Mer's little world

I am CRAZIER!!

2009-06-12T22:54:00.000-07:00

One of my favorite groups of all time is AEROSMITH I love them and I always have. They came to St. Louis this week and I was so bummed that I could not go. I really wanted to . Anyways, the reason why I say that is one of the songs I love by them is "CRAZY" I heard that song on the radio the other day and was thinking about how CRAZY my friggin life is right now. The problem is that I am so dang busy. I am seriously dying here. I can not believe how I am so busy and what the heck I have going on. All I know is that it is tons. I feel like I am barely hanging on. The song has nothing to do with what I have going on, but their music makes me SMILE and puts me in a HAPPY PLACE, and I was really thinking of what I can do to lighten my load!! I have been busy with a lot of things lately.

1. LEX'S SOFTBALL ( I can not figure out why this is highlighted sorry)- this is a crazy time and she is so busy. Not to mention that now is the time that we have to start getting her noticed by colleges. That is not an easy thing to do. We have sent out lots of emails, and recruiting forms. It is a lot!! We have been out of town for about 3 of the last 6 weekends and still have more to go. This next week she is headed to the BYU softball camp!! GO LEXY GO!!

2. SUMMER- Man seriously summer is a pain in the butt, I love having the kids home, but they always want to go somewhere and do something. I feel bad, but i do not always want to go, or have the time to go. Summer is just plain hard I think.

3- WORK - Man I have all my big shows coming up in 2 months exactly. I can not believe that they are so close. I have hardly anything done and am really having to get going on that. ahhhhhhh that is something I really don't want to do this year. GET IT TOGETHER MER!!

4. WORKING OUT- I am still working out all the time and really do love it. It is just hard to find the time in the summer to get it done. I hate going early in the am, but might (MIGHT) have to suck it up and go. Maybe if I get it out of the way early I can get more done in the day. It seems like I am getting further behind lately.

5- STAYING ON TOP OF THINGS- I really have to try hard to stay on top of all that i have going on. I need to keep the house clean, pay the bills, get projects done, clean my car, clean out my work space ( to get started on the mass production of #3), fix the kids playground, fix some landscaping. SERIOUSLY IT NEVER ENDS.

6. I JUST NEED TO BREATHE AND MAKE IT THROUGH THIS!!

ON ANOTHER NOTE...

I went to see a movie with my good pal Bec the other day and I was really struck by a quote in the little chic flick movie we saw (Ghost of Girlfriends Past) Mr. McConaugHEY said this...

"PAIN BEATS REGRET EVERYDAY OF

THE WEEK, AND ON SUNDAYS TWICE."

I loved that. I really have been thinking about my life lately with my personal struggles, my kids, my friends, my family, my work, and really want to try to not regret things so much. Maybe that means make better choices, maybe that means just try a little harder. But I really liked that little saying. It means to me that sometimes things are really hard and maybe you should just try a little harder to get what you want, because regretting not going for something you want is so much worse. I seriously think that I know TOO MUCH about regret. I don't want to know it "so well" anymore. Hummmmmm those are deep thoughts. Maybe I should go to bed now. :)

I NeVEr UpDATe

2009-04-04T14:40:00.000-07:00

Well, I am a horrible blogger. I seriously find it very hard to get all I need to done in the day without giving up on it, add blogging to that mix and it seems very impossible. I have been really busy lately. I have been very good at exercising and I am proud to say that I am down about 45 lbs. I am not for sure if that number might be a little higher because I just stopped weighing myself because it was so depressing. :) I have been working out with a trainer since January who I totally love and I have been running on my own. I really am starting to feel so much better about myself and really like having so much more energy. It has been a really big commitment because everyday starts with working out and by the time I get home and do the things I need to do for the family or for WORDelicious, it is time to go and get the girls from school again!!! AHHHHH. I really am happy though.

