Lovely Little Flowers' Catch-Up Time!!

As stated in previous blogs, I am NOT a good blogger!! I just realized I hadn't put anything concerning "Lovely Little Flowers" items so here is an overview of what I've been doing. If there is anything you see that you want me to make your little one, PLEASE let me know as soon as possible because I'm getting to the point in my pregnancy that sitting at the sewing machine is becoming unbearable! ;-)

I've come up with something for the boys.

Here is a couple of onesies I did for Jerry's friend.

A camo cross and tie (for the redneck in your little business man!)

Here is an example of a shirt I made for Kamryn for Valentine's Day and one I donated for an auction for a little boy in Glenwood that was diagnosed with cancer.

This one was also donated to the auction. The two heart shirts were put together with a Hannah Montana blanket and raised $40.00 I believe, which made me happy that I could do something to help! I HATE cancer - it's everywhere! It SUCKS!!
The whole auction raised a little over $4,000!!


My friend's mom asked me to do these two shirts for her grandgirls Ava and Ryne! I LOVE how they came out!! If you would like an appliqued shirt like this it'll be $15.00 (no shipping and handling)

This shirt was done for the same friend's kiddo Miss Ryne. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this shirt!! (Also, $15.00)

A close-up of the cross

This is a close-up of a headband I did for a little girl in our church Miss Kenedee. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this headband! I need to make one for another little girl in Oklahoma and I can't forget Miss Mary Beth before she's born!!!
(This headband is $5.00)

The dress I made to go with the above headband or vice-versa - which ever comes first right...the chicken or the egg?! ;-) I LOVE the zebra print peasant style pillowcase dress.
(This dress is $15.00)

This is a dress I did for our Fall Festival back in October that I still haven't sold. I guess if it comes down to it I can always let Mary Beth wear it!!

As you can see I've been busy! Let me know if I can help you out!!! Thanks in advance!!

I am OFFICIALLY a bad blogger!!

I realize I'm horrible at blogging. For heavens sake I STILL haven't posted anything from Kamryn's THIRD birthday which was in May!! Goodness!! Here are a FEW pictures from Christmastime I thought I'd share...

Jerry was in China for the first part of December and that was REALLY weird not having him here! He had to go over to their China factory to put a piece of equipment back together. He had an "uneventful" time while over there.

He was able to see the "Forbidden City" where one of his tooth's crown fell off. Thankfully he wasn't in any pain!!

He had some really interesting foods. The pictures are all on his computer so I can't share them but you can go ahead and thank me for that because you would surely throw up if you did see them!!

He and his group went to see "The Great Wall of China". He said it was AMAZING!! Overall he had a great trip and Kamryn and I had some good "girl time" but missed him terribly!!!

We were able to keep ourselves busy with several things: A "Tacky Christmas Sweater" Party, the Sparkman Elementary Christmas Play, an all day shopping trip with a church friend, Cecilia to shop for our "Holiday Cheer" project for the kids of our community, a wedding and several pajama parties together!!

Here are some pictures of Kamryn:

Kamryn and I at the "Tacky Christmas Sweater" Party

This year's Christmas seemed to be really special for Kamryn she was thankful for everything and seemed to really enjoy herself!! We were thankful for being able to give her the "last Christmas with just the three of us"...I guess it didn't dawn on us until halfway through the month that next year will be completely different and oh so much sweeter with Mary Beth here! But we were also worried that Kamryn needed one last "hoorah" before she was no longer an only child....not sure if that was right or not but it was right for our family!! :-)

Here is Kamryn laying out cookies for Santa:

Christmas morning coming in to see what Santa brought her!!

Santa left her a note...

She was impressed!!

And now after uploading and rearranging all of these pictures I know why I don't blog all of the time!!!

Help Angie Help Haiti!!

Hey everyone!!! (Quick post...no time for anything else....ugh!!!)

