vote for miley!!!

for those of you that read my blog that are not scrapbookers, there is a scrapbook contest happening right now called making memories idol. kind of like american idol where you get to vote for contestants. my friend miley made it past the first round and now she needs votes!!! i think if you click here - http://www.makingmemories.com/mmidol/index.cfm?go=register you can register at the site, and then you will be allowed to vote. her screenname is baseballmom. and her entry is amazing!!!!!!!!

a sign of spring!!!

even though, as most of you know, birds kind of freak me out, i am always SOOO excited to see my first robin. and here it is! :D none too soon as anna and wilson have conjunctivitis - the beginnings of pink eye. holy freeholies! i think we've managed to catch every illness going around this year. ack!

cheesy french fries...

(one last post for the day.)
the girls LOVE to play this game called "cheesy french fries" in the tub. kurt squirts out long strings of foamy bath soap and the girls apparently think they look like cheesy french fries, i guess! i'm not quite sure what that means, but i know it's going to be an exciting, fun bath whenever cheesy french fries are involved. :)

button heart

i'm catching up on my blogging today - hee! sorry for all of the posts in one day! i was inspired by tia bennett's christmas button tree to make a button heart. anna was working on one too but she kept getting too many "holes" in her fingers. poor thing!

footprints...

i used to love looking out my window and seeing a perfect landscape of fresh fallen snow. but now i love this landscape so much more! :)

photoshop fridays

jessica sprague has a blog where she posts all kinds of great digital techniques on fridays. since there are usually at least 5 different ways to do the same thing in photoshop it's always intersting to see how otherpeople work. i have learned so much from her entries! here's a page using the technique i learned from this week's edition. sorry if you're seeing it everywhere - i had to much fun doing it that i think i posted it to every online gallery i have. lol! hope everyone is having a great weekend!!!!

free friday...

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everyone had the day off today! yay! we had some much needed fun family time together. we had big plans to get everything cleaned since mimi and papa are coming tomorrow, but that didn't seem to happen. oh well! we did get a round of cheerios vacuumed up, so that was a good thing! :) (we have a central vac that isn't too, too strong and kurt is holding it up to wilson's pj's in that picture where wilson is giggling at some long metal pole thing, in case you were wondering. lol!) we also ate lunch out at red robin. we used to go there all of the time in texas, since it was close to our house, it was in the shopping mall with target, toys r us, old navy, and the pet store, and you get free balloons. (does it get any better than that? lol!) i can't even really say that we've done much of anything since we got home from lunch. but boy is that nice for a change!!! i'm so in need of trying to scrap again - i think it's been over a month since i've done much of anything. and we have so many home improvement projects that need done. we really need to kick it into gear! hopefully tomorrow. (i think i've been saying that or months. hee!)

happy day after valentines day...

anna had the day off from school but ella had to go to school. it was so great for anna and i to get to spend some special time together. i feel like i hardly ever get to have her almost all to myself. she asked for popcorn and a slushie from target for a special treat. :) then we had a blast shopping at the $1 spot and getting 1/2 price valentine goodies. we also stopped at the bookstore and bought a series of amelia bedelia books. i am so amazed at how well she's reading! and those stories made us all giggle so much! we brought ella the book "pinkalicious." she was thrilled! :)

ok - i guess i will try to get to sleep since it's almost 11, but i'm still just a tad freaked out from watching grey's! how could they do that to us??? they can't end it like that!!!!!!

further proof...

that i can't get a picture of my children without at least one tongue hanging out. ;)
happy valentine's day!!!!!

snow day!!!

wooooohooooo!!!
kurt's work called him at 5 am to tell him they were delayed for 2 hours. and that's when i saw that anna's school was closed! and i was so excited i couldn't get back to sleep. lol!!! we are a little sad that ella didn't get to have her valentine's party, but she'll get to celebrate thursday instead. so we spent our morning making chocolate covered bananas. mmmmmmm.......! they are delicious!!! now, unfortunately, i have a chocolate, peanut and sprinkle covered kitchen to clean up too, but it was worth it because they were soooo good!!! :D well, and anna LOVED the chocolate coating, but, she decided she didn't want to eat the banana part because they "looked gooey." sometimes she is too much!!! :)

i guess it's time for me to change my banner, huh? i left it up since i was still in mourning. :( lol! poor wilson is still sick. we took him to the doctor finally on wednesday (we couldn't get in until then unless we went to the er. ack!). by then he was really hacking and wheezing, so he had to have an x-ray to rule out pneumonia. oh my - i know there are so many worse things but that x-ray was soooo awful. i don't think it really hurt him but it was so hard for me to watch him while he sat there looking at me with his eyes saying, "why are you letting them do this to me?" they didn't find anything, thankfully, but they do think he has rsv or a virus similar to that. yesterday was a good day for him but he wakes up so congested in the morning. he's getting pretty tired of sitting in his carseat in the bathroom while the shower runs for steam. and i'm just tired of him feeling bad - i just feel so bad for the little guy. and the poor girls are ready for him to be well so they can get some more mommy time. it just stinks all around! we have been so, so blessed to not have many illnesses in our family so far! and this too shall pass. and we can't wait 'til it does!!! thank goodness for lunch with the bagels today!!! :) hope my flying monkey doesn't knock me to the floor! ;)

-ps - i'm still not sure if the girls managed to catch anything on their fishin' trip or not. ;)

struttin' our stuff like you knew we would...

we're so bad, you know we're good...