I’m guest blogging over at Christie’s craft blog… A Lemon Squeezy Home.

I’m showing you how to change this:

Into something totally cute!

Check it out!  If you haven’t seen her craft blog yet, go take a look around!

Not only was it Ashley’s birthday a week ago… I’m not even doing her birthday post yet.  That’s bad enough, but to make things worse…

Amanda had a birthday 4 weeks ago!  Did I post about it!?! 

NO!

Am I lame or what!

So since I haven’t done Ashley birthday photo shoot yet, here’s Amanda’s!

Like I mentioned, Amanda had a birthday 4 weeks ago.  She’s 4 years old!  I can’t believe my baby is getting so big!  I keep telling my kids that they can’t grow up.  They don’t like that idea very much.

Amanda is such a sweetheart!  She’s shy but daring, quiet but oh so smart!  She absolutely loves one-on-one time and her giggles are just the cutest thing every!

Thankfully she still has one more year of preschool left.  I don’t know what I’m going to do when she’s all grown up and in Kindergarten.  So sad to think about.

(Jana, recognize that blue chair?  You might if it were still it’s normal wood color.  That’s one of the chairs you gave us with that dining room set many years ago when I got married!  The other 3 chairs in that set are going to be painted “apple green”, “lilac” and “blush”.)

Working on these pictures I realized I must like her profile cause I took a lot of them!

Skipping!

I don’t know how many cameras have this cool feature, but mine has “continuous” shooting.  Basically, as long as I’m holding down the shutter button and so long as there’s room on the card, it’ll take 4 pictures a second!

So, here’s a little action slide show that I used that feature on!  I think it’s cute!

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This is my favorite shot of the “spinning” pictures.  I love how her hair is fanning out!

HAPPY (late) BIRTHDAY AMANDA!

WE LOVE YOU!

I sure did!  It was fun having everyone over for dinner!  Sorry you missed it Christie.

So what did I get for Mother’s day!?!  I got these beautiful things!

Amanda made me this!

Ashley and Eden made me cards with sweet thoughtful things written in them.

As much as I love beautiful flowers…

I love what Paul didn’t get me for Mother’s Day.  Let me explain.  I asked Paul how much I could spend on him for Father’s Day and he said $10, so I put a limit on Mother’s Day.  He could only spend $10 on me.

He got me this… (stinker)

(it’s an ipad,  the batteries are there for size reference)

…but it was more than $10, so when he gave it to me, I got mad and told him that I could spend whatever I wanted on him for Father’s day.  He said “That’s not your Mother’s day gift.”  I asked what it was for and he said “I got it for you just because I love you.”

Isn’t he a stinker.

I don’t know if I like reading on it or not.  I prefer the feel of a book and pages in my hand and being able to see the progress I’m making on the book.  But the book I’m reading at the moment is a collection of books by 2 authors all bound in one huge book.  We’re talking bigger and thicker and larger and heavier than a regular size scripture quad (the print in the book is about the same size as scripture print too).  So reading on the ipad has its advantages, but I don’t think it’ll replace actual books for me.

It props up for easy use while your eating or doing other things.  And the screen locks so if you want to lay on your side to read or do stuff on it, the screen won’t rotate on you if you lock it!

The girls have used it more than I have though.  There are several games and doodle apps. that they love to play with.

Thank you Paul for my beautiful flowers!  And thanks for being a stinker and getting me an ipad too!

Ashley had her EEG test today at the neurologist.

Last night I stayed up with Ashley till midnight (well, she went to bed just after midnight and I wasn’t able to go to bed till 1:00.)  Paul got up with her at 4:00 and then I took her to the appointment.

They hooked her up with wires stuck all around her head and wrapped her head up like a mummy.

(sorry for the blurry picture, it was taken with a cell phone)

Then they had her do a few things like… close her eyes for 10 seconds, then open them for 10 seconds, and repeated that several times.  Then they handed her a pinwheel and told her to do short quick blows on it for 3 minutes.  Basically they wanted her to hyperventilate.

After those tests they turned the lights off and told her she had 30 minutes to fall asleep.  Since she had had less than 4 hours of sleep, I assumed it wouldn’t be a problem for her.  I was wrong.

The machine they had in the room monitoring her would get really loud for about 30 seconds and then would be quiet for about 3 minutes, then would get really loud, and then quiet.  It did that the whole time.  Another problem, the room was about 20 feet from the reception desk/waiting area, so you could hear everything that was going on.  For about 10 minutes there was a little boy (sounded like he was right outside the door) yelling and talking so loudly.

Needless to say, Ashley didn’t fall asleep.  I don’t blame her, I wouldn’t have been able to either.

After 30 minutes of trying to fall asleep, the  nurse came in and did a strobe light test on Ashley, that lasted about 2 minutes.

