A Great Week!

Wow, this has been a GREAT week. God has really blessed us. Church was awesome on Sunday. The preaching was great (I'm not biased or anything), the music was superb and everything just fell into place.

Monday, we did school even though it was President's Day because we had taken Friday off. Liv did really well. I went to work out with Judy like I do three times a week and came home to discover a piano in my living room! Mike's friend, Rudd is letting us borrow it! Yea! I have wanted a piano for YEARS!!!!! It looks so pretty sitting here in my living room.

I was able to do Em's room for around $20.00 thanks to the bargain section at Wal-Mart. I posted pix just for you, Synova! Let me know what you think.

Hope you all have a great week!

Love, Heidi

Rearanging Furniture

I absolutely love moving our furniture around. Partly, because I truely like change, but also because I am always trying to figure out the most efficient use of space. Today, I did Emma and Olivia's rooms...so much fun!

I realized, Olivia has a really cute room with lots of personal touches, and fun things on the walls, and Emm'a room only has one thing on the wall, and it is Livie's stained glass window. Poor Emma, I guess I need to get working on her room.

Any ideas for a theme for Emmy's room? She has a fairly new quilt that has pink, purple, green, blue, and yellow, so there is some flexibility. Her walls desperately need new paint, she needs window decorations and wall decor. I am thinking of getting her name in big white letters, painting the trim and furniture white, and making some sweet curtains, but am wondering what color to do. Right now she has pepto bismal pink walls!

Olivia's room is blue with clouds and butterflies on it. I would like to paint her trim and furniture white too. SHe has darling pink gingham window valances. I think Livie's room is my favorite in the house, but I like my room, the living room and kitchen too. I like the yard too-does that count as a room?

Another new post, 2 in 2 days!

This is for all my friends who think I don't post often enough on my blog! I could write you a list of excueses, like good grief I homeschool don't you think I have enough to do, or I am so busy cleaning up after my dog eating everything in the house that I don't have time, but the truth is, sometimes I just don't have anything to write I think others would enjoy reading. I know that was a very long run-on sentance, Andrea, but this is how I talk, and I want reading my blog to be like having a conversation with me.

I am going to a mom's slumber party tonight, and am super excited. I got new glasses yesterday. It was really cool...the girls got to help make them. Oh...I know, I could post about my new diet, but that would just be me whining because going dairy and wheat free is HARD!!!!

So, I am going to attempt to set up a poll about what you most want to hear about...I'll let you know how that works.

Later! Heidi

Things Thor has eaten this month:

1. The zipper to my new olive/sage green hoodie.

2. Emma's new ballet slipper.

3. 3 sleeping bag zippers.

4. My Liz Claiborne purse.

5. A whole roll of toilet paper.

6. A small cabbage patch doll that was on my 5th Birthday cake (yes, almost 25 years ago)

7. Doll house furniture.

8. His collar.

9. Unidentified plastic doohicky.

10. Un-numbered q-tips

11. Board books.

12. Ballerina magnetic dolls.

13. Zippers from both Emma's and Livie's coats.

14. Not his chew toys.

Anyone want a Yorkshire Terrier cheap?

December 2008

Wow, December is gone? I'll share our highlights of the month with you!
EMMA's CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
Emma was an angel in the preschool's Christmas program this year. Olivia was the special guest Inn Keeper. Everyone sang so nicely, the angels got a little carried away with Go Tell It On The Mountain and teacher Teresa had to cut them off...but it was cute.

FAMILY VACATION TO MISSOURI
For Christmas this year, we drove to Missouri to surprise Mike's dad at his sisters house. We had a blast. Getting there took two days in icy, wintery weather. We finally arrived at dinner time only to find Mike's dad had already gone to the hotel for the night. We decided to go ahead and save the surprise for the morning. Boy was Grandpa shocked to see us! We had a great time together.

The first night, Emma and Olivia slept in the living room and for 20 minutes, Emma kept saying "Night, Night". Denise would tell her "Night Night, Emma" and it would continue back and forth. So cute.

Christmas was great. All Emma asked for was Barbie panties, and after 3 different wal marts in 2 different states, Santa finally found them...2 sizes too big. Emma didn't care how big they were, she was happy anyway. Olivia and Emma each got each other Barbie cars (and told each other what they bought!). Mike was surprised to get me a pair of shoes for CHristmas!

Olivia got an early Birthday present from Grandma and Grandpa....she got her ears pierced! She is such a big girl now.

The drive home took 3 days. We stopped by Wall Drug for the best coffee in the world, and only 5 cents a cup....such a deal! We drove by Mt. Rushmore and then spent 2 hours at The Reptile Museum. For pictures of all this...check out Facebook!

NEW YEARS EVE
We got home Tuesday teh 30th...just in time for an 80's New Years Eve party the next day! The girls and I got all dressed up 80's style and rang in the new year at the Smith house. We had tons of fun!

That's all I can think of now, and it feels pretty fragmented to me, and I need to go do math with Livie....so more later!