100th Post!

Well it's time, this may take me a while, but I guess with my 100th post I am supposed to put up 100 things about me! I'm starting now, but may not finish for a while so here I go!


1. My full name is Katherine Marlene (after Nana)

2. I am 32 years old

3. I have four beautiful children!

4. My oldest is my only daughter Gracie!

5. I was married a month before my 21st birthday!

6. I married my high school sweetheart Mike Isley

7. He is still the love of my life!

8. I had my first baby at 25.

9. I am a nurse

10. Joey is asking for juice right now! :)

11. I'm very very sad about Jon and Kate (it was my favorite show, and I feel so bad for those kids)

12. I love my family and would do anything for them!

13. I'm excited about our 4th of July party that we have done every year since we moved into our house.

14. We have lived in this house for 2 years!

15. Joey has to go pee pee!

16. I'm potty training Joey and he is doing great!

17. I have to go now to help at Gracie's school where I help for an hour once a week!

18. I love the thought of Financial Peace!

19. We started Dave Ramsey's financial Peace University tonight ( have done it before and it's awesome!)

20. I love our bible study group! Such wonderful people who are all so special to us!

21. I love reality TV

22. We have a swimming pool and we love it!

23. I love Jesus

24. I hope Jesus comes back to his church home before my kids are teenagers!

25. I miss my Papa (can't wait to see him again)!

26. Even though we only live 35 miles from where we lived two years ago, I feel like it's a thousand miles away sometimes.

27. I showed steers, horses, pigs, and even stupid sheep (one time and one time only) while I was growing up. Sorry lamb lovers, I think they are so dumb....Really makes me laugh when Jesus calls us his sheep, we really are dumb aren't we.

28. I miss riding horses and secretly hope that I will have a horse again someday!

29. I realize now how much time and money my parents spent on my love of horses when I was growing up because I want to do the same for my daughter, I have the time but no money. (Someday!!!) Thanks Mom and Dad!

30. I have one sister Emily who I love and adore! She is an amazing person!

31. I love 8:00pm. BEDTIME! Time to relax and do whatever I want with out anyone saying "Mooooooooom"! :)

32. I love to scrapbook

33. I look forward to October every year when I go scrapping with my friends! :)

34. I haven't scrap booked since last October! Oh my.....

35. I have a lot of catching up to do! :)

36. I love to take pictures of my kids and lock those special moments in time!

37. I walk 5 miles 3-4 days a week with my friend Andrea pushing a stroller with two kids. She has one on her back and two in the stroller... she is amazing!

38. I love my the spontaneous hugs and I love yous I get from my kids!

39. I love hearing my kids laugh!

40. I love listening in on Gracie's conversations with her friends... they are so funny and innocent I hope that doesn't go away!

41. I love Cole's passion for cooking.

42. I love how much my kids love their Daddy and how much he loves them.

43. I love to watch the kids with their Dad when they don't know I'm watching!

44. I love my husbands laugh!

45. I love how my husband can make anyone laugh!

46. Did I mention that I love my husband? LOL

47. I have never had a broken bone.

48. I have never had surgery.

49. I'm wondering how I'm going to come up with 50 more facts about me ( sorry if I'm boring you! :)

50. I love to go camping with Mike and the kids!

51. Okay my sister says I'm a big goober, she is IM'ing me now...guess I know it's true! :)

52. I love facebook and when I get on the time seems to stand still! (Actually time continues and the laundry piles and the dishes don't get done! LOL )

53. I really think that every kid you have doubles the amount of laundry that you do!

54. I hate to dust!

55. My sister and I did not get along when we had to live together.....well if your sister ripped the heads off your dolls and killed your kitten would you? LOL

56. I have wanted to be a Mommy for as long as I can remember. But I didn't realize at the time that they do go from sweet little newborns to toddlers. LOL

57. I hate potty training......

58. I am a people pleaser.

59. I don't like confrontation.

60. I can't wait to be in Heaven with Jesus!

61. I had the most gnarly teeth growing up and had braces! Again, thanks Mom and Dad! :)

62. I have been pooped on by a bird three times (now I think that's like lotto odds, if only I could be so lucky at that). Guess you have to buy a ticket to win huh?

63. I have never bought a lotto ticket. (My husband buys enough for both of us! LOL)

64. I wish I was done with this post! :)

65. I love my Mom's pot roast!

66. I love to read but don't do it enough.

67. I love to listen to Gracie read (she is amazing okay gotta brag a little first grade and reading 4th grade books! ) I don't know where she gets her smarts!

68. I love keeping up with my family by reading their blogs.

69. I want to go on the Amazing Race with Mike someday!

70. I have no patience.

71. I am going to stop for the night I will start again in the morning! YAWN!

72. Okay here I go again! I love it when both my little guys are sleeping at the same time!

73. I should be folding laundry...

74. I like the Duggars! I think they are amazing for making a family with 18 children work the way they do! What great kids!

75. I'm excited for Cole's pre-school program tomorrow night. He is too! He loves to sing his pre-school songs!

76. I wish I was able to go up to visit my parents and sister more! Summer hurry up! Then I don't have anything keeping me home! :) Thanks Em for coming to visit us!

