MY TO~DO LIST...

So I fine myself very unmotivated to do anything!!! I have got to get off my BUM.

My To Do List:

1. Start going to church on Sunday! (something I really only do sometimes, but I love to go so I don't know why I wont make myself get up. And on top of that I usually only go to Worship and that starts at 11am. So I really have NO excuse)

2. Get myself to the GYM!!! (I was wanting to go with a friend but it looks like that really isn't going to happen)

3. Got to start going places during the day with these kids. (they are going stir crazy)

4. WELL...TO BE CONTINUED

So I think these are the most important as of right now anyway.

In further news I went to Wal-Mart tonight and got the kiddos Coraline. I love Tim Burton movies especially ones like Nightmare Before Christmas. Its in 3D too. So cool, but a bit scary. I LOVED IT!!!!! I got some ice cream while we were there and we sat down and watch the movie with our ice cream. Here are a few pictures from today!

PLEASE PRAY!! Weekend Recap!!!

First and foremost I want to say PLEASE keep MckMama and Stellan and there WHOLE family in your PRAYERS tonight and always Stellan is being airlifted to Boston soon. He has been though so much and is in need of your prayers.


So I think I'm really falling off the band wagon on my blogging but am really going to try and do better. Not a whole lot seems to be going on right now. I'm planning Rylee's 6th birthday. We are going to go skating and the kids should have a blast. Getting ready for Rylees cheer camp on the 1st of August, its going to be too cute because this year the girls are going to have real uniforms not like the previous year were all they had was a shirt. So I'm sure I will have lots of photos to post. Over the weekend I went out with my best friend Whitney her wonderful family offered to watch the kiddos for me(I LOVE THEM!!!) we went Buzzard Bill's for dinner we got this GREAT meal, it was a hollowed out eggplant battered and deep fried with shrimp and crab meat in au gratin sauce inside that. It is SO good. Then we went to George's and listen to a live band i don't know who they were(they played Tom Petty and i love him so...) then we went to Oakleys we had a really nice time dancing and all but on the way home i couldn't help but think how much fun i would have had if Ben had been there. I love going places with Ben he just seems to make things so much more fun. Sunday i went to a good friend of mines baby shower wish i had pictures but i forgot the camera. I know i was upset too. It was at the lake (REALLY HOT) but fun because we got to go swimming afterwards. The oddest thing about the day had to of been when we saw some chick SHAVING her legs down by the water! What the HECK! Me and some of my friends just couldn't stop watching it was like a train wreck you couldn't take your eyes off. LOOK AWAY!!! LOOK AWAY!!!! It was the longest baby shower i had ever been to 2-8 WHOA!! But REALLY fun. Everyone there ask where Ben was and how was he doing i really felt the love for him.

So that was our weekend i guess it was pretty interesting well that girl at the lake was anyway.

These are the days of our lives...

So tonight i just wanted to post some of my favorite pictures over the years...

Rylee Roo as we call looking innocent...dont let her fool you. :)
Caben and Ben Look at all that hair he had golly he was such a cutie then...he still is
Charis is such a HAM!!!
LOOK AT THOSE PEEPERS!!!!
Me and Ben on a night out. He had just come home from A-school and we had to celebrate!

Yes i have purple in my hair. :)
If you are a parent you know there are days you wish you could do this! They climbed in there themselves i asure you.
My FAVORITE!!! This is at Bens Graduation from bootcamp we hadn't seen each other in forever it seemed and i just feel to tears in his arms. I was so PROUD at this moment and continue to be.

Beacuse I love you...

