A horrible ordeal

I do not know these people personally, but I read this blog regularly. I cannot image going through such a terrifying experience. The medical problems that we went through with Jackson were heart wrenching enough. Please take a moment to read about this families plight. Even if you are unable to help financially, please keep them in your prayers. If anyone knows about the power of prayer it is my friends and family.

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I am not asking you to donate, that is your own choice, but maybe post a supportive message to help lift them up in their time of need. Thank you on their behalf!

I know, I have created a monster!

Sometimes I don't think that I adequately portray just how goofy Jackson is. Those of us who are blessed to spend time with him every day often find ourselves just laughing hysterically! He is so funny, my Mom claims this is just like me as a child. Well I thought that this might be a good time to share some recent funny pics with you. Enjoy!

Rock star!

Guitar and Bulldozer rain boots, perfect combo

His first gig! A very exclusive party at Uncle Travis' house!

Shirt? Check! Diaper? Check! Boots? Check! Pants? Hmmm....

Dancing Machine!

Oooo! Shaking his butt!

Using a pillow as a blanket...

Pretending to sleep on the sofa.

Wet boots on the couch, yeah!

Brilliant!

Let me see... Y=X, carry the 1, multiple by C

Jackson and baby Timmy.

Making a funny face.

My excitement quickly dissipated

Well, a couple of weekends ago I purchased two cooking utensils that I have been eying for a while now. I found a cast iron double sided griddle and a cast iron dutch oven both for considerably less than I found elsewhere. I read all the instructions before using the griddle last night. I was so excited to try it out. Well the instructions were very limited. They detailed how to reseason the cookware should you ever need to but they didn't talk at all about tempertatures or recommended heating times or anything along those lines. So last night I began making BBQ Chicken Kabobs on our new griddle. Well things did not exactly go according to plan. First of all, the grill got very hot very quickly so the sauce that dripped off burned and smoked so much that our smoke detector went off. Then the kicker came when we finished dinner and moved the griddle we found that it had scorched our stovetop!! Uuugghh! I don't know how to get the burn marks off of our stove (we rent so this is not our property) and I don't know how to prevent this in the future. I was so thrilled about these new pans and now I am not so sure. I have been wanting cast iron cookware because I have a bunch of recipes from the Food Network shows that I watch. Paula Deen uses it all the time and many of the hosts use the stovetop griddles without any of the problems that I experienced. I am so frustrated! The food turned out really good but it just did not go smoothly. Another shining example of how I am purely a Half-assed Martha Stewart!! Geez!

He is getting sooo big!!

This will be a really quick post about our weekend. First off, my little baby is getting so big! He can say just about anything now, including "I love you" !!!!!!! And he is just tall and wearing boy clothes, not baby clothes. There was just something about him this weekend that made me realize we are out of the baby phase. He is a kid now, barely even classified as a toddler! It is just breathtaking to watch him evolve into this little person who has manners and opinions. The last two years seemed to just dissapear like sand through my fingers. I am so thankful that I have kept so many memories from this time, down to special occasion cards. I have tons of pictures and someday I will print off more of them to put into albums. The time goes by so fast.

Easter was a lot of fun. Jack totally caught on to the Easter Bunny thing. He ran around the house hunting for his basket and just being goofy. And he was genuinly excited each time he found something else. He was a trooper all through the Sunday festivities, his schedule was completely off but we managed with only a few minor meltdowns. Overall it was just a really nice weekend. Snow on the ground but lots of sun in the sky!

We are supposed to get a little more snow but I am just praying that it will skip us and we will warm up and enter spring. It can't go on like this forever. Well, I will post again soon with a bunch of up to date pictures. Until then enjoy your day! I am making Chicken Burritos for dinner, yummy!

Snow!? What the @#$%?!

Gggggrrrrrr! I am just going to pretend like it is not happening. In my little world it is spring, there is not snow on the ground it is fluffy white cotton! It is not gray and dreary, instead it is just an homage to the spring fashion color palate! The plow trucks are actually large machines prepping the roads for the heavy holiday traffic. Clearly you are all mistaken in thinking that we are having another winter storm. Today I am wearing a bright spring green top and cute patent leather black flats. This is not a problem because there. is. no. snow.

I am looking forward to carrying an umbrella and wearing cute rain boots! Jackson's rain jacket is adorable, he has it in navy with buckles and yellow with buckles, he looks like Paddington the Bear! I'm singing in the rain, just singing in the rain...

Soon we will have tulips and GREEN! It has been so long since we have had green and sun! I cannot wait to go back to the Botanic Gardens near our home, it is such a fun way to celebrate the changing of the seasons. Plus Jack is a little older this year and so we will probably get some great pics and have so much fun. I am thinking that we will plan a trip there next month some time.

Soon we will be able to take walks around the neighborhood and go play at the park. We will start doing outdoor activities on the weekends and maybe I will start jogging (ambitious, I know, but it could happen!). Josh will be able to teach Jack to throw a ball, so far he is a little uncoordinated... Owen throws a ball much better than Jack. But practice makes perfect and up until now we never really tried to play catch with Jack. So I know that they will have fun doing outdoor sports stuff.

Spring, spring, spring! Yellow, Pink, Blue, Green! Flowers and Bugs! Hooray! We got a kite with bugs on it the other day at the store and I have been itching to go and fly it. We have a huge field behind our house that is too overgrown in the summer to play in but semifrozen ground might be the perfect time. If not our park has a huge field and baseball diamonds that we could fly our kite in.

Thats all for now, Happy Easter! Happy Spring! Goodbye snow and winter!