The vacation..the party and the breakdowns.

Well, we went to the lake for the "post" memorial day vacation. We always like to go after the crowds leave. I mean there is nothing like having the whole lake to your self. Of course we went to Gillham, and there was only one camp ground open. The rest of them were under water!!

Aleeyah finally slowed down enough for me to take a couple of shots. She is growing up way to fast, and I know that cherishing these moments are essential!!

She can be the goofiest child you know. She is just like her daddy when she wants to be. I am not a joking/funny type of person. Serious is my motto!! I sometimes hate that about myself, and find that I am not alot of fun to be around. Aleeyah is like that to an extent, but then she has just enough of Sam in her!!! Averrie is the total opposite, always looking for a laugh.
We decided to let the girls play in bubbles while we were down there. Aleeyah wanted no part of it, since daddy hurt her feelings early (EXCUSES, got to love them)!! You would think that this picture above would have cause Averrie to shed tears.....wrong (see below).

She always has a smile on her face. She is so like Sam!!!! He went fishing one time at Iron's Fork lake. He had been gone for so long and I decided I would call his cell phone to check on him. He excitedly tells me that he CANNOT talk right now and he would call me back. I wait and the phone rings...Sam is on the other end just laughing. I ask him what is wrong and he proceeds to tell me that he has sunk our bronco!! WHAT?!?!?! Yep, he sunk it to the bottom of the lake. So I call mom and dad hysterical and tell them to go and help him. They find him and his father with the tow truck carrying the bronco. There was water running out the hatch, the doors and the door buzzer would not shut up. Guess what, Sam had a smile on his face. He was not worried at all. Averrie is just like him!!!

We got back Friday afternoon and began getting ready to go to Ft. Smith for a birthday party. JL turned three and we had not been given a chance to see her new little sister KL. This is her above, doesn't she have the cutest little profile!?! Her mommy will thank me for this picture. We had a blast even though we were the only people there!! LOOOOOOONG story!! So you want to get to the breakdown. Which one? The camper, the air conditioner, the emotional one? I have dealt with all three this week. The camper jack broke, and that would not be such a problem except it is electric and the motor went out. I won't go on about the cost since I am only liable to have the latter breakdown mentioned above. So we get home and realize that the house is way to hot. I turn the air on and NO AIR!! Arkansas spring/summer with no air is not a good thing. Called and got that one fixed thankfully it was a work out between us and the air man. Won't be costing me a fortune this time YEA!!!

So the final breakdown is the emotional one. For about a month now, I have been monitoring a knot in my left breast. As I am positive that this is probably nothing I still have thoughts going through my head. I worry really bad since my friend just buried her mother from breast cancer. Sandra had lost so much weight that she finally found the knot, but it was way to advanced to save her. Since I have lost 56 pounds, I fear this is the same thing. I am only human, and the human part of me worries. Though the Lord assures me that I am fine. I go to see the doc tomorrow, and pray that things are truly fine (as I am sure they are). Prayers will be really helpful if you could just send some up for me.

Lake here we come.

Well, tomorrow is the day we go to the lake. We always make sure that we go the week after memorial day, since you can't get in on memorial day. I hate large crowds and camping is no different. Sam and the girls will be going down tomorrow morning to get things ready, I will be following shortly afterwards. I have a photo job tomorrow night so I am unable to go with them till after. Sam unveiled my new expedition to me Friday, I am so excited to finally have enough room to carry EVERYONE!! Third row is amazing!! I am asking for prayer for my uncle who was just recently diagnosed with prostate cancer. They are unsure of what the treatment will be, but pray for them to go with the best choice for him. Well, I have to clean the camper out, load the clothes, grocery shop, and tan....so I have allot to do. Until I come back from the lake you guys have a wonderful week......

Memorial Day 2009

Well, it is another memorial day. Another day of raking, removing, and adding new flowers to Bethanie's grave. You know allot of people think that when a person/child leaves this world, that the family no longer takes care of them. They could not be more wrong about that. I go every memorial, every birthday, and every anniversary to take care of Bethanie's grave. It is a big decision on the color to use this time and takes the whole family sitting down to make the final cut. We look for weeks to find just the right shade of pink. This year I think that we are going to use pastels. Peach, pink, yellow, green and blue will be the colors. Last year was bright colors and I want to get away from that and go more "girly" this year. Of course as always I will visit her little friend McKayla, who is buried behind her, and put something there. She is Melissa Ellis and David James little angel in heaven. She was the reason I put Bethanie over there, to be close to her, since they was the same age. So tomorrow I am off on a mission to find flowers (I am running late), to clean the grave and to sit and think about her. As I clean I love to look at her pink headstone and her little picture and think to myself, how much I miss her, and how happy she is right now. Well, I must run to bed. Please be saying a prayer for my uncle Gerald McGee, who was just diagnosed with prostate cancer.

I don't do TOFU!!!

Ok, so my pills are gone!! Doctor says that since I have reached my goal weight and then some that I will no longer be allowed to take my RX diet pills. I was okay with this I thought. I am not so sure now. What if I gain the 54 pounds that I lost back? What if someway, somehow it finds its way back onto my butt and belly? That is when the doc informs me that I will have to stay on the "food" diet for a while longer. To ensure that my metabolism rebounds the way it should. Okay, I have not had a hamburger in 6 months, and he wants me to continue this regime??

So 1200 calories a day, no cokes, no sweets and limit the bad carbs. Okay I understand but I don't do TOFU! That stuff taste like cardboard and smells worse than that. I refuse to go that route. Also I need meat so vegetarian is not my cup of tea either. I know that I will have to examine many different recipes before I get it all right. Of course Lifetime came to the rescue once again. A new show called "Eat yourself thin."!!! WOW WOW WOW!!! I love it. So I go to their website (www.mylifetime.com) and I print me some fat free/low fat recipes. I am sure in so many ways that these things are going to taste worse that what they are made out to be.
So grocery day comes and I buy all my stuff to make "Sweet and Sour Pork Chops", and they are wonderful. I mean wonderful. They are on a bed of brown rice that is sauteed in chicken stock. I highly recommend them. There is only 290 calories for the meat, and 175 for a serving of rice! Since I have had nothing else today I can enjoy the low calorie dish that even my kids would eat. Thank you lifetime!!

Maybe I will keep that 54 pounds off without the help of anything but Great food!!

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!!