2011 in Review...

Happy New Year!  2011 was a hard year for our family.  To losing loved ones, to moving houses, to starting school, to other family related anxieties, we just had a tough year.  However, as I take time to look around me I am reminded of abundant blessings.  My family is intact as is our health and happiness.  I appreciate all of you who continue to follow my crazy blog (and come on people, throw a sista some comments once in a while so I know I'm not writing in vain!  Yes, I'm talking to you Broken Arrow, Edmond, Tulsa, OKC, New York City, Dallas, San Diego!  Sign in bitches and leave me some love!) 

Prepare yourselves for a year in Review::: 

January
* My witching hour 3:30 to 5:30, I turn into a frazzled version of myself.  5:30 can't come fast enough as I swear up and down I'm not meant to be a stay at home mother, but change my mind at 6 p.m. when my husband can take the brunt of the offspring demands! 

* Black eye Peas member Apl.de.ap is legally blind, dancing and singing his way to the bank.  I believe Maddy will do the same

*Musings by a blonde blogger
     -trying to lose weight....yeah, good luck...right?
     -worry all the time
     -I have anger inside me
     -my husband is HOT! 

*Maddy can't play duck duck goose in preschool and it hurts my mom heart.  "EFF duck duck goose becomes our new motto!" 


February

*Snow and lots of it

*Disturbed by Barbies' ho-tasticness I vow to make some real looking barbies including, Stretch Mark barbie, Pregnant Barbie, Wobbly Arm Barbie, and Hairy Barbie

*Dora is a Whora

*The Pioneer Woman is my bestie!  Her cook book makes hump worthy food! 

*My babies aren't babies anymore and are growing up too fast

*An Impression on my heart.  I meet a mom at a local park who leaves on imprint on my heart with her life story of losing her son


March

*Dear Maddy 2011 edition.  I love you the bestest and the sweetest and to the moon and back

*Dear Luke 2011 edition.  My little Lukey, Helbobo helmet boy, bubba baby, I love you more than you will ever know

*Miracle Maddy turns 4

*Bad News about Maddy's eye pressures sends me into a tizzy of tears and snot.  My prayer warriors, friends and family make my life seem much more tolerable...Thank you! 

*I go to San Francisco for five days on a girl's trip.  Hot Husband is a hellofa Mister Mom! 

*My mom and I publish Miracle on Southwest Boulevard  Buy a copy here http://bookstore.westbowpress.com/Products/SKU-000460473/Miracle-on-Southwest-Boulevard.aspx
It might just change your life


April

*My Nannaw is sick in the hospital and we all rally around her to spend her last few weeks of life together

*Miracle on Southwest Boulevard is selling like crazy at my mom's speaking engagements and on Amazon.com.  She is changing the world, one child at a time. 

*We sell our house, packing and moving with two small children suuuuuuuucks! 

*Maddy slices her head open at Academy...."Katie's Sports and Outdoors!" 

*The Easter Bunny gives candy, but Christ gives life

*April 29th, 2011 My Nannaw went to be with Jesus.  Back in a body that is pain free, enveloped in love and long last home.  We miss you. 


May

*Peace Out Bin Laden

* Maddy says goodbye to her first successful year in preschool and beloved teachers. 

*Thunder Up Boys!  KD, will you marry me?! 

*We bought our new house, AND I AIN'T EVER MOVING AGAIN! 


June

*Maddy had a tough time transitioning into our new home, as do I.  I have weird sentimental attachment to our old crappy death trap of a house. 

*Spunky Maddy tells nosy park goers how her eyes work...."Well DUUUUUH!"  Yeah, okay, we are tired as hell by her constant boundary pushin', but thank God she can stand up for herself! 

*We heart Buffalofitz after we got kicked out of the library....LAWYER UP SLUTS! 

*Whole grain noodles taste like Boiled Buttholes. 

*My brother, Kenny, gets married to beautiful Molly....what a catch!  We love you guys. 

*Pray for a ravaged Joplin, Mo after an F-5 tornado rips through and a third of their town is gone. 


July

*Swim lessons suck

*I love Switched at Birth about a teenage girl with a hearing impairment.  It is amazing what people can overcome

*Miracle on Southwest Boulevard continues to make a difference and change lives....Come on, buy your copy here   http://bookstore.westbowpress.com/Products/SKU-000460473/Miracle-on-Southwest-Boulevard.aspx

*It's hotter than a whore's bedroom in the grand state of Oklahoma.  No one can go outside for fear of dropping dead in the 116 degree weather.  So we stay inside and do mud masks! 

*Maddy learns to write her name! 

*Hot Husband and I celebrate 8 years of marital bliss and do it up Vegas style, Pass out at the pool from too many pina colodas!  I love you and your glorious head of curls! 


August

*I turned 30, the death of my youth is upon me, I have old balls

*I love facebook at the same time that I LOATHE it!  Hey husbands and wives, seriously, stop with your stupid crap on the FB.  We all know you beat eachother, you ain't foolin' NOBODY! 

*Guide to Toddlerhood
     -Welcome to the land of Toddlerville, there is no turning back

*Duct Tape Discpline

*Moms I want to fight for money

*Toddlerhood is fleeting and cherish it you must

*Maddy starts Pre-K, as in going to school five days a week, and if you are TARDY more than three times you get suspended.  This is serious business!  Better be in the drop off line by 7:45 in the am! 


September

*Hemm Cup Camp Christian Edition.  We must hand over the Hemm Cup Trophy to my bro Kenny and his wife Molly.  (We are training for the third Cup...beware bitches The Domination will cut you!) 

*Blog Revamp, Keep the Faith and the Funny

*My 9/11 story.  We are blessed my brother, Bill, made it out of tower two.  We will always remember. 

*Our lives on the front row.  We will always sit on the front row and pray for friends who have the integrity to sit with us...will you? 

*My Luke turns 3!  What a great kid, we love you to infinity and beyond. 


October

*Working on my first Novel....YIKES!  The holiday's brought a bad case of writer's block.  But my rated R novel has a few possible titles.  Perfectly Proportional, Flawed Perfection, Shakeable Miracles....anyone want to vote on the title they like best?  I have them in order of my preference! 

*I adhere to screen time limits given down by the Lord God Himself, but it is soooooo hard! 

*Laundry = Loathing

*Fairy Princess and Iron Man do it up Big for Halloween 2011 (and then Big Mama eats all the Reece's!) 


November

* I accidentally talk a single girlfriend out of wanting to be a mom....oops!  There is no better life, motherhood is hard, but what wonderful, worthwhile thing isn't? 

*Don't hate, but FEAR the Thanksgiving skirt! 

*Elf on the Shelf is one sneaky little sonofabitch and well worth the money! 


December

*We've been planking...you should too! 

*Christians Tired Of Being Misrepresented....Is there anyone Jesus wouldn't help?  Is there anyone Jesus wouldn't love?  Stop the judgements and love thy neighbor.  Love thy Muslim neighbor, Love thy Jewish neighbor, Love thy homosexual neighbor.  Love thy neighbor....DO IT! 

*Peer Pressured Christmas Survey

*Christmas was crazy fun, ending with the best present of the year, a sweet new baby nephew for me to love! 

We hope you all had a rockin' good year and we pray for health, safety, and happiness in the coming year from our family to yours! 

PEACE IN YO BOOTY CREASE! 

-Katie

Yo, 2012 BRING IT! 

PS...don't forget about my comments HOS!  Don't be so stingy!