Allie's Easter Dress (one for her dolly too)

I found this dress that came with a little dress for a doll, and I had to get it! she had to try it on and put it on her dolly :) I'm thinking I'll let her take dolly to church with her just cause it's so darn cute! hehehee..

Allie wanted to help me take a picture with her princesses camera :)

More snow pics!

Here's some more that my brother took :)

Playin at the mountain!

We had such a blast! it was a little slow goin with parking, and how busy it was up there since it was sooo sunny and beautiful, and finding a good place for all of us, esp Allie to have a good safe place to tube. But once we found our little spot and got goin it was awesome! Allie did so good, and thank goodness her snow clothes worked well, she didn't get wet at all. My brother came up with us which was awesome, and took a lot of pictures which we really awesome cause I wanted to make sure I got some but I was really keeping a tight watch on Allie since it was so slippery and the snow wasn't packed much and we kept falling down as far as 3 feet or more with each step in most places. I had no room for taking pictures, I was on high alert with Allie running around! :)

Here's a few Jenn took, and I'll post more when I get some from my brother :)

Allie loved the snow!

This is Anne and I goin down the hill! poor girl was about to fly off the back! but it was fun!

Anne and Nate were trying to go down together and Nate was sliding before she got on so she grabbed on to his hood (kinda choking him, hahaha.... whoops!) she eventually got on with him and took off down the hill!

Anne and Jenn

Shaunie and I ;)


Jason and Jenn :)

Anne and Nate :)

THE GIRLS! :)

Jenn's Wedding!

So... she finally got back her professional pictures, and I found a few with us (Shaun & I) (Anne & Nate) in them! I assumed I'd look like my horrible picture taking self, but I don't look half bad for being 20-50lbs overweight and 6 ft taller than everyone else. lol. *sigh* someday I'll look better right? anyway.. regarless of how I look, I still want to cherrish the moment! Jenn's Wedding was so amazing! it was truely a fairytale wedding! everything went so well, and everything looked amazing, I'll have to post more pictures sometime of the rest of it. We all had a great time, and now all three of us are married!!! heeeehaaww! now get on with havin babies you two!!! lol. I can't wait we'll all be barefoot and standing around pregnant in our kitchens talking about how our backs hurt, and our feet hurt, and the heartburn, and the fear of delivery! lol, it will be great! lol.

So, here's to you Jenn! Congratulations! Jason is a great guy, and you two will be happy for many years to come! just keep on sayin your sorry when you should, sayin I love you even before you should, and keep the Lord first and at the center of your marriage! I'm so happy for you!

just needed to post...

So life seems to be a bit crazy lately...I'm really not sure why, lol! it just is... I've been wanting to make a new post forever, I look at my blog every day and just think, "ugh.. blah.. nothing new! lol, but I never have any idea's of what to blog about, esp with out any interesting pictures! lol So here's something at least... ;)

The superbowl game this weekend was awesome! I was trying to find some good pictures of some of the great moments to post... I found a lot of great ones, but one moment that I think deserved a lot more credit than it got was when Eli Manning escaped the clutches of 4 or 5 patriots and after being down to grass level, then back up again spinning out and back only to make "the" amazing throw of the game to Tyree who inturn makes "the" catch of the game pinning the ball tightly to his own helmet! All of it was just plain awesome but in all of the news, sports overage, etc.. they really only focus on Tyree's catch. I would love to see some still shots of Mannings efforts! but all in all it was a fabulous superbowl game, very exciting, and nail biting at the end!

I'm not the best to comment on football but this was a game ANYONE could enjoy and appreciate! ;) here are a couple cool pics from the game...

The MVP celibrating!


The Coach, and a tradition!

"the" catch. amazing....

holding on for dear life, even with a 200 +lb man scooping him up from underneath!

Victory! and the later emotional Plaxico Burress.

Allie and her new hat & scarf from Lizzy

Lizzy is so good at this stuff and when I saw the hat she made for her daughter Jaemie, I loved it! and asked her if she wanted to make another one and I'd buy it for Allie. We got it in the mail yesterday, and had to try it on! Of course almost every picture from now until eternity Allie will be holding the kitten, it's attached to her hip these days. Little Gracie does pretty good about being hauled around everywhere, I think she'll have a good temperament which is what we were hoping for. Sadie knows who's boss during play time now, she's so patient with Gracie, and we're relieved that it's going so well :)

More Gracie

Just playin with a Christmas bow....

Sleepin on mom....

Hi mom I saw that....

soooo cozy....

Just close enough to smell her....

Whoa she's jumpy....

(right after Sadie's nose was swatted ) lol I thought I got the pic but it was right after

What is this thing?

