The Ultimate Blog Party Year 2

A big thank you to 5 Minutes For Mom for hosting the ultimate Blog Party. Welcome to my blog party.. You have found yourself at my home on the web, mindless chatter of a BUSY mom.. Come on in.. grab some food.. It's nothing too fancy, It has been another busy week for this mom so we are doing easy party food today.

Now that you have your food lets sit and chat awhile.. I just love getting to meet new blogging buddies. My Name here on the blog Is KC. I'm a 35 year old stay at home mom.. Though I have to LOL at that Stay at Home part, because I think since becoming a stay at home mom I'm on the go more then I ever was when I worked.

I'm a Christian, I accepted Christ as my savior on March 21, 1977 when I was 4 years old. Every night before bed my dad would tell us a bedtime story.. This night we were all(my dad and sister and I) laying in bed. I don't remember what story we had or what we were talking about.. But we started talking about God and being saved and that night I told my dad I wanted to get saved, Dad helped me by leading me in a prayer and that Night The Lord saved me.

I started my blog to keep a record of the fun things the kids say and do and also so one day they can look back and maybe read my blog and get to know there mommy a little better and also see Just how much each and everyone one of them mean to me. Along the way I have joined in a bit of blogging fun. Every so often I like to join in on the Menu Plan Monday, Meme Monday, Time Travel Tuesday, Wordless Wednesday, Throwback Thursday, Faith-Lift Friday, Friday Feast, and Know and Tell Friday. Also either on Sunday night or Monday Morning I like to give a Weekend Recap of all the happenings of my weekend, since I normally can't fit blogging in on the weekends.

Let me introduce you to the family. DH, Princess, Mr Man, Sweet Pea and Little Man.

DH and I have been married for 14 years come October, but I started dating him on April 1, 1989 So we have been together for just about 19 years.

We have 5 children, 4 here living with us and 1 who the Lord chose fit to take to heaven when I was 13 weeks pregnant with her.

Our Oldest is Princess. She is 12 years old and in the 6th grade. She loves her sports. She plays Fast pitch softball pretty much year round for a few different teams, She is on the school Basketball team which goes from Sept till March give or take a few weeks on either end, She also plays Volleyball. Besides sports she has been blessed with brains..

She is on the school newspaper and the Academic challenge team.When she is not running from one activity to the next she loves to spend her time with her friends. Our 2nd child is Mr Man. He is 8 years old and in 2nd grade. He is my tender hearted child. He cares so deeply for everyone around him

He like his older sister plays in a few different sports. Soccer, Basketball and Baseball. He does very well in school, has never even had to have a warning in all his years of school so far and hasn't brought home anything less then an A(or what equals and A in the younger grades such as S+'s and E's)He is also my thrill seeker, will ride any thrill ride he is tall enough to ride and loves every minute of it, unlike his older sister who won't ride anything LOL. Our 3rd child is Sweet Pea, she truly is our sweet pea. She just turned 6 years old a month ago and started Kindergarten this past fallYou would never know it from her pictures but she is the shy one in the bunch. If she doesn't know you she will hang on me or hide behind my legs if you talk to her.. But she is a little chatter box at home and with her friends. She too plays sports, not as much as the older two, but she has done dance, and gymnastics and plays t-ball.. She is doing excellent in school taking after the older two.. and she loves kindergarten. I'm so thrilled about this since she wasn't too keen on preschool. Our 4th child is Alyssa, God took her home to be with him on April 16, 2004 when I was 13 weeks along with her.

#5 the baby of the family, is Little Man. He is 2 1/2 years old and will turn 3 on May 14, 2008

He is all boy and all 2 year old boy.. one minute he can just be the sweetest thing in the world the next he can throw the biggest fit I have ever seen in my life. His favorite things are Thomas trains and his sisters and brother. He is potty training and starting to give up his naps(might explain the fits) He is mommies sweet Little ManIt was so nice of you to come and visit with me a bit. Please sign the Mr Linky and leave me a comment so that I can stop by your place to get to know you a bit.

Don't forget to try the fruit pizza it is tasty..

