Just Another Event"less" Day! HA!

I have never claimed to be a Betty Crocker, but I have been having exceptionally bad luck in the kitchen lately.
Don't forget to spray Pam or this will happen!
It took quite a while to get it all cleaned out then warmed back up just to make some waffles!! But they sure were good!

Gracelyn and Ayden went with me to Wal-Mart this afternoon...and of course it was just a normal, leisurely trip like always..ha! Ayden squirted dishwashing liquid in the buggy, and then a few minutes later he said, "Look, Mommy!" I looked at his blue finger...which was proof that he had been digging in my new eye shadow! When I was checking out, I noticed our bananas at the bottom of the buggy...squished...and dripping all over the floor. I think I was able to salvage two out of five bananas!! I had to ask the cashier for paper towels so I could wipe the squished banana up off the floor! As we were walking into the parking lot, a nice man stopped for us to cross in front of him...just in time for him to see a box of 12 donuts fall off the bottom of my buggy, facedown on the pavement, and then watch me run over them with my buggy!! I had gotten them to take for my Sunday School class to eat in the morning...I think only four are too messed up to eat!! Anyway, we finally made it to the car in one piece..I got the kids in and was putting groceries in the trunk...when a bag caught on the (cheap) full-length mirror I had just bought and sent it crashing to the ground!! Luckily, the glass didn't break..it just got busted all up around the sides!!

I had told Gracelyn and Ayden when we were in the check-out line they could each pick out some candy. Gracelyn decided she wanted some weird looking creature instead of candy, so she got that and Ayden got Whoppers (taking after his pappy!) When we got in the car, I opened Gracelyn's little creature and threw it at her. She started screaming to the top of her lungs she didn't want it!! It was so funny..it was a very strange looking thing. She did finally decide to hold it...and if you notice in her mouth there is a whopper...she conned Ayden out of some of his candy since she had decided she would rather have a furry creature instead of candy while we were still in the store!!

Ayden pouring out some of his candy...to give Gracelyn! lol
So, that was our day!! Now we are going to go eat and visit my cousin in the hospital. I pray the Lord heals his body.

Thankfully, all the little things that seem to happen to me (a lot..lol) are just that..."little" things...because I know some people face so much more on a daily basis than I can even begin to imagine. I PRAISE THE LORD that He has blessed me the way He has.

Barbeque chicken, potato salad, and a few FLAMES!!

I really don't know why I'm telling this story!! It's very embarassing, but I think it will be fun to come back and read years down the road!
Last night I was cooking bbq chicken, so my mama (who I still have to call a hundred times a night when I'm cooking!) told me to cover the chicken before I put it in the oven so it would cook faster. So what did I do??? I got the lid that came with my glass casserole dish...the PLASTIC lid that came with my glass casserole dish...and covered the chicken!
The chicken had been in the oven for about ten or fifteen minutes when Michael started screaming, "Brooke! There's a fire in the oven!" Michael already had the oven open when I ran into the kitchen, and as I turned the corner, I saw the flames (thank the Lord they were only in the oven)!
The first thing I said was, "I am so stupid." Because that's when it finally dawned on me that I had actually put a plastic lid in the oven! What was I THINKING?!?
Michael put out the fire on the lid, but part of the plastic had fallen to the bottom of the oven and it was on fire, too. I told him to throw salt on it. As I was reaching into the cabinet to get the big container of salt, Michael grabbed the small salt shaker off the counter and started sprinkling salt on the fire! LOL!!! I started laughing SO hard!! I told him he wasn't like he was salting his food...that he was putting out a fire! So I gave him the big container of salt, and he poured it on there and put the fire out.
So cooking the chicken was put off for a little while, while the oven cooled. Michael was sweet enough to clean all the melted plastic out of the oven for me.
As completely dingy as it was for me to something like this (but unfortunately not suprising), at least we got a good laugh last night! But thank the Lord Michael was at home last night and in the kitchen when the fire started...if he hadn't been here, there's no telling how long it would've been before I knew what was going on!
Thankfully none of the plastic got on the chicken, so I put it right back in the oven --- covered with aluminum foil this time --- and later we enjoyed our meal! :-)

Catching up!

Well, I promised myself when I started this blog that I would write almost every day. I wanted to keep up with the little things Gracelyn and Ayden do every day that I never want to forget..so I obviously haven't kept my promise!

Anyway, I just want to catch up with things. Michael is working til four in the morning, so it's not like I will be getting any good sleep while he's out anyway! I just can't have peaceful sleep until he's home and safe! Me, Gracelyn, and Ayden said a little prayer earlier that Jesus would keep him safe. It was so sweet to see them put their hands together and say a prayer for their daddy.

Since Mardi Gras was this week, we were out of school yesterday and today. I don't celebrate Mardi Gras, but I don't mind being off of work for it! We mostly stayed around the house today. I cleaned up, and Gracelyn and Ayden made messes right behind me!! Michael was off today, though, so helped me out a lot.

