Are we Inappropriate?

So over the years we have had the privlegde of being a part of many wonderful small groups. Loved loved! Each "good" group has been able to laugh, cry, grieve, rejoyce and celebrate together. Through these different relationships one thing has remained constant. The inappropriate jokes and banter. It seems to follow C and I to each group that we are a part of. Could we possibly be the instigators? Impossible! glad that is solved.
In other news Vincent Ruiz was deemed GUILTY in the paper today! Woot! 5 murders= life in prison. In my opinion he has had the last 22 years to "live" while snuffing out the lives of those young men so many years ago. Praise God, justice is served.
Lou woke up sick this morning. She came out and layed on couch a couple hours ago and seems to be on the mend now. Praise God! I do not like sickies. I really dont want to get sick with a bun in the oven ya know.
Last night C and I spent two hours wrapping presents and we are still not finished, bleck! I will wrap his gifts today. The thing I am most proud of is this special battery I got him for his phone! He never reads my blog, so I knew it would be safe putting it here. I also got him some "chocolate wine" aka "Reah in a cup", bleck, our fav movie 4 Christmases , and an "air hog" . Hilarious that last one. Becuase he has really wanted one and I fear that it will break within a matter of minutes after him "playing" with it. Boys and toys I tell ya. Craziness.

Only Got a Minute

Operation Winter Break is in full effect. Yesterday we didnt do anything spectacular but we went to the club in the morning and grocery shopped afterward. It has been a while since I have shopped with all three girls and I must say, it is difficult. There is constantly someone asking for something, someone hanging from under the cart, and someone asking if she can mark the next thing off the list. There is something to be said for kidless shopping, can I get a woot?!
The girls and I dipped pretzels on Sunday and that was a good start to Christmas fun. Today we will go to moms at some point to "check the quality" of her double decker fudge and nanimo bars. Be still my heart I wait all year for those yummy items. Yum-o. Today I am taking the girls swimming too. I may not want to be seen in a swimming suit much longer so I better get it in while I can. I figured it is 25 degrees out today, why not swim? Anywho, this is one of the things on my list that I wanted to check off. Taking the girls swimming, check.
Also on the list for their break we are making sugar cookies and decorating them, getting daddy a gift, yelling at the Tri City herald, and possibly taking them sledding. I will not be sledding however b/c of said human inside. next year. Ok, out of time, peace!

Last Day

This is that last day of school for the big girls before Christmas break. I am soooo looking forward to having them home for the next two weeks. The more "seasoned" I get the more I appreciate them. I have more of an appreciation for the time in which God has entrusted me with them. It is fleeting. Mothers, you know what I am talking about. My oldest is 10.....how is that possible? And I am having a baby? Crazy!
Tonight is our small group Christmas party and I am incredibly excited. It has been a while since we have been all together. Our group split for a study, but I will be happy to have everyone together tonight. These people are family. Tonight we will eat (of course, Baptist roots you know), have accountability, play some bunco and of course do the white elephant gift exchange. My heart loves the gift exchange because personally no gift exchange is complete without a thong in my opinion. No one wants to open our gift because they know my humor. Oh well, someone will get stuck with it. Hilarious!
Our weeks have been busy but fun. C and I had an impromptu lunch date this week at China Cafe. Loved. I was giddy that we were kidless, on a date, and it was midday. Anyway, we got to debrief and enjoy some yummy stuff. Sidenote*(*****when discussing things that I like to eat and he doesnt, two items are chineese food stuff, soy sauce and chow mein. I was blown away. Married 12 years and I just found this out. The only thing I dont like that he does is saurkraut. EEW*****
Ok, off to start my day!

Christmas Favorites

The girls were beaming the other night as we put up the Christmas tree. They had been waiting ever since Thanksgiving to do this and it was a look of sheer joy as we got all the special ornaments out of the boxes and gently placed them on the tree. Each year we forget about all the beautiful things they have made untill we get them out again. It is so cute to see the artwork ornaments, dough things they have baked in school, and old pictures of them dangling from the branches. Oh how they change and how time flies. I can hardly believe that we will be doing this with a fourth child next year. It continually blows my mind.
As I was helping Lou wash her hair last night I was smiling thinking about bathing a baby at first in the sink and eventually graduating to the tub. We are going back to square one in the child raising game. Wowza. We get to travel through all the fun stages one more time with this fourth child. God sure has some confidence in our child raising abilities to trust us with another, blessed is how I feel fo' sho.
Here are some of the things I like to do this month:

Annual Cookie Exchange
Decorating
Making cookies with kids
Ugly sweater contest at church
Time with extended family
Christmas music
Movies
Its A Wonderful Life
The Holiday
The FAmily Stone
Driving through Christmas Carol Lane
Food!

