Already September??

It is now time for some much needed blogging!! I can't believe I have not posted anything since August 18!! Yikes!! Apparently my 4 kids (that includes my husband) have taken up some of my blogging time. Maybe I'll be able to blog a bit more now though - we have done some major work here - we painted 3 bedrooms and moved all the kids into their respective new rooms. I am loving having the girls finally room together. Ashlyn thinks it is so cool to sleep in the same room as "baby". She won't call her Gabriella - it's just baby. I love how their room turned out and it is amazing how they can sleep through each other's restlessness at times. They are by far my best sleepers. Gabriella has been sleeping for 12-13 hours straight since she was about 2 months old or less and Ashlyn has always slept through the night too. Austin is a different story, although lately he's been doing much better at staying in his bed rather than getting up at 2am to "poop". Shawn and I have tried to explain to him that it is not normal to get up in the middle of the night and poop, but that's probably more info than you want from this blog. Anyway, Austin's room turned out awesome, we did denim blue above the chair rail and brown and red stripes down below and it turned out fantastic!! I love it!! The stripes are random sizes - all credit goes to shawn. And we now have an office/scrapbook room that is huge and I can't wait to start up some scrappin' projects - very excited about that!
I got to see my good friend Callie on Friday - had a bunch of us over here to play - it was so great to see her. I miss you Cal!! More than you know!! Poor Kiernan (one of the 1 year olds) decided to try and eat the baseball tee and cut the back of his throat pretty good - ouch, but all in all the kids had a great time and it was a nice start to the long weekend.
We spent some time out at my brothers this weekend - the kids got to go fishing and had a blast! Ashlyn loved touching the fish, which totally shocked me. I have some good pics, but can't figure out how to get my picture card in here - which brings me to another exciting point - Shawn got me a lap top!! YIPEE!! I love it - I had no idea how much I would love it, but I do!! I can check my email and change a dirty diaper while reading a story to Ashlyn all at the same time - and all on the living room floor! Amazing!! I have finally gotten back into my kickboxing now - and the soreness from getting back into it is finally subsiding a bit.
Here's a typical conversation between my dad and Austin over the weekend while playing at the pond....
Austin picks up a rock and says, "look papa, fish poop."
Dad replies, "no, Austin, that's moss"
Austin thinks, "Oh, moss poop."
Dad says in response, "No, just moss."
Austin says, "Oh sorry."

What a crack up!
Gotta love kids!
It's finally cooling off here in KS - only in the 90s, which is way better than the 100s - especially with all this humidity - yuck! I look like I have a perm!

Oh - just thought of another funny austin story...
Saturday morning Austin was in the bathroom with Shawn after just waking up. Austin is standing at the toilet because he has to pee. He looks up at Shawn with a strange look on his face...Shawn says, "Austin, are you peeing? Do you know you have your underwear on still??"
Austin looks down in confusion and says, "oops, sorry."
He had no idea he still had his unders on - hmmmm funny kid!

I guess that's it for now - I'll get some pics on here as soon as shawn shows me how!

Hope you are havin' the time of your life!
ST