This weekend involved lots of great times!!  Levi got to go coyote hunting Friday and Saturday night. The girls and I made a Valentine craft and finished their Valentine cars for preschool.  The best part was building "our family" of snowmen on Saturday!  Pictures will come soon!! :)  Here are a few pictures that I have managed to take in the midst of our busy lives!!

Sweetness!!

All I have today is 3 faces full of sweetness!

Montana- 4 1/2, Aspen- 9 months, Autumn- 3

* They were all ready to go to the County Stock Show *

WOW

Ok, so 8 months have passed since I've blogged!  I'm ashamed and sorry, but I hope to be back in business! =)  Instead of playing catch-up, I will just feel you in on what's been happening within the last week!  FIRST of all, Miss Aspen is now NINE months old!  I can't believe it and with her being the 3rd child it is so much harder!

Last week I learned about a young woman in Childress that had nothing and by that I mean nothing!  Her daughter needed clothes that were a size smaller than what Autumn was wearing, so I thought, "Hey, I can help her out."  So I gathered up all of the clothes and took them to her, but that wasn't it!  In one week, Levi and I along with Levi's sister and husband and his parents managed to round up a whole bunch of stuff for her house.  Therefore, we have made 2 trips to her house and this weekend we will make a trip back with a trailer load of big items for her house.  We are still in need of bunkbeds for her kids room, (she has a boy and a girl) so if you run across one please let me know!

I love the fact that we are becoming friends~ even SWEETER than just helping with what we could.  We do ask that you pray for her and her children as they are starting off on a new path of their life!

Meet Aspen Laine...

Thanks to Ericka I have a picture of Miss Aspen!  Here is the 10x20 storyboard she made for me and I love it because it has all of my favorite pictures!  She was a month old on Monday; therefore, I don't have too much longer until I have to let go b/c she'll be heading to daycare.
 

Whew...time is flying!

Time has once again got away from me!  Since the last time, The Woods Family has added a "new" baby girl to our crew.  Aspen Laine Woods was born on April 26, 2010 at 5pm weighing in @ 8 lbs 1 oz and was 21 1/2 in long.  She is so darn cute and loveable!  The girls are adjusting well, but Autumn is having a harder time as expected (since she's not the baby anymore)!!  She is now 3 weeks old and growing like a weed!  I came back to work when she was a week, but I am bringing her with me- therefore, work is fun!! :)


Since Aspen has arrived we have had a lot of things going on from a baby shower, Mother's Day Tea @ pre-school, gymnastics recital, senior parties, newborn pics, etc.  The list could go on.  This week Montana will graduate from her 1st year of pre-school and she is looking forward to it!  We love having a crazy, busy life!  But in our crazy life, we have had some sadness.  Levi's grandpa passed away Mother's Day evening and was buried last Wednesday.  Levi was very close to him and there were lots of sad tears that day, but we know he is no longer relying on oxygen to breathe anymore.  Then last night I found out Cheyenne's grandma had passed away.  Cheyenne is a great friend who I became friends with my sophomore year in high school.  So a little later I'll be heading to Crowell for visitation to see her and the family.  In the past three weeks, I've really seen lots of happiness and lots of sadness.  All we can do is leave it up to God!

And I have been awful with my camera!!  I have hardly taken any pics of Aspen and she's already 3 weeks old.  I have learned the 3rd kid gets the shaft! lol  Plus, I haven't uploaded any on my computer so I stole this one from Belinda's blog.  She managed to catch Montana & Autumn wanting to take a picture @ Gerry's senior party.  Miss Aspen was sleeping away in her car seat during this. 

P.S.  I know I have LOTS of FAT to loose and I desperately NEED a tan!!  I am working on BOTH of these!!!

Flat tire...

Not only did this week feel like a "flat tire" week (feeling drained completely), I really did have a flat about 3 miles outside of Childress on Wednesday night. I had picked Montana up from gymnastics and gotten the girls McDonalds to eat on the way home. I heard a funny "fizzing" noise and I couldn't figure it out, but then my car started going all over the road and I knew right then it was a tire. Being already dark, I called a SUPER great friend, Marci, to see if her husband, Jeff was home and he was so he came out to help me. As I was talking to her, a deputy pulled up behind me and it turned out to be Doty's Dad (Montana's friend from daycare), so he stayed until the tire was changed to help keep traffic off of us.

All in all, the girls were happy b/c they had food and were excellent for the 30-45 minutes we sat on the side of the road. When we arrived at home I started thinking that most of the time if something happened like that it would have made my day horrible, but it didn't. It made me grateful!! For the friends that I have to count on when I need help and for the deputy stopping just to see if he could help! I wasn't going to let the girls have McDonalds at first, now I'm so glad I did. All in all, God had our night planned to the "T" and I think part of it was for me to just be grateful for what I have and the friends I have encountered throughout my life!

I leave you with a picture that Montana made at Ms. Angie's preschool a couple of weeks ago. It absolutely MELTS my heart! When I asked he what the picture was she said that Sissy was her best friend b/c she swings with her, plays with her, and something else (I forgot). All I could do was smile at her & give her a big hug! She has 2 friends (1 @ daycare & 1@ preschool) that she always says are her best friends so it just caught me off guard I guess. Tonight we are having my niece's 13th b-day party!  Have a great weekend! :)
 

Lots of projects

What a week it's been!  I still don't have the girl's toys organized in their room!  It's partly done, just not 100%.  They have been doing good sleeping in their own beds, but at least one of them (sometimes both) wake up during the night.  My "fat body" hates having to crawl out of the bed and function! lol  I know it's worth it though and that eventually they'll go back to sleeping all night again!  I know it has to be very different for them right now.  I now have to figure out what I'm going to hang on their walls.  I have a few things, but for sure they will be getting a couple of pink & brown crosses that I'll get Joycelyn to make for them.

This weekend we are buying paint for our bathroom and that project will get underway this weekend or next week.  We have the flooring already, I just need paint.  After this, ALL of the "major" projects I want done before the end of April will be done!!  Thank goodness!!  I know we'll find plenty of stuff to do outside, but the girl's room and our bathroom were the two things I wanted done this year.  Next year, I hope to lay laminate flooring in our kitchen, dining room & guest bath along with painting! *I'll be keeping my fingers crossed*

Levi is finishing up a couple of hog traps this weekend and tomorrow we're headed back to Childress to help Marci for the day!  I need to get lots of laundry and cleaning done too!!  I leave you with a picture of the girls I took in April '09 and I sent it to Ericka for her to edit and enhance it in photoshop.  I loved this picture before, and I love it even more now!  It's almost a year old and still my FAV!!  Thanks Ericka!!