Happy Mother's Day!

"Mothers are all slightly insane."

"There is no way to be a perfect mother, and a million ways to be a good one."

"Men are what their mothers made them."

" If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"

"Mother's can look through a child's eyes and see tomorrow"



"Mothers are instinctive philosophers."


Happy Mother's Day to all the Mom's out there!

Welcome 2011

This is the year! The year I am going to lose weight, the year I am going to pay down debt, the year I am going to get my tonsils out, the year that I ? I can finish this sentence in so many ways. I am excited for this year. Out with the old and in with the new. I am itching to clean my house out! I want to donate and throw out all of my stuff!

So, I haven't worked out in months. I am always making excuses that I don't have time and the house work and laundry come first. Well, not this year! I am putting myself first for once. The laundry and dishes will wait!!!! My body needs me! and need it. I need to get healthy for me and for my kids. I am tired of wearing tight ugly clothes. I am tired of being self conscious all the time. I am just plain tired.

This is going to be a great year! New healthy habits will hopefully take control!!!!

Celebrations

We've been doing a lot of celebrating lately! Ervin's bday, Allie's bday and Easter all were clumped together this year! I had to work on Easter so I missed out on all the fun festivities...egg hunts, yummy food, and the joy of family! I did get a glimpse of the girls in their Easter dresses. Allie complained that her dress was too itchy! and I heard that Maddie was trying to take her dress off in the car on the way to the party!

Aren't they just adorable???

Ervin turned 33 this year. We celebrated by going to the boat aka casino. My mom treated us to an overnight stay for free as well as dinner and breakfast buffets. We even brought the kids. The kids loved the pool! We had a good time.....the only downfall.....losing 300+ dollars to those awful slot machines!!! My mom won 35,000 dollars a few months ago and I was hoping to win a little! Not so much!!! We had cheesecake, Erv's favorite to celebrate!

Allie turned 6 this week! I cannot believe how much she has grown. She wanted her party at Chuck E Cheese. We went there on a Saturday and it actually wasn't tooo crowded! We were there early around 11 am so that may have made a difference. She had a really good time and got some cool presents including an i pod shuffle from grandma and grandpa. She loves listening to music and wanted her own tunes to listen to. I am now trying to download some music on to it but I am having some technical difficulty! Why is it that you can spend hours on the computer waiting for downloads! So frustrating!!!

My baby girl is 6 years old! She has grown into such a loving and beautiful person. She is sensitive and funny. She loves it when we spend time together. She loves her family...and we love her too!

Happy 6th birthday baby!

Happy Mother's Day!

Motherhood

The dearest gifts that heaven holds,

The very finest, too,

Were made into one pattern

That was perfect,sweet, and true;

The Angels smiled, well-pleased, and said

"Compared to all the others,

This pattern is so wonderful

Let's use it just for Mothers!"

And through the years, a Mother

Has been all that's sweet and good

For there's one bit of God and love,

In all true Motherhood.

~Helen Steiner Rice~

Jacob had this poem for me in a little red trinket box with his picture in it. It was so cute! He had kept this and hid it the whole week! Allison "surprised"me with a mock aquarium that she made at preschool...and Ervin got me a wireless mouse for my laptop...

My mom is away in the Philippines at this time, but I am thinking of her....

Happy Mother's Day everyone!

Easter celebrations and Maddie's Christening

After work, I got home around 8:15 am and started getting ready for mass and Maddie's Christening. I am happy to say I did not fall asleep during mass, I did get nauseated, but I managed to get through it! I must say that Madelyn was great during the whole mass and didn't cry once, not even when the priest watered her head. She was awesome.

Waiting for mass to start

Me and Maddie

With Father after mass

Godparents Rex and Julie are on the left


Allie in her Easter dress

taking a nap

egg hunting

more egg hunting

chocolate, he ate almost the whole bunny. He was unsupervised.

* I spent over $52 in chocolate candy! what the heck???

* don't go to wal mart the day before Easter because all

Easter candy and eggs will be gone....

Lesson Learned!

Maddie's new toy, I even put it together myself, pretty impressive huh?