I love the Fall!

This is the greatest time of the year. I love all the stuff that we are doing, decorating the house for fall, going to the pumpkin patch, the hobo supper at church, and all the fall type stuff. I am looking forward to the first pot of soup for the year. It is really weird how much I love cooking when the air starts to turn colder. Next weekend is the Hobo Supper, and I am excited to go and play all the corny games with the kids. Emma and I are going to bake some desserts for the cake walk later on this week. She is super excited to help mom cook.

Tuesday is Emma's field trip to the Pumpkin patch in Mayflower. We are going to spend the entire day out there with a hayride, and farm tour. Emma is most excited about riding the school bus. Her dream of going to school was to ride the bus...what a dream to have. Her teacher told her that the bus is only fun when you ride it going on a field trip. Thank goodness, she was able to change Em's mind, because she did not believe mom and dad.


Another thing I love to do is watch the Houston Astros. Today is the las game of the season, and also the last game for Craig Biggio. We are of course watching the game, and I am of course boo hooing. Unfortunately the season for the Stros is over today, and I am ready for next season.
Hopefully we will have a great fall, with healthy kids and family.

A quiet week

This week Abbi Grace is at my mom's. She was the only grandchild that was not able to spend the week with them this summer, and currently the only one not going to school. So, during the day it is just me. What to do, what to do? I am trying to get the house good and clean, so that we can declutter and rearrange. Why are we as people obsessed with having stuff? I have so much stuff, Emma has a ton of stuff, and Abbi Grace is on her way to having to much stuff. It has been a lit easier to clean this week with Grace gone, b/c her favorite thing to do is walk behind me and take the things that I put up, to a different room. She then says "mom, come see dis, I helpin cwean. Come on." I then follow her to a random room where she shows me how she has moved everything. In her defense, I am usually taking toys from the living room and putting them in the play room, so she is doing the same. I am ready for her to come home. I miss all the funny things that she says, and the silly little things she does.

I am getting to spend a lot of quality time with Emma. It has been nice. I miss just the me and her time. I had lunch with her at school today, and I am planning on doing that again this week. It is so much fun to see her at school. She is such a big girl now. Next week we will be back to the run around of our every day life of a family of four, but for now it is just a quiet week with just us three.

Abbi Dabbi Do

So, I am such a great mother, that I forgot to post about my little Abbi’s Birthday which was yesterday. I feel awful, so here is a post all about the sweetest little Abbi Grace in the whole world.

She has been since birth, an easy child. Very easy going(compared to her sister)and happy to play on her own. My little Gracie is so sweet and loving, she will always give you a big kiss and hug when she sees you. And she will always cuddle up and snuggle with you.

She is also very quiet, almost sneaky. She will wander off, and do really silly things. The other day after her Birthday party, we found her in her diaper eating the frosting off of her birthday cake. She was in her diaper, because I have told my kiddos countless times that they cannot eat in their dress up clothes. So of course she had to ditch the dress to eat the cake. We started laughing, because we did not even see her standing behind us. She is just so quiet.

Here are some pictures of my silly willy Abbi Grace.

What am I thinking?

Why do great ideas always sound better in your head? Lately I have come up with some doozies, here are some of my more recent bright ideas.

*Do a devo at the ladies retreat in October. (absolutely terrified)
*Lose 30 pounds by next September.
* Train for a half marathon
*Actually run a half marathon.

The first item on my list is something that I know I need to do. I keep telling myself that you have to start somewhere, and a ladies retreat is easier than the Wednesday night ladies class at church. I am still a nervous wreck, and fear the one thing that happens most to me when I get nervous. I start saying things that I should not. Incredibly stupid things that have most people looking at me with a furrowed brow and their mouths wide open. I have no filtration system from my brain to my mouth, and it constantly gets me into trouble. I am praying that God will help me to say what needs to be said, and that He keeps me focused to where I do not need to adlib.

The second idea, well it sounds good until I drive by Taco Bell. I am craving all the fast food junk right now, and so dieting seems impossible. I could really stand to lose more than 30, but I am aiming low for more of a realistic goal.

I started this week training for the half marathon. So far so good, but it is only day 2. I started the 12 week novice training program by Hal Higdon. It is not so tough right now, but it will get tougher, as most things do, as time passes on. Why do a half marathon? Well mainly because I want to do a full (another bright idea) before I turn 37. Why 37? Why not?

I have chose to do the Houston half marathon, which is January 13,2008. I read that it is flat and scenic. I do believe that I would like to have nice scenery to watch go by as I run 13.1 miles. What am I thinking? 13.1 miles, that is to many to even think about right now. I am going to focus on the day by day. Really my main goal is to have my girls see their momma being active, and trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Not a ridiculously no sugar type of lifestyle, but healthy and balanced. I would love to be able to run with my girls someday. I want them to have a love for taking care of themselves, and a love for running. Yet another bright idea, and dream.

Over scheduled

I used to say, that I would never let my kids have more than one activity after school, that we would have to rush around to do. Of course when you say never, you know that you will almost always eat your words. I promised Emma that when she turned 5 and started kindergarten, she could start ballet. Of course at our dance school, you can take 2 classes for the same price. After her 2 dance classes we head across town to soccer practice. She loves all of her activities, but we do not get home until 7:45pm. It is a tough day for my sweet little girl, she comes home and crashes hard. I told myself that after watching others run around town with their kids activities, that it was too much for the little ones, but now I am doing the same. Is it wrong to over schedule your child? Am I teaching her to work herself to hard when she is older? Am I going to burn her out on ballet, jazz and soccer? This is one part of motherhood that challenges me. I will post pictures of Emma in her ballet stuff next week. As of right now, she will not let me take her picture in it. She said she has not had enough classes to be a ballerina yet. Tomorrow starts another week of being over scheduled, at least until soccer is over!

The dawn of a new day!

Wow, now I know that "they" will let anyone create a blog. I never knew that it was this easy to become a blogger, which is probably a good thing. So here we go together, starting our new adventure together. I promise to post all about my kiddos, and important stuff, with tons of pictures.