Tagged

I was tagged by my dear friend and fabulous mentor...Tara New Day, New Season. The instructions were to go to my pictures and find the fourth folder. Open the fourth picture and blog it. Here it is...

Four generations (GJo, Mom, Me, and Ebie) went shopping that day (about a year ago). My Mom bought Ebie some "fingernail" stickers and she wanted one on every fingernail and toe. I am so blessed to have such inspirational women in my life. What a beautiful memory and picture! Thanks Tara for making me drag it out and talk about it. :-)

It's my turn to tag....I am new to blogging and don't know four people to tag but here are a few. Hope you guys join in on the fun.

Normal Chaos

The Townsen Family Tree

Birthday

I have had a wonderful birthday full of fun and family. I have had several surprises today...a visit from one of my favorite friends, flowers from another set of friends, my class even surprised me with a card that had a vase of flowers on the cover made out of their hand prints (too cute). We had a family birthday party at Mama's - it was wonderful. Austin and Ebie were so cute wishing me a happy birthday ALL DAY LONG. Jeff even surprised me with some fabulous sticky notes. lol If you know me very well, you know my love for sticky notes and pens. It was a wonderful day and as my fantastic father-in-law always puts it...let's have another one next year.

Thank you mama!

Well, I guess some of my mama's creative genes were passed on to me. I tried my hand at the "project" and have proof. Tell me what you think. I realize I need some more exciting material. The material I used came from my scrap material box and the shirt I used is older than Austin, but still one of my favorite "around the house" shirts. I will definitely be making more shirts, I have the bug. Next time, I will snaz (is that really a word) it up by using flashy material. =)

DAWGS

I couldn't wait to get this on the blog site. I thought these shirts were the cutest things in the world, of course Ebie's is my favorite. I couldn't wait to share these pics with everyone. My Mom is going to try her hand at making them...I even think I may try one tonight myself. When I mentioned this to Jeff, I wish you could have seen his face. I asked him where his poker face was. It was hilarous.

I let you know how the "project" goes. :)

The Cast Is OFF!!!!

Austin got it off today. He was a bit nervous. The lady that took the cast off was very patient and good with kids. She explained what was going to happen in great detail and even put the blade on her own arm, so he would believe that it wouldn't cut his skin. Once she broke the cast, she used the scissors to cut the cotton. The poor boy was more afraid of the scissors touching his arm than he was the saw. After the cast came off, he didn't know what to do with the arm. It was sore...he didn't want to move it or even turn it. I know with time he will get more comfortable with it. The doctor said the broken part of the bone was growing new bone around the break so he is not concerned with him breaking it again. He said that part of the broken part of the arm was strong, but he should wear the sling to make sure he keeps it safe and make sure nobody bumps inot it. At this point he is more concerned with Austin getting his movement back in that arm. He even said occasionally he has to put children in rehab, but he didn't feel that would be the case here. I am pretty sure that boy will be playing as usual within a few days, but he promised NO MONKEY BARS.

Dr. Appt.

Yes...I had my camera in my purse when Austin broke his arm. I pulled it out and thought the moment was definitely a scrapbook moment. He fell on the monkey bars at school Friday, Dec. 12th and broke the bone in his upper arm just above the elbow. After a lengthy stay at the ER in Atlanta ( I have since decided that was our first mistake)...they sent us home with a splint for the weekend. We went to see the orthopedic specialist on Monday and he put him in a cast. Of course Austin loved having his friends sign it. We go back on Wednesday (tomorrow) and Dr. Dehaan is planning on taking the cast off. He will have worn this cast for 3 weeks and 2 days. As a mother, that terrifies me. The doctor said he doesn't like to leave the cast that goes over the elbow and keeps it bent, on for more than 4 weeks. It would be really hard for Austin to bend his arm straight out again. He told us at the last visit that once the cast came off, his arm would not be completely healed therefore he didn't need to "play". That may be a very difficult thing for an 8 year old boy to do. Send up a little prayer that everything looks good tomorrow and he can take the cast off and maybe send us home with a temporary splint (and Austin has the will power to "not play" when mom and dad are not there). I will post pics of the cast removal soon.

Family Pictures 2008

We finally broke down and had family pictures made. It was a lot of fun and we got some really great pics from it. I will treasure them. Meagan Grant did them for us and if anyone is interested in getting some made, she did a great job and was reasonable. I can send you her info if you are interested. She even came to QC to do them. We had them done at the administration building by the elementary.

Hope you enjoy.

Today was our first day back at school and it was a very nice day. All my kinder babies were very sleepy (probably stayed up WAY to late last night) and took a nice nap. We had a nice day...I missed those babies. Austin and Ebie had good days at school also. I am sure Jeff enjoyed getting the house back to himself again (it is much louder when we are here). Ebie was excited to wear her new clothes to school. She jumped right out of the bed and was ready to get dressed before she even had her chocolate milk. I told Jeff, we needed to buy her a new set of clothes for everyday. LOL It makes EVERYONE's life easier in the AM.

I will try to post again soon. I am LOVING this. It is so much fun!

First try at pictures

I am going to try my hand at inserting pictures. Hope this works. I included the most adorable picture of Ebie dressing Ella up in her pink boa (spelling??). I think Ella must have been a mother of a daughter in another life, otherwise there is no way she could put up with this sort of treatment. I also included a picture I took before Christmas in front of the Christmas tree. They don't mind "hugging" for the camera. It is adorable to watch them when they get along.

Ok...I have finally given in and become a blogger. I have been interested in this for a while and have finally decided to go for it. Hope you enjoy keeping up with us through the blog. I will try to post some pics soon.

First Posting

OK...I have finally given in and become an official blogger. I don't know how often I will be able to post, but thought I would go for it. I have a few friends who blog and I really enjoy keeping up with them through the blogs. Anyway, hope you enjoy it.

We are really enjoying being home and not having to go to school. I will try to post some pics soon.