77. My family owns a winery McKinley Springs Winery up on Alderdale Rd. where I grew up! It's beautiful and you should go visit if you haven't!

78. I drove a combine growing up harvesting wheat.

79. I was bit in the knee cap by a tom cat when I was a senior in high school. My Dad was going to go out and shoot the cat and I begged them not to so instead they went and got him fixed and then he got hit by a car... yikes!

80. I loved playing out in the field in the dirt when I was a kid

81. My brother and I had a fort across the ditch bank at my Nana and Papa's house when we were growing up. We had so much fun there!

82. When my Papa told me he was shot in the stomach by an Indian with an arrow I believed him! :) I wish he was here to tell those stories to my kids.

83. Did I mention that I am very excited for school to be out for summer?

84. I hate the heat, I much prefer spring to any season!

85. I have 11 nieces and nephews!

86. I am excited to go up to the little cabin that Mike and I bought with my sister and her husband and start working on it this weekend!

87. I am afraid of the dark (unless I'm sitting inside my house).

88. I hate snakes

89. I'm getting close to being done Phew!

90. I think it's crazy that Gracie will be in 2nd grade next year and so shocked that Cole will be starting Kindergarten, how is that possible?

91. I love Mike's new job and thank God every day for it!

92. I had a cat growing up named Daphne. She died the day I got married. I guess she figured she couldn't live with out me! :)

93. I have 21 cousins on my Dad's side of the family, so there seems to be some sort of party every year, weddings, showers, graduations! Always fun!

94. Cole is in the kitchen right now eating strawberries and I think I better go check to make sure he isn't chopping them up! He thinks he is a chef!

95. Okay all clear! I planted tomatoes cucumbers and peppers this year for the first time! Topsy Turvy... They are doing great so far! Can't wait to eat them!

96. I don't have a green thumb at all and usually kill indoor plants by over watering them.

97. I love the Twilight books and can't wait for the next movie!

98. I am reading some books I borrowed from Nana right now by Lynn Austin and they are really good (sorry Nana I will get them back to you I promise!)

99. There is something about sleeping at Nana's house that I love! I think it's the sheets dried on the line!

100. Thanks for reading this, hope I didn't bore you to death! I know I'm not a very exciting person! I think you are all great! :)

W.O.W results!

So we decided it's a.......playroom! LOL I think that one of these days I'm going to take it over as a "Mom room" :) The room is clean, two bags of toys and junk have been removed and Em and I decided Yard sale (thanks to Mia ). So my W.O.W project is over but the fun is just beginning! :) Thanks for hosting these Becky it gets me motivated and holds me accountable! Can't wait until the next one! Here's the before...

and after

Sweet summertime? Well... almost!

Here's a picture of Eli watching the kids swim in the pool!

Our pool is finally open! It is even warm enough to swim in now! I can't believe how quickly the weather can turn over here. It was in the 50's two weeks ago and yesterday was 90! What better way to end a day of swimming than a campfire and some marshmallows! here are some pictures of us enjoying the pool this weekend! Come and swim anytime! :) In the video Gracie is taking the first jump off the diving board of the year, (sorry I'm a dork and forget that I can't video tape with the camera sideways!) and Joey is showing you what happens when you swim all weekend and you are two! :)

W.O.W playroom or junkroom?

Okay Okay so I'm a few days late, and it's been bugging me so I better just join in on the fun! I have a very very messy messy playroom, the kids go pick it up by throwing things up on the shelves and pushing things into the closet. I think they problem is that there are too many unused little toys that need to go to a new home! So... my project for the week is to get this playroom cleaned up and get these unused toys to a new home! If you want to join in on the fun go to my cousin Becky's blog sign up and cheer on all of the other W.O.W. ers! :) Here are some scary pictures of the playroom as I sit and stare at it now!

Finally lost her front tooth!

Gracie has been working on these two front teeth for months in fact I think about a year ago she told me they were loose! So it was very exciting for us to see it get looser and looser! She was so funny a few weeks ago (I'm late getting this up), she decided that she was not going to go to bed until that tooth was out! She wanted us to tie floss on it and tie it to a door knob or something. Well... you can watch the video and see what happened! Am I a bad Mom? LOL I was laughing so hard, and the expression on her face is priceless! Mike is such a good sport to pose for these pictures. His tooth will be fixed hopefully within a month or two. He had an implant and is waiting for the dentist to give the go ahead to finish it. He does wear a "flipper" so he doesn't always go around toothless! Gracie thought it was so funny that they were both missing the same tooth!

Shoe Box Derby

Last week Mike and Cole made a derby car from a shoe box! Cole's preschool class was hosting a shoe box derby! Cole had a great time making the car with his Dad, and I think Dad had a great time too! Here are some pictures of the making of the car and of the big event. They had to be able to push and pull the car and had four different stations to visit. They had to weigh their car, run in a "drag race" where they drug the car behind them while they ran, run through and obstacle course and of course send their car down the ramp! Cole's car worked great and looked great!