Birthday's

I don't think I have ever experienced a birthday with so much crying, tears, laughter, and smiles. Only Lydia .... as Rachael describes her "sweet and spicy". Which is so true!

Getting your ears pierced is a very dramatic event. Especially in the eyes of a five year old. Lydia has been talking about getting her ears pierced for a pretty long time. So this was the day, it was gonna happen! Little did we know it was gonna be filled with crying and begging. But she put her big girl pants on and went through with it. And oh how she loved it!

All her wishes came true! Getting her ears pierced, her bunny cake, hello kitty, and  her Rapunzel movie :) She was one happy five year old!

The Bug Zone

It's VBS time, say what?! What an exciting week it has been. I have been preparing for this week in many ways. Since I am the church intern and all. I have helped a lot in the process. From organizing the books to help paint the signs. And what fun it has been.

This weeek I started out helping with the 2 and 3's I got to say I have some pretty awesome decorating skills. hehe. Especially when it comes to bugs. 

Let's be truthful I either stole the idea from someone else or had help from my mom. 

By the time Tuesday came a long we were lacking on kids but had to many teachers for our wonderful 2 and 3's. So I hop over to help out with the jr. high. It was fun. We went swimming yesterday and today we went up to Pregnancy Solutions in Akron to do service work. If you didn't know I use to volunteer at PSS so going back there today was so much fun. To see all the workers and tell them about my opportunity to go to France. They were so excited for me. It was such a blessing. 

If I had to rate this week of VBS so far I would give it 9.5 out of 10. It's been great so far just have to survive one more day. I believe I am helping out in the kitchen tomorrow so I get to stick close to the food :) Always a good place to be. 

I Miss The Christmas Season Already. . .

I really do miss the Christmas season already. I miss the endless Christmas movies and music. I miss business of Christmas. Which my mother says what got me sick this week. I didn't know any one could feel so miserable in their life from being sick between the stomach ache, bright lights, dizziness, and being sick to my stomach. . .   I am skipping work today and am sick in bed. Since I can't play with all my new stuff or show it off by wearing it in public. I thought I would brag about it on my blog :) Bear with me, I am just a sick girl in bed, sad over the Christmas season.

So I think the thing I am most excited about are my movies. I asked for the first toy story and my grandma got me all three. I am so excited and can't wait to watch them. hehe. I will probably end up watching at least one of them with my preschooler's this week :)

My mom and sister got me Columbia jacket in pink of course because that is my favorite color. And both my grandma's got me scarves with shades of pink in them. So I will look very fashionable when I wear my new jacket and scarves out. 

I also got two books for Christmas. "Wonderland Creek" by Lynn Austin and "Sherlockian" by Graham Moore. I am so excited to read these books. Lynn Austin is my favorite author and I love any book or movie about Sherlock Holmes. 

My cousin made this for me off of Pinterest, isn't it so cute?!

These are only a few of  the awesome things I got like lace up boots, tights, fuzzy slippers, giant Tangled coloring book. . . the list is very long so I wont bored you with all of them. But I hope you guys had a great Christmas and got everything you were wishing for. 

Christmas Love!

A few days ago, my facebook status was " I absolutely love Christmas." And I do. I love the music, the cheesy movies, the reindeer crafts, baking cookies. . . 

. . . the parties with friends, the ice skating, getting a real christmas tree and decorating it with family. 

I also love Christmas presents and of course I love the best Christmas gift of all. Christ Birth. This morning in church the pastor said he only ask one thing each year for the children's Christmas program. That it be about Jesus' birth and not some modern thing. Which I agree with him. Because that is what Christmas is all about. 

I brought in the veggie tales' Christmas movie "The toy that saved Christmas" the other day in to my preschoolers for them to watch. And when it was all over the only thing my kids said was "Why wasn't Santa in it?" Is that what kids really think Christmas is all about?! Its depressing to think they do. 

On a happy note I hope you guys all have a wonderful Christmas season and listen to plenty of Christmas music :)

Tuesday Tunes . . .Fly Away

I will admit I stole the idea of Tuesday Tunes from another blog. I thought it was such a cute idea that I should do it too. And because I have been lacking in blog post recently. (And that's mostly because I don't really have a life but that is a different story for a different day.)

So for the past two days I have been thinking about which song I should put up for my Tuesday Tunes. And I had a lot of song choices considering I spend most of the day listening to the radio at work but I was having a lot of trouble deciding. Then today I asked my preschool class to sing me a song and Evan (my favorite country star of our little preschool class) starts singing me this song. . . 

You can probably imagine how precious the moment was. And the best part is this isn't the first time he has sang a country song to me. But I thought this was a prefect song with a perfect story to start off my Tuesday Tunes :)