1 pouch Betty Crocker® sugar cookie mix

1/2 cup butter or margarine, melted

1 egg

1 cup whipping cream

1/2 cup Betty Crocker® Rich & Creamy cream cheese frosting (from 1-lb container)

3 1/2 cups assorted fresh fruit

1. Heat oven to 375°F. Lightly spray 14-inch pizza pan or 15x10-inch baking pan with cooking spray.

2. In medium bowl, stir cookie mix, melted butter and egg until soft dough forms. Press dough in bottom of pan. Bake 10 to 15 minutes or until light golden brown. Cool completely, about 45 minutes.

3. In chilled medium bowl, beat whipping cream with electric mixer on high speed until soft peaks form. Gently stir frosting into whipped cream. Spread over cookie pizza. Arrange fruit on top.

High Altitude (3500-6500 ft): Use 1/3 cup melted butter. Bake 12 to 17 minutes.

If your getting your blog on this week, Don't for get to sign the Linky over at 5 Minutes For Mom also.

Question 1 I have been blogging for a year this month, so my question is what made you start your blog? I started blogging because my cyber friend from the last 8 years DCRMOM over at Musings of a Housewife, kept talking about how much she was enjoying her blog.. So I thought why not give it a try.. I started it to keep a record of all the things my children say and do.

Question 2 Do you speak another language? sort of.. I did 4 years of French in high school, it was enough so that I could test out of taking a language in college. I don't know how much I still recall but I know some

Question 3Morning person, or night owl (or somewhere in between)? Night owl, I think. I normally stay up till 1am and I don't like mornings.

Question 4Do you exercise on a regular basis? lol lol lol... Oh yeah sure I do.. ;P

Question 5 If money were not an object what is one thing you would like to do for another person? buy my parents, Grandparents and IL's a house and car. and Give our church all the money they need to do all the work they needed to do.

Question 6 What is one of your favorite attributes of our Lord God? Oh my goodness how do you just pick one. All of our Lords attributes are my favorite.

Question 7 Have you ever thought about adoption or foster care? Yes I have.


For more Know and Tellers stop over at To Know Him

Faith-Lift Friday(3/7/08)

Encourage others and yourself! Share a scripture, quote, devotional, lyrics, or anything that has blessed you and strengthened you in your faith.

John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.


Praise the Lord, he has overcome the world.. and how wonderful that we can have peace in Him while we have tribulations.

For More Faith-lift Friday visit Taking The Challenge

Sorry my Throwback is so late today, just been running around busy all morning. I wanted to throw it back to an Easter past when I was a child, but didn't find the time to dig though pictures, so maybe next week.

This week I give you the men in my life, DH, Mr Man and Little Man back June 2005. Mr Man was 5 1/2 years old and Little man was about a month old.

For more Throwback Thursday pop on over to the Pinks & Blues Girls Blog

Wordless Wednesday(county tournament)

These pictures were taken Yesterday at Princess's Academic Challenge county wide tournament.

Time Travel Tuesday Easter

Growing up, Easter was _________________.

Share your Easter traditions. Did you have egg hunts every year? A new dress? Was it a spiritual event in your family, or just a fun day?

Today Anne our host of Time travel Tuesday wants to know about our Easters growing up..

Wow, I could write forever on this topic, but I was gone all day at Princess county wide Academic Challenge Tournament..(I'll post about that tonight or tomorrow) and I just got home. My kids will be getting home from school soon so I don't have time to do this post up right with pictures and all.. But I will say Easters growing up were fun and busy.. Really fun and Really busy.

Alot of years we would do a over night trip to Niagara Falls Canada. We would leave on Good Friday and come home late Saturday night. One year we took my mom's parents with us, another year we took my dad's parents with us. A few year us kids got to take friends with us.. It was always so much fun.. Sometimes it was warm other years we were in a ton of snow and freezing.. but it was always a blast.

Easter Mornings we would get up and hunt for our Easter Baskets, then eat breakfast then get dress and go to Sunday school and Church.. Then after church would go to my dad's parents house for a big Easter Lunch normally Ham some times Turkey and Ham with all the trimmings. We would also get to hunt for Easter Baskets over there. Later on in the afternoon we would drive an hour over to my Mom's parents house and have Easter Dinner.. Also a different kind of ham and a tray of all sorts of cooled cut meats of sorts.. goodness I don't even know what kind of meats they were, I'm sure my mom could tell me, It was stuff like polish sausage and stuff. If it was warm out my grandma would have an Easter egg hunt in her back yard, if not we would do it in her basement and then we would be given our baskets from Grandma and my aunt.(all the cousins were there)

I did get a new Easter dress every year.(goodness I still need to get Princess her Easter outfit for this year and time is just flying by) It was both a spiritual event and a fun day in my family, and still is.

