Wordless Wednesday - Spring Cuties

Spring has Sprung...

I have been so bad about getting my camera out and actually using it to take pictures of my children. But how beautiful is this. These gorgeous tulips are what I see when I look outside of my front door. Kendyll is sharing my love for tulips as well. Before this pictures she was sitting on her tummy just staring at them. Spring is here! The beauty everywhere is just awe inspiring. I just want to get my hands in everything that is outside. Thank you God for creating such beauty. Thank you for giving me the eyes to see. I am so blessed!

Wordless Wednesday - He's Back and Sweet

Multiple Personalities

Okay, I do now know children can have multiple personalities! I left to go to Vegas with an AJ who was sweet and loving, I've returned to his evil twin that is hateful, mean and aggresive - a down-right spawn of satan himself. I actually holy watered him and just prayed the water wasn't going to burn him :) He informed me at bedtime last night that he is going to grow to be a mean person. Please tell me this is just a phase. Please tell me there is some kind of drug for multiple personality disorder I can give my child. I sure want my old AJ back!

This was taken yesterday while he was sleeping. Thank you Jesus for naptime. It reminds you how sweet and innocent they can be. Note, this was after he told me he didn't like me, didn't love me, he wasn't going to sleep and demolished his room. Like I said, thank you Jesus for naptime, so I can get a break from AJ's evil twin. I wish I could tell you he woke up a new person - nope not so much!

The Center of My World

Jesse, this is for you. I know we were talking the other day about the one piece in my house that everything was center around. Here it is...

I think it is so beautiful. I love the red and gold and I got it just to go on the sage mountain walls.

I am still recouping from moving in expenses and Christmas, but one day soon I will make it to buy something extravagant to place on it.

What Have I Been Up To...

...Sinning! "Sin City" that is! Yes, at 33 I finally have made my way westward to Las Vegas. Jeremy and I had a fabulous time without the kiddos just walking and people watching and walking and people watching and OH, did I mention walking and people watching? I have to say for people who don't gamble, go out clubbing or want to pay big bucks for shows, we were out of our element. However we did take advantage of all the food and free stuff we could take in!

I was in awe of the mere beauty of the surrounding mountains. I guess because I live in flat Oklahoma I never expected the dessert to be so amazing. Up in the Stratosphere you could see that for sure.

We didn't go in all, but we did visit 90 percent of the casinos just to see what they had inside. Most were unbelievable!! The grand scale of these creations are hard to grasp unless you see them for yourself. It is hard to say which were my favorites, however New York, New York, Paris and the Venetian would all have to be in my top favorites for different reasons.

And of course the the most important thing on my list to see were the fountains outside the Bellagio (like the ones at the end of Ocean's Eleven)...Breathtaking! Just by chance we stumbled upon a show at the Palazzo. These women, dressed as statues, that did beautiful movements in a fountain to music with water coming out of their fingers. It was call the Living Garden.

I am feeling I have had my fill of the Vegas Strip. But I would like to go back someday to see the Hoover Dam, climb one of those mountains, and see old Vegas. That was one more thing to check off my list!

What Will This Room Become!

I'm stuck!

This room was SUPPOSE to be a theater room. And yes, while one day soon it will have all the components of a theater room - projection, projection screen and theater seating, my darling husband has decided it is now going to be an OU Sooners room!

So in the mist of compromise, we've decided to make it a "tasteful" sports room! Is that an oxymoron?

I NEED HELP!

Jesse, this is where I hope you can come in and guide me.

Do a coat of crimson paint on the bottom section of the wall. (the walls right now are Latte.)?

-The stadium seat are going to stay.

-This is a huge room with as you can see walls full of OU pictures that I need an idea of how that can be more tasteful!

-Is there some way it can be both without looking funny - one side OU/the other side theater?

Here is one more!

I'm Back From the Dark Place

Winter, I curse you!
January, I curse you more!

Yes, I'm SADD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)! They say it isn't a real disorder, but it is, I promise! It is the dark place! So I am back...I'm out of bed, my bad mood and weight gain - back to life, back to blogging, back to taking pictures and spending time with friends. Screw winter. I'm not going to let it win!

New Tradition - The Elf on the Shelf

This Christmas the Thomas family added a little member to our Christmas tradition - A little Elf on the Shelf who Andrew named November.

The story behind the Elf on the Shelf is that he comes to your house around Christmas time from the North Pole and sits and watches you the whole Christmas season. He does leave however when you're sleeping to return to the NP to report his sightings to Santa himself. He returns to your home each morning only he finds a new perch to sit on while watching. So every morning it is important you find him.

I had no idea that Andrew and even Kendyll would have so much fun with this little guy. He was one of the hightlights of our holiday season. As soon as AJ jumped out of bed the elf was the first thing he tried to spot. We had to be very creative as you can imagine. If you mentioned the elf Kendyll would always look to the place the it was the day before. However once she found the elf it was pure excitement and joy with a loud shreek "eeeeek," "eeeeeek." The elf brought to our house the just what an adult needs seeing the innocence and excitement of what Christmas is throught a child's eyes. And even better, all I had to say when AJ wouldn't mind was "Elf, did you write that down!" and AJ jumped to get it done. Now, I'm just not sure what I'm going to do for the next 11 months to get him to obey?



One of my other favorite traditions is lining up in my mom and dad's hallway waiting to see what Santa brought. I have been doing for as long as I can remember and the tradition still holds even with my children.



One last great thing that happened this holiday season. On New Year's Eve we came home early from our party just to be home together as a family. Jeremy, AJ and I stayed up until midnight and toasted together. Before the toast we practiced with AJ by counting down 10 to 1 then saying Happy New Year then toasting. After we practiced and said "then we toast" he asked us "where is the bread!" Don't you love what goes through the minds of children?