7 Days and Counting

7 days until my lovely baby girl turns 2. I can't believe she is going to be 2, how fast the time has gone. I'm pretty excited for her party. I will be attempting a butterfly cake, which I've never done before. Here is a picture of the cake. I'll post a picture of the cake after I do it, I guess we'll see if it looks anything like the picture.








It is also 7 days until this wonderful little family comes to visit me. I am so excited! It has been over a year since I've seen my sister, brother-in-law, and niece. And now I get to see my new little niece! It's very exciting stuff.

This brings up new points I want to share though. I wonder if everybody feels this way. My sister coming makes me a little nervous because I'm worried that my house won't be clean or my kids won't behave well or the dinner I make will be gross. Not that my sister will judge me, but I'm worried for some reason. Does everybody worry about this kind of stuff? Isn't funny how we want to look in front of people? I guess it is all pride. Because a lot of the time my house looks cluttered with socks that my kids randomly take off and toys they like to play with and dog hair. Oh the dog hair! Sometimes my dinners don't turn out and sometimes my kids throw tantrums and yell. In the mornings I give them "frosting cookies" and fruit snacks, which in my defense in followed by oatmeal and fruit. I just want to appear my best I guess and now that I've written this down it appears silly.

Anyway, I'm ecstatic! Now that I've gotten my weird hang-up out of my head I can relax. Have a good Saturday everyone!

A Week??!

I can't believe it's been a week since I posted. Asher got really sick last Wednesday night, some type of flu or something. Let's just say there was a lot of vomit and not a lot of sleep. Alexander got it on Friday, he got it the worst. I felt so bad for him. Derek came home from work on Friday because he got it too. Ashley and I were the only healthy ones in the house. Good thing is the virus only lasts about a day. I got it Friday night/Saturday. It was awful. I wanted to call in sick to work, but you know how that goes. You can't really call in sick to a 2 year old.

If you could please pray for my mind and heart right now. That I would want God's will.

Everyone is doing well now. Alexander finally got his glasses back. These ones have plastic frames with the nose piece built in so they shouldn't break as easy now (we hope).

Asher sat up and pulled himself up to standing to a kitchen chair yesterday. I can't believe it. He's my baby, he isn't supposed to be growing up. I guess that's what they do now. I'm really trying to savor every moment with them. I catch myself obsessing over the laundry, dishes, dinner, vacuuming etc. that I forget to really play and hold them. This is kind of a misc. post. It's really nice here today, which I'm thankful for. I'm so tired of snow. A funny story-I bought the kids' summer clothes today and when I got home I tried Ashley's Strawberry Shortcake swimsuit on her. She loved it so much she wanted to take a nap in it. It was so adorable. Thanks for listening and have a good day! God bless!