The B-I-B-L-E

I was so excited Sunday when I went to pick the Princess up from her class after church to hear how much she LOVES the Bible!!

They told me that she would run up to it and then showed me a picture they had taken of her laying down with the Bible in front of her and a little boy laying down in front of her and she was reading it to him!!

They said she loves the Bible time in her class. She is also the "worship leader" in her class. She has been the worship leader in her class for quite a while now.

I will hold my Bible up and ask her what it is and you can tell she is saying Bible - you just don't quite hear the "l" on it yet.

She does love to get my Bible sometime and flip the pages. Now I just wonder if she is going to like Bibles as much as me. I love Bibles! You would almost think I collect Bibles because I like all the different types and have quite a few. I took these pictures today of her "reading" my Bible!

Happy Valentines Day!!

Valentines being on Monday is not so bad. We normally do not go out to dinner on Valentine's day because everything is so busy!! This weekend I told hubby he had taken me out twice for Valentines since we ate out Friday night and Saturday night. Tonight, I made a really simple meal. Pizza:). Homemade pizza though, not take out.

This morning Hubby surprised me with pink roses!  I found out he and the Princess went and got them last night while I was at a meeting!  I was not expecting any at all.  Before we had the Princess, he use to always send me roses to work.   I have never seen pink roses like the ones he gave me this year...they actually have "zebra" in the name and have a stripe on them.  Considering how much I love animal print I think they are pretty cool!!!

Today the Princess and I were quite busy. We had lunch with a friend and then we went and got a balloon to take to the cemetery for Kate. We actually got one mylar and then a couple of balloons we could put in her flowers.

I had not yet gone and picked out new winter flowers and Kate's vase like many others today still had poinsettias in it. I have been thinking about it for about a month but with all the bad weather we have had and I like Hubby to go with me to pick them out I just have not gone yet.

So, when the Princess woke up from her nap I loaded her up and looked up and saw a bag of flowers that I had in my garage. I instantly decided I would take them and even though they are a little summery it would brighten up Kate's marker until I find something different to take out there.

Later this week I will have to go back out and remove the heart balloons and that should help the arrangement look a little better.  There are three of the heart balloons squeezed in there...you can only see one of them really good in this picture.  I thought the frog balloon was so cute! The Princess seemed to like it too!!

I hope you all had a wonderful Valentines Day too!!

The Princess With Sadie And Possibly An Attachment Toy....

So the other day I was in the kitchen and Sadie and the Princess were in the living room when I heard Sadie and looked to see what she was doing.  I hurried back to the kitchen to get my camera because this is what I saw....

I have said several times when people ask what is the Princess favorite toy that she does not really have one.  She has never really been attached to any toy or blanket.  Well, we think we may be seeing a change.  For her birthday in July she received a little doll and a hat from two different people.  Well, lately she is always wanting to wear the hat and the doll is in her hand alot!!  So, we are thinking she may have finally found her attachment toy (I guess that is what it is called).  I told hubby that if she continues doing this we should probably find out where the doll and hat came from and buy another one to put up just in case something happens to the ones she has.

The Princess and I are just hanging out at home today.  The ice and snow are melting but it is COLD!!!  Maybe we will venture out tomorrow for a while:)

Super Bowl and Winter Weather.....

We had a great Super Bowl party this past Sunday! I should have taken the group picture earlier because some had already left when I thought to take it.  There were about 30 people here and the Princess had so much fun playing with all the kiddos! It is so funny to watch her with older kids because I think she thinks she is just as old as them! We had lots of yummy food to choose from. A few years back I had made a table cloth to look like a football field. I had used it several times over the past few years and when I pulled it out for the Cotton Bowl party it did not look good any longer so I threw it away. Hubby and I made a new one for the years Super Bowl. Hubby helped me make both of them because he measures out the yard lines so they are spaced evenly apart:) I did not get a picture of it when it had the football and the plates in the end zone for the two teams but I did take a picture of it at the end of the night when nothing was left on it!