Please take a look at Angie Smith's blog "Bring the Rain" (click here) to help her raise money to send to Haiti.

For every comment left Angie will donate 25 cents to Haiti!!!! SO, go! Leave a comment!!!

A GREAT surprise!!!

I almost forgot!!! A little under a month ago we received the BEST news - we are going to be an aunt and uncle again!!! Yep, Nathan and Julie are having their fourth blessing from the Lord!!
And to top it off Julie is almost exactly a month behind me!! I'm due April 27th and she is due May 25th!!! Another neat little coincidence - our due date is our 8th anniversary and Nate and Julie's is our best friends Jeremy and Jill's 8th anniversary! I think that's neat! I guess an easy way to remember the due dates as if we could forget!!!

A Fall Photo Session and a Little Butterfly Fairy Princess...

Last week was a rainy, rainy, rainy week!! But graciously God spared me the rain on my birthday Wednesday!!! After Kamryn and I went to eat lunch with my Mom we had a little photo session!!! Here are some of my favorites!!

She's such a cheeseball!!! ;-)



I wonder what she's thinking about...? :-) I just LOVE her brown eyes!!!


My pretty princess!!






Saturday was Halloween and Kamryn wanted to be a Butterfly Fairy Princess....?

Trick or Treating in the country involves getting in the car and riding around!!! I was so TIRED afterwards!!! Oh, how I wish we could have just walked around a neighborhood!!

Oh, to be so carefree and unbiased to the nastiness of this world!!!!

The sad looking antenna I made...they were a little lopsided!! ;-) I bought the wings but made the tutu...I love how it came out and so did Kamryn which is all that matters!! I love that she's turning out to be a 'one-of-a-kind' kind of girl!! Not one to follow the crowd which is what I love about her!! She is an individual that loves her individuality!!! Just a minute of talking to her you'll see she's easy to love and has the most unique personality, she's a friend's friend with a great sense of humor!!

You Ate That Whole Block of Cheese!

What's with the title you say? A funny little antidote from tonight...

Let me prefaced this by saying we are big fans of Will Ferrell, he's funny. He has a weird sense of humor quite like ours...we're weird! One of our favorites is Anchorman. If you to are a fan then you know the scene where he comes home and his dog is talking to him, by of course, barking at him. Will Ferrell's character answers him by repeating what the dog says. An example? Okay.

Dog barking
WF's Character's response: Baxter! You know I don't speak Spanish!
Dog barking
WF's Character's response: What you ate the whole block of cheese?!
Dog barking
WF's Character's response: No, I'm not mad. I'm quite proud!

Okay, I know that's not too terribly funny reading it, but believe me, it's HILARIOUS!

So, Jerry does this with our dog, Janie when she barks at us. We know what she wants, she wants to go outside to do what she can't do inside...I won't tell you, you should know what I'm talking about!

Now, Kamryn hears this and tonight as Janie does, when I get finished eating (notice I didn't say when Jerry gets finished - she's SUPPOSED to be HIS dog, but SHE does NOT KNOW this!!!) looks straight at me when it would be just as easier to look at Jerry, starts barking at ME. Well, I am not listening to her and Kam out of no where says, "What?! You ate the whole block of cheese?!"!!!!!!! And precedes to crack herself and Jerry and I up!!! MAN, it was funny!!!

Baby On The Way!!!!

