Snow Day

It snowed a lot in Conway today! I had to go to work, but got home at 4pm. Sydnee went out and played several times. We got Chloee out for a little bit. She didn't know what to think about all the fuss. I can't believe there is sooo much snow. Probably 6-8 inches so far. We are suppose to get more before the morning. Perryville was out today and will be out tomorrow. I'm debating whether to work on the Valentine box or not. :) Sydnee's party should be Thursday, we'll see if they go to school. Time for some Hot Cocoa.

My New Sister!

Well, my baby brother got hitched! I now have a new sister, Ashley. I am so excited for them. Now that the wedding is over, maybe they can come over and have dinner, or Ashley and I can go shopping or have lunch or get our nails done! YAY! Can you tell I'm ecstatic?! AND...Ashley even volunteered her and Trey to babysit. I think she was wrapped up in the moment and had "wedding head", but I'll take it. :) Congrats you guys.

The wedding was beautiful. I was a bridesmaid, Patrick was a groomsmen, and Sydnee was the flower girl. It was fun, but we were really tired. I'll have pictures soon.

HAPPY 2010!

Wow, long time since I blogged. I am finally getting around to it. One of my New Year's resolutions was to get on facebook. Patrick got tired of talking to all my friends for me. :) So, I am learning all the ins and outs of fb.

We had a great Christmas. Sydnee is at the age that she gets soo excited when you talk about Santa. She has really been behaving before and after Christmas. I think next year we will try the Elf on the Shelf. Several of my coworkers have adopted that idea for the month of December and said it worked really well. Chloee is just now 6 months, so she is happy and excited no matter what. That kid smiles all the time. Before she was born, I hoped she would be half as good as Sydnee. God blessed us with an even better baby!

Now we are getting ready for my brother's wedding. Two weeks from today! YIKES! I can't believe my baby brother is getting married. I guess he's not a baby, he's 28! I still see him as a "little" brother. I have tons to do. Luckily, after this weekend, I will only be on call 3 of the next 12 days. I'm excited about all the events. Thankfully, we are taking a babysitter with us. Mainly for Chloee. Patrick, Sydnee, and I are all in the wedding so we won't be able to give her the attention she needs while we are taking pictures and getting ready for the wedding.

I will try to do better at blogging. Happy New Year!

Too Busy!!

It's been a crazy couple of weeks. Too busy to blog. I barely have time to check email on my iphone. It's too hard to type for a blog on your iphone. My finger muscles aren't use to that yet. :) So, here's what has been happening at our house. 1. Halloween (my kids didn't get any Milk Duds! can you believe that?!) 2. Wedding shower for my brother and his fiance Ashley. 3. Patrick had strep throat (for a week). 4. Miss UCA pageant. (I'm on the board of directors so I was gone a lot the week of the pageant. Thanks to Patrick for taking care of our precious girls.) 5. Birthday lunch for Patrick's brother and Granny. 6. Chloee 3 month pictures (after she turned 4 months old) How backward is that?!

Needless to say, we are all well at the moment. Patrick is going hunting this weekend, so we are having a girls night at my house Friday night. Me, Sydnee, Chloee, Ashley, and my Mom are all going out to eat then relaxing at the house. Fun!!!

FLU

Well, I guess one of my kiddos is a pig! Syd had the flu last week. I took her to the Dr. on Monday thinking she had strep throat, but the test was negative. So, we watched her and she still had fever on Thursday so I took her back, yep the flu! So, after exposing my entire family, Sydnee is feeling much better today. Chloee is still not showing any symptoms. Hopefully we kept them far enough away from each other. Patrick and I have been lucky also, no symptoms.

So, we will be celebrating Halloween this weekend. Sydnee is going to be an astronaut and Chloee is going to be a strawberry. They look so cute. Pictures soon to come.

Homecoming week

I just finished my second week back at work. Whew, this is hard to get back into the groove. I love being the mother of two girls. They can be so sweet! We will see if that's still true during the teenage years.

This was homecoming week at Perryville. Like a lot of smaller schools, they have junior escorts to caring the crown, flowers, and football. This year Sydnee was selected as one of the Kindergartners to participate. She was so excited. She did great. It was fun to help her get dressed up. She even got her hair fixed at the salon. She carried the crown. She said, "It is very breakable, but I didn't drop it!" We had lots of fun, but it made for a long day.

Here is Kamryn Hogan, Tate Jones, and Sydnee Sims. Homecoming 2009.

I have lots more to talk about. It has been hard to get everything done after working all day. I don't have time to even look at the computer. Tune in next blog to see Patrick as Robin Hood (without the tights). :) It was part of Homecoming week. Tell all about it later.

Farm Girl

Well, it's time for the Perry County Fair. The Kindergarten classes at Perryville went to see the farm animals at the fairgrounds. They could dress in cowgirl attire so Sydnee wanted to get out her Mustang Overalls I made her. Needless to say, I think I need to add a second ruffle to the bottom of the overalls. She has grown about 4 inches since last year. I made these for the Perryville Homecoming last year. This years project is Razorback overalls for the rehearsal dinner at my brother's wedding (it's a tailgate theme). Now I am getting the itch to start them. I have two pair of overalls to do this year! One big pair and one tiny pair. I'll let you know how they are coming.