Good news

I'm really tired so I'll try to make this quick.

I'm EXCITED I just got diagnosed with sleep apnea today. I've known for some time, but I finally got the diagnosis today. I need to go back to the sleep clinic and sleep there with a CPAP machine on, and then I will be on my way to feeling tons better.

So when I saw the doctor today to interpret my sleep study he told me that:

1. I woke up every 3 minutes
2. That I stopped breathing 21 times every hour
3. That I went into each sleep cycle, and I had apnea in each cycle
4. And that I only went into REM sleep one time. He said I am very REM deprived.
5. He said the CPAP machine is the only thing that can help me. That surgery wouldn't even help.

I can't wait to get this machine and start being able to sleep. Speaking of I'm about to fall asleep right now.

But I have a few more things to say if I can stay awake.

Yesterday, we went to Braxton and Dalton's birthday party. They got a new swing set so the kids climbed and played on that. And they had a ton of fun with bubbles. (mainly dumping the bubbles and putting their hands in it.) The kids helped decorate the cakes and they got to paint frames. (How cool is that?) The kids had pizza and the adults had yummy Famous Daves barbecue.










Today Nana flew in from St. Augustine to visit. So I took advantage of having another adult here to teach the kids Candyland. It didn't go well at the beginning. They each wanted to pick their color. So they were upset if they didn't get the color they wanted. Here is a great picture of the "Candyland pout". After Greg had a talk to her, she came down and they played another game. They really did very well. We had to watch to make sure they went in the direction they were supposed to go though.

(shoot I had 4 more pictures to put on but Blogger is being Stubborn and won't let me... so off to bed I go) goodnight!

Easter Sunday

I took lots and lots of pictures today. How will I ever pick the ones I will scrapbook. Here are a few.

We had a lot of fun today. Last night the kids helped clean the family room so that the Easter bunny would have a place to put their baskets. **Man I should have thought of that before. I can't believe how fast they cleaned up. Maybe the Easter bunny will visit weekly. HA!

Mason said, he wanted to stay up and see the Easter bunny. He thought she was beautiful and wanted to give her a hug. How cute.

They found their baskets right away. They each got flashlights and bubble guns. We took the bubble guns to church to play out in the courtyard after church.

This is Aussie.

This is Mason, he insisted on holding the flowers.

I thought that this picture of Ashley and Austin with their backs turned kind of looked like a Holly Hobby moment, or maybe a Norman Rockwell picture.

During the service today each member of every family brought flowers to put on the cross. I just love Easter Sunday!

Here Daddy is playing monster with the kids.

And then I thought this was a sweet picture of me and Mason at Logan's Steak house.

Easter Egg Hunt

We went to an Easter Egg hunt today. They had a really great time. I was a "little" disappointed because everyone was supposed to bring 12 eggs for each kid. None of my kids got 12 back and some of them didn't even have anything in them. So that was a bummer. I just told my kids I would give them more at home and they were satisfied with that.





I took these 2 pictures when we got home. I really like the picture of Ashley walking away from the camera with the dandelions in a bucket.

misconceptions

I just LOVE LOVE LOVE this comment my friend Jann wrote on my last post. Do you think I should set her straight or just smile and go on? She may be right on one thing, I'll let you make the decision of which one you think it is.

Even if they aren't learning anything -- I am!
1. I have learned what a creative and proactive Mommy you are.
2. I have learned that you make considered decisions (you didn't just run out and get those crocs).
3. You are willing to have "messy fun."
4. You tackle more than one project at a time.
5. You have a clean house....I am impressed.

I knew I liked you! Have a Happy Easter

Prescription for Shoes

Well it's confirmed, I have heel spurs on both feet. So I HAD to go buy some new shoes. :)
My doctor looked at my tennis shoes and said my feet were touching the ground in them.

So I bought the ever popular Crocs. They are not so bad. I got black because they would go with more things. Although, I think they are hot. I don't like hot feet. And I bought some very supportive sneakers.