Maybe I'll write more Easter memories on Thursday if I get time..

For more Time Travel Tuesday fun stop over to Annie's blog.

Weekend Recap(Feb 29 - March 2,08)

This Picture I tool Friday morning looking out my back window

Here we are another weekend gone. This weekend wasn't too extremely busy. I got some time at home this weekend which hasn't happened the past few weekends. On Friday afternoon DH and I, along with Little Man went and got groceries.. Came home made lunch and tried to get Little Man down for a nap. ONLY he wasn't having any part of a nap, this has been happening more and more lately. When school was over and Mr Man and Sweet Pea got home I feed them an early dinner. Then Princess got home and she changed her cloths and ate her dinner and we were off.

We took Mr Man over to spend the night with my grandpa and we picked up my grandma. We(DH, Grandma, Princess, Sweet Pea, Little Man and I)went to Princess basketball league tournament. It started at 7pm but Princess needed to be there at 6:30pm So we left town at 5:45pm to get there.

Princess was a started and played all of but a minute of the 1st half she did really well and so did the team. It was a close game though out the whole game.

Remember I told you Little Man didn't get a nap?? Well on the way to the game he had fell asleep in the carseat, so when we got there I stayed out in the van with him for that half hour before the game started and I carried a sleeping little man into the game when I went in. He woke up just for a few minutes and then slept the whole first half of the game. Grandma wanted to hold him since she doesn't get to hold my sleeping boy very often since when he is awake he is always on the go. Here is a short clip of the game.

In this shot here Princess had just shot the ball waiting for it to fall in. She is the 3rd girl from the left in the blue. Sadly they lost and knocked out of the league tournament. Next weekend they are in an extra tournament there coach got them into.. So they have one more week of there basketball season for the 2007/2008 school year.

After the game Princess went and spent the night with her friend from the team JW and Mr Man spent the night with my grandma and grandpa and Sweet Pea went home from the basketball game with my parents to spend the night.. So DH and Little Man and I were home alone.

Saturday morning felt weird, It was the 1st time since November that NO ONE had a basket ball game in the morning.. So the fact that I could sleep in(well to 8:30am) and not have to rush and get dress felt very odd to me. So in the morning I took it slow.. slow to wake up, slow to eat, even took a nice long shower after breakfast. Then I went and picked up a few items that I forgot to get when i was out shopping on Friday and I also looked around for the boys Easter outfits, Now I have everyone clothed for Easter except Princess must find her an outfit soon.

When I got home Princess had made it home and it was time for lunch so we ate and at 1:45pm my Parents came over and had Mr Man and Sweet Pea with them(they stopped by grandma's and got Mr Man)

Dad was over to see if he could clean out my dryer vent because my clothes weren't drying and air wasn't blowing outside when I turned the dryer on. and then he was going to try to get our computers networked so we can be online on both computers at the same time. Mom was with him because she was going to babysit for me while DH and I took Princess to her softball game.

Here are a few pics from the game.. I tell ya I can't wait to get the video camera back and running because the camera while it might take a few nice video clips it doesn't do action still shots very well at all. Where if I had the regular video camera working I could just video tape it all and pull still shots off of that and they look so nice that way.. unlike these ones.. but here they are none the less. Not a good week for Princess sports team the softball team lost also.. but they looked better this week then last, and Princess did really well for her 1st time pitching at the older level. Last year she played 10U and this year moved up to 12U meaning they move back farther and they use a bigger ball. This winter league she is playing on is a Jr High league so most of the girls she is playing ageist are 2 years older then she is.. but she is doing well pitching and hitting off of them.. The team she is playing the winter league for is her summer traveling tournament team, they are using this league as practices for the summer.

We got home about 6pm and Princess had a basketball team slumber party to get to over at the coaches house, and Mr Man and Sweet Pea wanted to go spend the night with my parents.. So Little Man, DH and I were home alone again.. We watched The Wedding Crashers on tv and went to bed.. oh what an exciting evening.. but it was more time at home on a weekend which I'm not use to LOL.

