Saturday, November 29, 2008

Thanksgiving Holiday

This was our families year to go down to south Texas (San Saba) to visit my dads side of the family. Despite the 8 hour drive we always have a good time catching up with cousins. My Nanny (dad's mom) is the star of Thanksgiving though. She is always so happy to have everyone in the same town that she makes each person their own pie. I get coconut cream minus the meringue. Just imagine about 25ish pie's in addition to a Turkey, a Ham, Dressing, Gravy, and many other sides. I always manage to eat too much. Here are some pictures we took of some of the kids in the park. Yes it's after dark because the guys promised to take the kids to the park but they didn't finish golfing until dark.


Morgan, Kaleb, & Zaylee

Our family


A cool shot of Caleb & Claire

This is my Mom & Dad with the girls
Here is one of Morgan on our drive home today. She puked every hour last night, from 1am to 5am and then once in the car...all things considered she looks pretty good.
Needless to say we are glad to be home!

Saturday, November 22, 2008

One step ahead of the trend!

My mom seems to always be one step ahead of the trend. A few years back she wanted bedding that was animal print and red. Of course there was NOTHING like this in stores so she made her own! Today you can find animal print and red EVERYWHERE!


Well now she has been looking for animal print Christmas ornaments...and guess what NOTHING! We have searched online and in stores and we cannot find any animal print ornaments. Next year I'm sure they will be everywhere but in the mean time I decided to make some! I really like the way they turned out so I think I am going to do zebra and giraffe.


Give me your feed back...do you think we could sell these? If so what would you pay for one? I know the pictures are kind of blurry I can't seem to hold the camera steady!










Here is one of the Turner girls before by sis gets big!

Friday, November 21, 2008

1year old portraits

Here are Claire's birthday portraits! I got them taken at Sears. They always do a great job for people with life on a budget!



I ordered the last three!

Saturday, November 15, 2008

The Party

My day started at 7:00 this morning, unless you count the hour I lay in bed thinking of everything I needed to do. I worked all day, literally I just sat down and its 7 pm now. I can't complain thought becauses Claire's party was a huge success!
I made all the cupcakes and her smash cup-cake!I also made cucumber sandwiches and heavenly tea! YUMMY! I added bling to Claire's outfit, and made her bows. Claire got just the right amount of toys, 4 outfits, 2 pair of shoes and one pair of socks! Thank you to everyone who came and helped us celebrate!!!
Birthday Girl!




Smash Cup-Cake!

Cupcake Bouquet!



I love the way these turned out! Morgan was a big help in making these!

The finished product.
Opening gifts!

Her Throne

Blow out the candle!



Yummy!

Claire loved all her gifts!




Pretty new outfits!




I am adding more pictures of the party on my slide show posted a couple days ago. They are at the begining so you don't have to watch all the way through to see them!

READ IF YOU HAVE TIME! SO FUNNY!

THIS IS HYSTERICAL! (I don't have a clue as to who wrote this, but....WHAT A HOOT!) Read to> the end!!!
All hair removal methods have tricked women with their promises of easy, painless removal - The Epilady, scissors, razors, Nair and now...the wax. Read on........

My night began as any other normal weeknight. Come home, fix dinner, play with the kids. I then had the thought that would ring painfully in my mind for the next few hours: "Maybe I should pull the waxing kit out of the medicine cabinet." So I headed to the site of my demise: the bathroom. It was one of those "cold wax" kits. No melting a clump of hot wax, you just rub the strips together in your hand, they get warm and you peel them apart and press them to your leg (or wherever else) and you pull the hair right off. No muss, no fuss. How hard can it be? I mean, I'm not a genius, but I am mechanically inclined enough to figure this out. (YA THINK!?!)
So I pull one of the thin strips out. Its two strips facing each other stuck together. Instead of rubbing them together, my genius kicks in so I get out the hair dryer and heat it to 1000 degrees. ("Cold wax," yeah...right!) I lay the strip across my thigh. Hold the skin around it tight and pull. It works! OK, so it wasn't the best feeling, but it wasn't too bad. I can do this! Hair removal no longer eludes me!
I am She-rah, fighter of all wayward body hair and maker of smooth skin extraordinaire.
With my next wax strip I move north. After checking on the kids, I sneak back into the bathroom, for the ultimate hair fighting championship. I drop my panties and place one foot on the toilet. Using the same procedure, I apply the wax strip across the right side of my bikini line, covering the right half of my hoo-ha and stretching down to the inside of my butt cheek (it was a long strip) I inhale deeply and brace myself....RRRRIIIPPP!!!!