We are still on the "NT" theme. So we did fingerprints. And when I get the family room clean then I will get out the paints. (I'm hoping that is today.)

Tomorrow we go on an Easter Egg Hu"nt".

Do you think they are actually learning anything?

Embarrassing moment

On our way home from coloring Easter eggs today my daughter informed me she had to go to the bathroom. I said can you wait 'til we get home? NO!, she answered. I said OK, as I am going down a long stretch in the street where I just don't know where to stop. She says, "Pee pees are coming out." So I quickly called a friend that I haven't seen in months, since we were close to her house.

First of all I thought they had one of those answering machines that says Hello? Hello? Anyone there? because it sounded like an answering machine. But when I said this is Chelle, he repeated my name back to me. So I thought I better start talking. Anyway, I asked if my daughter could use their bathroom. They said sure come over, it will be nice to see you. So I get there in time thank goodness and they are having a party. HELLO? I was so embarrassed. I felt like I was crashing it. So I sheepishly said thank you. And she asked if we wanted to stay for dinner. Oh yes, like I'm going to come into their house use their restroom and eat with them on the spur of the moment.
I laughed and said no, but thanks for letting us stop by.

Then on the way out. Her twin boys were on the porch watching us leave. And they said, "Are you going?" I said, "Yes, we just stopped to use the bathroom". Then they said, "Oh OK well you can go in our grass." LOL!

Lovely potty training moment.

Quints?

No just my triplets coloring easter eggs with their twin friends. They colored eggs today and had a blast. I'd like to say they pai"NT"ed their eggs to stay in my "NT" theme, but they really didn't. I suppose we will just have to paint on Friday. They couldn't get enough eggs. They were coloring them left and right.


This is Braxton. Such a sweet fellow! Very sensitive and just precious!



This is Dalton. This picture really captures his personality. I can't help but laugh at him.


This is MY Aussie. He is smiling because he really wanted to go home and I said if you smile, we will go.







This is my girl Ashley. She said, "Come on let's go so we can eat these eggs."













And this is MY Mason. He was SO proud of his eggs. He was carrying them everywhere!

Then here are the quints again showing off their colored eggs. Aren't they so cute?

Planting Seeds.

Today started out to be a fairly good day, despite the tummy aches. We are learning about the "nt" blend. So I decided to have the kids pla"nt" some seeds today.
















Who knows whether the seeds will come up or not. My children had a different idea about planting than I did. First they dug up dirt. And then they put the dirt in some area not around where we were planting the seeds.















Then I gave them the seeds. They did pretty well with this part. They seem to scatter them where they were supposed to go.

Then I tried to cover up the seeds with the extra dirt (hmmm where did it go?), but they just wanted to step in them. So who knows where these wild flowers will pop up if they got on their shoes.


Then came the watering. Yes, they all had turns watering. So now we have a very wet spot of dirt with seeds hopefully still in the ground.

I guess the main thing is they had fun. Fun...fun...fun until they came inside and fell apart.

I would like to apologize to anyone who called me today, because I don't think I finished one conversation. And that is including the doctor's office. I had to cut that short because Austin was about to break his leg.

Fun weekend

Hello friends!

Well the weekend was great. Friday we had a playdate at the Beckman's house. They painted their playroom like a jungle. They call it the Diego room. Dana's husband, Mike, made a loft type of thing with a rope to swing on. The kids had a blast! They would jump from the top to a mattress on the floor.












Then the weather got bad. So Dana quickly moved things in her garage so I could pull my car in. Good thing too, because there was hail. We ended up staying at her house all day playing in the lower level. I hate storms and it was so nice to be in a safe area with a friend.

Then Greg picked up the kids after work and we got to go to Scrap It. We giggled all night long. I got 2 layouts completed (4 pages) and I redid one that was really bugging me. I usally don't do that, but it just needed to be done. I went back to Dana's house after the crop and we scrapbooked until 3:30 in the morning. I felt like a school girl again, spending the night and sleeping in. I came home giddy and was ready to face the day with my kids, while Greg took his turn out to go writing.

