hi-ho, hi-ho, it's off to work I go

I have been back to work now for several weeks and Olivia began going to daycare at the facility where I work. We are back to our old routine of everyone rushing around every day. The big girls head to school on the bus and Olivia goes to daycare while Alex and I work.

It has been exhausting to say the least. I have decided that work in completely inconvenient. It gets in the way of everything! We have cheer practice twice a week, softball practice twice a week, softball games twice a week, and gymnastics once a week. Not to mention the many other errands that get thrown in the mix throughout the week.  But we are making it.

Alex helps out a lot with the girls. It has been good having him home for a while to help juggle it all.

I hope to keep blogging pretty regularly for all of you who keep up with us.

We plan to hit the yard tomorrow and get a lot done. I dug out the sunscreen and plan to make a day of it. It seems like we start over with the flower bed every year! And maybe I will get some post-worthy pictures out of it. We shall see.

Before I go, I want to mention that I read on facebook tonight that little Abby's tumor is growing down her throat again. Please pray for this little one and her family. I can not imagine what they are going through and how tired her little body must be from all that it has experienced lately.

family ties

My Granny's sister, Pat, and Pat's husband Frank came down to visit from Oklahoma last week. We had a great time visiting at the Fish Nest in Glenwood. I enjoy times like those but we sure did miss our family members that couldn't make it.

"Bye!"

jump around

We took the girls to Party Central last weekend as a special treat. They had so much fun and Olivia has asked to go back pretty much every day since then.

I'm sure you have noticed that Makayla is not in any of these photos. We had made a deal that if they girls were good at school then we would go to the jump place but if they did not have a good day, then they had to sit out and not participate. Makayla earned two days worth of detention in one day on Friday. So she had to sit out and watch everyone else. I hope she can get it together by the time the school year is over.

clean up!

 She had a great way of helping me pick up under the table.

pig play and pedi's

I took the girls to see "If You Give a Pig a Pancake" at the Children's Theatre in Little Rock during Spring Break.

I made them pose outside the theater.

They loved the play and I had the best time listening to them giggle at the pig.

Olivia and Makayla have been snorting at each other daily since then.

And then it was time for pedicures.

Olivia was too short to reach the water and she was not too happy about this.

And as you can tell from the photo above, pedicures led to "Momma, can I get my nails painted too?"

I had the best time running around with my ladies while they were out of school.

They spent the first part of the week with Grammie Retta and Papaw Truman on the chicken farm and they had a great time. But we learned that Makayla had eaten an entire bottle of Children's Tums from her travel bag and her Grammie didn't know until the next day when the girls were on their way home. The bottle had about 34 pills left in it when she ate them. Alex called poison control and they said she would be fine.
But we did our best to scare her to death about doing that though. It could have been really bad if she had picked a more potent medication to eat.

The girls then got to spend Wednesday with my Granny Gloria at home and I know they had a great time with her too.

 I think that they had a pretty great Spring Break.

ain't life grand: part IV

SO worth a trip to newhope :)

That wasn't the only reason we went though. Promise.

Poppa was checkin' it out

She was in the middle of telling a story and had no idea that I was taking pictures.

I never want to forget that genuine face.

Livi giving Memaw some love

Remember the aggravation post? I think Seth inherited some of that too.

Poor Granny G

Now Abi wants to be a "massager" too

My Granny Gloria, me, and my Memaw

the sisters got tickled

Aren't they sweet?

Katelyn is so good with the girls.

They love her!

Brent playing doctor. His first patient was suffering from nervous laughter.

The night ended with an amazing moon.

And Sunday began with three gorgeous gals.

We had lunch at Gayle's and saw Tammy Davis's sweet family. They all looked so great and all 5 of her grandbabies were there. I know she's proud of them for keeping their heads up and being there for everyone else in the community that is suffering eventhough they are struggling with their own loss on a daily basis.

We had a great weekend.

Can't wait to do it again.

creepy crawlers and puppy love: part III

KayKay is pretty fond of this little guy.

I'm sure that you can tell from these photos that Makayla adores pets. Her Uncle Seth is like that as well. I hope some day maybe little Mr. Teddy can come back to stay with us so Makayla can spoil him. ;)

grown ups can play too: newhope part II

Doesn't it look like everyone got in on the fun?

I'm sure I will be lectured for posting some of these pictures, but they were too good to pass up.