My week...or maybe "weeks".

So this is my sister. She is older than me and obviously very pretty. She just celebrated her 31st birthday today. Last year was a blast. "someone" and i wont own up to anything, rolled her yard with toilet paper and birthday streamers. They were up still during the whole thing...so they say! I had thrown her a surprise party at the same time as my daughters party. I knew she would come to her niece's b day party so it was the perfect time. I had a bunch of black balloons and a picture collage of all the embarrassing photos that she ever had made. It was something to see for sure.
Since then she has plotted and threatened to give me the most horrific 30th birthday i could imagine. I'm getting kinda nervous cuz she most likely really will make it just as bad as she is saying.
My point in posting all this is for you guys to know how my Monday was spent and also for you to know what we did this year on her birthday. Well she stooped in at my house on her way home from work and showed me what she is gonna get for my baby's 6th birthday and i was hoping to get to spend some time with her later but she said her and her husband had plans. So after Gabe went to work she wanted us to go out to eat with her and well of course we did. But...what i thought was wonderful is that instead of lavish gifts and a party all for her she let me in on the secret of what her and her husband was gonna do. Be sure not to share with our church family but we all took off and mowed our church's lawn. Yes she spent her b day doing a secret service for our church. She and her husband do not want to let the church folk know because it is their "service" to the church not wanting praise or thank yous just pure hearted service. That is truly something. She don't know but i do look up to her at least most of the time and i will have to say, i felt more satisfaction from helping her mow than i ever have sitting around spending time with her. I truly have been blessed by this and I know she is too. Happy B-Day to Tina!



This is our little angel. Her birthday is on Friday. She will be the big 6. We are having her a Hannah Montana party at our local park. I have invited lots of people and expect to have a great turnout. We are so happy about her growing up but it just seems like such little time has passed since she was just a baby. We are so proud of her. WE are gonna have to go back to the dentist this week for a baby-tooth that just wont loosen up and come out. Don't worry, she has been begging me to take her back to the dentist so its no big deal. I took her last week for her first cleaning(don't think I'm a bad mommy for waiting till she was 5) and she wont hush begging me to take her back cuz she liked it so much. Yippee, finally one dr she loves to visit.lol I love my baby girl. Happy B-Day to Shy!

Finally I am back.

Beautiful isnt it? This is my husbands way of showing that he supports me. See, I got this new, awesome, wonderful camera and My husband decided to take me to a place where he likes to fish and let me take pics. Beautiful huh? This is Calderwood Lake. I took this picture to show everyone how pretty this lake is. I had to take this one because it shows the veiw of the trees on the lake and its as clear as if you were looking directly at the trees. I believe I took almost an entire flash card full of pictures that are just a beautiful as this one.

Lots of things have been going on around here and I have so much to blog about but it is 3:30 here and i am just plain tired. SO I must go to bed and I will be on to fill you guys in when I get some rest.

This week...

Well this is where my little girl decided to go on Monday. She was forbid to have friends over and stuff because her daddy wanted to spend time with her. She had a blast. Im certian she has her daddy wrapped even tighter around her finger now. Since School has been out we spent the first two weeks camping, the next week he was working some overtime, and she had friends over, then my cousin passed away and we spent lots of time with the whole family. So now he has stoped his entire world to spend time with her. He made the big statement to her "where do you want me to take you" and well what else would a 5 year old with all the energy in the world say but "THE PARK". So off we went. I let them play while I want scoping out some good pics. We live in a beautiful part of the world and this is evedience. I thought it was georgous.


Nothing really picture perfect happened till The 4th. SO this is what we did in the afternoon before the firework show. We had gone to our local depot for the celebration. We obviously got way too hot so we came back and went for a swim. Sonce my ladybug can now get around in the water really good, we just finally got on a float and relaxed a while. Isnt she cute!?! She knows it too. lol Our little miracle!


So here is one of the fireworks. It took so good on my camera and I was proud. However, my ladybug was not impressed. She kept saying,"they're gonna fall on me". I didnt realize but it does kinda look like they might, but they wont. We have always went to my uncle's house and shot some our selves but since his son was killed, he decided not to have the festivities this year, so we went to our town's show. It was beautiful but definately bigger than what we were used to.


Here is a picture of the finally. It wasnt such a beautiful picture but it shows all the percusions that went all at one time. There was so manny and it felt like we were in a really small car with a really really big radio with lots of bass. It was nice and loud.