Sunday was church.. Only Little Man wasn't feeling to well and after I got him dress and he ate breakfast.. I was getting dress and he passed out and was sleeping when I felt him he felt like he had a fever So DH stayed home with him. I went and picked up Princess and we were off to Church. After church I had all the kids come home with me since they were gone all weekend. When I got home DH had lunch all ready to eat.. We ate and watched the UT/UK basketball game.. funny stuff I tell ya.. I didn't really watch a bit of the game.. Just Mr Man and DH.. you see Mr Man is a big UT fan while DH is an all time fan of UK.. UT won Mr Man is a happy boy.. ONLY after the game he said.. "MOM I don't feel well" sure enough he was feeling hot to the touch also..

At 3pm DH took Princess to a softball practices she had here in town.. I guess the Jr High is starting up a new league here in town playing other schools around the area. This is the 1st year that Jr High is going to have fastpitch softball, and the 1st time there is a league in the area.. We got a call(LOL more like 4 calls) asking us(more like bagging us) if Princess could play with them. Here in our town Princess isn't in Jr High yet.. In our town Jr High is 7th and 8th grade.. but this league lets 6th graders play because some of the schools have 6, 7 and 8th grade middle schools. I guess the team has been practising for a month now.. but was really without a picture they heard about Princess being a picture but didn't think to ask her.. UNTIL two weeks ago Princess and DH was at an indoor place sports place and she was there practicing with DH her pitching.. and the head Jr high coach was there and saw her pitch.. next thing you know I"m getting 3 or4 calls from him and 2 calls from the asst coach telling us they really want her on the team and that they know she is busy with basketball and her other softball team.. so if making it to practices with there team is a problem it is ok, they know she does softball year round and she doesn't even have to make the practices LOL.. This is some crazy stuff I tell ya..

So she went today to see if she wants to play with them, I think she is going too, but they are practicing three times a week and there is no way we can add that to what she is already doing.. So we might let her practise with them once a week.. There season is only a month long anyways.. They will be playing 4 weekends. a double header each weekend.. so a total of 8 games in the month of April. I think her winter league with her other team will be over then.

While they were gone my parents stopped over because Mr Man had left his Bible at there house this morning and he needed it for Awana's.. So while they were here I had my dad drive my van. On the way home from church this morning I felt a shimmy in it.. He thought I needed an alignment. So he drove me to walmart to drop off my van and then brought me back home.. Then He and mom took off shopping.. DH and Princess got home at 5:30pm and we went and got the van.. I'm not 100% sure that my problem in the van is fixed or not. Guess time will tell. After getting the van it was time to take off to church only at this point I had 3 kids not feeling well. Princess, Mr Man and Little Man. DH was going to bed since he had to work tonight So I just dropped off and picked up Sweet Pea at Awana's. When I went in to pick her up after wards.. I had all these leaders coming up to me telling me how impressed they were with her.. She had learned all the verses in her book and started the review of it where she has to say all the verses over again with NO helps or clues at all. And tonight Sweet Pea said 24 verses.. I guess they had never seen anyone say that many word perfect at one time before.. The leaders were all excited about this and Sweet Pea was all like what's the big deal I learned them all before all I had to do was say them again LOL... by next week she will have finished her whole book twice.. Not sure what she will do for the next 3 months of club. They also gave her her plaque tonight for clubber of the month.

Now we have two of them to hang up Mr Man's and Sweet Peas's, both from this year.

I'm tired and it is after 1am early Monday morning or late Sunday however you want to look at it.. BUT you see I can't go to bed.. while I was taking Sweet Pea to church at 6pm Little Man thought he would fall asleep.. he slept till 11pm and now he is wide awake and I can't get him to fall back to sleep.. I have him on the couch watching Nemo in the dark right now.. but he is still awake.. I might just grab a pillow and blanket and sleep on the floor while he watches tv.. ONLY problem is I have to get up early because I have to help in Sweet Peas kindergarten class in the morning.. so so sleepy.. I'll need tooth picks for my eyes in the morning.

Guess I'll end this book now.. Hope you all have a wonderful Monday.

PS: today is my cousins birthday.. I'm not sure how often she reads my blog.. but if you are out there reading.. Happy Birthday

Meme Monday #5

Aisha over at Leaf Float Down River has given to me this wonderful Blogging with a purpose award. I'm going to pass this award onto

The Edwards

Stray Thoughts

Taking The Challenge

To Know Him

I would like to thank Aisha for thinking of me when she passed along this award..

