I'm trying to find a cute, but not country, recipe box and am having no luck. Does anyone have any suggestions? Everything I have found, like I said, is either a wood pine or has roosters and gingham corn all over it. Which if you are into that, is perfectly fine, but not everyone is. I did find a clear acrylic one online that would work, but the shipping cost more than the box itself, so I kept looking. And a stainless steel one for about $40. I don't need one that bad! They are harder to find than I thought they would be, so if you ladies have ANY suggestions as to which sites or stores have them (I live in the Destin/Ft. Walton area), please let me know. I've run out of pages in my book and thought this would be a much easier way to organize it all. I look forward to your suggestions! : )

Here are my latest purchases from the consignment shop. I need to dig around and find more thing to take up there! It's nice to buy so much with so little cash.

Red, white and blue bubble - $5

And here's a photo of Christopher after his shower last night. He loves having his hair like this.

We finally have a walker! Ok, so she's not walking all the time, but she's walking about half the time and as the day goes on she walks more and more. Tonight we pulled out the squeaker shoes Grammie got her for Christmas and she went crazy when she heard the noise they make. It was really cute! I am SOOOOOOOO excited that she's started walking. (She's so heavy!) It's fun to watch her follow her brother around and to see him get excited she's walking on her own.

(Showing off her apron that Grammie made her.)

Yesterday was not the best day we've ever had. I could go on and on, but I'll try to keep it short. Let's just say that I never got out of my pj's until almost 5:00 in the afternoon and the only reason I did was b/c Christopher really wanted us to go on a family walk to see the diggers.

The kids were up by 6:30 and I think it was b/c they couldn't wait to see their daddy. After he left for work was when everything started to fall apart. Since Christopher never napped the day before I knew he was going to have a tough day. I could not seem to wake up for anything, my soda wasn't helping at all. Sophie went down for a nap around 8:30 and I crashed on the couch after setting Christopher up at the computer watching the Disney on Ice video I found. Of course he kept messing up the mouse every time so I had to keep getting up to help him. Then Sophie wakes up. The kids start fighting again and I say it's time to start baking some cookies, thinking that would help. I was wrong. The kids were excited, but then Christopher started melting faster than chocolate chips he was eating. He was grabbing them by the handfuls and Sophie kept falling off her little step stool b/c she was grabbing her chips with both hands.



I take the chips away from C-man, so he finds the little candy bars next to him and eats two of them. I take the next two away from him and he gets so mad he starts hitting me. We quickly go to time out. I know he's truly exhausted so I'm not that mad at him, but he still needs to be punished.

He takes a few licks and says he likes it. Then when I turn my head he puts it in his mouth and bites down.

Don't worry he spit it all out. It was pretty funny!! We put our cookies in the oven and go play until they are ready.

Sophie sneaking over to her stepstool to wait for her cookies. She LOVES sweets!!

Christopher making funny faces for the camera. (Yes, he is still wearing his pj's too.)

My beautiful tulips that my parents got me for my birthday finally bloomed.

The kids enjoying their cookies. I did too. It was a much better afternoon than morning.

Brandon came home early and just in time b/c C-man wanted to go for a family walk. First they went to dig out back and they had to much fun. Christopher took Sophie for a ride in his tractor.

There was still one excavator working when we got there, which was perfect b/c they kids were so excited to watch it. Sophie actually now has a word for anything digger/truck related and it's "duh" and sounds like she's trying to say "duck." We think that dump is the closest sound she can make right now, but what's funny is everytime she see one in a book or outside she starts shouting, "duh! duh! duh!" and pointing while trying to get Christopher's attention. It's so cute! We ended up having a good evening and put the kids to bed early.

Brandon got home tonight around 6:00, an hour earlier than originally planned, which was perfect b/c it gave him plenty of time to play with the kids. Christopher wouldn't take a nap all day and fell asleep on the way to Destin. Sophie wasn't sure what to think about the man taking her out of her carseat and immediately wanted mommy. It took quite a while to get Christopher to wake up and when he did he was very excited to see who was in front of him. As we were loading his stuff in the van, Sophie started bouncing up and down in her seat shouting, "Daa-yee!!! Daa-yee!!! Daa-yee!!!" It was great! We are glad to have him home and I'll post some of his photos when I get a chance to go through them. The ones he sent me are awesome!!! Welcome home, baby!!!! : )

This man is on his way home from Peru. We can't wait to see him!! He should arrive on Sunday night after hours of flying and a really long drive from Miami. We ask that nobody take any potty breaks and only drive-thru for meals so you can get here faster. We love you, Daddy!!!

Ok, so I know I already posted something today and that most of you probably freaked when you saw the title, but I had to add one more thing that happened while blogging today. You know how you have to type in those curvy looking letters (some sercurity thing) when you comment on someone's post? Well, usually they don't spell anything that even looks like a normal word, but today it did. You want to know what those letters were???? s-p-e-r-m. Yup! SPERM!!! And you want to hear the kicker? Apparently I don't know how to spell that b/c I had to do it again! I think I was in my foggy state of mind when I was doing it. I just had to share that with everyone. I thought it was pretty funny that of all the words it could have spelled THAT was the one I got. Here are two more photos of the kids I had to add:

Sophie's head full of curls, which I am totally in love with!!!! I hope it stays, but if not I'm fine with a bob. There is nothing cuter than a little girl with a bob haircut and a bow in it!

And of course, Christopher's new shoes. He is one of the rare ones who loves Mater more than Lightning McQueen and as soon as I saw these we grabbed them. They were on sale and his best friend, William, has the LM ones. I can't wait to see them wear them at the same time. Oh, and yes, he only wears these now. Who cares if I got him some knock off crocs or he has super cool New Balance tennis shoes. It's Mater from here on out. Do it while you can son, do it while you can. : )

NO, it's not a baby! Or a puppy. I"m talking about the blog. I was looking at a blog my mom sent me and ended up on Etsy again. I am slow and in my own little bubble, so I didn't know what Etsy was until a couple months ago. I don't allow myself to go there b/c I know I will get completely lost and my child will be screaming for an hour waiting for me to get her out of the crib from her nap and I still will be drooling over all the wonderful things I can buy online. SO, I decided that I would only let myself play there a little here and there and then add links to my favorites on my blog. This is more for me b/c I'm terrible about finding something and then losing it just as fast b/c something comes up and I can't find it again. Now, if you want to save me some time and send me your favorites, that would be awesome too! I have this obsession, that I have yet to actually dive into, with pottery. I took 2 different classes in college and well, I was terrible. Ok, so the first thing my teacher said was it takes about 5 years to get really good and be able to throw something successfully everytime. I knew then and there that I didn't have a future as a potter. I don't have the patience to wait 5 years to be good at something, I'd rather appreciate someone else doing it. Also, my other classes were so time consuming and my pottery prof. didn't care if you showed up, just had your work completed for the last day, so I was usually working the last week of class and did the easiest thing I could think of. Now, I'm excited b/c there are TONS of antique, and other shops of the sort, around here that I'm dying to check out! I haven't been in any of them yet b/c I have 2 small children that I know will break something as we are walking down the aisle and I don't want to pay for some tacky figurine when I want to spend my money on something pretty and interesting. My goal is to go this summer. I know, I sound silly for dreaming about going into a store to leasurely shop without kids, wait a minute, no I don't! What mom doesn't dream about that?? Anyway, I KNOW that I will be able to do it this summer b/c I plan on having both kids enrolled in Mother's Day Out. Now THAT is really what I'm dreaming of! : )