Baby kitten for Christmas

well it's love.

Allie and her new kitten are smitten. ;) She was so surprised and excited when she woke up Christmas morning. I carried her into our bedroom and when the door opened she saw baby Gracie sitting on our bed meowing at her. She threw her hands up and said " A KITTY!"

I decided her name should be Grace or Gracie because of a moment on the drive home from picking her up Christmas eve. This is the story....

Well we had been talking about getting a kitten for months, and every time I saw a picture on craigslist or heard of a friend that had kittens to give away I'd ask Shaun, " honey, look how cute! can we?" the answer was always, "we need to wait until the floors are done". It was always true, we did really need to wait. Mommy didn't like waiting much , lol. So finally when we had a confirmed day when the guy was going to come and put the seal, and finish coat on the other half of our house in order to finish it all up, of course I began looking and I think it took me all of 2 days to find the perfect little one (because of course Allie wanted one that looked similar to the cat at daycare, lol). So with about a million calls back and fourth to the girl who posted the craigslist add trying to schedule when kitty would get to the vet and when we could pick her up I was finally driving out to get her on Christmas eve. I finally arrived and she was beautiful, adorable, sweet, innocent, and ours! On the 30min drive home I was just in heaven watching her sleeping in her carrier, she was so clam and sweet I couldn't believe she wasn't fussing more. The weather was very nice that morning it was clear and sunny (still cold) but sun shining! Then as I neared home still on the freeway in the middle of a stretch of beautiful tree's it began to rain lightly, and being a believer I always look around for a rainbow when it's sunny and raining. As I looked around I didn't see one at first, but then after I cleared some of the heavier trees there it was, and not only a single rainbow but a beautiful double rainbow! It was extremely bright and clear, it was just a perfect moment. I looked down at the little baby next to me and thought what a sweet moment and this should be her name... .but what? rainbow? that's kinda "happy" ie: other word for happy connected to rainbow lol and then I thought ok what does a rainbow stand for? Promise. It's God's sign of His promise to us to never flood the earth again. Then I thought Promise that's a weird name for a cat... then I thought ok so what does His promise mean? Well the next thing that came to mind was that it's only by God's grace that we are saved and the meaning of the rainbow specifically is that we are saved from another flood, spared, pardoned, forgiven, and loved. So there it was, she would be called Grace. (or Gracie if you ask Allie ;) I felt it deep down in my heart in that moment and just knew. So with that said here's some of the first pictures of baby Grace.

It's the thursday before the friday... well duh.

So ya friday will be nice to get to and get over with, hahaha. I'll have a half day friday because of our company Christmas party at noon that day. And then the EXTREMELY busy weekend begins! as of about now (11:ooam) our floors should be sealed and coated with the finish and nicely drying! HOOOO RAWW!!! finally! you can say that again! ok.... I will! FINALLY! Criminy it took so long! I'm soooooooooo HAPPY! we've been waiting for this for so long, and have worked soooo hard on it, the pay off will be SWEET. :) It's going to be a race against time to get the house in order for Christmas day at our house with the whole family!

Friday night : buy paint at home depot, paint all the trim in our bedroom, the hall, and the bottom trim in Allie's room. Shaun is redoing the closets in our room so that it's more efficient since it's currently the size of a Honey bucket port-o-potty. (not much too it) lol. It won't be getting any bigger that's for sure but he's going to add shelves and redo the hanging rods to be more efficient! yay for handymen! Then move all the furniture from the other side of the house back into the bedrooms and also get most if not all of the rest of our junk that's been sitting in the garage into the house finally. Then set up the dinning room table and chairs again, and pretty much deep clean the house. Then wrap all the presents stashed in the coat closet. Then die of exhaustion. ;)

Should be interesting, I'll let you know if we succeed! :) OH and I almost forgot! pick up a new baby kitten for a surprise Christmas present for Allie (and mommy, who secretly wants it more than Allie, hehehe) YAY!!! we can't wait!

Merry Christmas everyone! May God Bless your families with fellowship and love this Christmas!

peace
love
and coffee.

Needed to post...

Something.

I haven't posted in a while cause I haven't been very motivated.... Some day's I feel chatty and some days I just don't. More often than not I don't feel all that chatty hence the not wanting to post with out a picture along with it. So... ya this is me posting with out a pic. Extremely interesting huh? Let's see we got Christmas lights up at the house, re-arranged the living room for a tree, got the tree, decorated the tree. Now to finish Christmas shopping, yay.

I guess that's about it.... hope I have satisfied the blogging community out there, lol.

I'll post more when I have some pics or something worth ranting about ;)

peace
love
and coffee