Making Sausage!

(and I don't mean we're having another boy :) Ha! Sorry, I know that's totally gross but I could not help myself!! Sleep deprivation makes my sense of humor just a little off kilter! :) Elizabeth, here is your post!

So this past weekend we were able to make sausage from scratch! It was soo much fun! The boys hunt with their Daddy's tons and are always told why they are hunting. They are told that hunting is never for sport but instead for food for our tables! Usually the deer that are shot are field dressed by the guys at the deer lease and then dropped off at the processor on the way home. The boys never really get to see what happens next before it ends up on their plate at dinner! :)

We made the sausage in the garage of my in-laws house.

Graham was doing a good job of pushing the meat through the grinder!

Love my helpful boy! 

Even my little boys had to check out what was going on!

Graham, Colton, and Cooper. They had such a fun time playing together!

Griffin was just glad to be outside. He loved it!

Bobby's Dad "Opi"  holding Griffin. Do you love his hair? :) He wore one of those fake hair hats
to our rehearsal dinner year ago too!

Bobby and his brother Cody

Grady found lots of other things to play on while we were there.

Grady was cracking me up on this. It was obviously way too small for him and it was just  creeping along in the grass under his weight. We couldn't convince him to ride one of the bigger ones :).

Uncle Jason tying off the links. Jason is Bobby's sister Stacy's new hubby!  Don't you love it, "Welcome to  the family, now get to work! "

Filling the casing, and yep, that's a bowl of warm intestines at the bottom of the picture
if you were wondering... :)

Grady really took an interest in the whole process.

Grady turned that crack that made the sausage come out forever! I'm so proud of him!

We all had an awesome day spent with family, laughs, and a great time. Plus, we all now how enough sausage to last us until next year!

I'm Still Here!

Hi All!

It's been soo long since I've blogged and I just hate hate hate it! We have had so much stuff going on so it's not like I don't have anything to blog about. I'm just finding it incrediably hard to find the time! When I'm awake these days I find myself working up a sweat trying to keep up with my 3 guys and once they are all down for bed I hit the hay too! Griffin is still up TONS at night which all just kind of adds to it. : /

Just to keep ya'll up to date (and to keep me honest) here are some of my future blog post coming up!

• Griffin Is 4 Months Old!
• Sausage Making ~ Mueller Style!
• Grady's 1st Day of Preschool
• Making Wreaths for Valentines Day
• Crafting With Chalkboard Paint
• Graham's 1st Season Playing Minor League Baseball

See I told you I had tons of fun stuff going on!! :)

A Post For Mimi!

So I showed you all the cute new clothes my Momma sent Griffin the other day. Today was the first day for him to wear one of the outfits! One was size 6 months and the other size 9 month. I put him in the 6 month outfit and boy was I glad that I did! Griffin is getting soo long that he almost didn't fit in it! Tomorrow he may have to wear the 9 month one so we can start getting some use out of it!

My Momma has a computer but doesn't use it very often so I'm not sure how often she even reads my blog posts. Hopefully today she is reading it! These pictures are for you today Mimi!

"Why Hello there."

This is seriously one of my most favorite pictures of Griffin! 

He has been trying so hard to sit up lately!

Almost got it.... (and pardon the spit up)

TIMBER! :)

Goofy, sweet smile! Love my boy!

"Forget you mom, I got bears on my feet!!"

I tried soo hard to get Griffin to look at me but the bears were more fun :).

Valentines Day Prep

Valentine's Day is creeping up on me and ya'll, this is one of my most favorite holidays! I love the memories I have of elementary school and getting to decorate my very own shoe box with wrapping paper, sticker, markers, and ribbon. I loved the sweet surprise of opening the box at the end of the class party and seeing all the notes from friends (and crushes :) and little boxes of heart shaped candy!

Another reason why I love this holiday is that its so close to my birthday! (My birthday is February 10th for all those wishing to send gifts.. HA!) I love that I get to have that "someone special" feeling for an entire week!

I am so over joyed to be able to share all these feeling of love with my 3 little Valentines on Valentines Day! 

I love to make this day EXTRA special just in case there is any doubt in their little minds that their Momma and Daddy are their biggest fans! :)

I've already been looking online for cute t-shirts (they've been a little hard to find this year :( ), cards etc.

I started looking through Tiny Prints to get some ideas for sending out Valentines cards for friends, family and even classmates!

I am so far in LOVE with these two!

I thought that Graham would love this one! Like I was saying before, somethings are starting to get a little "babyish" to him but I bet he wouldn't mind taking this one to pass out to his classmate! How cute would this be with a little candy taped to it! 

Wouldn't Grady be so cute taking this card to school to pass out to his new friends!

I love these cards because they come already personalized with the kids names of them! You know how I like to make things easy right :).

It's so easy to follow Tiny Prints on Facebook, Twitter, and  Pinterest. They just have soo much ding dang cute stuff! 

Are you starting to get ready for Valentines Day yet? Do you decorate your house or just celebrate the day itself?

A Lot Of Nothing

That's what's been going on around here! :)


Ok, maybe some stuff...

• My awesome SIL, Stacy, is putting together a March of Dimes team for the upcoming walk. I'm super excited about this! Anything to remember Caroline and help out other families is what I'm about! We are trying to think up a name for our group. Any fun ideas? Caroline's Crew was already taken :(, but some others that we have come up with are Caroline's club, clique, crowd... I had thought Caroline's Cuties, but since there will be men walking with us I wasn't sure how they would feel. Seriously if you have a fun name idea let me know! 

