Birthday Mania!

This past weekend kaylin turned 5 and boy did she celebrate. Saturday all her friends, about 12 kids, came to the mall and rode the carousel all morning. She got some great gifts, including three Polly Pocket swimming pools, apparently they are a hot item this year! After a great party her Omma took her to Build a Bear for her birthday where she picked out a beautiful white bear and made a wedding bear, she was gorgeous. After that she got to eat lunch at the mall with her friend Maddie and Miss. Annie. The fun didn't stop there. Sunday was her actual birthday and she got to pick her birthday dinner, chicken enchiladas. Her aunt Daisy, Mikaylah, Nikelis, and Omma came over for dinner and strawberry cake.

It was a great weekend. It is hard for me to believe my baby is five and on her way to kindergarten. It feels like just yesterday we were bringing her home from the hospital and now we are celebrating 5, time really flies. She is so sweet and loving and full of life. I love you Kaylin, Happy Birthday!!!

Birthday Girl, yes she really is five!!

No wrds needed, just dry your eyes.

Alyssa, Kaylin, Cassidy, and Mikaylah.

The birthday group, except Daniel, he dodged out of the frame and in my hast totally missed it until now.

Miss. Annie, our favorite ballet teacher/ friend!

"Yummmmmmmmy" says Alyssa

Happy Birthday Princess!!

Craziness

Today begins 3 days of insane craziness. I love bisness but this take the cake for poor planning. TEAS test, class, Kindergarten Round Up, Nursing school orientation, clean for a spontaneous cookout planed by Stefan, birthday party, and finally the spontaneous cookout!! Can you say CRAZY. Just writing that list makes me exhausted. How did this happen. With out even knowing it all of this got scheduled for the same 3 days and that is that. Are you as tired as I am from just reading this. The scary thing is most of this stuff is very important and can't be blown of or minimized. I will be so happy when Sunday comes and all I have to do is go to Mosaic, oh happy day that will be! Wish us luck, the whole family will need a little luck and a lot of grace.

Okay, so God really does come through!

I wasn't always a skeptic, I once had what I thought was impenetrable faith, but maybe that was the problem. lately I find myself more on the side of doubt and questioning why more than on the side of trusting and obeying. Yesterday God came through in a big way, and really it shouldn't surprise me as much as it did, but it did. We financed our mattress for 6 months but forgot and thought it was for 12. All month I have been on Stefan's back about paying back the account so we can pay for the mattress. Finally we decided to just put it on his business credit card. I kept feeling like that would be a mistake and a bad idea, so I kept waiting, maybe deep down I was hoping God would come through. Well, just in time, like God always is, we got several checks early and it is to the dollar exactly enough. It leaves both of us with what we need and doesn't cut into our personal funds. God is so good, and I should really try harder to remember that instead of being so quick to doubt him. When I think about it he has always come through, we have never been without, and we have always been taken care of. So, how's that for a faith booster?

EMERGENCY HAIR CUT!!

Well they say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. While I am not in denial that Kaylin is my apple that fell and rolled RIGHT up next to me, I had no idea she was as self sufficient as I am. She wanted a hair cut so she cut her hair. I can't tell you how many times I cut bangs or layers because I wanted it and didn't want to wait, so I should have expected this seeing as how she is just like me. But, the mom in me was shocked and horrified and immediately had our favorite hair girl, Van on the phone for an emergency hair cut. I told her she was going to have to have short hair, a bob, with bangs, and with all her efforts to grow it out she was very sad. At least until she saw the hair cut. When she saw it she loved it because it is just like "Mommy's hair cut!" So much for her being sad every day and having to look in the mirror and remember what she did to get herself in this predicament. Honestly, don't tell Kaylin, but I love it also, it is so cute. Secretly I have wanted to do a bob on one of the girls for a long time and this gave me the best excuse to try it out on her dollar. By the way she had to pay for her hair cut as part of her punishment, but don't worry, her hair cuts only cost $5.00.

Here are some pictures of the final hair cut. For those of you who wanted to see the kaylin version, I must apologize because in the hast to get from school to Van's in time i forgot to take a picture, sorry Cindy!!

She is so happy! So much for the disappointment of short hair, now she wants to keep it short. I am proud of that because she is accepting her own identity.

" It's just like Mommy's hair cut!"

I couldn't do a post with out some cute pictures of Alyssa. Ironically, she is growing her bangs out when Kaylin is cutting hers for the first time.

Never say never. . .

I wrote off video games years ago when I humiliated my self trying to play Mario Brothers with my neighbor and realized I have zero hand eye coordination and should leave video games to those who do, so I became a side liner, until last night. Last night I went to my friend kareah's house to play her new Wii , it is AWESOME!!! It is so unlike other video games where people like me feel like a idiot for not being able to coordinate their hands. It is totally interactive and physical, I got out of breath and sore arms from boxing, and I totally kicked butt at it. I officially want a video game system, for me. Yes I said for me and not for Stefan, I am a trader, I know but this thing is totally cool and I will have it one way or another.

Being Crafty

Occasionally I get the desire to make something and usually it does not come with out many complications, but this one was different. I have been looking for a new duvet cover for our bed, something with black and white. I have found several I like but nothing I loved for a price I loved, so what is a girl to do in such a situation, I say sew. Sew it your self and take bragging rights for having something unique. So I found a set of sheets I loved and sewed the top sheet to a White sheet and put a piece of black satin ribbon around the edges. I was totally prepared for a battle, because most everything I make comes with one, but to my surprise this project went of with out even a thread break. A complete miracle i say, but either way I am very pleases. It is going to look so good when we stain our bed black, I can't wait. Anyway, here of some pictures of my latest creation. Craftiness must be in the air because I have started scrapbook and did a really cool layout, start to finish, in less than an hour, another miracle. The crafty mojo is flowing!!

The reversible white side and black trim.

This will toatlly rock on black bed, can't you see it now?

Christmas at the Schloemp's pictures part II

Hopefully, here will be the rest of the pictures of our christmas story!!

They played in the tent all day and every time I try to take it down they get it back out, I guess it is a hit!


Merry Christmas,

Love The Schloemp's