So i decided today to write a post about Ben. I heard a song i love while taking my kids to the jumping place this afternoon. That's something to be proud of By Montgomery Gentry. It always makes me think of Ben. He is very hard on himself most of the time and never feels he is doing enough. He isn't the most religious person in the world i think he is confused on what to believe a lot of the time. He always seems to forget about all we do have and i have to remind him of all the blessing we do have. No, we don't have the biggest house, but its ours and its home. We don't have all the money in the world, but we pay the bills and our kids never go without. We HAVE each other!! That's all that matters. I have faith that all our dreams will come true in due time til then I'll just enjoy the journey that takes us there. Ben is such a beautiful person inside and out with the biggest heart I've ever seen. I'm so very proud of him. He has been through so much and has always provided for his family. He always gets me what i want. I guess you could say I'm a bit spoiled. But I'm so grateful for everything he has and continues to do for us. Its a life you can hang your hat on. I can't begin to describe how much i miss that guy. He brings so much joy to this house. I know he thinks of me as his ROCK but he is really mine too. He makes me crazy at times for sure, but i wouldn't trade him for nothing. He has his faults but so do I. I just know God made him for me. We need each other and when we are apart i feel incomplete. Last night i was on the phone with him and i said:

Me: Its no fun around here without you.
Ben: SHHH...no fun there...its no fun here.
Me: Do you miss being around me?
Ben: ya but your not so much fun. Your kinda a stick in tha mud.
Me: If I'm no fun why do you like to be around me???
Ben: Because I love you.

I love silly little conversations like that. He's always telling me I'm no fun i don't know what he is talking about I'm plenty of fun :)

Speeking of FUN!!!

Well look who it is the ole stick in the mud

SUPER MOM TO THE RESCUE!!!!

Well the day started off just like any other. My friend Whitney came over after she got out of class. We decided to try and mow the lawn since it has not been mowed since Ben left so you can imagine how bad it looked. We went to start the mower and it was dead! So then we thought well maybe we can at least weed eat. So we fought the weed eater for awhile and finally got it to start and i knocked some of it down. I guess the next door neighbor saw us fighting the weed eater and he came over and mowed it for me. YEA!!!! It still needs to be weed eated all over again but its much better than it was. So i wont complain. Then we made cookies to send to Ben. I took the kids to my moms and on the way over there my son stuck a big piece of paper up his nose. He's back there telling me Mommy its stuck and Rylee is laughing. I'm like "OH MY GOODNESS" SO once we get to my moms i had to get the tweezers and try to get this wadded piece of Sundays sales ad out of Cabens nose. He had shoved that thing so far up there i couldn't believe it but what was even more unbelievable was how big it was!! How did that fit up there i thought GEEZ! Me and Whitney went to Micheal's Craft Store and Lowes(I want to make a table to put behind the couch) I'll keep you posted on how that's going! Then back to pick up the kids and back home. Not to eventful just another day in my little world. Mom, landscaper,nasal surgeon and carpenter. The many faces of me!!! HeHe! Nite All!

blah blah blah...

I've been such a slacker with my blog this week. I don't feel i have much to say at all. We are having a sleep over tonight my friends 2 girls are over and are keeping my 2 oldest out of my hair momentarily while I post. Charis has such a tummy ache i just hate it when she doesn't feel good. We just got back from my mothers where I colored and cut my moms and my aunts hair and trimmed up my cousins. Made a little money on the side which is always helpful. I finally delivered some pictures to Ben's cousin that i had taken at their 4th of July and baby session here is a few of the baby shots i took...



I thought they turned out very lovely.
Anyway don't really have to much planned I'm a bit in a funk and have been for the last few days but "this too shall pass"
Have a good night all.

Late weekend recap and yesterdays activities...

I didn't blog over the weekend so here is what we did.Friday my nephew stayed the night and Ben got on the webcam and read them a bedtime story. It was so cute here they are...



Saturday night we had Ben's cousins wedding. It was a lovely wedding an i got some decent shots.


The Bride


Me and the Kiddos


Just a fun shot I took and edited


I stole the rings just so I could get this shot


Me and the happy couple


throwing the bouquet


throwing the guarder


Group shot

And this is what my son and nephew were doing in a corner...silly boys.

Yesterday me and the kids went to Chuck E Cheese for one of my dear friends sons 3rd birthday. My son is totally in love with Chuck E Cheese every time the commercial comes on TV he asked to go. So you can imagine his excitement level was off the charts when i told him we were going.



Photos courtesy of Alisha(can't believe i forgot my Camera)