The New Kate Out and About

Kate Gosselin not only is sporting her $7,000 hair extensions, she will also debuting a new show in a few months.
She will be returning to TLC later this year in a new reality show that stars...well, her. No kids. No Jon. The show will be about her trying new jobs and new things..not so much of her being "mom"...and how she acts in those new environments. This should be interesting, but I'm wondering what happened with the show she was supposed to be doing with Paula Dean. However, I'm not surprised if that fell through...organic Kate with MORE BUTTER Paula? That is less than a match then Kate and Jon!

Happy 3rd Birthday Collin!

Happy Birthday To YOU!!!

Happy Birthday To YOU!!!

Happy Birthday Dear COLLIN!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!!

Dear Collin,

Happy 3rd Birthday!! We are so happy that we got to celebrate your birthday with you! You are such a special little boy and every time we get to see you and spend time with you we just fall in love with you more and more. I remember seeing you in the hospital for the first time and I instantly fell in love with you! We feel truly blessed to have you in our lives and we will always be there for you whenever you need anything. WE LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!

Love,
Uncle Curt, Aunt Lindsay, Big C, and Baby C

Big C's BIG Birthday!

This little...ugh...BIG GUY had a BIG birthday party this weekend! Can you tell he is excited?! Oh...and just to warn you, this will be a "picture tour" of his birthday.

His birthday party started out with a slumber party with cousin Collin. These two are seriously so cute together, they are attached to the hip when hanging out together.

Collin and Big C shared a dual birthday party. Collin's side was decorated in trains and Big C's side was decorated in Mickey Mouse. To see more of Collin's decorations, you can visit my sister's blog. The food table...YUM!

More of the food table....

Big C's "Big Top Cupcake" cake...with little cupcakes surrounding it. We didn't have ice cream, but we had ice cream flavored popcorn from my favorite place, Not Just Popcorn.

Close up of his 'cup cake'. It had Mickey Mouse edible confetti on it too. YUMMY! There was no left over cake I am proud to say...especially since I made it!

The birthday banners...

Big C enjoying his birthday party food...man this kid loves celery!

Present time! Big C got LOTS of great gifts! Thanks everyone for spoiling him! Big C loved climbing in and out of his new Escalade...just what every 2 year old needs! At least there is room for Baby C too!

Big C ripping into some gifts...and a nice side shot of my preggo belly...yes, I am HUGE!

Big C showing off his Boiler gear...already proud to be a Boilermaker!

Our family of 3....soon to be four!

The Chase side of the family....

The Schoettmer side of the family....

Big C had a GREAT birthday! Thank you so much to all of our family and friends for making it so special for him!

The Amazon Kindle

Boy was I spoiled this year for Christmas! Not only did I get a FANTASTIC gift from my husband (who really out did himself and spoiled me!) I received many wonderful gifts from family members too. One gift that I have spent many time on is my Kindle. As many of you know, I am pretty serious about reading...I never go without a book that I am "right in the middle of." The Kindle is the perfect solution to my overstocked bookshelf!


Not only can it store up to 1500 books...it can also download magazines, newspapers..and yes...BLOGS!! (I have downloaded a wide range...any where from all of the Twilight books..my first purchase...to 'Pride and Prejudice...to The Bible.....to one of my favorite blogs.) In the long run, it will save us some money because the books are cheaper to purchase. You can also download a sample of the book for FREE! (Some books are completely free too!) The Kindle is small in size, light weight, and easily fits in my 'mega' purse with room to spare! I can go on and on about how much I love my Kindle! (I won't go into all of the features...such as web access, immediate downloading, dictionary access, audio options, not to mention saving some trees by 'going green', etc, etc!) Here is my Kindle in comparison to my...ahem....magazine.

Now...don't get me wrong, I am IN LOVE with my Kindle. However there are some situations that it is better to have an actual book than the Kindle. For instance, I love to take a bath and read in the bath...Kindle in the bath? Not a good idea! Also, I want to instill in my children the love of reading and what better way to do that than to have them SEE their mother reading a book? To Big C...the Kindle looks like a big cell phone. I still get out books to read so that he sees me with a book. I also wouldn't take a Kindle to the beach...sand and water, enough said! AND...I must admit...the book worm/nerd in my loves the smell of new books! I can still loose my self in a book store for hours just browsing!

On a side note, Big C had his big birthday party yesterday...pictures to come soon!

Random Tid Bits

This boy has a very big birthday celebration tomorrow for his 2nd birthday!

I saw this "Big Top Cupcake" that makes HUGE cupcakes...boasting that they are 25 times bigger than the regular cupcakes. I decided to make Big C's 'cake' like a did last year, but this year a HUGE cupcake...I'll let you know how that turns out.

I found a new center piece for our table. I figured that I can swap out what I put in the inside for each season.

I also found these mirrored wall decals for Baby C's room. I got three for 28 cents! You can't beat that! I put the two smaller ones next two this picture frame:

The larger decal I added next to a shelf on one of the blue walls.

:Are bags are packed....we're ready to go...." Now it's just a waiting game...how does that country song go..."Waitin' on a woman..." or in this case, Baby C!

Snow Day!

Because it looked like this in front of our house.....

...and this behind our house...(Can you see the hill and the lake? WE CAN'T!)

We spent most of our day doing this.....

Oh how I love snow days!!!

AND my people magazine came yesterday with Kate Gosselin's new hair...what a WONDERFUL snow day!

New 'Do...Love or Hate?

Kate Gosselin is starting over...with a new hair do! In People magazine available on Friday, Kate is sporting a much longer hair do and....gasp...no spikes!

Apparently, it took celeb hairstylist Ted Gibson nearly 20 hours to add the hundreds of hair extensions. Kate says:

"I'm starting over. It's good to have hair again. I never thought I'd have short hair for as long as I did. I feel like this is a fresh start, a fresh me, a fresh life. I"m rebuilding. There's no option for this not to be a good year. Now I get to start over with a new self and new goals."

Do you love it or hate it?

Oh, and no I will not be rushing out to buy the magazine.....I'm already a subscriber!