All work and no play...

Nothing new today. We stayed home and I attempted to clean clean and clean some more. I worked SO hard and the kids were right at my feet messing it up. I did actually at one point have everything off the family room floor so that I could vacuum. I had plans with 2 different families for tomorrow and they both had to cancel, so I guess tomorrow I'll work on the Kitchen. BLEH!

From Greg: I'm so proud of Chelle, she worked so hard today!

Ice cream moustaches and beards and noses...

I am getting so aggrivated with blogger. I have been trying to put on pictures and it goes through the whole process and then does nothing. Well I have these 3 pictures on there, hopefully I'll be able to get the other 2 on there later.

Today we went to the mall and met Dalton and Braxton there. They are SO adorable! And Dalton wanted to come home with me. What can I say, I'm smitten. :) LOL.

After seeing my kids get ice cream moustaches and beards. Dalton put his nose right into the icecream! And said I've got an ice cream nose. And Braxton had to show off his moustache. I could just eat them up. They are so cute. Sorry Miss Dana for teaching your sons to play with their food.

Just having fun

The kids painted in the bathtub today.

Austin thought it was funny to paint his "boy parts". Remind me next time to give them each an ice cube tray filled with different colored paints instead of giving them the bottles. Austin really liked to dump the paint. Then they were sliding around in the tub. And Ashley enjoyed mixing the paint.

Austin painted a dinosaur.Ashley painted a giant and a dinosaur. and Mason painted a red cross and a chrystal.

Now after they painted they were taking a bath. Well actually they took 3. One to get the paint off, one to get clean and one because I was in the shower and they wanted to be in there too.

But this picture is obviously the first one, where they are getting the paint off.

Gross I know but Austin puts his head down into the water and I said, "Austin what are you doing?" He said, "I'm being baptized!" I said, "Who is baptizing you?" He said, "I can baptize myself all by myself".

Then Ashley chimes in, "I'm going to tell everyone who comes over to get baptized."

HA HA HA! I didn't even know they knew anything about baptism yet. Goes to show you they are sponges at this age.

Speaking of sponges...Austin told Ashley that she was on his nerve. LOL

treasure

Austin locked himself in the guest bedroom. When I noticed where he was I jiggled the door knob and said, "let me in. " He let me in and was looking at my Xyron machine and said, " I wanted to make something for you to treasure."

bribery

My kids did NOT want to where green on St. Patty's day. I had to do a lot of bribing to get them to keep their shirts on. First it was I would take them to Target to get Popcorn...but that turned into ice cream.

Austin was my toughest. I had to promise we would have purple day another day.



Then there were the kiddie rides...















And we ended up get chalk at the Dollar Tree. But hey I got a beautiful picture out of it.

Later that night we went to Dana's house and played...

Her cute kids and my kids got along great! And Dalton had a big crush on Ashley. But Ashley wouldn't have anything to do with his advances. Poor Dalton! We had a great time, the kids played well and we got to have some adult conversations. Then when we finally got our husbands to stop talking and for Greg to take our kids home, then Dana and I sat down to scrapbook. We started so late that I ended up crashing at her house. I only got 2 layouts done. But it was nice and like a vacation. :)

Think Green

I couldn't help having this photo oportunity! Happy St. Patricks Day! From Aussie, Ashley and Mason!

All is well

We had another great day today. We went to the library, McDonalds, Scrap It and then to the playground. We would have gone to church, but Mason and Ashley fell asleep at 5:00. I really hope they sleep through the night.

This morning Mason grabbed this snowman and said take a picture of me. When I told him I didn't have my camera. He said, "Well get your phone and take a picture." He was so cute I had to go get the camera.

Now this picture is the greatest! I'll have to scrapbook this one for sure. Does any titles come to mind for any of you scrapbookers?












Do all of you know about family night (Tuesdays 5:00- 8:00 PM) at Chic Fil-a? We just learned about this 3 weeks ago and I think it will become a ritual! Kids meals are only 99 cents. And it is not limited to kids! So we go and buy 5 or 6 kids meals and only pay $5 or $6 for the whole family!


I just love this picture of Ashley, but I need to learn how to photoshop the dirt off of her face.


Have a happy day!