Dan and I also were able to get away on our own little mini vacation this month. He took me to San Francisco when he went for a business trip. We had a great time exploring the city and doing all the touristy things. I really thought the city would be much more different than it really was, I am not sure what I expected, but it was not that. I really loved it though. I really like that Dan's work is based out there because we can go out there and visit when he needs to go on a trip for work, I just seriously can not imagine living there. It is so different than what I am use to. It is funny to me how different it was. We have a big house and a huge yard here in Mo and there I swear we would live in a town house. Man I could not imagine that. I loved seeing all the different places there though. We had dinner with Dans co workers and also our friends and it was cool to see where they live and what they do there. I was such a trooper that weekend though about 2 weeks before I sprained my ankle and also had a tiny fracture in it and I still walked all over that darn city with out whining!! Dan was way proud of me. We also went to Alcatraz which I thought was fascinating. I love things like that . I really love stories about the "mob" so I loved to see that Al Capone was there. It made me happy :) I sure loved it. It was great for us to get away and spend some time together also. Thanks babe!!!

Also, it is starting to be my favorite time of year. Lex's softball season is starting back up. I think one of my favorite things to do in life is to go and sit and watch her play ball. She is such a gifted athlete. I seriously love it. They had there first tournament this weekend. Lex pitched a great game on Friday night. It is suppose to rain tomorrow so I am not sure if they will get all there games in, we will see. Also, Benny has started flag football again. He is so funny and really loves to play basketball and football. He really has improved since last year and tomorrow is his first football game of the flag season so I am also way excited for that. I love to watch the kids play ball. My mom and dad were always there at my games and I love to be able to have that with my kids also.

It has been a good start to the spring so far this year. Also the kiddos and I headed down to see my brother who moved to Branson and spend a fun filled week with Uncle Nick. The kids all adore uncle Nicky and spending time with him and he really loves to spend time with all my kids. We went down there and stayed with him in his apartment and he let me have the bedroom with Ally and he slept in the front room on an air mattress with the rest of the kids. He was great. We went all over the city. Dolly Partons Dixie Stampede, ( and if you know me at all you know how much I love Dolly) we went shopping and to lunch, mini golfing and to Hollar Dollar City ( aka Silver Dollar City - but that is what the girls called it once so it will be forever known as Hollar Dollar)

WE HAD A GREAT TIME!!

WoW

2008-12-28T20:42:00.000-08:00

I am a NORMALLY an old style scrapbooker. I love to collect papers, stickers, embellishments, and ribbons. Almost anything I can use, I love to play with it on my pages.... BUT... I have seriously been giving digital scrapbooking a second look. I really am so busy I do not have the time to stay locked away in my craft room scrapbooking, so I really am thinking about being more digital. I took an online class today and actually liked it. I really made a cute page, and was not too frustrated doing it. I only had to cry to Dan like 2 times. :) I really would like to be a "HYBRID SCRAPBOOKER" I know it sounds lame, but that means I can use my computer AND put cute elements on a page to give it some dimension. So I am going to do that. {Just FYI.}
No seriously, I am very proud of myself for this page (of course it is just copied from my class, but I still had to do the work)

ChRIstMas PicS

2008-12-27T17:56:00.001-08:00

We wish you a MeRRy ChrIStMAs

2008-12-26T06:31:00.000-08:00

We had a great Christmas this year. We spent Christmas Eve with my family. That is really "our family night" I love when we all get together. We have so much fun. The tradition goes like this:
1. Dan cooks his great tenderloin meal. He is seriously a great cook and my brothers really look forward to that meal all year. He makes a mean filet!!
2. We play a wicked version of "Lucky Tic Tac" also known as "rob your neighbor" we have a great time playing our games.
3. We then exchange gifts from my brothers and sister and to the kids from each other (basically just not any gifts from Grandma and Grandpa.)
4. We then have dessert and everyone goes home and gets ready for Santa to come. We have a great time on our Family Christmas Eve. It is my most favorite night of the year.