Quick little note to you all....I found out Monday that I am going to be having a baby April 27th, 2010 and an added bonus, that's our 8th wedding anniversary!!!! Is that the coolest or what!!!
Some prayer request for you all to go to the Father with: As you all know I am a diabetic and I have concerns with that and the pregnancy. I have an appointment with my endocrinologist on Monday at 8:15 so remember me as I travel to Little Rock. She told me in February that I was healthy enough to get pregnant but by the time my May's Hemoglobin A1C test was mailed to me in June it showed it was a little elevated and didn't suggest me getting pregnant...I've been working on it since then so I hope I'm okay! Please be praying for that!! I didn't want to get back on birth control pills after I had been off it for a month because of the problems we had getting pregnant with Kamryn (it took us 2 years!! I wasn't ovulating for some reason...)
She has already switched me to another type of 24 hour insulin because the one I was taking is not FDA approved for pregnancy! Yikes! I will start that tonight so, if you can pray for me and my little growing baby I would REALLY appreciate it!
Oh, I forgot, I took that insulin when I was pregnant with Kamryn and she came out just fine so I haven't hurt this baby! I was going to another endocrinologist at the time and I guess he either didn't know or didn't care. My opinion is he didn't care to know - I REALLY didn't like him! ;-)
Well, that's about it for now!! We are REALLY excited!!!

Homecoming and Other Lovely Things

The first weekend in this month our church celebrated our annual homecoming!

Are you wondering why we are dressed this way?

That's because we have a tradition of dressing "Old Fashioned"...I think it's pretty great! I always liked dressing up when I was a little girl. I guess that "little girl" is still in me! ;)

I made Kamryn and my outfits (minus the bonnet and my shirt). I think it all turned out great!

Here is Kamryn with her little buddy Chase. Aren't they the cutest?

I just LOVE her little prairie dress....Isn't it great?!

Last weekend I told some of my MySpace customers/friends that I was working on a t-shirt pillowcase dress well Saturday I finished it. It didn't turn out as great as I would have hoped but it's still cute...Jerry and I both agreed it needed to go in the dress up box though! ;) I think we both figured out that I cut the t-shirt too short so the fabric and the jersey fabric weren't "hanging" right. I did a little thinking and put ribbon on it. Well, that didn't help either! ;) THEN, I tried putting elastic on the waist and that helped a little but off the little girl it looks HORRIBLE! I could NEVER sell anything like that in good conscience! ;) I'm going to think on it some more and do a little more working/perfecting the magic that I know can be a t-shirt pillowcase dress! ;)

Kamryn LOVES it though!! Don't you just love the Razorback fabric? It's cute to hear Kam doing the "WHOOOoooooo Pig Sooiee!"

See how it puckers in the chest area...I don't like it...am I picky? Probably!!


I LOVE the black/white polka dot "K"!! What do you think? PLEASE comment so I don't feel like I'm talking to myself here! ;)

This Sunday night we canceled our services and Kamryn wanted me to play in her room with her. Which was a little strange for her because she usually plays so well by herself...and prefers it that way...?

Anyway, we had a GREAT time playing with all of her farm animals (mostly horses) that we get every time we go into Atwoods!

After supper she wanted to put her ballerina outfit on (can you tell my little girl is very diverse?! Give her a horse, Star Wars Light Saber, dollie or ballerina outfit and she's good to go!). This was her Halloween costume from last year so it was a little "snug" but she didn't care!

This is her "pose".

I think we need a ballerina bar...don't you?

This picture CRACKED me up...Janie trying to get some attention...she looks disgusted! ;)

Wow! Can you believe it, two blogs in two days! I'm on a role!!!

Beautiful Day - Zebra Dress!

Today was a BEAUTIFUL August day...actually it felt more like a late September day...So, what do the Holland chics do? Well, we go out and have a photo shoot...doesn't everyone? ;)

Jerry recently purchased a new camera and I have been playing with it - it's taking awhile to get used to it!

Anyway, I like how some of these came out despite my 'ineptness' in editing...

Don't you think your little girl needs one of these?!

She actually posed this way for the picture - cracked me up!!! I just LOVE the red 'barn' door in the background! Who knew we had such a great backyard for photos!!

Kam's First TV Crush Other than Diego...aw!

