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Tyler Talk

Well, my little guy has been full of talk this week. All kinds of interesting things going on in his little life! First of all, just to bring you all up to date - John Peter has a girlfriend or a sister. Her name is "marshmallow". No, I'm not kidding. She started out as a sister and somewhere along the way turned into a girlfriend. No, we do not live in Alabama or Arkansas or any of those states. We are southern but not that southern! Aunt Shannon was privileged enough today to get to meet Marshmallow. Goodness, she seems like such a sweet girl. I do hope she will hang around for awhile.:)

Next, I have to tell you about stinky feet. Thanks to my father, some of our family is blessed with a very aromatic foot odor. People have been known to drop dead to the floor if in the same room when certain members of our family take off their shoes. Tyler has possibly the stinkiest feet of anybody I know with the exception of my dad. Sorry dad, but you know it is true! So, yesterday, the kids had been at Shannon's while I was working and they had got to go swimming. So I was on the way home with them after they had just gotten out of the pool and Tyler says, "mama, my feet don't stink anymore". I said, "really". "Yep, I just took my shoes off, and then I put my feet right up to my nose, and I took a deep breath, and they don't stink anymore." "Well, not too much anyway." Poor kid, he couldn't even convince himself. I think the chlorine in the pool just disguised it for awhile! Shannon, ya'll may need a new filter or something - extra chlorine? Just send me the bill!

Onto today...I was rocking Tyler tonight. I love to rock him when he hasn't had a nap. And, yes, for those of you who are thinking "Nap?, what's that?", he does still take a very good nap most days. Anyway, I love to rock him and sing to him when he gets that tired just because I can and he is just so still and sweet! So, tonight I was singing that song "You are my strength when I am weak". When I got to the part where it says, "when I am dry, You fill my cup", Tyler said, "Mama, why does somebody need to fill your cup"? So I explained to him that we need Jesus to fill us up with the strength to do all the things that we can't do on our own. His response, "oh, okay, I was just asking --buddy". Oh my goodness he can be so sweet. My m-i-l has said many times that when he is sweet he is just really really sweet, but when he is bad, he really is rotten. So true!

Ebay

Okay, I really am going to bed, but had to post one more thing! My ebay stuff is selling like crazy! I just added up my "watchers" and I have 59 watchers spread over the 26 items that I am selling. I have 26 bids and 8 items that have sold! I'm so pumped - I love ebay!

Scrapbooking

Well, we finally did it! My group of scrapbooking friends have been talking about going away on a scrapbooking retreat for several months and this weekend there were six of us that went to either scrapbook or just relax. The majority of us scrapbooked. It was so much fun! We had this great cabin up in the mountains and we just hung out there all weekend. I didn't even put makeup on until we got ready to leave this morning and yesterday I did NOT fix my hair. I just scrapbooked and ate. Do you know how much junk food you can consume in one weekend??? We had a huge bowl filled with just various kinds of chocolate that was probably over half gone when we left. Junk food, scrapbooking, no hair, your favorite lounge pants -- it just does not get any better than that. I scrapped about 250 pictures and did about 60-65 pages. I was so pumped! I'm still about a year and a half behind, but, hey, I definitely made a dent! I was up until about 2:00 a.m. the first night and up until about 4:00 a.m. last night, so, needless to say "I am tired"!!!

After I left on Friday, Craig got really nasty sick. Poor guy - I offered to come home, but he said there was nothing I would be able to do for him. He had a yucky flu/cold bug complete with fever and body aches. I felt awful to be away while he was sick. Hopefully he will be feeling better tomorrow.

I'm trying so hard to load a video to show you all, but I keep getting an error message. Friday morning before I left, I recorded a LLLllllooooonnnnnggggg conversation with Tyler about a trip he was taking with John Peter. Apparently I wasn't going to get all of the fun of going out of town, he was going to go out of town too. He told Craig, "I won't be here to have fun with ya'll two." Anyway, I'm not going to tell you all about it, because I am determined to get it loaded.

Alright, my eyes are beginning to droop and I'm not sure that I am making any sense at this point so I'm going to bed. Hope everyone had a great weekend!

What Has Been Going On?

I have been slack on my blogging lately - sorry. Life has been insane since we got back from the beach and I'm just now beginning to get caught up. I spent Monday night, all day Tuesday, and all day today doing Graceful Designs stuff as well as sorting and pricing yard sale stuff. But the majority of my time has been taken up by ebay. I just listed a ton of stuff on ebay and, while, it is good money it is also very time consuming and exhausting and addictive, and...

In between all of that I have been trying to get caught up on my laundry and I spent the morning with Kayla yesterday as it was Tyler's last day of MDO. Tomorrow I will be working all day and then on Friday I leave for my girl's weekend. Yea! I haven't even had time to get excited about it with all the busyness of the week. But I am so ready!

For a kitchen update - I have paint!!! The kitchen has one rolled coat of burgundy paint on it. Yes, I said burgundy - it is dark and I love it!!! It is exactly what I had envisioned. We still have pink walls up above the counter tops in between the counter and the cupboard because that is where the back splash will go and we can't do the backsplash until we get the new countertops. One thing leads to another, you know how it goes! I have to take a moment and brag on my husband. He deserves more than a moment, but... When we got done with that wallpaper, the walls were a mess. He has puttied and sanded, and mudded and sanded and painted and sanded, and now - the walls look fabulous! They are as smooth as a baby's butt!!! I'm so impressed with him. He is already talking about next year's project. Yikes - one at a time. I love you babe - you are amazing!

Alright, it's past my bed time --- Goodnight!

Sayings and Such

So my kids have been cracking me up with some of the stuff that they have said this week and I had to share.

First of all, Kayla went to a swim party tonight and apparently they had tons of dessert and a little bit of dinner, at least that is what she ate! We were on our way home and she said, "oooh gross, you know how when you burp and you kind of puke up a little, well, I just did that with my hot dog". Gross, but funny!

Tyler is into "buddy" this week. His new name for Craig is "buddy", so everything is "buddy this and buddy that". He also got this very cool dart gun while we were at the beach. It was the highlight of his vacation - just ask him and he'll tell you. I used to be very anti-gun, but I find that a boy can make a gun out of everything whether you want him to or not so I figured if you can't beat them join them. Don't freak out, I'm not buying him a machine gun for Christmas or anything crazy like that. He has one gun and honestly, it is the best $3.99 I have ever spent. He has played with it non stop since buying it. The funny thing is though is that he can't say dart, he says darc! "Where'd my darc go". It cracks me up!

Along with "buddy" Tyler has also gotten very serious about his prayer life lately. I know you shouldn't laugh at the things that your kids pray, but, come on, you know God has a sense of humor. For Tyler, it has become a contest. He tells me now, "this is going to be the best prayer"! So, he begins by thanking Jesus for EVERYTHING!!! And I do mean EVERYTHING, sometimes several times for the same thing! So, tonight he says, "thank You Jesus for all of your hard work". Oh, that made me melt. So sweet!

There were a hundred more things, but I just can't remember them all - I need to start carrying a tape recorder with me. Do they still make tape recorders? Maybe an IPOD with a voice recorder??? I don't know - I'm electronically challenged!

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