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25 Random Things

I saw this on Facebook and I though I would post it on here rather than on my Facebook page. The goal is to come up with 25 Random Things about me(hopes, dreams, weird things, etc). So, here is a glimpse into me....On Facebook, you were supposed to tag 25 of your friends, but since I am on my blog, I am tagging anybody reading this.

1.I am the wife of an amazing man, who the second time I ever laid eyes on him, he was missing a tooth, but by the end of the night, I knew he was very special, and by the end of that weekend, I wanted to marry him.

2.When I found out I was pregnant with my first little miracle(Will) I took 17 tests, I just could not believe I would be so lucky!!!

3. I love being a mother, it is a wonderful rewarding job and I want to watch Cars or eat pretend muffins forever with these two!

4. I have loved the name "Caroline" since high school. I told Jesse when we were dating, if he married me and we had a girl, her name would be Caroline (thankfully he agreed to both).

5. I had the greatest parents to learn from, I hope one day I will be half that parent to my children.

6. I love Jesus. I am so glad He is still working on me, but I definitely know that as a person I have been changed since developing a relationship with Him.

7. I want to teach Nursing students someday.

8. I love my job. I am so thankful I was given the opportunity by my parents to go to college to receive a Nursing degree.

9. I love my close friends and family.

10 I have an incredible sweet in-law family(MIL and SIL's and BIL's). They accepted me with open arms and I love being around them.

11. I love Dr. Pepper. I wake up thinking about it. I promise.

12.I love to hear a baby laugh, Will can make Caroline laugh and I cannot get enough of that sound.

13. I want to live to be 100. I want to celebrate a 50th wedding anniversary with Jesse, and see Will and Caroline get married and have children.

14. I pray daily that Will and Caroline will accept the Lord and that He has someone special out there for each of them.

15. I love that my husband can make me laugh pretty much in any situation, be it in a mountain top experience or in a valley. I would go with him pretty much anywhere.

16. My husband things I like really weird food. I love Circus Peanuts:)

17. I am so thankful to have had two very influential churches that have shaped my faith.

18. I love having a girl's day with my Mom and Sister. I really want Caroline to have a sister someday. It is a really special bond.

19.I want to go on a vacation. I am not really picky, anywhere would suffice:)

20.I love FALL and SPRING! Please hurry Spring!

21. I wore my retainer(at night) for my teeth for 10 years after I got my braces off, I just couldn't kick the habit!

22. I really want to write a book someday!

23. I love to read recipe books for fun.

24. I am so thankful that my and Jesse's grandparents have seen our children born. They tell us all the time how much joy they bring them

25. I am not OCD about cleaning, but I would love to know how to catch that disease!!!

The cutest little snowman ever...

Well, tonight was Will's good friend, and Caroline's boyfriend, Colby's first birthday! It was a snowman theme and well, we actually had a little snow this morning in his honor! I cannot believe that he is one year old today. It really makes me aware of how fast time really moves. I just had to share some of the cute pics that I snapped. Happy Birthday Colby! Hope this year brings lots of fun your way!

What is going on?

Well, to be honest, not much at the Pilkinton House. I think that is why lately the blog has been a little less than stellar. However, I do want to bore you with an update from our neck of the woods.

Jesse is going to Nicarauga again (on a mission trip)and he is really excited. They are really just in the fund raising stage and trying to get prepared. The trip is scheduled for the first week in May. We have been praying so hard for God to bless this trip and He(as always) has gone above and beyond. Jesse has been able to raise almost all of his money and we have felt so blessed. Thank you to each one of you who gave abundantly and have begun to pray for the trip. We are also super excited because we have begun to sponsor a little eight year old girl who lives in the orphanage that they will be staying and visiting. Jesse will have a chance to meet her face to face and we are really excited about that.

