Last Pic of Easter and My New Book

Oh, so prim and proper! Notice the hands in the lamp. She is soooo grown up (she wishes!) They are pretty fantastic, these girls and their brother! So fantastic! They gave me more flowers for Mother's Day than I had vases to put them in! Not too mention the fake one's that they made at church, and the cards....oh, and the chocolate bar my daughter got me. Also, a wonderful mexican dinner! The Vandal Nachos at San Miguel's are sooooo good! Mmmmmmmmm! My love for mexican food grows every day (along with my wasteline, but let's not talk about that)!!!

What have I been up to these days? Well, I'm so glad you asked! I'm writing another book! I know, I know. I haven't even finished the first one, but this one's been a long time coming! This is the one I'd been planning to write at some point since I was in high school! I just really didn't have any hope to offer to go along with it back then! It really came back to me that I should with my new Christian perspective several years ago when I started my recovery through CR. It was brought back to my attention recently that I really should write a book about my life, really more of a compilation of many fun and some not so fun stories from my life. Growing up and raising kids, so that I am doing. I've only made it to kindergarten so far and it's already three pages! And that's with very narrow margins!!! Maybe I'll do a copy-paste thing of a few sections on here of that sometime like I did with the original draft of my first book. Anyway, that and being sick, and being pampered for Mother's Day and having kids on a four day weekend that I had to drag around to keep entertained, has been my life recently!

Matching Dresses

Yes, as someone already observed, the girls allowed me to buy matching dresses for them at least one more year! Shall we go for yet another year? What are the chances of Angela being happy to wear the same dress as her little sister when she's 11 years old and in 5th grade? Anyone want to weigh in on the possibilities. I do like that Angela is at least trying to look happy in these pictures. They're not the best, but even with a not so good camera, used by a not so good photographer (yours truly), I am always struck again, by how beautiful these girls are!!! They think that Josh cleans his guns every year to prepare for deer hunting, but little do they know he's practicing for when the boys come knocking on the door to see his daughters :) Even though she's only sort of smiling, I actually think she looks really cute with this expression on her face, and dangerously beautiful, as I mentioned before!

I do have to say that Angela did refuse any possibility of cute little white flats with bows, like the one's I bought Chloe! Oh, no! They had to be black heels, little diva that she is!

Angela In Her Easter Dress

As you can see from these pictures, Angela was just thrilled (sarcasm) to have to sit down and have her picture taken! Moody little thing that she is these days. Hormones, you gotta love 'em...not!!!!

Chloe And The iPad

She insisted that I take this picture. This is what she was doing that she really would have preferred over having her picture taken! Nope, not some fun, Eastery activity! She was playing a dress-up game on the iPad! It's official, my girls are divas that are addicted to technology!! It was really important to her that her virtual doll have the perfect outfit for Easter! Oh, boy! What am I going to do with this child?!?! On a more personal note, I'm still having problems with my sinuses. At this point I have no idea if it is from the cold that I had, or allergies or both. What I do know is that I am feeling sad and lonely, which is very dangerous for me. I need to be able to keep my chin up and believe that God has big plans for me and keep remembering whose child I am!

Chloe's dress

Well, here's one picture of her in her dress! She was very excited and it was making it very difficult to get good pictures of her. Sorry, I've been away for a while! I got a really awful cold this week, and even had to cancel my counseling appointment! My sinuses are still driving me nuts!

Chloe With Clover Again!

Okay, so she really likes the horse and the elephant! We get it right! Doesn't she know it's ALLLLLL about the dress!!! Don't worry. You'll see the dress soon! I just like to torture you:)

Chloe And Her Elephant!

Here Chloe is again, with her elephant!

Chloe In An Easter Dress!

