another week

well i thought i just may try a different color.....that bold at the beginning made me feel fat!!! so here we are skinny!! i haven't been on here since valentine's weekend...i have been busy! so now i am gonna have to write yet another book to get it all in!!! first off, i LOVE LOVE LOVE my new stove/range. although i have yet to get the blinds that i almost killed my husband over. i WILL get them!! Rivers was in a pageant this weekend... and won!!!! it was probably her last pageant though. lots of things are done and go on that i absolutely DO NOT agree w/. from the beginning when i saw how the girls are "made up" and dressed, i said i would not do that to Rivers, and i didn't. i didn't spend $500 on a dress, i didn't put on more than powder, lip gloss and what little mascara i could get her to sit still for, and that was still too much if you ask me! i paid $50 for a dress from the second hand store that was not even comparable to the "new age" dress, so i revamped it to the point i absolutely loved it and it would be the dress (she would either win or loose) in all pageants she would be in. she loved it cause it sparkled and it was pink...if you ask me it was "Rivers". well, another of my opinions that i believe is: if you go and try to add to natural beauty, you just mess it up. and when i went adding makeup to Rivers, well, i just shouldn't have done it. anyway, i was waiting for a pageant to come up where it stated it was natural and absolutely no makeup was to be worn by any girls under the age of 7. well, this past sunday was the day for us, cause that is exactly what kind of pageant it was!!!! not one touch of makeup was put on my baby girl and not one strand of fake hair was on her head!!!!! Rivers won prettiest hair, most photogenic AND she was the queen!!!!! she glowed when she saw they were putting a crown on her head!!!! she loves pageants but she doesn't have to do them. we may do natural pageants in the future (they are scarce) but no more GLITZ! that is my new "i am sick of hearing the word" word!! GLITZ! uugggghhhhhh! i found some pictures of other girls that are in pageants and it is really sad at what the moms do to the girls. the before and after pictures are unbelievable. well, enough of that!
yesterday Jake, Rivers, and I accompanied Ben's pre-k class to the goat farm!!! who would have thought you could spend 3 hours at a goat farm and not be ready to come home!! baby goats are so cute!! and let me say, there were lots and lots of baby goats there!! the kids had bundles of fun!! we even got to talk about marijuana!! not really! they had a boykin? spaniel out there they were training to be a drug dog. the officer had a bag of marijuana and it was hidden in a large grass field and the puppy went all over sniffing and finally he went to the drugs and sat down on it!!!!! that was too cool!! after a sack lunch and potty breaks behind the horse wagon, we headed home. it has been a fun week so far, and we are so looking forwasd to the warm weather coming this weekend...and then of course comes the cold again!!!! sick of it!!!!!!! as ms. priss says"toodles"!!BYE