For Real...

I'm fighting this today.

Gloves on...

I don't know if it will be a complete knockout but,

I'm giving it my best shot.

If you ever need to feel better about your housekeeping abilities, please feel free to stop by. Mine are nonexistent lately. 

Oh well, just keepin' it real... 

The Princess and The Bruiser

Friday was spent playing dress up with our very own princess. Josh was home from work. We planned to have a lazy day at home. 

You know what happens to plans , right? Kids don't care. Friday morning was spent at the DR office with Shep who, we thought, had a broken thumb. Turns out it was just smooshed pretty good. 

Got the kids bathed and ready for bed. And then our little Sheppie falls face first into the fireplace hearth and requires a trip to the ER.

5 stitches for our little bruiser. 

And he's wilder than ever. 

Some people stop to smell the roses....

We stop to feel the cotton. We were on our way to a little park in a small town not far from here. They kept wondering what all the white flowers were. So we stopped to look and feel the cotton. It's soft!

And our little Shep is at the DR right now having his thumb looked at. He may have broken it this morning. We've been through the ringer lately. 

But, hopefully, our spirits will be kept up and we'll always stop to smell the roses to touch the cotton.

My September Girls

I forgot. I forgot to do a post celebrating my most favorite girls on their birthdays. 

I didn't forget their birthdays though. We had a wonderful get together with some family and a few of Sophie's friends over. It was a nice day.

My sweet Sophie turned 14. Can't believe she's 14! She has such a sweet spirit. She's a good mix of sporty and girly. She's always been like that. She has a "boy"friend now. It's a new experience for all of us. She's handling things in a good way though. She has a heart for the Lord and I am so proud of that. I'm just proud of her. She will always be our Sophie Sunshine. 

And our little G-nut Peanut turned 4. She thinks it feels GREAT to be 4! She is my girly girl through and through. She loves her Barbies and she loves fairies and she loves to dress up. She wants to be a rainbow dolphin trainer when she grows up. She is very aware if you are laughing at her right now and sometimes she says the cutest things and we laugh and she thinks we're laughing at her and she gets upset. She wants to be taken seriously. She can be very high maintenance sometimes and, in all honesty, I'm still learning a lot about her. How I handle certain situations with her or discipline her changes a lot. I'm learning what works best. She loves her sister and brother and mommy and daddy. My favorite thing right now is how she looks at herself in the full length mirror while reciting Barbie movie lines or singing songs. Maybe Broadway is in her future :).

So Happy Birthday to my girls. Life is so good because of you two. 

And I love you both like a rock!

just some stuff

I guess lately I haven't had much to say. Probably, I have lots to write about but I've been feeling kind of bummed out with our situation right now. When I feel down, I retreat. But we have been doing some things. Below is a mish mash of pictures from the last few weeks. That's all I've got for now :).

We've enjoyed some time at our new park here. GG loves the sandbox and Shep loves to slide.

My parents brought me this dress when they went to Hawaii. I was about three years old. GG's age now. Sophie also wore this dress at her third birthday party. I love having stuff like this.

GG finally got her cast off. Yay! She can now take normal baths and Daddy took her and Shep to Water World the other day. She can swim again! 

Sophie has been playing lots of volleyball. This is her "boy" friend cheering her on.

One night we tied GG's hair up and she slept in it.

The next morning she had "crazy" hair. That's what she calls it. :)

GG and her clippy flower earrings that were my great Aunt Birdie's. Also you can see my new bedding in the back ground. I LOVE it. 

And this is the sunset coming home from Sophie's volleyabll game in Georgia one night last week. 

The pictures do it no justice because it was a gorgeous sky. 

And I end it with that because it was a moment of thankfulness for me. And gratitude to my God for my life and all that is in it. 

Blessings.