8 Things

I was tagged by my friend Brittney a couple weeks ago. It's about time I responded. So here are a few things about little ol' me. 8 Things I Love/Am Passionate About Alyssa Tim My Family Adoption Friends Scrapbooking Cafe Rio Pepsi 8 Books I've Read and Enjoyed Twilight New Moon Eclipse The Host (Wait, was that only 4?) The Monster at the End of This Book My First Counting Book Little Miss Spider The True Story of the Three Little Pigs (As told by the wolf) 8 Phrases or Words I Say Often Um... whatcha doin' Alyssa? Be careful. Sit down please. Do you want to sit on the potty? Give me kisses. Oh my hell. I just love you so MUCH! Did you poop? 8 Things I Want to Do Before I Die Take Lys to Disney Land Acquire one more baby. Go on some exotic vacation. Clean my scrapbook room. Finish our basement. Improve upon some relations. Finish Alyssa's quilt. Have enough $$$ to pay someone to take care of my yard. :) 8 Things I've Learned or Remembered This Past Year You can live with a lot less than you think you can. This too shall pass. There are some things you just can't do anything about. Either dwell on it and be miserable, or get over it. Kids grow up WAY too fast. There are a lot of good, selfless people in the world. You can shove a lot of dirty dishes in a laundry basket, if the oven is too full. Two year olds are a lot smarter than they're given credit for. Other people's opinions don't always matter. 8 People I Want to Tag Angela Jen Kaarina Kim Kim Leisha Leslie Sam

July 22nd

Kidney transplant day. We have a donor. A FREAKING AWESOME donor. So much love. So much gratitude. So much more to come when I can make sense of the thoughts and feelings I'm trying to encompass in my little head. Thank you.

Aurora

You Are Aurora! (A.K.A. Sleeping Beauty.)

Thoughtful and loving. Authority figures probably have been sheltering you all of your life. Thankfully you're a very tranquil person who is content with what life has given you, but secretly you want to know how the outside world works.

Which Disney Princess Are You?

Interesting...

A Thirst for Knowledge

This was fun. This was a lot of fun. I learned a lot and realized I have a lot to learn. And I WANT to learn. I haven't wanted to learn something for a long time. This is good for me. I love it. And it's fun.

There are No Words

She touched a worm today. And thinks they're cute. No, I did NOT witness this first hand. I probably would have had a heart attack. I DEFINITELY would NOT have allowed it. Cringe, all I can do is cringe. And shiver, the icky shivers than run up your spine when you absolutely detest something. Cringe, shiver, cringe, shiver... wash her hands, tell her worms are yucky.

It Happened...

... yesterday, it happened. I've not been looking forward to this day. In fact I've been quite pleased that we've gone 2 1/2 years WITHOUT this happening. Let's face it. My world, as I know it, will never be the same. No more hiding things. No more hiding me. No more hiding her. No more out of sight, out of mind. It's all over. All because not only can Alyssa finally reach the door knob, but she can turn it. Which means she can open doors. Her door. The bathroom door. The scrapbook room door. The basement door. All of them. I'm toast.

Day Out with Thomas

Last Friday we spent the day with Thomas (the train, the tank engine, that blue train, whatever you want to call him.) The kids LOVED it and had a total blast.

First things first, tattoos of course. Mae and I got Rosie. Lys wanted nothing to do with it.

Then we found the petting "zoo" I wondered if Lys would actually get down to pet the horses. She sure did. They were just her size!Off to ride Thomas.


Four kids, three and under. Not the best for photo ops, but we didn't do too bad.

I about peed my pants laughing at this conductor. He sat right down and put the moves on my g-ma. Loved it!

There were four stations for them to go to, do some sort of activity and have their map stamped. Alyssa's favorite was the imagination station. They had different Thomas tables set up to play with, but that's not what she wanted to do. She found, in the back corner, the coloring table, which just so happened to have some Thomas stamps and paper. She scrap booked some Thomas. That's my girl!

They had a mini maze set up for the kiddos. They LOVED it. Mae would have played there all day had we let her.

By the way, these three little girlies all wear the same size clothes. Alyssa, age 2 1/2 years, Karlee 11 months, and Mae 20 months. However, pretty soon Alyssa will be able to take hand-me-downs from Karlee :)

Then there were the balloon animals. Alyssa had her choice of a kitty, elephant or a monkey that was HOLDING A BANANA (how CUTE is that!?!?!) But what did she choose?

A snake. Yup, my little princess girl wanted the snake. And I'll tell ya, she loves that thing. The first thing she did with it was chase Evan and make it eat Karlee's flower hat. She cracks me up with that imagination of hers.

Of course we had to have our picture taken with Thomas. Grandma bought all the kids their little conductor hats, bandannas and train whistles. All in all, it was a great day.