My THREE little pigs... NUMBER 3

Today was number 3...so you guessed it we did the three little pigs..arn't they adorable!! They enjoyed the story and going around acting like pigs..haha...kids are hilarious!!

Two Eyes...

Today we learned the number 2...and we learned we have two eyes..this was our craft...They wore them proudly..LOL!! Taylor is the tallest and the other one is a little girl I babysit...(although now that I think about it....when they wear their "two" eyes, that makes them have "four" eyes..LOL...oh well...

My new Bulletin

This is my latest Bulletin Board I've done at church. I love doing the bulletin boards for the kids class room...so fun!!

Hello!!

Well it is now Wednesday...not much going on at all..Monday night I took Haley to Destination Imagination (school thing) and me and my Aunt went shopping while we waited on her and Chelsea. Last night I took Haley and my niece, Lauren, out to CiCi's Pizza. That was good. Then we went to our very dead mall and went in the Dollar Tree. They had five dollars a piece to spend..so they spent it...haha..on junk, pretty much..LOL!!

Tonight is Wednesday so I will be going to church...I miss my hubby not being home..but we're surviving..He'll be back Friday sometime. Maybe this will be the last time for him to have to leave for awhile.

Well that's about it for now...

I thought this was a very good picture of my mom and dad at Haley's Birthday Party. My mom is goofing off in it...I think it is funny!!

Happy Valentine's Day!!

Hey just thought I'd type a little ...and wish everyone a Happy Valentine's Day!! We are going to Haley's Basketball game today and then afterwards we are going to the mall...I think we are going to Build a Bear and then do some shopping...Haley got all kinds of money for her Birthday..that she's wanting to spend..REAL BAD!! LOL!!

Last night my Hubby brought me home a dozen Red Roses and a box of chocolates...(little does he know that the box of chocolates would have been just fine..but the roses were sweet too...) He's such a sweetheart and then we went out to eat at a Mexican Restaurant with a gift certificate that we had gotten back at Christmas Time from my uncle. I told him since I am not working and the funds are a little low right now not to worry about getting me anything for V-day..but wouldn't you know it he did. He had gotten a tip at work from someone today and he used it on me..how sweet. I love him!! He told me that 15 years we have been dating/married and he had never forgotten to give me Roses!!

Anyways...enough sappy talk for now...I guess I better get myself ready so we can get going...Hope everyone has a special Valentine's Day!!!

It's Friday

Yes, it's finally Friday...It's been a LLLLOOONNNGGGG week!! A busy one too..but I am not looking forward to next week because Donald will be out of town again for class! It is always so hard when he's not at home. Even though it feels like when he is here I still carry the brunt of the load as far as children and housework go and organizing and everything like that....it gets a lot harder when he's gone. Atleast he does pitch in and help, unlike some husbands that I've heard about. I'm thankful for my sweet, wonderful Husband and besides it being harder when he is not here, I miss him terribly when he's not around!!!

Okay enough rambling...me and the girls are going to have a Valentine Party when they get up from their nap in a little while...I don't have the girls I babysit on Saturday, so we're doing it today...It'll be fun!!

I'll write more later.

Our Craft..

Since I've been at home and not working I have been trying to go through the alphabet each day and go over the letters with Taylor and the other little girls that I babysit. Yesterday was the letter T...and for our craft we made a Turtle. I thought it turned out so cute I wanted to share it with you..This is a picture of Taylor's Turtle... Today we did U...I cut out a U out of construction paper and turned it upside down to make a umbrella. I enjoy doing these little crafts with them each day...the neat thing about it is..that tomorrow is V and it is the day before Valentine's day....how cool..so we are having a Valentine's party tomorrow...how fun!!

Happy Birthday to my sweet and beautiful daughter, Haley Renee!!

My Beautiful little baby....Haley

My Beautiful 9 year old young lady!!

Just wanted to wish my beautiful daughter, Haley a very Happy Birthday!! She turned 9 today!! Wow!! Every year I am just amazed that another year has past again...I remember exactly what I was doing this day 9 years ago...She has turned into such a sweet, caring, and compassionate little lady. I had brought the groceries in yesterday and I picked up a little something for Taylor to give her big sis and Haley saw it and said something..and I said you little peeker to her..later that night she said.."mom I feel guilty about seeing my gift, I'm sorry" I told her it wasn't her fault...it was mine for not putting it away fast enough...she's just so thoughtful in so many ways!! she makes me so proud to be her mother!! I love her so very much!! She sure changed my life 9 years ago..but ALL of it for the good..I don't know what I would ever do without her!! She's a precious treasure!!

Back to normal!!

WOW!! I don't even know where to begin...Last week was wild!!! As many may have heard a Winter ICE storm hit Kentucky!! It was BAD!! I think twenty four people the last time I heard have been killed in this ICE storm!! We did not have electric for 5 days during this storm. The ice was 3 or 4 inches thick. Many around us still does not have electric back on. Ice is so much worse than snow!!!

We did pretty good the first day or so..but boredom kicked in and we began getting very irritable!! haha... We had to pull our mattresses in the living room and close off the rest of the house to keep it warm enough for us to stay in our house. Fortunately we have a Gas Heater..(many were not as fortunate) so we were able to keep warm from that..we also have a Gas stove to cook with..so we were able to still do most of our cooking at the house. Needless to say we ate ALOT of soup!! LOL!!! We went to bed at like 8:30 the first night..out of not knowing what to do with ourself because the sun had went down and all we had was candle light...We played charades and other crazy games for awhile..My oldest daughter even said.."my parents are better than cable!" haha...I guess we can act really crazy if we need to to entertain.

But we eventually became bored of that too...so my WONDERFUL Father...found a place that was getting a new shipment in of generators...because up until this point you could find them for miles around..(believe me we know..we did our homework and could not find one ANYWHERE...several counties away) Anyways he went and got one and let us hook up to it..that provided us with a lamp, and the TV...Perfect..now I could watch TV or READ...two of my most favorite things to do....

Anyways when our electric did come back on we yelled and hollered..it was a very rejoicing event!! I guess the thing I hated the most was that we couldn't take a hot shower...that really means a lot...I heated water so we could bathe and Donald's sister was kind to let us come to her house to take a shower...but it was rough...

It is Thursday of the next week now..we did get a little more snow after all of that..but that wasn't too bad...Now I think ....I don't know if I should say it or not...but.... I think....Things.... are back to normal... (looks around and puts hands over head..) LOL...just kidding...I hope everyone else is having or had a better week.

Here are a few pics..of the Ice Storm...

Our house is just beyond all the iced trees!!

The trees are so heavy with all the ice....


MY FRONT YARD...I still have some of the damage still left in my yard.


Even though it was very bad...it is pretty.

A split tree by the ice...that was a pretty tree too.