28 December 2005
praise: we had a good 6 days with mom smith and jon. friend, ed horn (www.edhorn.info) is doing better.
prayer: auburn has been very cranky and i've had a headache that i just can't shake.
playfulness: i was going to do a long post today, but got stuck working on some other projects. so, i'll post a few pics and comments.
landon wants to play with the monopoly game that the "big people" were playing with this weekend. we keep telling him that the box says he has to be eight (thankfully!) he has a tendency to destroy such things. anyway, this morning he informed us that he was "pretending he was eight!"
maybe that's why he's growing his first mustache!
auburn and landon did not want to take turns riding daddy. this was very comical to watch!
have a great night!
nic @ 21:51 | comments(150) | Permanent link
22 December 2005
praise: mom and jon smith made it safely up today.
prayer: auburn has been feeling a little under the weather, she's seeming a little better today. pray that she returns to her old self soon.
playfulness: well folks, the verdict is in. it's a boy!!!! my husband is very happy about this. the name is dalton barrett.
as far as the rest of the family. i hope to post pictures tomorrow, but i've said that before.
nic @ 21:12 | comments(152) | Permanent link
13 December 2005
praise: dave made it home and ed horn is doing somewhat better. www.edhorn.info
prayer: pray that we can find out the gender of our baby next thursday. we would really like to know, but the baby has to cooperate!!! =)
playfulness: for those of you who have been waiting for the announcement of me being admitted to a mental institute, it's probably not far away. earlier this afternoon i found myself scolding one of auburn's socks (yes, you read that correctly-a sock) for managing to avoid being washed for the third time. it found itself in the washing machine shortly after.
i have much to post and the kids should be getting up any minute, so this might have to been done in two rounds.
here are the christmas pics of the kids and family that i took a few weeks ago. none of them great, but they'll have to do for now. just as an explanation, i put a light behind them to help with avoiding shadows, but auburn freaked out when she saw it. i have no idea why. anyway, that caused her to be very non-compliant throughout the entire process. also, the green sheet was in theory to be removed from the picture and then replaced with a background of my choice-never got done and probably never will.
cheese!
after the kids' photo shoot, we went shopping. shortly before coming home, i have each kid a chocolate cookie. both of them fell asleep in the van, but only one looked this bad.
here's the pic of our tree (as promised days ago).
we had a childrens' book exchange last thursday. i only took 3 pics and they were all of the same thing. here's the best one. after the party, we went to pizza hut. imagine 6 ladies and thirteen children ranging from newborn to 5 invading a pizza joint. much fun, much chaos.
we had a big snow last friday. so big, dave didn't have school. as a result he came home a little early to go play in the snow with the kids. unfortunately, our camera only lasted about the first 5 minutes. so i have no pictures of auburn outside. she didn't last very long since she decided to take her boots off!
auburn decided that she needed to wear daddy's gold sweater one day. very interesting.
as i've mentioned before, the kids love putting things on their heads (accept hats). here are the most recent items.
landon wanted me to take this pic of him making a funny face, so here it is.
the funny action of the day: i told landon he had to pick up his candyland cards that he was playing with as i was going through boxes upstairs. he started working diligently and then proclaimed "look, all clean!" i discoverd that he had just scooted all of the cards between different boxes. very creative, but not quite what i had meant. we then found the bag that they were to go in, and he did it the right way. with no complaints i might add!
gross action of the day: landon made a mess in his undies-something he has not done in a long time. unaware that it was of the darker nature, i let him go in his room an change himself. a few minutes later i saw him go in his room with toilet paper and start scrubbing the carpet. he was very proud of himself after he stood up and told me that it was "all better now!" i wasn't real happy when i found the reason of his excitement. hopefully that won't be happening again. btw, i did scrub the carpet after that.
hope this post will get me out trouble with some of you.
nic @ 14:47 | comments(18) | Permanent link
11 December 2005
praise: dave made it down to ohio safely today. he is traveling back right now.
prayer: my friend from high school, ed horn, is not doing well. there is a site set up for information regarding his critical condition.
www.edhorn.info please remember him in your prayers. my mother-in-law's uncle passed away this week. please remember her and the family in your prayers as well.
playfulness: the kids have been funny as usual. i just haven't taken the time to sit down and blog about them. hopefully tomorrow i'll get some pictures up. i have our family christmas picture, pics of landon and dave in the snow, kids' book exchange, auburn with a small crate on her head and some others to post.
the big accomplishment of the week-auburn has been sleeping through the night more often than not recently. it's been nice to get a full night's sleep without interruption. maybe the next one will be a better sleeper, but i'm not going to count on it.
nic @ 20:08 | comments(140) | Permanent link
