Tuesday Morning Ramblings

Baby loves to smile and make eye contact, she can light up a room with her big blue eyes. When I look at her though it takes me back to 3 years ago because she and her sister look so much alike it is unreal at times. Baby is starting to get a few rolls here and there (very cute I might add). We will be doing the dreadful immunizations this week though. :(

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Claire makes me so proud every day. She is a great big sister, and she is great at playing by herself when mommy has to tend to baby. She loves helping me set the table, get drinks for everyone (even if sometimes that means only getting 1 tbs of water), and helping me mix ingredients. She is definetely on her way to being a good helpmeet, which makes me so proud. When we picked her up from class on Sunday she had done the most adoreable drawing of a person with some other things around her, when we asked her to tell us about her drawing she informed me she had drawn her with a toaster......apparently our toaster has more meaning than I realized!
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Hubby is having another rough month at work, we just need the rain to go away! July has been the wettest month on record here, which is not good for the construction world. We just keep praying that it will get better.
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I am still running. Hubby found a fitness website thingy, which according to it the 3/4 mile that I am running so far is just under a mile and a half because we live on hills. I am however not going to use that as an excuse to not run further...I have four more weeks to make it to my halfway mark in my goal. The last few days though I feel like I am not making it as far (even though I am) and it seems to be getting harder....maybe it is psychological. I know I can do this, I just have to do it.
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People who have been around for a while are trying to figure out what is going on with my blog makeover. When I first started I used our names...for security reasons I changed that all up....then I went to "organized chaos" and remained that way for a while, but then I realized I never talked about how O.C.D. I was or how uptight I am around the house, plus I accidently ran into another blog that went by the same name, who beared the name much better than I could. I am not sure if I will remain a "happy home" but for now that is what is sticking, because after all we are a happy home!!! So bear with me over the next few weeks while I tweak it up a bit. Make sure to stop by 5 Minutes for Mom as they have teamed up with Best Buy to give away a Flat Panel LCD HDTV. Make sure you enter by August 17th. Hey it's free and it's worth a shot right?
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After lots of prayer, we have decided that when we post pictures we will be leaving them up for a short amount of time and then delete them. Since we have gone "public" with the blog, we don't want our children's pictures getting into the hands of crazies. No nothing has happened, and I am sure all of my readers are fine upstanding citizens...but an ounce of precaution is worth.....

For our family that reads this....we will still post some we just wont leave them up for an extended period of time. I hope everyone understands. :)

I am copying Shannon and renaming my children for the purpose of this blog...I just hope I don't accidently call them by their blog names in real life! Plus sometimes the initial things gets me confused! Claire will be my oldest daughters name and Avery will be the baby.....in case you forget (or myself) I will put it in the side bar :)