Thanksgiving

WE had a great Thanksgiving!!

I Swoney!

We had so much fun with granny!

That woman can work circles around all of us!! I had to beg and plead with her to stop cleaning up my house and stop folding up the clothes! And y'all know that she meddles in stuff, like bills... you can not leave stuff like that out when she comes over!!! She will write on bills that she meddles in: "pay this",,, "past due" !! she is so funny, well, While I was trying my Hardest to get Josie gurwa asleep...lights out in my quiet room, trying desperately for her to go to sleep..maw comes in, KNOCK KNOCK on the door LOUD...and says...(knowing I am trying to get Josie to sleep, I guess she forgot) Kelli estelle...i just have one question....(she was meddling in my bills on the counter)...do you mean to tell me ,that this medicine (i had just picked up from the pharmacy) was SIXTY EIGHT DOLLARS!!!! Yes maam maw (kelli whispering very quietly, Josie turning to see what all the racket is about,miss nosey)...loud again...you mean SIX - EIGHT!!! I SWONEY!! that must be a high faluntin' pharmacy!!! door slams!! hahah...she was just appalled!!

Wednesday I took her McComb, MS to go shopping at this little outlet...we didn't get to hit all the dollar stores in clinton ...her favorite thing..so we headed to mccomb...she was so excited! She just HAD to find her some new tops...she can never have too many flowery tops, not too low on her neck, covering way past her belly, not too short...to go with her black elastic waist pants and her favorite red shoes!!! anyway, we were excited to see that they were having a huge sale, so we gathered a bunch of tops for her to try on in the small dressing room..(which opened up to the entire store). Her and Adeleine, were in their together and I was on the other side of the store, when all of the sudden I and everyone else in the store heard a loud noise in their direction....Adeleine had slammed the door opened for the whole entire store to see maw in her black elastic waisted pants and her little bra!!! and then I heard from her...I SWONEY!!!! really LOUD!! then she couldnt get the door closed....adeleine was staring at herself in the mirror outside the door not worried a bit...I said addie close the door...nothing...so then I darted across the store with josie in one arm and pushing the stroller with the other hand as fast as I could...maw's eyes were

as big as saucers underneath her little glasses...i tried to keep a straight face when i finally got up to her...nobody saw you maw, dont worry...little bit of a lie....i closed the door...then i heard her giggling...I Swoney...that little thang (talking about addie)..i swoney!!! she said!!! hahah..

For those of you who don't know..i swoney is like a curse word i guess...her little Christian self would not dare swear...but she can "I swoney" all day long....she also says things like" I don't shive a git" !!

Later that day we had lunch at the golden corrall...perfect place for old people to eat...she was so proud to be there with her little grand daughter and her little great grand daughters....i just knew it!! One thing i learned while there....she whispers really LOUD....I felt my face blush as she "whispered" about the lady sitting inches away from us...the lady heard every word...hahah...She is so much fun to be around...and LORD knows she can talk..

we talked about:

=What we needed to cook for David's supper every night..."do i need to make him a lunch for work"..."do you want me to make yall some biscuits in the morning" "how about a pan of cornbread" !!! He was so spoiled like always when she comes over..
=how the Lord was faithful through all of her trials: little Ricky, Doonie, Aunt Eva, Holly!

we always talk about Holly and how much we miss her...and how pretty she was....long dark thick hair...

Then she recalls so easily her little seventeen month old son Ricky who died of pneumonia..I told her that he may be one of the first one she sees when she gets to Heaven...yep!!! She can recall every detail of that really sad night, and I try not to let her see the tears welling up in my eyes as she tells it like it happened yesterday...so sad!! I am thinking to myself poor maw..how did she ever get through it all.....the answer comes with her next breath....The Lord is Faithful, she says...her legacy....then she talked about what a beautiful baby aunt eva was...curly black hair, skin like a china doll...beautiful...she then thinks back to when pawpaw was in the hospital and she went to see him and she brought her baby eva with her..she said that the nurses immediately took eva and showed her off to all of the nurses b/c she was so pretty...she even remembered the dress that baby eva wore that day...pretty little pink one! Maw has such a sweet look to her when she tells those stories...she then talks about her own mother...martha...who suffered with asthma...died at age 44...she says that she was so sweet..and I try to imagine that she was probably alot like maw...my mawmaw had to get her sweetness inherited from someone...she tells the same stories over and over..but i like to hear them..and maw likes to tell them..so i listen...greatful that I still have my little maw here with me!! I love her so much!! She is my favorite person in the whole wide world!!

The girls LOVE when granny comes over b/c they get to sleep with her...So we hear them justa talking in their rooms about God and everything else, maw inclined on her 2 pillows. saying their sweet little prayers...they each got to take turns sleeping with her since she was here for three nights...but we kept hearing the pitterpatter of little feet going into the room she was sleeping in...really late...david yelling girls get in the bed...then we hear maw begging them to go to sleep...b/c she doesnt want them to get into trouble...i go in and check on them later, maw asleep with her flashlight nearby...i just knew that she was going to try to wash some clothes or do some dishes by the light of the flashlight...i guess the girls wore her out!! haha!!

