I Did It Because I HAD to............

I was made aware that Disney was planning to put Cinderella in the "vault" and you know what that means! You can't buy it anymore for, like, 10 years!!!! I just thought it would be a tragedy if baby girl had to wait 10 years to see such a classic. So, to mimimize the affliction she would face, I picked it up on my latest Target stop. One more thing, waiting patiently, in the dark recesses of my closet.........................

My Favorite Card

My friend, Danielle, sent this to me and I just keep re-reading it because it makes me laugh every time. The inside: "Pearl looked around for the flag, then realized with horror that the sound was coming from her arm-dangle." HAAAHAAAHHAA

Which is why, folks, I am at the gym doing the tricep press and kickbacks..................

They Say it's All Downhill From Here........

Yesterday I hit the big 3-0! I know. You can hardly believe it. I had a hard time believing it myself. All these years I thought I was 23 and just yesterday I found out it wasn't true. I had an unexpected visitor yesterday that just made my day! Around 10:45 my mom came over. That wasn't out of the ordinary........however, her behavior was really strange. She kept looking out the window and pacing around the kitchen. Also, I think I'm going to give my mom the quote of the day for my 30th birthday. After asking me about how it felt to be thirty and hearing my comment she said, "Well..........today is Elvis' birthday, too. And look at him........He's dead. So, you should be thankful!" I just cracked up. Anyway, back to the visitor. At 11 the doorbell rang and there was my sister!!!! I had no idea she was coming and I had just said a couple days ago that I wished she lived closer so we could have lunch on my birthday. It was so nice to have her here and to be able to have a bit of "girl time" with our mom. Thanks, Trac for driving all the way here to go to Stoveworks!
Mom made me a strawberry cake with buttercream icing.......Yummy. We came to our house and ate cake after a nice dinner at Jeffrey's with my parents and Bobby's parents.
As at all birthdays since having children, I had extra help blowing out the candles. This is a commemorative picture of me wishing that my metabolism doesn't slow dramatically and that I won't be forced to wear "mom jeans" while I'm shopping at Coldwater Creek. Maybe all that happens at your 40th birthday now since 30 is the new 20 or whatever they always say on the Today show.............. All joking aside, I am very thankful that I'm celebrating another year. Thirty or fourty or fifty.......whatever. I am happy, healthy and blessed and I wouldn't trade any of my years. My twenties gave me lots of fun, a wonderful husband, a beautiful home, and three spectacular boys. I'm looking forward to what my thirties hold in store for me!!

Just a Pinch of Salt and a Dash of Pepper......

or a PILE of salt and a HEAP of pepper. Whichever you choose. I have learned my lesson many times over with this number three child..........You cannot leave him alone for any length of time. No matter how well you think you have prepared the area, there is always something for him to get into. I walked up on him and noticed what he had done. Luckily, I had already had my camera out and it was lying close by. Before he took note of me I snapped him in action. That way I could have proof before he looked at me with that precious face and said, "I not do it, mommy. I not." He says that often (of course, always in a fib). "Rhett! What are you doing???" His face is, "Oh, hello Mother. Are you speaking to me? Is that a direct question that requires an answer or merely a rhetorical one?"
This is my entire, new black pepper can and a shaker of salt that was full. All to waste. My vaccum is now well seasoned.
I need a third eye to be watchful with. Not really, God. I know you could do it for me but in reality that would be really weird.............

Adios, 2007!

What a great year it has been. I am amazed that another year has come and gone so quickly and I am looking forward to all of the things that are to come in 2008. I don't usually make any resolutions (that I actually keep anyway) but I did come up with just a couple this year. First, I am challenging myself to read the Bible all the way through this year. Our church put the challenge out there and I thought I would really like to try it. My second is to try REALLY hard to be more in tune with our finances. Bobby does it all (that IS is profession, you know) and I never even think about it. So, I'm not saying I want to take it over this year, only that I want to be more aware. This time next year I'll probably still be a financial moron, only on a lesser scale......yeah, a lesser scale moron. That's my goal. Thirdly, I am going to stop eating sweets, white bread, refined carbohydrates and any type of boxed cracker or cereal.................... Wait, I just decided to nix that one and just keep the first two. There is no use in just setting myself up for failure. Besides, that's basically my entire diet so I would then have to be on some type of feeding tube and that's just not that fashionable. You never see anyone in InStyle magazine wearing one of those. So, with my resolutions posted on a public forum, I am now looking forward to 2008 and all the things God has in store for us this year. I will be praying Proverbs 25:25 this year and waiting to hear my "good news from a distant land" !!

Santa Came!!

The Morgan crew had a great Christmas. Rhett was so happy to see that Santa actually brought him the horse he has been asking for for the past 2 months. I will never forget the chuckle that he let out when he saw it. It neighs and makes hoof noises when you rock on it. Too cute.
Grant's favorite present to my surprise was this Spiderman suit. He has been wearing it non-stop............sometimes in combination with the Darth Vader head that Cade got. Little freaky. Darthpiderman? Cade got just what he had asked for. Transformers and Star Wars stuff. He was a little under the weather for Christmas Day but it didn't stop him for long. Aunt Tracie and Uncle Chris brought their Wii with them and we played it for forever. Cade is currently the boxing champion in this household and stands undefeated. I'm pretty sure the game was messed up. I was knocking him all over the place and still couldn't win!!
Tracie helped us bake some Christmas cookies. Rhett was a big "helper" if that is what you want to call it. My biggest job was keeping him from eating the flour (???) I know you're asking why but I'm sorry, I don't have the answer to that. We all know flour is not the fun part to eat. He really enjoyed using the cookie cutters too.
Tracie and Chris got the boys a huge dinosaur coloring page and they also spent some time working on that. It was a day spent in their pajamas and eating nothing but junk. Seriously. By the end of the day I fed them Honey Nut Cheerios for dinner. Rhett had already eaten his own body weight in cookies and unfortunately so did I..............

We had a great time doing family Christmas with my fam on Sunday and Bobby's fam on Monday. Me, camera queen, who takes my camera everywhere, forgot it on both occasions. Those memories will just have to be forever stored in my mind. Also, in my mind this Christmas Day were thoughts of a woman, somewhere in El Salvador carrying my baby girl in her womb. Does she know of the savior that was born this day for her? I pray she does and I also am praying that she feels the comfort and peace that that same savior will provide her as she prepares to give me one of the greatest earthly gifts I will ever receive. Next year my hope is that I will have a face to place on the little girl that runs through my mind when I'm idle. And until then I will not be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, I will present my requests to God. Then, His peace, which is greater than anything I can understand will guard my heart and my mind in Him. Phillipians 4:7 tells me just that. Merry Christmas to all my faithful blog readers ( even those of you that lurk! :)

Somebody snitched on me............

Thanks to my friend, Heather, (then later the Today Show), I learned of a fun new tradition to start for Christmas with the boys. It's called "Elf on the Shelf" and the premise is that you get an elf delivered to your home that perches in various places to watch the boys to make sure they behave. He stays all day and then at night he reports back to Santa all that he's seen and heard. When they wake in the morning he is always in a different spot. This is where they found him this morning. They are loving this and have even spent the energy to run and find him to dish out dirt on each other. So much for brotherly love!!
Cade and Grant chose his name, "Alfie". Who knows where he'll be in the morning! I love this little idea. I often wonder why I couldn't have been the one to think up these things.