We then go to bed and get ready for Santa. When asked what my kids favorite presents were this year they said:
lexy- her new cell phone. I totally surprised her with that.
Dan- his new Iphone. Also totally a surprise. Benny - Guitar Hero World Tour (full set with drums and everything)
Gracey- Well probably everything, but maybe the barbies, barbie car, and dress up clothes and LEAPSTER!Ally- Same as Gracey probably EVERYTHING! she also really loved her dollies. For sure also the LEAPSTER. Her and Grace have really not put those down. Maybe for a minute to color and then they are off playing again.

CHRISTMAS MORNING
We opened our presents at our house from mom and Dad and Santa and then we headed off to my mom and Dads house. We always have a great breakfast there where my mom cooks her famous scones ( my Grandma Dot always made them for us) we also have ham, potato salad (lex's favorite) and bacon and eggs. It is quite the feast. I love to go over when my mom cooks her famous holiday breakfast. I really need to be able to do that on my own and I have yet to try to do it. I am sort of a wimp with a fryer. I really hate to cook bacon so I am not sure how I would do with scone frying. ( Maybe my sweet hubby will do it for me- Mr. Cook). We then open presents from Grandma and Grandpa. This year ( like every year) they bought us all tickets to go out to Utah to ski. We love to go and stay in Heber and play in the snow. Ben and Lex love to go skiing and the girls love to hang with Grammy and go to Aunt Ritas to play barbies. I really miss living in Utah when I am out there. ( i get to go out there by myself in Feb and I am so excited to see all my old friends and cousins and go shopping.)
My mom and dad gave Lex some uggs this year. I think that was also a highlight of her Christmas. She really loved them. Benny got some Kinex to play with. He loves to build things and the girls got these pimped out art sets. Yea, I say!!!!! Serves me right that my girls like to play art things so much, they would paint all day long if I would let them.
Then we went to the Moores to have fun with the whole family that was in town. Joanna, Ryan, Ellie, Carter, Elizabeth, Bob, Jake, Nanitzi, and Dans Mom and Dad and Sister Hannah, it was a party. The kids love to go over there and play with Ellie when she is in town. We were almost done with the night and then the door bell rang and it was Joseph ( the other cousin from Virginia) with Sarah and Marc. It was fun to have him there. Ally loves to play with Joseph, he is a carefree crazy kid. Crazy funny to watch. It was a great night. We gave gifts, tons of stuff going on there. The girls got their leapsters from Grandma and Grandpa, tons of toys play dough, polly pockets, and fun toys. Benny got a bunch of Bakugon things (I am not sure how to spell those) some DS games and a Brunswick Zone card (he loves that place) Lexy of course got clothes and Jewelery.

SeRiOusLy

2008-12-09T18:58:00.000-08:00

Are you seriously kidding me... Life has been so crazy lately. I have been so busy with orders, shows, kids, and junk like that and now I just got thrown a massive curve ball. I knew last week I was so sick and I kept going to the Doctor and they just kept saying that I was still getting over my strep throat. But I knew that there was something else wrong. On Friday night I went with Lex, Lacey, Melissa and Jenny to the Carrie Underwood concert and it was great. But when I woke up on Sat morning I knew that something WAS wrong and that I needed to go and see the Doctor again. I went to urgent care, and the first thing that they did when they looked in my mouth was say Holy CRAP! you have a huge abscess on your throat. They proceeded to tell me that I needed to go to the ER and have it cut open. EWWWWW I got to the ER and it was not that simple. They said that I needed to have emergency surgery and have it removed along with my tonsils and adenoids. Seriously are you kidding me??? I was so glad to be right that there was something really wrong, but OUCH~! I was so sad, of course it was the day of the girls FIRST dance recital. I was so excited to go and they were so excited to go and have me there. It brought back horrible memories because for some reason I had to miss Lexy's first dance recital also. I know that it is not a big deal, but for me it was. It was the same dance class and program that Lexy had done all those years ago. I really feel bad about that and I did not expect all those emotions to come back. Not only that but on Sunday I had a huge open house scheduled at my house with my customers and neighbors.
Thank goodness for Lacey, my mom, Ellen and Jenny for helping so much with everything that we needed. I really love those gals. They have meant so much to me over the last few years. I love my sister so much, and I am glad that we have gotten so close. I really want to be closet to her like my Mom and Aunt Rita are so close. She was a life saver this weekend and also came to hang out with me in the hospital and bring me some much needed essentials. She brought Lex over to see me also which made me really happy to see my little girl!

