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