Laurie's Life

I LOVE the Summer time! I LOVE the clothes of Summer! For me, Summer clothes are sooooooo easy to dress my girls. They just need a couple of good pairs of sandals and cool dresses and they are set. Life is simple with those clothes. White sandals go with everything they have. Yesterday I was down in the dumps. For one reason, Emily was sick. We were in ALL day and it was raining. I spent some time going through their Spring and Summer clothes. I got VERY sad because this is the last time Sarah Kate will ever wear her 2 T Summer clothes. ( I consider them baby clothes) I did not get her very many Summer clothes because she has had Emily's outfits/dresses to wear. Some of them are so cute. (Little smocked dresses) I loved them when Emily wore them and I was so thrilled to have another girl so she could wear them too. I am boxing those items up in the next couple of weeks, as Fall is about here. For me, Fall and winter clothes are a LOT more complicated. Can you relate...

We traveled to the Memphis area this weekend to spend time with Steve's family. We had a GREAT time! Steve's brother Justin, his wife Cissy and son Reid joined us. They live in the Gulf Coast area of Mississippi. Steve's Mom and Dad gave us a couple of nights of "parents night out." They kept the kids and we went out to eat and shop and get TCBY yogurt!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Cissy, Reid and Pop Kay's best friend, Ruth, brought her granddaughter over Sat night. Her name is Molly and I thought she was a little doll. She is two months older than SK. Reid and Emily were very into a show on t.v. Steve, Uncle Dale and Uncle Charlie My sweet little nephew Reid and his daddy. Reid is soooo cute and sweet. Saturday went all went to the Memphis zoo. I LOVE ZOOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Kay, Cissy and Justin. Emily and Kay-K watching the monkeys. My favorite sight at the zoo! A polar bear that put on a show for us. It was the coolest thing! I would put my hand on the glass a...

Emily has started going to Mission Friends on Sunday night. It is a great class. The teachers are really good and Emily has made several things. I used to go to Mission Friends when I was a little girl. The children learn about and pray for missionaries around the world. Emily and I were talking about the class one night this week and I said, "Emily, maybe you will be a missionary one day." She started crying REALLY hard and said,"NO, I don't want to, I would have to leave you and Daddy and go far away." Bless her little heart. I went to a local consignment sale this week and got some exciting finds. Emily's class has been talking about the letter A this week at school. They made apple pie to go along with A is for apple. Emily was really impressed and wanted to smell our cinnamon when she got home. I let her hold it, and we smelled the cinnamon all right!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I was a little girl, I used to go to Wednesday night prayer meeting with my...

OH MY JOSH! That seems to be the favorite phrase for Emily right now. My mother told me that I am always saying ," oh my gosh" and Emily has just picked it up from me. She just has a letter wrong. Well, I heard "OH MY JOSH" for every bow I pulled out of the box from Allison today. Allison is the bow making queen and she does them right! We are blog friends and she sent my girls these bows today. WE LOVE THEM! They are so cute, good quality and you can even wash them. They had to check themselves out in the mirror with the bows on. Sarah Kate was thrilled too. She was saying "Happy Birthday to me" as I was showing her the bows. If you are wanting some good ,cute bows contact Allison at: allisoncrews@panhandle.rr.com. You will not be disappointed. I left her alone for about three minutes on Friday. Emily starts saying,"OH----MY----JOSH!" This picture was made right after I took the marker away and put it in a high high cabinet. ...

I am sooooo thankful to say that Sarah Kate's face is almost back to normal. Thank you Aquaphor for speeding up the healing. SK's hair looks like fluff and puff in this picture and I love it! I like big hair! Also, thank you for the compliments on the red chest. I used a color from Sherwin Williams called Salute. I painted it, and then used sand paper to take paint off on the edges and ridges.

When I was in South Arkansas this Summer I bought this old chest of drawers for $45 at a flea market. It was dark wood, but pretty worn and torn. I wanted to paint it RED. Last week I sanded it, painted it, and then antiqued it. I LOVE doing that kind of stuff!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have it in my entry way. It is going to be great for storage. I am keeping Emily's school work in it. ( I DO have knobs for the top drawer, they are just not on there yet!) Sarah Kate had an allergic reaction to the church's baby wipes at Mother's Day Out. Bless her sweet heart! BUT...........this really explains a lot! SK has had REALLY bad diaper rash for about a year now. It is always worse on Sunday, Tuesday and Wed. Those are the days we are at church. We have thought that it might be the church wipes. Now we know. They cleaned her messy face with a wipe and this is what happened. She has VERY VERY sensitive skin. I am going to start taking our own wipes to church for her. She had ...

I asked Kristen to make monkey lips for the camera. Silly Bands have been a big hit at our house.......with Kristen the cat. She is like a kitten again. I hope we do not have to make a trip to the vet because of these. I can see them now, wrapping around her intestines. Yes, she is eating them. I try to keep them away from her. She plays with them like she would a mouse and then eats them. Emily loves them too. She wears the whole package on her arm at once. Emily started preschool this week. I think she had a good day. Emily has a great teacher. Sarah Kate missed her sooo much. She asked me about 50 times,"Where Emily go?" When we picked Emily up Sarah Kate hugged her over and over. She hugged her really tight off and on all the way to her car. SK patted Emily when they got in their car seats. They have fought a lot this Summer, but they do love each other.

My parents came to visit a few days last week. We had a really good time with them. Saturday morning, we all went to the fair. I think we were crazy to go because it was sooooooo HOT! We went last year and the girls LOVED it. Emily has been talking about the fair for a year now. This is right before we left for the fair. We were looking at the rabbits here. I felt so sorry for them because they were so hot. Emily got to pet a goat. How I feel after a good dinner at Chili's. My girls LOVE chips. Sarah Kate was enjoying her Cheetos. Don't you just love Cheetos fingers? There were some baby baboons at the fair this year. They were in a little fence. It was not really meant to contain them. One of the baboons spotted Steve and came and jumped all over him. The monkey ended up on Steve's back, so he leaned down and let it crawl down his arm back into the fence. (I have always thought I looked like a baboon.) The reason the girls were at the fair: THE RIDES! They...