This and That

LOL! I've gotten on to 2 people who were not keeping up with their blogs. Hmmmmmm....so I guess I better do the same huh?


It's been crazy here, but for the last 3 days the kids have been good. I hope we are turning a corner into better behaviors!


Do you know this handsome little boy? It's Gabriel...Doris' little one. I have him in Bible class and he made me laugh so much on Sunday. I took this picture and he stumbled over his words and said, "pictures....NO MORE" and put his hand out to say stop. I couldn't help but laugh.

Over the weekend I actually was able to scrapbook at home. I haven't done this in a VERY long time. I got 8 pages done all for a baby book for a friend.


Have you ever seen Kindergarten Cop? I'm reminded of that show daily, as my children are facinated with talking and showing their body parts to each other. They made me laugh, because they got very confused with the Prince Charming doll. As Ashley would say, "Prince Charming is a girl because it has a "b"gina. So we had to explain that dolls are not made with boy parts. I asked their teacher today if they talk about it at school. And thankfully she said no. I was relieved since they talk about it all the time here. I'm afraid they are going to educate everyone who comes over.



Cute story...

I gave Austin a poptart last week. And his eyes were so bright and big and he said, "This is the BEST looking poptart I ever saw!!!!!" "And I've seen LOTS of poptarts"

Just a spoon full of sugar makes it just perfect!

I have tons of things I would like to share with you, but I just don't have time to go into it right now. (maybe later today)

But I just HAD to share this:

The kids have been watching Mary Poppins a lot lately. Do you remember when Mary Poppins meets the children and she pulls out a measuring tape and she tells the kids what they are like? I don't remember exactly, but something like stubborn and doesn't like to put away his toys. Then they ask her what she is. So she says very well and measures herself and it says, Mary Poppins practically perfect in every way.

Well the kids found a toy measuring tape today and Ashley measured me and said, "Just perfect". Can you see me smiling from ear to ear?

Then later she handed the measuring tape to Mason and told him to tell her how great she is. LOL

Little Shelley

Well most of you know my daughter, Ashley is a spitting image of her Mom. Today, she was standing by a mirror in the Family room and looking up at me. I really got a good glimpse of her and I said outloud to her, "little Shelley". And Mason who was in the room too, looked up at me and said, "big Ashley". I was rolling on the floor laughing!

At the end of the day I was telling Greg this story and Mason helped me tell it. Then Ashley had her little attitude and said, "don't call me little Shelley. I'm not Shelley." We couldn't help but laugh even more. :)

I thought that was pretty clever of Mason to say!

For all you local folks

Hey there! I'm participating in a consignment sale this weekend and I have more stuff than I'm allowed to take. So I am having a pre-sale at my home on Thursday. Email me/comment if you would like to come and I'll give you directions.

I have clothes sized infants to 2T, both girls and boys. Some toys and other baby items.

Bring your friends.

Also, I'm still looking for kid plastic hangers. If you happen to have any that I could have let me know and I'll come pick them up before Friday.

This is what made me laugh today

This is what made me laugh today! I hope you like it! :)

stuff

Yesterday Greg was cracking my back and the kids wanted to "help". They were getting in Greg's way so he said, "Give Mommy a head rub". This way they would still feel like they were helping. Well my brilliant son, Austin leaned over and rubbed his head on my back. The other two followed suit when we started laughing.


Today was a really great day! We went to the track and as I walked with some of my friends, the kids rode their bikes around. They really liked it and it was such a beautiful day to be outside. Then we headed to Goodwill to drop off 3 bags of STUFF. I've been doing great with my de-cluttering! Then we went to Sams Club to eat lunch. Yep you heard right. They have great pizza and it isn't that expensive for a family of 5. It was really nice to just hang out with the family today. I really had on my agenda to go through the garage and get ready for the POTATO sale next weekend, but that didn't happen. Hopefully, I can do that after church tomorrow.

