{This Is My Life}

Big & Bright

Wow.  What an amazing response from so many of you... on here, Facebook, Myspace, phone calls, emails.  I'm feelin' the love and encouragement!  THANK YOU.  Really.  We are super excited about it and honestly, I'm looking forward to watching my belly (and the baby) grow.  I love that adding another little person to our family means more opportunities to teach how to share & care & love.  This world needs more decent people walking around who know how to share & care & love.  Don't you think?  I'm pretty darn excited about buying baby things again, too.  FUN!

Something else I am a little too excited about today.  Getting digital cable.  We haven't had cable TV for months, and honestly I think it was a good thing.  The kids got out of the habit of wanting to watch show after show every morning.  A few of the shows that are being welcomed back with open arms?  Jon & Kate Plus 8 - a fav of the whole family.  Miami Ink.  Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.  Ace of Cakes.  Well, truth be known... ALL of Food Network.  I. Love. Food.  And I LOVE the holidays (as previously stated)... so I couldn't really handle the thought of not having my Food Network Holiday shows.  Eeeek!

 

Yesterday we had a full, fun day!  Camden, Ella and I went to the zoo and met up with Payton (see above photo), Brandi, and Ms. Bobbie.  Camden & Payton have been pals since they were in the womb - since before they had a choice!  The rest of the day was filled with a visit to the mall (and a little chat with Santa),  setting up & decorating the kids' miniature Christmas tree while baking & decorating sugar cookies, a visit to the library, picking up sushi for dinner (mmmm... before you freak on me, nothing raw), and finished off by stopping to visit my sister & niece, Aubrey & Elexa.  Super fun!  I love full days... as long as there aren't too many meltdowns to go along with them.

Here's to keeping up with my more-frequently-blogging self!

Easter Fun!

We had an Easter get-together at my aunt's house yesterday, and boy am I glad we did.  It is extremely cold outside today and will be tomorrow, so we are absolutely not doing an Easter egg hunt outside tomorrow.  We did one yesterday for the little ones though, and they had a blast.  Our plans for tomorrow consist of lunch at our house with my Mom & her husband, and my sister & her husband & their kids, and an egg hunt inside.  We always go to church on Sundays, but Camden has been having such a difficult time in nursery lately and there will be more kids than usual tomorrow, so we decided against going.  And in light of the rediculous weather, we decided against boiling crawfish and are opting for gumbo instead.  Mmmm... I love comfort food in cold weather.

Now, I think my sexy hubby and I will cuddle up and watch a movie.  I rented a childhood favorite: E.T., and bought m&m's to munch on (although I just did a little researched and discovered that it is Reese's Pieces in the movie, not m&m's.  Anyone else surprised?).  I have been creating a few more things with felt lately, so I may do a bit of that this afternoon, too.  For now, here are a few pictures from yesterday.

Cupcakes that I made for our get-together.  (Got the idea from Ali's blog.)  Fun!

What a hunk!

When the kids were hunting for the eggs, Camden would pick up an egg and shake it to see if there was candy in it.  If he didn't hear anything rattling around, he would put it back where he got it.  LOL  Smart boy!