Thursday, December 24, 2009

Kristen's Care Package

So, as you may know... I had jaw surgery on the 15th of December and after I got home, I got two HUGE boxes of awesomeness from my friend.
Thank you soooooo much Kristen!
As I told her the other day... I am soooo excited to eat, drink, wear play and read it!!!

Tuesday, December 8, 2009

Bread with what?

Olivia: Mom, I want some bread.


Mom: Okay Olivia.


Olivia: With butt.


Mom: You want bread with butt?


Olivia: Yes!

Monday, November 23, 2009

Glambert News

Okay, so you guys know that I LOVE Adam Lamber.
Well, he has his new albumn out and I went on Amazon to take a look at it and these are the albumn photos that are listed.

Um... is it just me or does the first picture look like Pink with black hair... um, I mean blue hair?

And this one with the metal glove thing... Beyonce wanna-be?

I'm feeling a little dissapointed.

That and I listened to the samples and the ONLY song that I heard the showcased his AMAZING voice at all was the theme song for 2012 "Time for Miracles"

I'm sad now.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

"Silly Vampire"


Kristen sent me the link to the newest Twilight Spoof. If you love a HUGE laugh and aren't so serious about Twilight that you can laugh at it, you have to take a look!


I laughed until I was snorting!


Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Followers

Just F.Y.I.
I just held my first online drawing on my Scentsy Blog and have decided that anyone who becomes a follower of that blog gets their name put in twice for all subsequent drawings.

Monday, November 9, 2009

The Fun Theory

I went to this link and saw the most interesting thing!

This site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people’s behaviour for the better. Be it for yourself, for the environment, or for something entirely different, the only thing that matters is that it’s change for the better.

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Twilight Fans












Okay... so I have this friend here in Abilene who makes and sells those cool plaques with the vinyl lettering on it and she has come up with the cutest ones for those of us who LOVE Twilight.
Here is her blog.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Truckin'

I wish I could find the charger for my camera!!!!

There are sooo many things that I want to take a picture of and put in my blog, but I can't because my battery is dead. I might just have to go buy a new one (ouch!).

But, until then, let me tell you that in the past week I've driven over 1,000 miles!!! CRAZY!!! And been in three separate states! Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma!

Shew! Hopefully I won't have to do that again for a while.

Friday, October 23, 2009

Scentsy Drawing on my Scentsy Blog!


Be sure to visit my blog The Scentsy Express to enter to win the
NEW DANDY CHERRY PLUG-IN WARMER!!!
I am starting to hold online drawings and this one is the first one! Get in on it!

Thursday, October 15, 2009


This weekend the family and I are going to the
Yes, I did say "Yam-boree"... it was not a mistake!
It's the Gilmer, Texas way of celebrating the Sweet Potato.
I mean, come on! Why not!?!
And it comes equipped with a Yam Queen and all!
We're gonna have the BEST TIME!

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

I am oficially a "Glambert"


Adam Lambert was my FAVORITE Idol contestant EVER!

I know his version of "Ring of Fire" was kind of creepy but it was what made me want MORE MORE MORE!!! I loved it!

He's amazing and he's now apparently doing the theme song for the movie 2012. The song is called "Time for Miracles" and a music teaser/trailer has come out that is incredible. I just wish we could hear even more of the song on it!! I look forward to keeping track of his, what I'm sure will be amazing, career!

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

You have to check it out!

Sorry if I've been a bit one-tracked lately...
But Scentsy is coming out with the most AMAZING stuff!
And half of it isn't even in the catalog!

Please visit my other blog and check it out!

The new Warmer and Scent of the Month!






The Holiday Collection that is coming out November 1st!
The New Travel Tins!





AND the College Collection.
Right now you have an opportunity to vote for your favorite team so they can be on a Scentsy Wamer!!!









Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Amazing Shot!

So, Steve just told me about this and I made him go online and look it up so I could see it for myself.

Check it out! It's amazing!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37qyvTRVus8

New Blog


It's http://makingperfectscents.blogspot.com/

Please feel free to go and take a look.


I will be posting the new warmers, scents and all things Scentsy there and will occasionally remind you from here.


I'd love it if you would become a follower of my new site!

Go check it out!

Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Old McDonald Has a Cow!


This year Steve was already living in Abilene during the week during my birthday.

Needless to say, my birthday was a real bust. I was feeling very overwhelmed with all four children at home and being drawn and quartered.


So, Steve gave this card to me along with my birthday present (a beautiful 1karat journey diamond necklace from Zales!)

He nailed it! (He usually does when it comes to cards and gift-giving).

