my little songbird

molly sings. a lot.
sometimes she sings actual songs, and sometimes she sings what shes doing.
kind of like opera. or a musical.
she got a cd player for christmas from my mom with a cd of disney princess songs. she knows almost all of them by heart, and earlier today was singing one of them to me in the bathroom while i was getting ready. she couldnt remember the words, so she went to her room to listen to it so she could come back and sing it correctly.
while she was gone, i snuck the camera onto the bathroom counter but she noticed it when she came back and wouldnt sing.
but for whatever reason, she said she would film herself, well, herself. so i showed her which button to push, and she took it in her room and filmed herself singing one of the songs from the movie tangled.
and here it is for your viewing pleasure. shes stinkin cute.

threesixfive, week 7

happy valentines week! i realized on monday that i never put my valentines decorations out, and at that point i was over it. no heart tree or love birds on my mantle this year.
we've had lots of rain this week, which has been nice for the grass and all the lakes we have around here, but a bummer for anyone planning to do anything outside (us!!). we've been trying to get out and go hiking for a couple weeks. last week was too cold, and this week was too rainy. maybe next weekend we'll have a shot at at.
here are the pictures for week 7...

sunday
i love that my kids will eat a big plate of salad!

monday
heres that latch-hook rug ive been working on. i was trying to have it done by the first weekend of february, but its proved to be a much bigger project than i anticipated. its finally starting to look like a rug though. im not going to have enough tshirt strips to finish the whole thing, not that i wouldve; i think that would take me the rest of 2012!! but if i use what i have left, i can get half the mat done, and it will go perfectly in allens office. think orange!

tuesday
happy valentines! we never made a huge deal out of valentines day, and the last couple of years its been an excuse to do something fun together as a family. this year allen had this project for them to do (from micah 6:8). i'll post a picture of the finished product next week. when we were done with that we dipped our own chocolate covered fruit; the grapes are my favorite!!!

i couldnt pass up this picture of mojo with a little left-over chocolate on her face. :-)

wednesday

we met my parents for dinner, but got to the restaraunt early. they were able to entertain themselves pretty well while we waited, despite molly feeling kind of yucky this evening.

thursday
we're slowly giving our master suite a facelift. the bedroom is a work in progress, and i'm hoping to tackle the bathroom with some of our tax return (assuming we get one...). today we made a trip to hobby lobby and bought new knobs for our dressers and nightstands. they're all mismatched in shades of orange, turquoise, and brown.

friday

this is what allen surprised me with for valentines!! he made it!! i showed him something similar on pinterest awhile back and have been wanting to do one myself, but just havent got around to it. i was so proud of his craftiness....or handiness, rather. that sounds more manly.

saturday

today we, along with about 5 other families from the preschool department at our church, went to our local serving center to deliver some cans that had been collected by the youth group the weekend before for disciple now. we got a tour of the facility, then put a sticker on all the cans and boxes donated by our group that says 'Jesus loves you!' colby and molly had a great time, and it was a great opportunity to teach them about 'being the church'.

allens out of town this weekend speaking at a youth event, but will be back super late tonight. colby has a friend over right now, and the easy-bake oven made an appearance earlier to appease molly. its looking like a pizza and a movie kinda evening.

have a fantastic week!!

colbys latest

as you know, hopefully, colby gave his life to Christ a couple weeks ago.
we were at co-op on friday, and one of the boys in his class gave him a shove on his shoulder or something. i didnt actually see it happen, but i was in the room, and i think the boy was "play fighting", if that makes sense. anyway, colby didnt react at all really; he basically ignored it. his teacher saw this happen and said
ms sheri: thank you for not hitting him back, colby. that was good self control.
colby: (as serious as can be) its because i have the Holy Spirit.
we laughed because it was cute, and so sincere. how can you argue with that?

on saturday, molly and i were out of the house the first part of the day and allen and colby went to sonic for lunch. allen said they were sitting in the car eating and colby said
colby: daddy, i wish they made air fresheners that smelled like sonic food. that'd be awesome!!

we had a graet valentines day evening last night. i may post some pictures of that tomorrow or friday, or i may just wait and post extra pictures with my 365 on saturday. havent decided yet.

be blessed!

threesixfive, week 6

yay! a normal week! we got all our school work done, went to the gym 4 out of 5 week days, no one was sick, allen took his regular day off. it was glorious. im definitely a creature of habit.

sunday
to the youth pastor go the left-over disciple now spoils. the only time we have junk-food cereal in the house is when we get the left overs from the annual youth event. i eat a lot of cereal for a couple weeks. :-)

monday
the table in the school room was cleared off enough for both colby and molly to sit there and do their work. i thought it was a cute photo-op.

tuesday

theres a sandwich place here (which wich) that ive mentioned before. your sandwich is delivered in a paper bag, and "the thing" to do is decorate it and hang it on the line. i spotted these two bags side by side. its wesley and inigo montoya from the princess bride. love it.

wednesday

who knew lunchables could be so much fun?

thursday

colby drew a picture of me. i didnt realize my hands were so large. and apparently i wear a bad toupee.

friday
the boys' class at co-op played with cornstarch and water. it was a ridiculous and very fun mess!!

saturday

my friend emilie had a candyland birthday party for her 2-year-old. she and i made this cake saturday morning!!! we were so proud of ourselves. it was so much fun.

another mostly normal week awaits me. it was actually cold enough this afternoon for some sleet, and if that keeps up we wont be getting out much tomorrow, but i think its supposed to be back up in the 70's by tuesday. another month or so and we'll be spending our afternoons at the pool!!
have an excellent week, my friends!

