkey hunter now that we live in TN. we actually ate a wild bird for thanksgiving this year and it was really yummy. we cooked it on the grill on the rostisseri.
24.) dave and i have always gone crazy with halloween costumes. garrets first year he was a pirate. 2nd year he was a shepherd, we made little sheep and then rigged up this belt that made it look like the sheep were following him. next year he was jonah in the whale and rae was a minnow, the next year he was a robot and rae was a cow girl, and last year the girls were butterflies and he was the butterfly catcher. fun times....
25.) i LOVE this pic of just the 3 us before the girls were born, just had to throw it in.
26.) dave has a motorcycle. i love to ride with him. never tried riding myself, dont really care to. one time he asked me to move it over in the garage and it fell on me! not good.
26.) this was our first house in florida. loved this place it was so artsy and cool!
27.) when we first got married we lived in a one bed apartment in Boca Manor. loved that little place, it was perfect for us. it was close to everything we walked a lot of places28.) then we moved down the hall to a two bedroom apartment so dave could have an office.
29.) when we first moved to tn we lived in a double wide out by the camp. we did lots of work to it. it was huge and the kids had so much room to play in there. then in May of 2007 we moved into town to be closer to church and school and friends. we love it here.
30.) and really random pic at the end.... this picture was taken the day we found out we were pregnant with raelyn.
Saturday, March 7, 2009
first 25... 25 things about the kids
1. garret is so strong, it blows me away the physical strength this boy has.
2. he is doing pretty good in kindergarten although he finds it really hard to stay focused.
3. he loves to eat at Pizza Inn
4. he loves to eat anything really!
5. raelyn loves to do whatever her brother does
6. so that means she loves Pizza Inn too
7. however she wont eat anything, she is much more picky
8. raelyn has the most amazing eyes i have ever seen
9. she had to much hair when she was born we called her tina turner
10. i had all my babies with no pain meds!
11. brenna is sweet as can be
12. i felt like i was totally in control of my body when i gave birth to her. it was an amazing experience.
13. i was REALLY sick right before she was born
14. i wasnt due for another week but my mom came into town to help me get better and take care of the other kids, the day she was supposed to head back home, i went into labor.
15. it was great to have her here, gods timing is perfect.
16. brenna sucks her thumbs, garret took a pacifier, and raelyn did neither. she wouldnt even take a bottle.
17. it is amazing to me how different my kids are.... i hate when people say the raise all their kids the same way, of course that wont work, the kids are all different, you have to raise them according to their needs
18. raelyn called daves motorcyle a "roller coaster" the other day
19. brenna is talking so much these days and picks up a new word each day
20. garret knows 78 out of 90 site words we have been working on since the beginning of the year
21. raelyn loves for me to read her stories. she memorizes most of them.
22. the state of tennessee has this amazing book club called the Imagination Library. each month the kids get a new hard cover book for free until they are 5 years old. it is so fun for me to go to the mailbox and see a new book.
23. garret and brenna share a room b/c raelyn is a night owl and would keep brenna up all night
24. all the kids wake up to early for me.
25. i really cant believe i have three kids to be honest. it is way harder than i ever thought it would be. i think discipline is my biggest challenge. i didnt have a clue that it would be all day everyday, correcting and redirecting, but God is good and he promises to never give me more than i can handle. (well at least he sends dave home just in time :)
2. he is doing pretty good in kindergarten although he finds it really hard to stay focused.
3. he loves to eat at Pizza Inn
4. he loves to eat anything really!
5. raelyn loves to do whatever her brother does
6. so that means she loves Pizza Inn too
7. however she wont eat anything, she is much more picky
8. raelyn has the most amazing eyes i have ever seen
9. she had to much hair when she was born we called her tina turner
10. i had all my babies with no pain meds!
11. brenna is sweet as can be
12. i felt like i was totally in control of my body when i gave birth to her. it was an amazing experience.
13. i was REALLY sick right before she was born
14. i wasnt due for another week but my mom came into town to help me get better and take care of the other kids, the day she was supposed to head back home, i went into labor.
15. it was great to have her here, gods timing is perfect.
16. brenna sucks her thumbs, garret took a pacifier, and raelyn did neither. she wouldnt even take a bottle.
17. it is amazing to me how different my kids are.... i hate when people say the raise all their kids the same way, of course that wont work, the kids are all different, you have to raise them according to their needs
18. raelyn called daves motorcyle a "roller coaster" the other day
19. brenna is talking so much these days and picks up a new word each day
20. garret knows 78 out of 90 site words we have been working on since the beginning of the year
21. raelyn loves for me to read her stories. she memorizes most of them.
22. the state of tennessee has this amazing book club called the Imagination Library. each month the kids get a new hard cover book for free until they are 5 years old. it is so fun for me to go to the mailbox and see a new book.
23. garret and brenna share a room b/c raelyn is a night owl and would keep brenna up all night
24. all the kids wake up to early for me.
25. i really cant believe i have three kids to be honest. it is way harder than i ever thought it would be. i think discipline is my biggest challenge. i didnt have a clue that it would be all day everyday, correcting and redirecting, but God is good and he promises to never give me more than i can handle. (well at least he sends dave home just in time :)
100 post
oh man, i just hit my 100th post! so a few of my friends blogged 100 things about themselves when they hit this mark. i am feeling kind of overwhelmed by that. i will have to break it up for sure. we will see if you actually get 100 things out of me....
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