Blink

As I'm rushing home from my sister's house the other morning, running late to my next "appointment" for the day, this song is playing on the radio.

I listen for the first time....coincindence that I turn the radio up to hear it better as I am forced to sit and wait for the train to pass? and the chorus is repeating "slow down, slow down"? I think not!

I'm pretty sure this is my new favorite song! It speaks straight to my heart!

Airplanes&Memories

I have pondered all day about what exactly to write...


...what exactly is it that I'm wanting to say today?...


With that said, I have decided to just start writing and follow my heart....


In light of his birthday, I took Taylor and Breck to visit my dad today...


Well, not in the way I would have liked to, but we went to the last place I said good-bye...






Kaicee and Brooks were both at school, so it was just me and the little girls. Sadly, neither of them will remember grandpa Housour...Breck was only 18 months when he passed away and we were plesently surprised by Taylor's upcoming arrival two short months later. Their memories will solely be based on the stories they hear from us.

The airplane pictured on his headstone was his personal plane. Anytime I see an airplane, I am reminded of the flights we shared. A couple weeks ago, a great friend gifted me with this....



I love it and I wear it proudly :)

As we spent time at the cemetary, both girls where intrigued by the airplanes...both on his headstone and around my neck. Whenever I wear the necklace, they inform me that I wear it to remind me of grandpa :) It makes me happy that they have these simple reminders of grandpa, even if they don't have the precious memories that I do.




This is a picture of my dad and Kaicee almost 5 years ago...I love to look at it and be reminded that they shared the same special relationship he and I did.

AfterSchoolPlans

I found this movie at the library a few weeks ago but we never took the time to watch it. Kaicee's teacher is now reading the book to them at school so she has been begging me to get it again. I have never seen it but I have heard that it is, oh, so good...so, after school, we plan to curl up and watch it together :)

***I am soo bummed!...and so are the girls. This is so not the original movie :( If any of you own the original and wouldn't mind letting us borrow it, we would greatly appreciate it! I didn't realize that it is no longer available until I go to looking online. My mom still has a VCR (I know, isn't that crazy?!?!) so we would even be able to watch VHS...we just really want to watch them!

NoteToSelf...

Never, ever...no matter what!...do not ever take antibiotics on an empty stomach!!!!

After some much needed rest and a couple doses of antibiotics, I woke up this morning ready to face the day! Agenda for the day:
finish folding laundry
get the girls fed and Kaicee off to school
grocery shopping with the little girls
Epic meeting
get girls lunch and Breck to school
clean house while Taylor naps

Sounded like a great plan...and it was, until I decided to take my antibiotics BEFORE eating breakfast. Big mistake!!! HUGE!!!! I ended up taking a half hour nap on the bathroom floor after giving in to the nauseas (sp?) feeling I felt in my stomach :( Not good. Not good at all.

One good thing...I sure am glad we decided to put heated tile floor in our bathroom :)

Now that I'm feeling better....I'm off to face my day!!!

OnTheMend?!?

It seems that our family may finally be on the home stretch of this nasty allergy/sinus/cold crap that keeps lingering around here! Breck and Taylor are finishing up antibiotics and are feeling much better. Brooks is on round two of antibiotics and hopefully gonna nip this thing this time around! I have finally given in to the drugs and am partaking in my own dose of antibiotics :( At this point, Kaicee has stayed strong and has been able to dodge any bad germs that may have come her way!

Could it really be that after nine, count them, NINE LONG WEEKS of feeling like poo...our family may be starting to feel better soon?!?!? Oh, how I hope so!

SchoolPictures

We have decided not to buy school pictures anymore. They are so expensive!...and let's be honest, they usually turn out terrible! This is the second year that I have opted to buy only the smallest package possible, allowing me to at least have one to put in the girls' scrapbooks. I decided that I needed to at least have one to put in their albums so we can some day look back and laugh at them :) This year, I have to say that I was plesently surprised!







Another reason we have opted to not buy school pictures...last year we finally replaced our point and shoot with a great Canon Rebel! Our plan is to take some family and individual pics this weekend. Anyone have any great locations you can recommend? I'd love to find somewhere that we can take advantage of all the great fall colors right now!

MyWindow

This is the view from my kitchen window. Nothing too exciting maybe, to many of you, but I smile every time I look out. It's amazing how one simple picture can have so many stories to tell.

Brooks and the girls built our playhouse together this summer...we even let them help paint! It was great to watch them work on it together and now it's fun to watch the girls play :)

The little purple slide makes me think of the summer months as the kiddos hook up the hose and scream as the freezing cold water sprays them while they slide down.

The leaves on the ground remind me that fall is here and it is sooo my favorite season ever!!! It's also just exciting to see the leaves...this is the first year that the trees were big enough to actually produce enough leaves to cover the ground! The girls are so excited to have something to rake this year...all we need is a rake ;)

The bird feeder hanging from the tree makes me laugh. It hasn't had any food in it almost all summer, but it still looks great hanging there. We got this bird feeder last summer and loved watching all the birds that came to our yard. We were amazed by how fast the food went...which is why it has been empty :)

The fire pit(which you can barely see in this picture)reminds me of the times we've sat with friends and talked the night away as the kids run around catching lightning bugs or playing flashlight tag. Sometimes, it was just Brooks and I that would sit and talk while the girls were inside sleeping.

The lawn chair brings memories of our family eating supper outside on those not-so-scorching-hot summer nights.

And finally, the stash of medicine that covers the windowsill reminds me that the season I so love brings with it lots of coughs and snot :(

Oh, how I love my window! :)