WE STYLIN' NOW, MA!

My husband decided to surprise his "girls" today. He trumped up some reason why we needed to stop at D & B and before we left, all three of us "girls" had brand new boots. There is a little bit of a story behind these Fat Baby's. I've always worn lace-up Justin or Ad-Tec boots. Very comfortable, durable, and relatively inexpensive. When Fat Babys came out a few years ago, I thought they were absolutely THE UGLIEST things I had ever seen in my life. But, as time has went by, I've started coming around to thinking I might actually be able to like a pair. So, all 3 of us girls came home today with our favorite style and perfect sizes. This is the part where I should warn all of you that my 11 year old bought an 8 in womens and my 9 year old came home with a 6 in womens. Apparently, they inherited my big feet and my oldest inherited the long legs. So, anyway, here's the 3 of us sportin' our new treads.

I haven't posted in so long. We've been busy, life has thrown us a few curves (not necessarily bad ones), my oldest nephew is home on leave from the Air Force prior to being deployed to Iraq again, we dealt with my 11 year old breaking her arm and crushing the little "ball" on the outside of your wrist (which is called the styloid process for those of you who care) and to top it all off, Steve got the oinky-doink Porky Pig Fever Swine Flu. He was an extremely sick man for approx 5 days...that was the REALLY bad part. The first couple days and the last couple days, you just feel drained and weak and really tired. I, thankful, had been given the H1N1 nasal vaccine, but since it takes approximately 1 month to completely build up in your system, I was still susceptable and got sick, however mine was no comparison to my husbands. I had one day of feeling like just a good ol' winter cough, 3 days of "PLEASE just let me die" then the last couple days have just been the nagging cough. So, I hope all of you are staying as healthy as possible. We've got so many bottles of hand sanitizer, containers of Clorox wipes, cans of Lysol spray, anti-bacterial hand soap, and masks around here, it looks a bit like a pharmacy. But, thankfully, the kids didn't contract it (yet....or never, we hope) and we're all starting to feel human again. Will try to catch up some more on some posting later but this is all for now.