December, Pre-Christmas

So I really have been wanting to update my blog. My family got a cold over Christmas and I'm still fighting it. Antibiotics round #2 started last night and tonight my snot was finally more clear than green! I was so excited, sorry if that was too much information! So needless to say I have not been feeling well and at night I basically have been sitting in the recliner trying to breath. But... I think I am finally getting over this awesome 2.5 week sinus infection. Yay!!

I'll get to Christmas updates soon, but I have Pre-Christmas things I would like to update too!

Addison and I attempted refrigerator sugar cookies one day. Didn't turn out how I would have liked them to, but she sure enjoyed them!

I just happened to look up one afternoon and she was doing this. Do you think she's seen Christopher doing his p90x a few times??

One Saturday in December her school had a breakfast with Santa. She went in her jammies, sat between two of her favorite friends and ate "chicken-fa-way." It was a good morning for her!

Thought this picture with her and Caleb was just too cute!

She wasn't too sure about Santa. We attempted a picture with him twice, the second time I ended up on his lap. I did get her to tell him what she wanted though. She barely spoke, but whispered "a blue frog."

She did however enjoy the candy cane she received for seeing Santa!

We had a Christmas party with our Crossroads class from church. Addison helped me make rice crispy treats!

Watching a horse show on tv. She thought it was so neat to watch the horses chase the cows on tv. She stood like this for a WHILE!!

One day while Kim was keeping Addison, Maggie came over to play and they made cookies! Maggie brought aprons for both of them to wear. How cute are they? Oh man.

One night Addison decided she wanted oatmeal for supper, so I let her have some. After I got hers made she said "I want to pour it too!" So I let her... she ended up "making a tower on my weg." At the point when I realized what she meant by tower I just let it go. Oatmeal is pretty easy to clean up and really cheap so she made LOTS of towers on her leg.

I cut her hair! I couldn't handle the nastiness that it was when she wore it down anymore. So I gave her a sucker and sat her on the potty and it was a success! I was so afraid that I was going to get half way through and she wasn't going to let me cut it anymore, but we made it! I didn't cut a lot, I really just cut the bottom "layer," if you can call it that, so it was a little more equal to the rest of her hair.

This is all that I cut, but it is sooo much shorter!

The next day, December 18, was her program at school. Once again her class sang Twinkle Twinkle little star and once again she did not twinkle. Oh well, Andrea tried to get her to twinkle. I just don't think she likes a big crowd, she is a performer at home though!

That night Natalie and I took Addison and Kason to Marshall to see the lights. We actually went because they had a snow hill kids could slide down; however, the kids were about a foot too short to be able to ride and they wouldn't allow double riders. We were sad, the kids didn't really know different.

I did get a few pictures of them with lights though!

Seriously... how cut is he?

My little model.

Since we couldn't go on the snow hill we let them walk around the ice skating rink and then went on a carriage ride. They LOVED the carriage ride, mostly because of the horses. They could have cared less about all the lights they were seeing they just liked to watch the horses! Here we are on the carriage ride.

abc did NOT want her picture taken.

This was the snow hill. At the end we went over and let them watch. Abc kept saying "I want to swide Mommy." I was sad they couldn't slide and had to settle for watching.

Maybe in a few years they'll be tall enough to slide. Just look at that face, can't you just see how much she wanted to "swide!"

Update on Trent... I'm now 32 weeks. 7 weeks from today I'll be holding him in my arms!! However, we have nothing and I mean NOTHING ready... I feel like at some point I'm going to kick it in gear and get some stuff done for his room, for him, but it seems as though the closer it gets the more I want to procrastinate even more. It stresses me out a little and then at the same time I don't even care. Is that bad? I know part of it is the fact our house is for sale and his room has so much just shoved in their right now. The other part keeps saying I have until March 2... but that is creeping closer and closer.

Tornado's in December???

It's awesome to know your neighborhood got hit by a tornado and you weren't there. We just had roof damage and abc's playhouse was torn up. If that's all that we had then we are blessed. This is the 2nd time in 3 months something like this has happened in our neighborhood. We were fortunate both times.

We are in College Station with my parents. It's driving me crazy that I can't see what our neighborhood looks like. All I can rely on are pictures from the Longview News Journal of our neighborhood. Russ has tried to give us a play by play of our neighborhood but it's a little hard to follow. I've almost cried several times looking at pictures of the tornado knowing that next to that big gray circling thing is my house... SCARY!

I'm so glad I wasn't there! I would have been home with Addison and scared to death. Christopher always tells me I'm crazy for being so scared in storms like I am but I think I would have had a panic attack or something if I had been there.

All I can say is Thank you God for protecting our home so much!

The Rest of November...

Here is what we've been up to...

Some days Addison really likes her tutu... This day she was loving it. I was taking pictures of her so she needed to get her camera too!

We've been finger painting. She loves it and loves squishing all the paint in her fingers.

This is her Thanksgiving Feast at school. She was very excited to go...

