pics from our time in abilene

Pictures from Autumns birthday party, to seeing grandad, leelee, greatgrandmother, to seeing us lose to Abilene High, to all of the other fun things we did in Abilene last week! Thanks mom and dad for much needed relief and all of the fun! and we are so glad to be at home....the last one is of kailyn and her daddy...she is sooo glad to be back in his arms! after being gone over a week, bedtime is of the past...

turning over a new leaf....

okay for the last two years i have been using mary kay and loving it...until...........i went and got a facial here in abilene and she said that my pores are SO clogged...WHAT???? i thought that i was doing everything right. wash face morning and night and USE tons of products???? she said that i need "the basics" to get my face clean soooooo am trying Deborahs Collection...we will see and will keep ya posted! it is allllll aloe and deborah, herself...the owner, showed me how to get my face back in check, so will see!
also cut my hair all off yesterday??? not sure what the deal is. guess i get a little of freedom with FREE babysitters, being my parents and just going nuts!!! having toooo much fun!
if anyone is in abilene and has nothing better to do on a Friday night, go and cheer on the Ryan Raiders... come out to Shotwell Stadium and yell hard. apparently abilene high is really good and considering we are 4A it should be interesting...anyway that is all i have to say

ablilene

spending a week in abilene for some reinforcements w/ kelsey and kailyn...kelsey talks about janson ALL the time and how much she misses him. she is at the age where she understands that he is at work and she is really struggling/regressing. she has even started having some potty accidents again/acting out/disobeying....so hard and confused. we have never had to discipline that much w/ her...she has always been my compliant child. we think she feels rejected b/c he is gone soooo much. at the game last week afterwards she kept telling him that he was going home w/ US and when he went w/ the team she bawled. janson took her out for daddy date on tuesday night at 8pm so trying everything. we only see him mon, tues, and wed night from about 7:30/8 till they go down. am even keeping the girls up late to see him. soooo hard this time of year but know it is just a season. please pray that kelseys and kailyns time w/ him is quality rt. now since it isnt quanity!!!
anyway life in abilene is good. went up to red bud park to walk and ALL kinds of memories came flashing back...flag football was the first and then that HORRIBLE talisam initiation was the second!

Question???

Okay for all of you "experienced" bloggers....i have seen on most peoples blogs they have links to blogs so they can just click and then it takes them to that persons blog...HOW DO YOU DO THAT?????

my little Ryan Raider Cheerleaders!!!

kids, kids, kids...

why do i constantly second guess myself...being a parent is def. the biggest struggle and challenge i have ever faced. kelsey is def. getting into the age where she has a "mind of her own" and likes to share it w/ me. she likes to tell "me" how we are going to do things. uhhhh... i just hate disciplining...it wares me out. i swear i would rather teach a class of 40 7th graders for 3 hours than the emotional stress of trying to explain/discipline my child...kelsey is just so dramatic so anytime i get on to her it is a all out affair...for example...let me take you all to yesterday in Target...i am trying to get a few things and go. kelsey sees a pink princess shirt from afar (two things that are huge on her list:pink and princess) here we go....so she notices the shirt and starts saying from the cart pllllleeeeaaaaassssseeee...I HAVE to have that shirt. I say, no. She procedes to cry. It is just like that kid in the store that I would see and think "gosh look at that kid"...so then i tell her if she doesn't hush she will get a spanking. she procedes to cry even more for the shirt. off to the bathroom... as we are walking to the bathroom she is yelling "don't spank me"...seriously i got some serious looks from people. get to the bathroom, spank her, love on her and try to calm her down....nope it doesn't work...after 20 min. in the Target bathroom we leave (i also have kailyn w/ me) she, kelsey, procedes to wine/cry through the check out line....uh...so embarrassing. love being a mom but wow does it test your patience.

Coming clean...

okay so i have to admit to my little addiction that has turned into an obsession....I LOVE going to garage sells. I just can't explain it...you get such a rush when you run up to a sale and rummage through someone elses "stuff" and then especially if you find something for a GREAT deal...whether you need it or not or for that case even know what it really is??? UH... I mean it is hard for me to sleep on friday nights b/c if there is any chance i can slip out and go to a garage sell before janson leaves to go watch film i am there...i mean i am the 7 am garage seller...what have i turned in to? i know on one hand i am defending myself and then on the other i have a issue. then if you really must know i have another small obsession....yes, peoples trash. did i just really say that? okay my neighbors throw away perfectly good stuff and i can not help but to take it. this week i got a ficus tree...it is gorgous and they were going to throw it away??? what is wrong w/ them...or should i say what is wrong w/ me. if janson knew that the other day i was getting out of the car to put a 7 feet ficus tree in the car which was hanging out of the window he would die. one time i got a chair...my mom recovered it and everything... i know sounds crazy. janson always tells me that something is not a good deal if you never needed it in the first place...he is partly right but it just gives me such a thrill...what a relief to get my addiction/obsession out there!

my thoughts...

okay so just throwing this out there to the "blogger world". I have been doing some thinking and just have to say that I am so proud and thankful for the path God has given me. The other night I was looking through blogs of all different people that I knew from high school to college to now and I have to say THANK YOU to all of you that have played a part in my life because ultimately that makes me who I am. Knowing Jesus and just the reward and pleasure in that is so amazing and I think back to all of those that I have been in contact with and everything and everyone has been a part of me getting to this place where I can truly be who I am and be SO proud of every bit of that. You will have to forgive my emotions right now but am just so thankful for ALL of my friends, new and old! It is just so funny how God gives us this path and you think you could and can conquer the world alone until you finally realize just how short and precious life is. I see friends having babies, getting new jobs, getting married and I just can't help to give God the Glory in being a part of all of that and in him letting me have a taste of all of this in my life. I have lived such a precious and blessed life. I know Jesus Christ and how much he loves me and you, have had two beautiful, healthy children, and have married the man of my dreams. thank you thank you and thank you!