Catching UP!

Wow, it's been a long time since I posted. I thought once I finished my master's I would have tons of free time, but I feel like I have been busier than ever.

I've been taking lots of pictures of Makinsi though. She is getting old enough now that she poses a little bit. She loves to come and look at the picture on the camera after you take it. I got her a small camera for Easter. She's been playing with mine and trying to take pictures. She's doing pretty good. I took these pics out front at our house about a week ago. She justs cracks me up, she's so cute!

Easter Sunday we went to my Grandma's house. It was way to cold outside, but I had to get a couple of her and look I'm in a picture too. Grandma gave her a cracker as soon as we got there and I couldn't get it away from her.

Oh, another picture of me. I'm trying to be better about this.

Makinsi has really got into kissing and hugging everyone, including Bailey. She chases Bailey around the house trying to catch her so she can kiss her. Bailey is such a good sport about it. Eventually, Makinsi will get ahold of her kiss her on the nose and Bailey kisses her right back. Sunday she found this cat on Grandma's back porch. It didn't put up as much of a fight as Bailey does.

Then we hid Easter eggs in the house. She caught on to this pretty well to when she found out there was gummies in them.

Bailey helped too. She would find them as fast as Makinsi and take them straight to Lauren. She's so smart.

It amazes me how in love with a kid you can get. I loved my brother and sister when they were born and all the other cousins and kids around, but when one this close comes along there's just something about. It might have something to do with the fact that I can spoil her rotten and love on her like crazy and then she gets to go home. I have a very special aunt that I just adore and she's my role model for my relationship with Makinsi. I'm just so in love with her, it amazes me! I didn't know I could love someone so much that can't even talk yet!

I have several scrapbook pages to take pictures of but I might save that for next week. We had school two days this week and then have been doing Intersession Wed., Thurs., and Friday. I'm off all next week and have two scrap days planned already. So I might wait and put them all in one post next week. Makinsi and I are going couch shopping tomorrow, so hopefully we can find a good deal. That's all for now. Oh, Go Cards and Hilltoppers tonight! It's going to be a late night.

A White March...

Well, luckily we were already off of school today for an in-service day with all the snow that is expected. I woke up about 6 and looked out the window and didn't see much. When I finally got up later about 8:30 this is what was going on:

This is supposed to be the biggest snow storm we have had in a while so I thought I'd keep a visual of it. This mini-bat from the Louisville Slugger Museum is 17 inches long. Hopefully it won't get that deep.

At noon:

Little less grass showing. I let Bailey out to play. She loves the snow and especially loves catching snowballs in her mouth. She's weird!



Stay tuned, we'll see what falls.

I Heart Edward Cullen!

All you Edward fans: You know you want a shirt like this! I had these shirts made for the kids and teachers that have all fallen in love with the Twilight Series. The boys are all jealous, they want I love Bella shirts. 5 months until the next book! This is my trusty sidekick Gayle! She is wonderful!

(This is not the greatest picture, remember I'm still getting over pink eye and still have to wear my glasses!)

This Means WAR!

Them dang little boogers and their germs got me again. Now I have "Conjunctiveitis" which sounds a whole lot better than "Pink EYE!" I look like someone punched me in the eye and somehow rerouted my nose to run out of my eye! It's just disgusting! I have learned today after being at school with the kids and then leaving early to go to to doctor that people look at you funny when they think that you got the crap beat out of you. Then you say eye infection or pink eye and they really look at you funny as they turn and run! I started to take a picture and tell you all that I got into a huge fight, but I'm sure you would all have known better. The germ war is on as soon as I'm not contagious anymore. I'm cleaning that library from top to bottom!

Who needs toys?

Makinsi came over to play this afternoon. She is so sweet and so funny. I've done this thing with her for a long time now, where I say "Show me the cheeser!" and she grins real big. She's doing it in this picture. Notice Bailey has to be in the picture too. She plays so well with Makinsi. Chases her and gives her kisses! Then I followed Makinsi into the bathroom and she pulls this towel off the shelf. I wrapped it around her and we played with it for a long time. I layed it out on the floor and she layed down in the middle of it and Lauren looked at me and said we should swing her. Big mistake!

She loved it!

Doesn't she look pitiful when we stopped. I called Papaw and told him to hang the hammock up at home, that she was going to need it. He'll do anything to play with his camping equipment.

Dress-up!

We got sent home today at 10:30 because of the ice, so I went to the hospital instead. Had to see Corynn! She needed to eat when I got there so I got to undress her to get her woke up. She sleeps alot! After she ate, I got to play dress up! She looked so cute in her "I Love Daddy" outfit with matching headband and socks!

Corynn is Here!

Teaque finally had the baby today. I stopped at the hospital this afternoon and got to see baby Corynn. She's just beautiful.

Finally!

I finally finished my first scrapbook pages in my new room. I've been off since last Friday and it's now Wednesday evening. More than likely we will have school tomorrow, so nothing like waiting until the last minute, but those of you that know me that's nothing new. So this is what I worked on this afternoon. This is a combination of pictures from our two trips to Wrigley Field. Brad has wanted me to do an album of all the ballparks we visit. I've had this album for a few years now, and this is the first 2 page layout in the book. Of course it had to be Wrigley. This is the cover page of the book.

I'm going to use the whole song at some point throughout the album. I'm sure I'll have pictures that will go over a 2 page layout and some point and can use a line from the song to fill in. Then the last page will be the last line. These red letter are the very first thing I ever cut out with a Cricut a long time ago.

I added this picture on the inside front cover. I took it at the Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame last spring because I loved it's saying. It was a huge mural that has a whole team lined up for the national anthem. It says "Each spring holds the promise of another great team. The story continues..." I'm such a baseball sap. Today is the first day of Spring Training, so baseball fever has returned to our house. 15 days until the 1st Spring Training game and 47 days until Opening Day! Brad got lucky to find someone that enjoys baseball almost as much as he does.



For those of you that don't care about baseball, I didn't waste all these snow days/sick days. I did finish a book. Nicholas Sparks, The Choice, is really good. He's such a sappy, romantic writer. I always cry at the end of his books.And I went and saw 27 Dresses with Teaque last night. I keep dragging her out, trying to get that water to break, but little Corynn just isn't cooperating. Maybe tomorrow...

Kids and their Germs

I don't know which little booger at school left this stomach virus germ for me, but I'm going to find them. I usually don't catch the stuff that goes around school. I guess I've built up an immune system to it. But this one might must have been a bad one. I started throwing up late Sat. night and didn't stop until about 8 Sunday morning. Then I slept most of the day. Today I got up to go to work, but could just barely sit up, my sides hurt so bad. So I called in sick. Haven't done much all day except sit around. Probably lost some weight though. Hopefully, I'll feel better tomorrow so that I can enjoy the snow day that I'm sure we'll have. I'm going to scrap in my room. I hope!

Survivor Fantasy League

Hey, let's do this. I found a Survivor Fantasy League online at CBS.com. I sent an invitation email to Teaque, Shelley, Bethany, and Kristan. We can have up to 7, so if anyone else wants to play let me know.

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/survivor16/fantasy/index.php