6 months

I'm 6 months now and GROWING!! You can see I have black and camos on to hide a few things. I think I might try to find camouflage pants and shorts in every size. I'm still having a really hard time finding good looking clothes. I think the designers are 80 year old women because that's what a lot of the clothes look like to me. I think I might have to take some sewing classes and start my own company.
I’m going for my 4-D sonogram pictures and my sugar test on May 2nd . I’m really excited about the 4-D pictures. I have wanted my own 4-D pictures ever since I saw my Cousin Angie’s 4-D pictures of her daughter. I think they are the coolest looking pictures. I will be 27 weeks when I get these pictures done, so we should be able to get some really good pictures.

A Painful Good-Bye

I had to say a very painful good-bye to my best friend Archie this past Friday night (April 4th). He was diagnosed with cancer and within a week of finding out he deteriorated pretty quickly. Archie hadn’t been his true self for about a year. DD and I both had taken him in several times for tests and nothing showed up. Archie was approximately 12 years old going on 13 or maybe older, we really didn’t know his true age.
Archie was a fun loving companion to both DD and I. All Archie ever wanted was to be loved and petted. Oh…I definitely can’t forget his obsession with the trash and people food!! I remember shortly after Archie joined our family, DD made him a wonderful breakfast in a clean metal bowl (something he wasn’t use to). Well that evening we went outside to feed him again and saw that Archie never touched his breakfast. DD threw it out in the woods, so we could feed him again and to our surprise Archie ate his breakfast as soon as DD threw it on the ground. It’s probably a very good thing that I don’t know what Archie has really been through before coming to us! The thought of someone miss treating him makes me sick!!
After DD and I were married we moved in with my dad while we built our house. It was about a month after we moved in when my dad came in from outside and told me there was a dog outside. Nothing else was said; I jumped up and ran outside. Even though he was pretty pitiful looking it was LOVE at first site. Archie was very skittish, but I knew we had to keep him. You could tell whoever had him before abused him pretty badly because on one side of his mouth his teeth were knocked in half and he was covered with ticks from head to toe. I really don’t think I had ever seen soooooo many ticks on a dog, it was pretty gross. I made DD give him the first bath. Archie was scared of everything and I mean everything…SPECIALLY feet. DD and I gave Archie a lot of love and affection (this was probably something he never had) to get him to trust us. For about a year Archie was strictly an outside dog but we finally house trained him and he became an indoor dog from then on. (this wasn’t an easy task). Archie and I became very close pretty fast and he followed me everywhere…well unless his nose tracked something outside and if that happened, he would take off or just ignore me. He truly was my best friend and my little shadow. It didn’t matter how sick or upset I was I always knew Archie would be right next to me asleep or nudging me so I would pet him! He would sometimes panic if he couldn’t find me…at times he would frantically run all over the house searching until he did find me. I will miss him deeply and I will never forget how we saved his life!
I know that when you finish one chapter another one begins but this is one of those chapters in my life that I could read over and over again. I am fortunate though to have all the memories and pictures that I do and although this was so very hard I know that I won’t think twice about letting another into my heart one day.
Archie will always be in my heart ! Good-Bye my sweet little boy!! I love you!!

21 weeks

I'm 21 weeks and huge...or at least I feel like it. My little man is moving a lot and it's still a feeling I'm not use too. He likes to sit really low in my tummy and it's uncomfortable. The baby seems to move a lot more when DD's hand is on my belly than mine!!! The male bonding has already started...I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not. They just might gang up on me! :) LOL :) I just might have to find more girly things to do. Anyway...I'm feeling really good still and now we are just counting down until the day he is here!

Happy Easter!!!

What a Fun Day everyone had!! I love everything about Easter!!!







We found the SILVER EGG!

Two Thumbs up for the Silver Egg

PePa counting the Eggs for everyone

Our New Due

Little Miss got a new Due yesterday. She thought it would be cool to trim her own hair yesterday morning before coming to my house. Mommy and Daddy picked her up yesterday and took her to get her hair cut! At first I was up set she was getting it all cut off, but I know the hair was being donated to Locks of Love and that leaves a good feeling in any ones heart.
I must say it looks really cute short!

The different ways we sleep

These are the different ways we like to sleep.

So sweet looking!


We read while we sleep.


We always like to look our best!

My Friday Four

Fridays are my busiest days of the week. I have four little ones I take care of. They definitely keep me busy! The older girls can't wait to spend time with each other on Fridays. These pictures were taken last Friday. We had a great day!

Daddy did my hair this morning or maybe he didn't do it!










Trying to get everyone to look is so hard! No one really wanted to take the picture.

The Four of them