My Cousin

My cousins are cool

they are fun

can you guess who I am?

look between clark boys and krazy kerr family

we jump rope and play catch

I love my them

What I found..

I am amazed at my daughter. It is my goal to teach her to be a wonderful God loving person. Most of the time I do not feel like I am doing a very good job at all.. today I was given a sign that maybe, just maybe I am.

C

This is Kyle on his new dirt bike in July 2001.

Here are Kyle & Katie spring 2009 on the same dirt bike...

Its amazing how far we all have come.

The Ford Truck in the backround of the 1st picture is the exact truck Kyle received when he turned 16...

Its amazing how far we all have come.

My kids are growing up TOO FAST!

I found Philip in the kitchen with the pizza box open on the floor surrounded by pepperoni. Apparently he does not like pepperoni.

C

Laundry

Katie folded the laundry tonight without being asked AND I didn't even have to refold it.

C

I miss my sister.......

C

April 2009

I love each and every person in these photographs so much it hurts!

C

Egg Tree

Its a tradition to decorate the tree in our front yard with plastic Easter eggs.

It is amazing to see how the tree has grown, along with my children. We used to be able to decorate the entire tree, now just the lower branches are the lucky ones.

This is the first year Philip participated with the decorating. Watching Katie and Philip work together was pretty cool. Now we are all anxiously awaiting a visit from the Easter Bunny!

Today...

I want to remember today forever. ....

Not because anything extraordinary happened,

but because I know these days won't last forever.

I want to remember the smile on my husbands face when he woke up.

I want to remember watching Katie hug him and tell him she loved him before she left for school.

I want to remember the way Kevin and Philip made his oatmeal together and the conversation that went with it!

I want to remember the way Philip was so proud of himself when he "popped" the lock on the screen door screaming "I GOT IT MOMMY!!"

I want to remember the huge smile on his face when I pushed him as high as I could in his swing and I want to remember how he said "again mommy, AGAIN".

I want to remember the way he threw each and every ball out of his ball pit naming the color of each one as it went flying (all 100 of them).

The way he said "I love you mom" when I put him down for his nap.

I want to remember that he slept on his stomach with his hands tucked under his tummy and that when he woke up he was happy and played in his crib and said "mommy...where are you?" until I went in to get him.

The way he huged me and how warm he was when I picked him up out of his crib.

I want to remember Katie, walking into school after we did our secret handshake.

I want to remember how today was the day I realized that she is growing up and with that I need to let her become more responsible.

I want to remember how excited she was when we talked about that very point.

I want to remember her singing her own made up songs.

I want to remember pushing her on the swing, even though she doesn't need me too.

I want to remember her getting aggravated with her brother and even though our having pizza for dinner was a secret, she told him to go look for it just to get him out of her hair!

I want to remember Philip coming up the back steps yelling "PIZZA!"

and when the doorbell rang he went running yelling "PIZZA!" again.

I want to remember eating on the picnic blanket in the front yard with them

and our dinner of "cold cokes", pizza and wings.

I want to remember watching Katie teach Philip to look for cars before he crosses the street.

Them holding hands as they walked down the sidewalk and that Katie as afraid of dogs as she is..picked up her brother when 2 strays ran by them instead of running herself.

I want to remember them taking a bubble bath and the great conversation the two of them had. I want to remember snuggling with Katie and reading our books,

and the way we both jumped when the timer went off!

I want to remember how sweet Philip looks surrounded by his bunnies and pacis and blankets when I went in to check on him after he is asleep

I want to remember how Katie has not moved since I tucked her in and how she has her arm wrapped around her bear and is lightly snoring.

I want to remember just how lucky I am that I have husband that I adore.

I want to remember how proud I am of him...

I hope I remember this day forever...

C

I love my Flip Camera.. I never know what I will find on it...

letter to my sister

Dear Traci,

This is one of a 30 minute block of time in my life today.

Decided to check facebook. My fault. Really obviously the big man upstairs is telling me to walk away from this computer

Quiet. Go to check on Philip he is in his room on blue chair with paci (big no no) and has beaudroux butt paste dotted all over arms of chair – no less than 16 dotts. Very pretty but a pain to clean. I think I am just going to throw that chair away. I throw his paci in the back of his crib, he hops off chair looks at me and picks up a Lincoln log and tries to reach it with that. No luck, and he was very vocal about that predicament.

Decide to drug him. He is so sick, snotty, congested, coughing that he truly needs some medicine. Draw up 2 different drugs in one syringe, one dark red liquid other bright purple. 1 teaspoon. 5 mls.
Hand it to him because he is 2 you know so he has to do it all himself. Turn around to get a cup of water so he can wash it down and go to hand him cup just in time to watch him squirt it ALL OVER THE WALL. He was standing by the dishwasher and it hit above the laundry room door and went all the way to the floor….

I can’t make this up. This is my life. I am sitting here and he is bringing me his bunnies one by one trying to make it better. I think it is going to take much more than that.

I hope your girls are not stealing your pads today. Oh nice. Philip has a poop diaper. And Katie is yelling (oh yes, kt is home sick today too) Philip has a paci. He obviously found something to reach it with.

Life is not good today
C

Mom's New Year Resolutions

Should I jump?
My beautiful girl

Philip finally opening at least one of his presents 2 hours after Kt and Kyle finished opening all of theirs

I love the way it looks. I love it that I make that magic happen. I love Christmas.

Our 3 kids - chillin.

Hello,

My very fancy sister has started another blog in which she can keep up with her resolutions. I however am going to bore you with mine right here on the "family" blog. Sorry. Someday I will be as cool as her, until then I am going to be a one blog woman...

My New Years Resolution list is LONG... My intentions are good and hopefully my list will be much shorter next year...I have the standard ones, which I am going to post for MY inspiration and then I have some extra ones tailor made for me.

1. Exercise 3 times a week - in the form of running.. Don't laugh- I CAN DO IT!

2. Eat healthier. - cutting down on fast food - keeping fresh fruits and vegetables in the house at all times, eating breakfast before lunch time and before I realize that I missed it and am either sleepy or chewing someones head off.

3. Spend quiet time everyday with God. Read my bible, pray more, live better.

4. No impulse shopping. I do not need to reward me or my children with "stuff". We have enough stuff, really. Target will survive with out my daily presence...

5. Date's with Kevin. At least every other week, then working our way up to once a week.

6. No four letter words. Philip dropped his water bottle yesterday and let the "s" word fly. I take responsibility for that one completely.

7. Spend more time with my parents. They are both amazing people and I can still learn alot from both of them.

8. Let some of my controlling issues go. This world will run without me micromanaging it. I think....

9. Funny how this one ended up near the end.. Take care of me. It is ok to make time for me and the things I like to do. I will make dr's appointments, dentist appointments and hair appointments for myself AND KEEP THEM.

10. Oh yeah and I am going to learn how to say NO... maybe.

C

Katie's New Year Resolutions

Happy New Year!
It's 2009. We are going to have a better year because we are going to start doing things we didn't do last year. We are going to scrapbook, we are going to Nick Jr., we are going to eat healthier, go to church more than we don't.
Hope you have a good year. These are some of my favorite pictures from my Christmas Break.
Hope you like them.
Kt