Busy Kitties

About 2 1/2 years ago my sister and I pulled some boxes of books out of my attic that my mom had saved for us. My parents didn't believe in buying your child a toy every time the sun rose and set, but we did have a lot of books. Thankfully my mom saved those books for us. One Saturday afternoon after Jaker was born and Joy was here for a visit we pulled those boxes down and went through the books dividing them up. There were a few cat fights that Brian had to break up (just kidding) over who got what book, but it gave my husband a great idea about the girls books. Box them up and let them duke it out over the books when they had kids.

My girls are getting older and we are reading "big girl" books rather than their baby books as they call them. So I was going through their books putting the board books back for their kids, cough cough, my hopefully some day grandkids. Anyway, I found a Stahl house favorite. This is the story of a busy kitties.

This is a sweet little book about the day in the life of a kitty.

Every page rhymes with the one opposite of it.

And.....what do you think rhymes with cuddling??????

You may not be able to read it in yellow, but it says - Kitty puddling

I would love to post something clever and witty here, but I really think the books speaks (reads) for itself.

Look what I made!!

Okay, I can take credit for making these cute clips, but not the idea. Amy Barrett had the idea and I ran with it and have now made...oh about 100. So, I haven't really made 100 of them, but I just love them, they are so sweet. They are embroidered on very soft felt and they have a snap clip on the back that will hold even the finest of hair. Normally I reserve this blog for my girlies, but I wanted to show these off because I love them so much.

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St. Patty's day clips

Just a few that I have done

The New Bookshelf

My husband has a great friend who built this beautiful bookshelf for the girls and they just love it. We have had since the week of the ice storm, but I am slow posting.

I love it!! The girls don't really play with Barbie dolls much right now, but eventually each cubby is set up like a room in a Barbie house. The most wonderful thing about it are the drawers on bottom. More storage. Yeah!!!!

Notice the trim and the shingles on top....this guy is talented!!

The drawers, the glorious drawers.

My Flower Girls

The girls were in a beautiful wedding this weekend. An old family friend got married on Saturday and she asked the girls to be her flower girls. She also had her nephew Garrett in the wedding as the ring bearer. Of course I took my camera, but I was so busy worrying about my girls behaving and not ruining Amie's special day, I didn't take but a few pictures.

The girls did great!!! Molly at the rehearsal dinner took her basket from Amie's Aunt Teresa and started down the aisle and without any instruction, started throwing out her pretend petals. Sarah on the other hand is a little more shy and had a little bit of trouble. She made it down the aisle several times in practice, but just couldn't commit the day of. We went and sat down next to Grandma and Grandpa during the ceremony and watched Molly stand next to her new friends, bridesmaids Jami and Tasha where she stood during the entire ceremony. It was a very sweet ceremony and the church was beautiful. Of course what made it absolutely perfect was the snow falling outside.

We had so much fun! Congratulations, Dan and Amie and thanks for including us in your special day!

The gorgeous bride, Amie and the girls

Grandma and a very calm mother of the bride, Rowanne

The girls "practicing" before the wedding

More "practicing" while everyone watched and cheered and hoped this was a good sign of things to come

Sarah Beth and her new friend, Sara Beth (Dan's neice). She asked me if Sara was her sister.

Happy New Year

Yes, I am aware it is already March, but I am a little behind in the blogging world. Sorry, I will try to do better!

Here are some pictures from our "rockin" New Years Eve party. We had food, fun, fellowship and Tinkerbell. I think the party ended around 10:00 when everyone started heading home. Who knew at the age of 32 I wouldn't be able to stay up until midnight.

The kiddos on a pallet in the floor watching Tinkerbell, having some quiet time.

Michael and Ash obviously engrossed in Tinkerbell

Baby Selby sacked out early....she isn't quite the party animal, yet.



These pictures are totally unrelated to our New Years Eve party, I just loved their new fire fighter shirts. Since Uncle Colby is a fire fighter, we had to have some shirts like his!

See it? See it? It says.....MFD...Memphis Fire Department

See my shirt...Love my shirt!

10 Things Tuesday

It has been a long time since I have done one of these. I guess I am not feeling very thankful here lately, shame on me.


1. Z-Pack. I am feeling so much better. Almost like a human being again.

2. My husband finally got his pay situation at work straightened out.

3. G2 Gatorade, Love it, Love it, Love it!

4. Mother's Day Out. Watch out, I am going to the bathroom alone....at least for 5 hours today.

5. I am thankful for our generator since we are still without power.

6. My husband, who built a new fuel tank that would keep the generator from having to be filled up for 3 days. He is a GENIUS!

7. All the utility workers who are STILL working hard to get power restored to us rural people.

8. Oatmeal....warm and filling.

9. My husband for taking good care of me and the kiddos while I was puny.....2 weekends in a row. I think he is starting to suspect something.

10. Hugs and sugars from my kiddos...man I missed those while I was still contagious.

Winter Blast '09

Well, we do not get KAIT, but I have heard rumors of this ice storm being called Winter Blast '09. Clever, clever folk at KAIT. We started getting rain/ice Monday night and is just kind of got worse from there. Thankfully Brian has a generator to run for our heat, fridge, TV, Internet, and lights. We have to use lights and everything else sparingly, but who cares, I am warm! We also have hot water and warm showers....and of course the ever important electricity to run my flat iron...hehehehe

I have a feeling it will be a LONG time until they get to us way out in the middle no where, but my husband has made sure we are warm. Thank goodness for that!

These Pictures are Tuesday Morning

These are Wednesday Morning, what a difference a day makes