Valentines Day

Pretty low key day for us this year... I did buy the kids and Troy one of these heavenly fruit bouquets.. Yummy.. My fave on the whole thing were the chocolate dipped bananas.. I think they ate every piece of fruit in less than an hour.. (Notice how happy Cole is for some strawberries) :) I guess its better than candy right?


A few treats I got.. :)

Cuteness of Cole

I was sitting at my desk a few days ago while Jaden was sleeping, and Cole came in and said...

Cole- Mom, I need your camera
Me- Why? Honey
Cole- Mom I just do, can I use it for a minute?
Me- Yes, just be very careful with it.
Cole- OK

About 10 minutes pass, and I am wondering what on earth he is doing, when he brings it back and says..

Cole- OK mom I am done.
Me- OK what did you take a picture of?
Cole- Do you want to see?
Me- Of course I do!!!
Cole- (as I am looking at them) Do you love them, Mom?
Me- Yes, Cole I love them...
Cole- Well, Mom aren't you going to put them on the puter??
Me- (chuckles) Yes sweetie I will put them on there right now...

I think it is too funny what a kids interpretation is, of the things they see us do... It was really so cute, and totally made my whole day... I sure love that kid... :) So here are only a few of the many many pics he took... He was so proud of his nascars..

365 (Week 6)

Another week in the life of us... Have to say this is kinda hard to remember to take a picture every day, however I have really LOVED doing it.. :)

Day 34 - 2/3/2009 I have been really trying to do some major catching up on all of my scrapbooks, here are a few pages..





Day 35 - 2/4/2009 See my previous post for my picture of the day

Day 36 - 2/5/2009 Jaden's first "shiner"... He fell and hit his eye in the tub, hence a black eye..



Day 37 - 2/6/2009 Feeling bad, trying to cover his hurt feelers..




Day 38 - 2/7/2009 AH, The Brick Oven, a must!!! Pure Pizza BLISS.. YUMMO. Plus a fun date night.. :)




Jaden rubbing lotion on Daddy's feet...



Day 39 - 2/8/2009 Soaking up some fun in the hot tub.. Love hot tubbing in the winter time.. Cold air + hot tub = FUN!!!



Day 40 - 2/9/2009 A few more scrapbook pages I did this week..

Meeting your Idle (well sortof)

Stockton was lucky enough to go downtown (with hundreds of other kids) and meet his idle "D Will"(Deron Williams).... OK he didn't actually meet him as in "hi I'm Stockton" meet him, but for us it was as close as he will ever get to "meet" him so we will just call it that... :) He was so darn excited... His friend actually got to go head to head with D Will and dribble with him.. Nothing is better than a week long permagrin... Love my little basketball star and his passion for the game.. :)

Patiently waiting...



Pretty darn close to him.. (Stock is under his hand)



Taking his turn at dribbling..



Stocks friend going one on one with D Will...



D Will...

365 (week 5)

Day 27- 1/27/2009 Jaden setting up his farm bowling.. He is so stinking cute to watch bowl.. He gets so excited when he knocks them all down.



Day 28- 1/28/2009 This is my scrapbooking paper.. I love paper especially good thick textured card stock.. I got this after Christmas on a steal of a sale.. Love it!!



Day 29- 1/29/2009 Courtnee just loves taking piano lessons, every week she goes, and never complains.. I love to sit in our piano room and just listen to her play. So relaxing to me..



Day 30- 1/30/2009 We took the kids to eat pizza and they wanted to ice skate after. Troy was helping them "skate" on the ice.. They had so much fun, next time we will have to get some actual ice skates.. :)





Day 31- 1/31/2009 This is one of the projects I worked on at my all day scrapbooking marathon..



Day 32- 2/1/2009 The boys were downstairs with Troy and his dad watching the Superbowl, Troy came upstairs for a minute and no boys.. So he went down and checked on them and this is what he found.. So adorable... :)



Day 33- 2/2/2009 My little Superstar!!!

Happy Birthday Tammy

Just wanted to wish my cute sister in law Tammy a Happy Birthday... :) Some of my faves about her...

1- She is so kind to everyone..
2- She is a great mom to her kids.
3- She is a hard worker, and does a great job, at her job.. (she works at our Dr.s office, and is awesome with our kids, unless she is giving them shots, then they are not so happy with her :)..
4- She has a very big heart; would give you the shirt off her back if you needed it..
5- Tammy & I were friends long before I met Troy, love it that we still are..
6- Love raising our kids together, and that my kids love their cousins.. Can't wait to meet her new baby boy this spring.. :)
7- Her naturally curly hair, I guess this is where Courtnee gets it from.. What I wouldn't do for a little bit of natural curl..
8- Her love for her family.. :)
9- Love all of the fun times we had before and after kids, and the many more fun times to come...
10- Love that she will always be my friend, (she knows too much ;)...

Have a Happy Birthday Tammy, thanks for being a part of our lives.. Love ya.. :)

Scrapbooking for Epilepsy

We all know how much I love to scrapbook, so when Casey and her sweet sisters invited me to an all day Scrapbook Crop to help raise money for Epilepsy, I was more than thrilled.. It was a lot of fun, and raised money for an excellent cause.. Despite the cheesy (and I do mean REALLY bad) music, it was a fun day. However the music contributed to a few great laughs... There were games, raffles, page contests, a few classes and just scrapping all day.. When we signed up I wasn't really sure what I would do for 12 hours straight and figured we would stay for about 6 hours. But we had the best time and stayed busy all day, time flew by... SO fun... Casey ("Cassie") won a fun gift basket, and her sister won some paper.. All in all a fun day of R&R.. Thanks girls for the invite and the fabulous day... :)

Ashley, Joey & Casey



"Cassie" & her gift basket