I SWONEY!! we had a blast with her here..Come back soon GRANNY!!

TWIN LOVE

Evie and Bella

Yesterday when we pulled into our driveway, I told the big girls to jump out and let me take some pictures of them. They had fun, and so did I...

Look how sweet!

Conversation with Bella

here bella is very proud of her smile, which may look a liitle bit different soon

Bella woke up this morning saying that her front tooth was hurting....I looked and wiggled...nothing.....I told her to go show daddy......David looked and wiggled....nothing....but told Bell that her tooth was LOOSE and then they talked about the tooth fairy....she got so excited.....head held higher....big huge smile on her face......so I then put an apple in her lunch box and told her that it might do the trick:





This was our conversation this morning:


Bella: Why will the apple do the trick mom?


Kelli: B/c when you bite into it, your tooth may come out and get stuck in the apple! but you need to be careful and make sure that you are not swallowing your tooth...so be careful, b/c it may come out in your mouth...


Bella: What will happen if I swallow my tooth?


Kelli: It will come out in your poo poo...


Bella: (eyes really big) ooooooooooooooooooooo the tooth fairy will NOT like that!!


Kelli: hahah No I dont think that she would!

Happy Birthday David!!

Thirty

Today is David's birthday, so I feel that it is ok to brag a little on him. I can hear yall now saying.."oh, brother"...

So here are some things that I love about David.....

1. he is Daring. As in jumping off a very tall cliff into a lake, chasing after snakes (my worst fear). He also runs into burning buildings to rescue people and just the other day he cut a women out of her mangled car and helped save her life. His crazy dream is to jump out of a plane and fly a top gun jet...over my dead body....one time he swam in the gulf during a tropical storm while his wife, pregnant with twins watched him from the condo, praying...and the thing that scared me the most was when he jumped the rail we were sitting behind and broke up 2 gangs that were about to fight in the movie theater!!!! I just knew that I was about to hear gunfire....Here I was, very very, pregnant with Adeleine, enjoying the previews when candy started flying overhead, one gang of thugs above us, one gang of thugs to the side of us, throwing candy at each other.. can you picture that...then angry words started flying, me and a very packed theater of people getting more nervous by the second, people looking around thinking, is this really happening...then the guys from above headed over to the guys to the side of us.... head to head...a fight to ensue...only feet away from his pregnant, very scared wife wanting to hide under the seat.....then up jumps David over the rail......as in Dukes of hazard....demanded they sit down....and they did....immediately.....david shocked them....their toughness melted away in seconds, eyes big as saucers looking at this guy who gained all of the control....then he went to get the authorities and pointed out the troublemakers..."it was him, him, and him and him...pointing at each guilty thug....who were thrown out of the theater...then he got a huge applause from the audience and a swoon from me!!!! Just like ole John wayne....all business!!! that's how he rolls!!! my daring protector!!!
2. He is A Comic:

Everyone who knows him knows this... He is the Funniest person that I have ever met...he can reenact dumb and dumber in any given oppurtune moment, whether appropriate or not...I laugh at him at least 100 times a day...sometimes my cheeks hurt so bad that I have to hold them together to relax the muscles in them... and he can also make my stomach hurt so bad, sometimes there is no sound left in me from laughing so hard. then, all day long i laugh just thinking about him and how silly he is...Oh my gosh the things that he has done...like intentionally tripping up the movie theater steps in front of 200 people .. so immature..he did this like everytime we would go to the movies... , he really can't do those things anymore being the c.o.c. of e.f.p. haha.. When I am having a not so good day, I will say, "dave, I need to laugh", no problem...seconds later, i am rofl at him and I am better...Laughter is so the best medicine! and our poor girls cant ever cry for long, anytime they get hurt bloody knees, bruised chins, they are laughing through the pain at their daddy in a matter of seconds....and for that matter I can never get mad at him, which is so unfair...he can just make a face...and their goes my anger....not an issue anymore...he is funny to a fault, sometimes embarrassingly funny....I LOVE that about him! I have my own ben stiller, jim carrey, will farell - David Dart!!

3. he is a Very hard worker - He perserveres and takes very good care of us. You rarely catch him on the couch. Last year at this time he was knocking on about 13000 doors meeting the people of our parish to ask for their vote. this year he is building a house for us!!He is always outside working on our property, riding tractors, bulldozers, fourwheelers with the girls... My favorite part of the day is when he comes through the door all dirty and sweaty with his very worn out mc football shirt, carharts and work boots on. nothing more attractive to me than this...hahah....i am serious... He works so hard to make our place awesome and That makes me so proud!!

Calloused hands, sunburned face and farmers tan....what a MAN!!