• Bobby's sister Stacy got married a couple of weeks ago. I just haven't had it in me to post about it. I missed 90% of the actual ceremony because Griffin started shriek the second that the minister started to speak. I had to take him out :(. The ceremony (of what I saw) and the reception were beautiful though!!

Please pardon my "comfy" wedding shoes :)

• Grady is starting preschool this week! He will be going on Monday's and Wednesday's. He will be going just this Friday for a fun try-out day. I'm a little sad and a little scared. It's a first for both of us...

• Graham's birthday is coming up soon (the beginning of March) and I'm already starting to plan. He'll be turning 10 :( and I think that this will be the last year for "big" parties. Its hard to plan parties for older boys I'm finding out. Some things are becoming too babyish for him. I'm thinking of renting one of those Game Trucks. Have ya'll heard of those?

• My Momma sent Griffin a couple of new outfits in the mail. I adore checking the mail and getting something other than bills :).

• Ya'll my laundry situation is getting soo bad. I can keep up with getting everything washed and dried, but NOTHING folded and put away. I'm starting to have anxiety attacks about it. I spent several hours on it this weekend and still only got part of it sorted. Sorted. That's it. Sigh...

• I swear that Griffin is getting cuter by the day, if I do say so myself :). His expressions and little attitude are starting up. 

"What."

• My nephew Colton just celebrated his 9th birthday! It was at a fun Laser game place and my boys had a BLAST! I did not do my best at taking hardly any pictures while I was there :(.

Graham was having such a great time that I could not hardly get him to look at me for a picture! 

Bobby and I were dying laughing at Grady while he tried to play Dance Dance Revolution. He was trying so hard! 

I'm sure that I could think of 47 other random things that have been going on in the crazy Mueller household. But I really need to get back to that laundry! 

One Year Ago Today...

One year ago today I my dreams came true! I can't believe how rich and full and changed my life has become in one short year.

It's pretty hard to see the second lines but if you click on the picture you can see them much better!

I remember the day and night of the 21st with such clarity. You can read my post from that day here! We had an awesome day as a family that day and then that night my curiosity got the better of me and I took a test :). I know that I've told and re-told the story several times here but I'll share again! I knew in my heart that I was testing waaaaay too early. Like 7 or 8 days before I even was set to miss my period. I knew the test specifically said only to do it 6 day before a missed period but I was soo incredibly impatient that I just couldn't wait another second. I felt in my heart that I WAS pregnant and I was dying to see proof of it!

On the first test that I took, the line was so crazy faint that I thought that my eyes might be playing tricks on me. I know you other ladies will agree with me... you stare at a test for so stinkin' long and your eyes start to focus on the control line and then you start to see double of everything... :)

I took the test into my closet to see if the light was any different in there and I still felt like that I could "maybe" see a line. I looked at the test in the kitchen light, the laundry room light, the living room light (in case there was any doubt in your head left, I AM THAT CRAZY LADY!). I was finally able to bug Bobby into really analyzing the test with me and he agreed that he too could maybe see a line forming!

I told myself 4000 times not to get my hopes up too much because a.) it was still really early and b.) we had suffered a miscarriage before. 

The next morning I jumped up at 5 am to test again (the second test in the picture :). Still positive and this time there was no doubt in my mind that there was a line! It wasn't super dark but then again I wasn't supposed to start for almost another week.

I, once again, needed to see something more concrete so I took the above test just minutes after the above one. I LOVED seeing that one word, "PREGNANT"! The joy that my sore, broken heart felt was soo unbelievable. It was literally like a balm to my soul.

Funnily enough, these were not the only two test I took :). A couple of weeks later my nerves got the better of me and I took some more. I have no idea why other than I still needed more reassurance.

I swear, I'm that lady that keeps HPT companies in business!


On a gross side note, I saved them all. I saved the 2 I took with Grady, 2 of the ones from Caroline, and now all of these with Griffin! One day, many years from now, my boys will be going through all their baby keepsakes, find these and be thoroughly grossed out :).


I still can't believe how far we've come in a year. I can't believe that there are 3 little boys riding in a row when I turn my head in my car. I can't believe that there are 3 bedrooms upstairs each filled with little men more precious than their weight in gold. I can't believe the noisy racket coming from the other room from the 3 of them as I type all of this :).

A Big Thank You And Gods Love!

Thank ya'll all soo much for you kind thoughts and words yesterday. I still feel a little bit "off" after having had that dream the other night. It's just such an odd feeling to have to feel blessed, awe-struck and scared all rolled into one. 


I feel really overwhelmed right now at the tangible presence of God and his love in Griffin's room the other night. I certainly know of his love for me but to have felt it so strongly.... I hardly knew what to do with the emotions that came with it. 

Psalm 13: 5-6

I love that God appeared to me at a time when I needed him the most and didn't even know it (even if it was at 3:00 in the morning :). I realize now that for as much as God has been seeking little 'ole me out, I need to seek big 'ole Him out even more. 

I wonder sometimes if this is how people who win the lottery feel :). Such intense joy, such peace of mind! 

Have you ever felt the Lord so closely that you were certain He was standing right behind you?