What is important (IV)

Crystal and Matt both posted these on their blogs and I think they are great! Looks like I've been posting lots about my husband lately.
http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/94991/Life

Poll Question - What do you like to do least?

With all the Croshaw gals here they got to experience the Texas Waffle first hand. What an experience...
But on to a new question. As you saw, last weekend I was painting the kids rooms, and I've decided that is one of the least favorite things to do.
So what is your least favorite to do? I'll post some of mine on this weeks poll question.

Happy 5th Anniversary to us!

I can't believe we've been married 5 years now. It is unreal how fast it's gone, and that we have 3 kids to show for it. I really got so so so lucky the day I met Jason. I was young and not entirely sure what to look for, but miraculously Jason has everything I'd be looking for today if I weren't married yet. Heavenly Father had a plan the day I moved into the apartment upstairs.

My mom and most of my sisters were visiting us this weekend. They watched the kids for us last night while we went to dinner on top of the San Antonio version of the Space Needle. It was incredible. I was hoping he'd just remember the day, but he did more than that. When we were picking out my engagement ring we talked about getting a second band for the other side of my ring for our 5th anniversary, and Jason remembered!!! It's so beautiful. I'll take a picture after it's sized. I can't believe he remembered!! It might have crossed my mind, but I don't think I ever really thought about it leading up to the day. Anway...once again I'm SO lucky. I love you Jason. I'm so excited to spend the rest of my life and forever with you. This has been the best 5 years of my life. (We'll say 5 out of 6 so I can give one to my family. :)
(This is a day late-busy day yesterday. And Jason's gift? Not quite as exciting...but he got the ESPN GamePlan so he can watch as many Boise State football games as possible.)

American Baby cover contest

I entered Lilia's picture in this contest if anyone would like to go rate it. :)
http://www.parents.com/app/sharemy/photoDetails.jsp?photoId=256400334

Decorate kids bedrooms---CHECK!

Saturday we went to work and worked until 1 in the morning. Colby and Eva slept in the office and Lilia in our bedroom. I finished the painting on Monday. It's worth it because now it's done! I stole an idea I got from some random blog I saw while blog hopping. It's like faux wainscotting (is that what it's called?) Anyway, I knew I wanted the girls room to be purple on top, but could not decide on Colby's. He said he wanted red, so that's what we did. I'm considering changing it, but probably won't. Here it is. And I'm proud to say I figured out placement, drew the lines, measured, cut, and put up all the vertical slats! Go me. Ha. So here they are. (And I uploaded the full size pictures of the final pictures, so hopefully they are click-able.)
Colby's room before:
During:After:
Eva & Lilia's room before:During:We (Jason) built that shelf, cute huh?After:

Here is what Jason looked liked after spraying both rooms.

(So the picture thing didn't work, anyone know what I can do so my pictures can be viewed bigger???)

July update

So we've still been chipping away at the house. We're finalizing our decision on cabinet paint. We're going to try to get all of the rooms painted because we'll be getting carpet put in in the next couple of weeks. We got a killer deal at Lowe's with a 10% off coupon, and they're having a special on installation! This will be the third time we've gotten new carpet (in one house or another) and the first time we don't have to tear it out ourselves!

We painted an accent wall in our bedroom, first time ever using a paint sprayer. I set up the machine and was going to do it all myself. I flip it on and before I know it there's about a quater gallon of tealish color paint on the carpet! Thank goodness we didn't replace the carpet right when we got here. Jason figured out that I didn't use some socket or something like that, maybe it was a wrench, to tighten a couple of bolts that I was supposed to. Whoops. It made me feel guilty. Earlier that day I'd gotten mad at Colby for spilling a drink all over himself and the wood floor-it took about 10 seconds to clean up. Then I spill PAINT on CARPET! Jason wasn't even mad at all. Made me think about being too hard on the kids.

Lilia is growing non-stop it seems like! She had her 4 month appointment a week ago. She's 14 1/2 pounds, almost 26 inches. She's 75th percentile for weight & height. She also started eating solids! Yay! It took some figuring out, but now she gobbles it up. She also rolled over for the first (and second) time on Saturday!! Stomach to back, but it was almost back to stomach today! She loves the Jumping Jack! Colby and Eva can't resist trying to help her jump whenever she's in it. (Thanks Grandma Croshaw-soon we'll be passing it on to baby Cole or Asher!)

