Happy Birthday Emma Claire!

6 years ago, I sat in a bed at Baptist hospital in Little Rock Arkansas, patiently waiting for the doctor to come in and say "you are fully dialated, and it is time to start pushing!" Of course my body had other plans and hung on another 2 hours and 52 minutes before my sweet Emma Claire was born. Tonight when she was lying in bed, I told her the story of the day she was born. She loves the story, but has started asking questions about the whole having a baby process. Emma is fascinated by how much we loved her, and could not wait for her to come out and join our family. She asked me tonight if I kissed on her as soon as she was born. I of course said yes, to which she scrunched her nose and said " oh gross momma! I was covered in blood and guts, that is just disgusting! Why would you do that?" I had to tell the truth, I didn't do that!! I told the doctor to clean her up before he handed her to me,because I thought it was gross. I am not a big fan of the just out of the belly unclean baby look. DO NOT JUDGE ME!!!!!!


We are having a hard night tonight, because she is not understanding that her party is not on her actual birthday. We go thru this every year, but it does not seem to help. We just cannot compete with Toad Suck Daze. We are gonna do something special tomorrow for my sweets, so in a few minutes, I will head out to Walmart to buy a birthday balloon, some cupcakes, a card, and things like that. Tomorrow night we will go to GlowGolf to play minigolf. She is excited about glowgolf, and will be equally excited about the balloon, which is good. Emma just likes to have FUN!!
Emma Is so much fun, but quite the little handful. She is VERY independent, but so funny. Here is one of her moments that still makes me laugh. Some of the college girls were here for devo about 2 weeks ago, and I was giving the girls a bath, I walked out to talk(shocker) and this is what happened.
Emma: Momma hurry come in here!! Abbi is hurt
Me(from the living room): Abbi, sweety you are okay. Shake it off(this usually works)
Emma: she can't momma, she hurt her BABY HOLE!
Me: (completely embarassed) Emma don't say that!!
The girls in the living room were cracking up, and looking at me like "what did she just say?" So I told them about Emma starting to ask all of those questions. I panicked and just told her the first thing that popped into my head, hence Baby hole.

I just realized that maybe this is not a good story to share on the internet,but it still cracks me up. I would post pictures, but cannot find any on this computer! We will add some tomorrow on the actual birthday!

I have been Tagged!

I was Tagged by Lauryn Rydl(or whatever her maried name is)


What I was doing 10 years ago:
I was about to graduate from Harding University(May '98)
I was working part time for Hibbett Sports in Conway
I was newly married
And was living in Conway until I graduated(I thought)


Five things on my To Do list today:

Help out at the school for enrichment day
Go to lunch with Julia
Go to Toad Suck Daze with Julia
Take stuff back to Target
Get Emma from school



What I would do if I were a billionaire:

Give to the church
GET OUT OF ALL OUR DEBT
support our college ministry at church
Pay off my parents debt
support the kids in the community that go without



Three of my bad habits:

*Texting ( I am addicted)
Eating Cheezit's late at night
Saying what is on my mind as soon as it enters it!! I have NO filter


Five jobs I have had:

Chicken Deboner ( first job ever)
Accounts payable for Enron (yes, I know. But it wasn't me!!)
Accounts payable for the city of Deer Park
Radio Sales for Equity Broadcasting in Little Rock
Ad sales for Publishing Concepts group in Little Rock

Three people I want to know more about:

Jodi Beaver
Samantha Allen
Amanda Sanders

Stuck in a RUT!!

So, if you had not noticed, I have not been on the internet in a while. There is not a good reason for it like I am stuck in the bahamas without a computer, I have just not had a computer! With that being said, I feel like I have missed telling you about all the nothings that go on around here. Unfortunately, there is not much to report, unlike those of you that are trigger happy with your cameras, taking way tooo many pictures of your kiddos (which I love every one of them) I do not have any to post. I will in 2 weeks because Emma's birthday is coming up. She will be 6 this coming Saturday, but her party is the following weekend due to the TOADSUCK conflict. you read it correctly, big conflict of interest in Conway! Not many come to a party the first weekend in May due to Toadsuck Daze, the annual town celebration. Don't ask about the name, just google it!

