Dear Santa... I want....

What a week it has been!  I haven't' been able to work all week cause my lil man has been sick and can't go to daycare.  He's a handful let me tell you!  I think my arms have stretched 3 inches cause all he's wanted was to be in momma's lap and arms at all times.

Today, I thought we'd get creative on this OH SO COLD December morning as we wait on the snow to arrive.  I prepared a page for him to write Santa a letter telling him all he wanted.  Don't you just love all he's asked for (tee hee).

Don't you just love how he doesn't match.  That was a fight I wasn't going to win.  He insisted on sponge bob pants and his truck shirt! 

Itty Bitty Wibbit

Talon found a baby frog. It was soooo tiny that I can't say I've ever seen one so itty bitty.


ZZ had to hold it too. We let him loose and Talon said "Wibbit Bye Bye."

2 Bits 4 Bits....

Today was a one day Cheer Camp teaching the girls two cheers that they'll perform on Friday's game. I'm so proud of Linsey. She's been working an entire month on stretching and trying to do the splits. She was just beaming.

Goooo ZZ!

Happy Easter!

I wanted to share a picture Linsey (ZZ) drew for Easter and gave to me this morning. She drew the bunny's head similar to a heart. Linsey is 8yrs old and I think she's quiet the creative lil artist!

Huggies,

Dear Santa...

I wanted to share some family pics tonight. I took the two kiddos to see Santa. Talon wasn't too fond of him, but he didn't cry he just kinda scowled at him. That was funny to watch.

I took this just before we left:

I couldn't ask for a better Christmas present than to see those two smiles on my babies faces.

It's a Family Tradition....

When Linsey was born I started an ornament tradition with her. Each year I purchased an ornament that depicted "her". Now that she's older, I let her pic one out and she chose this one because she said she's now a Sister (and a good one at that!).

And she helped me pick out this one for Talon. She said momma since's he's one, let's get this one, so I did.

Snow Today... Gone Tomorrow

I've been a little busy getting the kiddos Christmas items together and working on new designs that I've forgotten to write you.

It so very hard to believe but we actually got SNOW the other night!!! I was about 7yrs old the last time it snowed enough throw snowballs at each other. What a special blessing this was. I woke Linsey up at 4:30 in the morning all excited to show her the flurries falling. She was so excited that she teared up. She's such a sentimental little girl. As soon as the sun came up I bundled her up and she and I went outside to have some fun. It was sooo beautiful, so pure, so COOOLD! Burrr. It's not that often we get cold weather like this in southeast Texas. Sweetpea made her first snowball and snowman. We only got 3" of snow so that's not much to make a larger Frosty. I remember that when it snowed when I was a kid of her age, we scraped the top off and ate it. I let Sweetpea taste it too.

We had a really good time together that morning then it was off to school. I let her be late to experience this once in a lifetime event here in Texas. The saddest part of it all is that it was all gone by the evening but the memories will last a lifetime. I hope Linsey gets to share a snow day with her children one day and tell them the time her mommy let her be late for school so she could spend time with her. I've been praying for a "sign" that I could see to make sure I'm doing things right and I'd have to say that this IS IT!

We love our Flaky Family!!

Talon's ONE Now

My lil man is officially one year old now. It was just yesterday I held him in one hand and now I'm struggling to use both. I made his lil shirt. I downloaded a coloring page and colored it in using my graphics program then added the text and crayon. It's an iron on. Feel free to print it out but be sure to reverse it first.

Linsey helped me make the cake and I caught her in the icing.


I love my new phone!

What is this gooey substance; it's all new to me?


Mommy that was some gooooood cake!

Now, Christmas is on it's way!

Is the weekend reallly over?

Man, I was one busy momma this weekend. I'm actually glad it's over because I pooped form getting so much done. My car is at the doctor. It seems my distributor is out so ugggggg. I'm not sure when I'll get it back but it should be sometime this week. Thank goodness my family lives near me so they can shuttle me around. I spent most of my Saturday over at my baby sisters house. My older sister drove up and momma was there too so it was like a mini family get-together. It's nice to have everyone together other than for a holiday or a funeral.

Well Sunday rolled along and I was up at 5:00am courtesy of lil Talon. After we did our morning routine I commenced to tackling more cleanup. The only sign that Ike was here is the "shoddy" porch my landlord re-installed. My house is all cleaned up from the water that got under the front door. I have 90% of my sewing area back in order and that's a HUGE sigh of relief. Now, I can get back to working in a nice, organized area rather than a make-shift office. I even cleaned out the utility/storage area. I went through every box and if I haven't used it in 6mos, it was tossed in boxes to give away. I knew it wouldn't be long before I had to get out the Christmas boxes, so I reorganized that area as well making them easier to get too.

Linsey is pestering me to go ahead and put a tree up and even though I generally wait until the day after Thanksgiving, we just might do it early. I joke about my Charlie Brown artificial Christmas tree to my family. It's limbs are spread out and you can see the trunk through-out. Linsey picked it out last year on a trip to Hobby Lobby and later I fell in love with it. I like the fact that the lights are built-in so lets just hope that it cuts on cause I hate stringing lights.

Speaking of Christmas, it's hard to believe that before we know it it will be here. It's gonna be a little different being just us three, but I will make the best of it! I'm even gonna plan a small meal and get Linsey to help me cook. I think all Talon will be interested in is pulling bows off presents and learning "no-no" as he approaches the tree. He will be one year old on the 29th of this month and who knows if he'll be walking by then. He's getting close.

Well, I'm am slap wore out from all the work and organization I accomplished today so I'm gonna go soak in some bubbles now that the kiddos are in la-la land.

Lions and Tigers and Bears...OH MY!

Happy Halloween everyone. This turned out to be a fun festivity with my kiddos. Don’t you just love Dorothy & Toto? tee hee

Dorothy & Toto