Thursday 13 (13 things from this week)

1) my kitchen floor is in need of new title.. so on Monday DH and I went out and started looking around to see what is out there and what I like. Think we will be laying a new kitchen floor, and fixing the back pouch roof with our income tax refund.
2) while out i got a little bit of fun sort of shopping done, well fun for me but it was stuff the kids and I needed.. Princess got a few new shirts and pants and a dress, Mr Man and Little man both got two shirts and they were matching.. I know I need help.. but I love when I can find a size 18 for Mr Man and a size 4/5 for Little Man and they match.. Love it.. and For sweet Pea she got a dress and two shirts.. finding cloths for that child is really a pain so I was happy she was willing to wear the stuff we found.
3) Tuesday was snack day for Little Man at preschool he wanted to take popcorn so that is what we did.. I stayed up Monday night filling 24 ziplock bags with popcorn..
4) Tuesday was also spring Picture day at the elementary school So before Mr Man and Sweet pea took off I snapped these pictures of them. 5) While loading the pictures I took into the computer, I found that Princess too has been playing with the camera her self.. here are a few pictures I found on the camera of her, which I didn't take.

LOL no Princess's name is not Shay.. this was a picture shout out she was giving to one of her friends.

6) raising a teenager can get a little tricky.. God has blessed me with a great Girl.. She makes raising her sort of easy.. She is a good student.. she doesn't get in any trouble.. and she is just a joy to be around.. but even the good ones still come with there teenage drama.. and there is drama going on at school and it leave me wondering if I even have a clue what I'm doing raising a teenager.. Thankfully.. God is in control and will guide me as a mother and help me each step of the way. Pray for me and Princess.
and in other Prayer request..
7)While growing up in the small town I did and going to the church I went to there was a family there who was like family to me.. There was an older couple there who I called Grandma and Grandpa C.. and there Son and his wife I called Mom and Dad(there daughter was my best friend) Our Pastor was married to this couples daughter(and there daughters were also my BFF's) and at one point in my teenage years two of this couples grandsons were sort of like my boyfriends but that is neither here or there.. the biggest relationship came from knowing them though my best friends and at church.. Grandma C. past away back in the summer of 1994 before I was even married. But Grandpa C. just past away this week, his funeral is going to be Saturday.. Please keep his family in your prayers..
8) And while we are making a prayer list.. another family I knew growing up and were friends with the children.. The mother who isn't really old early to mid 50's I would say.. ended up with some breathing problems and throwing up blood over this past weekend.. Ended up having the family all fly in and was put on life support. They put her into an induced comma and last I heard there was signs of improvement.. so we need to continue to pray for her and her recovery and her family.
9) I do not remember if I mentioned it or not here but I'm going to become an aunt again.. TO TWINS!!!!!, I found out this week that last week there was a little scare there wasn't alot of movement and they got worried so went in and they couldn't find twin A's(which is my nephew, twin B is my niece)heartbeat.. Thankfully after some moving around and looking for it, they found it.. I had that scare once while PG with Sweet Pea.. It was so so very scary not being able to find that heartbeat but the tears of joy that floods over you when they do find the heartbeat.. But sadly I also know what it is like when at the end they tell you we are sorry but there is no heartbeat and the baby didn't make it.. I love these two little babies with all my heart already.. and I pray that they continue to grow and be born completely healthy..
10) Bible Study.. Tonight I'm starting a new bible study I'll let you all know how that goes.. I'm looking forward to it..
11)This weekend Princess has her 3rd volleyball tournament of the year another bright and early weekend for me.. having to leave the house before 6am.. blah I don't do early mornings well.
12) Also this weekend Sweet Pea has her very 1st fastpitch softball game.. not a tournament just a scrimmage.. but it will be her travels team 1st time playing together(they have been practicing)and her very first time to play fastpitch.

13) Other stuff we are looking forward to for the weekend is Awana.. they are having all green day Sunday night.. the kids are trying to figure out there outfits.. Sweet Pea only has 20 more pages to finish up her book for the year and has been working really hard at learning all her verses she has it stuck in her mind that she wants to do all 20 of them this week.. I don't know if they will let her do that seeing how other kids will need to say there verses also.. but we will see.

