Our newest adventure!

We are putting down some roots! It’s exciting and scary all at the same time.  The Lord has blessed us all along the way, and I am SO thankful!

We bought our first house! Soon it will be a home, and I can’t wait.  The girls are excited too, they will all have their own room and I have will have my own craft room . 

From this….

to this!

We are SO excited. Just a few more days and it will be home!

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A crazy month!

It all started the first weekend in May when Kory and Alyssa went to the “Crawfish Boil”.  It was at night and there was lot of people and smoke. Alyssa came home not feeling well. On Monday I took her to the see the our family Doctor. It was her asthma. The first time in like 7 years. She ended up going to the doctor twice that week.

The next week for Mother’s day week, and Emma fell and hit the fireplace on Sunday morning. We spent the day in the ER. On Tuesday it looked like it was getting infected, so I took her to the family doctor. It was, then had to go back on Thursday of that week, because it wasn’t any better.

Two weeks= four times to see the same doctor!

The next week Sara started running a high fever Saturday night. Our family doctor was out of town on Monday so we waited till Tuesday for her to see the doctor. Strep!

Three weeks=five times to se the same doctor!

Last Saturday Emma started running a high fever… can you guess it…..

Four weeks=six times to see the same doctor!

She laughed when she saw me walk through the doors. She said “we just need to get a “Foster Room”!”  

More projects!

Square candle holder.

New tile. This could be made for any school…War Eagle, Geaux Tigers, Who Dat, Go Bulldogs, Go Eagles!

May is a very busy month!

May is the busiest month of the year for me, beside December! Emma’s Birthday is the 19th, mine is the 21st and Kory’s is the 22nd. I also have two nieces with May birthdays, then there are end the year programs and everything else.

We had Emma’s birthday party last Saturday. She wanted a Thomas the train birthday party. It wasn’t very easy to make it look like a girl party, but I think I pulled it off! She loved it, so that’s all the mattered!

This “jumpy” was great! They came to put it up at 9 in the morning and didn’t come get it till 7:30 that night. The kids played in it all day!

Also Mother’s Day weekend we decided to adopt two new puppies!

Roxy and Rintoo, our newest family members!

Just finished…

I love the way this turned out. I love the big bold “S” on this vase. I know it will look great with some Mother’s Day flowers in it!

Loving what I’m doing…

I have been SO busy and I love every minute of it! I worked on Teacher appreciation gifts the last two weeks.

These were for Alyssa’s teachers.

These were for a friend.

This is a checkbook cover I did. I won the plastic blank cover off a blog give a way. My first thing I’ve ever won!

I did this travel mug and I really love the way it looks. It is really a bright blue and with the white monogram. It looks great!

And finally I had a chance to get caught up and I was able to spruce up my craft/work room!

This is on the door coming into my room. 

and this is on the wall!

If you need a personalization gift or even just something for yourself, just let me know.

Kaylin’s Kreations is open for business! 

Alyssa’s Freshman Year of Soccer

She has loved it and I’m glad it’s over. It keeps us busy, and this year she did Math Team at the same time, so we were really busy. Every weekend was either Soccer or Math Team, but I guess that’s part of being a “mom”!

It’s hard for me to believe how big she is getting! Only 3 more years and she will be graduating and heading off to college!

“Thomas” the train

Last weekend “Thomas the Tank engine” came to Calera. Emma LOVES trains, Sara not so much. I checked into the tickets and got us some. Alyssa was at a Math Tournament, and Kory was working, so it was just the little girls and I to go. I was right, Emma LOVED every minute of it, Sara nope, the only thing that made her happy was the “jumpy thing”.

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I’ve been selling a lot and having SO much fun! It keeps me busy!

Busy, busy, busy

This time of year is a very busy one around my house. Kory has inventory at work next week, so he has been working alot more. Alyssa has soccer and Math team, add helping Sara with homework and Wednesday night church (I teach 3 year olds) and it makes for something going on every night!

But in that busy schedule, I have found some time to have some fun… I got a Cricut expression for Christmas and really haven’t done much with it till last week. I made a picture frame for Sara’s teacher. She had a baby this year, and every time we see something baby related, Sara wants to give it to baby Natalie! So, I finally made something for baby Natalie.

The blank white part is for her to put a picture or her birth announcement on.

She (Sara’s teacher) told me the colors in the baby’s room were pink and brown. I hope she likes it, Sara does!

Then I was looking on a message board and found other things I could do. I started etching glasses next. These are the first ones I have done. I got these vases and candle holder at the dollar tree just to try my hand at it.

This is the first one I did. Followed instructions on bottle.

This is the next one I did, I left the cream on there longer, much better!