Courtney over at Life with two beautiful Girls!has tagged me for a food meme.

Rules:

1. Link to your tagger and post these rules.

2. Share 5 facts about yourself.

3. Tag 5 people at the end of your post and list their names (linking to them)

4. Let them know they've been tagged by leaving a comment at their blogs.

Hummmm a food meme.. what 5 facts can I say about food????? Wonder if I say I like it will that count as one? ;)

1) Last Monday night I cooked a turkey and we had a Thanksgiving dinner of sorts.. and ate turkey pretty much the rest of the week.

2) My DH is a picky eater so we find a handful of things that he will eat and we tend to do them over and over.. If I find a new recipe that I think he will like I show it to him, He is normally willing to try a new one(if everything in it is stuff he likes) But if he doesn't like it I don't make it a 2nd time.

3) I don't like too many veggies.. and Never raw.. well celery I will eat if I can dip it into blue cheese dressing or ranch.. but raw carrots and such no thank you.. well for that matter I don't like carrots at all be it cooked or raw.

4) I love fruit so I don't feel too bad about not liking veggies :)

5) Desserts, OH YEAH.. all sorts of them as you can tell from my lack of will power to start losing weight

Now I will tag

Heather at 10,000 Things to be Happy About

Midlife Mom at Home On The Range

Aisha at Leaf Float Down River

Kristie at Music Mom of 2

Tina at Palm Tree Fanatic

I was also tagged by Aisha for two memes. The 7 weird thing about me meme. and the message in a bottle Meme.

The 7 weird thing meme. I did this one before but I'm sure I can come up with 7 more weird things about me.. Seeing as how my children think I'm weird. LOL.

1) 99% of the time if I'm at home my hair is up in a pony tail. Even if I had done my hair that day to look nice.. There is just some weird habit I have that when I sit down at the computer, or I'm working around the house or playing with the kids I like my hair pulled back.. BUT the second I sit down to watch tv or whatever I always pull the pony tail holder out of my hair.. along these sames line if you see me with my hair down 9 times out of 10 there will be a hair band on my wrist.

2) it drives me crazy when my DH channel surfs, you know turns on the tv and flips though the channels only leaving it on one show for two minutes or less then on to the next channel and he can do that for hours. BUT I find myself doing the same thing while driving down the road with the radio.. If there isn't a song I want to sing to while driving down the road I'm on to the next station until I find a song I like

3) I had a veil that I planned to wear when I got married and about 15 minutes before the wedding, I changed my mind.. I didn't really want to wear a long veil after all.. drove my mother and both of my grandmothers crazy that I was flatly refusing to wear it. Thankfully.. I had planned a removable veil with my head piece. See the plan was to wear the long veil for the wedding and remove it for the reception. But there was just something about covering the cut out heart on the back of my dress that I just didn't like so figured it was my day I can do what I want.

4) in my book toilet paper should go over the roll if it is going under it is on wrong.

5) I can have two days worth of dishes sitting in my kitchen sink and it doesn't bug me at all(except for the fact that I'm going to have to wash those dishes then that bugs me. LOL) BUT if someone leaves the kitchen cabinet door open it drives m crazy .

6) when I was a kid and teenager(well up until I got married really) I would sleep on top of my bedspread with just a tiny blanket pulled up over me.. So I wouldn't have to make my bed in the morning just fold the blanket and sit it at the end of my bed..

7) for #7 I guess it is weird that I have done this twice and didn't have to come up with any double answers. :P

Message In a Bottle Meme

Here are the rules:
You are about to send a virtual Message In a Bottle across the Blog Ocean. Leave a message in the sand or on the bottle. Write anything you wish. Be a pirate or a poet. Serious or silly. Anonymous or not. What message would you like to send out to the universe?

1. Compose a message to place in your virtual bottle.

2. Right click and SAVE the blank graphic below.
3. Use a graphics program of your choice to place the message on the picture.
4. Post the Message In a Bottle meme and your creation on your blog along with these rules.
5. Tag a minimum of 5 bloggers - or your entire blogroll - to do the same. Notify them of the tag.Your virtual bottle will remain afloat in the blogosphere ocean for all blogernity (That’s a Mimism for blog + eternity.)

My Message.

Now I tag all of you with these 2 meme's.

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