Well there ya have it 13 things that have been going on or on my mind this week.

Wordless Wednesday(12/10/08)

So my wordless Wednesday isn't so wordless this week, but that's fine I can break the rules, its my blog after all ;P

Tonight was Sweet Pea's 1st grade Christmas program. As I was watching her sing I couldn't help but think about the little baby girl we really did call Sweet Pea(and still do often) So when thinking about my Wordless Wednesday post I wanted to load a video of tonight, but my connection is slow or something tonight and it is taking forever to load, So I changed my mind and thought I would show a picture of my little Sweet Pea years ago. She was 9 months old here(2002).. and Here she is today Though when I went back to find a baby picture of her, I came across this picture of Princess from when she was in 1st grade.. This picture was also taken in 2002
Here is Sweet Pea taken Tuesday 12/9/08 before going to her Christmas program. Can you tell they are sisters?

In the same place I found theses older pictures were pictures of Princess's 1st grade Christmas program. So lets go back in time 6 years ago to that.

Princess 2002 singing in her 1st grade program.
Mr Man 2002 watching Princess's program
Sweet Pea 10 1/2 months old at princess's program.

Jump 6 years into the present day and Sweet Pea is the one in the Program.
And Princess is the one out watching her little sister(and we also Added Little Man to the gang, though He slept through the whole program tonight)
Mr Man got to pass out programs and help people to there seats.
While Sweet Pea was the one on Stage...
It was a good night.. More about the Program to come later in the week.. until then Happy Wednesday everyone, even if I wasn't very wordless :)

I Remember When Meme. #1 fall memories.

While reading though my bloglines today I popped over to Deb's blog and saw that she has started a new fun meme called I Remember When.. you can Click here to learn more about this meme Here is what Deb said for this weeks I Remember When. "What are your ‘fall’ memories from when you were a kid? Join in and share here at Mom of 3 Girls!"

My fall memories were racking leaves, and jumping in them for hours and hours.. We use to burn the leaves also and I can still smell that smell you only get from burning leaves.. I love that smell so totally takes me back to my childhood falls. My mom also use to make homemade apple sauce and I use to love the smell of the apples cooking.. YUMMMMM..

Here are few photos I had online from when I was a kid in the fall.

This 1st shot is really hard to see it was taken in the Fall of 1979. I was about 6 years old, I'm the one standing, my sister was 4 year old and my brother was 1 years old. Well seeing how mine and my sisters birthday are in Nov I'm guessing we were closer to 7, 5 and my brother about 17 or 18 months.

These next two shots were either Oct 31 or the first few days of November 1984I couldn't find a real pumpkin shot so I'm using these because my mom made our birthday cake a pumpkin this year. My birthday is Nov. 9, 1972 but my sister's was Nov. 1, 1974 So many years we had our party around Halloween and we always did our party together.
The people in this top pic from L to R back row, My mom, her sister Aunt D aunt D's husband(uncle C) and my mom's mom my grandma who is no longer with us. Center Row L to R. My cousin KJ, My Brother L, and my other cousin D. and in the Front row me at my 12th b-day party and my sister at her 10 year party.Don't you just love those big glasses I'm supporting in these pics, LOL what was my parents and I thinking LOL. OH Man i just thought of something even better then my hair cut and my glasses OH ME.. you see the matching shirts we have on, well they were part of our birthday gifts from my grandma(she also got my cousin KJ her shirt) and it just didn't come with the shirt, they came with matching leg warmers in the same lovely color of blue with the different color strips and the unicorns on them.. I was such a nerd, i though they were cool LOL
We really didn't have too many fall traditions and now that i'm a mommy we still don't.. We still do the rack the leaves and jump in them thing, and trick or treat.. but no big traditions.. To end this I Remember When.. I'll give you another older picture but not too old.. It's my kids after they made a leaf pile to jump in back in Fall 2005

Princess 9 1/2 years old, Mr Man a month away from turning 6, Sweet Pea 3 1/2 years old and Little Man 5 months old.