 

This is the last one I did, a candle holder. I left the cream on even longer, why would I start following instructions now! I like it a lot better!

I have also ordered some vinyl to start playing with. I have lots of plans for that. Which includes a set of fun wine glasses for my sister, who has already put her order in! lol I’ll be sure to post pictures! 

Spring Break 2010

This year for spring break we went to Stone Mountain, GA. It was SO much fun! We went to some outlet malls (I love outlet malls, when you really get stuff at good prices!) and to the Stone Mountain Park itself.

I think we could have stayed at the park for two days just in play area. The kids LOVED it, even the biggest kid, Kory loved it! He is already thinking about when we can go back.

The family on top of Stone Mountain!

This is a Test!

Testing out a new program I got. Trying to see how it all works…. This is from our Spring Break trip to Stone Mountain, GA. I’ll get to blogging about that here in a min or two!

March 17th??

Where has the first few months of this year gone? I don't really know!

We have been pretty busy. Alyssa's soccer season starts the first part of February. She usually has at least two sometime three games a week, plus practise the rest of the days, and this year she has had some Saturday games. She is also on the high school Math team and that is a nearly every Saturday event too. One Saturday we did Math team in the morning, ate lunch then had soccer in the afternoon. It makes for some busy weeks!

Ok, so I'm not really into blogging about this but I was told by a friend that I needed to tell my story. 1. for motivation for myself and 2. to maybe help someone else who is struggling with losing some weight. So, here we go!

Back in August of last year with some help from my parents, I decided it was time to change some eating habits. (aka DIET) So, this was me back in Sept of 2009.

I was over 200lbs. Ok, so 20lbs over. I might as well be honest and face it!

I started walking with some ladies in the our neighbor and got up to walking 5 miles a day. We were walking atleast three times a week, some weeks we did it 5 days a week. It was great! We were eating right, I was cooking more. Before Christmas I had lost about 20 lbs. I was finally under that 200 mark!

I haven't taken any picture lately.

Since Christmas I have only lost 5 more lbs. This is why I need the motivation. With the weather being cold and rainy we haven't walked and I can surely tell! I'm not making good food choices and I'm not cooking as much. I don't feel like doing anything! People would talk about after exercising they felt great, I didn't believe them till now. It's a feeling that only gets better each day you exercise! It's so hard to describe, but it does make you feel better and feel like you want to do things!

Diet and exercise is a daily battle for me, it's not easy, but God never said life would be!

We have gotten back to walking one or two days a week, and I've gotten a friend that that is doing this journey with me and we report our gains or loses every week to each other. It helps for accountability and so will this blog. Or at least I am hoping this will.

Casting Crowns

Last night Alyssa and I got to go to our second Casting Crowns concert. (My third one) It was AWESOME! If you have never been, you must see them at least once. It is not a regular music concert, it is 3 and a half hours of Worshipping the Lord. It is like 3 and a half hours of the best song service you have ever been too, then add a little more and you might get what this Worship experience is like. You leave there on a high like no other! It's great music, preaching and worshipping all rolled up in one! It is worth every penny you spend!

Let me back up a second and give you some background info on the night. Two years ago my sister and I bought tickets to go to our first Casting Crowns concert. My sister ended up getting sick and couldn't come. So, we went ahead and went and were not disappointed. In December the morning last nights concert tickets went on sale, I was on the computer getting us three tickets. We were looking forward to it. Thursday night when all the snow hit, my sister called and said she didn't think she would be able to come up for the show with the weather being like it was. I was disappointed. Then when we continued to get snow yesterday, I was begining to wonder IF we would make it to the show. They were talking about the ice refreezing as the temps droped again last night, and I was worried about the 30 min drive home from downtown Birmingham at 10 or 11 o'clock at night. I prayed about most of the afternoon, and we went ahead and went. I was SO glad I did! Kind of like when you don't want to get out of bed on Sunday morning and you go ahead and go and you are SO glad you did after.

Our seats were great. They were right in the middle of the stage on the floor on the 3rd row. Someone said we could see there tonsils, yes we could. You could feel their energy! It was great. We saw Kaleb and Will Chapman (Steven Curtis Chapman's son's) and Kutless. They were great too. Then Casting Crowns took the stage. Mark Hall the lead singer for Casting Crowns is a youth pastor in Atlanta, GA. He has dyslexia and ADD. He gives his testimony and how it all started.

During the show we were told that roads were being closed and parts of the interstate were being closed because of the ice on the roads. We found an alternate way home and you know God paved the way. We didn't see any ice on the roads we were on, no slipping and slideing, nothing. We made it home in an hour safe and sound!

This was taken with my cell phone camera. I didn't take my camera, the tickets said no camera. There were tons of cameras there, I should have brought my camera!