I have to give you this quick little story...I want to cry right now - Kamryn has her FIRST TV crush! Is that not the saddest thing? Well, not really when you hear about all the suffering in this cruel world but for me, a first time Mom to a VERY prissy girl, it's a milestone I wish we would have crossed WAY down the line!!
I like to watch Little People, Big World on TLC and Kam likes to watch it with me...it's a really great show. Anyway, I was working on a new style of pillowcase dress (that's another story) yesterday and as Kam does most of the time was in my sewing room with me chatting me up (by the way: BIG talker - the girl talks ALL day long- really!). She's got to where she has imaginary - or as she calls - "imagination" friends (mostly her cousins but sometimes Diego will be at the house with us)...just a little strange when I have to give an imaginary kid a kiss goodnight or serve them imaginary food OR (this one is a good one) make the Wal-Mart greeter give the invisible kid a smiley face sticker (yep, try to explain that one to a 60 plus lady!!).
Anywho, back to my story - bare with me people! Where were we? Oh, yeah in the sewing room yesterday...I was cutting some material and I heard Kamryn talking to her friends and she said Jeremy. I stopped what I was doing because I had never heard her talking to this friend. I asked her, "Kam who is Jeremy?" Her reply? "My 'fa-wa-and' from big 'word', 'wittle' people...you know?"
How precious!!
Well, I'm sitting on the pot (not using it) with the laptop watching Kam play in the bathtub right now and she's ready to get out - better go! I just had to share that before it left the Ole Noggin!! ;)
One more, she was getting upset (imagine that!) because a washcloth wouldn't do what she wanted it to do so Jerry came in to help her and he told her, "Use your noodle" and her reply, "What kind?" -- HA! Can you tell we eat a LOT of pasta!! Ha Ha Ha!!

Thank you cards, old fashioned?

I was reminded today of one of my favorite things as I went to the mailbox today, a proper thank you card. You know the kind of thank you card when you KNOW the person is grateful. The kind of thank you card when you know they took a couple of minutes out of their busy day to stop to THANK you!
I get so tired of receiving the generic thanks, i.e. thank you for the "fill in the blank" I know we will get great use out the "fill in the blank". thank you again, generic person.
My sister, who has a newborn and a five year old took the time to thank me. If she can do it, the next time someone does something nice for you, please stop to properly thank them. Express your thanks...with WORDS...
In this world of e-mails and text messages get a pen and paper out and write!

Baking Soda and Vinegar better than Drano?

Who out there loves a bargain?! Who loves to protect the Earth? Well, I do and I would love to tell you how to do it in an "itty bitty" way!!
Let me explain...I've known about this for awhile and have used it several times but was reminded of it when Kamryn's bathtub had a slow drain problem...for the second time in her 3 years! What is going on with that? She's three how much hair could she shed? Well, apparently a bunch!!
Let me tell you how to use baking soda and vinegar to unclog a drain!!!
First, you pour baking soda down the drain. Secondly, you pour vinegar down the drain. Repeat as long as there is still a drain problem....It's that easy!!!
There's two benefits to this, first it's so much cheaper than the normal drain cleaner secondly it's a lot healthier for the environment and if it's good for the environment guess what? It's safe for your child!!!

I hope this helps...

I know I still haven't updated you all on Kamryn's birthday party (2 months ago! LOL!) and vacation bible school and oh, yeah I have a new nephew, Carter Grey was born 07-08-09!!! We have had a BUSY summer so far! I hope you all are having a great one too!!!

Strep Throat...UGH!!!

Just a quick little post...as usual!!!

