2 A.M.

So what does everyone else in my house do at 2 am...sleep. What does this girl do, read twitter and facebook statuses for an hour before deciding, I should update the ol' blog. I am making no promises, probably the next time I'm on here will be wishing everyone a Happy Halloween; but that doesn't mean I cannot give you a quick run down of our lives now.
Our summer has been great. Three beach trips - a broken camera went to all three trips so very little documentation will be done during this time in our children's lives. Three successful soccer camps. Many trips to Jackson visiting cousins. My ten year high school reunion, and we are still not done yet.
Being the amazing wife I am:) I surprised Bill with a trip to Philadelphia for his birthday to watch Real Madrid play. Bill has never been to a professional soccer game, and for those of you who know him at all are probably thinking this is insane. So, I thought it was high time I got his butt to a professional game. I am really looking forward to just having a weekend with the two of us. To say the girls have been a lot to handle this summer would be quite an understatement.
I was able to release some of the guilt I have possessed at times of not staying home with my kids. I now know, that is just simply not the life for me. The girls were babysat tonight by one of our dear friends. No, Bill and I were not eating oysters by candlelit dinner. We were busy entertaining 250 of our closests soccer buddies at our final soccer camp of the summer. At one point in the night one of the little girls I was coaching got a bloody nose and decided to swing her bloody hand all over the place. It was not until I was picking up our homemade pizza (from Papa Johns) that I realized I had blood all over my legs. Anyways, back on topic. When I asked our babysitter how the girls were she just gave me this look and said, "They were okay." Oh, hell, I know what that means, they were whiny, whirling dervishes of annoyance. She tried to back up on her word and say, no they were great. It was too late, I saw the fear in her eyes. She had just watched a 3 1/2 year old and a 18 month old for four hours and was never coming back in this house again. I fed her and her husband some more pizza, paid a great amount for her to buy her sanity back and looked at Bill and said, "What are we doing wrong?"
You know Bill, his answer had tons of psychological reasonings and terms that I blocked out and continued to eat my three pieces of cheesy bread (diet is going great by the way). In the end, he said we were doing fine. But honestly, I think my parenting is just a bit exhausted and I am kind of ready to get back to work, out of the house, and get the kids back to school. I think I am a better mother that way. I am not getting on to my girls all the time, I can just enjoy the time I do get to spend with them. Oh, and Ryan keeps skipping the letter L in the alphabet, so she needs to get back to her edumacation!
All in all, this summer has been amazing, but I am ready to wipe the sweat off of my brow, put my bathing suit cover back on, and get back in the world of adults- oh and 600 hormonal 7th graders.
I am finalizing my new room tomorrow, thanks to the help of my amazing soccer team. Warning, do not walk in my room if you are scared of zebra print- it is literally everywhere you turn!!!
I am leaving you with this amazing pic of my two angles. They may be a handful, but I would take that hand over any other one in the world!

My man...

Yes, this has been about how my days are ending lately. After having two amazing birthday blowouts for the girls, gearing up for soccer season again, taking the best spring break trip yet to Destin, taking on another soccer team, fighting the flu (that ruined our Easter trip to Jackson), and you know that other thing called work...this is about how the days leave me.

I would like to say all of this overwhelms me at times, but it is really the only way I know how to operate through life. Bill and I live off of chaos and I will toot our own horn, we do it quite nicely!

Truth of the matter is, our family would crumble at the heels without this amazing man...

Bill gets up, showers, makes Darby's bottles, gets ready, wakes Darby up, gets her ready, wakes Ryan up, gets her ready, does her hair, picks both of the girls up in his arms and brings them downstairs on the "Daddy train", grabs some breakfast, takes them to school, and does it all with the biggest smile and more entertainment quality than I could ever have!

When I say this man is the glue to our family, it is an understatement. He is the ying to my yang, the calm to my storm, and the sanity to my life. I love thinking back to the beginning of our relationship and how we started dating. Really, it shouldn't have happened, we shouldn't have both been at Auburn, but it did and I cannot thank God enough for putting Bill in my life.

Every single milestone we come to, I usually waiver. Of course, there is some uncertainty, even panic at time. Now Bill, he is solid as a rock. Does he have some sort of anxiety, I'm sure. However, he knows I can melt at dropping a pacifier in the grass when Darby is throwing a fit, so he knows how to hold it together.

I remember when I found out I was pregnant with Darby. Let's just say it was a pleasant surprise... I was FREAKING out. I was at a 10 day coaching clinic and got sick one morning and thought, "Oh my gosh, I'm pregnant!" I did not stop crying, until I talked to Bill. As soon as I heard his voice saying, "Jenny, it is fine. You are a fabulous mother to Ryan, now another baby gets you...everything will be fine!" I mean come on, that is the mentality of a saint!

As if his day to day of running our family is not enough, he has done it again. For my birthday he hired a cleaning service to do a "Deep Clean" of our house. Best present he could give me! I, like I'm sure every other mother out there, hate coming home and having to clean when all I want to do is play with Ryan and Darbs. The time we get with them during the work week is limited and cleaning is not something I want to waste time on- sadly, my house had paid the price for this!

Bill, thank you for being the coolest, sexiest, most caring, loving, devoted, amazing, energetic, entertaining, optimistic, funny, good looking, intelligent, hot, and committed dad and husband in the world. The Ferguson Four would crumble to the ground without you and I cannot wait to wake up next to you every morning.

