Bella story!

So I had to go out and sell bows this week. One day I was in Bloomington and the other in Springfield. Bella was lucky enough to travel with me this time. (But it was worth it to me for this story) We were headed to Springfield yesterday and Bella was singing her usual Barney " I love you, you love me" song and then she changed and sang "Jesus loves me" but it went more like this " Jesus loves me, yep he does, Bible says Yep, Yep, Yep" I thought this was the cuties thing ever!! Now if I say just " the Bible says" she will finish with a yep, yep, yep!!! Anyway I hope you got a kick out of it as well! :) I love being able to work with the kids, I love my job!!!

A Moriah funny!

I don't know where Moriah gets this from other than wanting to have something to talk to Daddy about, but she tells dad everyday how many Jeeps that she sees. ( and we are talking thousands, and she said they all came from Daddy's work!) So to surprise Moriah last night Mike came home in a Jeep! Her mouth was hanging open, and she jumped off her bike to run and get in!! I think it is so funny!! A 5 year old little girl liking Jeeps so much!!

Baby shopping and baby gifts!

here is a few groups of pictures of what the baby has already gotten. Some of these have been gifts from friends and some gifts from baby girls daddy!!! (Mommy helped out with the bouncey seat though.)

The nursery part 1

here are the Before pics:

I was using this room as my scrapbook room since we moved in, but I have now combined the ribbon room and scrapbook room to one. the walls were a pretty pale blue that I was thinking about doing again, but I love the bedding that we picked up so I had to do a different color. The white spots on the walls are where I had to putty in the holes from the scrapbook table.

During:

Here I am painted the room in a very light green that matches the bedding. Moriah was visiting me while I was painting and she took a few pictures!! (She is silly) These are my paint jammies! I wore these the whole time we built the house too! aren't they just lovely?!!?!?

After:

Here is a picture of the bedding. I don't have the crib out yet so I just took a quick picture of it.

Here are a few pictures of the baby room so far. I left the ceiling yellow and the walls are now green. It really looks pretty (the one picture looks bright, but I think it is because the lamp shade was off the lamp and it was in the edge of the picture.)

Thinking pink? or Something blue?

Mike and I went to the Doctor today for another appt. for me. We got our sonogram and everything looks good. (lucky me gets another one at my next appt. because they couldn't get a good picture of the heart. baby was laying with it's back up so you could only get the spine) So we did find out what we were having and it was a great surprise. I wasn't hoping really big one way or another so it was great!!! Mike had just told the Tech that if it was a BOY we would be visiting alot of buffets in the next 20 years (because my boys like to eat!!!) and if it was a GIRL we would be going to Olive Garden more!! The tech took that statement to tell us what we were having it was cute!! Not even knowing that she was going to look for the gender at the time she was just in conversation with us and she said "Well, it looks like you will be visiting the Olive Garden, IT'S A GIRL!!" It was really cool!! It made it more special that way and had us laughing!! So, IT'S A GIRL!!!

After the Doctor we headed to Babies R Us and looked at some things that we are in need of. We got the bedding, and bedroom stuff. And after the Olive Garden comment we had to go eat there for lunch!! Melanie met up with us there and had lunch with us. (It was yummy!!)

Mike then took me to the mall where we found a cute little outfit at Macy's for the baby. It is pink and white (of course) with Bows all over it!! (isn't that great!!!) it is so cute. It also says I love daddy!! I see a new business card in the future!!! (hahaha) and I also got a cute little outfit set at Gymboree!!

Then to top it all off, my business was in the lifestyle section of the Lincoln Courier!! It was a nice color article that talked about my business and had pictures of me with Bella Boo!! It did have a few mistakes in the writing, but since when is the paper always 100% correct???!?!?!

There you have it!! I very fun filled exciting day!!!

St. Patty's Day!!

I hope everyone had a great St. Pat's Day!! The leprechauns came to see us. We had Chuck E Cheese tokens left all over the house!!! It was crazy!! and then they each had little surprises in their green leprechauns boxes.

After we got the kids to school I took Bella to story time! It was our last time to meet until June :( It was lots of fun! Then Chrys, Aaron and Jonathan came over to visit. We played outside, went to DQ for a yummy ice cream treat and played some more!!

We ended the day out at my mom's house for a GREEN meal!! (green jell-o, green bread, green beans, Chicken with a lemon herb sauce (that was green), and potatoes) It was really good!!

Random photos! DQ treats!

I took these the other day. Kallie brought over a star kiss from Dairy Queen for everyone in the family. Thank you Kallie!!!!! So they all went outside to snack on their treats!!

Dr. Seuss Day at Zion School

Friday we had Dr. Seuss day and it was lots of fun!! We started off with green eggs and ham for breakfast, then went roller skating, Yummy cake next, and finally crafts!! All the kids dressed up as different Dr. Seuss characters and we paraded around to all the classrooms so the others could see the costumes! (we also had to carry that VERY VERY heavy cake with us!!)

Thing 1 and Thing 2

Cindy Lou Who and The Cat in the Hat

Our awesome cake that tasted very good!!

And then our green eggs and ham photo craft

Daisy Girl Scouts Meeting

I lead the Daisy Meeting this month and we talked about Animals. We are doing projects to earn our Zoo patch!! So each girl picked an animal to draw and talk to us about at our next meeting. We also got some energy out playing an animal game. They had a BLAST!!

Tropical 1 year to Disney Cruise party!!

I invited everyone over to celebrate our 1 year til we cruise. I had the tables all decorated and place cards made up with every ones stateroom number and their name. We also had pictures out from our previous cruises on Disney and played the DVD that you can order for free. It was very yummy! We had Hawaiian chicken, banana salad, corn dish, salad, Ramon noodle salad, and much more. I can't wait til we travel, it really got everyone in the mood!

Zion Lutheran Spirit Week!

Monday: PJ day (no pics of this day!! I don't know what I was thinking)
Tuesday: Clash day/backwards day She doesn't match at all!! Isn't it great!!

Wednesday: Dress up day (again no pictures, the kids changed their clothes right after school so they could play outside!!)

Thursday: favorite team day

Friday: Zion school colors day

our new La-Z-Boy Recliner

Today Stahl's delivered our new recliner!! This was something that we need to replace and with the 5th baby on the way Mike thought it would be a good idea to get me this since I spend several hours in it!! Thank you Hubby!!!! I love it!!

Our New ride!!

Yesterday Mike and I bought a new van!! We were ini need of some more room due to the baby coming this summer. Our deal of the day is a 1998 7 passenger van with only 59700 miles on it in GREAT condition. It still has the original floor mats, headphones and the tv and vcr are in perfect working order. Also, it has video game hookups so we can take the gamecube on long trips!!