will post soon...

I have been very busy today but I have so many adorable pictures to post! I took Emilie to the Arboretum and took her pictures. I cannot wait to share them. Continue checking back to see what precious pictures we captured!

Our Bullies...

Here are our sweet little Bulldogs!

This is Big Momma!

And this is Brutus...

Rambling...

This was a dog at the circus! Emilie loved these little guys. They walked just as good on two legs and most dogs do on four. I will make a post just for circus pictures and stories one day!

Maybe I can finish this one... I have two posts started and left unfinished. One day I will pick up on them. So this weekend has been fun and relaxing all at the same time. I am really anticipating tomorrow. We have sunday school and then church and then I am going to Athens to take Gran Possum and Calli Jo!! Who are they you ask?!? They are my two little girl kittens that I raised by bottlefeeding. They will only be five weeks old on Tuesday but they are little fighters. I started with six and lost my runt and one other within the first week and the last four have been going strong since day one!! Let me tell you though, I am so tired of cats I can hardly see straight. I love them to pieces but... Enough is ENOUGH!

On another note, I really need to get back into photography, I just don't know where to find the time.

We went to Tasha's last night and I got seven pages completed! WOW! I think that was a record. I really miss scrapbooking weekly. It is just so hard with a toddler! If she is not wanting me to help her with something then she is beating someone up. She is such a mean little toot. I'd say she gets it from her Aunt Tate and Uncle Brodie!

Speaking of little Emilie! She starts school in ten days! (TEAR) I am so nervous. I have been at home with her since day ONE! She is only going to go two days a week though. I really think it will be great. She will hopefully gain some social skills and maybe not be so stinkin shy! I can't wait to get the notes sent home with her from her teacher, saying, "Mrs. Johnstone, you have a little genius on your hands, she knows her entire name and can count to ten and say her ABC's." My child is amazing! I am simply blessed. I love her more than words could ever describe.

Above is a picture of Emilie swimming in the water trough at Aunt Karens two weekends ago. We had a blast down there, which happens to be no surprize. Emilie drove Aunt Karen around on the tractor. We saw the brightest green lizards I have ever seen. She swang on the tire swing, swam in the water trough, the dogs water bowl and A. Karen's garganguous bath tub! We fed, watered, chased and shot the cows (with a BB gun, they were in the garden *which is not in the pasture*)!

Katie I have horrible acne and I miss you dearly! Please come home soon! I am more than likely going to book you a flight for that certain weekend tomorrow night!

Please pressure me to post regularly blog readers! I am also pretty sure that I would enjoy blog comments.

I must be going to bed. I have my alarm set for before sunrise in the morning!

This is BiG Momma and Emilie. This dog is the greatest.

shalom

A Full Plate...

Life is very busy right now! The summer sure did fly by. I miss my sister like crazy and I long for the days that use to be calm yet productive. I sure hope that when school is over life will slow down tremendously. Today was rather uneventful but everyday seems to be full of stress. I really don't know how to explain what I mean.



Emilie woke up at the crack of dawn, well actually before the crack of dawn. She woke up with me when I got up at 5:20 this morning to make Davids breakfast. She then fell asleep in the recliner while watching Zaboomafoo.



We woke up at about 9:40, just in time to make Emilie's hair appointment at 10:00. (it was a close call) She got the cutest little haircut. I wish that I had taken a picture with my camera before we left the salon. I did take one with my phone. I will try to somehow get it on here. Misti gave her like a little bob type thing with what little hair she has, it curls under. SUPER CUTE!



This was a conversation that we had earlier:



"Let's get in your carseat so we can go pay the electric bill," me



"K, not mess my hair it too pwetty," Emilie



"OK Miss Priss I won't touch your hair"



As I procede to buckle her in her seat the strap of her seatbelt rubbed against her head...



"MMMOOOOMMM, my hair not pwetty no more. Pwobly roll window make it pwetty more."



Wow! What a conversation. I was screamed at by my daughter for accidentally touching her hair and messing it up and then she wants the window down to make it pretty again. I thought it was really cute.


This is a super old post but I thought I would go ahead and share it rather than making it remain only a draft...

Getting Started...

So... here I am. It is 11:59 p.m. as I begin, and I am doing what I have dreamed of doing now for months! I tell people all the time that I am addicted to blogs. I don't understand at all how so many moms of many children struggling through difficult situations are able to find time to blog about their lives. I applaud all of you mothers for being so faithful to readers like myself. I am a stay-at-home mother of ONE child and have no clue how I am going to faithfully blog about our life. I don't know how but... somehow, I ALWAYS have something going on!

Like I mentioned a minute ago, I am a faithful blog reader! I can sit at my computer for hours at a time (only when Emilie is sleeping, of course) and read and cry and read and cry over so many different blogs. When I tell you my favorites list is nothing but different blogs that I enjoy to read, I mean it! The blog that has really captured my interest, is written by a mother of four girls named Angie Smith. Angie has really inspired me to embark upon this adventure that I am so strikingly interested in. I am going to take one of her ideas and as I blog everything that I type is exactly as it comes to mind. Or should I say I am not going to be hitting backspace every other sentence. I will try to correct small errors, but I am going to try and be as real as I can as I type about our lives.

On a different note, I sure hope to allow you to be a part of our day-to-day life. I really hope that this blog will allow my little sister (who leaves for Texas Tech in approximately 24 hours) to keep up with her growing little niecy (as she will be many moons away it seems.) *tear* My personal goal is to blog at least 3 times a week. WOW! That doesn't seem like much as I sit here and think again of the faithful mothers of 3+ kiddos blogging daily.

I just got off the phone with the greatest little sister in the whole world! I am pretty much typing in puddles of tears. I think reality just HIT! My sister is leaving, she is going away. No longer will she be just a short 17 minutes away, but now a full 6 hours! She cannot just run to my house when the parents are being mean. We can't just up and leave the house for 2 a.m. walmart runs. We cannot wake up any given saturday morning and have moms homemade chocolate chip waffles for breakfast. We cannot do any of these until she comes back home! I will miss her with all of my heart. But at the same time Katie, I am so very proud of you for being so strong willed and stepping out into a world of the unknown. Follow your heart... I love you!

I believe my pillow is calling my name.

Farewell my friends and family.