Happy Birthday Ryan Lily

Well, since I am MIA from the blogging world, I will just let my sister's blog take you through our Princess Party blowout for Ryan's 3rd birthday party.

http://kosekcasa.blogspot.com/2012/03/ryan-turns-3.html

Happy Birthday Darby

Oh my, where has the time gone, my sweet babygirl is 1!!!! We had a very low key party for her since we are about to have an enormous blowout for Ryan's 3rd birthday party (more details to come). Also, since Darby has pretty much had an ear infection since Christmas (tubes are coming in a week). But, poor thing could not even eat her cake she was so sick. She went to bed at 6:00. Bill's parents were in town and the weekend was a great success, but I had to take the little butter bean to the doctor on Sunday afternoon. We were only able to get one cute pic before she fell asleep on Sat, but I have some other great cake pics.

Happy Birthday Love bug!

Yes, that's right, my little girl is getting gutsier with walking. True, crawling is her preferred way of transportation, but she is trying to walk more and more.


Aunt Jill made the cake (blueberry with cream cheese icing) and cupcakes (banana bread, Darby's favorite, with crean cheese icing).

SHE LOVED HER CAKE!!!!!!!!!!

Poor thing is so flush, look at that sweet baby. This was right before she turned in for the night.

We definitely had a small burning incident, she just couldn't wait for us to get through "Happy Birthday"

This morning she crawled her way up to Ryan's table, sat her happy butt down and started eating Ryan's breakfast. At least someone did! She looks like such a big girl here...

Besties

When I say these two are inseperable, I mean it. Ryan LOVES Kate so much. We had Kate over to play on Sunday since it had been such a slow and rainy weekend. These two had the time of their lives. I love watching toddlers interact, what an amazing thing! Kate was a doll, of course. They had a blast together, "babysitting Darby", changing all of Ryan's babydolls, spanking the dogs, and having a pizza party together. I am so excited to watch these two grow up together!

They both decided to put on pink dresses and have a pizza party! Those come quite frequently at our house.

Cue the music to their Senior Slideshow!!!

I swear we did not pose them like this. They went for the classic dance pose.

I crack up everytime I look at this picture. Kate is deep, deep in concentration! Ryan is just loving life.

Disney Delight

Wow, what a break we have had. I could ramble on forever about how wonderful Christmas was and how the girls had the time of their lives at Disney, but pictures (and my clever comments) speak volumes. Enjoy...

Showing off one of her fabulous princess dresses

Helping JoJo & Darby unwrap the presents

Snuggling with her sister in the toy pen. I mean pinning her little sister in the toy pen. Notice the difference in expressions. Family time in the tent

Their outfits are set out and all ready to go. Thanks for the garments Grammy and Pa!

Arriving at Magic Kingdom. It was freezing, well 50 degrees, but I was not gonna pass up wearing flip flops.

THE CASTLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I think this was Ryan's favorite thing about the day. She LOVED that castle.

JoJo, Pap, & Uncle Dan met us at Magic Kingdom and spent the whole day making things extra special for the girls as well, thanks guys!

Cheerleader Ryan seeing the top of Magic Kingdom. Daddy is the best...

The boys, with the girls... Yep, she has my smile. Ahh, she was so happy! Family pic on, "It's a Small World" ride.
Taking it all in, getting ready for her next trip there. Riding the carosuel with Daddy and Uncle Dan.
The gorgeous castle at night. It was pretty impressive.
Riding the ferry back to the car around 11 PM.
Right before the fireworks. We literally could not move, there must have been 200,000 people in 200 square feet. About to go in the breakfast with Minni, Goofy, and Donald.

Finally, her moment is here. She got Minnie's autograph. I wonder where this book will be in 10 years.

DONALD!!!!!

The characters were so sweet to the girls. Darby LOVED all of the characters. The kids a the table next to us were in hysterics everytime they got close, our girls were crying everytime they left. We waited around for them to make two rounds!

Goofy was the coolest. He blew it up with Ryan and gave me and Bill a hug, he totally got it!


He loved her too...

The breakfast was at this amazing Disney resort, so we decided to take advantage of their amenities while we had free parking:) Hello beach time!

DIVAS!!!!
Too cute, she is changing so much! "Here mom, hold this..."
Happy New Years! The girls were troopers, both of them brought in the new year. Darby was up and Ryan was sleeping in a stroller, so I guess she kind of made it.
This was the first Christmas dress that premiered for the night. She was Ariel, thanks to Scarlett for letting her borrow her Disney dresses. And on to the second outfit for the evening, her Belle gown. She knew she was fancy! Twins! Oh, yeah and check out the no shave November that turned into no shave New Years. My girl! She stood in front of the guy playing acoustic guitar just smiling at the crowd like this. It was hilarious. There were oohhs and ahhhs everywhere. She is no fool!

Okay, so at downtown Disney they have these "statues" everywhere of real people decked head to toe in body paint. In the past, I have had awful run ins with these statues. They stay still until you are not paying attention, then they jump out and snag you. Well, this lady stood perfectly still until Ryan Lily came up to her and she bent down and did this. Ryan ate up every second of this. She had the crowd in the palm of her hand, just as she did mommy and daddy this past week.

Now we are back to reality. Work, school, bills, laundry, and no groceries. It is my own, personal, happiest place on earth- Auburn!