The nurse hopes we got what the doctor needed, but if not, we might have to go in again to redo the test.  It was so frustrating!

The funny thing is, on the way to the appointment, I had to really work at keeping Ashley awake.  But on the way home, she was wide awake and didn’t want to sleep.  So here it is, just after 1:00 and she’s finally zonked.

All told, I got just over 5 hours of sleep, and I think Paul got about 5 hours of sleep.  But unfortunately, we don’t get naps today.  I’m really hoping we don’t have to do it again, but if we do… I’m bringing a blanket from Ashley’s bed, her pillow, and a floor fan.  She’s really used to sleeping with a constant white noise, so hopefully it’ll help.

We won’t know the test results till Monday.  Hopefully they got what they needed, and hopefully, they don’t find anything wrong with her.  We’ll keep you posted!

Right now, I need some advice.

Let me set the stage…

Last Sunday during singing time in Primary, Ashley passed out and had (what looked like) a seizure.  It’s never happened before and hasn’t happened since.  After several tests, and a referral to a neurologist… here’s my problem.

The neurologist wants to do a test on Ashley that monitors her brain functions while she’s waking up. She doesn’t have to stay at the hospital or anything, that would be too easy.

Instead the neurologist told us to keep her awake till midnight and then wake her up at 4:00 in the morning, and keep her awake till test time at 8:15!

So, does anyone know how the heck I’m supposed to keep her awake for 4 hours, when she’s only had 4 hours of sleep?  Especially during the 40 minute drive to the hospital?  Oh yeah, and she’s not allowed to eat any sugary stuff either.

Thanks!

For Christmas last year, Santa promised the girls he would bring them a trampoline as soon as the weather stopped snowing.  Well, he did!

And the girls have been loving it!

(Love Mandy’s tongue)

(Eden decided to do a “snow” angel)

(crazy people)

(gravity defying hair)

Eden drew a picture of it!

On a totally different (or at least somewhat different) topic, Paul had a birthday last week!  I know, I’m a lame wife for not blogging about it sooner.  But, in my defense, I got him a great gift… one that he’s been talking about since before Christmas of last year.

I had to get him to promise to help me pick it out, before I told him what it was.  He promised and I then told him I wanted to get him the sculpting supplies he’s been wanting.  I had no clue what he would need or where to get it or the type of tools, or anything.  At least I got him a gift I knew he would love.

Happy late birthday dear!  I love you with all my heart!

The girls waiting to start the egg hunt!

I wanted the Easter Bunny to hide the eggs in our living room, but since we had just gotten rid of our entertainment center that morning, there was a huge mess in that room.  TV stuffs, movies, books boxes, cords… all over the floor.  So we had to settle on one of the only clean rooms in the house that day.

Since there weren’t too many hiding spots for the eggs, most of them were easy to find.

These blocks (below) I made!  The other side says “Spring”!

I saw this idea here and just had to do it too!

I didn’t feel like making their dresses this year.  The dresses I made last year still fit them, but the lining I sewed into it shrunk and that made a mess of things.  I still need to fix that, and totally plan on fixing it this week.  Oh well, the girls still loved their dresses!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!

On Saturday she had a bunch of friends over for a Princess Party!  On Sunday our whole family got together and celebrated her birthday, and yesterday, our small family celebrated!

I swear this girl is clairvoyant or something.  We gave her the presents in the evening, but earlier that day, she drew a picture of herself with all the presents she was getting.  You could see what the presents where, and she drew every single present we had gotten her! We hadn’t given any clues or said anything about them, but for some reason, she knew exactly what they were!  Thankfully she was still surprised and happy when she opened them.

I have pictures of her parties, but today I’m just posting her annual birthday photo shoot!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EDEN!  WE LOVE YOU!

I’ll admit I’m somewhat addicted to blogs.  Not my own (evidenced by the fact that I haven’t blogged in almost a month), but to other peoples blogs.  I love checking all the creative project people do.  When I see one I’d like to do, I bookmark it and that’s usually it.  I have a huge long “bookmark” list of projects I might eventually do some day, but yesterday, I actually did one!

I got the idea HERE.  So if you want a full tutorial on it, go check out her site!

Here’s mine!  It cost me $1.50 total.  Now, it took almost 2 hours for me to get it done and I want to make several more for different spots around the house, but for now, here’s mine!

I have lots of projects I’d like to post about and some pictures of the girls, but for now, this will have to do.

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Number 17 is:

Xazmin said: 2010.02.15 20:28

I’m here for my second entry!!

Congrats Xazmin!!!

I’ll be emailing you so we can get things worked out!

Thanks to everyone who entered!  I seriously thought no one would be interested, but you guys proved me wrong!

Thanks again!