My Angel Food Helper

Saturday night while I was out the Julie Gene called and told me that Lynzi wanted to play "Angel Food". She got out her baby's bunk bed...used it as a table and got some "menus" and said, "Ok lets take some orders." Strawberry Shortcake is getting a good deal on some food! Too cute!

To find a Angel Food Ministries host site near you visit www.angelfoodministries.com

The Weekend

Friday....let's see...we went to the library to get some movies for the evening. I met Gene and Lynzi there after getting off work. There is a little table with a coloring book and crayons for kids to sit and color while mom and dad are picking out movies. I decided to venture over and look at books about...of course...you guessed it...scrapbooking. Every time I turned around Lynzi was right there (not coloring)...ok, fine. However....when it was time to leave she threw a big fit! She wanted to color. TOO LATE NOW! I had to pick her up and carry her out kicking and screaming. The reason she told me she was crying..."I wanted to give the picture to daddy!" She has never acted like this. I taught her long ago..."if you throw a fit when we leave, we won't come back. " She then was upset that she didn't get to pick out a movie. "When you don't mind you don't get special things." Hard lessons!

Saturday... we all slept in . So nice! Then Lynzi and I went to the Muncie Children's Museum with our friends Karen and Sydney. The last Saturday of the month is free day. We try to go each month, however Karen and Sydney are much better at that than we are. Since I work with Angel Food ministies 2 Saturdays out of the month it is hard to make it there. While we were there the girls got video taped by the Muncie Star Press Newspaper. Karen and I were briefly interviewed. The videographer told us it was for their website. Saturday was the first day for a new exhibit.
"Chagall for Children" offers kids (and adults) the chance to explore the whimsical and abstract world of Marc Chagall, the world-renowned Impressionist artist. -Star Press

It was a lot of fun! However, when it was time to leave...you guessed it...Lynzi threw a fit! The fit only happens after she has not obeyed me and I physically make her do what I told her to do. Where has this come from all of a sudden??

Saturday evening I went to Muncie with my good friend, Julie. We went to Olive Garden and did some shopping. While there my sister in Wisconsin called and said she was leaving for Indiana in the morning. Her biological father was in the hospital and they did not expect him to make it through the weekend. Later my other sister called sobbing that he had passed away about 8pm. Therefore my sister did not make it to the hospital to see him. I am sad for my sisters and plan to spend a few days with them.

Sunday. We had a pastoral vote today and it looks like we will have this pastor for 4 more years! Which it also means I still have my job. When a pastor leaves, technical the whole staff leaves and has to be "rehired". After church I took a 2 hour nap. ALWAYS GOOD!

One day closer to Friday

Yay! It is almost Friday...the weekend is coming! It is a weekend where Gene is off ...so that is great! It is a weekend where we have no plans...so that is greater. It is a weekend where I might get some scrapbooking done...that is the greatest!

Our week--

Lynzi-her finger is getting better. When I picked her up at school I was sharing with her teacher that she got a headstart on the letter O this past weekend. (My mom got her a subscription to HIGH FIVE a magizine for 2-6 yr olds. The older version is HIGHLIGHTS.) In there was a story about the letter O. Her teacher said, "She doesn't need a head start on anything. She is past ready for Kindergarten." Makes a mommy feel proud!

Gene-worked Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday. He is really liking his new job. He has been asked to do pictures for the Sheriff's department. So he is excited about that.

LeeAnne- I got lots of cleaning done this week. I took Monday off and I am off on Wednesdays. This week has been a short work week....always good! lol I am planning on going to dinner with a friend of mine one night this weekend. That will be fun!

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

I HAVE TITLES NOW!

Thanks to Morgan I got to looking into details on the blog...I now found out how to put a title on my blog entries! I know, little things make me happy! Give me time I will change something else!

Bath and Ballet

Here is a picture of Lynzi taking a bath this evening. She was just singing away....just making up songs about making grapes. She had a bowl and some play grapes. I didn't have the heart to tell her grapes grew on vines. She had an audience as you can see. After the cat crawled on the edge and put his front paws on the faucet I got a cup a water and poured it on him. He just stood there for while until he realized what had happened. He slowly ran away....and oddly enough...we never saw him again during bathtime!

Today Lynzi had ballet. We paid for her costumes for the recital in June. One song they will wear plain leotards with a chefs hat and apron. For the other song she will be wearing this....

They will not be wearing the gloves and will be wearing black tap shoes instead of white. She will look cute, of course, and I can't wait to see her in it!