This is a picture of my boards that I have to finish before Christmas. I need to kick it into gear!!!

1 MoRe PosT

2008-10-13T22:31:00.000-07:00

Wow! I am on a roll. It has been a long past few months for me and I am really just now starting to get busy again. I start all my shows in the next few weeks and I am sure I will be totally busy again soon.

I thought I would update about what we have been doing besides my Triathlon drama... We have been busy hanging out with my family and just messing around with the kids and all of their activities. Lexy just finished a pretty good season of high school ball where she did quite well. The last game of the season was a district tournament game against Francis Howell and they had Lex pitch that game. She did great even though they lost 4 to 3. I was so proud of her and could not believe that they had her pitch the last game. I was so proud of her!! She has done so well this year!! We are off to Kansas City for a tournament this next weekend!! Once again, thanks to my sweet hubby for letting me go yet again!!

This last weekend I went to Chicago with my sister Lacey. We had a blast. I am so glad that we went together and spent so much money to try and help out the economy together!! That is what I told Dan - that I was just being a good citizen!! We had a great time at IKEA - getting all sorts of fun things for my scrapbook room and for the kids toyroom. We went to a movie, shopped some more, ate a great dinner at Shaw's Crab House and then slept in, shopped some more and finally came home. It was great. I love my sister and I am so glad that she is always there for me. She has all the photos of course b/c I did not remember to bring my camera. I was just on a mission to get out of the house with my wallet and stuff I needed for the weekend!!

Thanks Dan for letting me get away- even though I get away a lot it seems like!!!

Here are some adorable pictures of the kiddo's just messing around this summer. And one of the whole family after our Disney Trip in our "EARS"

Finally an UpDAtE!!!

2008-10-13T22:00:00.000-07:00

Well I did it. I actually did the TRiAtHLoN! It was so nerve racking for me. I swear I have never cried so much about something so little in 1 week. I cried a ton! I was so fetchin' nervous! My Dad and my sister in law Melissa (Dylan's wife) did it with me. I was so glad when it was over and we really did not that bad. Of course Melissa kicked our butts but we did great on the swim and the bike ride and then we were slower on the run. My Dad and I stayed together. He was in a different heat than me so he started the swim before me and then he waited until I was done with my swim before he started the bike ride. I was sooooo glad that I had him there with me. We did really well on the bike ride also. It was a total hilly course and we finished 13 miles in 58 minutes. I was really proud of that. I only had to get off my bike and walk 3 times. Once was totally my fault because I accidentally switched my gears up and not down and totally toasted my own self and the other two times were when I could not make it up the beast of a hill that I was on. They were BIG and I was not the only one who was walking. There were other men and women walking also, so I felt ok when I had to get off and walk. My biggest concern was the last hill, because you had to climb up another hill to get to the finish of the bike and start of the run (or walk for us) I did not want to get off and walk in front of all those people. I totally made it though!! I thought about it long and hard before I got there, the main key for me was to shift my bike right and not mess up- it was stressful, but I did it right and made it all the way up the hill. :) WOO-HOO!!

The swim was good. I did really well. I was not the last one in my group which was good. I did not want to be last because mine was the last group to go and I did not need 17 kayakers and 5 fireman and whatever else they had out on the water just following me!!! That would have sucked. I seemed to be about in the back of the middle of my pack of people. I was really happy. If you look at the picture of everyone in the water you will see that we all look like crazy fish!!

I am so excited to do this again next year. I know that I can run the run part and I could have done it this year, but it was so nice to be there with my dad. I love my dad so much and I rarely get any alone time with him so it was really nice to do this with him this summer!! I was actually quite proud of myself!!

