Feast or Famine

Well, I finally accomplished some MAJOR blogging! After months of being a total blog slacker, I have posted a TON of stuff and finished up the month of JULY. Isn't that pathetic? I am blogging JULY!!! I have a goal to be totally caught up on the blog before baby #4 makes an appearance and I am making some pretty good progress. In my defense, I did start all of these posts in the month of August. They just sat there for a really long time. I am now over my morning sickness and I think I am finally over being completely overwhelmed and am ready to tackle this project, even if it is just for me.
I realize no one wants to scroll through all my million posts and pictures, so it is ok if you don't read any of it. I think only about 3 people read my blog anymore anyway. It is mostly for me and my kids. I am hoping I can get done soon and find the motivation to get all my books printed so I can have some tangible journals in our home. I want to be more caught up so I can catch the day to day things that happen instead of blogging six months in the past!
I wish that I could just let all this stuff go, but it is some major family milestones - birthdays, vacations, new baby.... I just can't leave it out!
My goal for this week is to get most of August done and to make at least 3 current more interesting posts than stuff that happened six months ago. I am hoping if I put that in writing it will make me more accountable. We will see....

My Beautiful Girls

So, blogging hasn't really happened lately. Along with a lot of other things... Cooking, house cleaning, laundry, working for Darren.... really I am SO far behind on everything and I don't know where to start to catch up. I know the holidays will be crazy though so I really am trying to get back on top of things. I debated just stopping my blogging addiction so that I could focus on other things, but I just can't.... It is my one way to keep a family journal and I actually love doing it and love having so many things down about my cute kids that I can look back on and all our memories. So, I am back and hoping to do better!

While I am trying to decide where to begin on my months of being behind, here are a few pictures of my beautiful girls that were taken a couple weeks ago before all the leaves were gone and it was freezing cold outside. I love how cute they are together in the pictures. It doesn't always go that way when they are playing together at home, but they are the best of friends, even if they do fight most of the day. They love each other and are starting to play together more and more and I love watching it. Rylee is constantly helping Avery and mothering her, which is not always appreciated by Avery, but they do try to get along. Lately, there has been a lot of playing Annie, puppies and family. I will answer to Avery calling for "mom" only to find out she is really calling for Rylee because they are playing something. And for some reason, I have frequently become Grandma Ali. I have no idea where that came from, but that is my name in their world of make believe! These girls make me happy and since it is the month of gratitude, I just want to say how grateful I am for them and the joy (and sometimes stress!) they bring to our home!



Stay tuned.... I have more individual pics of the girls still to come!

Where to Start...

I am SO far behind on my blog, but I've got to start working on getting caught up! Its driving me bonkers! Our computer crashed not long ago, and we are in the process of getting everything set up on the new one. In the meantime I have fallen SO far behind on the blog and on work for Darren and I just can't seem to get going again. It is a little too overwhelming! So, I am promising to post at least one thing each day this week to get me going again. (some things may be from 4 months ago, but hey...you have to start somewhere!) We have a lot of fun things coming up and I really want to catch up on my blogging....and the rest of my life!!! I figure if I post this, maybe I will actually follow through on my promise. I guess we'll see....

FINALLY FINISHED!!!

Hurray! I have FINALLY finished posting everything from our family vacation! It took much longer than I thought, but I wanted to include all the details for our family journal. It is a bit of a novel and I don't expect that everyone will want to read it all, but it is there for those that are interested! I am happy to have it finished so I can get some other more recent summer activities posted soon! It is fun to have all those photos up on the blog - Logan LOVES when I open the blog and read to him about Disneyworld! He will say "Tell me about Epcot" or one of the other parks. It is so funny! That is why I LOVE blogs! It helps me remember all the fun and all the everyday things that make up our life! Enjoy!

Centennial Post!

Just thought that I would let you all know that this is my 100th Blog post! Pretty big milestone! When I started blogging, I had no idea how addicting it would be! I LOVE it! It has kept me in touch with so many friends and been a great way to keep a family journal and share photos with friends and family far away! Since I had Rylee, scrapbooking has gotten to be impossible and this has been a great fix for me! I realize that I probably write more than most people really want to read, but I enjoy it, so I guess you will have to suffer! Yeah for Blogging! It is now one of my favorite things!

Back to the Stone Age...

The reason I haven't posted for awhile is because for the past 2 weeks, we have had no internet signal at our house-This has been a major test for me! It has been driving me crazy!!! I had already filled my shopping basket at the Children's Place and now all the items are gone! I also had a lot of fun pictures and other things I wanted to post, and now they seem a little outdated...(although I will probably post them anyway...) The first few weeks we were here, I could get on the internet at any time (thanks to someone else's wireless signal), but we haven't been able to pick up a signal for awhile and it has been hard for me! We also still have no TV. Things have been taking a little longer than we hoped to get Darren set up and working here, and while he spends a lot of time at the office, he still is not officially working and seeing patients yet, so we decided since he is still not working, or at least making any mullah, we would hold off on any unnecessary expenses, such as TV and internet. It has been a little rough - I miss being able to bribe Logan with an episode of "SuperWhy" or "Backyardigans" and I HATE that I am missing "So You Think You Can Dance?" since that is one of my FAVORITE shows, but other than that, it has been quite nice. Darren started reading the Da Vinci Code, (he doesn't read too often...studying has been enough for him!) Anyway - He got really into it and then I had no one to hang out with at night, so I started reading "Angels and Demons" and we were both just reading like crazy for the past few nights. We both finished now (They are both EXCELLENT books by the way - Probably 2 of my very favorites!) and so now we are back to being bored, although my sister came up today and left me her computer and for some reason, it will pick up an internet signal, so I have now wasted about 3 hours catching up on the internet... Maybe I would be better off without it....