Jamie Mullins

I woke up this morning singing the hallelujah chorus to myself...again. Katy slept for 10 hours for the second night in a row!! And so did Tyler, in his own bed!! Mama feels like a new woman. It's amazing what a couple of nights of good sleep will do for you. After I got Katy down for her morning nap I got busy doing some major housecleaning. We're talking mopping, laundry, scrubbing the bathrooms, all that jazz! I have not felt this good since I was about 7 months pregnant. Praise the Lord, life is starting to get back to normal, whatever normal might be. So, where are all my ladies at?? It's time for a girl's night! Any good chick flicks coming out soon?

Ok...who is with me when I say that David Cook is the next American Idol?? To be honest, I was not very impressed with him at the beginning of the season, but all that changed when he redid the Lionel Richie song a few weeks ago. And HOLY COW, his version of Billie Jean last night was SICK!! I did not even recognize the song until half way through the first verse. Now that's what I call making a song your own. I feel like that ranked right up there with Blake Lewis' version of "You give Love a bbbbBad Name"!!So, as much as I love my boy David Archuletta, I think that my vote is with D Cook. It will be interesting to see who is in the Bottom 3 tonight. My guess: Ramiele Malubay(come on, it's time for her to go), Carly Smithson(she seems to have lost her edge at the moment, a case os shaken confidence), and either Chikiezie or Christy Lee Cook. What do you think??

I have to start this post by saying that I feel so incredibly blessed to be part of such an amazing church. Blake and I have been members of Cross Timbers Community Church for almost 4 years now and our lives have been forever changed by what is happening there. Yesterday I was reminded yet again how blessed we are to call Cross Timbers home. Every weekend, Blake and I drop Tyler off at CT Kids and are able to go and enjoy worship without distraction. I have always known that Tyler was being loved on and learning about Jesus, but I had no idea just how incredible our kids department is. I was able to sneak in to the back of Tyler's classroom this week and watch about 25 little ones singing and dancing and having a blast with their teachers. I was blown away by the group of people working in Tyler's class. It was obvious that the passion of their heart is to teach and train these kids in the way of the Lord. Afte rI picked Tyler up, I asked him about the songs he sang and about

Alright, I am not sure that it is really true what they say about the Terrible Two's. We got off pretty easy during Tyler's second year of life. Not so much this year. Since the week of Tyler's 3rd birthday we have had so many challenges with discipline. I have found my patience tried more in the past month than his first 2 years combined. The main issue we are having is that his ears just don't seem to work at the moment. He does not want to listen...AT ALL. And when he does miraculously hear what we say, his normal response is...NO!! So, because of that, he has been spending quite a bit of his time in time out. Another challenge we have since my 7th month of pregnancy is that Tyler REALLY wants to sleep in bed with Blake and I, which poses all kinds of problems. We have really been working hard to get him back in his bed using a sticker chart and laying with him in his bed to start the night off. Well, this week, I decided to take that a step further and make him go t

Ok, so those of you who know Tyler know that he LOVES cars!! Yesterday, I was reminded just how true that is. They had an Easter egg hunt at his preschool and I just knew that Tyler was going to be all over finding as many eggs as possible. After all he is a pretty competitive little guy. WRONG!! He went for about 5 eggs that were in plain sight and then noticed that there was a car that no one was using. So he made a mad dash for the car, put his eggs in the trunk and off he went for a little drive. Thank goodness he has a sweet girlfriend Claire who got some extra eggs for him. That child never ceases to make me smile!!

I can not believe that our little girl is already 2 months old. I feel like we just brought her home from the hospital, and yet I also can not remember life before her. She definitely has my heart!! I just feel so blessed to have 2 beautiful, healthy children. God is good all the time! I caught this picture of her getting ready to snooze this morning and another shot of a 1/2 smile.

Can you believe that this is what appeared outside of my front window yesterday afternoon?? I think it's crazy that we had a snow day on the 6th of March! As crazy as it may seem, it sure was pretty to look at. Tyler was so excited to watch the snow falling, not so excited about playing in it because he got too cold. There is still a winter wonderland outside today, but it's supposed to be in the 60's this weekend so I'm sure the snow will be melting away soon. That's Texas for ya!!

Katy has had a bad cold this past week, but has been such a trooper. With her cold and all of this crazy weather I have been keeping her bundled up as much as possible. Part of that process includes sweet little hats. I had to share a picture her in this one!! TOO CUTE!

All aboard!! Tyler had his first big project for preschool last week...or should I say mommy and daddy had their first project for Tyler's preschool last week. It was train week at school and to end the week they had a choo choo parade around the building. So, the project was to build a train for Tyler to wear for the parade. Blake is our resident project man, so I let him construct the train and then Tyler and I decorated it. Tyler was so proud to wear his choo choo to school. So proud in fact that I could not get him to take it off!! So, here he is, the Tyler Express. TOO CUTE!!