I am SO bummed right now...I woke up yesterday with a VERY BAD sore throat and ran fever off and on all day...today I decided to go to the doctor. Today I found out, as I suspected, I have strep throat!! I haven't had that since I was in elementary school! CRAZY!!!
Right now, I am hurting. I really have a lot I want to be doing but just don't feel like it! Thank the Lord for Disney movies (never thought I would say that!!) - they are keeping Kamryn busy to where she isn't constantly needing my attention!
I am also bummed because Jill and I, after MANY attempts, were going to get our kids together to play tomorrow but my doctor told me I would still be contagious tomorrow! Oh, well, we'll try again in a couple of weeks!! (there is always something with the two of us! LOL!!)
Ok, Jerry just called and said he was on his way home, I'm cooking chicken pot pie - I thought that would feel good on my "shroat" as Kam calls it!!! (that's a combination of sore and throat if you were wondering!!). He was so cute, he asked if he needed to pick anything up for supper (yesterday we ate at the little cafe here in Sparkman because I hurt so bad and he felt sorry for me!) - tonight he was just afraid that by me touching the food he might get it! HA! Bless him...

Real Quick....

It's been awhile since I last posted - it's been SUPER busy around here!! When I have more time (Ha HA!!), I'll catch up with you guys!

Here is a quick overview:

Kamryn turned THREE on May 23rd!!! We had a great time at her party!! I'll let you all know in more detail later!!!

Last week I was busy decorating for Vacation Bible School!!! Let's just say one of our Sunday School rooms turned into a CAVE!!! It is SO cool!!!!

This week....Vacation Bible School!!! It's going SO great!!!! A lot of the kids are saying it's the best they've been to!!! We had two kids (twins no less - how cool is that?!) AcceptBelieveConfess and became Christians on Tuesday!! Born into the world on the same day and born into the kingdom of heaven on the same day!!! They spoke with two different people so they didn't know what the other person was doing which makes even cooler!!!!

Today it feels SO nice outside! I think we need to go out and play!!

Have a great rest of the week!!!

Tagged....

I was tagged by Meagan...

I met Meagan in 1995 - WOW! That seems SO long ago...We've had a lot of great times! Too many to mention!! I love you Meag!! It's weird being an adult with her now!! LOL!!!

Here are the instructions for "eight things": Mention the person that tagged you. Complete the list of eight things. Tag eight of your wonderful blogger friends. Go tell them you tagged them

Eight things I look forward to:

1. Kamryn's THIRD Birthday Party on her actual birthday tomorrow!!!
2. Hopefully getting pregnant this summer!!
3. Making the baby!! ;)
4. Seeing how Kamryn will react to a baby in the family!
5. Vacation Bible School!!
6. Seeing what God has in store for us...as a family and as a church
7. Seeing my "business" grow!!!
8. Meeting my new nephew - my sister's scheduled c-section is on 07/08/09!! 7,8,9 get it? She is a surgery nurse and could schedule it on whatever day she wanted! I think it's pretty neat!!


Eight things I did yesterday:

1. Laundry
2. Picked up some orders from "Monogram It!"
3. Paid some bills in town
4. Grocery shopping for the week
5. Picked up Kamryn's Birthday stuff for tomorrow!!!
6. Arrived in town so late that I was able to get KFC for supper! YAY - no cooking!!
7. Gave Kamryn a bath (isn't my life SO interesting! HA!!)
8. Argued my case to Kam that I don't NEED to be in her room when she goes to bed - SO irritating!!

Eight things I wish I could do:

1. Have a house of our own.
2. go on 4 vacations a year. (me too Meag!)
3. have more orders for my business!!!
4. have everyone like me! HA! And understand why those people don't like me based on what someone else has told them...not what they have learned from me...yes, I was THAT kid - I wanted everyone to like me to the point of doing stupid things to make them like me....
5. understand why they still care to know what I and my family do...realistically I know that is not going to happen...although I do want to be your friend...believe it or not...
6. let it not bother me...I am praying for peace of mind...
7. lose 20 lbs
8. run & exercise more...

Eight shows I watch:
1. GMA
2. Little People Big World
3. Jon and Kate Plus Eight
4. Table for 12
5. Baby Story
6. Ugly Betty
7. American Idol (when it's on)
8. Dancing with the Stars (when it's on)

I tag: anyone who wants to do it! :)

Happy SEVEN year Anniversary (2 days late...) and our money trap the English Bulldog...

