5 Years Ago Today

5 years ago today I met my amazing Katie. In some ways it seems like only yesterday, in others it seems like a lifetime ago. She is brilliant, loving, stubborn, and strong. I am blessed beyond my imagination. (no fancy restaruant for her, the park and McDonald's is how she wanted to celebrate~ my kind of girl)

2 Years Ago Today

Two years ago today, I met my amazing daughter, Sarah. We celebrated by spending some quality time alone at our neighborhood park. Later this weekend, we will all go out to eat to celebrate.

Who would have known this little angel would be such a little spitfire!! I am so blessed to be her mommy!!

My kids and their cousins

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

The Super Bowl!!

The team Katie cheers for made it to the Super Bowl. Exciting, but not when it is SNOWING outside!! Brrrrrrrrr!!!!!!! Poor Katie froze her little butt off, but it was worth it because we won and she got a trophy!!

Pray for Sarah Grace

For over a year now, I have followed this blog http://www.twointaiwan.blogspot.com/. Sarah Grace's family has been waiting 17 months to bring her home from Taiwan. Please pray that she will get to join her forever family soon.

Another One Bites the Dust

Another tooth, that is. Katie lost tooth #5 today. It's been loose since September, but I told her not to pull it out until after school pictures (which were a few weeks ago). I need to go find our "Tooth-Fairy" pillow!!

Cheerleader Pictures

Happy Halloween!!

Katie was an Auburn cheerleader and Sarah was Dora this year. We went "Trick-or-Treating" and had a great time. After we went one way around the neighborhood, we came back home. I thought we were just emptying their pumpkins to go back out again, but surprisingly, they both said they were done. We spent the rest of the evening sitting in our driveway to pass out candy. Our whole cul-de-sac sat outside to do this, which was nice. I just love our neighborhood!!

In Auburn We Believe

In Auburn We Believe
Auburn is more than one football seasonand more than one sport.

Auburn is more than winning and more than losing.

Auburn is passion and pride, family and friends.

Auburn is fall and winter, spring and summer.

Auburn is now.

Auburn is forever.

In Auburn We Believe!

Mail Lady Sarah

Sarah's teacher has a lot of creative ideas. Today she came home as "Mail Lady Sarah". Thanks, Mrs.D. for being so wonderful with my baby girl!!

Fall Cheerleading

Katie is starting to like being a cheerleader. When we first started, Katie would often walk over to me during practice and yell, "Why did you sign me up for this!!!" She hasn't said that in a while. Even one of the other moms commented to me the other day how far Katie has come and that she has really started to blossom. Katie loves their halftime dance. I'll have to post it here soon.

Sarah is Four!!

My wild-child is four today. She is my little bundle of energy and definitely keeps me on my toes. She makes me laugh and has given me many grey hairs. I am so blessed to be her mommy, too!!

Katie is Six!!

I can't believe my baby is now six!! What a beautiful young lady she has become. I am so blessed to be her mommy!!

Katie, the cheerleader

We survived Hurricane Ike!!

Hurricane Ike started coming on land Friday evening. Our power flickered on and off until about 10:30 PM when it went out for good. We went to bed shortly after the power went out. Katie then said, "Hey, you said we could watch TV!!" I reminded her that we had no power. "Try again!!" she replied.

The storm was very noisy and scary. I did not sleep much, but thankfuly the girls did. We did not go into the closet like we probably should have, but I did think about it several times. By morning, it was still very windy, but the worst was over. I went outside to look around our house and we looked OK, except for the gate that had it's latch torn off.

By 2:00 we had out power restored!! 2 million without power and somehow ours was restored quickly, thank God!! 6 waking hours for the girls without power was too much for them. : )

By 5:00 we had phone and Internet.

I did find out that 2 of our dear neighbors had devastating damage during the storm. They were the only ones in the cul-de-sac to board every window and yet they had the most damage. Sometimes life is ironic. My heart goes out the them.

A Visit to the Speech Therapist

Today we went to Texas Children's Hospital for a video fluoroscopy, also called a palate study. Sarah, my little loud-mouth dynamo, would not talk at all for Kris, the speech therapist. Talking is essential for the study. They needed her to say things like "yellow yo-yo", "wow wee" and "really low". She refused to say them for Kris. Kris would leave the room and Sarah would say them loudly for me. Kris said the study would be pointless if Sarah was not willing to cooperate, to which I agreed. Kris knows our local speech therapist, Lesa, and they have talked in length about Sarah's speech issues. Using this information and what she did hear Sarah say (quietly and through the door), Kris went to go talk to Dr. Stal. Dr. Stal decided to do a p-flap surgery on Sarah to help her speech. First we have to get Sarah's tonsils out. 3 months after the surgery, Dr. Stal will do the p-flap. I am excited to be moving forward.

1st day of school!!!!

My babies both started elementary school today. Katie is in kindergarten in our neighborhood elementary school and Sarah is in ppcd (preschool program for children with disabilities) at a different elementary school in our district. I was so worried about both of them today, but both did great and are looking forward to going back tomorrow.

I asked Katie if she learned any rules today and she said, "Yes. Do not touch the walls and do not touch the water fountain."

Aqua Globes

Gone are the days when PBS or Noggin was the only TV channel Katie would watch. She now sometimes watches big kid cartoon channels, which unfortunately have commercials. She is easily influenced by them. We have a flowerpot on our front porch and the flowers are usually pretty wilted. Every time we leave the house, Sarah tells me to water the flowers. However, Katie insists that water alone will not help the poor flowers. We MUST get Aqua Globes < /div>

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Wordless Wednesday

Getting Old

I just thought this was funny.....