No More Diapers!

Bethany's potty trained! She's been wearing big girl panties for a week now. She tells us when she needs to go potty, too. I've worked with her a little along ever since she was a year old. It wasn't until recently that I really started working with her a lot on potty training. She just decided she was ready and took off. She's such a big girl now!

Workin' 8 to 5

Starting Tuesday I'll be returning to work full time. Excited? Yes. Nervous? Yes. Sad? Yes. I'm very thankful for the opportunity I've had to be a full time mom to my girls for almost the first 3 years of their lives but we've decided that Bethany's ready to socialize with children her own age and be in a structured school-type setting so I'll be starting a full time job on Tuesday. She'll start her first day of day care on Monday. Thankfully we found her a really great place to go to. I know she will have so much fun but it makes me a little sad that I won't be with her all day.
My new job is going to be a receptionist/file clerk at a doctor's office here in town. I don't quite know what to expect but I'm up for the challenge. The extra money won't hurt either!
Friday, Adam and I went to Kohl's, JCPenney's and Shoe Carnival to shop for work clothes. Let me just say I got some GREAT deals. I got 7 shirts for me and a pair of jeans for Adam for $51. I got about $460 worth of clothes at Kohl's for $150 PLUS $20 Kohl's cash. AND, I got buy one get one half price on shoes. I got a ton of new clothes. It was fun!
Anyway, tomorrow will be a big day for Beth. I've got her little bag packed. I can't forget to pack her blankie for her nap time...
Please pray for us all to have a smooth transition from me being at home to me working. I know that God has had His hand in this whole situation because of how every thing's worked out so far and I know He will continue to watch over us.

Memphis~Home of the Blues and Barbeque

So a couple of weeks ago we went to Memphis, just Adam and I. We stayed the weekend and had an ok time. It was cold and rainy the first day we got there so we couldn't do much site-seeing downtown. We did, however get to eat at Rendezvous again. I love, love, love that place. They have the best ribs around. We also took a tour of Sun Studios where Elvis first started his music career. It was a really small studio and we each had to pay $12 to see it and I thought that was a little much, but whatever. That night we wanted to go to the movies. On the way to a movie theater, we happened upon an actual drive-in. So we decided to go there instead. Pretty neat. The next day we went to Beale Street (before lunch). There wasn't much going on. We looked through A. Schwab and through Peabody Place. Peabody Place could've been really nice but there were only a couple of operating stores in the whole building! We weren't impressed. We rode the trolley downtown some and that night we went to a restaurant that had a live blues band. The band was really good, the atmosphere however was not! Enough said. Sunday we missed the girls so much we checked out of the hotel and drove home soon after we woke up. We brought them home some t-shirts and Shelby a snow globe and Bethany a bear. All the proceeds from the bear went to St. Jude's Hospital. Carson the Bear is named after a 3 year old little boy who is a patient at St. Jude's battling cancer. When we drove by that hospital and saw all the windows it made me sad to think of all those little kids who are so sick. God is watching over each and every one though. I do know that.

Here's some pics from our Memphis adventure:

This was the view from our room on the 14th floor.

Adam's being Elvis at Sun Studios. The mic is supposedly the actual mic Elvis used. We were told by the tour guide that one lady actually licked it. Can you say GROSS?!

Here we are at the drive-in. "CHEESE!"

Beale Street during the day.

A. Schwab General Store

Elvis' pink coat on display at Lansky's.

Shelby Learned to Ride Her Bike!

Last Thursday Shelby learned to ride her bike! She had been afraid to learn ever since we got her a big girl bike last summer. Adam did some studying up on the best way to teach a kid to learn to ride. He found out that if you take the pedals off of the bike and let the kid learn to balance by gliding, they will learn faster. I guess they feel like they can put their feet down quicker if they think they are going to fall if they don't have pedals in the way. After a few days without pedals, Shelby got the gliding down and so Adam put the pedals back on. She's riding her bike up and down the streets now! Another milestone reached. She's just too happy!

Gingerbread House

The other day Shelby and I attempted to make our very first gingerbread house. It was not as easy as it looked. Shelby says it looks like a sad gingerbread house. Adam said it looked like he did the laundry in there and the suds overflowed out the windows! Shelby's favorite part was snacking on the candy as she decorated. Maybe next year our little house won't look so sad. Maybe next year I'll use an actual icing bag instead of just snipping the corner off of the icing that came with the kit.

Three Thousand Six Hundred and Fifty

Today is the 3,650th day that I've been married to my wonderful husband.

In 1994 Adam and I met in high school when I was 16 and he was 15. I had to drive us on our first date! We finished high school and went on to college together. Right after I graduated from college in 1999, we got married the following January. Adam graduated the following May. In 2001, Adam took care of me when my retina detached. About a year later Shelby was born. In 2005 we bought our first home. Bethany was added to our family 2 years later. Now here we are--2010!! I love Adam as much and more now than the day I married him. I'm so glad we have been through so many things together...good and bad, exciting and scary. I'm so glad I know him so well and he knows me. I'm looking forward to many, many more happy years to come with my girls and the man I love.

I Will Be Here by Steven Curtis Chapman was one of the songs in our wedding and sums up what marraige is to me. I'm so thankful that I'm blessed with Adam who will always be here for me.

I love you, Adam! Happy 10th Anniversary!!!

SNOW!!

Finally! It seems like everyone else has been getting snow here lately and finally we're getting some white stuff! I hope it keeps up and doesn't melt so the girls can play in it after school!