My Weekend Splurge!

I did it!!! I splurged and got my hair colored by an actual hairstylist! I usually don't want to spend my money there so I buy a box of what ever color fits my mood at the moment and put it on at Salon De La Malone! lol. I have got to say my color was well worth the extra bucks. I love it!

What do you think? It is exactly what I wanted. Very warm and fall like!

Here are a few bonus pictures because I know how much everyone loves new pictures of my children!
Morgan & Claire before church! Claire adores he big sister! Morgan is munching on a healthy breakfast of rits bitz cheese crackers!

This is Morgan and my beautiful niece Zaylee Belle. They are 9 months apart and best friends!

The Good and the Bad and Red River

First of all THE GOOD...
Claire bear will be 11 months old on Thursday. I wanted to have her weaned at 11 months because thats when Morgan weaned herself and it seemed to work out well. I didn't think this would happen because Claire really enjoyed nursing (noo noo) while Morgan ate to survive. I had weaned her down to 2 feedings 1am and 6am (crazy I know) I was trying to get her off the 1am feeding so when she woke up I would just ignore her and she would go back to sleep. Tuesday night she slept thru the night to 7:45am so when Caleb brought her to me it was too late for a morning feeding. She tried to lay down and nurse and I told her "all gone" well she threw a fit and I just said "all gone baby" and offered her milk(she pushed it away)After a few miniutes she just sat there staring into space (she looked so sad). Then finally she looked at her milk cup pointed and said "that" I gave her a drink and that was the end of it! I have not nursed since Tuesday morning at 6am. We are officially weaned !!!! YEAH! She was kinda cranky today at school but she will be fine. I am sad too in a way. It is bittersweet, because I love nursing my babies and she is my last.

NOW THE BAD...
My animals have fleas....EWWWW..... I am really a freak about all things crawly. Especially things that bite and suck blood! My cat and both dogs have them. I put some drops on the dogs and Jerry totally flipped out. He pulled out a patch of hair about 4 inches long and 2 inches wide down his back. He also pulled out all the hair on his arm. POOR DOG. Last night both dogs were throwing up foam because they licked some of the drops.( don't worry I called the manufacturer and they said that is what the dogs would do but it wouldn't kill them) Thank goodness it didn't I couldn't bear to see Morgan lose another animal. Neither dog slept at all last night they just whined and wiggled and itched and whined some more. Finally Caleb and I locked them in our room and we slept on the couches. (not too good either)

Okay so I think I have caught this problem early and after speaking to a bug guy I decided to treat my animals first, clean really good, spray the yard and see if there are anymore fleas on my pets in 2 weeks. If there are I am going to have him treat the house and the yard. Please pray that treating my pets will solve the problem. This is so gross I can hardly stand being in the house much less having my kids here. I have never had to deal with fleas before so if ya have any advice I'll be glad to hear it. Here are some pictures of Jerry's back and leg.


Is that not the most pitiful thing you've ever seen.




And now RED RIVER...
This past weekend we went to Red River with some people from our church. It was just a little get away for the sole purpose of FUN! My camera died after the first morning so here are some pictures of us eating muffins and one of Claire pushing her toy!


We had a ton of fun just shopping and fellowshiping!

Is it Wednesday yet?

A couple of weeks ago Morgan and I were talking about her day at school. She told me that she had told her friends they could come over on Wednesday and play in her room. She told them that she would give them each a stick and a pinecone (her prize possessions by the way). I told her that she needed to ask me before inviting people to the house but that I bet I could talk to their mommies and see if they could come sometime. I thought it was very cute that Morgan was making plans with her friends, she is sure growing up. Anyway all weekend she kept asking me if it was Wednesday yet. She asked me about 5 times before I finally said "Morgan why do you want it to be Wednesday?" She said "because that is the day Ashton, Lainee, & Katie are coming over...remember Mom?" Precious. So I had to invite them over! All the Mom's agreed to let their girls come over and boy did we have fun! Here are some pictures from our day.
Kaite Morgan & Lainee playing dress up!