So, we have snow and ice AGAIN!! I don't think we got as much snow as they were predicting but schools are closed. I am excited that the trash was able to run today because last week they were unable to pick up our trash due to bad weather so we have gone TWO weeks without them coming by....but thankfully they have already picked up the trash today!!  I just looked at the weather and it is showing that tonight we are suppose to be in the single digits again!!  I went to the store and restocked yesterday along with everyone else in the town I think!!

Ice Storm and then SNOW!!!

Monday of this week I was running around trying to make sure I stocked up on what we needed because we had an ice storm coming our way (along with many other states). I was thinking we would be stuck in the house for maybe two days...ha! I finally got out of the house yesterday (Friday)!! About midnight on Thursday night/Friday morning it started snowing - we got around 7 inches the last time I heard on the news. We have to get out today so that I can get what we need for the Super Bowl party! The Princess had fun in the snow today!

Hubby made a video of the Princess walking in the snow today but I am going to have to figure out how to get it on my blog.   I did take the pictures in this post with my phone so they are not that great!

So, I don't know why but this week I have been a little lax on the Princess bedtime. I guess because we were not getting out and so she did not have to get up early so why not?? Now, next week, when we are back on our regular schedule if the weather clears up I am sure I will be telling Hubby around 8 - 8:30 that it is time for her to go to bed! Anyway, yesterday we had a late lunch with friends (yes, we got out in the snow and went to lunch) so the Princess fell asleep on our way to lunch, so say maybe 10 -15 minutes and that was it. While we were eating dinner last night I looked and she could hardly hold her eyes open....

Guess who went to bed early (or on time) last night????

Where Have I Been???

My goal the beginning of the year, to blog everyday or almost everyday. I did not say that was my New Years Resolution just my goal. Well, there is a little girl in my life better known as the Princess that takes priority over just about everything. I want to blog about her everyday because I know she does little things that if I don't write them down I may not remember them.

Well, this has been quite a week! We do live in the South not the North. If you were to look out our windows you would think we possibly lived in the North. First, we had three days of ice and then about midnight I guess it was last night it started snowing. It snowed quite a bit today and we have at least 6-7 inches of snow according to the news. Earlier today I heard seven inches! Wow, the Princesses first two winters have had an unusual amount of snow!!

The Princess turned 18 months on the 6th of January. Hubby's friend invited him and the Princess to go to a basketball game. They had a great time!! I thought it was really neat how it happened to be on her 18 month birthday!! Here is a picture of them getting ready to drive to meet up with everyone for dinner and then drive to the city to the game!

The Cotton Bowl was on the 7th!! We had our friends who are Aggie fans come over. That was a fun night since we are LSU fans - it is always fun to watch a ball game with the opposing team! It is fun no matter if we lose or win, but we just happened to win that night!!  We have even watched the Arkansas/LSU game with HOG fans - and we lost the year we did that:(.

The first snow storm came on Sunday the 8th of January!  When we went to church that morning there was no snow (it was in the forecast though) and when we got out of church there were snowflakes falling.  We can normally make it home from church in probably 15 minutes or so.  I had gone to the store the day before and stocked up knowing that the forecast was predicting snow but Hubby decided he wanted to chili and I had not picked up the stuff we needed for that.  We drove to the grocery store and I ran in along with half the town to pick up a few more needed items and then we came home to eat lunch.  The roads were already getting slick!  It probably took us 1 1/2 hours or so from the time we got out of church, drove to the grocery store and then drove home.  Leaving church and driving to the store and then home we would probably be able to do in 45 minutes on a normal day!! (The picture at the beginning of this post is from this snow storm too).  On the Wednesday after this snow storm we still had snow in our backyard! 

This month the Princess also went in for her 18 month well visit! She was in the 75th percentile for her weight and the 80 percentile for height!! She also got her first sucker at the doctors office this time. We have never given her a sucker so this was a real treat for her!! She.Loved.It!!!!

