Wordless Wednesday-Why?

Why can't they stay like this forever???



Give V a camera and she can snap some pretty darn good pictures!

This post has been linked to Wordless Wednesday.

Now isn't this what you normally think of for Spring Break??? Well not this family!! So far this week has been spent cleaning, cleaning, Dr's appointments, and oh more cleaning!! My parents are coming into town tomorrow and I started cleaning things out last week and of course made a huge mess so now I get to clean it all up. I am grateful that my sister was here to help me do tons of it last week or there is no way I would have been able to do the cleaning/rearranging plus chauffeuring the kiddos around to all their activities!

Does anyone else feel the need to completely sterilize their house before the parentals come to visit? Normally I do but this time I am going for a neat(er), picked up look! After 4 kiddos, gone are the days where I have a completely dusted, every toy in its place, all the laundry done house! Its lived in, loved in, played in, and destroyed it!!! At least I don't have food or poop filled diapers around so that's good right??? My house is clean but definitely lived in. It may not be spotless all the time but its picked up as much as it can be with my tornado toddlers!

I hope everyone has or had a wonderful Spring Break!!!!

Mamarazzi Monday-Soccer

Here are a few pictures from V's soccer game on Saturday. It was so much colder than the rest of the week had been but the girls kept on playing like they didn't even notice. Me on the other hand? I was definitely ready to go home!!!


Off she goes. I swear if I had half of their energy my house would be spotless 100% of the time.


She scores!! Everytime she or one of her teammates scores she does this little arm thrust thingie and a dance. Its hilarious but that's definitely team spirit!


This post has been linked to Household6Diva's Mamarazzi Monday

Wanna go swimming???

It has literally been raining for 12 hours straight now. Wanna see proof??? Well here you go..my very own pond/swamp/pool?


Whatever you want to call it it has to stop so my kids can play outside again! Their swingset is missing them.

Five Question Friday

Another round of Five Question Friday by MamaM!!!

1. Have you ever had a celeb sighting?
  HMM Nope can't say I have :(  Though being from Alabama I would really expect to.  Now that I live in TN I thought maybe one day I would see someone but that day has yet to come. 

2. What temperature do you keep your house?
  Around 70-72 during the day and 68 at night.  I love snuggling up under the covers and getting warm!

3. Do you notice dust at other peoples homes?
I do but only if its really, really bad! 

4. What's the worst job you ever had?
I can't think of a job that was the worst so I will just share the best job!  I was working in a book store in the mall and that is where I met Daddy!!  What better job could you ask for??

5. What is your most sentimental possession?
I think it would be a tie between my earrings Daddy got me during his first deployment (I never take them off) and my Mamaw's amethyst ring that I adored when I was young and received many years after she passed away.

(Almost) Wordless Wednesday

A game of "fighting" with your sister.....


Usually leads to someone crying like this!

Can binders help me??

I have struggled with trying to be somewhat organized for years but have to admit I am not. We have far too much stuff so the whole "everything in its place" just will not work around here for now. I am spending the next year cleaning out my entire house and getting rid of tons of stuff. I would love to be able to cut down by 50% but with the kids I dont see that happening so my goal is to cut at least my stuff down by 50%.

How in the world am I going to do this you ask? Well..hmm..nope haven't figured that out yet!! I do plan on making lists of what exactly needs to be done and hopefully following those pretty strictly. I am hoping to have a yard sale in May so that is one of my number one goals. Man its going to take forever to get through all this stuff and price it but I know it will be worth it!!!

One of the blogs I follow is Clean Mama. I have been following her Spring Zone Cleaning. It's amazing what you can do in a little bit of time each day. I don't feel as overwhelmed when it comes to doing things like dusting baseboards or blinds. You know stuff you normally dread doing every season change. Hopefully by the end of the month I will have a spring cleaned house. Wanna join in? Head on over here and just follow along!

Anyway back to the binders. Clean Mama has started her very own Etsy store with all sorts of printable forms for you to put in your very own binder! If you are like me though you hate paying for something just to help you organize your house, life, kids, etc but if they will help me then I am willing to do it.

So what do you think? Can binders help me attain my goals this year?