All I want for my birthday......

So Aleeyah knows that it won't be long till her birthday. She always begins around May and keeps the asking game up till the middle of August. I have her set during the day sometimes and look at National Geographic books, to let her see different animals and such. So here comes Aleeyah announcing that she knew what she wanted for her birthday and if we could find one quick. I ask her what it is and she brings a national geographic book to me. She has her finger on it the whole time, heaven only knows she does not want to loose her spot. She then announces that she wants a "Spotted-horny poisonous frog". I laugh at her and she tells me how serious this is. She wants me to find this frog and wrap it up and give it to her for her birthday. YEA RIGHT!!! I try to explain that this animal in endangered and there is no possible way that frog was coming to the Frost home on her birthday. So after some tears and of course a usual fit, I think she understands that the "spotted-horny poisonous frog" will have to stay in the jungle!!

Mother's Day 2009

My husband is not one to "surprise" me with any thing. Usually he will just come in and ask what I want and go and get it. This Mother's day I did not expect it to be any different than the other 12 years of "what do you want" and my reply to the question. I really did not think that I would get anything this year since he just bought me a new Ford Expedition. I had told him that was my mother's day gift and I needed nothing else. Saturday morning me and the girls were getting ready at the house when Sam said he had to go to his dad's shop for a minute. He is always going down there so I thought nothing off it. A little while later he comes back with a bag and asks the girls to take it to me. Of course Aleeyah opens it before she gets into the bedroom and screams "MOMMIE, daddy got you some paper to write on for mommies day." Paper to write on? Of course I roll my eyes, thinking if he got me something like that I will hurt him!! So I open the bag and there is a letter that says how much he really loves me and the girls. He continues on with telling me that I am the rock that keeps us all going. In the bag is a 3 month unlimited tanning package with loads of extras. Which I will so enjoy...Later that night he surprised me with dinner at Papa's (YUMMY) and a shopping trip for anything I wanted!! I really did not need anything but the fact that he took it upon his self to go and get me something melts my heart. I hope you all had a wonderful mother's day as I did!!!

Happy Mother's day to my mom

My mom and dad were married Dec. 16th, 1977. Dad had just graduated high school and mom was starting her junior year. Two years later I was born.

I weighed 7lbs 5oz and was 18 inches long. My mother would KILL me for putting this picture on here. That is what happens when you become a mother, you have shots of yourself you don't like!
My mother and me when I was around 5 months old. Of course I feel old when I look at this picture since mom was sporting those "huge" glasses.
I know I look like mom...of course I look alot like dad to. When I was 16 months old my mom and dad welcomed my little brother Jamie into the family.

Jamie was born on March 17, 1981 (St. Patty's Day). He was 8lbs 5 oz and 21 inches long.

Jamie looks JUST like my mom even down to the nose. Minus the blood hair which has changed since this picture. Mom continued to stay home with us kids while my father worked to jobs to make ends meet. When I started kindergarten and my little brother was in headstart, my mother decided to go to work. She found something that she LOOOVED to do and that was working with flowers and plants. She continued to work at Raines Plant Farm till they went out of business.

This is our family now. Man how we have grown. Mom no longer works and is raising her 8 year old granddaughter. She has started all over again and loves every minute of it. She has 5 grandchildren and loves them dearly. Her and my dad will celebrate their 31st wedding anniversary. We love you mom and want to tell you what a wonderful mother you have been to us!!

Kelly's Korner Living Tour Post

So I decided to try the tour of homes. Sam and myself built this home with our own two hands. We both worked nights and would work till around noon during the day time to try to finish the house. Sam laid every rock in the wood stove hearth, and I was pregnant with Aleeyah when each piece of hardwood was laid (by us of course). We had never built a house before so we had to read and learn things as we went along. Seven years later we are still adding, changing and finishing things on the house but it is our HOME!! We just got new a new sectional and a new table. We wanted the dining room and living room to be one large room. Of course being a "terrified" mother the fence around the fire place was my idea. He made it for me to ease me through the walking stages of the girls. A close call with Aleeyah made me realize that I needed something around those rocks or I was going to keep her in a playpen for the first two years of her life.

This is a view from the dining area into the living area. You have to look past the toys and the fact that the hubby likes to lay his jacket on the table. MEN, I could hurt them.

From the fireplace area down the hallway and you can see the kitchen to your left.

Rest in Peace my friend...

Rest in peace my dear friend Sandra Harvey. Tonight my friends mother Sandra left this world to be with her heavenly father. She had been fighting breast cancer for two years and recently told them that she was tired of fighting it. Sandra is the one pictured here in brown. She has been in our family for over 24 years and we are so saddened to loose her. She is going to be missed by us all!! So tonight we pray for her loved ones, since Mother's day is Sunday and they will be telling their mother goodbye for one last time. We love you Sandra, and we will forever remember the times that we so fondly shared. When Christmas time comes around I will think of you and those wonderful cheese balls you would make. How you would always make the boys cut your tree down and Candy would put ALOT of tinsel on it, always in silver and blue. How we would sleep on the couch and the time that you hit Thor, our German Shepherd, and it jumped into the back of your car. We like to have never got that dog out of that car!! So many memories, and so many smiles..that is what we will keep alive until we are able to meet you once again. So tonight my dear friend as I go to bed I say a prayer for your kids/grandkids and I shed a tear for all the smiles that we had!!! I love you my friend!!

Some pictures of the girls...

Just wanted to share som pictures of the girls that I took some months ago!

I bought them new smocked dresses...got to love smocked dresses!!

Averrie refusing to open her eyes.

So she opens them only to smile so hard they close again!

Aleeyah Faithe

Averrie Samarah

What God says about ....

I have to say that when Aleeyah was born I would not discipline her at all. Through the years it had weighed heavy on my mind that the last day that I seen Bethanie alive I spanked her. I was so afraid that the same thing would happen to Aleeyah and that would be the last memory of her. BOY, should I have done things differently!! Yes, Aleeyah is really really really spoiled and I did it. I would always give to her in fear she would leave like Bethanie did and I wanted to have her happy all the time. Aleeyah is 4 1/2 now and I am reaping what I sowed and paying a horrible price. I have tried all of the "training" that the books offer with no such luck. So I decided that since I had broke one verse that God speaks of already (The hand that spares the rod, spoils the child) I would go back and look at the good book for guidance. So with Bible in hand I take on my little angel full force! I said "Sissy, Mommy needs to talk to you about your behavior." Of course it came with the same words that I always get when she knows she is in trouble..."LATER MOM"

So I take her to the couch and tell her that we are going to read what God tells us about "minding" our parents.

So I find the commandment that tells us to honor and obey your parents. "What is a commandment?" she asks me. So I explain that it is a rule that God tells us that we are to follow and if we don't we are in more trouble than when daddy gets mad at us. Well of course that changed the mood in the room.

I then find the verse that states that you are to honor and obey your parents so that your days maybe long here on earth. She was amazed by that verse and wanted to know what it meant. So I tell her that disobedient children rebel against their parents and can loose their lives quicker than those that mind. She begin to stare into my eyes and I could tell that this was filtering through that little sponge of a mind of hers. Well, I am pleased to announce that Aleeyah has not given me one little bit of trouble in the minding Mommy department since then. I told her that this is what God says to do and we must do it. It is amazing how smart little children are and how dumb we play them out to be. I guess that is why God tells us that unless we enter into the kingdom of heaven as a little child that we will not be able to enter.