They had a ball.
When Ashton got here we made cupcakes!
And ate a well balanced lunch of hot dogs, cheese puffs, and chocolate milk!
Then we decorated the cupcakes.
Yummy! Spooky cupcakes!

This is the first time Morgan has had friends over just because. It was so much fun. We listened to the Enchanted sound track while we made the cupcakes. I am so glad I had girls they are tons of fun. I'm sure this will be the first of many girl parties at the Malone house!!!

A Race For The Cure!

The race for the cure was held today and my in-laws live on the route of the run. All the houses along the route are encouraged to decorate in pink to support the runners and this year we participated! I painted the signs! Here is the house.
The girls & our creation.

There is a prize for the best house. Tom & Karen had the girls(angel & morgan) spend the night last night,
this morning Caleb & I went over early, ate breakfast, and helped decorate the yard. It was so much fun and the girls had a blast! Morgan kept saying "this is the best morning ever!" Claire had fun too.

All the houses who participated had great decorations and the runners kept saying how good the yard looked. Here is a picture of the runners! This was one of the runners dog. (too cute)
This is the family watching the race!

News channel 7 came by and filmed our yard it will be on tonight at 10 so watch if you can! This was tons of fun and for such a good cause.

Back in business!

I got my new camera today! Yippee!!! It looks really good and it seems to work. It feels like it is a little lighter than my other one(i don't know why it would be). It also deletes a little slower than my other one, but all in all it seems very nice. Here are the few pictures from the fair before I dropped my old camera!
Claire eating fair food!
Claire & Durand 1st time @ the fair. In the back ground is Will, Durands daddy with his phone attached to his ear as USUAL!
Precious Morgan asleep!
Here are a couple from the new camera!

I am Blessed!

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I am really Blessed, let me tell you how much!
You know I dropped my camera and broke it. Well obviously I have to buy a new one so I have been shopping around. I think we paid 120.00 for the broken camera which is now discontinued by the way. The least expensive camera I found was 84.00 at Walmart. I really don't have 85 to 100 dollars to spend on a new camera. Let me tell you I am the kind of person who spends my check on paper long before it is in my pocket. Yes, I have planned where all my checks are going to be spent up to Christmas! Crazy I know. And I did not budget in for this unexpected expense.
Anyhoo back to my blessing. I tried bidding on a couple of refurbished cameras on eBay and I didn't win. There was another camera (exactly like mine) that I was watching because the person selling it said it was their personal camera and that it was in great shape. The only reason they were selling it is that they upgraded to a better camera! BINGO~PERFECT!
I bid on the camera and guess what! I WON for the low price of 43.00 with free shipping!
.....the blessing of the Lord maketh the rich and crown the head of the righteous.....
Okay so if that is not blessing enough today I sold 42.00 in bows! Is that great or what! God knew I had my heart set on spending my pay checks elsewhere and He made a way for me to get to do that!
I think I might be his favorite! (you are too!)

Boo Hoo :~(

I went to the fair today and I took my camera so that I could take pictures of Claire @ her first fair. Well Morgan and Zaylee were holding hands walking in front of me and I thought it would be a fantastic picture so I grabbed my camera(that I love) When I did I fumbled with it and it went crashing to the ground. The lens popped off and now my camera is no more! If you know me then you know that I take my camera everywhere and I take pictures all the time. EVERYDAY! I am so sad because now I have to buy a new one with money I don't really have. I have no choice though because Claire's birthday is right around the corner. When I called and told Caleb he said "this is the 2nd Camera I've bought in the last two years". You see I dropped our last one too about a year ago. OOPS! I told him I promise I didn't throw it and if he took pictures as much as I do he would probably drop the camera too.(sometimes) I need to invent some kind of bouncing skin to put your camera in. HMMM....Maybe I could make some money! Anyway I am looking at cameras on ebay maybe I can get one like my old one for half the money.