Contest time!

Win the Essential Babywearing Stash from Along for the Ride (one Beco Butterfly, one Hotsling baby pouch, one BabyHawk Mei Tai, one Zolowear Ring Sling, and one Gypsy Mama Wrap)

Click on this link to enter this contest. I ordered my Ergo carrier from this website and the owner is very nice!

Congratulations Brad!

This is my brother Brad. This was taken yesterday. That car in the picture. It won the Indy 500. The other guy in the picture, Scott Dixon, winner of the Indy 500. My brother is an engineer for Target Chip Ganassi racing. This is not the main car he engineers, but all the engineers (well all 3 of them) work together. This has been my brother's dream since we were little. We lived very close to the Speedway and Brad's birthday is always close to race day, because of this, he always wanted to work on race cars. I am so proud of my brother for accomplishing his dreams.

My only question is, what do you do with life when you accomplish your dreams before you even turn 30?

Amazing...

Okay, so the pictures aren't the greatest but can you tell who is who? One of them is my daughter, the other one is my niece Maggie!

A Week Without Cable

So it has been a little more than a week without cable. Now to give you a little background, I have had cable all of my life. We just didn't slowly wean ourselves from digital to classic to basic, we completely cut the cord so to speak! I now have one channel and its not even the one I like. In fact, the only time I ever watched CBS was during football season! I must report that this has gone way better then I suspected. Ella still occasionally asks for PBS Kids but I think she is trying to find other things to do. I knew that she was watching to much TV, but it was much to easy to turn it on, especially when I was having a particulary hard day with her. I think the transition has really helped us out. I would recommend anyone doing this. I mean we were TV watchers! Especially cable channels. It helps that we are heading into the summer months, but I am thankful that God gave me the strength to cut out something that I really think was an idol in our lives. Maybe now I can use that sewing machine!

10 Things you didn't know about me

This was Jaime's idea so I thought I would give it a shot. I'm a pretty candid person so I'm not sure if I can come up with 10 things.

1. I was born after a tornado ripped the roof off my parents' apartment. The doctor said the pressure changes in the atmosphere induced labor. I was born two weeks early.

2. My dad was Canadian eh?

3. Sometimes I think I have chronic fatigue but then I realize I have an almost 3 year old, an infant and a new business!

4. I can't pick a favorite anything because I am to indecisive.

5. I was the "fat" kid in school until I started 9th grade having lost 75 pounds.

6. I didn't know I had curly (okay wavy) hair until I was 23. I always thought I had to blow dry it!

7. I wish I could be more "crafty". I don't know how some moms do it! Where do they find time and money to scrapbook, knit, sew, bake cupcakes, photoshop etc.

8. I have the most amazing husband and I am pretty sure that I would be divorced if he were somebody else. I seriously ask God why He gave me Jacob because I know that I didn't deserve him. But I am grateful He did!

9. Ella watches to much TV. Good thing we cancelled cable. I will miss PBS kids.

10. I am now very paranoid Dream Dinners is going to be broken into. Good thing we have good insurance!

There I came up with 10, although alot of people would probably already know some of these! I did my best!

The ground shook!

This morning God decided that I needed to wake up at 5:39 am! Most people are already talking about it but this was my first earthquake. It was quite loud. Jacob was in the shower so he didn't even feel it. The girls didn' wake up either to which I am thankful. I am also glad that nobody has reportedly been hurt.

I have come full circle...