So Tired should alway be my title. LOL

If anyone is interested in why I haven't posted for over 2 months, please see my other blog and see what I've been up to. I am now going to be a digital scrapbooking designer, and will start to sell my stuff at one store, and hopefully a second one soon after! I have been so busy though that I keep forgetting to update this one. I will be back with more personal family details as is the nature of this blog, but please check out http://shellymariescraps.blogspot.com/ in the mean time;)

Okay fine, here's a recent pic. And my baby just turned ONE!

Have a great day!

The new 30!

So I turned 40 this week. I guess it's the new 30? haha Doesn't really seem to be affecting me much. I think I'm too busy to worry about age. haha But it does make me want to lose weight sooner and get in better shape. I told my husband I wanted to be the sexiest 41 year old ever. He wants to know why I can't just be the sexiest 40 year old. haha But I know I'll need a year to get there. So I've got too much work to do to worry about age. And my young kids make me feel younger. My mom called me on my birthday and told me I was one of the biggest blessings in her life. So I guess that's something:)

We're supposed to go visit her and my dad today. And I guess we still will, but my youngest is sick. He has been sleeping through the night, but now has the croup so I've been up with him since 5 am. It's hard listening to your child breathe when it's so rough sounding! As I type this, I am still sharing my "office" with him so he's in his crib watching his humidifier. My first two never had anything like this. So this is a first for me. Well, first child to have croup, but 2nd time he's had it in his young life. The first time was right after Christmas. He was not quite 7 months old then. Now he's almost 10 months old, crawling, and fast becoming a character just like his sisters!

Too Much Going On...

Okay, so I missed February. But I was still recuperating from surgery, working on too many mortgage loans, starting to teach piano lessons again, and getting more into my favorite hobby... Digiscrapping! Some know this about me, some do not, but I now digital scrapbook instead of the tradition paper method. And I've been getting ready to do another blog just to document this fun hobby of mine:) A lovely lady in Australia, Cazzie has asked me to be on her Creative Team, and I am a CT (Creative Team) Member for Silly Beans Scraps, and just love the world of digital scrapbooking I have found.

Here's a page I did recently for a speed scrap at http://www.getdigiwithit.com/.

I used the March Collaborative grab bag kit available at GDWI. Fun stuff!

Peace & quiet is not always what you think it will be.

Well, now two of us have had hernia repair surgery within a year. Two bad it wasn't in the same year to save on deductibles! haha It hasn't been too bad, but it's been hard not being able to pick up my two year old. Not to mention all the many many things that need to get done including a lot of bending to pick up toys! But luckily, we're over the worse part. The surgery is done, and it's been almost 2 wks now. Mom came for the first week, and took my two oldest back to Idaho with her. And at first that was nice to get extra sleep. But then it was weird, because the baby cried every time I left the room. And the Daddy moped around not knowing what to do without a 4 yr old and a 2 yr old demanding something from him every few minutes. So I actually had to work at keeping the two males busy and distracted from missing the girls. haha

It's just weird how much imbalance you feel in your home and family when one or more is missing. I'm just glad we have them back now. I am tired. They are busy busy little girls, the baby boy, too. But they're also delightful, precious, and MINE: ) Okay, OURS! haha

But I am grateful for our sweet little ones and missed the chaos when it was soooooooo quiet without the girls. We are blessed with our precious and precocious little family:)

Still a Zombie

Me, I'm the zombie, not this sweet boy in the picture;) haha Anyway, my kids have all slept through the night at 3 or 4 weeks old. But ever since our baby boy had surgery, he has NOT slept longer than 3 hours. I'm wondering if the anesthesia messed up his system cause he was such an excellent little sleeper. It is killing me. We've thought about the cry it out method, but at first he was recovering from his surgery, then we were at families' homes for holidays, and then he got the croup till this week. And so here we are, 2 months of multi-interrupted sleep. I guess if I can get him over his current cough, I can let him cry. But I didn't have to do it with the first two & am not sure how to do it without him waking up the girls, too. Plus he's just so dang cute! He gives us this sweet little smile at all hours of the night. I'm at a loss what to do but know I've got to get sleep.

Busy but blessed.

I know. I know. I'm very bad at keeping up this blog! But I'm so busy keeping up so many other things. Rates are at a low so everyone wants to get a refinance so I've been doing loans like crazy. And Christmas projects just about pushed me over the edge. But things are starting to calm down now just in time for me to have surgery on a hernia. haha Life is fun. Full of fun. I will put some updated pictures in though and try to keep up a little better as it is one of my many New Year resolutions. Hope everyone had a great Christmas. We were and continue to be blessed.

Precious Angels

I've been trying to organize pictures to start scrapbooking again. I found pictures of my three little ones when they were each at about the same age. What precious sweet angels I am blessed with. When you see their sweet faces in sleep and kiss their soft cheeks, it makes it so easy to forget how very tired you are. And they grow so fast that I'm trying to enjoy every moment while I can. Sooner than we realize, they will be grown and not wanting kisses from their Mommy or sweet cuddles in the middle of the night. I'm so grateful for the opportunity to hold these precious angels in my life.