threesixfive, week 5

we had such an exciting week!! colby became my little brother in Christ tuesday night, we just wrapped up disciple now weekend at church (more on that with friday and saturdays pictures), and i'm going to make this quick because we have people over for the superbowl!

sunday
i dont know where they heard about it, but molly and colbys new favorite thing to do it plank. molly climed up on the kitchen counter and said, "mommy, come take a picture! i'm planking!"

monday

dentist appointments. :-/

tuesday

colby gave his heart to Jesus!!! hes been asking questions lately, and wanting to talk about it a lot. when allen got home from a dinner meeting, we talked about it as a family, and prayed together. he was so excited! i took this picture while he was on the phone telling my dad.

wednesday

we went to chic-fil-a before church, and this is how they spelled my name on the ticket. i've never seen amy spelled this way. very interesting.

thursday
colby and molly waiting for swim to start.

friday

its disciple now weekend! i was a co-host for one of the 7th grade girls' houses. we had 174 students in 25 homes this year. it was an amazing weekend.

saturday

each group is assigned a mission project to do on saturday. about half are for widows and elderly within our church body, and the rest are projects we get thru our local serving center for people in the community. we we given the task of pulling up and rebuilding a single mom's patio. we also mowed her lawn, pulled the weeds, and planted some flowers in her flower bed.

have a blessed week!!!

threesixfive, week 4

january has flown by! can you believe it?
we had a good week. the kids got to go to all their classes and events, and school was even finished each day!
bacon (our pet pig you can read about in the previous post if you missed it last week) was picked up monday and taken back to where he came from to be sold to someone else. and yes we got our money back. he wasnt a bad pet; just not the right pet for us. this may sound bizarre, but i'm good with snakes and frogs. i imagine theres a lizard in our future, but not for awhile.


sunday
we were given a dutch oven a couple weeks ago and i've used it a few times. its fabulous, and makes delicious stews and roasts. the best part for me? its red!

monday
we went to dunkin donuts for "dessert" after dinner. this is what the kids wore.

tuesday
we got the call tuesday afternoon that our friends had their third baby. after thinking about it for a couple days settled on the name mason. they'll call him ace. we went to the hospital that night to visit. so cute!!



wednesday
on the way home from mollys dance class i saw something sticking up out of the back of the truck in front of me. i kept laughing because it reminded me so much of the robot from short circut (one of my favorite movies when i was a kid--1986 to be exact). the first picture is one i pulled from the internet so you could see the comparison if youve never seen the movie. the second is the picture i took.

thursday

we had some friends over for dinner, and towards the end of the evening we got to talking about food. they had never been to gordoughs (a gourmet donut food trailer in austin), so we got one of the college students from church to come over so we could take them for dessert. i might add it was almost 11pm by the time we got down there. we felt like a group of college students ourselves. it was as delicious as ever.

friday

it was crazy hat day at co-op (just explaining colbys attire). the young explorers class did a lesson about taste and tastebuds. colby tasted coffee grounds, lemon juice, sugar, pretzels, and ate pink mashed potatoes and green eggs. it was a fun morning.

saturday

remember all those strips of cut up tshirts i posted a picture of a couple weeks ago? heres that project finally taking shape. can you guess what its going to be?

we have disciple now next weekend, so we'll be gearing up for that this week. the kids will be going to mimis house on friday, and i'll be helping with a group of our girls at a home somewhere in the city! i'll find out at the meeting tomorrow where allens putting me.
have a great week!!

threesixfive, week 3

another week of sickness misxed in with a little adventure.
molly woke up in the middle of the night monday with an ear infection and what turned out to be some kind of throat infection (???). so now, on saturday night, colbys got one dose of antibiotic left, and molly is about half way thru her rounds of two different antibiotics. crazy. i'm hoping we'll finally be done with all this after next week.
also...we got a pig. with colbys allergies, i started looking into teacup pigs, and mini pot bellies, etc, but theyre very very expensive. we found out a friends uncle had one they were wanting to sell because their daughter, who they bought it for in october for her birthday, wasnt interested in it anymore. bacon came to live with us (yes thats his name) friday afternoon, but the excitement was short lived. colby and molly loved him for about an hour, but then realized that, although hes super cool (i mean, its a pig, right?!?), hes not exactly soft and cuddly and playful. the kids spent all saturday morning in their rooms with their doors shut because they didnt want the pig coming in, and then later in the day colby said. "hes not that great. i cant hold him and love on him like i could roxy." roxy was the puppy we had to give back after having her for only a day because colby and i both reacted to her. that made sense, but its still a bummer. the good thing is im not having to get rid of it and break my kids' heart, theyre completely willing to give him back. when the guy we bought him from brought him over yesterday, i had asked him if we could take him on a "trial basis" in case it wasnt a good fit, and he said yes. so thats a good thing too. the lesson ive learned thru all this, between the puppy and the dog, is that we're probably just not pet people. not big pets anyway. snakes and frogs i can do. and maybe lizards. but anything not requiring a small cage should probably be off limits to the frans clan.
here are the pictures for the week.

sunday
we went to chuck-e-cheese for adlers birthday.

monday

we went to a church strategy conference in houston on tuesday, so we drove up monday night so my mother in law could keep the kids at her house while we were gone for the day. colby didnt finish his school monday, and had to bring it with him to mimis house. i took a picture of him finishing up his work, and he did not appreciate it.

tuesday

this is the stage at the conference. so cool! i want this in my house!!

wednesday

we stayed home wednesday and rested from the long day tuesday and molly not feeling well. colby dressed up and performed for my entertainment.

thursday

colby and mo acting silly in the car while we were waiting for swim school to start.

friday

meet bacon. our temporary new addition.

saturday

bedtime for bacon.

have a great week everyone!!!