Blog Awards

I've received a couple of awards over the past month and it is time for me to acknowledge and thank the bloggers who awarded them to me!

Ave from Made in Canarias awarded me with the "Best Blog Award." If you have never been to Ave's blog you should check it out. She is SO cool and she is currently having HUGE giveaways on her blog! Thanks so much for this award Ave!!!

Rules: To accept the award, post it on your blog together with the name of the person who has granted the award and his/her blog link. Pass the award to 10 other blogs that you have recently discovered and think are great! Remember to contact the bloggers to let them know they have been chosen for this award. I REALLY love receiving blog awards but it is so hard to follow the rules sometims. I am gonna show some love to everyone who commented on my last post. Thank you so much for visiting my blog, taking the time to read my posts AND leaving me a message! I love you man!

The Best Blog Award goes to:

My Three Bubs
The Tran Clan
He & Me plus 3
Foursons
The Merritts
a day in the life of a girl named Kimber
Desires of the Heart
Unfailing Love
a nut in a nutshell
Pair' Slices
Guessing All The Way
Personalized sketches and Sentiments
By His Hands, We Are Fed

I would award this to Ave if she didn't already have one and I would also award it to my Mom if she had a blog!

The second award is from Maria at Personalized Sketches and Sentiments. Maria always has fun photo slide-shows of her family and friends and she creates the most AMAZING sketches. Go check it out!! Thanks for this cute award Maria!

I am going to follow Maria's lead and award this to EVERYONE who follows my blog. If you visit my blog and made it through my awards post, please take this darling award and add it to your blog! I appreciate you and you deserve it! I say make up your own rules if you want to! I wish I had the time to link to all of my followers but Daisy is going to wake up from her nap at any minute and I need to get dressed!

Normal Days

 Most days, I am able to enjoy or atleast find the comedy in all the good/bad moments of our lives. But some days all I can think about is "how much longer until bedtime!" 

Some days Lily won't go to sleep unless DaddyO or I are sitting at the computer right outside her bedroom and most nights ends up sleeping on the floor in our room.

Some days Ashton shrieks in pain if someone barely brushes their hand next to his body.

Some days Bailey sneaks in to the pantry and we find his half eaten, moldy snacks behind the couch.

Some days Daisy wakes up 4 times per night to eat.

Some days Lily plays school or tag or barbie's or pirates for hours with her brothers OR plays with Daisy while I make dinner.

Some days Ashton says "this is the best day ever" because you are taking him to swim at Grandma's ALL BY HIMSELF.

He actually fell asleep like this!

Some days when everyone is fighting over who gets to sit next to me at the table, Bailey volunteers to give up his seat or when everyone wants to hold my hand, Bailey happily skips up to hold his dad's hand.

wearing his skeleton gloves to bed

Some days Daisy lays her head on my shoulder and just lets me rock her.

I saw the following quote on Ali Edward's blog a few weeks ago. I think I am going to frame it and hang it in a very visible part of the house, so I can get a slap in the face always be reminded to truly appreciate every ordinary day!

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so. One day I shall dig my nails into the earth, or bury my face in the pillow, or stretch myself taut, or raise my hands to the sky and want, more than all the world, your return. - Mary Jean Iron

Happy Halloween!

Here are my trick-or-treaters:

Oh Cleopatra!

She is such a poser (the good kind!)

The Balerina Princess

That was the sweet, now here is the scary!

I think it's funny to say "smile!" or  "say cheese!" when they are wearing masks!

We carved our pumpkins earlier today. Almost everybody enjoyed removing the guts and then DaddyO and I (mostly DaddyO) carved them.

I carved the bat for Daisy, Lily picked a Twilight theme, Bailey's is the skeleton and Ashton picked the headless horseman. I think they turned out really cool, but I suck at taking pics without natural lighting!

My Mom brought this cool pumpkin

that she decorated with sunflower seeds.

I hope you all had a Happy Halloween!!!

No no! Thank YOU!

My therapy session for today is all about helping me deal with road rage! If you need some "Thank You Very Much" therapy, join in or visit Kmama at The Daily Dribbles.

To the red light running lady driving around town, Thank You Very Much! I'm sure you got your drivers license out of a cracker jacks box, but even my 6 year olds know that you are supposed to STOP when the light turns red. And thank you very much for raising your arms in disbelief after I honked at you, like you had absolutely no idea you did anything wrong! Honey, THERE IS something wrong when my light is green and you are just entering the intersection from the opposite direction!

To the parents dropping their kids off at school, Thank You Very Much for speeding through the school zone. Are you kidding me? Did you forget that you were driving in a 15mph zone while your unrestrained child was sitting next to you in the fron seat? Please get a clue! There is no reason to speed when unpredictable children are in the area!

Ok, I'm not sure this helped! LOL I just got myself all worked up again over these bad drivers.

Warning!! Warning!! Daisy Overload!

Well, Daisy isn't talking too much but she had a very busy day yesterday filled with comical situations!

First of all, she let me get 6 consecutive hours of sleep. The first time since her birth!

After her excellent night of sleep, she took a 2 1/2 hour nap.

Daisy and I were in my bathroom and she was combing her hair with two of my combs. I stepped in to the closet to put something in the laundry basket and when I came out (5 seconds max) she was stirring the toilet water with my combs.

While I was changing her messy diaper, she reached down and grabbed the diaper. I was positive that something had fallen out of the diaper but I couldn't see anything. After washing our hands, we came back in to her room and I noticed a big chunk of poo on the front of her dresser.

At dinner, Miss Daisy flung spaghetti noodles to EVERY corner of the kitchen!

She sat in the rocking chair or at least in front of the pink blanket and let me take 35 pictures of her! I was planning on getting one shot really quick before she flipped out of the chair!

Progression around the rocking chair.

And the best part.........................

SHE KEPT THE HEADBAND ON HER HEAD THE ENTIRE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am still in shock! I had to display the evidence. It's kind of like pinching myself!

Is "X-Large" photo size a new Blogger option or have I just not been paying attention?


Go visit Marianne at Family American Style for more "What Would Your Children Say Wednesday!"

Wordless Wednesday

WW ~ Sitting for pictures WITH a headband on!

(to fully enjoy this picture,  you may want to click on it!)

fyi: Daisy will be featured in the next edition of "What Would Your Children Say Wednesday," later today!

My Super Heroes

Saving the day somewhere over Toronto? (I found this cityscape on ClipArt)

p.s. Since I'm in a Memory Lane kind of mood this week, I think I'm going to post pictures from our Halloweens for the last 9 years! Stay tuned!