Here it is!

My book cover is final completed!! Now we are really getting down to the wire, and pretty soon The Princess Sisters will be available for purchase! I'm so excited!!

Kalianna the Amazing

This cracks me up every time!

Isn't she incredible? And the best part is she started doing this all by herself! I guess simply matching the shapes with her hands was just getting too boring. And she does it with all 8 shapes, we only recorded a snippet for your enjoyment.

It's what fun is!

Finally have a new computer. Yay!!! So I can start blogging again. Yay!!!

My parents took their three grandkids to Lagoon a couple weeks ago. It was lots of fun! But we did learn you should probably wait until a kid is two to take them to Lagoon. The rides Kalianna could go on, she really enjoyed! But there were several that she was just barely too short for. And lots that she could ride, but I couldn't, so we didn't attempt them. I just know if I wasn't sitting next to her, she would have crawled right out as soon as the ride started. She also had a hard time with the concept of lines. Go figure. I'm 26 and still have a hard time with them sometimes! Here are a few pictures from our fun day:

Rainy Night

A typical rainy Saturday night in the Carroll house needs three things:

1. A super fun activity--like setting up our tent in the basement, making a big bed and snuggling while we watch a movie together.

2. Yummy food--we made homemade pizza for dinner and chocolate cake for dessert. (No pictures because we gobbled it up before I remembered.)

3. Tatoos!--These

came in something we got from the store. I'm not a fan of Spongebob Square-Pants, but the tattoos were free and we had fun putting them on!

We had planned on going on a hike or going swimming that night, but the rain made us get creative instead. And we had a blast!

Pretty Piggies

My mind has been very full lately. I've wanted to blog, but haven't been able to sort through the jumble of thoughts that currently occupy my brain. Then tonight, as I went for an evening stroll with Kalianna and the dogs, I looked down at my toes. They made me smile.
I've had kind of a blah week. Nothing wrong, no sadness, just many happenings that I have no control over.
I hadn't painted my toes since the 4th of July, when they were red, white, and blue with little fireworks. Very cute! But this week, they had gotten to the point where you couldn't tell what color they were supposed to be painted. My big toes were the only ones that still had any paint on them, and they were a sorry sight indeed. So last night, once Kalianna was in bed, I turned on an episode of Friends and gave myself a pedicure.
As the pink glittery polish caught my eye again tonight, I suddenly had no more difficult thoughts. My toes are pretty and that makes me happy!

Pinkalicious

This is Kalianna's new favorite book. We read it probably fifty times a day. And every time we read it, she has the same big grin on her face.

Terrified!

Kalianna will play outside all day long, if I let her! She happily wanders around the patio (avoiding all that icky, poky grass) and loves to pick grass, throw the dog dishes outside and scoot around on the cement with her little bum inside them, or bounce her ball. But as soon as one of these fly overhead she screams and scrambles up the steps and into the house as fast as those little legs will carry her! She's not happy until she sits safely on mommy's lap. Then we will usually walk outside together, I'll point to the jets in the sky and say, "Wow! Look at the plane!" She seems to be okay with them as long as she sits safely on mom's hip, but boy those things really terrify her!