Will is going to school and loving it. He loves his teachers and often asks, "Is there scooo today"? I loved school as a child and I am so excited to see that he loves it right now too. He is really practicing his manners and is really proud of the fact he can say "Yes mamam", now if we could just learn "yes sir", so we could quit calling all the men, women! He is also really ready for warm weather, we can only watch the few Disney movies we own, over and over, and over, and, well you get the picture.

Caroline is growing so fast. She is probably the busiest of us all. She has learned to sit unassisted pretty much all of the time now. She also likes to get up on her elbows and scoot a little bit. She is teething, I think, although no sign of any pearly whites! She is laughing and cooing and we are enjoying her so much!

As for me, well, I am just enjoying being a part of the three mentioned above. We feel really blessed and we hope that you have a great Monday!!!

Wordless Wednesday-"Hood"lum style

Happy Wednesday!

My New Pink Ride

Hey Friends,
Word on the street is, I almost pulled my mom's arm out of socket this morning when she was carrying me to the car, rather than foot the bill to the Bone and Joint Clin*c, my mom decided it was time for a new ride. She said, "That's it Missy, you are starting to ride in the "big girl car seat!" I am not familiar with that term but I thought, "This could be kind of cool,sitting up higher checking out the headrest, not just the back seat", until my mother graciously informed me that I would be riding in my brother's old seat. My daddy said there was no need to rush out and buy a pretty pink one because we have two brown "big boy/girl" car seats already. Mom pleaded but daddy won. So, my mom listened and as I was getting prepared to learn to accessorize with a brown car seat, my Nonnie came through. And she came through big time. Not only is my new ride pink but it has flowers. Very hip if you ask me. Yep, check this baby out. Will I not look sooooo cute in this??? Thanks Nonnie for picking it out, Thanks Poppy for buying it!
Caroline

We love Friday!

I love Fridays! There is just something about them. I actually get giddy thinking about them. Even though I don't work five days a week, and my Friday isn't filled with going out to a fancy dinner or catching a movie with my husband or packing for a weekend trip. Actually I am going to a one year old birthday party and spending time with the three people I love the most (plus a few I love a whole lot)! Hope you have that Friday feeling today and you have someone you love to share it with!

Caroline super excited about Friday!



Having a Hair Raising Time!

Amanda

Where has the time gone?

Baby Girl is 5 months old today! Wow. Time has flown, I guess because having her around has been so much fun. She has so many new tricks and it seems like she is learning new ones every day!!! She can sit alone for a couple of minutes, she laughs like crazy at her big brother, she rolls from back to tummy, and she grasps everything and brings it straight to her mouth! She is so sweet and makes each day more enjoyable than the last. She has really brought a sweetness to our family making it seem, somehow, more complete. We are so thankful for her and can't wait to watch her grown even bigger. Will will be 26 months old on Wednesday and he is such a great big bro! We got a new camera for Christmas and I finally took some pics of the kids. I love this camera! I can finally catch Will smiling!!!

Favorite Foto Friday / So what have you done???

Will and Jesse

Little Sister asleep in the Johnny Jumper

So, I snagged this off a blog that I follow and I thought it was kind of neat, so her you go. The ones in bold are things that I have done. If you'd like to join in just copy this and bold the ones you've done before :)
Many of the things I haven't done, I would LOVE to do!