Sunday we went to church and played on the playground after church. (And when I can get blogger to upload some pictures I'll do that.)


So now it's Monday. I woke up with a little tummy ache and so did 2 of the kids. Oh please-NO more sickness! I had to cancel some plans, because I didn't want to risk getting my pregnant friend sick. But I still have some plans for today....I better get the kids dressed.

My Children...

...ARE MONSTERS!

Can you hear that screaming at your house? I certainly wouldn't be surprised!

Third Round!

This has been a yucky week.

Ashley got sick on Saturday night. So we were up all night long with her.
We missed church on Sunday.
Sunday night was terrible terrible weather. We prayed no one would get sick. I was afraid we were going to be stuck in the hallway in close quarters and have a sick child. But God spared us from the bad weather and a sick child!-But we were up all night with the weather.
Then early early this morning Mason comes to our bed and is sick. And then we were up the rest of the night with him.

In the morning I didn't think i could make it. Greg took Ashley and Austin to the doctor. (Ashley is hurting when she goes to the bathroom.) He had to get a urine sample from her. I'd like to say I'm glad it wasn't me, but I really feel for him. That must have been awful. And I stayed home with sick Mason. The good thing is that I got to sleep when he slept. It was a "relatively" peaceful day.

So about 6:00PM Mason is feeling well and at 8:00PM Round 3 begins. Austin is sick now. I'll be taking the first shift, by trying to sleep in the recliner in their room. Then Greg will take over around 2:00. I need sleep to function.

Greg has a very busy week at work and he needs sleep and prayers to get things accomplished.

Please pray Greg and I don't get this sickness and that it is over with in the morning. Each sickness has lasted about 15 hours. I better go get some rest before we are awakened again.

Today was not the day to...

....fly a kite!

It was VERY cold today! I thought it was supposed to be a beautiful warm day. The kids had been pinned up in the house basically all weekend. So I planned an outing to Centennial Park to fly kites today. That was NOT a good idea.

The kites didn't get off the ground for more than a few seconds. Also, Austin freaked out. He told me to put his kite in the car, because he didn't want it to fly away. He didn't want anyones kite to fly away!

Anyway, I still got a few cute pictures to share.

Oh by the way, Ashley saved Mason's life yesterday. She looked around the corner and told him not to put the key in the electrical outlet. Thank God, Greg was right there to hear it and catch him before he did that!

Crocs- apparantly it's a shoe

I have heel spurs (technical term plantanious mumbo jumbo). They are hurting like crazy! Anyway, I was told that I should get some Crocs because they are really super comfy, especially in the heel.

So as soon as I have some free time I am going to buy a pair of those ugly shoes. They are SO UGLY! I don't get it...why do they go and make a comfy shoe ugly?

Well anyway, I'm going out to buy some. And I'm going to have to trust that you will tell me when they are out of style. Because I don't want to be around my girlfriends 10 years later and ya'll are saying, "Remember when it was cool to where crocs". And I will sheepishly grin and kick my crocs to the side like I forgot to where shoes and just laugh with you all. And I'll join in saying, "OH yah we thought those were so cool." LOL.

So what color should I get?

Haircuts

The kids got haircuts and they look SO cute. I need to take some better pictures but here is one of them with Ms. Ellen. And here is another snapshot of Ashley in the mirror (terribly out of focus), but it does show her haircut well.














Ashley loves her new haircut. And she says she looks like her Mommy with her Mommy haircut. I love it too. She really needed to get it cut, because of when she cut her hair in the back a few months ago. Anyway, I didn't miss it until I pulled up this next picture. Now I'm emotional.

Layouts from Saturday

So here are the layouts I did on Saturday...

