The Things Lo Says...{video edition}

Each night at bedtime Lo requests her bedtime snack. Thank you very much daddy.
It is a chocolate graham cracker with milk, but not just any milk. Chocolate milk.

Lo saw this commercial and thus decided chocolate milk was the way to go.



Whenever she request {chocolate} milk she says: "Stir it up stir it up stir it."
Just like that, all the while shaking her body in dancing movements.
Cracks me up every time. And every time I just have to say "Yes."

Untitled from Michele Keethler on Vimeo.

Miscellany Monday

Here's a quick update on my random life.

1. My sister is HOME!!! I should be seeing her in a few short hours. Can't wait to see her baby belly and Landrey. I love watching the girls play together. And I can't wait for when her baby boy Hollis gets here, so he and MW can play together too!

Taken in October.

2. I am in major mode to cut back and save us money. As Chad puts it, every dollar I save, is technically my "paycheck." Not that I am a big spender, at all. Just want us to pay more stuff off and save more.

So I am starting to groom our dogs! That is a savings of nearly $400 a year. We have two toy poodles and at $30 a pop every 6 weeks it gets pricey. My first attempt before Christmas didn't fair so well for Tucker. Toby wasn't too bad. This time though, I think I did a really good job. Not fantastic but good. It will take some practice, but I think I am getting the hang of it.

This picture is after the groom...doesn't really do my mad skillz justice. ;)

So between cutting Chad's hair and the dogs. I am saving us close to $700 a year! Wow! What would you do with an extra $700 a year?

I am also hoping to get way better at this coupon-ing thing. Now accepting all tips. :)

3. Our Pilot is paid off! (A whole year early!!) This is so awesome. I can't wait to get the car title and it be "official." Now to get those student loans paid down/off.

4. MW had his 2month appointment Friday. He is growing. He got shots. I didn't cry! Yeah, mommy. I think I was prepared for it this time, and I already wasted my tears at his circumcision. However, he and the shots didn't mix well and was pretty fussy for the rest of the night. I am not use to that. Lo is a trooper and never gets fussy over things like shots, teething etc. I mean she was fussy alright, but not over those things. HA! I look at that as my little "reward" for her horrendous colic behavior.

Isn't he adorable?!

5. Sunday we had our open house. We had 4 couples look at our home. Good feedback I suppose, just not what they are looking for. Bummer. Selling your home is tough, especially with two littles. I hope it sells...soon!

6. And this is our reaction to KSU's loss #3 (but who's counting) to Colorado...I mean come on!


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Lent

I realize yesterday was the first day of Lent. A lot of Christians alike give something up in honor of Lent. Rarely do I participate because I just never really understood how me giving up chocolate or soda really mattered or truly constituted a "sacrifice" for my Lord in comparison to the ultimate sacrifice Jesus made for me.

However, as of late, even before this season leading up to Easter entered my mind I have felt the Holy Spirit calling me to fast. I wrestled with this because I just can not truly fast right now, as in go without eating for a few days, due to being a nursing momma. I need all I can eat right now to keep up with Micah. So I kept shooing the Holy Spirit away, much like you would a fly buzzing annoyingly around your head. Surely, this is not what God really wanted me to do.

Then I read this post by my friend Kelley, who in my opinion, always writes on such topics in such an articulate way.

"I want him to be able to really lay something down at the feet of the King Most High. So that at the end of the fasting God will reveal Himself in new ways to him. That he will be changed by the sacrifice he made and he will see Jesus' sacrifice on the cross even more powerfully. "

Those sentences just resonated with me. Lent is about seeking God, not just giving up chocolate or soda to say I sacrificed something.

A few months ago many of you may remember I gave up Facebook for a whole month, it was taking over my life. That was the most refreshing month ever, I almost considered not going back, but as "addiction" would have it, it slowly crept back into my life.

Which brings me to my "fasting" and "sacrifice." I will be giving up facebook and mindlessly searching and following blogs during this season. {I will still be blogging about my life and checking on close friends' blogs, just to clarify}. I truly feel this was the sort of "fasting" God has been laying on my heart. I need to spend this time focusing on God's plan for my/our future and less time wondering what the latest is on facebook. I want to seek God's will for my life and anxious to see what He reveals to me during this time.

¹⁰ He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”
Psalms 46:10