Well, it's been almost a month since I last updated you all - a LOT has happened!!



Janie / Daisy Update:


The day after Daisy got here she was already on her way out...let me explain:

As I told you in my last post she came in the door and made a straight line underneath our bed! Well, Janie in all of her 47 lb glory squeezed herself under there with Daisy! It was a site to see! I don't know how - either Janie scratched herself on the bed frame or because Daisy DID NOT want to play with the big puppy she swatted at Janie. Who knows? All I know is later that afternoon I looked down at her and her eye was red or rather her third eyelid had popped out - gross, I know!


Debbie and Bill picked Daisy up that Wednesday before they left to go to Florida - now Daisy is an official road dog! I felt really bad that we were unable to keep her - she's a real good dog - she's just a dog that doesn't like big puppies! She assuredly had a better time in Florida than she would have had under our bed for the 10 days she was schedule to stay here!!

We spent that night looking up "eyes of E. Bulldog's" and everything we came up with told us that Janie had "Cherry Eye" which involves surgery! Needless to say, we didn't get much sleep!

After Daisy was gone I took Janie to the vet and she told us that Janie sure enough had a scratch on her eye but she did not think it was cherry eye. She gave us some drops to help heal her scratch but would not heal the eye lid hanging out. We had to heal the scratch before we could put steroid drops to help the eyelid. So, we went home with drops...How was that - putting eye drops in a bulldogs eye? Let me just say I invented my own way of doing it after wrangling her to the ground, wrapping my legs around her to try to stop her from squiggling away and missing her eye completely, wasting the expensive eye drops - I decided that it would be best to "sneak attack" her!! I wait until she is fast asleep, pry her eye open and WHAM-O the drops go in as she gives me the "look of disgust"!

A week later Kam and I load her up to take Janie for a re-check and yep, the scratch is still there although this time it is smaller!! The vet decided to draw blood from the "bull headed" bulldog, to make a serum that will help her eye heal better, this was an experience to say the least! There were three people other than the vet holding the fatty down - have I mentioned that EBG's have STRONG leg muscles? THEY DO!!! She did not like it and there were several times during the experience when she looked up at me with VERY sad eyes as if to say, "why are you letting these mean people do this to me, you HORRIBLE woman?!" She ended up getting enough - Thank the Lord!!

A week later we brought her back and the scratch was better!!! It had gone down in size but was still there. Still no steroid drops, although the eye lid doesn't look as bad!


One more week later (I think - this has been a long experience!) we dropped her off to be boarded so that we could go to Branson to celebrate our SEVEN year anniversary!!! When I picked her up this Monday the vet said that there was still a scratch!! UGH!!!


Anniversary Trip Update:

A week or two before we left we had planned on Kamryn staying with Bill and Debbie but Jerry decided to give Kamryn a choice...and to our surprise she picked Branson! I know right, she skipped out on MeMe to go with us, her parents! WOW!

Thursday at work Jerry did something to his back and the whole time we were up there he hurt - I was constantly putting Aspercream on him. He did manage to keep up with Kamryn and I while we shopped (good for us huh?!). Friday evening we toured the Titanic museum, which Kamryn thought was an actual boat and by the end of the tour was asking to "get off here". Saturday we shopped at the different outlet malls and went down to The Landing to let Kamryn look at the "fishies". After that we of course, went to Cold Stone Creamery - LOVE that place!!! After supper Saturday night we played "Golf Game" where the theme was "Dinosaurs" - Kamryn LOVED the place and actually beat Jerry and I - at least the first half of the rounds - half way through she was too bored by it! LOL!! I was really proud of her though, she did really good!!

The only part of the trip, other than Jerry's back hurting him, that was a problem was that the pollen up there is just now blooming so our allergies acted up on ALL of us!! Now Kamryn and I are sneezing, coughing and blowing our noses - have I mentioned how much I hate pollen?!

