I never blogged about Elijah's birthday party last weekend. He had a little friend from preschool come over, and they had a blast! The boys love this mechanical car thing that Thomas got for his birthday a year ago. Elijah was sweet enough to let his pal, Drew, drive first. A feat which was not only very entertaining to watch, but also slightly life-threatening! He drove them straight through the lower branches of the tree in the yard (luckily no one was injured), half under the trampoline, and there were at least 4 near misses with running over people!







Despite the car perils, the kids all had a lot of fun!











He requested a fireman cake, and that's what he got! You'll also note, that my awesome birthday wrapping paper was missing and the only paper I could find to wrap his gifts was Christmas tree paper! I figure, it at least matches the evergreen trees on the cake! ha. I couldn't find fireman treat bags, so everyone got Spongebob. It was quite the hodgepodge of themes. The cake plates were Thomas the Train.





All in all, I think he enjoyed the day!

Mother's Day and Baby News

I had a great Mother's Day! The boys made some really cute things at school and at church. Steven got me a gift certificate to our kitchen store here, and well, that's about as perfect a gift as I could hope for! I cannot wait to use it!!


In an update, the "ring test" for the baby turns out to be FALSE for me! We're having another boy!



And there's the proof! I sort of thought I might really want a girl this time, but after having a bit of a worry over a flagged risk factor for Down Syndrome in my routine blood work, I was just so happy and relieved that the baby is healthy with no apparent markers of Down Syndrome or any other chromosomal abnormality. I was excited to see that healthy baby squirming around, and we felt so blessed. There wasn't even a single moment of disappointment!


Look at him, he's already pondering life's mysteries! We've decided to name him Oliver Henry. We can't wait to meet him and see if he looks like any of his brothers!

Someone reminded me about this blog today . . .

So I thought I'd blog here. :D

Monday I have an ultrasound, and we're hoping to find out if we're having another sweet little boy, or if we'll get a little girl this time. It's very hard for me not to know. I like to plan. I'm a planner. Planning is important when you have 4 almost 5 children. I want to buy something for this baby. Something, anything at all! I haven't purchased one single thing yet. Saturday I'll be 20 weeks, that's halfway there.

As an experiment, Ruby and I did the ring on a string test today. You put your wedding ring on a string and hold it over your wrist. Wait til it becomes completely still then watch it. If it goes in a circle, your first child is a boy, if it's back and forth, it's a girl. Wait for it to slow to a stop, then when it starts again that's your second child and so on. It's supposed to stop completely after your last child. Ruby held it for me the first time, and it said 4 boys then a girl. The second time I did myself, after she left, and it was the same. The third time was down the hall in front of two other witnesses (lol) and it still said 4 boys and then one girl. Crazy! We'll see on Monday if the ring on a string test proves accurate. ha.

I'll try to remember to update this blog and let you know!

I have 3 meetings at work today, Yuck! I do love this poster though. I'd like to frame it and hang it in my office.

How are things going bloggers? I'm never over here but I thought I'd pop in to say hello today.

So, hello!

So, I was eating a snickers bar today, thinking about how I'd like to lose some weight. Hey, we all do what we can, right? And I was thinking that I really just need to start exercising. It's just that, well, I'm not sure where to fit that in. I'm not totally dissatisfied with my body, in fact, I only have one or two small "problem areas" that I'd like to be smaller. Mostly I don't want people to look at me and think I'm pregnant when I'm not. I hate it when that happens. It dumps my self-confidence in the toilet for a week!

I'm working 40 + hrs a week, raising kiddos, and trying to stay sane. After 4 babies and 4 csections, there's only so much "thin" a body has left. I've almost depleted my supply. I look at those charts with the "ideal" weight for my height and I laugh and think about what kind of skeletal person is walking around weighing THAT? Not only am I not going to be a size 2, well, I never was a size 2. And I was not fat, back in the day. But I also wasn't a size 2.

So, if you read and pay attention, what do you do to stay in shape?

An Update for the forgotten Blog . . . .

That would be THIS blog. What can I say? Between facebook, xanga, and even occasionally myspace I forget I have a blog over here. But I do.

I'll give a brief update of what's going on with me. Well, working a lot, and enjoying summer with the boys. They're all enjoying swimming lessons, (except for Isaac, but when he's 2 or 3 we'll let him go too).

I got a new office chair. I'm not really a zebra print gal, but I do love this chair. And it's super comfy! What do you think?

March Madness

It's March Madness around here! Alex and Thomas will be going to Texas with their grandparents this week, while they're on Spring Break. They'll leave on Thursday. I'll miss them!


What's going on around here lately?? I'll update in pictures. I got a hair cut two weeks ago. I also had my eyebrows waxed.
I've only had that done once before. My stepsister Hope told me once, "once you get your eyebrows done, you'll love it!" She was right. I do love it.








Isaac turned 1 year old in January, can you believe it? I can't. It's been a fast year. He's chuggin' right a long. He's got an ear infection right now, in both ears. But he's being a trooper, and since he got some medicine yesterday, he actually slept all night last night. That hasn't happened in over a week!








Thomas had a field trip with his class to see Busytown at the Arkansas Arts Center/Children's Theater. It was cute. We wore our matching field trip shirts and had a ball.






Incidentally, next month will be my 2 year anniversary with Blogger. I only started this to leave comments, and it shows. I only have made 7 posts in that time and have received 0 comments. Way to go me! lol