I'm blind!!! Blinded from pain!!!!....OH MY GAWD!!!!!!!!! Vision returning, I notice that I've only managed to pull off half the strip. CRAP! Another deep breath and RIPP! Everything is spinning and spotted. I think I may pass out...must stay conscious...must stay conscious. Do I hear crashing drums??? Breathe, breathe...OK, back to normal. I want to see my trophy - a wax covered strip, the one that has caused me so much pain, with my hairy pelt sticking to it. I want to revel in the glory that is my triumph over body hair. I hold up the strip! There's no hair on it. Where is the hair??? WHERE IS THE WAX???
Slowly I ease my head down, foot still perched on the toilet. I see the hair. The hair that should be on the strip...it's not! I touch. I am touching wax. I run my fingers over the most sensitive part of my body, which is now covered in cold wax and matted hair. Then I make the next BIG mistake...remember my foot is still propped upon the toilet? I know I need to do something. So I put my foot down.
Sealed shut! My butt is sealed shut. Sealed shut!
I penguin walk around the bathroom trying to figure out what to do and think to myself "Please don't let me get the urge to poop. My head may pop off!"
What can I do to melt the wax? Hot water!! Hot water melts wax!! I'll run the hottest water I can stand, into the bathtub, get in, immerse the wax-covered bits and the wax should melt and I can gently wipe it off, right??? *WRONG!!!!!!!* I get in the tub - the water is slightly hotter than that used to torture prisoners of war or sterilize surgical equipment - I sit.
Now, the only thing worse than having your nether regions glued together, is having them glued together and then glued to the bottom of the tub....in scalding hot water. Which, by the way, doesn't melt cold wax.
So, now I'm stuck to the bottom of the tub as though I had cemented myself to the porcelain!!

God bless the man who had convinced me a few months ago to have a phone put in the bathroom!!!!! I call my friend, thinking surely she has waxed before and has some secret of how to get me undone. It's a very good conversation starter. "So, my butt and hoo-ha are glued together to the bottom of the tub!"
There is a slight pause. She doesn't know any secret tricks for removal but she does try to hide her laughter from me. She wants to know exactly where the wax is located,"Are we talking cheeks or hole or hoo-ha?" She's laughing out loud by now...I can hear her. I give her the rundown and she suggests I call the number on the side of the box.
YEAH!!!!! Right!! I should be the joke of someone else's night. While we go through various solutions. I resort to trying to scrape the wax off with a razor . Nothing feels better than to have your girlie goodies covered in hot wax, glued shut, stuck to the tub in super hot water and then dry-shaving the sticky wax off!! By now the brain is not working, dignity has taken a major hike and I'm pretty sure I'm going to need Post-Traumatic Stress counseling for this event.
My friend is still talking with me when I finally see my saving grace....the lotion they give you to remove the excess wax. What do I really have to lose at this point?
I rub some on and OH MY GOD!!!!!!! The scream probably woke the kids and scared the dickens out of my friend. It's sooo painful, but I really don't care. "IT WORKS!! It works !!"
I get a hearty congratulation fr om my friend and she hangs up. I successfully remove the remainder of the wax and then notice to my grief and despair....THE HAIR IS STILL THERE.......ALL OF IT! So I recklessly shave it off. Heck, I'm numb by now. Nothing hurts. I could have amputated my own leg at this point.
Next week I'm going to try hair color......

Friday, November 14, 2008

Claire is almost ONE!

Claire will turn one on Sunday. This year has flown by. Here is a slide show to honor her first year! We are having her party Saturday so I will share birthday pics later!

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Our Country

Friends,
Though the election didn't turn out the way many Texans wanted it to I will commit to pray for Mr. Obama. The bible tells us that God is the one who sets people into authority. Because of that I can trust that God has put Mr. Obama into the white house. I will do what the bible instructs us to do I will pray. I will pray for Mr. Obama's safety, I will pray for wisdom, I will pray that God will surround him with people who fear God and hear His voice, I will pray for our nation. God loves America and I am confident that America loves God. Though there is much sin in America there is also much good and many who love Jesus. I am confident in Christ and I know that He has good things in store for His people and His America! Please commit with me to pray for Mr. Obama and our nation!
Love, Misty