Round 2, Strike 2

Well Ryan has pretty much completely covered from chicken pox. He went back to school and all is well...Until Ben got his turn. Now, this proves my theory that immunizations are a waste of time, money, and harmful to kids...ok don't get me started on that subject...anyways, Ben got the chicken pox shot and he STILL got chicken pox. He actually got a worse case of them than Ryan. Poor kid. He even has them in his eyes...yuck! So I guess now I just need to wait to see if Lizzie gets 'em, which at this point Im almost positive she will...its just a waiting game at this point.

My first sale

Some of you may not know, but I've started my own Cloth Diapering business. (you can check it out at www.hyenacart.com/cuddlebugcloth).

Anyways, I had my first sale today! Woo Hoo! Actually I sold 4 diapers today. I really did not expect this type of response this fast! Sooo looks like Im going to be sewing my little fingers off tomorrow :)

For all you dieters out there...

After starting a new diet I altered my drive to work to avoid passing my favorite bakery. I accidentally drove by the bakery this morning and as I approached, there in the window were a host of goodies. I felt this was no accident, so I prayed ... "Lord, it's up to You, if You want me to have any of those delicious goodies, create a parking place for me directly in front of the bakery." And sure enough, on the eighth time around the block, there it was! "God is so Good!"

Kinda like being snowed in...but not really..

Thanks to this...I am completely stuck at home...canNOT go anywhere..at. all. not even grocery shopping...




YUP, that would be CHICKEN POX. Ryan started about 8 days ago. Needless to say he is driving me a little nutty being home and bored. Im expecting Lizzie to start any day now. I did not have any intention of immunizing my kids against CP simply because they were claiming it was only 70-80% effective. Somehow Ben managed to get that immunization...so for his sake, hopefully the immunization works.

I will probably be off blogger for a little while until this clears out of my house !! :)

Here Comes The Bride...

Yup, the day finally arrived that my littlest and yet biggest brother Josiah got married to his highschool sweetheart, Chelsea. It was, of course, a beautiful ceremony.





On a side note, my sister and I did our neices hair since she was the flower girl. We managed to get this little 3 1/2 year old to sit still for 2 1/2 hours while we curled, crimped, banded and glued her hair...yup you read right...we GLUED her hair. See those cute adorable little ribbon rosettes in her hair? We couldn't get them to stay on, so we used my handy dandy hot glue gun and glued 'em to her head (with her moms permission of course) I guess they got them out just fine because when I saw her yesterday, she didn't have them in her hair anymore *giggle*





The happily married couple along with my neice Ashley aka the flower girl and my nephew Corban aka ring bearer.



I will post some of their professional pictures at a later date after my brother gets them from their photographer. We took one large family photo that Im hoping turned out great :)

Public Announcement

I haven't had the opportunity to publicly announce this...but...

Im going to be an Aunt. Again. x2.

My sister Anna is due for her first baby in June and my sister-in-law (anthonys sister) is due for her first baby in or around September.

Yay...babies, babies, and more babies.

I can't wait to find out whether they are having boys or girls so I can start buying STUFF ~ yay for shopping!

Let it snow...

Ahh yes, then there was the snow storm we had...ugh! The boys loved it though. It was exciting to them to have snow for Christmas, and it definitely kept them all busy while home on school break.

At least we got only "just enough" snow. We are lucky we live in an area that doesn't get slammed like Denver.

Anyways, heres some pictures of the kids playing in the snow along with their very first "made by themselves" snowman. Lizzie didn't get to go outside to play with them, so she just watched them from the window.

Once again...

Its catch-up time. Weve had tons of stuff going on here, just no time to blog about it.

First let me start with a funny story of something that happened to me today...

I was out running my list of long errands, one of which included stopping at the post office to mail off some packages. Lizzie was with me and was carrying around her pooh bear sticker she got from the bank. As I finished paying for my postage I picked Lizzie up to leave. A lady who was in line a few people behind me said "Excuse me miss, you dropped something". I realized LIzzie had dropped her sticker so I set Lizzie down to pick up her sticker and the same lady remarked at how cute she was. She told me to have Lizzie pick out a stuffed animal that was hanging on the chain next to the register. (Do all post offices have these or just mine??) Anyways, I nicely told her "thanks, but no thanks". She insisted so I thought, what harm could it do, right?

So Lizzie picks this one out...



we get out to the car and as Im buckling Lizzie in her carseat I decide to remove the tag off the bear so she doesnt eat it. Thats when I noticed this....


I wonder if this nice lady knew she was buying my drooling, slobering daughter an $11 (plus tax) very small stuffed animal??

Christmas Program

Every year the boys schools, like most schools do a christmas program. Heres a little video clip of my future stars in their Christmas debuts. (The girl zoomed in on during Ryans program is my neice, Kaley, the blonde in the back row.) Ryan is the one standing next to the redheaded girl (also zoomed in on).

The video takes a few minutes to load, but its worth it to see the goof my son Ben has become :)

Boys Christmas Programs
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