Christmas Eve service

Hallmark Christmas Village

Gluten free waffles!

Bisquick's gluten free baking mix, makes amazing waffles, now if only there were more coupons for this stuff! I freeze and pop in the toaster whenever I want! Yum!

My lil' pumpkin

Gluten Free Birthday!

Betty Crocker's cake mix was a huge hit! We'll be using these cake mixes for all our birthday cakes from now on! YUM! As the only GF member of our family, no one was disappointed! A+++++

Take me out to the ball game!

What a special All-American treat we had watching the flying squirrels play that other team! A girlfriend's Church had a Wednesday night outing, and we were blessed to join them! This was Bella's very first baseball game! She loved the hotdogs, the slurpies, the music and the mascots, but most of all she loved a pig! Lots of times I remember the joys of my own childhood when I'm with her! It didn't matter where we were, my attention was always on the animals! (Except in the reptile department!)

Rainbow over Richmond Skyline

The girls with Nutzy

 

The girls and Zinger

Toddler Busy boxes!

I've updated my system for Bella's busy boxes! I use these to initiate independent playing! Generally for those days I can't call in sick, or constantly entertain her! Check it out, the bins I use are $1.00 at the dollar tree! I grab a couple everything I stop in the store! I use them in the office, and storage for cosmetics, and nail polishes an manicure tools! I can always use a couple more!

Song of the day! :D

Off to the races!

Bahaha! Guess who won?!?

John Deer!!! & he cleans up after himself :D

What do I do with all of my kids's stuffed animals?

A few weeks into using Bella's new hutch I decided to try to flip it over. She now can get to her basket and her books all by herself! Hopefully she won't pull out all of the animals when they're up a lil higher! We have to work out the kinks before the painting begins!

After several play dates I realized that the tension rods were not toddler proof & let's get real, they are not the most attractive. Having to refill the entire zoo a few times a week, I made some consideration of functionality and design. Going on the theme of a stuffed animal "zoo", not jail, using a diamond shaped frame seemed most reasonable, and this is now permanently attached!

This is the current look of the one time entertainment center, I am trilled with the results, and it functions perfectly! Still needs Paint!

My song of the day!

I heard "It's time" - Imagion dragion on the radio for the first time today, and had to crank it! I don't know why, but I wanna rock in a barn to it! 

 

Bella's first performance & last night of VBS

Going Gluten Free!

I've never had a doctor suggest that I should try a gluten diet, but the more I read and hear about it, the more I recognize how much healthier a normal person is Gf, let alone people with UC or chrones! The diet is really supposed to help loose bloating in the midsection, which at 118lbs bothered me, I don't even want to think about it now :) the blood sugar stabilization has really helped me feel full much longer! And eat much less! I feel less bloated and it's been only been 2 days! I'm looking forward to an energy increase and a decease in belly fat!
Here's the first web site I have started with:http://www.wheatbellyblog.com/press-media/faqs/


Check out some of the foods I found today, that are GF!

She's getting so big!

Today was my day to drop the kids off at Vacation Bible school! I was a bit concerned thinking Bella might have a problem with me leaving! To my surprise she could have cared less! I am so thankful she's very so Socially adaptable even with me being a stay-at-home!
Look how happy she was to leave the house!

Bella's first day of VBS!

She did just fine without her momma! Bella has her two bff's Megan & Aydyn in her class! Tomorrow they all have a dinner date together!
Here's Bella's bookmark she made :)

I got a line! U got a pole! we'll go fishing in a crawfish hole!

We ran to the cutest little market, just around the corner to get us some worms to fish with! We all caught something! My fish happened to be the biggest old grandpa fish! What a spectacular we had!

Girls weekend at the lake house or bust!

Bella and daddy are staying at home and getting special time together, mommy and five other mommies get to Spend weekend on vacation! I am hoping for a huge thunderstorm tonight just like the ones back home! And tomorrow sunny beautiful day to spend playing in the water in soaking up some sun! This is such a special place I am so blessed to have a friend who invites me on these special excursions! Enjoy the weekend! I'll be updating with lots of pictures!

The view from my suite :)  

Griffith Ilse in the works for some late night water, star gazing :)