Playing catch-up...

A little bit of it all...

Got this message from Brayden's teacher last week.  Brings tears to my eyes and makes me sooooo proud....

Brayden is in a wedding coming up...he will be so handsome!

Love these two...hate I miss on so much of their day while they are at school.

My shopping buddy...

My sweet girl made me this while I was locked in a room doing my Bible study....

Love my boys...

Randoms

 I have random posts all the time and half of them I end up deleting because they are so out there.  But I decided, random or not, I'm posting it.  

Thursday was the kids first day back to school for the 2nd semester.  They weren't exactly excited after having such a nice, long break but they managed fine.  Besides, it's only a 2 day week!

Lucy loved her bitty and me clothes my mom got off of Zulilly....

I thought of several friends that would benefit from reading this...

 I love my new Chronological Bible study and have enjoyed reading it afresh and anew in Genesis again.  No matter how many times I read it, I still learn something new or see things differently than I have in the past.  I am so thankful for that!  Here are some of my favorites for this week...

Read the explanation and comment below this pic...so good!

 One day this week Lucy chose one beautiful outfit...she's got style I tell ya ha!

She also said some pretty funny things this week...

Friday was a hard day for me and Jay cooked dinner so I wouldn't have to.  He told the kids if they ate their entire plate he would buy them a pack of gum.  Karis was determined not to lose the bet (she is SOOO me!).  She did it and daddy owes her some gum!

Karis left me a sweet note in our room...love her big heart!  She asked me if she could write me a note and this is what I saw...

I learned how to make your own app with the click of a few buttons.  There is a commentary that I love and couldn't find an app so I made my own using Safari. You can learn how to do it here.

I found out this week my blog was featured on The Time Warp Wife here. Pretty cool!

Random I told ya!  Over and out.

We survived the storms!

Well I don't really know why I am TERRIBLY afraid of storms but I am, still.  Even as a mother of three.  And last night they predicted bad storms including tornadoes, hail, straight line winds, and lots of rain, thunder and lightning.  AND the hubby had a meeting and wasn't going to be home during the worst of it.  I was stressing throughout the day anticipating what the evening might hold, all the while trying to be "brave" for my kiddos.  

The truth was that it thankfully didn't get bad at all for our area.  I was glued to Channel 5 and had all preparations made: cleaned out underneath stairs (our tornado spot), had flashlights ready and kids were bathed early haha.  But luckily our lights didn't even go out which is really shocking considering every time it even rains it goes out for hours.  Yep, we live in the country.

The kids set up camp in my bed watching cartoons while I was glued to the news in the den.

Yep we had our flashlights loaded and ready.  Brayden carried his around everywhere he went.  He is in a "scared" stage and sometimes won't even go upstairs by himself and especially not in the dark!  He wasn't going to be caught dead without his flashlight if the lights were going to go off!

I had our weather radio ready in case our lights went out and our closet was prepped for a long night!

 Karis did some lovely drawings during the whole fiasco....

...and produced these beauties haha.

Translation:  It says, "My flawr (flower) is Prite (pretty)."

And this one made me laugh out loud! 

Translation:  "My bruthr (brother) is men (mean)."  haha

Never a dull moment

Wow it has been a whirlwind of a day!  Snowed in with a bunch of kiddos is always interesting.  :)

Lucy was all smiles

Me and my girl...excuse the "didn't wash my hair today" look.

Brayden got this in the dollar spot at Target last night and I don't think he has put it down yet.  He slept with it last night and tonight as well. 

Lucy and Ax playing together

These two are very affectionate towards one another...eventually this could be a problem haha!  :)

Loving her booty ruffles!

And this is where I found Landon today...seriously this isn't staged.  He got a newspaper and sat in the corner and pretended he was reading it.  And he sat there for a long time!

The schools let out at lunch and about noon the snow started and it DID NOT STOP for at least 5 hours.  So of course we were waiting in expectation at how much snowmageddon  would bring.

This was at 12:30 when the little flakes started to fall....

And this was at 1:30 just an hour later.  It came hard and fast!

And not long after that it looked foggy outside because the snow was coming down so hard.  It was GORGEOUS!

Not too sure why Karis wore this today it isn't the warmest thing in her closet I will assure you haha!

 She was making each of us a card. :)

It was still snowing close to dark so these were taken quite some time before that.  I think I measured 4 1/2 inches after it was all over.  I can't wait to see it in the sunlight tomorrow and see how beautiful everything looks!

I mentioned yesterday that Karis had 2 loose front teeth.  One was literally hanging so today I convinced her to try to pull it.  She worked on it for about 20 minutes and pulled it herself. 

Here is the before pic...

Sorry if this grosses you out.

Pulling in action...

And she did it!  She kept saying it felt funny and I am sure it did.  This is her 3rd tooth to lose and she has pulled all of them herself.  I am sooo proud of her!

The other top one will come soon...it needed to come out today but I didn't push the envelope.  Maybe tomorrow!  After she pulled it I made her a homemade milkshake...it was good motivation!

Tonight I found Lucy into Karis' makeup.  She was having a party upstairs and was being really quiet and I found her entertaining herself with the makeup basket.  I said, "Lucy what are you doing???"  She pointed to her lips and said, "BIPS!"  (lips)  She was putting on her lipstick alright but she missed her lips and found her face, the couch, her clothes among other things!  That little stinker!

Jay and I heard this conversation over the monitor today and were LOL.  They were playing house and we heard this:

Karis: "Brayden did you hear that dad died last night?"

Brayden:  "Oh no!  What happened to him?" 

Karis:"Breast cancer."

Oh....kids.  There is never a dull moment.   I'mmmmm (yawn) tired.