I am going to get better about posting entries again, I promise. With tons of pictures, and funny stories, and all of that stuff you like to see on someone else's blog page!!

So, what is going on in your life? Random thoughts!

I have taken a hiatus from the computer for the past two weeks, and now I am gonna play catch up! Unfortunately, not much to tell about! Today was the MS walk in Little Rock, we had a team of 20 signed up to walk with us, only 15 showed up. It was a fun time, the only downer for the day is that Carol was not able to go with us! I called her this morning, and she said she was sick and was not going to go walk. I was so sad, but we still had so much fun! And honestly, they gave free candy bars away!!!! HELLLLLOOOOO! Can you say Great Day? Cara came up to help with the girls, and they had a blast. She took them to the Dollar Tree, and so they came home with some great outside toys!! Emma picked chalks,and Abbi FINALLY picked bubbles.

We went to momma and daddies last weekend to help them move. We took a break and went fishing out at the ponds, and of course the biggest catch of the day went to ME!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? I could hardly believe that I had a fish on the line. Not only was it the biggest, but the first of the day, weighing in at 5 pounds! Yep, a big ol sucker!! I am still not over that. I have not caught a fish since I was a little girl, and so the fact that I had no idea why my bobber was under water, cracked my daddy up! I fought that bad boy for about 10minutes, and when I got it up, I saw the massiveness of the fish.

Here are some random pictures of our day with Cara!!

Silly Faces were the main focus of our pictures today!! Emma took most of these! I know my mouth looks horrid! I was pooking my lips out!

Pictures from snow school!!

this is my favorite position...on my booty!
Here I am up, but not really for long.
I am still up. I got better as the day went on!
Here is Emma, going down the little slope.
Emma is getting better at skiing too.
Here is Maddie and Emma skiing together!


All in all a great day. Sore, bruised, and beaten up, but still standing!!

Spring Break

So, it is that time of the year. Flowers are blooming, birds are singing, grass is growing, and we are skiing. Well, I actually took a snowboarding class today. Yeah, you heard me, and I am now hooked! The guy, Jared, said I did an excellent job. But to be honest, I just wanted to look cool, so that is why I chose to snowboard. What are the odds that we would come skiing? Slim to none, until Misty called and asked if we wanted to tag with them. So here we are in Pagosa Springs Colorado. Now here is the crazy thing. In our little class of 10 today, only one girl was NOT from Arkansas. CRAZY. One girl was even from Conway......CRAZY!! I was so shocked, but then again, we never do stuff like this, so it was out of my realm of thinking that there would be more people who drove this far for skiing!So, this is the best one of me comin down the mountain. My instructor is watching on in dismay, cause you are supposed to keep your arms to your side. Oh well, it was so fun. The kiddos went to ski school too, but I did not see them much. Chase had skied before, so he went out on his own, no class necessary . The plan tonight is to put the kids to bed, and hit the hot tub. I so love this Colorado lifestyle, but I must say, I miss being at home.

Come on Spring!

Where is the Spring weather that we all love. This Arkansas crazy weather is about to drive me up the wall. I am ready for shorts and tank tops, but instead we are wearing fleece and long pants. In a couple of weeks we are headed to Colorado for spring break. I am excited about the trip because I have never been, but that is about it. I hate the cold, and especially the cold and snowy. The best part of it, is that Chase LOVES to ski. This is his ideal trip to take. My favorite trips are to the beach in the summertime. It is a good thing that this year we will both get to go to our favorite vacation spots. I am hoping to have fabulous pictures from our vacation in the snow. And hopefully soon we will have the fabulous warm weather here at home, that I miss so much on these cold days.