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Been to Disneyland/world
7. Climbed a mountain.
8. Held a praying mantis
9. Sang a solo (Jesse, if you are reading this, quit making fun of me)
10. Bungee jumped
11. Visited Paris
12. Watched a lightning storm at sea
13. Taught yourself an art from scratch
14. Adopted a child
15. Had food poisoning( I wish that I could not bold this one)
16. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty(I half bolded because I have visited, but did not climb to top)
17. Grown your own vegetables (starting in the spring)
18. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
19. Slept on an overnight train
20. Had a pillow fight
21. Hitch hiked
22. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill (I know, this is really bad)
23. Built a snow fort
24. Held a lamb
25. Gone skinny dipping
26. Run a Marathon
27. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
28. Seen a total eclipse ( I think I was like 8 years old, I totally did not appreciate it at the time)
29. Watched a sunrise or sunset
30. Hit a home run
31. Been on a cruise
32. Seen Niagara Falls in person
33. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
34. Seen an Amish community
35. Taught yourself a new language
36. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
37. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
38. Gone rock climbing
39. Seen Michelangelo’s David
40. Sung karaoke
41. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
42. Bought a stranger a meal in a restaurant
43. Visited Africa
44. Walked on a beach by moonlight
45. Been transported in an ambulance( All I have to say is this was so not fun and it was in Mexico on my honeymoon)
46. Had your portrait painted
47. Gone deep sea fishing
48. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
49. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
50. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
51. Kissed in the rain
52. Played in the mud
53. Gone to a drive-in theater
54. Been in a movie
55. Visited the Great Wall of China
56. Started a business
57. Taken a martial arts class
58. Visited Russia
59. Served at a soup kitchen
60. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
61. Gone whale watching
62. Gotten flowers for no reason
63. Donated blood, platelets, or plasma
64. Gone sky diving
65. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
66. Bounced a check ( We were first married, it was traumatic)
67. Flown in a helicopter
68. Saved a favorite childhood toy
69. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
70. Eaten Caviar
71. Pieced a quilt
72. Stood in Times Square
73. Toured the Everglades
74. Been fired from a job
75. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
76. Broken a bone
77. Been on a speeding motorcycle
78. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
79. Published a book
80. Visited the Vatican
81. Bought a brand new car
82. Walked in Jerusalem
83. Had your picture in the newspaper
84. Read the entire Bible(Half bolded because I am working on it currently)
85. Visited the White House
86. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
87. Had chickenpox
88. Saved someone’s life (Well, that is subjective, I am a nurse, so I have participated in a few life saving measures)
89. Sat on a jury
90. Met someone famous
91. Joined a book club
92. Lost a loved one
93. Had a baby (Two, the greatest thing on the list so far)
94. Seen the Alamo in person
95. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
96. Been involved in a lawsuit
97. Owned a cell phone
98. Been stung by a bee
99. Fallen in LOVE (Still falling)
100. Decorated a Birthday Cake

Have a great weekend!
Amanda

The Sweetest Sound on Earth

No, not me singing the Wheels on the Bus, the other sound, Caroline laughing at her big brother. She is sort of stingy with her laughs, but she sure does love to laugh at her brother. I guess, he is funny?

Over it...

Is it over yet? What, you ask?
FOOTBALL! That is the question that many women in America are asking right about now. We have heard about it since April, watched it since August, and well, frankly at my house I am the only one wishing it was over. However, since it is not over and the Titans have done so well this season, I guess I want Football to hang around a few more weeks and so does my big guy and my little one.

Here are some pics of mt littlest fan!

Top Nine "Need to Do's" in 2009

Okay, I know, resolutions are so overrated and corny, and more than likely half of these will end up abandoned by the end of the first week, but just for fun here are my nine resolutions for 2009!

1. To fall deeper in love with my Lord and Savior, through daily quiet time and prayer time

2. To let my husband know how much I love him daily and strive to be a Godly wife

3. To be patient with Will and Caroline and see the joy in everything, even 5:45 wake up calls and the twenty third poopy diaper of the day.

4. To let my family know how much I love them and appreciate them.

5. To become more physically fit for my sister's wedding in June (notice I did not say "skinny"...I wanted to give this resolution a chance)!

6. To Potty Train Will, I have twelve months to complete this one right?

7. To learn to sew

8. To walk a half marathon (had to start slow, wanted to give this one a chance too).

9. To try to genuinely show love and compassion even when it is hard

Wow, when you see it in print, it makes you really want to try to keep them! Hope you all had the Happiest of New Years and hope this year is the best one yet!!!
The Pilkintons