Cousins

Chloe & Sophie




Poor Sophie. Chloe goes after her pacifier, tries taking the toys and then uses her tray to stand up. Eventually, she cleared off Sophie's whole tray. Well, if nothing else, Sophie will be ready for siblings.

Charlie meets Chloe

My good friend, Charlie, that I have known since we started working at Gemini together almost 4 years ago (he still works there...sucker) had not met Chloe yet and she is almost 9 months old. I brought her with the other night to supper with Charlie, Deb & Amy so Charlie could finally meet her. He fed her and even gave her a lemon. What a guy! Unfortunately my camera was not fast enough to capture her funny lemon faces, but it was cute.

Underwater World

We took the kids to Underwater World at the MOA today. While we were there, we went on the 'Behind-the-Scenes' tour and got to go into their lab where they do surgeries, the kitchen where they prepare food and then we got to go above the fish and look in on all the fish from above the tanks. We saw the underwater tunnel and could see people in there. It was fun, but I don't recommend it if your kids are under 6 or 7. After the tour we went back through the tunnel. Decided to buy a family membership so we can go whenever we want for a year. It pays for itself after a couple trips. I can bring a guest and they can get %15 off so if you want to be my friend for a day...let me know. :)

It's 2008

Did you ever think back in the 80's (if you are old enough to remember the 80's) that we'd ever get to the 2000's? Wow. Time really flies. I think that my son will graduate high school in 2020. My baby will graduate in 2025...my nieces a year later. I can't even imagine being in the year 2020. Weird. This post also marks the one year anniversary of this blog. That was dumb, but true. I decided that if maybe I posted my resolutions for the year, I'll stick to them better...we can hope anyway.

1. Lose 50 pounds...I have no goal date, but I've started. Also attached to this one is working out 3-4 nights a week.

2. Catch up on my scrapbooking. So...I am going to stop facebooking and my spacing as much and spend my evenings scrapping. My goal is to be caught up by Chloe's 1st birthday. This is going to be a tough one though as I don't have anywhere to throw my stuff down and leave it there. I may have to rent a spot in my sis-in-law's sewing room in her basement...or haul everything to church and spend a lot more time there. :) j/k Bonnie.

3. Become less in debt. Stop spending money and save what I can.

4. Help make my kids understand that my kitchen is not a restaurant and they are going to have to learn to like all the foods Lincoln and I eat and to quit being so stinkin' picky.

5. Ashlyn - totally potty trained.

6. Get this house in order. Throw, sell, organize, fix and clean. (Cars too).

7. Try and get more time in with family that we never seem to get to see. It's just so hard for us to go great distances though...


Wow, I have more, but there is only so much you can fit into a year. So far this year, we have no weddings to be in or at, no 'close' friends of family are having any babies (a few distant friends and acquaintances are though) and as far as I know there are no graduations to go to. Hmmm...what ever will we do to keep our time busy? Oh, that's right...all those resolutions above. :)

Happy New Year, everyone! Oh, and congrats to our 'young friends' Taylor and Mindi Pagel on the birth of their little girl Miley Kay born Jan. 5th. She is beautiful guys! We can't wait to meet her.

I'll leave with a few pictures.....

This is how we found Chloe one morning. I knew she was awake at one point, but when you are the 3rd child...you have to wait for mom a lot so...she must have just leaned over and fell back asleep.

I took this just this past Sunday right before Sunday School and Church. What a little diva I have. Grandma Chris bought the outfits.

Cousins.....this was taken last Sunday at basketball. They were trying to take each other's pacifiers. Here, Sophie is 4 months and Chloe is almost 8 months.

This was very funny here at home. I stripped Chloe down to get ready for a bath and then was called in a different direction. She crawled in from the living room and stood right up on the tub. I couldn't help but laugh because right after this she turned around and gave me the biggest smile ever, but I had already put the camera away. Chloe has cut 2 teeth on the bottom now and she just today started pushing a box around the kitchen while walking behind it. Scary. I don't think I am ready for that yet.

It was Christmas & stuff..Vol. 2

I hope everyone had a great Christmas. We did for sure. It was busy as usual, but we had a great time with our families. The new year is right around the corner now. I can't believe it. In 4 1/2 months, my baby will be 1. She just cut her first tooth this past Friday. She's taking it rather well and I am thankful for that because she is staying at grandma & grandpa's tonight. Luke and Ashlyn are back to school this week...thanks goodness. :) Luke will be 6 in 2 months. I can't wrap my head around that either. Crazy.

Well below are some pictures from Christmas to share. I did 2 volumes. :) Have a great night tonight (and a safe one) and a GREAT 2008!

Us girls & the newest baby girls. Me & Chloe, Bonnie & Sophie, Tiffany & Josie.

Grant, Tiffany & Josie

Bonnie, Clinton & Sophie

My girls in their pretty dresses.

Bonnie & Sophie

Cousins...Chloe & Sophie.
"Look, Sophie, this is how we get into trouble...we're cute though so no one will say anything...trust me."

Grandparents.
Neal & Chris with all 5 grandchildren

Sophie...Luke was really getting her to smile and laugh.


Hmmm...I guess in all the busy-ness, I didn't get anyone to take a picture ouf our family. Next year I guess.

It was just Christmas & stuff....Vol. 1

Chloe wrestling her sister

Luke and his new Leapster

"Santa did get me what I wanted, Mom! COOL!"

"Santa is so nice...I wanted a cleaning cart just like Sue's"

Here Luke was actually instructing Chloe in how to open her present. And I think she was listening.

Princess Baby

My bro and I doing Ashlyn's puzzle. It acutally took us a while and mom was getting frustrated because we couldn't eat until it was done...just like Ashlyn.

She's 4 now.

Ashlyn turned 4 on Dec. 22nd. On that day we had 5 of her friends over for crafts, cake and playtime. She has a lof of fun. Then the next day we went to my in-laws house for more cake and fun. Aunt Serene and Uncle Daryn were in town too so that was so much fun.

This is Ashlyn's 1st cake...she had a Tinkerbell party.

Opening up her presents from all her friends. She would end each time by trying to figure out who gave it to her and then saying, "Thank you...that was so nice of you!" She turned back into herself after everyone left. :)


So, Lincoln finally made it home for a bit after everything settled down so I told Ashlyn and Belle to go ask him to put together her scooter she got from Belle and her parents. Ha-ha...yeah, he tried to get out of doing stuff, but it didn't work.

This is my fashionable daughter. Aunt Serene and Cousins Monica & Molly would appreciate this photo...she's wearing her new heals here with her jeans....that's in, right? :)

Her 2nd cake...this time with purple frosting and Tinkerbell again. We were singing to here here and she's sitting in Aunt Serene's lap.

Opening her gifts at Grandma & Grandpa's.

Well, the next party we have will be Luke's 6th birthday. I can't believe how time can fly because just a couple months after that my last baby will be 1 year old. Makes me tear up thinking about it. At least I'll have more nieces and hopefully some nephews to spoil...bring on the babies, girls!! I can get my baby fix that way. :)