As you can tell we have had a busy month...I can't think of anything off the top of my head that we did the rest of the month...see, that is why I need to blog everyday because I am probably missing something really great I need to remember:)

Hope you all have a great weekend!!  And hopefully, just hopefully I will be blogging a bit more!  Trying to take pictures everyday really helped me remember what we were doing at least some of the time:)

Happy New Year!

Well, I really planned on posting this on Saturday but that did not happen. So, I am a day late...hopefully I finish this post before midnight so I am only a day late rather than two days late:)

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Before Christmas we had some really cute pics made by my friend Jen (you may remember she posted for me when the Princess was born and we were in the hospital). Hubby has already gone to bed and I am not sure where the disk is so here are a few of the pics that are on my computer! I have not even had a chance to download my Christmas pictures yet so for this post it will be the pictures from out little photo shoot...including the picture above!

Last year we called Santa and had him come to our house rather than standing in all the lines because the Princess was so young and there was so much sickness going around. Well, Hubby said that was the way to go so we did the same thing this year. My friend Jen came over that evening also and she, hubby and I were all taking pictures. This is one of the pics she got of the Princess and Santa. The Princess was scared of Santa this year but he was great about just sitting in the floor and letting her come up to him. Thanks Jen for telling us about "Santa" that comes to your house!! I highly recommend it too!!!

This years picture (2010)

Last Years Picture (2009)
I had to throw this one in....see how much she has changed!!

The Princess was so much fun this Christmas! Although she really was not to "into" her gifts as she was opening them or should I say as we opened them she has enjoyed playing with them. As I have said to some before when she gets new toys it is like me getting something new to because it is something new for all three of us around her to really play with!!

Christmas Eve we went to church and then came home. This year I hosted our Christmas Eve Tamale Party with our friends the P's. My friend Amy started this about 4 years ago. We have done it every year since except for last year as I think they were out of town last year on Christmas Eve. This year her parents were in town so they joined us along with our friends the H's. I was so excited to host because last year we did not decorate alot and this year we decorated and put up Kate's village so it was fun to host this year!

Christmas Day we went back home for a few days. The Princess had three more Christmas' when we got there. Hubby and I had decided to do the "3 Gifts". She gets three gifts from Santa, three gifts from us and then I decided I would put three gifts in her stocking (this year we only had two things in her stocking). I think we are going to be really happy we are doing this. At my last MOPS meeting we talked about different things people do at Christmas and some of the other mom's said they wish they had done that - I hope it will help the Princess keep the focus on what the real meaning of Christmas. It is fun to give things to her and there is so much out there but we have to remember it is not all about the stuff. That we celebrate Christmas because it is Jesus birthday!!

For New Year's Eve we went to our friends the C's. Last year we spent NYE with them and because I do not like to be on the road on NYE and they moved further north we spent the night. Well, this year we did the same thing. All four of us again...I say four, Hubby, the Princess, Sadie (our lab) and me. Sadie went last year too and she plays well with their dogs. We also have breakfast on New Year's Day and this year we also had lunch before we headed home. We had a great time...it was so much fun!

We spent today going to church and running errands and being lazy. Lazy is what I have got to quit being!! Hubby was off most for about 2 1/2 weeks in December so we have enjoyed staying up late, sleeping in (whatever that means with a 17 1/2 month old) and just being lazy when we wanted to. Tomorrow that all changes. Back to our regular schedules!!

This year I am trying to do the 365 days of pictures. Where I will take a picture of the Princess everyday and then post it. I took one yesterday with my iPhone but forgot to take one today. I should run and take one of her sleeping I guess but I would hate to wake her up so I may just have to post two pictures tomorrow:)

Hopefully doing the 365 pictures will make me blog a little more!!!

Hope you all have a great Monday! The first Monday of 2011!!!