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!!

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.