SORRY!

So, it has been quite some time since the last time I posted anything. I apologize for that and can only say that I will try harder in the future. It seems as though this time of the year is the hardest for me to get myself together. I am not complaining, I just need to figure out how not to get so overwhelmed this time of year. I am not going to bore you with all that has been going on since I last posted, but I will let you in on what is going on right now.
The kids are LOVING school! Bill took Kylie to her first Carolina Football game last Saturday and she thought it was so much fun! She really enjoyed the band and the cheerleaders and said that her favorite part was when all of the people shouted "WAHOO! Go Tarheels! Go Heels! and then I shook my pom poms!" I wish that I could have been there to watch her, but Bill got that one. Will is growing so fast, and getting so tall! He also is talking up a storm. He makes me laugh so much, I love it!
I am going to my Mammaws house tomorrow and we are going to make the kids halloween costumes. I cannot even begin to tell you how excited I am about this! This is the first time that I have sewn from a pattern and I am pretty sure that I could figure it out, but it is going to be so much more fun doing it with my Mammaw! I will post pictures for you after I get them done.
I am sure that there is a lot more that I have to catch you all up on, but I only had a few minutes and thought I would get something down.
Until next time,
Tiffanie

It's all good!

After my last post, I really tried to re-focus on being more positive. I think I have come to the realization that I make things a lot worse in my head then they could ever be in reality. Last weeks fiasco was me being scared of how "awful" the summer is going to be with Kylie not in school. It really worried me about having no "Tiff Time" scheduled out! I was also wondering what was I going to do with the kids everyday to keep them occupied all summer. Well, we hit the pool Monday morning and the kids were AMAZING!!! I couldn't have dreamed it going better than it did. We followed that with two trips to the pool on Wednesday. One in the morning and then the kids convinced me to take them back after their naps. I am now very excited for the summer. I look forward to hanging out at the pool with the kids and some great friends. I am also loving the free time Kylie and I have together on Tuesday and Thursday while Will is in his Parent's Morning Out Program. As a matter of fact, Kylie woke up on Thursday and the first thing she said was "I sure love Mommy and Kylie mornings! Can I have some chewing gum while Will is at school?" I think she reels me in with the sweet talk and as soon as I am feeling all mushy, she drops the reality on me! Just kidding, I know she loves our special time together as do I.

So, as for the positive thinking, I think it is working. I am also definitely looking forward to the summer and my mornings with Kylie. It looks like I may have to just make more of an effort for "Tiff Time" than I did when they were both in school, but it is definitely worth it! Until next time......Tiffanie

Think positive!!!!

Have you ever had those weeks when you feel like every inch of your being is being tested? This week was one of those weeks for me. I felt like I was being challenged on every front! My kids, who we all know are GREAT kids, were pushing me to my limits. I was doing everything that I could to portray a good mood, even while I was extremely aggitated. Then I start to question myself (those of you who don't have kids yet, watch out because the moment you become a mom you question every single thought or action that you make). Can my kids read my aggitation even while I am trying to portray a light spirit? Are my kids just having a hard time adjusting to being out of school and with me all day every day? I think that it is definitely a mixture of both! So, I am officially over with my pity party! Time to whip myself in shape and get over myself, right? Tomorrow we are going to have a great day, because it is all about thinking positive! I am going to be in a great mood, thus my kids will awaken in a wonderful mood. I am now laying out my self-fulfilling prophecy for tomorrow!

Speaking of tomorrow, it just happens to be my anniversary. Seven years ago tomorrow, I married my best friend! I look back at all of the amazing things that we have accomplished and built for ourselves over the past seven years and I am absolutely astonished! I am so proud of the home that we have built for our marriage and for our family. Fortunately looking at the big picture is all that I need to do sometimes to bring everything into perspective ( I really should try to do that more often). Bill and I are planning to go out to dinner tomorrow night which will be so nice just to have a little alone time with him. I am definitely more in love with him today than I was seven years ago. I am so excited to see how much our love can grow over forever!

Thanks for listening to me gripe and then get all mushy too. But hey, I did post more than once this week! I told you I was going to make an effort. As for my pictures, I still don't know what to do. I think that my driver software needs to be updated or re-installed, but I don't know how to do that. Hopefully, I will take it over to a friend of ours this week and he will fix it right up for me. And then we will have pictures galore! Have a great week everyone! Until next time.....Tiffanie

Sorry!

I guess I really need to apologize! I really wanted this blogging thing to be easy, but I have found that it is nearly impossible to find the time to actually sit down at the computer and get my thoughts down. I am officially making blogging a higher priority. So now, for some of the things that have been going on since Easter.

First of all, my kids seem to grow more and more overnight. I can hardly believe how big they are. They really enjoy playing with each other. It is so sweet to watch Kylie try to get Will to lay down so that she can "put him down for his nap" and to hear them sing songs together. Will is really turning into a little boy (which is kind of tough, because I am realizing that I no longer have a baby). He wants to do EVERYTHING that Kylie does and the things he says are absolutely hilarious.