OH Greg sent me this email last week and it is SO cute. You just have to see it! It is of quad babies laughing!

http://www.zippyvideos.com/4056902853709916/babies/

Birthday surprise

Yesterday, we made a cake for Daddy and took it to his office. The cake said Happy Daddy on it. My battery on the camera was dying so I didn't get many pictures. First we stopped by Best Buy to pick up Daddy's present (Tears for Fears newest album). Aussie found a penny on the floor and said, "look Mommy". I said, "Are you going to put it in your pocket?" He said, "No, I'm going to give it to you to buy me a train." (smile)

On the way to Daddy's office, Mason said, "I'm going to count to ten and get all of daddy's friends to sing with me." I told him he would have to tell all of them to sing. So Ashley yells, "I'm gonna say ALL OF DADDY'S FRIENDS COME AND SING". They were so cute. We got there aound 4:30/4:45 and most of his workmates had left for the day. But the receptionist called Greg down to the lobby and when he got there the kids sang Happy Birthday. It was precious! Then we went back to his office and ate some yummy chocolate cake.

It's Snowing

Today is Greg's Birthday! Happy Happy Birthday Greg!

Today I went to Scrap It and I made a book for Greg for his birthday and I also made this layout: This layout is of the first snow we had this year. We got just a dusting of snow and all of it melted before 10:00AM. We had to work really fast to make this snowman.

While I was scrapbooking, Greg took the kids outside to play in the snow today. He got some cute pictures. The rest of the pictures I'll post on Snapfish tomorrow.

Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day!

I lost my battery to my camera and I didn't find it until after they got home from school. So needless to say I didn't get any pictures of them all together and I did not get a good one of Austin at all. Poor little fellow sat in water and dropped his pants outside. Thank goodness I had a pair of pants and underwear in the car. Do you know how hard it is to get eager kids inside after they've been waiting all day to play outside?

Anyway, I'm really glad I got this picture of Mason. I rarely have a good picture of him. I'll have to blow it up and scrap it.

Making Valentines

The kids made their Valentine's Day Cards. They turned out really cute. They had hearts and sprinkles on them and only a few footprints. :)

Bluuuud

Why is it always Austin that I have the craziest stories about? You know when they were first born I "tried" to keep 3 journals of the cute things they would do. Mason and Ashley always had something written in their books. And I felt so bad because Austin would have nothing written down. Well he sure is making up for it now.


Today Austin stubbed his toe. It wasn't bad AT ALL! But he came running into the Kitchen saying:

I hurt my toe... I hurt my big toe again....I NEED blood.
Greg: Honey, you don't need blood.
Austin: Yes I do....take me to Red Cross and get me some blood.

Ok so that in itself is funny....but to hear him say it you would have been rolling on the floor. He says blood like this.... Bluuuud.

conversations

Me: Austin you need to go pee pee on the potty.
Austin: I already did last year.
Me: {{{ laughing}}}
Austin: I did last year when I was a baby... I did last year when I was a CUTE baby.
Me {{{laughing}}}

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Ashley: Mommy, I want my coke
me: ok
Ashley starts to giggle: I mean my Dr. Pepper, did you hear me? I said coke.
Me: You know what, in the south people call Dr.Pepper coke.

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We were in Target yesterday and Asutin saw all the Thomas the engine stuff and wanted it ALL.
Austin: I want all of the Thomas stuff.
Me: Well you will need to ask for it for your birthday.
Austin: NO...I want to ask for it for Groundhog's Day

Today we had the same conversation and this time he said, "No...I want it for Tuesday".
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My Mom got me this really comfy throw from Kohls. I just love it and it keeps me warm! Well Mason insists that it is his and he carries it all over the house.

Me: Mason where is my blanket?
Mason: This is MY blanket.
Me: no it's MY blanket.
Mason: No, it's my blanket that Gramma MADE for me.
Me: No, it's my blanket that Gramma bought for me for Christmas.
Mason: No, Gramma made it for me for Christmas.

Needless to say, My Mom picked up another one for me today. :)

It's ringing...who will get it?

I think my MIL is one of the few people who realizes the telephone is a convenience. I on the otherhand and I suspect many of you jump when it rings. Have you ever been where you were just about to sit on the toilet and the phone rings? What do you do? Ignore the phone and do your business or scurry to the phone pulling up your pants as you run to get it before it stops ringing?

Why is it such a NEED to grab the phone? If it is important they will leave a message or call back right? So I'm just curious how many of you feel the telephone is just a convenience and you can let it ring and ring if it is not convenient for you to get it? Or how many of you jump to get the phone before the 3rd ring?