Home and quiet

Everyday is a special gift from God. I thank him everyday for my family, my home, my job(stay at home mom) and the financial means for all of these. Right now I feel blessed to sit in a quiet home while Blaine and Mia are playing so nice in the basement and George has been asleep for the last hour. I am just overwhelmed with the reality of how fortunate we are. I have recently been following a couple of family blogs that have small children who have leukemia. It literally makes me feel I'll for them! I can't imagine the fear, worries, pain, and angry feelings that must cross over them. But they are so positive and able to appreciate every moment with their child. One in particular, just lost her son Tyler. She is an amazing mom who has 3 boys. They are all pretty much the same ages as our kids. His funeral was yesterday... I just keep reminding myself to hold my babies close...I swear I am going to rock george to sleep until he is 18! And I will always encourage our kids to sleep in our bed. Those are the best cuddle times.

Anyways, I just love my family so much...nothing else matters more than being a mom and a wife. Even though I suck at house cleaning and laundry oh and cooking...but I am a good mom! :)

So Blaine had his second basketball game this morning. I didn't get to go because it was at 8 in the morning (getting out the door with all 5 of us and be somewhere by that time is nearly impossible) and because I had to teach stroller class. Randy said it was bad. Kids just don't understand the game and their skills are so raw that it's just rough.

Mia had gymnastics again on wednesday. She did good. She didn't fall this time on the beam. She actually did really well on the beam. I love it. I love watching her. I love seeing her little butt in her little black outfit. She is the cutest!

George loves randy. If he is around I'm chopped liver. Today they were outside together and George fell and hit his fore head on the cement. Left him a scuff mark right in the middle of his head! Randy scooped him up with his big arms and just held him. The sweetest! Best little buddies they are.

Tomorrow is my dad's birthday. We are going to make tacos and ice cream cake for his dinner. I'm excited:) love my parents and I love that they live across the street...I'm never moving and they can never die (that's a whole other story in my heart)

Gonna get better!

I've realized lately how quickly everything seems to come and go...I want to put the brakes on life and just coast for a while! I am in the best part of my life!!! It seems that everyday I catch myself wiping tears from down my face because I am overwhelmed with the blessings that god trusts in me! So I just want to hold on to it all so tightly.... I'm realizing that isn't how god intended for life to happen so I am forced to blog about it so that when I am old and grey I can look back on this special journey (LIFE)
Blaine is 4! Mia just turned 3. George is 15 months. I realized the other day that Mia was born when Blaine was 15 months! What? How can he be 4? and when did George happen? Ha! It seems they are growing so fast and i'm not even aware of it! So my new focus (since I can't have anymore babies) will be to slow down and take in every moment with the three amazing kids I have!
Blaine started pre-k this year. He is learning his letters, how to cut with scissors, how to stand in line, and how to play respectfully with others. Whew, thankful for his teacher!!! Happy it's not my job to handle 20 pre-k kids at once! He also started playing soccer this year. He played in the spring and fall. In the spring he was clueless for most of the games. By fall, he was scoring goals and running in the right direction! Randy coaches the kids. He does great, and Blaine enjoys having his dad as the coach too. This winter he is doing basketball....that's another story! 4 year olds were not intended for basketball I don't believe. Too many skill requirements for the kids, game rules, and energy in one small court! But randy is surviving it...
Mia is a princess literally! We had her 3rd birthday party yesterday... 8 princesses, 3 knights, and a handful of grandparents all were in attendance. All the girls dressed to the hill in their princess dress up outfits, tiara's, plastic high heels, rings, necklaces, and lipstick to attend mia's ball! It was the cutesy. Mia wore her tangled dress. The kids made beaded necklaces, ate little star sandwiches, little bite sized cookies, cupcakes, and drank tea (pink lemonade!) then they opened presents and played outside in the princess castle that grandpa Henry and cousin Carly made for her out of cardboard. So cute! this was the funnest girly event that I have ever been to and I thoroughly enjoyed planning it and watching it take place.
For her birthday, Mia wanted to do gymnastics...so we enrolled her and she had her first class last Wednesday. I bought her a leotard, Nike track suit to go onerous it, put a ribbon in her hair and off we went. I'm not sure who was more excited for this? Me or her!?! I put her in the 4 year old class because it was 45 minutes instead of 30 and because she is pretty good at following directions for her age. She did wonderful. After class she wanted to walk on the little beam that's only 1 inch off the floor. So I let her... Omg! She made it all the way across and then I told her to walk back on it. She got about a third of the way back and she slipped!!! She hit her potty straight down. She started crying real loud and saying my potty my potty over and over! I felt so bad for her. And I think I might have threatened my mom of the year award for letting her do this without holding her hand...lesson learned! She is recovered and ready to get back on the horse this week though. Yes! That's my girl!
George is currently sleeping. Ahhhhhhhh. Love him to pieces. He is the best baby. He is in love with his dadda in this phase of his life. Won't come to me when dadda is near. It is the greatest! I'm so thankful that God gave me such a wonderful man and dad for our family! George is working on his stairs. He has fallen down them several times so I am a little Leary of having him go by himself but we are working on them so that he can venture downstairs to the play room by himself to play with mia and Blaine. He hates being left out at the top of the stairs crying at the gate to go down.
Did I mention how grateful I am that I get to be home with my family everyday!???! I used to be at work dreaming of ways to get to stay home with my kids. Now I get to! I used to think. What if we cut money here, or there, or there, or we do this instead of that, maybe I could be a stay at hone mom...I used to always end those conversations with myself with well it will never happen but it would be nice. NOW I AM!!! Wow! What a blessing to watch my kids grow everyday.
Yesterday we also celebrated randy's 6 year anniversary since his heart surgery. Tomorrow marks 6 years ago since His valve replacement. We had a small run in our neighborhood. The Mcvay 5k. It was good. It's amazing to realize how much we have been blessed with in the last 6 years since that scary day! November 8, 2005!
Time to make dinner...one of the joys of staying home each day for my family! I love my life!

