1st sleep over

The first sleep over was fun. We had a fun day with the ponies and the birtdhay party. Nash and Gracie played good together. Nash shared his things. They had a good time. They took a big fun bubble bath in my big bath tub for almost an hour. Then got ready for bed. At first,Nash was gonna let Gracie have his bed and he sleep on the floor but then they decided they both wanted in the bed together but ended up both on pallets in the floor. It took a little while to get them both asleep but they did.
AND THEN..Nash comes to our bed around 1 am. Proceeds to vomit all over our bed and us at 1:30am. Then he and I ended up on the couch where I taught him for the first time to throw up in the bucket and he did good at it and of course it was less messy. Gracie was picked up in the morning but was woken up once during the night by Nash crying from feeling bad. However, she did good. I told her Nash was sick and not feeling good and she needed to go lay back down and she did. They watched cartoons and had cereal in the morning. Nash's without milk. Nash has been running fever and coughing all day. :(
A memorable first sleep over both good and bad.

pony rides

Today, we went to my friend's little girl Hannah's 3rd birthday party in which they had a couple bring out a couple of ponies for the kids to ride. Hannah loves ponies and throughly enjoyed her birthday party.

I didn't know how Nash would do. I thought he would just want to see them not ride them. However, to my surprise he feed them and rode them. We had my neice Gracie with us and she is quite the dare devil but she would not ride the horse even after much begging and coaxing. She did feed it though. They had carrot chuncks that they fed them by hand.

my little cowboy

(the boys had sherrif hats and the girls had pink cowgirl hats. Nash loved his and said he had a cowboy hat like Woody from Toy Story.)

 Nash and Gracie

After the fun day we had, Gracie is staying the night so it should be interesting how Nash's first sleep over goes.

TOT-Teams of Tomorrow

Nash had his TOT performance at UALR during the half time of the women's game. They come to his school once a week and teach a class. They learn different ball handling skills along with educational things and tonight theyshowed all they have learned to this point. At the end of the school year, they have another performance to show all they have learned. Nash was on team purple and I was our school's parent volunteer. Nash's school joined all the other participating schools.

 Getting situated before the performance

 showing how to pass the ball around the body. (Nash was looking the wrong way. He was facing the big screen rather than the teachers.)

They dribbled with the left and right hand, put the ball around their body standing up and sitting down, and the grand finale dribbling while turning around which for Nash was more like bouncing the ball and turning around real quick to get the ball again.

afterwards we got bubble gum as treats (Nash swallowed his)

All and all a fun night. Nash had lots of family there watching and he was so glad they all came to see him.

Snow Day(s)

As most of you already know, Central Arkansas got snow Sunday and Monday. We got about 5 inches. It started coming down Sunday afternoon and then kept coming through the night. Some students from Chris' school stopped by to warm up and we went out and played with them.

 Anna (Coach's Johnson's daughter) and Nash sledding down our walk way.

 Monday morning Nash and I went out in the snow and Anna came by later.

Sadie even enjoyed the snow

Nash's Poppy brought Nash a surprise (Chris' old sled) so we went out and tried it out.

Most of the snow had melted on the road so Chris pulled Nash around in our front yard

 Our first family snowman. We didn't have the normal things for eyes, nose, mouth, etc so we improvised.

 Nash's favorite thing to do by far. (throw snowballs at you). He says "I gonna get you" and proceeds to peg you with a snow ball. He's got an arm.

New Years

I don't really get into the whole New Years thing and making resolutions. (This year I did stay up to right at 12:00 though which is a first in a while) I guess to me it is like any day can be a new start so who cares if it is a new calender year or not. However, looking back on 2010 there were some good and some bad things which I think most years have there share off.
At the moment things I am focusing on are positive. I have been really focusing more on my relationship with God and have been convicted of not doing so as much as I needed to before. I love learning and growing and hope that I always do and strive to. I feel good in a way about being convicted because we shouldn't ever be happy with where we are at and it is kind of scary when we get to where we are happy with where we are at or for me just not trying to grow.
I want to be a better wife and mom. Part of me being a better mom is being a better wife. I am enjoying supporting my husband and his basketball team and since we don't get much time to ourselves due to him being gone a lot with coaching I so enjoy the time we do get to spend together and cherish it more.
I love my son and am perfectly content with him. I don't have the desire for another child right now. Some people think that is strange and there is a lot of pressure as several of my friends have had or are having there second one. In fact, most of Nash's class is having or has had baby sisters so he has come up with all on his own that he has a baby sister and her name is Penny. Where he got the name I have no idea.When you ask where she is he says she is at her house. It's funny. It's not that I don't think I will ever want another one because the thought of that makes me sad but I am definitely 100% content right now with enjoying my time with just him. I feel like he is still young and fun and learning and growing so much I don't want to miss it. I feel like having another one will take away from that and I am not ready yet to divide my time and attention with another one.
I also am pretty happy with my job. I just got back from a glorious two week vacation which was nice. I enjoy the kids I see and the setting that it's in.
I would like to get back into running again as I have so gotten out of that with being so tired and drained from my migraines/migraine medication and just the business of life in general. I feel so much better when I am being more active.
I also hope and pray to get some resolution to the whole migraine issue this year. My goodness it has been long enough. I have a pattern of getting on a medication that works well for a while and then the headaches come back. I am at that point again and have yet another doctor's appointment tomorrow. I did have a MRI done over the Thanksgiving break to rule out anything more serious and that came back normal so I am very thankful for that.
All and all I am pretty pleased with life. Yes, if I had three wishes I could definitely pick somethings I would like to have or like to have happen but overall I am content with life and looking and appreciating the positive things in my life. God is good. All the time!

