Early to bed and early to rise . . .

Can I just tell you how much I love day light saving time! I used to get up around 7 a.m. (sometimes that was even hard) because that is usually when Kara wakes up. Anyway, since we gained an hour I have been getting up most of this week at 6 a.m. It is amazing what I can get done! I also walked with my friend Precia on Tuesday and Thursday. It is a bit chili outside at 7 a.m. but we bundle up and it is great to exercise and just chat. I hope I can keep it up. I also need to do some other form of exercise on the other days. I have this "Walkin with George (Forman)" DVD that is better than nothing, but I think I need more. Any suggestions? I have a big old belly I need to get rid of.

Anyway, so last week (Saturday) I FINALLY got a cell phone. It is so exciting! I haven’t wanted to shell out the extra cash for one each month, but it is about time I got one; especially with Trent and Tyler at school and me out running errands. I am on Verizon, because that is what Ray’s is with work. My sister and brother on with them as well and my friend Precia so it is sweet to have FREE mobile to mobile with them. I got a nice phone and only had to pay the tax, so that was awesome. I told Ray that I was cell phone illiterate, (because I was) and he set it all up for me. I still need to have him show me how to change the voicemail, and stuff. It already has come in SO handy!

I took the kids to get their pictures taken on Thursday. It went pretty good. The kids were good, but it sure is hard to get good smiles out of all of them ant the exact same time. I just took them to Target because they do a decent job and it is CHEEP, and unlike Wal-mart and Sears, if you do the package they take all the pictures and then let you choose which you want. For one of the poses she had Trent laying on his belly and Kara sitting on his back, Kara thought it was so funny. The last pose she had Trent and Tyler stand and hold Kara’s hands so she was standing, but she did not like that she tried to pull her hands away and just started to cry. I took some pictures before we went with my camera and here are a couple of them. I had to laugh at Tyler, he is just a bigger kid than Trent and he is wearing a shirt that is a 4/5 but the neck is way to tight, I could barely get the clip-on tie on him. He kept telling me that it hurt, poor kid! I don’t think that they make different neck sizes for kids, I guess maybe I just need to look for a different brand.


Kara is understanding things more, I think. If I ask her something, like do you want to take a bath, she rocks her whole body and kind of shakes her head yes, it is cute. I have this porcelain baby doll (Head, hands and feet are porcelain) that I keep in my closet. I have gotten it down for her a couple of times and now she knows where it is. She will crawl into my closet and point that she wants it. I get it down and she gets so excited. But she kindof is rough with it and bangs it against the door, so I usually have to take it away and she throws a fit! She also gets so mad when I take her out of the bath. Once again she just throws her head back and shakes her body (I guess to try to make me let go) silly girl!