4. He Is the very best husband and Daddy

He is the answer to my prayer that i prayed in high school. a million fold. He is what God intends for a husband..such love and security....he truly values me....AND spoils me....He is definetly in charge of our family.....which I am so glad....what woman would want such pressure....ask me if I have ever paid any of our bills or know who to pay them to or how much...the answer is NO.... i have never worried over any of that stuff, stress free from all of it..

he takes care of it all and i am SO GLAD!! I trust and love him and know that he takes care of us!! He even goes to the grocery store and cooks the most!!! He gives me the sweetest most romantic cards and makes a huge breakfast for us girls every sunday before church.. He is teaching bella and evie how to jitterbug and he plays hide and seek with addie everyday when he comes home for lunch!! he always has time for his kids....except when Josie has a dirty diaper...he can always maneuver his way out of that... he gets upset when we start talking about the girls going on dates...and says that they will be baptist nuns one day...when the girls put on their play lipstick...he tells them.."now girls you cant wear lipstick in the convent" haha... so silly...they just look at him confused, then smile, then melt their daddy's heart!! At the end of the day when we are laying in bed, he always says, Kelli...we are so blessed,,, And i say AMEN to that...

I am so blessed to have YOU david,,,, Happy birthday!! You are my everything!!!

Taking care of BIZ-ness

Yesterday I took Adeleine to MONKEY BIZ!!

It was her special day!! She was SO EXCITED to be going by herself, well, Josie was there too, but she goes where momma goes... We had a fun day, playing in the tunnels, throwing balls, eating pizza, sliding down the roller slide a million times and climbing on all of the rides...at one point she was the only kid there, so she had the whole place to herself.... WE HAD A FUN DAY!!!

Snuggling 10-11

I just finished snuggling with the big girls.

I do that every now and then. For them, but mostly for me. Picture this...We (evie, bella, addie and me) all snuggle together in a little full size bed, with a tent made out of old lace curtains hung overhead with dangling flowers, stars, etc., inside to see when they look up...then there is addie, she doesn't like covers, so her legs are sticking out usually spread eagle, leaving only inches for our legs, bella and evie are so happy that I am snuggling with them so they are rubbing my back and legs (they are getting really good at this), and telling me all about their day (who they played with, what they learned, who had to go on the fence at recess, who there little friend boys are -"momma don't DARE tell daddy" "girl power secrets", how much they LOVE me, and how cute Josie is...)

Then slowly they start fading into their little slumbers....

Whoever is still awake secretly gets the best snuggle from me... I pull her closer to me and we snuggle tight and I rub her arms, legs... and run my fingers through her hair and kiss her cheeks lots and lots............

tonight it was Evie....

so naturally my mind starts to remember back as we snuggle close.....

MY FIRSTBORN...the one named after my sweet grandmother genevieve....my little one....who weighed only three pounds eleven ounces....my little sweetie who could make my heart stop when she would turn blue and pass out when she would get upset....the one with the smaller eyes and the crooked little smile... the one who loves to dance, draw and dress up, a true girly girl.....the one who loves to fish and get dirty too....The one who tries her hardest to put others before herself and LOVES to help old people up the steps....

she is my little love

.....as I am rubbing her arm, and feel her little scrapes, i start to feel the tears stinging my eyes....man, being a mom is so bittersweet, because I remember when this little arm was premature, only inches long. Now i feel muscles growing underneath this soft but tough little skin!! these little arms now swing wildly above her head when she dances and high vees when she cheers, so coordinated!!! these are the little arms that pack her little sister josie around and rescue her little sisters from their nibbling daddy..haha....her little hands...her little bossy fingers that point and direct her sisters and also tickle them.."gitty gitty gitty".... her pinky is bruised from being shut in the car door, still sore, but she says that she is tough! sweet little hands that always hold her sisters when they walk into school everyday.... her long legs, with tons of scrapes, bruises and mosquito bites...playing outside legs.....legs that run really fast!! Now her hair....long, soft and curly, blonde with streaks of brown throughout... beautiful, her hair parts perfectly naturally to the side, her daddy LOVES to brush this little head of hair after baths and he comments on how beautiful and LONG her hair is getting.... bound to be very tight ringlets all over her head when she hits puberty! Then her face, soft cheeks, slightly chapped little pink lips, she loves her cherry carmex that i bought just for her....eyes closed, dark lashes against her cheeks......

sweet dreams EVIE claire,

Thank you LOrd for blessing me with this little girl who is growing up too fast!! Even though I sometimes say when things are wild, whiney, messy, etc..."this too shall pass"....

please LORD let it pass SLOWLY!!!

Thoughts on the Election 11-5-08

America is changing

A new man is on the American "throne."

This is the Psalms that ran through my head today as I started to feel upset:

This is the day that the LORD has made, we will REJOICE and be GLAD in it!! Psalms 118:24

He reminded me that HE is on HIS throne, He has given us life to live for HIM ,

and for goodness sake Kelli..

BE GLAD AND REJOICE!!!

Don't be ANXIOUS about ANYTHING, but PRAY about EVERYTHING with THANKSGIVING!!

Thanks Lord for Blessing me!!

(look above for a few pics of my favorite blessings)

NOW I feel BETTER!!!!