My Wednesday nights now consist of a women's book study on this book~



It has already been so great! This book really helps me look at marriage in a different way. All the while, Grace just loves her Honeybees class and then I have choir after that! I hate I will miss today because I have a baby shower for a close friend at work tonight, but am excited about her shower.

Loving Wednesdays!!~

A Day of Messes

I finally figured out how to get that template off of our blog. I am happy!

We had a day of messes yesterday. Grace had two accidents (wet) in our house yesterday and one included on our couch! This is a first and a first of accidents since the first week we started potty training. I was a bit discouraged when she did it a second time on the kitchen floor and walked in it!:) So back to the grind today and she is right back on track.

Also, all of the snow has left our yard a big mess this year. The snow finally melted yesterday in what seems like over a week and then the ground turns to mud. Needless to say, after carrying Allie (our Pomeranian) out, her paws are very muddy. We have to bring her in and take her straight to the tub to wash her paws off so she doesn't track in the house. Today, we have another 2 inches of snow that came in over the morning hours so we are back to snow covered grounds. It seems like since the day after Thanksgiving we have had snow on the ground about constantly.

I think we are all ready for some warm weather!! It won't be long..

Here are some random pics. She is looking at her new boots in one of the pics. She is proud!:) I got these and a lot of other stuff at my favorite consignment shop (Buttons, Bows, and Britches) the other day. I got the best deals that day! I got like 7 pairs of shoes~ some for Grace (inc. snow boots for Grace) and others for our nephew, and neice to be:), and socks, Old Navy pair of p.j.'s (with tags still on them), safety first item (in the package), a Dumbo stuffed doll for Grace, etc. for 19 dollars for all of that!! They all look about brand new too if not new with some great name brands too! Love me some deals!!!

Ugh... Blogger

The template on our blogger got messed up a while back and I can't figure out how to get the blogger template off and just have the cutest blog on the block background. It is like it meshes all these things together now and I can't figure out how to get the old stuff off. Also, when I upload images the code only pops up (in words) on blogger so I can't see the pics on the blog till I publish or preview them after uploading. I get tired of messing with it so if any of you know what we did and how to change that.. I welcome your advice:)

Puzzles and Fun..

I took Grace to Puzzles Fun Dome last Friday for some 'out of the house' fun. We just love this place. It has bouncies, a preschool play area, arcade, art area, a little theater, mini golf, and a bowling alley (if you want to pay extra for the mini golf, bowling, and arcade). I was amazed at how brave Grace has become because she didn't hesitant to climb the mountain of a slide and go down it. It is huge!! Thankfully, it wasn't very crowded either and I noticed some adults getting in the bouncies and going down the slide. I asked the guy if it was okay if I got in because Grace was asking me to bounce with her:). He said "sure!" so that is just what I did. I even climbed the big slide and went down twice behind her. She just LOVED me getting in on the action and it WAS fun! She played an arcade game (where she tried to race a car) and colored a picture before we left in the art area. She even brought some pages home with her to color and I am including a pic of her sponge bob that she colored. Look closely because she colored his legs, arms, and all of the details you see all by herself.. in the lines!! I am amazed at how she can concentrate on an area and color so well. I will have to post some of her drawings too on here some time, where she is drawing real pictures!!

She was good and tired when we left and it was loads of fun for the both of us:)

Wednesday night activities have started up in high gear and Grace is back in Honeybees, I am doing the Mom 2 Mom again this semester and of course, choir practice. We just LOVE Wednesdays! Adam is in full swing with school. He is unable to help with Awana this semester since he is taking 3 classes this semester and working full-time. They are split in terms and he is doing well with all of it so far!

Around the House..

Since Christmas, I have spent a good bit of time just catching up around the house, with work in between. We have had two couples from our church have babies lately and we are providing meals for them. I will take the 2nd meal tomorrow. Also, our DEAR friends the Frasure's have been going through some tough times right now. They discovered right before Christmas that their 2 month old baby had hydrocephalus and required surgery. They were visiting family in GA at the time and had to come back here to Kosair's hospital for her to have the brain surgery to have the shunt put in to drain the fluid off of her brain. I know it was very scary for them. Praise God the surgery went well but they have to keep a close watch on her and are having to keep her away due to her risk of infection after surgery. I was able to go see Evie in the hospital after surgery and she was doing well. Resting pretty well because they had her on pain meds. Still praying for them daily as they learn to care for her, etc.

Also, still praying for my step-sister Tracey who will have her LAST radiation treatment tomorrow and possibly no more chemo unless the oncologist decides to do more before or after surgery. The cat scan is in 4 weeks and surgery 2 weeks after that.

I also found out that my Dad's cousin Charles, died Sunday night. He was like a best friend to my Dad and was there so much for my Dad when he was sick. He spent a lot of time at our house. I am SOO glad we got to see him when we came to AL and talk with him about salvation. I pray that the Lord will use this to further His kingdom! Very sad though to lose such a soft spoken, and friendly man! He had been through so much though.. renal failure, etc. etc.

There are many other requests out there and I know a lot of people are dealing with all kinds of things.. Please remember these..

Besides this we've had some great quality time around the house. I am going to post a pic of a video of Grace singing and dancing with her Dora microphone (that she just loves)!

It has also been very cold and snowy lately. It snowed again today and is tonight. We did take time to play in it a little bit. We made snow angels, threw snow balls, and Grace helped her Daddy shovel the road:)

My Darlings~:)

Potty SUCCESS!!!

In the past week in a half or so we have stayed around the house a good bit. We got right on potty training again. We had tried potty training with her a couple of times before but Grace was just NOT interested or just didn't get it and was resistant to it. (Didn't even want to SIT on the potty--she would cry to not have to..). I first tried to put her in panties and then a pull-up on top and this didn't work for her. She didn't like the wet feeling of the panties against her skin but it didn't stop her. So I decided to go straight to bare bottom. After wetting the floor only once she decided real fast that she did NOT like it! So I continued to let her go around the house bare bottom with a gown or shirt on and it was a constant reminder that if she had to "go" she HAD to sit on the potty. We remind her a lot that if she has to go she has to use the potty because she will wet or get the floor dirty:). IT HAS WORKED!!!! We are SOOO proud of her! It was obvious that she was absolutely ready this time! With in a week she was having NO accidents except while sleeping. Besides that the only accidents was when I was real busy and unable to consistently remind her or when she had a pull-up on (during the first week). She can wear panties now all the time when she isn't sleeping and even told us when she needed to go while out at a restaurant after church on Sunday and went, and didn't wet her self the whole time we were out last night. She is all business and this has included poops!

Her reward system has been either a m&m, piece of chocolate, marshmallow, etc. AND she had a poster that she got to put a sticker on each time she used the potty. She got a certificate when she completed it:) and now she started a new Elmo calendar that came in her Elmo potty coloring book. We let her put a sticker wherever she wants when she uses the potty. Such a big girl!!