"I'll Just exercise more..."

Emily strikes again!  That girl is so funny.  I should preface this by saying that Emily LOVES to exercise and show us her muscles.  Whenever she drinks milk or acai juice, she flexes her biceps so we can see that her muscles are "instantly" growing from ingesting something good for her.  She also does real pushups (what 4 year old does that?), walks on the treadmill and does little workouts with Dylan in our bedroom.  It's really cute.

So--Last night at dinner, she ate everything on her plate EXCEPT for her chicken and our conversation went like this:

Emily: I'm done!

Me: Emmy, you need to eat your chicken.

Emmy: No I don't, it's yucky chicken.

Me: You haven't even tasted it yet.  It's delicious.  You need to eat it so you can have big, strong muscles.

Emmy: No.  I'll just exercise more.

Then she vanished,  reappeared a minute later with her pink dumbells,  and proceeded to do a workout in the kitchen so that we could watch her muscles  getting bigger.  We were all laughing.   She's great entertainment.  After her brief workout, she decided to try her chicken. She determined that, it was indeed delicious, and then ate every bite!

Saturday Picnic

I love when the kids play so nicely together!  Hallie is especially good at this.  She often thinks of creative things to do with Emily to keep her entertained, and of course Emmy loves it.  A lot of times they go "on Safari" to the backyard, and have adventures with wild animals (Spencer).

 

Saturday, they decided to go on a picnic to "Pecan Pines" (our front yard).  The boys got in on the action, too (probably just for the food--that's boys for ya'.)  Hallie packed celery with peanut butter and craisins,  grapes, lemonade, hershey kisses, and Doritos (for Dylan).

When he picnic was over, Hallie stayed outside and read her book for awhile to enjoy the sun. The Winter weather has been so nice here!  Like in the upper 60's and low 70's.  That's not normal, but I'm loving it!  Today is only supposed to be 64 with a chance of rain tonight.  I may need to bust out the long sleeves again - sigh.

Look at that boy! Shortly after I took this picture, me and Spencer went shopping for some new church clothes and then he got a haircut.  He looked so handsome for church!  I can't believe he's almost 12!

A Toast...

Happy New Year 2009!

It's time to get back in the saddle again.  I started this blog with the idea it would be like my journal, and I'm quickly falling back into non- journal writing mode again. (Maybe because it takes me like 3 hours to post an entry--no lie.)  Once upon a time, I wrote in a book journal, but the last journal entry was in October 1998  when I had just found out I was pregnant with Hallie--followed by blank pages.  

So what's happened the last 10 years, you ask? Honestly, I don't really remember.  I think too much has happened, that it's all kind of a blur.  Obviously it hasn't been a priority in my life, and I want to change that.  I've been thinking a lot lately about what I've done in my life,  what I've taught my kids,  what I still want to teach them, and how they will remember their childhood when they grow up and move away.

 I want to teach them important things.  I want them to  be good people.  The fun stories, pictures, and bits of wisdom along the way will just be a bonus.  When they grow up and move away, I hope they have good memories and feel like their Mom and Dad did a pretty good job raising them.  Now I'm getting all teary-eyed and sentimental. 

So here's to me, a new year, a new goal, and hopefully a lot of new memories!  Cheers!

P.S- That glass totally has Martinellis Sparkling Apple Cider in it :)

Quote of the Day

Emily cracks me up!  She has said this before, but I was reminded of it this morning.  I asked if she had seen  something I was looking for, and she replied,  "Did you look in the butt-less pantry?"  Of course she meant "butler's pantry", but she says things like she hears 'em sometimes. I'm still laughing when I think about it.