Ding, ding!

Wow, the kids were in rare form this morning. I have yet to determine if it was me being less patient, or them being crazy. We are going to error on the side of them being crazy. Every few seconds there was a different argument to be quashed or fight over a hair product (yes, welcome to the world of girls). Wowza, I am exhausted and I just got up. It is going to be a busy day!
Zumba fridays are one of my fav's so I am looking forward to that, however after the emotional conflict this morning part of me just wants to go crawl back in bed and let Lou run the house. Im sure I will go as it is my release for the morning. I will feel accomplished "shaking what my momma gave me" afterward.
Lou plays a game each morning where she thinks she needs second breakfast at about 8:15. ( I know Amy, some people arent up for another hour, little lone eating a first breakfast, whatever) She will tell me what she wants and I get it for her. When she comes to eat it (almost every time without fail) she claims that is not what she wanted and so usually takes a bite and is done. Huge pet peeve, food wasting. I am not getting her something different today and I hear her spoon happily clanging against her bowl so, food score, Lou 0- me 1. Boom! Let the games begin.
After literally walking Alli through picking up her room and getting ready I did not have time to pack her lunch. So, she did it. I loved that. She is totally capable and I made sure she put great stuff in there. This might be a regular occurance now that I know she can totally do this. Lunch score Alli 0- me 1, boom again.
Rant over!

Woman on the Edge

3-6pm are not great hours for me. The human inside has been dictating what smells good, looks good, ect. This poses a problem when cooking for the family b/c it is not getting done. I will eat a hamburger patty but cannot prepare it right now. Fried chicken sounds good but I will not go buy a bucket. Any other type of chicken is horrid. I had to have C air freshen the room one night because I could smell lingering chicken smells from dinner, bleck!

In other news, the Tri City Herald is ticking me off. We get one paper everyday (in theory) and two extras on Sunday. My carrier has fallen down on the job ever since there was snow on the ground. I think we are going on two weeks now. Geesh! I have probably gotten my paper half of the time in the last two weeks. My repeated calls to the herald have had no resolution. So, I have a call into a manager today we will see how that goes. I will have to hold back the inner witch as I can get hostile with bad service.....be a good witness.....be a good witness.... be a good witness. Rant over~!

C had " the talk" with our 7 year old last night. I texted my bestie and said, "kill me now". I just disappear when convos like that come up. So thankful that he is poised to handle conversations like that becuase I am so not! As I walked thru the room at one point I hear something about HIV and Alli gasp and say, " Is mommy going to die?" Time out, did he somehow say that I had HIV? Wowza. Come to find out he was talking about why Gods plan for marriage and that got somehow on the topic of STD's. Heavy and not my department.

I am decorating a cake with my bestie today for her sons birthday. Slightly nervous because it is a Mario Bros. theme and well, I am not sure how talented we are to be honest. I guess I will take pictures of it and if we fail.....Costco cakes are $15 right?

blogger fast

Not really, but it feels like I have been fasting from blogging. I have been coming to terms with the impending human that I am harboring. It was not real to me until last week when we had and ultrasound and I saw a heartbeat. Wowza, I am really doing this. I truly thought that we were done with the baby stage. I sold or gave away everything that I had collected over the years. Chris is totally stoked. I have never seen him so excited about us having a child. He is treating me like a princess (rightly so).
When I am pregnant I feel incredibly special. I had forgotten this a bit. I love having a baby inside and eagerly await the feeling of him/her kicking. Rivaling a close second is the nursing piece. Love love. So excited for these things.

Current likes/ passions:

Family time/ game night
Eclipse.....its out!
Meat
Anything fried lately
Bruno Mars
Crossview
Small group
Superwoman/ supergirl (lol)
my droid phone
my three girls
my friends
zumba
chocolate
the baby!
our home, very blessed
couponing
Christmas shopping
Craft Warehouse