Six Years of Sparkle

Six years of sparkle is the best way for me to describe my life since Emma has been in it. My sweet baby girl turned six years old today, and over those last six years, she has taught me many things. Most of all, she has taught me how much it hurts to love someone so much.....and I mean that is a good way. My six favorite things about Emma:

1. She has an amazing ability to make me laugh about silly things.

2. If there are no friends around, she will make one, even if it is with a wall.

3. She is super passionate about almost everything....I would say intense, but passionate fits her better.

4. She loves shoes...almost more than toys :)

5. She has a kind soul....one of her teachers said she was the classroom "Mother Earth".

6. She "skips" through life. Emma rarely walks anywhere...you can always catch her skipping, dancing, or stumbling her way around.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY my beautiful six year old!

Grandma Got Runover By A Reindeer.......

That all too familiar yet annoying song came on the radio yesterday, and I realized this is the first year that I actually thought Emma would listen to the song and laugh at it's humor!

"Emma!....Listen!....This song is about a grandma that got runover by a reindeer!!! It's so funny, listen!" I say as I turn up the radio.

A few moments pass.....

"Mom...........I don't think that is very funny.....a grandma getting runover by a reindeer. I don't want my grandma's to get runover by reindeer," Emma replies.

Huh......guess it's not so humorous after all.......

Joining Our Family In February:

Miss Bella Rose will be joining our family on February 6, 2009!

"Time marches on and pretty soon you realize time is marchin' across your face"

In honor of my 31st birthday, here are 31 facts about me that you may or may not have known. ENJOY!

1. I was born November 8, 1977 in Dallas, Texas.
2. I was named after Elke Sommer, a 1960s actress and Playboy pin-up girl.
3. My favorite childhood memory is going to Galveston and playing on the beach.
4. I played volleyball in highschool, but sat the bench most of the time.
5. I played the viola for ten years and was actually pretty good.
6. I graduated college with a minor Earth Science because teachers have to choose a specialty area and I thought Earth Science would be easy.
7. My two all-time favorite movies are While You Were Sleeping with Sandra Bullock, and The Family Man, with Nicholas Cage.
8. I didn't spend the night away from home until I was in highschool because I had incredible anxiety issues.
9. I LOVE apple pie!
10. I HATE roaches, not just hate, but actually FEAR.
11. Even when I was a child, I felt my purpose in life was to have children.
12. With all the ups and downs that Aaron and I have had, I still feel like we were made for each other.
13. My favorite color is PINK.
14. I love PINK roses.
15. I was actually relieved when I had a c-section with my first child. I am terrified of having a baby the "normal" way.
16. My greatest fear is that one of my children will die.
17. I wish I knew how to sew really well.
18. I think my best quality is that I empathize well with people.
19. Guns scare me even though my husband owns a ton of them.
20. My worst quality is that I am way too emotional and cry for everything.
21. I cry atleast once a day over something silly like a commercial or a song.
22. My favorite food is good old Southern cooking....chicken and dumplings, chicken fried steak, sweet tea....
23. I suffered through postpartum depression after my first child and thought I would die.
24. Having postpartum depression made me a stronger person.
25. I love to mow the lawn and do yard work.
26. My DAD is the only person that completly gets my sense of humor.
27. Domino's pizza and Pepsi together have a special meaning to me. (and Aaron)
28. I had a dog named Rhoda when I was young and she was the best dog in the world.
29. I love to cook, but I'm AWFUL at it.
30. Sometimes I feel like a bad mother because I'm so tired most of the time and don't have the energy to entertain my kids at every moment of the day.
31. My DREAM for my future is that Aaron and I are old and married and live on a bunch of land. Our grandchildren will come stay with us every summer and Aaron will teach them to fish and we will swim in the pond and ride horses and pick wild flowers.
Happy Birthday to me!

Dogs Can Babysit Too, You Know.......

"But I wanna stay wis you!" A.J. wails as I try to get him out the door to go to preschool.

"Why? Why don't you want to go to school?" I reply.

"I just wanna stay home wis you momma...." the whine continues.

"But I won't be home A.J., I have stuff to do, and you need to go to school," I argue.

"I wanna stay with the dogs...." he cries.

"The dogs can't watch you, A.J." I reason with him.

"The dogs have eyes, " A.J. reasons back.

How do you argue with that?

Too much beer......

The changes in my body over the last six months suggest that maybe I should switch to light beer!

Halloween

I must say that our Halloween was great! Even though the kids didn't get nearly as much candy as I would have thought they would, we got plenty. We only went up and down two streets in our neighborhood, and then the kids wanted to quit. They were more interested in handing out the candy! I remember when I was little, my brother and I would have hit an entire neighborhood and maybe more, but I must have been older than my kids are now. We had a bunch of fun carving pumpkins! A.J. wanted a "sick" pumpkin and Emma wanted a happy one.