Here is a picture of the park they shot the show at. It is a beautiful park and it is huge. We do soccer and play ground there. Its really fun for all of us.

This week in my world!

Well, I cant say too much this time. I havent done much of anything. Its been really weird this week. I havent felt very good and even today I had a headache. We took our little one to the park and I got some great pics of her and her daddy and some ducks. They are gonna be great pics but I havent even taken the time to upload them yet. I am just absolutely useless. I am gonna try to get some stuff done tomorrow but I am not 100% sure that will happen either but Ill give it a shot. Have a good one and I will post some pics as soon as I get them on here.

R.I.P

This is my cousin Christopher Michael Dyke. He passed away on Sunday morning due to a house fire. Him and his girlfriend had just been home a little bit when God called him home. He left behind two beautiful, sweet hearted little boys. He did care a great deal about his boys and they absolutely loved him to death. We just finished up the services for him and we are still so very very shocked. We had just been camping with them not two weeks earlier. He made so many people smile with his natural smile. I have never known him to get upset with many people because he was so layed back. Him and my husband had become quite good friends and its been rally hard for my husband to except also. We love him very much.

This is him holding my baby girl. She absolutely will not have anything to do with most people but she did like Chris.She loves playing with his boys and they get along great together. He was so full of love and laughter. His little sister said she will miss most of all his ridiculous jokes that never made any sense.

Well this was one of his jokes: he had gone and gotten a 3 leaf clover put on his leg. So his little bro and sis asked him what it was for or what it meant. His response was because we were Irish. Thats so freakin' funny because...we are absolutely not Irish. His lil bro checked and there is no Irish in us and we still do not know why he had that tattooed on him. However, in remembrance of him we all went and got one done. His friend, step mom, dad, and all the cousins. So far their is eleven who have or have appointments to get them. It just shows we love him and will always remember how he could make us all laugh even if it was because it made no sense at all. We love you Chris!

Summer is Here!!!!!!

So here is my cute little, scared of the water, baby girl. She has been terrified of the water since she was tiny and went walking out into the water and fell. She was only big enough that when she put her hands down to catch herself she was commpetely in the water. Every year she has made a little progress with the water. So by the end of last year, she was holding the wall to walk in the 3 foot area of the pool. We went camping (see last post) she did get into the lake which is rare for her so I knew she had made some progress. Well we decided to use the pool a lot this week and here she is just like a fish.


This is her not only swiming or jumping in but DIVING! I was so proud that all I could do is grab the camera and yell "do it again".

Here she goes!


I feel almost like I did when she first started school! Well...yeah bout that proud!
See I was a fish in the water. My mom would almost have to spank me to get me out of the lake. I never knew what a pool was like but I didnt care so long as it was playing in the water. Now to have a child I just always imagined getting to share that passion with her. I thought all hope was done until now! Yipee, my daughter has something like me! I am so very very proud of her.


This is her jumping off the side of her great-grandparents pool. If you look closely, you will see a huge smile on her face as she knows she is about to hit the water! Way to go ladybug! I love you!

Vacation 2008

Well since my last post we have spent two weeks camping. Yes I said camping and it has the title of "vacation". When I was growing up, that is all we could do. That is all we could afford to do. One week a year we would spend the entire week with my mom's brothers and sister-in-laws and all my million cousins. We literally grew up together. We were tiny tots all together and what is terribly weird is that now our children are the little ones. It totally trips out our folks. So check out these pics!

So this is my little bundle of joy and my cousin's little bundle too. Yes I can very vividly remember me and her at this stage in our lives. This child was called by her mother's name all week long. She apparently looks identical to her momma. She sure does favor her a lot. Yes her mom is a little doll too.





Here of course is one of us not so tottler sized cousins. He obviously still thinks he is a child. To his dismay and our pleasure he didnt finish what he bagan at the top of the hill. We had a blast watching him try and try and try and still end up this way.However, we had a great well diserved laugh at his expense.

This is most of our little punks. They had just as great a time together as we used to when we were their size. This pic was taken just after we got our turn on the raft-pulled-by-the-fast-boat-thing. It was so fun and just like us, everyone brought their lawn chairs to the lake bank to watch how quickly my aunt could flip us right off the "THING". She was sucessful with me (as if thats a big shocker)the hard part was getting back on. Anyways, it was very very fun and I would do it again and hope to get to soon.