YeS I CaN!!

2008-08-06T22:06:00.001-07:00

Totally going to do it! Cheer me on!!! I need all the help I can get!

Totally Kicking Butt!

2008-08-06T21:38:00.001-07:00

Well I am almost there! My race is in 24 days. I can not believe that it is coming up so quickly. There has been so many things that have gone on this summer that I am not sure where to start... Let me just say that it has been a very eventful summer. I feel like I have been out of town forever. I went to Florida twice and then to a few out of town ball tourneys for Lex. Here are some great pictures of us in Florida! Then when I got back last week our basement flooded. What a royal pain in the butt!!!! I am now sitting here in my office with no carpet and no "stuff" waiting for the insurance man to come over and tell me how much I have to spend and when my new carpet is going to be here. NOT only is this all majorly inconvenient, but next weekend is my biggest craft show ever at "Festival of the Little Hills" in downtown Saint Charles. It is huge and I am now frantically making stuff on my kitchen table with my lovely children running around. We seriously had to clear out the whole basement so everything that we own, which Dan says is a lot of crap, is all over my garage and my front room of my house. The girls love it though!

I have been doing really good at my tri training. I am really proud of myself. Turns out Fat Gals can do this!! I am very nervous for the triathlon and seriously know that I am going to come in dead last and I am totally ok with that. Dan bought me a brand new bike that I really love and I am getting better and better each day with it. I seriously can not see how as a kid I used to be able to ride with no hands! That is totally CRaZY!!

Lexy and Benny are getting ready to start school again! man this has been a short summer. Lexy will be a sophomore this year...which totally blows my mind. That is the year that we moved from Utah to Saint Louis for me. For those of you who knew me then, it was not a great year. She is so much better than I ever was though. She just got her permit for her drivers license today and I let her drive home from batting lessons in my new Suburban with all the kids in the car. I was a nervous nelly!! She did ok... but not great. We really need to work on that. :) Benny is starting 2nd grade. His best friend Garrett is in his class so he will be just fine and is really excited for school to start which surprises me.

AHHHH it is midnight i have to go to bed!~ I am such a bad poster, and a friend from when I was a little girl reminded me of that.. thanks Cindy!

Training

2008-06-30T09:15:00.001-07:00

TRiatHLoN {a FAt GaLs GuiDE}

2008-05-01T18:06:00.000-07:00

Can you believe it? I am actually going to be doing a MiNi- TRiaThLoN!!! I am doing it on August 30. I will try and post my progress here. I really have been working out hard lately to start to get ready for this thing. I am not too worried about the swimming part {when I think about it , I get worried, but not too bad} - I am really nervous about the bike ride. I can not believe that I have not really been on a bike since I went on a date like 13 years ago with my friend Jared. He took me mountain bike riding and it was horrible. I hated it. He was so sweet and we left early and went to meet some friends to go swimming. I would like to think that I had such a hard time because it was all up a mountain. I am going to go on thinking that. :)

I have started running as much as I can and I am actually getting better at that. I would honestly say that I am starting to not hate it. I can not say that I love it yet, or that I like it, but it is starting to not be so bad. I am also very excited that this all has helped me with my weight issue. I have faced the fact that I am fat now. I do not want to be fat, I do not want my kids to have the "fat mom" So I am really trying now. I do much better with big goals like this. Dan, my Dad, Dylan and Nick are doing it with me, I am glad for that. I am going to post a picture of me now- and then I can come back each week and update to see how I am progressing.

This is a picture of me and my Dad at my Grandma Graces funeral, and also Lacey and my cousin Dawn. Not very great circumstances, but at least it was all of me and not just a head shot! Man I have a lot of work to do. I would love to have some support- so if you feel like it, send me an encouraging email... I need all the help I can get.

Go MeR GO!!!!!!

Where is Spring??