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BABY #3...

Well... we found out a few weeks ago that we are going to have another baby...that is 3 all within 3 years. We are excited but also stressing about some of the changes this will bring. I've decided not to find out the sex of this baby before it's born. Randy would like to though. We go to the sonogram on March 8th...about 4 weeks from now. Blaine is working on potty training on the weekends but during the weeks he soon forgets all and is back to play mode! We are also working on him sleeping in his OWN bed. He tends to think that his bed is "Dadda's bed" Mia is so smart...she says so many words at just 14 months...oh actually 15 months old today! She says cheese, shoes on, socks off, cold, juice, uh oh, momma, dadda, pa pa, BEW, eat, candy, pancake, eggs, poo poo, potty, and so much more... she's amazing! Such a talker...and she loves the men in her life...Dadda, pa, henry, papa...she gets so excited when she see's them! Our house is full and such a joy...sometimes alot of work. but it's worth it.
We got alot of snow in Wichita last weekend so we took the kids to sled on a big hill. Blaine went down it alot on his own. He is a dare devil and so brave. He loves to play and just...be a boy! Mia rode down a couple of times on momma's lap...I think she held her breath the whole way but she squealed with joy at the end and seemed to really like it too. It was so much fun...Blaine loves trains, firetrucks, airplanes, helicopters...all the boy stuff and Mia is in love with her Baby! Oh my she loves her baby! Randy is coaching Independent and Collegiate swim teams this year and has some new challenges with that but is doing great at it. He is also working hard to complete his Masters in PE through Emporia State University and should be done by the end of 2010. All is good...I will update again soon! em

Well...it's been a YEAR since I blogged last...I guess you could say shortly after I thought that would be a good idea...I had another baby and lost all track of time. Mia was born November 3, 2008. So she just turned 1 last week. She is a happy baby. She began sleeping through the night at about 7 months old so life has been very good for mom! At about the same time Blaine began climbing out of his crib and landing on the floor so we had to move him to a big boy bed. He likes this but usually ends up in bed with Randy and I... we don't mind...we secretly like it! I will update with pics and details soon....I was just checking to see if I knew how to blog still! em

Halloween!

We went to our first official Halloween Hullabaloo on Saturday! Blaine was a shark of course. He looked so cute in his little white tights! He loved it! He got to jump in the inflatable bouncy house and go down the inflatable slide. Which he discovered...if he stopped himself on the way down he could climb back to the top and not have to get off the ride! Pretty genius of him! It was really cute and everyone laughed at his neat trick while they had to stand in line and wait while Dad had to ride down with him. He ran from one end of the gym and was in awe of the big giant skeletons that were hanging from the ceilings.

Well, I went back to the Dr. yesterday. I am dialated to a 3 now, still 70% effaced. So, it should be anyday that we have this baby...but, who knows. I scheduled an induction date of Tuesday November 4th. So, no matter what this baby should be out within the next week! Thank goodness! I'm not a good pregnant person!

Soon we will be a family of 4! Wow!

trying this out...

I'm new to this... so don't make fun of me! I know it's been around for a while but just decided that it's such a great way to store our life and family memories that would easily be forgotten. I'm not good at writing letters or keeping journals so hopefully this will inspire me to document more of our life.





I love my family. It's going to be growing soon and so this is all the more reason to start a blog now, I guess! I just left the dr. office. I'm dialated to a 2 and 70% effaced! That is good news for me, because when I entered the hospital to be induced when I was pregnant with Blaine I was a 1 and not really effaced at all. And we still have 2 weeks to go in this pregnancy! So, hopefully that means the baby should be here soon.





Randy and I still have not chosen a name. We have alot of ideas but neither of us can agree or even take the next step to making it official. So, if anyone has some good suggestions send them our way....that reminds me. Last night we got online (AGAIN) to look at girl names and somehow Randy got on a website that had a list of crazy and funny things that people had named their kids. No lie this one was real! The only good news is that it was from some foreign country. Here it is....say it out loud a couple of times... Athole Thmelly! Someone really named their sweet baby that! Wow!

I have added a picture of Blaine in the bath tub...so cute!

I'm dying to see what this post is going to look like so, I will do this again soon hopefully. If not you know I at least tried to be up with everyone else!