Okay, I promised (sort of) pictures of pretty girls in Easter dresses! This is one girl in an Easter dress, anyway! With her favorite stuffed animals! (Current count: I believe she has 75 now, after our post Easter shopping! I'm cheap, what can I say:)) Anyway, the horse is Clover, and the other one is an elephant that her dad won for her at the arcade on Friday! Aaaaah, isn't he such a superhero!!!! I can't remember what she named him. Today, I bought her the annual stuffed bunny (normally she gets one in her Easter basket, but it just didn't happen this year!) I also am a sucker and bought her another stuffed elephant at the Hope Center today! I think she suddenly fell in love with elephants when I read to her about "How The Elephant Got It's Trunk" a couple of weeks ago. Hmmm, who knows. You know, I think there's a story in that same book about a dolphin? Maybe I should read that and see if we end up buying a lot of dolphins :)

More Easter Fun!

You know, I never tire of blogging! I love it! The girls continued their Easter fun today! While Jeremiah and I were at the opening ceremonies for baseball, they were at an Easter egg hunt at East City Park. Angela got one of the big prizes cause she found one of the special eggs, so she got a whole 'nother Easter basket! It had a decorative four square ball in it. She would have rather had a basketball, but someone got that one before her, so she'll have to wait on her basketball. She's planning to play next year. She really misses ice hockey, but we just can't afford it. It's too expensive. The equipment is expensive and then they have to travel and stay overnight if they want to play much! She couldn't do any travelling last year, so she missed most of the games. All of the tournaments, except for our tournament here in Moscow. I really don't think it was worth it, but I think she feels differently. I felt bad about not being able to take her to the tournaments and far away games, so we decided not to do it this year. I really wish we could, but we also have two other kids to pay for their stuff, too, so we really can't.

The kids also, all three of them, got Easter baskets from our sweet neighbor, known as "grandma." She's pretty sweet. And to go along with all that candy, she always gives them a new toothbrush and toothpaste! I love the idea! I'm not so sure the kids are impressed!

Early Easter!

Yes! I know! I know! It's not quite Easter yet, but what can I say, I was excited! I'm as impatient as they are. Actually probably more so!! Besides, I got the girls HUGE Easter baskets, which I could not find a spot to hide them in my car or in our tiny house with almost no available storage space! So, we just did all the fun, not so much Jesus relatede stuff, early! I figured Jeremiah would not be very upset about getting a small one. It added plenty of cars to his car collection, which, I don't know if any of you have noticed, but they never grow out of the car love! It's kind of nice actually, except for the fact that when he's sixteen, I have a feeling he will disappointed with this particular size of a car :) We'll see. He has to get his Eagle Scout before we'll even allow him to get a driver's license, anyway. So, he better start getting to work on his requirements. He hasn't even made it to First Class yet, which he should have by now! Oh, well, that we will definitely be working towards this summer!! He's going to have my boot print all over his back by the time this summer is over!! I don't know if you can tell, but Angela got a bunch of fun sports equipment like badminton raquets and a birdie, and a foam ball, and a hoop, and one of those little basketball hoops you can put in your room, and a jump rope, etc. Chloe's was all sorts of play rock diva stuff. A play quitar and microphone mostly, but also those funky gloves they wear and stuff like that, too.

In addition to the fun stuff I got them on Tuesday, today their grandma (my mom) made an unexpected trip up and brought some bags of stuff for the kids! She also brought cookies and stuff to decorate them! Jeremiah was at baseball practice and didn't get to see her, but the girls enjoyed having her! She was on her way up to Spokane to see my Uncle Jeff who's in the hospital after having hernia surgery. She's hoping to bring him home tomorrow and spend a day or so with him. Then, maybe she can return Saturday afternoon to see Jeremiah in his first game of the season. Pray! I'm sure Jeremiah would love to have her see him play, especially since he didn't get to see her today! She got him squirt guns and a glow in the dark t-shirt, which he thought was pretty cool. And of course, chocolate bunnies and all that sort of thing :) She got those for all three! Angela and Chloe got jewelry and nail polish and hair bands with sequens! They loved it all, of course! So much fun! I hope they're happy. I don't know if we'll be able to do Easter egg hunting this Saturday with it being opening day for Jeremiah's baseball season.