Had Myself a WebCam Wednesday

Last week Aubrey had a special Kindergarten program. She is the cute little girl in the green shirt with white flowers on the front row with a purple flower in her hair. She is right in front of the big head man in the green shirt. You'll recognize her. She is the cutest kid up there.

Just a small world note. While at the program, Steve saw some people from St. Louis that he knew growing up, who were here visiting, and their grandchild was in the same program.

Burn, Baby Burn

Em, Aubrey, Zac, Owen, Tia

The day before Easter we went to my mom's house to COLOR eggs with Kristy and her kids.

Steve and Addy. She is kissing her egg.

Addy and Baron loved giving each other hugs. They were always giving hugs to each other.

Addy

After coloring eggs, Steve and the kids built a fire out back. We roasted hot dogs and made 'smores. Mmmm...

Zac, Owen & Kristy

Aubrey, Steve, Baron & Tia

Addy

Owen & Tia

Emily

Aubrey

Zac, Addy & Aubrey

Owen using Bean-O's door

Sam & Tia

Aubrey

Kristy

The After Party

I am slightly embarrassed to say that these pictures were taken on Easter, of all days. Don't judge. We had a whole gaggle of kids, flying high on Easter candy, to keep entertained. They were however taken after we got all dressed up and spent the morning in church.

Owen & Addy dumping dirt on each other. Yes, Addy found that glove on the playground. You try and take it away from her.

Aubrey & Emily

Kristy & Baron

Aubrey, Tia & Steve
Sam

Garrett, Zac & Sam

Tia

Aubrey

Baron

Addy

Emily, Kay, Sam, Zac & Lauren

Steve, Rebecca & Wayne (Wayne is Sam's roommate and Rebecca is Wayne's girlfriend)

Lauren, Allyson, Sam & Kristy

I'm taking a deep breath and being very brave to post this picture.

Aubrey & Allyson

Scrappin' The Night Away

Last weekend I had the chance to go once again with my gals to a 24 hour scrapbook retreat. We had so much fun. It was a much needed break on my part. It was nice to be around people I know and love so well, and who know and love me. Y'all do love me, right? I mean, we are talkin' about me, so what is there not to love? We pretty much scrapbooked for 24 hours. I did take a 4 hour break to sleep. The above picture features Dianna and myself. You remember Dianna and her loud music, right? Then there's Laura, below. This time she is only pregnant with one baby.
And this is LaRee, the Queen of all scrapbooking. Here are just a few of the pages I made. I did 63 pages in all, making an entire album of our vacation last year to Tennessee. Yeah. Tennessee. That pretty much did me in for my Alphabet tiles. I wasn't able to use any of the other letters to spell anything else. I guess I should have just said TN.

An Egg-Cellent Easter

My sister Kristy and her kids were here from the other side of the country visiting during Easter. It was so much fun to have them here. This was about as serious of a picture that I could get from the kiddos. Above: Emily, Tia, Zac, Owen, Addy, Aubrey

Lauren and her little Addy (dang, I have cute kids!)

Lauren, Kristy, Allyson, Kay & Sam

Sorry Farrah. We missed you!

Sam, Lauren, Allyson & Kristy

How did I get the only low spot in the yard to stand on? Am I really THAT short? Is Kristy really THAT beautiful? HELLO! We have the same genes. Gimme some of dat!

Visiting Papa

Addison

Aubrey

Zac

Emily

Oh, and, yeah. I made really dang cute cupcakes. They tasted good too. Move over Sprinkles, there's a new cupcake in town! Oh, and BTW, Kristy kept trying to steal the mini eggs off all the cupcakes. Totally rude.

I ♥ Your Hair!

I was feeling especially creative when I was doing Aubrey's hair this morning. She has been begging me to do this hairstyle since, oh, about Valentines Day. I kept telling her it took too long and we didn't have time. I decided I had time today. She is so cute, as you can see from the pictures, and so happy to have her hair in a heart.

I ♥ U Aubrey!

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Monday Morning Musings - Chest Tube Anyone?

Last week, with a tear or two in my eyes, I watched the final episode of ER. Ahhh, ER. My Thursday nights will never be the same again. Last Thursday night, Steve asked me what I was going to do. I looked at him with a look that said, "What the heck do you think I'm gonna do." And he said, "You don't really wanna watch that do you? It's just going to be some cheesy, sappy story line so they can bring all the characters back". And then I looked at him like he was insane and I said, "I have watched that show every week for the past 15 years of my life. I have see every episode! And what? You want me to miss the very last one? THE VERY LAST ONE?!?" And then he was like, "Woah! Fine. Watch it". So I did. Ahhh...ER. Because of you I know what a GSW is. Because of you, I think if it came right down to it, I could intubate someone, I've seen it done so many times. Because of you, I am highly disappointed with the personal appearance of any doctor I am treated by. So long, old friend....

Addy has this Dora obsession. And when I say obsession, I mean I am about to lose my mind if I hear the Dora theme song one more time. The one cute thing she has picked up from Dora is that anytime we go somewhere, when we reach our destination, she gets really excited and starts saying, "WE DID IT! WE DID IT! WE DID IT!" I feel like when I am driving I should be saying, "Freeway, stop sign, big brown library. Freeway, stop sign, big brown library."

I have an extra bedroom upstairs and that is where we put all the boxes that didn't have a specific room they belonged in yet. Mostly they were boxes that when we were on the last day of moving I was just like, "Throw it in a box! Any box!" When we moved in they were all nicely stacked in an orderly fashion in that room. Since then my children have rummaged through every box and now that room is completely trashed. I don't even want to go in there, but I guess I'm gonna have to. I should just put a dumpster outside below the window and just start shoveling everything out.

I bought some socks on Saturday. I went to open the package yesterday and I noticed that across the top was written, "Resealable bag!" So I just lookin' at this bag 'o socks in my hand thinkin', "Who in the world needs to reseal their bag of socks?" So you know what I did? I didn't open 'em by the zipper in the top. Nope. I just ripped right into the middle of the bag. I reached in and grabbed out my socks and then looked at the empty, decimated bag and laughed. Ha. Resealable bag. Not anymore!