Eva got her big girl twin bed a few days ago too. She still can't quite climb in it, but she just pushes this big rocker catapillar over and climbs from it's back onto her bed. She's figuring it out! (I'll try to get a picture of it and add it later.) Today Lilia was taking a nap and I go into the girls room and find that Colby and Eva used the catapillar to climb into her crib and wake her up. She was just smiling up at them, I can't really get mad when she's so happy to see them in her crib with her.

Daddy and his girls.

Ever heard of a Bumbo? Well this is one! It lets babies sit up before they can sit on their own. Colby always calls Lilia "Bumbo" now.

Eva loves, loves, loves her little sister. It's so sweet. I love watching my baby (Eva) talk to her baby (Lilia) in a baby voice. It never gets old.I couldn't resist-she's just so beautiful! We've figured out Lilia looks just like Colby when he was a baby, a little bit older than her, when he about that amount of hair. I'll try to find a comparison picture to put up.

I know I put way too many pictures up, but I can never decide which ones to use!

July 4th

For the 4th of July we had a biscuit and gravy breakfast with our ward. There was a sign-up up to bring 2 dozen breakfast burritos-there were about 14 dozen left over, haha. Weird combo for breakfast, I think anyway.
Then we watched the Schertz, TX 4th Jubilee parade---so not exciting. We figured out that morning that everything might be bigger in Texas (i.e. parades) but bigger is not always better. They didn't even throw out candy! What's up with that? The parade was full of city officals for 4 or 5 different cities in the area and boy scout troops! Anyway, the kids had fun...sort of. It just got too hot and we left before it was over. But we felt like we were on the main street in this little tiny town, not less than 10 miles out of San Antonio. I was thinking how all of the pictures I post, my kids are practically dripping in sweat. It's hot here! But I think we're getting used to it. Well, Jason and I anyway. Then we went and bought a little kiddie pool at Target for them to play in and they LOVE it! And my favorites.....

Texas Waffles - Poll question

Well, I missed last weeks poll from being sick, but am now back at it. I don't know if had a clear cut winner, but since It is my poll, I will say the slip n slide won.


On to a new poll, but with it comes a story.

When Dana and I first came to Texas to find a house we stayed in two hotels. Both of them had one similarity. A free continental breakfast with those delicious waffles. But these weren't just any waffles. The waffle was the shape of the state of Texas. That was just the beginning of a perfect definition of our new state. There is so much pride here that even the waffles take notice of it.



During our first week here we told Melissa the story and she loved it. So much in fact, that she had to buy us a Texas waffle maker as a house warming gift. Now we have Texas waffles on Sunday morning and Grill cheese sandwiches for lunch on Sunday.


So tell me what is your most favorite breakfast food?

I have a few top choices, breakfast burritos with salsa Valentina is up there, along with eggs, tortillas and refried beans. Don't knock it until you tried it. It is good! Then there is the classic bacon and eggs, pancakes with maple syrup, or french toast. But for me, purely out of the respect for my new state, i am going with the Texas waffle!




FYI: The Day's Inn in Van Horn Texas does not have the Texas waffles. I propose we have the place shut down and burned, unless they agree to add the Texas waffle to their breakfast menu.

You didn't have to get the Pickles for me!

Anyone who knows me, knows that behind every stressful situation or uncomfortable moment, there has to be some kind of joke to relieve the tension.
My latest joke is one that I seem to use often, and thought I would share. About a month ago, in a certain house we were living that will remain anonymous, we were eating dinner. Person #1 asked if we had any pickles for the hamburgers. Person #2 responded that they were in the fridge and if you want them, go get them. Person #1 didn't think it was worth the effort, so they ate their burger without pickles. Person #2 about five minutes later then got up and got the pickles out of the fridge and brought them to the dinner table. Person #1 said, "you didn't have to get the pickles for me!" Person #2 said, "maybe you aren't the only one that wanted pickles!" Followed by dead silence for a couple of minutes.
So now, anytime I get upset I say, "you didn't have to get the Pickles for me!" then Dana responds, "maybe you aren't the only one that wanted pickles!" and then we laugh.
I think that has been one way for me to stay positive and happy.
Jason