Five Question Friday

1. What do you listen to while driving?

Music. (If you're from around here it's usually G105 or country)

My kids arguing.

OR ..

My kids constantly telling ME what to do!

2. What is your least favorite thing about Fall?

I love Fall! But, I hate how in the morning it can feel real cold, so you have to bundle all up, then by mid-day I'm sweating in all my clothes, then later at night I'm back cold again after I've already taken half my clothes off from getting hot throughout the day. Whew. Making me tired, and hot thinking about it.

I guess that's why I'm supposed to layer.

I just want to wear one thing and be comfortable all day. That's all I ask.

But I love you Fall :)

3. What does your dream house look like, inside and out?

Hmmm..

First, It wouldn't be around here! I'd be OUT of Four Oaks, that's for sure!

Johnston County, okay. Four Oaks, no thanks. Tired of it.

Honestly out of Johnston County sounds nice too.

But, about the house ..

Nice in size, big open rooms, a room to do all my craftiness in, a room for the kids to play in, a big ole' bar to eat at, windows that actually open, no holes for the nasty mice in, with that said no big ass field beside and behind us so that the mice are hopefully far far away, a huge closet .. really huge, and a big bathroom my whole family can fit in at once.

I'd like a big backyard, no dog crap all over the place or dogs that chew everything in site, fenced in area for the kids with all their toys there, a swing, and a big wrap-around porch.

That sounds about right. Someone build that please?

4. Would you ever own a minivan?

YES. All my life I've said, no, not me, NEVER. But, then I had kids.

However, I don't own one, but I'd like to think I would. I drive a Suburban now, and with that I'm good, but with 2 kids and 1 on the way, I'm sure it would be pretty awesome.

But, for now I'll stick with the Suburban, it's working.

5. Do you wash new clothes before wearing them?

Most of the time. If it's for the boys, then yes, nearly always. Unless for some crazy reason they need to wear it right then. Like if Jackson spilled a whole large McDonald's tea on his shirt, and they have a million little shirts hanging up in the kids section in his size at Walmart and we're there .. then a new, unwashed shirt is going on his little body, right then. Yeah, that's happened before. It happens.

But, for me and Brandon. We don't really care. If it looks alright and doesn't smell awful, we'll throw it on anyway. We're not dead.

Now, it's your turn. And don't for get to link them to Mama M's blog at www.fivecrookedhalos.blogspot.com

The Pioneer Woman

I have found my new favorite site.

I have wrote down recipe after recipe and made one massive grocery list.

I have a good supper week planned!

I'm excited and now hungry :)

And I'm going grocery shopping tomorrow!

Here's the site .. go check it out!!

http://thepioneerwoman.com/cooking/

Little People Talk

I haven't updated in a while, or it seems that way anyway.

I've been busy!

Trying to be a crafty mama lately. (I'll of course update on that later)


So anyway just wanted to do a quick update on my two handsome little men.

Colors:

Carson knows: White, Yellow, Orange, Brown, Black, Pink, Green (sometimes)

Jackson knows: Yellow, Orange, Pink, Green (sometimes)

Jackson can now say McDonald's. AND chicken McNuggets. I love how he doesn't just say nuggets but Mcnuggets. He is starting to ask questions like, "Where is Carson?" or "Where is brother?" and he is speaking longer sentences like, "I see Carson sleeping." When he unexpectedly see's me his little face lights up and he will say, "Hey mama!" I love it :) My little man talks so well to be so little! He still sometimes will say, "Eat drink" when he's thirsty. He loves "craynins" (crayons). He loves to "read" books or listen to me read to him. He is so interested in books and wants to sit and listen over and over, all the time. My little smarty pants.

Carson can now count to 10! I love hearing him count and watch him get all excited. He will say, "See, I did it mama!" Thanks to Barney, seriously! We can talk about McDonald's with Carson too I guess. His new favorite thing from there is an Oreo McFlurry. Before that is was the hot fudge sunday with nuts. But, one day I got the McFlurry and Carson tried it and now says, "I don't like those nuts ice cream, I like the Oreo kind." I love hearing him say Oreo, I don't know why but I think it sounds precious. He still has his three favorite blankets. He doesn't drag them around or anything, but he does sleep with one of the three most every night. And most of the time I'll take one with us when we leave the house, because he likes to snuggle when we ride and he gets sleepy. He loves the colder weather, I can tell. He's getting so excited Christmas is getting closer, he is playing outside more, he really just seems more happier. And did I mention how cute my boys look in their little bluejeans! I don't know if it's because I haven't seen them wear them in so long or what, but I love it.

I love Fall.

But mostly, I love my boys.

Carson Says ..

"Come on mama, let's clean this place up so we can go to bed." So I think it's time to do just that!! :)

Rain, Rain, Go Away ..

Well, not really. I actually kind of like the rain! But, it has been raining for days (no sunshine, at all) for days. Our roads have been a mess, although, the tough Suburban can handle it, but schools have even had two-hour delays! Crazy to me, because we never had delays over the rain, not around here!

But, we really, really, really needed it. AND .. I actually don't mind rain. It's a good change I think, plus the sun will always come out again!!

It was funny though because once it started the kids acted like they haven't ever seen rain before. I mean, they literally seemed amazed .. it's been that long since we have seen rain!

