Saturday, September 1, 2007

Overnight trip in the RV

Well, Tom and I are getting ready to leave for an overnight trip in the RV. Kathryn our "awesome" babysitter is here giving both the kids a bath as I type and I am, as always, waiting for Tom to finish getting ready. We are heading out to Possum Kingdom Lake to the lake house of a co-worker of Toms. We are bringing the RV and will hook up to the house. This will be our last trip in it before we put her on the lot and sell her. THANK GOD! :)

Thursday, August 23, 2007

Ryan's playdate...

Ryan and his friend playing ferocious animals!


At the "grocery store".....


Busy being artists...


Rockclimbing....


I can not believe that he is going to be 4 next month! Where did the time go??

Jake's playdate....

Where is Jake?


There he is!

Too cute!

Monday, August 13, 2007

The world is not a nice place sometimes.....

Well - the blog will be slow for awhile as the wonderful digital camera that my awesome husband gave to me on my birthday this past June was STOLEN! I just can not believe it! And of all places? A kids playhouse! Very upsetting to me - but I am glad that I walked out with my children and not my camera instead of my camera and not my children! I know that it was just something monetary but it still SUCKS!

See you all soon.......

Tuesday, August 7, 2007

Where I would rather be right now.....

The BAHAMAS!!! When things start to get really crazy around here, I lock myself in the bathroom, close my eyes and envision that I am back on this island! I can hear the waves, feel the sun and smell the salt water!


Gorgeous!

View from our balcony! Great snorkeling!

Another from the balcony.....

Private path from our house to the beach where there was a tiki hut that we sat under to get some rest from the sun!

Awesome beach 25 feet from our house!

View from the tiki hut!

Another gorgeous view from the house!

FYI - this is the Island of Eleuthera, one of the northern islands, Double Bay Beach - our house sat right on the beach and we only saw 3 people on it the entire time we were there! The name of the house was Hakuna Matada~No Worries! Just wanted to go down memory lane and thought I would take you all with me!

Sunday, July 29, 2007

My family reunion!

I went ahead and posted a bunch of pics for my family to see and download if they wanted - easier than sending an email and having files waiting to come up etc... So note to my family - just double click on a pic and then right click on mouse and you can save it to your hardrive.

Now, there are so many that I did not get pics of and I am so sorry! I didn't even get a pic of my mom or my grandma! I just can't believe it! And all the babies! Well, hope you all enjoy what I did get......

Have to start off with the hottest guy there!

My man - Tom

Daniel, Tracy and Baby Noah!

Jessica and Dan!

My aunt Brenda and Uncle Andy!

Love this pic of my Uncle John!

Eric and Sarah!

My hottie young cousin Kristen!

My niece Tammy and her man Corey!

Baby Noah!

Again - my young hottie cousin Kristen - always chillin!

My godfather and uncle John! (and hottie Kristen's dad!)

Some of the gang - but there is my SIL Tracy and Baby James on the left!

My 2nd cousin Colin and nephew Michael!
My awesome Aunt Deb! (and my bro in the background)
Float trip pit stop!

My gorgeous OLDER sister Sandi!
Abby!
Abby's sister Emma!
My neice Rachael!
My cousin Eric without his BETTER half Erica!

My brother Andy and cousin Marc! (to all the singe ladies out there - he is available!) My cousin Marc that is - not my bro! :)

Annual Family Reunion

Here we are! 2007 Annual family reunion!


Tom and Ryan chillin out after a game of volleyball!


Awesome bonfire!


Can't see many of my peeps - but this is just a few of them! Also I want you all to know that I can not show many of the pics I took because so many of my wonderful peeps were giving me the bird!!! For shame! :)


Having an awesome time!

Annual Family Reunion float trip!

Here we are on our annual float (canoe) trip at our family reunion! This was Ryan's first time to go with us! He did very well getting in the canoe and about 15 min after we took off - this is what happened.....

He fell asleep!!!!! Can you believe it? Looks a bit uncomfortable - but as you can see at the pic below he was not phased by it at all!


He was in a water gun fight with my brother - Uncle Andy!

Jenn and Tom - Texas style!

Still squirting everyone!


Funny thing is that Ryan did not want to ride in our canoe at all - he spent the majority of the float in my cousins, Jessica and Dan's canoe! Can you blame him? Abbey is quite the cutie!

Mexican Villa



What is a Mexican Villa? It is a restaurant in Springfield, Missouri that Tom and I would go to when we were in college! They have awesome Sanchos! I get mine plain and Tom gets his enchilada style! They also have this wonderful sweet sauce to dip your chips in! Every time we are passing through Springfield - on our way to our family reunion or St. Louis we ALWAYS stop at "The Villa"! There are a few scattered throughout Springfield - but we always go to the one right down the street from campus - the one WE always went to when we were there - THE ORIGINAL VILLA!

Anyway - some of the same people are still working there and we just love going back! It is so surreal to have our kids with us - who would have ever thought - we would be coming back 20 years later married to each other with 2 kids! Great memories! Anyway - here we are at "the villa".....

Yes, those are little jukeboxes at every booth! They still work too!

Kinda blury - but gotta get Ryan and Jake caught at the villa!



Sunday, July 15, 2007

Ryan's first buzz cut and THE FROG!

So I took Ryan to get his hair cut - he takes after his dad - he plays hard so he sweats hard! I thought it would be cooler for him with a buzz cut! OMG! Look how short it is! She said, "well let's start with a #4 and go from there" - GO FROM THERE??? There is nowhere to go from there! Oh well - all it can do is grow! And actually, I think it is cute! My little peanut is growing up!


Cheese!


Just chillin by the pool in his tighty whiteys!
He is gonna KILL me when he gets older :)



He is trying to catch a little frog that jumped in the pool.



Look Mom, I caught a frog! Ewww, go show your father! :)