I am WOMAN hear me roar!!!

OK so I know I shouldn't be this proud of myself, but I am! Last night ONE or ALL of the kids broke the bathroom faucet and it was too late to do anything about it last night so Theo said he would fix it on Friday. Uh Tuesday night to Friday with NO bathroom sink..... I'll just ask Theo's Dad if he can swing by... oh he's racing this week.... and Ben is in Utah for 2 weeks..... who else can I ask??? So this morning I decided I would at least get a new faucet, then I thought I'll just take the old one off.... then I thought maybe... just maybe...... Here is the old one... yes I basically ripped it out, who invented these things???OK so there was a little water left in the pipes.... YUCK!!!Gus decided I could use his help.... and I guess it worked because....

TA - DAH.... our new bathroom faucet... working!!! :) It is now the ONLY thing in my bathroom that I don't COMPLETELY hate! Our bathroom is SO ugly it belongs on that HGTV show Bad Bad Baths... Maybe I could figure out how to change out the whole sink ??? But then I'd need a new cabinet too.... UH-OH....

When your a big girl you'll get a Barbie!!!

I'd love to say that I'm above bribery, but after 3 kids.... I'll do ANYTHING to just get them to do it sometimes!!!!

Leah being the strong willed little girl that she is, defied all my attempts to get her to go the bathrom on the potty!!! I tried all the books & video's, the big kid pants with Dora & princess.. nothing worked! The Doctor assured me that she would go when SHE was ready... I started to think she'd be graduating wearing depends. Well Grandma Ann being the wise mother of 3 kids & grandmother to 9 grandchildren. One day told Leah that when she was a big girl and went to the potty... she would take her to the store and she could pick out her very own barbie. Well last week Leah & Grandma paid a visit to Target and Leah got her very own barbie complete with nails for her to wear..... Here I am trying to get these stupid little plastic nails to stay on Leah's little finger with basicly tape! Thanks Mattell for that brillant engineering!!! Leah shows off her new PINK nails and her NEW BARBIE!!!!

Thanks so much Grandma Ann for the bribery that did the trick!!! Woooo Hoooooooooooooo!!!

Get on the Bus Gus.......

OK so it hasnt taken us THIS long to name him, but having a puppy is like having a new born.... Up at night crying, peeing/pooping everywhere, needing to be played with but it has been TOTALLY worth it! He's a great addition to our family!!!

Gus the fuss Schmierney

And when the kids are bad, I now have a new way to contain them..... I just want to go on record that I came upstairs and found them like this!

They thought it was SOOOOOO funny! Alex begged me to sleep in the cage with the dog!

But being the mean 'ol Mom that I am I MADE him sleep in His bed!

Gus had his first trip to the Vet with us and he weighed in at 25lbs.... at 3 months old! (YIKES)

the doctor thinks he has some Great Dane or perhaps Mastif in him....

Oh so he'll be a small dog! OMG!!!