I know it is hard to believe that I used hidden journaling, but this layout called for it. The picture is of all 3, but the journaling is about Mason. How this was his first time to stand and I caught it on film. Ofcourse the next picture was of him falling on top of his brother and sister. I used the Dulce line of paper. She has such pretty fun colors. Go look at Amber's blog. I got to meet her at Scrap It a few weeks ago. http://www.amberalicia.typepad.com/ (someone must teach me how to put a link in with just name.)Now this is one of my favorite layouts that I have done in a long time. You can't really tell from the scan but the paper is slightly shimmery. It was fun going back and scrapbooking some of these older pictures. I feel like I need to put their names on this layout, but I also am afraid that I will mess it up.This next layout of Ashley and me, I am going to put a straight stitch in the middle across the page under the flower. I think (hope) that will help.


















Wow isn't this amazing? They were so tiny. This was when they were 3 weeks old and now they are 3 1/2. I know people say with the blink of an eye they will be all grown up. Well I'm here to tell you that this was one of the longest 3 1/2 years I've ever had. :) I love them and I truly have put all my energy into them. I just hope the next few years go slow but with better attitudes and better sleep.

disc lost

I know this is silly, but please pray that I find the disc I lost. If I don't find it by noon tomorrow, I'm going to have to do 3 or 4 hours of work all over again. I'm in a time crunch.

Thanks!

Openess begets openess!

We accomplished something really amazing today...

Today Greg and I have been married for 12 happy years! Unfortunately Greg is not feeling very well today, so we didn't go out or anything. We just stayed at home and ate Blue Bell ice cream! If you haven't had Blue Bell ice cream you need to stop everything and go get some. :) LOL It's that good!


I don't understand divorce. Now I'm not talking about divorce where there is a good reason behind it. I have many friends who are divorced and sometimes it was called for and sometimes it just wasn't their choice. I'm talking about the kind of divorce when people say "we are just not happy together anymore." Hello? Who said you have to be happy all the time? Marriage is a committment, something that always changes and continues to evolve. Many times it is difficult. But my goodness WORK it out! Get help---whatever!

We have been learning a lot about community recently in our Sunday school class and small group. Do you know how important it is to have someone to talk to? So many people just don't have another person that they can bounce things back and forth. If you don't have a friend to talk to you need to find one or even find a counselor to talk to.

One thing we have also talked about is having "couple counceling". Many times if we get with a girlfriend to talk it is easy to bash our spouse and let off steam. But that's not very beneficial, and only one side of the story is heard. But if we get with another couple and talk about our problems, we are able to hear outloud both sides of the story and get a perspective from an outside party that could be beneficial in helping us work on it.

Openess begets openess!

Please be real! We need eachother.

It's late...I hope this makes sense.

Computer FUN!

Finally something worth blogging about. This is absolutely hysterical, I hope that I can put it into words.

Tonight Mason was playing on the computer. He has just learned how to control the mouse all by himself. So I put on www.starfall.com for him to play around with. He said, "Go Mommy". So I went downstairs, while he played on the computer. He called for me 2x when somehow he accidently got out of his program.

Well during this time, my friend Dana IMs me.

Dana: oh my gosh - www.Scrapittn.com has so many yummy things!

Then my 3 year old son has a conversation with Dana. He starts pushing buttons that say these hysteral things. And Dana on the other end...thinks it's me. Here's how it goes...

Mason: Whaaadddup?!
Dana: the kids thought that was hysterical!
Mason: Hello? Hello? Anybody there? Echo!
Mason: Buh-bye! Buh-bye now. Buh-Bye!
Mason: I hope you're hungry 'cause I'm about to take you to lunch.
Dana: thanks for providing the fri night entertainment!
Dana: lol rofl
Mason: Hello? Hello? Anybody there? Echo!
Dana: Muhahahaha!
Dana: I hope you don't slip while I'm mopping the floor with you.
Dana: Seriously, are you even trying?
Dana: Oooh that's gotta hurt
Dana: Badabing badabang badaboom
Mason: Muhahahaha!
Dana: Hit me with your best shot... Grandma!
Dana: Muhahahaha!
Dana: I hope you don't slip while I'm mopping the floor with you.

So when I came upstairs to get my grocery money I found this conversation and just busted out laughing!!! So I called Dana right away to let her know she had a conversation with a 3 year old.