10.4.10

Yes, I know. I was a slacker last week. No Monday pictures. I took them, I just decided to sleep instead of blog. It was a tough decision. So... 

Greetings this fine Monday from

Goose, who wanted to help with laundry today.

And from Bubs, who really needs to work on a better nap schedule because doing this for only 15 minutes at a time every 2-3 hours, is getting really old.

But he sure is darn cute when he does sleep.

I have a whole list of things I need/want to blog about but finding the time to do it is getting tricky. So I've decided to leave it up to you. You tell me what you want to hear about...

* I made "A Christmas Carol" at Hale Center Theater.

* Lucy is becoming quite the ballerina.

* Porter is 6 months old and rolling all over the place like a mad man. 

 

* My little brother Reagan gets home from his mission in less then 6 months.

* Lucy is quite the conversationalist.

* The Matern party of 4 will soon be a party of 5...

I think that'll do. 

Monday 9.20.10

Greetings this fine Monday (it may be 10:29 PM, but it's still Monday) from...

My Bubs, who's baby blues I cannot get enough of.

And from the Goose, who spent most of her day here in the "Time Out" chair...

and here in her room with the door closed cause the Mom needed a Time Out.

Cause frankly it was one of those please-go-play-in-your-room-for-a-while-so-I-can-catch-my-breath-and-put-aside-the-temptation-to-throw-you-in-the-dumpster kind of days? You know what I'm talking about. (And if not, then I must be a terrible mother...) Yeah, it was DEFINTELY one of those days.

Monday 9.13.10

My cousin Nike (Knee-kah) has 6 kids and an awesome blog called "The Dirty Half Dozen". I am constantly amazed by how she does it with 6 kids under the age of 8. I couldn't do it. I'm barely surviving with the 2 I have. Every Thursday she does what she calls her "Thursday Pictures". She post pictures of each of her kids from that day with a short caption. I love it so much that I've decided to do it myself...

So greetings this fine Monday from

My Little Crazies...

Goose, who thinks that this is a "pretty, ballerina smile".

And from Bubba, who has survived the morning thus far without too many beatings from the Goose.

(This will also ensure that I update my blog at least once a week...)

Quiet...

The kiddos are sleeping and it's eerily quiet in my house. You would think that I would be loving this right now. But it's too quiet. I have so much that I shold be doing that could easily take my mind off of it, but instead I sit here, blogging. And I'm ok with that.

My Little Ballerina

Goose has her first dance class today.There might be some tears, happy ones of course. I can't believe she's so grown up.

What happened to my baby?

( These pictures were taken for a good friend of mine who is opening up a brand new dance studio, The Learning Circle, LLC, courtesy of Kate Johnson Photography. I am also going to be teaching Musical Theater at the studio which I am so super excited about. More to come on that later...)

Why yes, it has been 2 months since I was here...

Well, not technically. I been here many a time, staring at my computer tryign to think of something witty and fun to write, but nothin'. Summer has pretty much come and gone now adn what did we do with it? I don't really remember. I spent most of my evenings doing a little something called...

It was a blast! Met some incredible people that I will love for the rest of my life. But The Husband is sure glad to have me back.

We did a lot of this...

and this...

Now that summer is over, I am determined to be back and better than ever. I'm finally getting the hang of 2 kids now and 97% of the time I love it! The other 3% of the time is when my house is a mess, my kids are crying and I am exhausted. But this is what I signed up for. (I've had to remind myself of that about 5 times today...)

New blog address...

As you can see, I've renamed our blog. And I am also going to be taking it out of the private setting for now. We'll see if I decide to keep it this way or go back to private. I have soooooo much to update on and I think I'm going to start doing things a little differently, so stay tuned!!