2008-03-27T21:07:00.000-07:00

OH mY HeCK-

I am so seriously sick of this crappy Missouri weather. This has been a crazy last few months. Lexy and Ben have had so many snow days this year. I swear that they are not going to get out of school this year until the middle of June. We had a great Easter and Spring Break with the kids. It was very nice to not have to get up for school or seminary for the kids. On Easter we went to my Mom and Dad's house for our famous....

{Easter Egg Hunt} I love to make fun memories with my kids and pass on my favorite traditions. Easter egg hunts with the Ebert family are a huge tradition. I really loved doing that at my Grandma Grace and Grandpa Ray's house when I was a little girl. We all loved it. My cousin Dawn and I had a blast when we were little. My Dad has really carried on this tradition for my kids. Each year we all {my brothers and sister and now also our spouses} get to have a {big KIDS} Easter egg hunt, we all run throughout the yard looking for that one {GOLDEN EGG} my Dad will hide 1 really big dollar egg out there and it is a race to see who can find it. We are totally brutal. Lexy has been hunting with the {big KIDS} for a while, this year Benny really wanted to look with the big kids. It bummed him out that he had to be 8 years old to do it. He ran all over and helped me with my hunting. It was also one of the only years I can remember that we had to have the hunt inside. The weather was crazy this year on Easter. It totally SNOWED!!! My Dad also does an Easter Egg Hunt for the little kids. Gracey, Ally, Benny and Peyton ran all over looking for their fun eggs also. My parents are great. I am soooooo glad that we can live here in St. Louis by them.

Later that day, we went to church. I was really glad that we went. It was cute to see what the kids learned in their classes, Ally came out of Nursery and said, "Mom, why did Jesus come out of the tomb? because it was too dark in there?" it was so cute. I was able to teach YW that day also, I really enjoy teaching Lexys class. I really love the girls in there.

Later that night we went to Dan's parents house and played with the kids cousin Ellie from Texas. The girls love to play with Ellie. She is adorable. She is very independent, she would just play for hours if her mom would let her. She is a crack up. Grandma Charlotte and Grandpa Bill also had an egg hunt for the kids at their house. The kids loved it. Joanna made it so that all of the kids had to look for "specific" eggs. Like, Gracey had to find all of the eggs with the stars on them. It made it great. they all took a long time to find all of the eggs and it was really fun to actually have time to watch them hunt. It was a great idea!!!

Just FYI - I can not figure out why some of this lettering is big and some is not. SORRY- I am not the most blogger savvy girl out there.

{Why can I not figure this out!!!}

2008-01-30T15:31:00.000-08:00

adding an image is a pain in the butt!! Adding more than one image is impossible!! WHY~HUmmmmmmm- I think i might have just figured it out. Man no one told me that to add images you have to open up another window!!! i am learning more and more as I go... Maybe this will turn into an ok blog after all....

{holY coW itS 2008}

2008-01-30T14:50:00.000-08:00

WOW!!! whEre the HeCK did 2007 Go?

It has been a crazy past month. I can not believe that Christmas is over and we are now looking forward to spring. Lexy is getting ready to start ball and I am getting excited for the new year and a new coach and team. Benny just turned 7- Man life is just flying right along! We had a glorious time in Utah for New Years. I love going out to the Heber House and spending time with my Mom & Dad. The kids love it out there and I find that I am just so relaxed out there. This year only my bro. Nick was able to go with us. My sister Lace and her hubby had to work and Dylan and his wife were working also. The kids had a blast with uncle Nick {when he was not barfing his guts out} He got a little sick on the trip. Maybe not a little- he was very sick. Thankfully it only lasted for a little while and we were back in business. We had a great time with the kids in the snow. I love to go out there and take the kids tubing, skiing and to see my family. My Aunt Rita lives out there and I always love to see her. She is totally one of my inspirations in life. I really admire her, I want to be like her. She is beautiful, talented and just so much fun to be around, she is one of those people that makes me feel better about myself when I am around her. We also were able to see my Grandma Grace. I love my Grandma so much. She is and was always so much fun. When I was a little girl, she always did so many fun and wonderful things for us. There are so many things that I remember about her, I loved going to her house and eating wheat toast, homemade canned peaches, and croutons. My Grandpa Ray always had croutons. It was such a treat to go over there and eat those things. I also remember picking peaches, cherries and apricots from her trees and just eating them right there from the tree. Grandma Grace was always the "shoe" Grandma~ she would always buy us new shoes~ and not just any shoes, Nike's or Reebok's. It was great. There are so many things that I remember about her. I miss her so much. I was so blessed when I was growing up to have great Grandparents. I am so thankful that my kids have great Grandparents also. Dans parents are wonderful with them and the kids have a blast when we go over there. My parents are so great with my kids also.