Before we left on our trip I was able to complete some shirts for my nieces...I love how they turned out. Although I found out yesterday that Audrey's neck and arms were a little tight but thankfully my sister can sew too and I think she'll be able to fix it otherwise I guess she is going to have to mail it back to me and I can fix it...not a big deal!!

Audrey's shirt

Anna Grace's shirt -- I LOVE this one!!!

Well, that's all for now!! I'll let you know how Janie's eye is doing next week when we go back to the vet.

I want to end by saying, I am SO blessed to have such a loving husband and I am so happy that he has put up with me for SEVEN years!! It doesn't seem like we've been married that long, I guess that's a good thing, right?!
I LOVE you Jerry and here is to another seven times seven years!!!!!!! CLINK!!!!!!!

Catch up....

So...it's been awhile!

Here are a few things that have been going on in the Holland household:

On March 21st, Clint and Ashley were married!! As I told you in a past blog the wedding was brown and cream and I knew that I would never find a brown and cream dress that was affordable for us so I decided to make one! It turned out pretty cute ~ to be honest with you all, I wish it was a little longer...I don't know what I was thinking when I cut it out!! Anyway, I still think it's cute!!!

Here is little Miss Kamryn in the dress. When we left the house I guess she didn't realize there was going to be SO many cars out there!! That explains the expression on her face! HA!

The lovely couple!!!

I really don't know why the girl can't smile normal for me ~ especially when I'm looking so cute! HA!!! Of course, I wish my hair was a little bigger - not boofy enough!! LOL!!

Our lovely little "brown" family!!!
(again, a goofy smile from Kamryn - she's going to REALLY regret this when she is older - could this be a brief picture of how she's going to act when she is a teenager? Do we have a little actor/comedienne on our hand's?)

This is a dress I made out of a pillowcase that was on sale @ Wal-Mart and the sleeves were made from a cut-off of a denim skirt that was too long for me...I LOVE how it came out!!! (and OF COURSE the pink jelly shoes she showed EVERYONE!!!)

She just can't seem to look at the camera or smile right...

I found a lady on MySpace that makes (or at least I think she makes them...) well, at least sales these ADORABLE beenies with flower/bow attachments. This is the outfit she wore to church last Sunday and I just HAD to take a picture of it she looked so stankin' cute!!!

We have some friends at church that their little girl, Kelsey had her birthday party Sunday. We didn't get to go, I hadn't seen my Momma in a month and I couldn't stay away anymore!!! HA! But I did make this cute little shirt for her...I LOVE how it turned out - I hope it fits her and that she LOVES it as much as I do!!!

I FINALLY FIGURED IT OUT!!!!

I know how to get Kamryn to make a normal smile! Monday we went to Wal-Mart and she wore this really cute outfit (with the white beenie of course!) and so I decided to take a picture of her. She wasn't smiling "normal" (shock of all shockers!) so as if a light came down from heaven above I thought to myself, "she has a cute laughing smile, I'll get her to tell me a joke!" (she is in the "joke telling" phase especially knock-knock jokes - she can come up with some doosies!!) She laughs at the end of it and this is what I got out of her!!

I love these kind of pictures....

Alright, now to today...Jerry's parents are driving to Florida tomorrow to spend some time with Nathan and Julie (I SO wish we could go with them...not the right time right now though...). Kamryn and I went to pick up Daisy (our "old" dog...I miss her - she's a good dog!) to stay with us until they get back after Easter.

When we got here I left Daisy in the car so that I could go in the house and get Janie - I didn't know how she would react to Daisy in "her domain" and I'm glad I did because she did a little "tinkling" when she saw Daisy...not sure what that was all about. Daisy, of course, went straight to our bedroom and has been under the bed ever since....

Now, we are waiting on Jerry to get home. I am going to make "Shepherd's Pie" tonight...doesn't that sound great?