Quote for the day:

Rosa sat so Martin could walk…
Martin walked so Obama could run…
Obama is running so our children can FLY!

Thank God we are all lucky enough to live in a country as great this one. We are so blessed to have the freedom to vote and I am proud of our country today.

Do you accept the challenge :)

My friend Laura has a blog which I like to keep up with. This is from her blog, so I'm accepting the challenge in hopes that my readers will get to know a little bit more about me. I would like to tag the blogs that I read regularly... Nicole, Anne, and Casie to fill this out on their blogs and to extend the first part of the challenge to all of my readers without their own blogs: Mom, Amanda... everyone else who reads but doesn't leave me comments :)
Enjoy :)

Welcome to the new 2008 edition of getting to know your family and friends.

This is my rule (I changed them from the email): Anyone who reads this blog must start their own and make this their first post. They must also send me a link to their new blog in my comments section. :) Harsh, I know. Anyone who already has a blog is also welcome to fill out this survey. I tag you all!

1. What is your occupation right now? Daycare provider, mom, chauffeur, chef, personal shopper, housekeeper... :)

2. What color are your socks right now? None, anyone who knows me knows I live in flip flops, even when its cold!

3. What are you listening to right now? 2 babies chattering to each other and playing and one snoring... the greatest sound in the world!

4. What was the last thing that you ate? fish sticks for lunch, healthy, I know :)

5. Can you drive a stick shift? Wes tried to teach me once, but that was a long time ago!

6. Last person you spoke to on the phone? Grandma Siegle

7. Do you like the person who sent this to you? Yes, shes a great friend!

8. How old are you today? 25 years, 4 months and 18 days

9. What is your favorite sport to watch on TV? Football, College or pro

10. Favorite drink? Diet coke

11. Have you ever dyed your hair? Blond highlights

12. Favorite food? hmmm.... so many to choose from! Probably southwest chicken wraps from houlihan's at the moment. Maybe just because that's what I've been wanting for the last week :)

13. What is the last movie you watched? We rented Leatherheads the other night... not very good tho.

14. Favorite day of the year? Everyday when I'm with my favorite people!

15. How do you vent anger? Clean house.

16. What was your favorite toy as a child? Barbies and my jump it thing... those are the 2 things that pop into my mind anyway

17. What is your favorite season? Fall... I love the leaves changing and cool temperatures... Football weather!

18. Cherries or Blueberries? Cherries

19. Do you want your friends to e-mail you back? I hope the people that have blogs with post at least!

20. Who is the most likely to respond? Not sure... Hopefully everyone!

21. Who is least likely to respond? Probably mom... since she doesn't know how to start a blog :) Love you mom

22. Living arrangements? Happy family... mom, dad, sweet daughter, fun baby brother. No pets tho... too much work :)

23. When was the last time you cried? Watching yesterdays Oprah this morning... I'm a sap :)

24. Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending this to? Don't know. I'm not sure who all reads this.

25. What did you do last night? Went to bed at 10, woke up at 3 and couldn't go back to sleep so I got up and watched tv and cleaned.

26. Plain, cheese, or spicy hamburgers? Cheeseburgers

27. Favorite dog breed? I would like to have a boxer and a boston terrier when we get a house and the kids are older.

28. Favorite day of the week? Weekends when I get to spend the whole day with my favorite people.

29. How many states have you lived in? Just 1, Kansas

30. Diamonds or pearls? Diamonds

31. What is your favorite flower? Gerbera Daisies

Patience

Update on the Overturf household! Everything is wonderful and moving along perfectly. I guess that's why I haven't updated my blog in awhile. Its funny that when things are not quite right, we can find so much more to write about. And when things are good, we just feel like we are bragging when we write about how wonderful everything is. I love that I am able to stay home with the kids right now. I appreciate every minute with them now and am finally getting to enjoy them more than I ever have. I feel like I am finally a mom who is self-sustaining. With the quitting of my job, I now have control over my house, cooking dinner and occasionally allowing myself to take a bath with the door locked so Austyn can't come barging in (without feeling guilty :) ). I realize that I earn some time for myself (although I wish Wes would more often. I'm only partially kidding :) ).
Tomorrow is Austyn's big Halloween party. Somewhere around 8-12 kids will converge on my small house expecting to be entertained. It will all be worth the expense and time preparing just to see Austyn having a great time. I will post pictures next week and let everyone know how it goes.
Today I got to talk to a couple of wonderful friends that live out of town now and it was great to be able to catch up with them. Thanks to both of them for the great conversation and thank you for your friendship. I'm so blessed to have all of my great friends and love to be able to reconnect with people that otherwise I may have lost touch with.
Alright time to curl up on the couch with hubby, we're watching Leatherheads and trying to write, I'm losing what's going on with it :)

Photo Purge!!

Found a few pictures stashed away on my camera! Note the picture of Peyton watching football... that was NOT a set up shot. The kid can sit and watch football for as long as you will let him :) Not a good sign this early!

New room!

We're stepping into uncharted territory tonight. Peyton is spending his first night in his new room!! YAY! Okay, so it's still not completely done yet, but I took matters into my own hands. Tonight, I set up his crib, got the carpet pieced together and set up a few things. He was asleep in like 2 minutes! I think he likes his new bed! Here's a few pictures of him sacked out, he looks so peaceful when he's sleeping :)

Backwards!

I know that they are backwards, but skim through the pics and then read the 2nd post for the update :) (Thanks to Sandy for the great pictures of the kiddos!!)

I'M BACK!

After almost 3 months without a computer, we are finally back in business! So here is a quick update for everyone who doesn't know what is going on in our lives and give you a bunch new pictures of the kiddos!! As of the 3 weeks ago, I am officially a SAHM!! I quit Dara's at the end of August and am getting ready to open up a home daycare!! I'm sooo excited and love being home able to focus on my family!! Austyn started first grade and is loving it already! She really likes her teacher and I think that she is going to be good for Austyn. Peyton is growing by leaps and bounds!! He is rolling over and has gotten very animated. He is still a very happy baby and is getting his very own personality(which happens to be stubborn, just like his mom) :) Everyone is doing great and now that I have my computer back I will try to get the blog updated more often ;)