This little piggy...

Bitty Ballerina

Here's my beautiful little Thea waiting excitedly for her Beginning Ballerinas class. She loves it. Going to ballet (ba-yay as she calls it) is the highlight of her week. All monday morning she carries around her ballet bag and says "ba-yay? ba-yay?" And i tell her, "not yet! After lunch!" It's really cute. Although when I accidentally stepped on her bag when she was getting on her shoes she was NOT very cute about it! LOL

Beautiful Day!

Hiking the trail

A rare picture of mama and daddy taken by Q

Big brother being loving to Thea

View from the top

We checked out a new park in our area (new to us at least) and had a wonderful time enjoying the Indian summer. This area is full of beautiful parks! I think it's my favorite part of living here.

naval ball

is over!! Hooray! Too much stinkin' stress for this mama. It went fine. My dress was super uncomfortable (it was from before I had any kids so my body's not quite the same), but it worked. There were so many beautiful dresses this year. They were colorful and elegant, which is quite a change from the past several years. I enjoyed the people we sat with and the food was wonderful.

Unfortunately, we had to leave a little early. Landon threw up at home (he's not sick, just ate too much) and Dan was exhausted from running 12 miles early that morning. No dancing for us!

Thankfully, we are blessed with wonderful neighbors. Our babysitter called home and her mom and sister came to help clean up Landon's mess. We baked brownies to bring to them the next day!

so ashton lost another tooth

Ashton lost tooth number 2 and was as cute as ever taping the tooth to the front door to make sure the tooth fairy didn't miss it! She brought him a dollar and a lego set. We went to Walmart the next day and ashton chose a tube a toothpaste that he found that cost exactly $1 to buy with his tooth money! I thought it was so funny, but a lot like him to want to make sure he keeps his teeth clean and healthy!

Halloween!

Kids checking out the white tigers at Hall-zoo-ween


Waiting for Daddy to come out of the head


Cutest Pumpkin ever!! Eryn knitted this as a gift for Mareea. We love it!



We had a blast on Halloween. the post about it was awhile back, but here are the pictures from that fun day!

Feeling Better!

So I tried my sure-fire way to get myself out of the self pity rut...helping someone else. I have so much stuff to get rid of around here and the thought of trying to sell it was exhausting! So I put up our huge lot of rescue heros and my gigantic stash of fabric (that i do not have time to use) up on craigslist for free. No need to post pictures when you're giving it away.

Holy cow have I gotten responses!! I have even changed the titles to "gone" and people are still emailing me asking me to let them know if the pickup falls through.

My fabric stash, scraps and patterns are going to a church who has quilting groups that make blankets to donate to the hospital and to mexico. This thrilled me because I had been wanting to make blankets, bibs, etc. to donate and don't have time. Now I can help someone else do it!

The rescue heros are going to a mom without much money for her little boy. If she dosen't come for them ( haven't heard back yet) they will go to either a little boy in foster care or a volunteer fire department to have for the kids to play with who come to visit. I am so thankful these things that were weighing me down can be a blessing to someone else!

Stupid hormones!

I can still blame hormones at 9 1/2 months right? I mean...I'm still exclusively nursing so I guess I can.

Some days I am perfectly content with this life. I love it so much. My children are a blessing and a joy and I am so happy to have them to take care of. But today I am so angry with myself...i hate feeling depressed! I just can't seem to shake it. My house is all cluttered and I can't seem to get the energy to get it back in order. I have nothing to wear to church (it's so embarrassing!!!) or even in general since I'm not pregnant this winter. I think I am going to try and take everyone to Kohl's to try and get something for church at least. I dress up the kids so cute and Dan looks nice and I'm just pathetic.
Yesterday I went to the thrift store and bought what I thought was a really pretty dress for naval ball and when I got back to the car (dan had taken me to look and they stayed in the car) Dan was so angry for having to wait and the kids were asking me what took so long. HONESTLY!!! I needed a stupid dress and it's really hard to try stuff one with everyone with me. I can't go over there by myself because it's scary and I don't have the money to go to the mall and get one. Not to mention I'm at home all day taking care of them and there's no reason they can't wait 40 min. for me to find a dumb dress. So anyway...I get home and Dan doesn't like the dress and says I should go hunting in it because it's orange. It's more of a red/burnt orange color. So now i have the dumb dress that I paid $22 for that I can't return and I called him today and said I didn't' even want to go. I have no time, money or desire to try and find a formal dress to fit this gross body that has had 4 kids! Not to mention anytime I have tried to get involved in group exercise I end up only being able to go about every 4th class and it's a huge waste of money. I would love to exercise, but well...it just never works out. And that would be fine except for when I'm supposed to go to Navy ball and have to wear a dress.

So I am going to try now to clean up my basement and get things in order again. Somehow a clean house seems to kick me out of a rut like this. I hate feeling like this! There is no reason I need to feel sorry for myself. I am so blessed and happy to be able to stay home.
Thanks for letting me vent...