Off the Face of the Earth

A friend of mine let me know nicely that I have been neglecting dear old blog. So here I am, back at it...quickly, however, since I SHOULD be making dinner for the hubs and kids. :o) So what, in a nutshell, has been keeping me from blogville??

Sick kids. Yes. I said it. Sick kids! Mine! Sick! I can hardly believe it myself, since Emma has only been sick once (other than a cold here and there) in her 4 years so far. We have been so blessed with our healthy little ones. Way to go, mama's milk! You have done a wonderful job thus far. :-D

Visits with the aunt. Rob's aunt Delaney (who is 18 years younger than he is) came to stay with us for a week. Last week consisted of me trying to entertain a 15 year old. I'm not sure how I did, but I hope that the 4 year old and 1 year old didn't drive her TOO crazy. We had a lot of fun. We went and saw Beezus and Ramona (I <3ed it), went to the zoo, went on a picnic in the park, and went to the splash pad. We also took her to a local haunt called Tyeger's Pizza. I cannot describe how delicious their pizza it. Mmmmm...It makes my mouth water just thinking about it! :-P

We've also been on a plight to find Emma a new preschool, since ours had to close due to budget cuts. :o( We will definitely miss Miss Leslie and the rest of Emma's classmates this year. But we have a new preschool lined up. I just have my fingers crossed that it works out since our selection in this little one horse town is sort of slim. :o/

Clothes shopping for Em.

Rearranging furniture. Moving another desk into our living room. It definitely doesn't look designer in here with the crapton of furniture crammed in the tiny little spce, but I needed it in here to work with Emma on her schoolwork.

So what else...Evelyn is talking now. Sort of. She says, "Hi, Dad" and "dog." No sign of "Mama" anywhere. :o(

Planning a trip. A trip that is happening in about a month. But we don't know where. A touch last minute, ya think? Any suggestions??? Need someplace historical with water nearby. Must be a house with a pool since my girls are water junkies. :o)

Also looking for a dance class for the Dancing Queen.

Checking out some new websites:
Paperback Swap
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to sign up and get me a free book! "Andrea Peterson" MUST be in your referred by box! You know you want to help a fellow blogger out!
and
Becoming an ambassador of Barefoot Books
Click here to shop around!
Yeah...I'm a book nerd...

Oh yeah, and I MUST get out of the house soon. The walls are closing in on me.

Okay! Well, that's about it. For all of you that were thinking that I was off on some extravagant holiday or even a top secret mission, I am so sorry to disappoint you! We've just been busy living the Peterson life!

Adventures in Bucket List Completion

So, if you have been following my adventures in bucket list completion, I checked a few off this past week and that is why I have not been posting as much. I plan on getting caught up soon, I promise!

Here are a few pictures from our visit to the zoo, which was a bucket list item.

Emma Claire and my little cousin, Isabel


kangaroos. They are one of my favorites. I love that the devoted mama carries them snug as a bug in their pouch until they are ready to face the world.


Joeys of our own


"Is this event black tie???"


Evelyn Rose. She's my animal lover. You can tell by THIS photograph.


Izzy's face painting. Set her mom back FIVE DOLLARS!!! Wowza! I think I should learn the art of face painting!


Emma Claire's horse ride. Cost: Four tokens. When she has a horse at home to ride for free. Note to self: Charge people to ride horse.


Best buds. Sometimes. Other times, can't stand each other. They fight like sisters, but love like sisters too.

Refrigerator Raider

While putting these

and these

away after visiting several of the local fruit producers, this is what the Refrigerator Raider was doing.



She's my little fruit freak. :o)

Life is a Bowl of (Pitted) Cherries

This is a stressed out mom's DREAM!!! This is about the equivalent of my husband's loaded gun at the shooting range. And much cheaper (at $9.97 from Target) than bullets!

And you use it on these:

To make her

one happy baby with a full belly!

Cleanin' House

Here are some pictures of what the best friend and I do when we have a yard sale.

We take pictures. And we play. And sometimes, we get rid of stuff.
(Warning: These pictures do not actually portray ANYTHING yard sale related.)

We take pictures of shoes.


We take pictures of best friend.


(and my Evelyn Rose)


We take pictures of my kids.




We take pictures of her kids.








Mainly, yard sale days are FUN DAYS!!!

So, now you know why I have been M.I.A. lately. This pretty much brings you up to speed!

See you all soon!


P.S. Linkin' up.

I Got Your Backtracking

Well, things have been a bit chaotic around here, so I am gonna really quickly summarize what we have been up to in a few quick photoblogs, just to catch up!

Well, to backtrack a week and two days ago, Evelyn celebrated her first year with us with a HUGE bash. Well, okay, so maybe not huge, but a decent amount of people considering it was right in the middle of graduation season! We are so appreciative to all our friends and family who came to celebrate Ev's first birthday with us.

Here are a few pictures I took to commemorate the occasion. However, since I was pretty much in charge of Ev as well, the pictures are few and far between, and basically, pretty random. :o) Oh well, that's us anyway. Random.

Emma and my little cousin, Izzy waiting for more guests to come

Izzy

The REAL Izzy

Evelyn and her Great Uncle Alan taking a stroll

Proud big sissy, and Aunt Amy

Little cousin, Maggie, and her pinwheel

Best friend and HER pinwheel :o)

Evelyn and her second cousin, Emily


Cake Time! FINALLY!





YUM! Evelyn Rose LOVED the cake. And dorky me, forgot to take pictures of what it looked like BEFORE she demolished it. Bummer.

Don't forget the next two installments in the "backtracking" series! :o)