The reason I thought to post this was because my sweet and dear-to-my-heart friend, Kristen, had a bad day the other day and I thought this might cheer her up.

Smile :) It could be worse.... you could have four!

Construction-paper Pumpkin!


The seasons are changing and I am itching to get my house ready for fall.
I saw this cute pumpkin in an email I receive from Crayola.
I am definetly going to have to give this one a try. It seems so simple. I could actually include my kids in the fun!

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Birthday Surprises Galore!!!


Today is a day for wonderful surprises!

Jessica rolled over from back to front!



My "wish was granted" at Paperbackswap.com and I'll be receiving Keturah and Lord Death to add to my library!

(Thank you Kristen for the suggestion on this book, I really enjoyed it!)

And two different sets of people came to look at my house today!

(And one is scheduled to come tomorrow!)

It's turning out to be a decent day after all!!!

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

"How Hungry Are You?"


The other night I was setting the table for dinner and putting food on the kids plates so it could cool off before they actual got to the table and I asked the kids, "How hungry are you?"





Noah was a little bit hungry and Olivia just said hungry."

Zachy's response was altogether different.

"Zachy, how hungry are you?"

"A little and a kind of a lot of a medium half."

Oh... well that clears that question right up!

Our New Destructor!

When Zachary was little, we called him "Destructor" because... well... he destroyed things.
We have a New Destructor!!!
Her name is Olivia!!!
Lately, I have noticed that if she is quiet...
bad things are happening to my house.
Today it was the eggs in the fridge.
Who knows what it will be tomorrow
(or while I'm posting this)
This is especially bad right now since the house had to be "ready to show" at a moments notice.
Oh well, what do you do?
Lucky for her she's so cute!

Going to the movies!

We went to the Dollar Theater last night to see
Monsters v. Aliens



We checked the mailbox as we were driving away from the house and it had Olivia's birthday present from Grammy & Poppy in it. (Thank you!)
Olivia fell asleep on the drive there with the present in her lap.
Thought it was too cute and had to take a picture of it.

Then, when I got the popcorn at the movies, I set it in Jessica's car seat for a moment to take care of something and when I looked back I saw that she had spilled some of it.
Once again, too cute, had to take a picture of it.
(She does seem a little surprised that this happened to her!)

They're Almost Here!!!

IT'S ALMOST TIME!!!!!!!!!!!


ONLY THREE DAYS TO GO!!!!!!!!!!
OH I AM
SOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday, July 10, 2009

Smiles!


Isn't she beautiful !!!!!!

Thursday, June 25, 2009

What a Steal!


Today I went to Wal-Mart (or, as they say our here "The Wal-Marts") with some coupons.

I should preface this by saying that I always have coupons with me. When they come in the mail I put the ones I want in the big pocket of my diaper bag so they are always with me, should I remember that I put them there.
Today, after subjecting my children to the dressing room and other random boring things. I made them sit in the formula isle with me while I went through my coupons. You know... the really great ones that the formula companies send you right at the beginning of your baby's life and then you only get the cheap piddly ones after that.
Well, today I SCORED on the "saving money" front.

I bought ALL of this... worth $88.32

for only

$10.32!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There may be some of you out there thinking... "But, Catherine. You don't bottle feed your baby." And, yes, while this is true, it never hurts to have a back-up plan. And, when my children do wean themselves (between 5-10 months of age) I'll already have this great formula supply on hand to supplement her with!

ROCK ON!!!

Sunday, June 21, 2009

Father's Day 2009

So, for Father's Day this year... as I've told you before, we went all out!
This morning we had Steve open up the kid's cards first. They all got him a cute card about how cool he is. And this year, Noah got him a card all by himself. It was REALLY funny! It had a picture of a Boston Terrier in the front with a surprised look in it's face and it read,
"For Father's Day this year I made you a gift all by myself!"
Then you open it up and it says,
"It's out in the yard!"
I thought it was pretty funny, but the thing that cracked me up the most was that Noah got it!
Awww..... my little boy is growing up!
(sniff... such a proud moment for a Mommy)

Then Steve opened his gift from the kids. (I know you MUST be diggin' the cool ties that he was sporting. The kids made them for him at a Primary activity the previous day. He actually wore them to church. Such a good Daddy!)

It was an 8x8 hardback book (20 pages) from Shutterfly that I made with the "Daddy-o" backgroud and had different pictures of Steve with his kids on each page with little messages under each. It was pretty cool and Steve really liked it.

After church Steve came home to a "Special Dinner."

Do you remember that blog entry a couple of entries ago with the "hamburger cupcake?"