Can you believe 10 minutes before this picture she was throwing a huge fit! She was at church and she wanted mommy to go away and she wanted to stay at church with Tammy, her Wednesday night teacher. After getting home I asked her why she wanted Tammy and not mommy. She said, "Because Tammy takes care of me." I asked her if she was mad at me or didn't want me to be her mommy anymore. She said, no she wasn't mad and yes she wanted me to be her mommy. I think her teacher Tammy showed her attention and probably made the other kids jealous of her and she liked it! LOL She looks fine here! Well almost fine. She loves being pampered over her finger. And...i am doing it to a point. She wanted me to feed her her mac and cheese because she couldn't get off the couch to get to her table and chair. I said, "Your butt isn't hurt...it is your finger. You can get in your chair." It isn't the hand she writes with so she fed herself just fine...and ate it ALL up! Now she is in our bed...crying...stopping...crying stopping....

Emotions!

Well, today I read our friends' blog. I normally read it at night before I go to bed...but the last 2 nights I went to bed earlier than usual...and didn't. Well, Baby Kate is our friends' 18 month baby girl. She just underwent her 4th heart surgery right before Christmas. The drs said it didn't hurt or help her heart. However, Monday they told them they have exhausted their options and they were just pretty much doing what they could to make her comfortable in the hospital. So, Tuesday morning she passed away in mommy's arms at 10:30am. If you could find room in your prayers to remember this family. Baby Kate has stayed more of her life in the hospital then she had at home. Andy and Krista, our friends, have thanked God for all the blessings he has given them throughout all this. Andy is Gene's college friend. He was in our wedding and Gene in his. Krista is our friend...and mostly Gene's favorite opponent when playing games. It is very entertaining watching them play games. They are both competitive! LOL We really love these guys and hurt for them! If you would like to read more about Kate's life you can read it at http://www.layman4.blogspot.com/ . You truly will be blessed.

Not that my emotial day compares to theirs...but today after reading about Baby Kate...and crying....I went downstairs and told Gene the news. Then I said, "We are going Bowling!" He was like "Why?" I said, "Dont ask any questions...we are going bowling!" And...being the obeying husband that he is ...again he asked, "Why?" GRR!

Later I finally told him..."Lynzi has been wanting to go Bowling and I have been using the lame excuse that I don't want to spend the money on that. You never know if you will have a chance to do it tomorrow!" So we went to pick up Lynzi from school and take her to the Bowling Alley. When I got out to put Lynzi in her seat she said, "Do you know what we made today? We made a heart!" How appropriate!

We didn't get thru 3 frames and Lynzi slipped in her fashionable bowling shoes and fell with the bowling ball landing on her first finger. Her finger is all black and blue. She is never sick and never gets hurt...so I KNEW she was hurt. The lady working in the concession gave her a plastic glove with ice in it and Lynzi wanted NOTHING to do with that. I was hiding the tears back when I couldn't take the hurt away. Then I thought..."I have been dealing with this for 5 minutes....not 1 1/2 years like Krista has. I can't even imagine!" So let the tears begin!

We get home and I go to get some Tylenol out of the cabinet...and like I mentioned earlier...she is never sick or hurt...all the meds were expired. So I had to run to the grocery to get more Tylenol.

She is doing much better now. I don't think I can handle another emotion today!

A loss for words!

Ok, just one word is lost. Remember my favorite things I got for Christmas? Words to Go was on the list. I got 2 boxes of 4500 words for my scrapbooking. Well I was scrapping and got to this page of Lynzi in her ballet leotards. In a couple of the pictures she is laughing. So I thought I would put a bunch of words on the page about ballet...and decided I needed a word....GIGGLE! So I ripped open one of the containers of words.............and just stared! lol
Then it became a game. Some of the words stuck together were kinda humorous...like..."Doughnut/Gabfest". Each piece has 2 words. One on the front and one on the back. Being that Gene and I got married in November...I thought it was neat that one of the pieces had "November" on one said and "Promises" on the other.
Needless to say....I gave up before finding "giggle". I didn't empty the whole container. When looking in it...I saw I didn't even have half of them out yet! WHEW!

Yesterday I spent the whole day cleaning house. I have been ignoring it forever! I haven't been scrapping because I felt bad for scrapping when other things needed to be done. So today....I scrapped! I did have time to do 2 pages last night, but today/tonight I did 6 pages! Here are a couple layouts.

Mother's Day 2007 (See how behind I am!!!)

Lynzi and Payton at the preschool end-of-the-year picnic. The L and P are representing Lynzi and Payton "hanging" together.

Blessings!
Here are some dresses that a little girl at church gave Lynzi. There was a bag full of them that Payton's grandma and I went through and chose what we wanted. I have told this girl's mom that I love her clothes and that when she was done with them I would buy them from her! They are so cute!

Here is a cute sweater!

A Cute Tommy Hilfiger dress.

This dress has a princess on it.

This was my favorite!

This as my second favorite! It is a pastel teal color with glittery flowers on the waist. It will match my Easter dress from last year!