Not so excited about the food. I can't get mad at her for spitting out her food. I do it to. If I don't like what I'm eating I'll spit it out. At lease now she spits it out in her hand and puts it in her plate!

She likes to help Daddy clean up the leaves.

The true "kid" table at Thanksgiving. Addison and Maggie.

They love playing the piano together. I think this picture is so cute. Telling secrets!!

My little cheese ball when she wants to be!

Love this one too. It looks like ABC is reading music and playing what she is suppose to while Maggie is singing her heart out!!

Just a cute little monster isn't she!!

I look this one night while she was sleeping. Ever since we got back from the horse show in OKC she has to sleep with her Okie. She even takes naps with him!! I just wanted to take this picture as proof for Honey and Pappy.

A few weeks ago we went to the park after I got my new camera. Here are a few of my favorites from that day!

Love the way she's looking at her daddy in this picture!

Total trust...

We of course had swing on the bar.

Not sure what this face is but it's too funny not to put on here!

Pull ups... she always just counts "four" over and over!

She realized she can jump off the stairs. There was another little girl there that was jumping from the 3rd stair and ABC got mad when I told her she could only jump from the bottom one but she got over it.

Ummm... can you tell she didn't want to leave?

Something else with Okie... Christopher helped her set up his water and feed in her bed.

That afternoon after her nap Addison and I made Christmas cookies. She LOVES putting sprinkles on. The only problem is the red sprinkles I have come out WAY to fast. That night when Chris's family game over for pizza the people that got the sprinkle cookies said they were pretty sugary!!

Our finished products! She was so proud and LOVED handing them out to everyone that night!

I realize that I have to get better at blogging again or else this poor little man in my belly will never have anything about him on here! So how's the pregnancy going... less than 11 weeks... HOLY COW. We've done NOTHING for him yet... oh well. It will happen soon. I have to get started on his bedding. My first project is our stockings, I'm almost finished with those. Maybe the matching tree skirt will have to wait until next year!

As for names... I'm pretty sure we are going with Trent Russell Collier. No cool initials like Addison, but it does keep with our naming our kids after towns in Texas theme we have going... This wasn't intentional, just how it worked out really. Hopefully he will have a cool birthday though... March 2, 2010 is my scheduled c-section date. As long as he doesn't come early his birthday will be 3-2-1-0... YAY!

Stay tuned... I cut her hair tonight!

November, Part 1

Has it really been a month since I updated? Oops. Oh well. I've been tired. Our house is on the market so at night I have to make sure that everything is picked up and clean since I don't have time the mornings I work... Yeah, excuses. But I'm doing it now while watching the Biggest Loser Finale.

The 2nd weekend in November my brother, who now lives in Florida, was at a horse show in Oklahoma City. Since he was only 6 hours away instead of 24 we had to go up and see him! My parents went and my sisters went so it was a nice little family time.

Addison loves horses and this only made it more obvious! She'll tell you, "my favorite horse is Okie." (which is a horse at my parents house). The picture below is of her the first day we were there at the show. We were watching the cutting and she just liked to watch the horses chase the cows. She's so intense.

When she started to get restless Honey and Pappy took her to the trade show. She talked Pappy into buying her this pink stick horse (it didn't take much talking!) She now calls this her "big Okie!"

When we went to eat one night my mom taught her the AWESOME trick of blowing into your straw to make bubbles. GREAT! Thanks mom!! She hasn't tried this too many more times, but she does LOVE to watch the video of herself doing this that I recorded on my phone!

This was the 2nd day at the show! We were watching working cow horse that day. (if anyone knows what I'm talking about it's sort of 1/2 reining and 1/2 cutting) She didn't really like the reining portion. When the horse would come out of the gate by itself she would point and say "that horse need cow." Then when it was finally time for the cow to come out (she new when it was time) she would say "horse get now now!" and get so excited! When I show her this picture of herself on my phone and ask her what she is doing she says "I standing, watching Horses chase cut cows."

She is still not too sure about Uncle Mark. She still wouldn't let him hold her but she LOVED it when he would let her pet his horses! At night when I ask her who she wants to pray for it use to just be "Honey, Pappy, Rachel (parents dog), Bessy (Mary Beth), Nonna, Grandad, Christmas and Sadie (Christopher parents dogs). However, since this weekend we spent in OKC she now asks to pray for Uncle Mark. Sometimes that's the only person she wants to pray for. I think it's sweet that she's finally figuring out that he is a good guy and that she wants to pray for him every night!

Seeing Uncle Marks horse with Pappy.

I'll update more later... Sorry all the pictures were just from my iphone. I didn't have a camera, YAY for the good camera on iphones.

I will say CANON is a GREAT company! THEY REPLACED MY CAMERA AND LENS... FREE! Christopher and Russ had been lying to me (I was hoping they were) and I got the new camera for my birthday. The camera that burned was a 20D, and they replaced it with a refurbished 50D!! I can now take good pictures again (even better than before!) and I'm so excited! Canon could not figure out what had happened and even sent the camera to Japan to have their people over there look at it.

That's all for now! I'll try to be better now about updating!!