Saturday, March 14, 2009

Worth The Wait

These are some old picutres that I meant to put up here a REALLY long time ago. But hey!, the title explains it all. At least that's my excuse for my extreme procrastination.

After Brian got back from the desert (so that would put us sometime in November) we were at Tractor Supply repacing Shiloh's water bucket. While we were there we checked out the clothing sales racks (and yes the brown shirt was with the girls) and I knew that this was the perfect shirt for Lorelei. Anyone who was in Nebraska this past summer can agree.

I really can't remember when I took this picture. But this is the lowest price I have paid for gas since around 2003/2004. I remember this because when we bought our 2003 Cavalier we were paying 1.33 a gallon for premium. I think it was in '04ish that is started going up. Whenver, this is still the lowest in several years anyway.

Another picture I cannot remember the date. Mattel (which own's Barbie) was doing a special promotion with there "Barbie and the Diamond Castle" You got your picture taken with Barbie!! There were also asking for old Barbies to be donated. For every Barbie donated Mattel would give one brand new Barbie to a child. I had to appologize to Barbie. At the time we had now Barbies to donate. Lorelei only had two and they were brand new. Now is not the case. Lorelei has 8 now that she gets to play with and two more still in bosex that she has to earn. She just earned her Princess Jasmine doll after being so patient and well behaved after spending 5 hours in the chevy dealership one day and about 4 hours the next day. But that's a story for another time.







This are pictures from November or October. It was from Red Ribbon week at school. I'm almost 90% sure it was in one of those two months. Anyway, there was a different theme every day. There was Camo Day, Crazy Hair Day, Blue Jeans Day, Pajama Day, and Wear Red Day. We spray painted Houston's hair and then just had to make his eyebrows match. This was also the week that Houston was chosen as the "Character Kid". This is what it is called in our school district. Everywhere else it is know as Student of the Week. Houston got to wear a special button every day and be the line leader. 6



Monday, January 12, 2009

Have A Happy Day!!


Sunday, January 11, 2009

Thank You Aunt Jennifer!

I have been trying to "do" Lorelei's hair now that she finally has some. Most days she just wants it brushed but on days she actually lets me try to style her hair, I try to have some fun with it. Mostly it has been a lot of criss-cross styles.Lately she hasn't been wanting to sit still for that long. (Since I am still learing how to do girls' hair I am fairly slow) When she does want it up it, it is either a pony tail or piggie tails. She has some "fancy" barrets to cover the elastics, but they don't stay in her hair very well. I, and eventually Lorelei, was excited to see the clippies that Jennifer made her for Christmas.
This is what Lorelei wore to church a couple of weeks ago. Yes, it was fairly casual, but she is very hard on dresses lately. It was a very pleasant surprise that not only did the clippies stay in all day but Lorelei didn't even attempt to take them out until close to bedtime. Thank you, Jennifer!!!

Thursday, January 8, 2009

Makes Me Laugh


There are those of you out there who know exactly how this goes.

Thursday, December 25, 2008

Rock Star!!

I think this is one of Houston's favorite Christmas presents. I found this great guitar that, in addition to the microphone, has at least a million buttons that play guitar sounds and drums and other special effects. Gee, I wonder how long it will be before I kick myself in the butt because I finally get sick of the noise. He's only had it for a few hours and I am already getting there. :) Oh well, he is having a blast.


Lorelei Number Three

Happy Birthday to Lorelei!! She is now three years old. I can't believe she is that old already!! I asked her what kind of cake she wanted and she said a pizza cake. It was a lot of fun to make. Although we did learn that if you don't eat it right away the candy gets soggy and kind of gross.

We haven't gotten around to watching to movie, but Lorelei does like her Oopsie Bear from the Johnson clan. She's been sleeping with it every night since she opened it.

It is taking some practice on her part to figure out how to play with a doll that's almost as big as she is, but she is loving it!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Raking Leaves

Brian got really sick of seeing all the leaves on the front lawn. And he was getting tired of the neighborhood kids offered to rake his leaves for money. After the pile was sufficiently big enough, nice guy that he can be, he let the kids play in them for a little while before he bagged them up.