Fabulous and Fun and Prizes. . .

My cousin is doing this! She is always so fun. . . I am one of her 1st five which in turn means. . . well read on.

Something for YOU!!Something just for you! Lucky you! The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1- I make no guarantees that you will like what I make!
2- What I create will be just for you.
3- It'll be done this year. (might be a little while) (I will be waiting until I get my FAB-U-LOUS prize!)
4- You have no clue what it's going to be.
5- I reserve the right to do something extremely strange.

The catch? Oh, the catch is that you must repost this on your blog and offer the same to the first 5 people who do the same on your blog. The first 5 people to do so and leave a comment telling me they did win a FAB-U-LOUS homemade gift by me! Oh, and be sure to post a picture of what you win when you get it! Good luck!

Heart day!

Bret and I have never been big Valentiner's. In fact, I told him not to propose to me on Valentine's Day because it was to cheesy for me! (So he proposed on the 12th and went fishing with his brothers on V-day!)

I've decided it is because he's my "valentine" year around. He always does little things for me to show me that he loves me. He'll bring me home a hamburger @ lunch time because he knows I had a rough night up with sick kids. Or when he orders himself a Jamba juice he will get it with no banana (even though banana is his favorite and I am allergic) because he knows I will want just one sip!! Or he will mop the floor when I am running kids to dance class (he knows he will get lucky with that one- I hate mopping the floor!) And of course he tells me everyday how much he loves me. . . geez, I love that boy!!

So Valentine's day has become a family day at our house. We decorate the table and have pink pancakes and strawberry milk (yuck) for breakfast. Bret gets all his girls a valentine. This year he got them all lollipops that were as big as their heads! I don't know what he was thinking. He wanted to see their faces when they saw these monstrous suckers. Now that they are pumped full of sugar and literally bouncing off the furniture and walls, I am not sure it was worth it. But he loves his girls and the love him.

We took them swimming (Julia has been begging for weeks). That was fun to see them in swimsuits and winter coats loading up in the car to go swimming in 23 degree weather. It was fun we have this great pool with a slide, a wave pool and a lazy river. It was great.

Then Bret took the kiddos so I could go get my hair done. Cut it short and dyed it chocolate brown. LOVE IT! (that was scheduled pre-valentines day)

Then we put the kiddos to bed early due to too much sugar intake. Then we made dinner and watched a movie and went to bed. I love nights in with my hubby!

I'd love to post pictures. . . of the kiddos Valentine's day fun but the camera was lost on the last great ice fishing trip. Bret entered a fishing tournament but that is a whole different post! So until it is found amongst the worms and hooks or a new one purchased you are stuck with my words and that is it! But here is a picture of the love of my life from the computer. Can you believe he is fishing??? hee hee.

All in a days work. . .

We had planned a few weeks ago to take the kiddos ice fishing. I assumed that it would be a short lived activity. Especially if it was particularly cold outside or if the ice was cracking and shifting like it sometimes does. I was wrong. . . it was gorgeous, almost 60 degrees and the girls thought the popping noise of the ice was the sound of the fish getting ready to bite the hook! We spent 6 hours on the ice and needless to say my list of "to do" did not get done. But we had a such a great time!! The girls loved it!

Anna was a master fishergirl! She was putting on her own live bait, reeling 'em in, and tossing them back all by herself! Everyone caught plenty of fish! Eliza and Julia's favorite part was "sharing"their fish. They would caught one out of their own hole and then put it back in another hole. Eve caught a few and then the excitement of catching fish wore off. So she spent most of the afternoon messing around on the ice, pulling her sisters, her mother and herself on the sled.

Eliza was a crack up- she LOVES fishing

She just giggled and laughed the whole

time. She reels in her own fish and talks

to them like they are dear old friends!

And of course we can't have a day on the ice without grilling up some hotdogs! The thought that was pretty cool to barbeque right there out on the ice. It was a great day- with lots of great memories made. I am so grateful to live in such a beautiful place, to be blessed with such a wonderful family. These are the things I treasure the most.

Not pregnant. . . yet

Alright I have to edit the title of my blog. I am not pregnant. I only listed that as the title because we plan on having more. Just not yet!!! I did not even think that everyone would assume that I was by my title! So I have changed it and when I add "and counting" back on then I will expecting.
After today I will be putting off the addition. I had one home with the"runs", Julia got shots today for kindergarten and is suffering the side effects of them. She cried out today in pain "my legs don't work. Mommy why did you do this to me? I am a good kid mom!" Eliza decided that she needed to add to all the whining and whimpering and thus decided that she does not feel good either and needs a spot on my lap too.
Aaahh I love those days. . . is it bedtime yet?

Here We Go.

I have debated for the past 2 years as to whether or not to start a blog. I love reading my families and friends blogs- in fact it has become my Sunday afternoon ritual. I check up on everyone and see how they are doing. I haven't started my own because really how exciting can my life be? Does anyone really want to read about the comings and goings of good old Jessie?! Well if so great if not then this will serve as an excellent journal- since I have fallen off the wagon in writing in that too! So here it goes- hope you enjoy!