What a week!

Sheesh! This week has been nutso!

Starting with a labor day pool party. Soo fun! 

throw in 2 nights of cheer practice, meet the teacher night, and a pep rally to kick off the start of football season! 

Add in 3 orders to do and it makes for a busy busy week! 

I can't wait for next week! So far I have done awesome this school year with waking up at 6 every morning to get the girls up and ready for school. Seventh grade has been a new time of hair washing and drying and straightening every day. This coming from 6th grade where she didn't even want to wash it every day. She has really grown up this year. Hopefully we can keep it up. 

And I have been exercising  every morning. (well almost). A group of friends and I meet at the local park to walk roughly a mile each morning. then the kiddos get to play together for a bit. 

Not much time for Stash busting this week hopefully next week will be better. (but probably not) LOL My mom is have surgery on Monday so prayers are appreciated.Then she will be home for several weeks of rehab. 

I am ready to start this busy weekend Everyone enjoy your day! 

We Made it!

We made it through the first week of school!!

Mom please no more pictures!

 From 4th grade drop off

We are ready to do this! Here we come!

 To 7th grade drop offs!

After school cupcakes to end the day!

 Kevin was on Vacation for the first 3 days of school so he was energetic and surprised the girls with cupcakes!

Awesome first day!

 Fun times on the way home

Aww bye Daddy!

Then on Thursday was another first day. Kevin start at a new store on Thursday. It was something we have been praying would happen for awhile now. It is much closer to home so will save us quite a bit on gas. :)

Then on Friday Reace got sick. Strep. :( 

When my mom and I went shopping  Saturday we spotted this photo box. Reace is obsessed with all things mustache. No one knows why but she is.  It was the perfect thing to cheer her up!

 She decided she needed a ribbon to hold it closed. We measured around the box. and sewed velcro on to the overlapping ends then made a bow and Hot glued it on the top and added a small button with her name on it. She loves it. :)

Stash Busting!

It is Stash busting September!  I am going to try and clean out a majority of my fabric stash this month! I am NOT going to BUY any new fabric or patterns this month! As I make things I am going to add some to my etsy site (I hope) and some to my Facebook Page. As I post let me know if you see anything you like! If you have and size or color suggestions let me know! :) You just might be surprised and what I come up with!

One of many buckets of Fabrics to sew

Paris Dress (Pattern by Create Kids Couture)

So much fabric, so little time

Faith dress (pattern CKC)

Kyla dress (pattern Froglegs and pig tails)

Ready for so awesome cleaning out!

Back to school

As the first day of school approaches I am remembering.......

This is first day of first grade I couldn't find a kinder one.

I remember dropping Kaylyn off for kindergarten. So nervous and excited. Then she ran and sat down and said bye momma! What no crying don't leave me anything! LOL

1st day of kinder and 3rd grade

With Reace I was worse since she was my baby and I was preg and hormonal LOL But then my computer crashed and I was more upset about that! LOL And I had gotten to know all the teachers since Kaylyn had been there a few years and they all knew Reace.

1st day of 2nd grade and 5th grade

With Paige I may just throw her out the door and drive off so they won't tell me she can't stay! LOL My little Diva girl!

Arkansas and the Last Dr Pepper

Fairfield Bay Marina, AR

 We went on vacation last week for Spring Break. We went

 to Fairfield Bay, AR. 

We fed the fish in the Marina. Played some Mini Golf.

Made bows every night. The only craft I took. I couldn't take the sewing machines . ( They wouldn't let me). 

Making the Bows go Mama

I went through 200 clippies. They aren't all on bows yet. but they will be. 

All the Bows

Clippies for bows

We went up to Mountain View, AR and up to the Blansard Springs Caverns. So pretty! Amazing what is under the ground and you don't even know.

Blanshard Caverns, Fifty-six, AR

 Which brings me to the Friday before we left and I decided to go on the 8/10 of a mike nature hike with my Dad, Kaylyn and Reace. Which turned in to a longer hike after they decided to go off trail to get a closer look at the falls. but that wasn't the bad part. It was when we got back and I looked at the photos of me.

The hike

SOOOOO BBBAAADDDD!!!!!! Which led me to a realization that I really need a lifestyle change. So after a chat with my Brother in law  (who is a personal trainer in the D.C. area and was just asking about his nieces when I unloaded on him LOL Poor Chris) has led me to this........

MY LAST DR PEPPER!!!!

the last Dr Pepper

Not sure I can but I am going to try my hardest to be good. and I will post a picture each week to watch the shrinkage. LOL Next week will be another new change to step up the lifestyle changes and increase my new healthy lifestyle. 

Way to go Kaylyn!

Kaylyn had her first basketball games of the season this weekend. She cheered at 2 and played in one. Her Daddy took her to the cheer games I had the other two girls. Then we meet them at the Girls Basketball game she played in. It was awesome her team didn't win but they played hard. Kaylyn scored the only two points for her team. AWESOME! Her first basket in a game ever! They managed to hold the other team for the first half but being it was the first game they got tired in the second half.

Kaylyn, Kevin(her daddy) and Cameron(her uncle,my brother) went paint balling Sunday to celebrate their birthdays. They all have birthdays in January.  Cam has 2 bruises, Kevin has 2, and Kaylyn has 4. But they all want to go back.

Reace does not like Bball games. Whistles, Buzzers, and just gyms in general are too loud for her. She decided to go to lunch and shopping with my Nanny and my cousin. They also went shopping so she had a new pair of earring and BFF bracelets when I got home. She had a great time so all were happy.

We are once again in the process of redoing the craft room. This time we will get it right. As we sell off furniture we can't use we hit Ikea and get the right stuff to get us organized and help us create a more functional room for Crafting. Hopefully we can get it right soon!   Check back for more updates!

My kids, My day.....

So sometimes I am just not sure what to say on here. I finished Paige's dress. Yay for me but is it really blog worthy. (Of course I will post pictures later when she wears it ) I got in a fight with Kaylyn. Not really news since lately it is an almost daily occurrence.  She is at that age where she is testing boundaries and driving me crazy in the process. I love being a Stay at home most days but some days............

The other day I told the girls I was just going to drop them off at the daycare and see them later. Kaylyn told me I would be arrested for putting my kids in daycare and not actually going to a job. I told her they didn't care where I went as long as I gave them money! LOL

Good days and rough days I love the little boogers. Kaylyn with the attitude (but need to make you laugh) , Reace with her sweetness (and sometimes whiny) Paige with her devilish grin ( and just pure devil. )