Tomorrow is supposed to be a sunny day though and I'm excited to say it's going to be in the 70's!!! Yay! I'm honestly so tired of 90 degree weather and I'm ready to get into some pants and long sleeves!

Hello October! I can't wait to see you tomorrow! :)

I'm 23 weeks today! I'm a slacker and just took pictures a few minutes ago and it's getting late so I don't feel like waiting to load them on here and all that good stuff, I'm tired! So I'll just post pictures maybe tomorrow.

Clint's funeral service is tomorrow. Sad story. I actually meant to post on it, but for some reason I am still at a loss for words and can't seem to find the right ones to say. He was so young, his death was so awful. This world can be so awful. Maybe I can dig through my pictures and do a post for him another day. I'll get to it one day. Rest in peace, buddy.

If anything ever happens to me, I hope my boys know I love them. More than anything. I try to say this everyday. Although, I'm sure once they get older they'll roll their eyes and say I know!

I love you Carson, Jackson and Hubby. And little tiny baby rolling and poking me in the tummy, you're pretty loved too :)

I'm a sleepy little girl so I'm heading to bed before I start rambling more and making no sense.

Serenity Prayer

I've been slacking a bit lately when it has came down to bad situations. I've cussed and hollered instead of prayed, skipping out on church and church activities, ignoring people (mostly the church people) probably because we haven't been in so long, not so much as praying at all lately. Not sure why. I think I just have gotten so mad at random different things, and seeing as to how the world is turning out to be, it started getting tough, or easy actually to just forget about God.

I've been a church girl my whole life. Yes, I have definitely seen my wild days (although, now they are long behind me) but I've always believed in God and trusted in Him. Especially since having the boys. I would pray every night with them, read them Bible stories, not cuss around them or even at all in general, and take them to church every Sunday. Then all of a sudden ..

I stopped.

No praying.

No Bible stories.

Cussing like a sailor. In front of the kids or not.

No church at all, for months.

I felt my life was no different with or without God. Who was this God anyway? Why couldn't we have just came from monkeys or something? Praying didn't seem to do anything. My life seemed pretty shitty, either way.

With all that awfulness said, I can't imagine my kids not being brought up into a Christian home. I don't drink, I don't smoke, I'm not a crackhead parent and don't ever intend to be. Not because I'm pregnant either, I just don't and won't drink or smoke, it's not me. But, me not believing in God, not giving my kids someone to look up to doesn't seem right, and it's not any better not believing, than being one of those crackhead parents. Make sense?

I heard a quote tonight on the show Brothers and Sisters, yes I've heard it before, although, this time, it made me think. And I love it.

God, grant me the Serenity
To accept the things I cannot change...
Courage to change the things I can,
And Wisdom to know the difference.

Perfect.

I can't believe just how sorry I've been this past little while, slacking on God and all. Luckily, I know he is forgiving.

I feel like I was kind of shoved into my husbands church since we live like 15 seconds down the road from it, and it's the church he grew up in. Convenient, right? Although, of course being the evil, never satisfied woman I am (as my husband would say) I'm not completely thrilled about this church. And even though we've been going there probably 4 years now, I think I want to try out other churches. I think that's another reason why we've been taking such a long break from church. I'm just not happy there. I mean, don't get me wrong, it's okay .. it's just not me. I'm just not comfortable there. So I'm hoping hubby will understand and we can try to "relocate" soon. Because, God knows, I need it.

So, the question is: To believe or not to believe? As for me and my boys, we will be saying a prayer tonight. I guess it's better to be safe than sorry. And I'm hoping someone can soon give me more reason and answers to my many questions.

And if you want, you can say a prayer for me tonight. I totally won't mind.

Small Talk :)

So Jackson and Carson have these few phrases or words I think are funny at the moment.

When Jackson is thirsty he says, "eat drink" or in the mornings it's "eat juice!"

You know how we all have a few words we overuse sometimes? Well I use to say, "That is not necessary" all the time. I probably haven't said it in a while though. But, because of it Carson uses the word necessary sometimes, even though he has no idea what he is saying and completely wrongly uses it, it's cute. So Carson was randomly talking and said something about Grady (our awful new dog) being necessary. Right after that Brandon asked Jackson something like, "What do you think Jackson?" And Jackson CLEARLY said, "necessary" Oh my God, we laughed. So stinking cute. I mean, what ONE year old can say the word necessary? Mine can! :)

Carson for some reason has started saying "mom" and "dad" instead of the usual "mama" and "daddy" and the occasional "mommy". Yet he is still saying "mama" and "daddy" more. Just thought that was random since I never say "mom" or "dad", not even to my parents or referring to anyone.

And a little bit of randomness...

I think I might start full time at the Tiki Hut! We're gonna talk soon about getting my own office and the kids will be able to come with me. Hubby owns it, so everything including hours, will be so flexible. I'm keeping my fingers crossed everything will work out! We need some extra income, badly.

I'll get to some Tiki Hut and pumpkin pics in another post. We're heading up there tomorrow to finish working on the roof, so I'll take more pics then and then I'll be able to do a few before and after. Basically, why I'm holding out on showing what I have now.


Here's a pic of Carson last night though. He fell asleep beside me, sitting up. I swear I think this child would sleep anywhere anyhow. He definitely gets that from his daddy, not me!



I look tired! But I thought this was so precious, since I was just sitting watching the movie and I thought he was watching with me! I looked over and he was asleep :)