Will has been talking about his "big boy bed" for several weeks now, and with our beach trip coming up, we thought it would be great to not have to rent a crib. So on Wednesday night, Bill converted his crib to a toddler bed while I was giving the kids their baths. When Will saw his new "big boy bed" he was soooooo excited! He climbed up on it and laid down, he put his blankie on the bed, and he asked his sissie to climb up and sit with him. Bill and I were feeling pretty good about the situation. We sat him on his bed for storytime and read several books before having him lay down so that we could cover him up. Upon lying down he says "I get out!!!" I say "Will, you can't get out of your big boy bed, it is time to go to sleep like a big boy" He followed that comment with "put my crib back NOW!!". Wow, I really wasn't expecting that. So as he is crying for us to put his crib back, Bill is indeed putting the crib back together. And of course as soon as he stops crying about his crib, we put him to bed and then he starts crying for his "big boy bed" back!!! Can you believe this craziness! He is still in his crib and we will obviously be waiting for quite a while before we try that again.

Kylie on the other hand thinks that she is not a little kid anymore. As a matter of fact, I just heard her in the monitor talking to her baby (quite sternly) saying "I am not a little kid and people keep calling me a little kid! Don't they know I am a big girl?!" I am not sure who keeps calling her a little kid, but I don't want to be around the next time it happens. There is no telling what she might say! We also took Kylie to Kings Dominion a couple of weeks ago to see Dora! She had so much fun and she was such a good girl.

I have a billion pictures to download to my computer, but for some reason my computer is not recognizing my camera when I attach the USB. I am working on that right now and I will be sure to post some new pictures very soon! Again, I am so sorry for being so slack with this blog. I am definitely going to work harder to share with you all more often! Have a great weekend!

Until next time.....Tiffanie

Happy Easter!

Today was an amazing day! Easter, I just love it! It is one of my favorite holidays! Let me just tell you that Kylie and Will are both starting to really understand about God and Jesus and that makes me so proud. Last week, as I was reading a story to Will and he stopped me and said, "Mommy, where does Jesus live?" Wow, is he really listening? Yes, he is. After explaining to him that Jesus lives in Heaven in the clouds and that some day Jesus will live in his heart, he seemed quite content. Kylie understands that God made her and all of the things around her, and the other day she asked Bill and I , "Why did God make my legs and my face like this?" How amazing! I love these questions and I love to hear Bill answer these questions. I love that my children are already asking questions and inquiring about God, I hope their love for Him continues to grow and grow!

Of course, the Easter bunny visited our house last night and both kids had already had their chocolate bunnies before we even got dressed for church. I did make them eat a real breakfast first. After church we came back home and hid the eggs that the easter bunny left for them. Here are a few pictures of the egg hunt at home.

After our nap, we headed back to church for an egg hunt there. The kids had so much fun and they had real, live bunnies and chicks for the kids to pet and hold. Here is a picture of Kylie holding a chick. I was shocked that she actually held it.

I also have to be a proud mama one more time in this blog. After the egg hunt at church was over, there was a little boy who got to the egg hunt late and didn't get any eggs. Kylie chose one egg to give the little boy and then she let him pick another egg from her basket that he wanted. Don't get me wrong, there are definitely more times that she does not share than times that she does, but boy was I sooooo proud of her this afternoon. She had no reason to share with this little boy, who we did not know, yet she gave him two of the eggs that she had found. I love being a mommy and seeing some of the values that we as parents try to teach our kids actually play out in real life. I hope that you all had a wonderful Easter! Until next time.....Tiffanie

Cakes, cakes, and more cakes!

Hi everyone! For those of you who don't know, I have recently found an interest in cake decorating. I know, very random, yet I really enjoy it. I decided to take the course because I couldn't find anyone who would do a firetruck birthday cake for Will's 2nd birthday party, so I thought I better learn how to do it myself. I took two courses in cake decorating and I look forward to learning more and more about it. I thought that I would share a few of the cakes with you.

The first cake that I decorated was for my mom's birthday.

It is pretty simple, but it turned out really good.

The next cake I did was the firetruck cake for Will's birthday party.

This one took a while, but it was worth it and it was a huge hit at the party!

I then did a cake for my mammaw's birthday party.

And today, I did a cake for Easter dinner with Bill's family.

I think that this is something that I am really going to enjoy. Oh yeah, and they taste good too! Until next time...Tiffanie

Am I really blogging?

After months of reading the blogs of the people who mean so much to me, I have finally decided to take the plunge into the world of blogging. I hope that this will be a great way for my family and friends to follow my children's lives as well as what is going on in my life. I am very passionate and I hope that this quality comes across in my posts. I can't promise that this is going to be the most gripping blog that you read, but I do promise to share with you my life as it is happening. I hope give you a glimpse of the way my children see this amazing world. I also plan to share with your the accomplishments and challenges I face as a stay home mom trying to raise children who love life and Christ as I do. Please join me as I open the doors to my life and welcome you in. Until next time....Tiffanie