Christmas 2010

What to say about this Christmas??? Well, it was a busy one like always. Thurdsay, I had my dad's side of the family over at my house for supper. Christmas Eve morning we went to my mom's. That afternoon and night we went to both Chris's grandparents.  That night we exchanged gifts. Chris and I didn't get each other much because we got our matress a few months ago that was supposed to be our Christmas present. However we both liked what we got each other. Christmas we saw what Santa brought Nash. Then we went to Mimi's and Poppy's and that night went to my grandmother's.

 Christmas Eve night was the most interesting and fun for us. This was the first year that Nash really got into Christmas. He has been wanting a "big ol Thomas" (train table). Chris had put it completely together upstairs and as he and I were playing Santa we realized we had to take it apart to get it downstairs to just put it back together. It was funny as we were trying to be quiet and dropping pieces and laughing quietly to ourselves. We did make a smart move and had Nash sleep in our bed so that we could kind of contain him as most nights here lately due to his snotty nose he has been ending up in our bed anyways. So we just set up the table in his room since we knew if we didn't we would have to take it apart once again to just put it back together. So it all worked out and Nash woke up in the morning. I woke Chris up and took Nash to potty and I said "you want to go see what Santa left you?" and he said "oh yeah" like he had forgotten. It was funny. He was so excited this year and really got into opening his presents and loved the different things he got.

Another funny story this Christmas is about one of his Santa gifts. Nash has been to Toys R Us several times and saw the Fisher Price Big Foot Monster. He has been so scared of it because at the store he is in the cage and bangs on the cage. However, he has still been very interested in it. At home he saw it on the an advertisement and started watching videos of it on the computer. So one night Chris asks (thinking that Nash was still afraid of it) "do you want me to go to the store and get a Big Foot for you to have at our house?" and Nash says "YES!!!" I thought "oh great" and hoped he would forget about it.  Well the next morning the first thing out of his mouth was "daddy's going to the store and getting me a big foot monster for my house". Yep. So he got another gift from Santa and LOVES it!

(By the way I am horrible at the whole Santa thing and think Nash will probably find out at an early age the truth about Santa (which is fine with me) because numerous times I made unintentional comments that totally would have given it away if he were paying attention or old enough to understand.)

Here are some pictures from our Christmas.

 Nash got at ton of Thomas trains for his train table.

 Christmas morning playing with his train table

 Seeing that "santa brought me a big foot to my house"

 new adorable Thomas the Train rain boots

 our family picture at Chris's parents

probably the funniest and grossest picture taken this Christmas

Christmas Program + Trains = A Good Day.

Nash had his Christmas program at school today. His group sang jingle bells and had little jingle bells that they rang during the song. Nash did a good job and sang and rang his bell the whole time. There was a little blooper when the kid in front of him got a little carried away ringing his bell and hit Nash in the face but Nash quickly got over it and kept singing.

Nash and Mrs. Connie (his wonderful teacher)

Our family pic.

(Nash was grumpy today so I was glad we at least got this)

After lunch and Nash's nap we meet up with our friends Kat and Nate to go see the big train exhibit at the library. The boys LOVED it. I was afriad we weren't going to be able to leave. However, due to a smoking train and the conductor stopping them for a bit we convinced the boys that the trains were sleeping and needed to rest so we went and played in the children's part of the library which was a lot of fun as well.

(The boys were right at eye level with the trains and thought it was amazing.)

Other reasons it was a good day include having the day off, my morning Starbucks White Chocolate Mocha half caf and banana chocolate chip coffee cake, getting a couple more Christmas presents taken care of, taking a wonderful nap with the boy, getting my Christmas cards mailed, having my husband bring home supper, and getting my house cleaned. Yep, it was a good day.