My Madness as a Stay at Home Mom

My Madness as a Stay at Home Mom

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Santa came to town

I hope everyone had a great Christmas. Santa arrived in Corpus and brought Reese "what she wanted" so she's driving around in her Princess car. We are working on teaching her the rules of the road. Look out residents of Wood River subdivision.

Saturday, December 18, 2010

Christmas Pageant

We had Reese’s Christmas Pageant at school this week and she practiced really hard for the past few weeks. She has been singing all the songs in the car, while playing with her toys and even had all the hand motions down.

Ryan’s Mom came for the afternoon to see Reese perform her hits. Well no matter how well she knew those songs, once she hit the stage she barely sang a note. I think she was stunned by the amount of people that were watching her. She’s very much an independent girl,  in the fact that she only will sing when she’s good and ready. If you ask her to sing the songs she will tell you no. Then low and behold about ten minutes later when no one is really paying attention to her she’ll bust them out…it’s all on her own time. In fact yesterday Ryan and I were chatting in the front seat while we were driving, and she was minding her own business in the back. All of a sudden here comes the entire program, every song with all the hand motions to go with it. She knew we were not paying attention so she did it all on her own. We just laughed (I had showed him the video) at how she really did know the entire thing but didn’t show her skills during the show. She’s obviously saving her talents for us.

At the program she did well, didn’t cry while she was on stage, sang a few words of a couple songs and then for the last song she really threw herself into the hand motions. She was a lamb and wore the cutest little thing in her head. I have made her wear it at home several times because I love it so much.

Here are some pics from the big pageant. IMG_0436 IMG_0437

She is the second lamb in from the left

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At the end we took her pic all alone. I LOVE these lamb ears.

I will work on posting some video as well but right now I have got to get her dressed, fed, and ready to go to Stroller Strides.

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

December already???

It’s hard to believe that it’s already the middle of December. Time flies when you’re having fun. You’re probably wondering why I am posting a blog…I know you’re thinking this dope left her camera on the bumper and it’s MIA.

There are MANY reasons that my parents are cool. We all know that. My Mom exhibited her coolness once again by sending us her camera to borrow for the time being. We have Reese’s Christmas pageant at school this week so I needed to document this for the blog. She slapped that little camera in a box on Saturday and by Monday I had it in my mailbox. She’s awesome.

We’ve had a busy week so far and more fun to come. Here’s recap.IMG_0414

super excited kiddo on my hands

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silly smiles

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I let her do all the decorating after I assembled it

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she highlighted my wall. I bet you know how thrilled I was when I discovered this little gem

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Pocahontas figurines and the reindeer from Santa’s sleigh…they play very nicely together…better then the English settlers ever did

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She was scratching her legs but for about 20 minutes she sang songs to them while they were all lined up

Sunday, December 12, 2010

nothing to report

I have nothing to report other than I'm a dumba$$! No pictures to post for the same reason. Yes it's true, I lost our camera...So that is why you can continue looking at the same old boring pictures from Thanksgiving. However we are kindly being sent my Mom's camera while we decide which one to buy...and so sometime this week, when the nice Mail Lady comes to my home and rings my doorbell I will have a camera on hand. With that camera I will take pictures of Reese at her school Christmas Pageant to post for the world to see. Until then remember...NEVER set your camera on the bumper of your car (even if you are in the driveway playing with your daughter when you do it) because you just might forget it's there until after your husband gets back from Home Depot. :(

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Thanksgiving etc.

I’m not going to lie, I have clearly slacked off on keeping up with the blog. I am going to take more pictures now that we have lots of fun things going on for the holidays.

Clearly turning 30 has slowed me down. I hate to see what happens when I am 40.

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We went to College Station the weekend of the Nebraska game. WHOOP! Even though I was in the hotel room for the game with a sleeping Reese, it was still a super exciting win. I also got to have a great 30th birthday breakfast with the Mom, Dad, Ryan, Reese, Stacey and her friend.

After a couple days back in Corpus to teach Stroller Strides we headed to Geronimo to visit Ryan’s family. I made the mistake of telling Reese she could play the clarinet when she gets to high school. I also told her I had one at home she could play….thus the weekend of “I wanna play your clarinet”. I showed her how it worked and she even cracked a few ear piercing notes. Luckily she has time to learn before she’s in band.

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Mom, Dad, Chips, Leslie and Stacey came to visit Corpus for the rest of the weekend. We all had a great time. So glad everyone got to come hang out.

We hit the King Ranch for the guided bus tour of the cattle working side of the Ranch. It was a lot of fun. Our tour guides’ name was Dusk…yes we asked, her sister was Dawn.

chips In his defense it was warm on the bus…Reese fell asleep too!dancing Dancing with Sister

king ranch This girlsking ranch2 The familymomreese Me and my Reesie…it was COLD

r&s me and the hubstourguide leslie Leslie the tour guide….things you can do when let on the bus early because you are part of the handicapped party. Thanks Chips…without you this pic would not have been possible.

dancingsister wearing her flower girl dress and dancing with Leslie

dress Dancing..she LOVES wearing her Princess dress

whataburger Waiting for food at Whataburger

30th bday Just finished blowing out 30 candles

boots my super fancy boots (thanks Mom and Dad)

ryancouch The girls went to Hobby Lobby and left the boys in charge….needless to say they got her to nap by forcing her to watch football. Notice she fell asleep in disgust plugging her ears with her fingers.

Special thanks to Stacey Ryan’s facebook page for allowing me to copy and use the pictures she took over Thanksgiving. I have some on my computer however since I am on the new laptop (perks of owning your own business) I am using her pictures to update the blog first.