SAHM from the beginning

This is a bonus picture of Molly practicing her model poses!

So I have been thinking since Lily was born that this is the first of my babies that i will be a stay at home mom from the beginning. Right around now(6 weeks) is when I would normally be heading back to work. So this should be a new exciting experience for all of us! Since I stopped working a few years ago, I have really been trying to do lots of cooking,and baking, and other fun things for the family(even though they dont realize it lol) so now trying to do all that with a little one should be interesting! Fortunatly for all of us Lily does not seem to be a high maintanence baby,YET! She only fusses if she is wet, a little when she is hungry, you can normally placate her though with kisses while you are getting set to feed her and she has a little signal to let me know shes tired...mainly beating on my chest or shaking her fist at us! She has a really sweet personality so far too when she is awake charming everyone! She was doing a little leg shaking, arm shaking dance yesterday when music was playing on a show, Joe and Molly liked seeing that!

August

um wow!!! So no posts since February huh?? Well lets get this place moving again!! We now have Lily home with us, she is just over one month old! She has the cutest little smiles and is even trying to laugh! She thinks I am pretty funny! Especially when I try to sing! Right now she is napping. Paul just called and they will be home late evening from canoeing! We missed them!

4th time and still learning!!

So I have not blogged since the middle of December. Just have had lots of things running through my mind, trying to rest when I can, as well as get things taken care of when i feel up to it!
So anyways, this is our 4th pregnancy and my hubby was laughing at me this morning because i was truly shocked that i was upset that he started eating the Big Reeces peanut butter snowman he got for me at Christmas!! He said "well you havent eaten it". i looked at him and gave him the I am pregnant...I have cravings as well as adversions!! Right now I do not feel like eating Reeces or drinking Pepsi. I would much prefer Vernors and today I want some stinken store bought cake lol!!! He is enjoying my Pepsi which is odd for him! So see, always learning!!

Great Wolf Lodge

Well, we were very excited to have a little getaway to our favorite fun place. I think we were all a bit nervous about the actual travel there though lol! After the near death experience we had with our rollover in Pauls truck last time....almost three years ago I think! we decided instead of the truck to take the Pacifica and we tried palnning it early enough to not have to worry about snow but that didnt work out so well!! We pulled the kids out of school Friday and took a nice relaxing drive up. Thankfully our room was ready at 2 when we got there! They say usually it is at 4. So we got our stuff up to our room and settled in. They have a MagiQuest game the kids like playing Molly already had a wand but Paul treated the boys to their own(one to share) so they took right off and Paul and Molly worked on her game. Paul took the kids down swimming Friday I stayed in the room and read lol!! Molly had a really rough time sleeping both nights. She tried being brave and going down for story time but the darn mascots were there and she freaked out a bit...she did see it snow inside though before we went back to the room!we also did not realize that Santa was arriving that weekend which would be another situation that may not thrill Molly! She was very anxious because we did go down for his arrival party, I assured her daddy would hold her and he did...but when he walked through the doors(we were right in front) she told Paul to put her down and she was just in awe of him!!! we did not wait in line for a visit though!!! We actually ran into some friends from church that day as well they were staying an extra day after we left. So Nick hung out with them awhile and played with the boys(Mollys age) we ordered pizza that night and apparently ordered to much(we should not have listened to the restaraunt lol) so we called up the friends and told them to stick it in the fridge for the next day! They seemed appreciative!!!! All in all it was fun we arrived back home safe and sound!! YAY

Movie "extra" fun!!

well! December started interesting...well technically since it was on Tuesday i guess that was the 30th... Anyways, Paul got a call from one of the agencies he works with and they wondered if Paul, I,Molly and Joe(sorry...no Nick..I think since he is over 16 they would have had to pay him) would like to be background extras at the local zoo for a movie. Sure! why not! We had to get there super early and there were only 4 other people there. Literally amongst wardrobe goings over and "makeup" we literally sat and did nothing but wait for 5 hours lol!! In the early morning when makeup was looking us over i asked Molly if she wanted lipgloss...she said yes! So I said should I out it on...she kinda shook her head and looked at the makeup girl it was cute. So we walked over and she humored us! Finally.....lunch...yay! We get to move! So we go down to the penguin house to eat lunch..the guy pulls Paul over and says...you 4 stay here I am taking the others back and releasing them. They only want you 4. OK..but wait...they wanted Molly in her winter coat and I didnt bring it so they had to go grab thatfor us. Let me say...Molly and Joe were AWESOME waiting...it was extremly boring for them and totally their first time for a movie(Joe did a few commercials...completly different!) So they shot some footage while we had to wait again this time adding making no noise lol!!! Finally they call us over and tell us we will just be walking back and forth from opposite sides. Jenna Fischer(plays Pam on the office) came over to Molly and shook her hand and introduced herself and asked a few questions. It was super cute and so nice of her to do that!! Of course we couldnt take photos or I would have!! Everyone was so nice and it was a really fun experience! Molly told everyone at school that "she is in a penguin movie" lol!!!! Of course we have no idea if it will make it to the big screen or if it does if you would be able to see us but we have the memories!!!

Wow!! November is almost done!

My blog has been sadly neglected I think! No excuse really other then not much to say. I have started helping out for one hour a week in Mollys class.I have a group of 5 kids that I read with, also we go over blending sounds as well as word wall words. It is fun. Molly's best friend is in my group so it's fun talking to her!
Mom and dad picked up both boys the day before Thanksgiving and they helped make the pies as well as get everything ready for the stuffing. Nick woke up early with them and helped them get the turkey ready for the oven! Everything turned out super yummy! I made a pumpkin cake but i was not able to get the apple cider to make the sauce. I also made a pineapple souffle that everyone likes! Then mom and dad were nice enough to watch Molly overnight so paul and I could go early bird Black Friday shopping! We got everything we wanted so that was good! We do still have some more odds and ends to get but nothing big!

Halloween ends...thankfulness comes!

Halloween was fun. Everyone really enjoyed the meal Paul and Molly requested. The kids loved the punch lol Joe said I should make it for every special occasion lol!! We realized that we have very little Halloween decorations so we picked up 3 items at Meijers, maybe after dinner Molly and I will go see if Joannes has any stuff still out. We are looking for things for Thanksgiving too we do have a few things for that. I am happy now that it is November this month is great for realizing all that we have to be thankful for!