Well... I made it for Steve and the kids had a great time bringing it in to him as if it were his special meal.

Steve was pretty impressed. He even asked me how many of the red checkerboard containers I had to buy to do that "meal" for him. He was surprised to hear that I made them. Actually, I think he was VERY impressed. (Maybe even relieved that I didn't buy them.)

Then the real meal was brought out.

When I ask Steve what he wants for a special meal there are usually two things that he mentions. One we call "The Cheesy Pepper Meal" and the other is "The Pepperoni Pasta."

Since he got the Cheesy on for his birthday, I decided that the Pepperoni one was the one. Mainly because it's a lot easier to make than the other one is. A LOT.

When we have these special dinners I bring out the good China as well as the wine glasses. The boys always act "fancy" when I do. It's pretty funny when they get going.

Someday they are going to REALLY hate these pictures!

Then came time to open up the rest of his gifts. (Don't you love that grown-up wrapping paper?! Nothing says, "I see you as such a wonderful adult with great grown-up qualities, like the movie Cars wrapping paper!)


His first gift was this:


He really liked this gift! (He thought it was the "big gift" I was referring to earlier in my blog)

The next gift was his annual Father's Day Calendar!

He thought he wan't getting one this year because he got that cool Father's Day book instead. However, Shutterfly had sent me a coupon for a FREE picture book. All I had to do was pay shipping, so he got BOTH!!!

You remember the cool Elvis pictures I posted earlier this year of Steve being Elvis for a church activity?

Well, I had "The King" sign the cover of this calendar for me! (Just kidding! It was Steve's idea to pretend like he was signing it. Too funny!)

He was relieved to see that he still got his precious calendar and I really like making it for him! He gets a different picture of his family every month to look at at work and this year I found this website that actually allowed me to put pictures in the dates themselves. So, for example, there is a picture of me on July 15th! My birthday! Pretty cool!

NOW FOR THE GRAND FINALE!!!!!!

The BIG present was in the Father's Day Card I bought for him. I gave it to him last and I think he just thought it was a card until I insisted that the kids not stand in front of me while he opened it up so I could take pictures of him.

When he opened the card... THIS is what he saw!!!!

Two tickets to see AEROSMITH AND ZZ TOP in concert next month!!!!!!!

He got this huge grin on his face and said, "No way... these are fake."

(Well, to tell the truth, they are fake. I had to scan an old ticket that was lying around the house and then edit in the concert info and then print them.)

So, I said, "That's only because the real ones won't be here for another couple of weeks!"

I love the HUGE grin he got on his face.

PRICELESS!!!

What a GREAT Father's Day!!!

(Now I should probably call my Dad...)

Friday, June 19, 2009

Bad News!

The contract fell through on our house
I guess the people who put the contract on it decided that they really weren't ready to own a house and decided that they wanted to rent instead.


I say... "Go ahead and waste your money. But I would much rather own due to the rate of return you get on your investment. But, to each their own."


So, hopefully we'll get another bite soon.

We REALLY would like to go and live with Steve again.

Yes, he left two weeks ago and, while we do see him on weekends, it's just not the same as seeing him every day. Olivia sure misses him a lot!

Monday, June 15, 2009

My New Favorite Website!

Thanks to my friend, Janelle Ehat,
I spent a good chunck of my day viewing

Bakerella is her name and
awesomeness is her game!!!
This lady has soooo many cute baking ideas
and it's just soooooo much fun to read her posts.
Whether or not she's actually baking.
So... thanks Janelle for the Head's-up on this site.
Or, maybe I should say,
"Keep your awesome websites to yourself!
Now I'm going to spend all of my time here!"
But, seriously... thanks!
It's awesome and hopefully I'll give this cute
Father's Day treat a try!
(Shhhh.... don't tell him!)

Sunday, June 14, 2009

Fabulous!

Here is a picture of my four sweet children!
Yes, I did say "FOUR"!!!

They are all pretty wonderful!

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Surprise Gifts!

Steve is the BEST father!
Sometimes his parenting skills make me really jealous.
However, I wouldn't trade it for the world. He's just amazing!

So... for Father's Day this year, I got him a REALLY great gift and I'm fittin' to burst I want to tell him so bad!
I'm not going to tell him, of course, but I felt like blogging that I had a great gift would help relieve the pressure of having to keep it in for another 12 days.
Wish me luck!

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Fixin' to go...

We accepted an offer on our house today!


I went online (finally) to see what our listing looked like and here it is!
So, barring any unforseen incidents, we'll be moving around the first of July.
Very bittersweet.