Ayden is definitely going through his Terrible Twos!! I spent an hour mopping the living room...I love our wood floors, but I hate that they never stay clean for more than five minutes! Anyway, Ayden is absolutely obsessed with the fireplace!! He knows he's not allowed to get on the tile in front of the fireplace..so not five minutes after the floor dried, I saw him reaching into the fireplace with the little fireplace broom, sweeping piles and piles of ashes out onto my CLEAN floor!!! He saw me coming after him, so he started running from me...which resulted in little ashy footprints all over the house!! I swept and mopped again, and just a few minutes later he was in it again! He obviously didn't learn anything from the spanking he got from me, so his daddy had to take care of him the next time! Ayden looked hilarious, though! After he finished sweeping out the fireplace, he only had on a shirt, a diaper, and my brown boots...covered in ashes. (I wanted to write smut or smoot here..but can't remember what word it is?!)

Later, Ayden decided he wanted to "go fishing" with his fishing pole in the living room. He threw his line and his little "bait" got hung inside our air conditioner vent. Michael had to completely unscrew the vent to get his bait out.

Those were just a couple of things he did today...he was just a little wild man, getting into one thing after another!! Although I have to say...he may be into everything right now, but he is the first one that wants to help me when I'm doing something...if I'm sweeping, he goes and gets me the dust pan. If I'm taking clothes out of the dryer, he's right there helping me put them in the basket. I love hearing him say, "I wanna help! I wanna help!"

If you notice in this picture, Ayden has something black all over his chest...that would be my eyeliner he took out of my purse and then hid behind the couch with while he was "drawing" on himself!"

Gracelyn, on the other hand, was actually pretty calm today! She made sure she reminded me of that every little while. When she goes a total of an hour without getting in trouble she always says, "I'm being good, huh, Mommy? I'm not getting in trouble." I think it's so funny she's so proud of herself for being good for a little while.

Here is a picture of Gracelyn watching Mickey Mouse or Little Bear or Wow Wow Wubzy...or something! Whatever it was, she was obviously into it! (I have no idea why she and Ayden decided to strip down and run around with nothing on but panties and a diaper today...but that would be why she has no shirt on in this picture!)

I guess they had a pretty exhausting day because I took this picture of them after I got them dressed to go town. There are just no words for me to describe how sweet this is.

We went to Wendy's for supper, and Gracelyn and Ayden both fell back asleep on the way. Ayden woke up when we got there, but Gracelyn didn't. Michael put her in her chair and she laid her head on the table and stayed asleep the whole time. It was so sweet. I took a picture of her on my new Blackberry, but I have no idea how to get it on here! It just came in today, so I am clueless with it right now!

When we got home, Michael left for work, so I gave Gracelyn and Ayden their baths. I guess the bath rejuvenated Ayden's "wild man" mood..Gracelyn had been pushing her baby doll around in her little stroller...when she came back a couple minutes later, her baby had hit a really big growth spurt! LOL!! As you can tell by the look on Gracelyn's face, she wasn't too amused by this! HAHA!

Yesterday we went to Brookhaven to visit my grandparents. We had such a good time. It was so relaxing. MawMaw cooked us chicken n' dumplins. They were sooo good!!! Gracelyn and Ayden thought so, too, because I didn't think they would ever stop eating them! I love my mawmaw and pawpaw so much. They are two of the most Godly people I know, and I wish more than anything that we could see them more often.

Here are Gracelyn and Ayden with MawMaw and PawPaw. My cousin Nathan's little boy Lane is in the picture, too.

Steven, Courtney, and Kaylee also came to Brookhaven yesterday. Here is such a sweet picture of Gracelyn and Kaylee!! She is already getting so big!! I love that little girl so much, and I love being an aunt!

We decided to play a little game of "football" with Gracelyn, Ayden, and Lane.


Michael whacked Gracelyn in the face with the football!
Here is she is being very over-dramatic, like she was trying to contain her anger at her daddy! LOL!

I caught Gracelyn off guard with this one! haha!

Gracelyn walked right in front of the camera when I snapped this one (all you can see is bow! lol), but I just love Ayden's eyes in this picture!

I am so glad we got to go to Brookhaven. I thank the Lord for blessing me with such wonderful grandparents.

Since I can barely hold my eyes open, and I'm constantly reminding myself of how soon my alarm is going to go off, I'm going to end with Gracelyn and Ayden doing their favorite thing....JUMPING!! They jump all the time..anywhere and everywhere!!

Here is Gracelyn showing off! lol I really have no idea what she is trying to do with these two poses, but whatever it is, she sure is proud of herself and so am I :-)

Oh..and here is Ayden snapping...he and Gracelyn started trying to snap one day and didn't stop trying til they could do it!! Ayden walks around snapping all the time now! lol