{I cherish our Sunday evenings with my family. }

wE aRe ThAnkFul

2007-11-26T17:50:00.000-08:00

Oh my - I love the {Holidays}. I love when Halloween comes around and then in 1 month there is Thanksgiving and then 1 more month until ChristMaS. I truly believe that this is the most wonderful time of the year!!! We had a great Thanksgiving with my parents and a great time hanging out with Dan's family also. Dan's sister {Joanna} and her little girl {Ellie} who is Ally's age came in from Dallas and stayed for 2 weeks. The girls loved playing with Ellie.

We also had our family pictures taken from my sister {Lacey} I love this one of the kids. They look so funny and were so exited to do a {funny} picture. I can not believe how big they are all getting. This Christmas I told the girls that we are going to take the Binky's that they still have {yes, I know what you are thinking} and we are going to give them to Santa when we see him at the mall and he will take them to some other babies that need them. I will keep you all posted on how that all goes. I am not sure if I want to be sleeping at my house that first night. They love their {Bink's}.

I was going to add more pictures- but I seem to be having trouble and I am getting tired of this!!! Sorry :)-

HaLLowEen

2007-11-08T20:43:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to post a few {pics} of the kiddo's at Halloween. I love this holiday and loved seeing them in their Halloween duds!

Gracey was {Barbie Island Princess} Ally was {Tinkerbell- with Boots} Lexy was {Pippi Longstockings} and Benny was the dreaded {Skeleton}

The girls loved trick-or-treating {Ally not as much as Grace} and Lex and Benny had a blast!

Busy!

2007-11-08T20:14:00.000-08:00

Well, I have been so busy with getting all the things I need to get done for my craft shows- that I have been horrible at this whole blogging thing. I have made some adorable things for the shows that I am going to be in. I have really enjoyed making and creating these fun things.
I am totally excited about the holiday season coming up! I love Halloween, I love the Fall and the excitement that I feel knowing that Christmas is just around the corner. We went and did the pumpkin picking thing with my family- which is one of my favorite traditions. The kids loved the pumpkin patch. The one that we go to is {amazing} - they have a huge pirate ship, corn maze, slide, zip line and swings for the kids to play on. We all had a {blast} I think that the funniest thing about the whole day was following Gracey around the corn maze while she tried out all of the {dead ends}
Grandpa Todd was following her around and yelling "dead end" whenever they got trapped! It was so cute and she {loved} it.

We HaD a GreAT tIme with GrAms & GrAMpS!

{Here we Go!!}

2007-09-24T20:33:00.001-07:00

This is my life, My kids, Creating things, Playing with my friends and just being who I am. I started this little monster WORDelicious about 1 year ago now and WOW!! I love it!

I am very new to this all. I am going to start to be a blogger. I am guessing that not too many people will see this blog. I am not even sure what to say. I read other blogs and they are so good. I love to go to them and see what people are up to.
Today, is my birthday. I am 31 years old. I can not believe how old I am. I always thought that 30 was so old. Boy was I wrong. I can not believe that I am actually here now. I have so many goals for myself now. I think that I will focus on those on my 2nd blogging attempt. Right now it is bed time and I need to let the dog out.

2007-09-10T19:18:00.000-07:00

Mers Little World