My Porcelain Doll

As a girl I collected porcelain dolls.  One Christmas I got my dream doll (the doll on the right).  I had always wanted one of these dolls.  It is in a blessing dress and weighs as much as you did at your birth.  When you hold it, it melts in your arms just like a brand new baby.  It is incredible.  I had asked and asked for one forever and never though I would get one.  I remember the Christmas I got her my grandma said,"now you can hold this baby until you get one of your own (referring to a real baby of course)." And that I did. I use to get her out of her box and carefully hold her and dream of having my own little baby girl in a long white dress.

Last weekend I pulled out my doll.  It finally hit me that I have my own baby girl now.   It was so meaningful to me that I actually shed a few tears.  All those years and now I am lucky enough to have a baby girl of my own.  Oh how I love my Keltsy Sue!

Annual Pumpkin Patch

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa!  This is a highlight of the season.  Pizza and Pumpkins!

Mud Pit .... Here We Come

Mud and my boys equals heaven.  They have loved this new found fun of having no grass. Cohen keeps telling me, "mom we can leave it like this.  We have bike trails everywhere.  We can even make jumps."

Ah only if I agreed.  My washing machine hasn't been happy with the laundry these days so I must say, even though I smile at their fun, inside I'm thinking how in the world am I suppose to get that clean. 

Construction Day 1

Yes, this is our backyard.  The lovely grass is completely gone. It took them less than an hour to rip everything out.  We are ripping it up and putting in a drainage system and then all new landscaping.  It is actually pretty exciting.

This picture is horrible, but see the tractor in the far right corner.  That was the hugest machine I've ever seen in my life. When I saw it scraping up the grass. I seriously got a little worried.  A few inches to far and they could have demolished my whole house with that tractor.    

  

Here's the first of the drainage system.  Let's pray it works.  Our basement has flooded each winter and spring since we've lived here. 

Now this nice weather needs to hold out for us to finish this project!  Stay tuned...

Keltsy Sue's Blessing Day

It was a wonderful day.  We felt so blessed to have so many of our friends and family with us.

Life

Yes, we are alive.  This new little sweet bundle of joy is kicking my butt.  Okay.... there you have it ...all you people who have said, "Man you sure have your hands full." I finally admit it. Yes, I do and I have no idea how to un-fill them or get life back in control.  Everyone tells me that this is the fun of three, life is out of control and it never gets back in control, that's why it is so easy to have more kids from here on out.  Well I am a person who likes control, predictability and calmness.  I hope I can start to adjust!  Enough of my troubles.


Here's a quick recap of the last three months (or at least the recap of what I took pictures of).

 Chad's Birthday

 New room and new bunk beds!

 Complete independence = TROUBLE !!!

 First day of Kindergarten.  It's all about the backpack.

 TROUBLE.....

Messes everywhere. I try to remind myself that they are simply trying to entertain themselves...so why should I be upset?

 Keltsy Sue learned how to smile.

Yes count those suckers.... three all to himself.  More TROUBLE!

I think I studied the wrong thing in college

Have you ever found an obsession that you innocently start and really try hard to give up?  For the past year, I've been on a quest to get my house decorated --really decorated, like interior design style decorated (of course without the real interior designer to help).  Decorated like the magazines. Ahh my dream.  This desire lead to me searching the internet continually for ideas, styles and products.  Most of which I discovered I could not afford.  Hence, why my house is still not decorated at all.... so I've failed miserably, but I ramble....

Anyways, my goal was to have a few rooms done before Keltsy Sue arrived.  I've gotten close to getting where I would like given my limited funds for such a project.  None the less, I have tried and tried to stop searching blogs for ideas, but I crave it.  I just found two new blogs with amazing ideas.

source: Things That Inspire                              

Look at this amazing staircase.... please tell me who would not want this to be their's.

source: Things That Inspire  

And this is what I would love my front room to look like.  Just put a grand piano in there instead of a table and call it good.  

  source: Alice Lane Home

Look at this master bed room.... peaceful!  I love it.

Honestly, I think I should have studied interior design and architecture. I'm fascinated by it.  I'm amazed at how the colors, shape configurations and lighting can contribute so strongly to a feel.  A feel of comfort, security, cleanliness, productivity, etc.  I would have failed all my classes because I'm not good at it in anyway, but it sure interests me.  Biology, chemistry...please, who needed medical school anyways.... sure hasn't gotten me too far!