Christmas

We had a great Christmas, just a lot of it! We had our own Christmas at home before we left and opened gifts from each other and to Cailin. Then, we had Christmas a few days later with Enie. Then on to my dad's house for another round and then to my mom's for the finale! It was a fun week!

Cailin really loved openening her presents this year. She'd say, "Yay, presents!" and clap her hands. So sweet!

I loved how she smiled when she opened this baby! She loves baby dolls!

This is Christmas morning and what she got from Santa. She loved it.

She got this cute Cabbage Patch from Uncle Dee. She loves her! It reminded me of so many Christmas' when I was little and that would be our Santa gift. A new Cabbage Patch doll.

This is the sweetest picture! She was telling Pe-paw thank you for her sweater that he and Me-maw gave her.

This picture cracks me up! My dad is wrapped around her little fingers! She loves to tell him to do different things and he does them. They usually do this, she makes him jump up and down, spin in circles. It's so funny. She loves whenever she has someone copy her!

Christmas tidbits

Once again, it's been awhile since I blogged. So, I have some new pictures to share of course. This one is of Cailin sitting in front of our church's Christmas tree.

I always love when they put it up, really gets me into the Christmas spirit. This next pic is of Cailin with her church "grandparents". They've adopted her as their own and she loves them! She always runs to them as soon as she sees them. They have become our family here, since we have to be away from our family. They are such a blessing for us.

She loved having her picture taken with them, she kept saying "Cheese". See how she has her arm around Thurman too! She adores him! They are going to babysit her tonight while Warren and I go to his Christmas party for work.

Warren and I took Cailin to the Santa at the mall last week and she was totally scared of him. She didn't even want to stand beside him! So, at Warren's squadron's Christmas party last weekend, she watched as all the other kids went up to Santa to get their present and sit on his lap. She did it too! Yeah!

Here's the picture that Warren got of her sitting on his lap.

Cailin, just came over to see what I was doing and she saw this picture of her and Santa. She said, "Mommy, who's that?" So I said, "It's Cailin and Santa." Then, she said, "Good job." Funny! Well, that's all that I've got for now! Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend! Bye!

Potato Head, say Cheese!

"Potato head say Cheese." That's what Cailin said when she saw me with the camera. At least Mrs. Potato Head has all of her body parts in the right spot, sometimes she's a little scary!

It took me all night to get this picture. Warren kept giving me these funny looks, like why are you taking a pic of her back. Well, because those ruffles on these pj's are so darn cute and her hair was in perfect ringlets considering the wind outside was blowing about 65 mph. So mission finally accomplished, I got my back shot. Here's her "no more pictures" shot. Not exactly the happy face that I was looking for. This was before I took her to preschool, and she's not always in the best mood in the morning. Kind of reminds me of another girl I know who was a total grump every morning before school. Ahem, Auntie Poo-Poo, does that ring a bell? If not, I'm sure mom remembers!

She's really liking having her picture taken lately, she usually says "Cheese" then runs to the camera to preview it. The other night we were watching her videos from when she was first born. Which she was glued to. She saw herself when she was a few months old swinging and she said, "I want to hold the baby". We kept trying to tell her that it was her when she was a little baby, and she finally got it. When we got to her 1st birthday party she heard her Enie calling her name. So she went to the TV and kept saying, "What Enie, what?" So funny! We cracked up laughing.

The baby is getting stronger and kicking all the time! It moves around and kicks all night long, which is why I never sleep thru the night anymore. Warren got to feel a couple of it's acrobats this morning. I'm SO ready to find out what it is already. With Cailin we already knew by now. I'm definately not the type that could wait until it was born. I would go insane! People keep telling me that they or their daughters never found out what they were having, but they knew before they had it. They just had a feeling. Well, I totally don't have a feeling. So who knows!

I better go wake up my munchkin to get her ready for preschool. She actually slept all night in her own bed and is still sleeping at 8:15. Why does she always sleep in when we have to go somewhere, but when we don't she's up at 6:oo? Bye!

Let's get everything staight!

Warren caught this cute picture last night.

We were laughing because of the way she had lined up the measuring spoons. She's so much like me in that sense. I really can't stand for anything to be out of order on my desk at work, in my cabinets. Everything has to be straight. Cailin is constantly closing any doors, that we leave open. From the microwave to cabinet doors. She's always following behind Warren and I shutting them if we leave them open. It's funny. I do that too. Warren always leaves our cabinet doors and microwave door open and I shut them!

I saw a sad story on the news this morning. This lady in Amarillo ran a stop sign in an intersection (because she was talking on her cell phone). She was side swiped by another car and her 4 month old baby was ejected from her car. They the found the baby still strapped in her car seat but I guess the actual car seat had come loose from the base. I guess she was in the hospital, but she didn't make it. The mom's still in critical condition, but is expected to make it. So incredibly sad!

It's going to get pretty cold here tonight and I'm ready! Have a great Wednesday! Bye!

Say "Cheese"....

Last night, I caught Cailin loving on Ally. So I grabbed the camera (of course)! Cailin saw me about to take her picture so she grabbed Ally and told her, "Tell mommy cheese Ally-boo-boo." Poor Ally was in a headlock so she would look at the camera.

The next picture I told Cailin not to strangle Ally = Much happier dog.

She's constantly covering Ally up with her doll blankets. When I say cover up I mean completely soAlly can't see. She looks like a ghost dog and she never tries to get the blanket off of her head, she just stays like that. Last night, she had about 4 stuffed animals laying around Ally. She looked like she was just another toy laying in the middle.

Sorry if I bored you with Cailin and Ally stories, but not much else going on! Bye!

This Weekend....

Meet Mrs. Potato Head, I mean Cailin. This had us cracking up tonight. It almost hurts my head just looking at how stretched those little plastic glasses are!

Here's are little ski bunny. It's been pretty cold here, especially in the evenings. She loves getting her coat (that she calls her dress), gloves and hat. I bought her these adorable little boots yesterday. They go to her knees, it took her a while to get used to walking in them.

Look at that face! She told me, "Cheese mommy." She's getting to be such a big girl. She finally realizes that there is a baby in my belly. Whenever she sees my stomach, she'll say, "Mommy's baby?" I asked her if it was a baby boy or a baby girl. She said a baby boy. So, we'll see if her prediction is right in a few weeks. I'm secretly hoping for another girl though.

This evening Warren was trying to get her to go get him another "drink" from the fridge. She told him, "No, thank you." That's my girl! He said he was getting out-numbered, so the baby better be a boy. I would love to have all girls to team up on him! Ha!

Doesn't she look like she's 4 or 5 here? Jeez! I guess it's because her hair is getting so long lately.

Not much going on around here this weekend. We went on a little car trip today and didn't see much of anything! We seriously spent about 5 hours in the car (round trip) and saw NOTHING! Guess we went the wrong direction. When we were leaving this one town, Warren missed the turn that went to the highway 2 times. I was getting kind of annoyed, because I was just ready to go home by then. So he finally took the turn that went to the highway that we needed when we were stopped by this horrible accident that had the whole highway blocked off. The officer told us an alternate route, which we took. As we were turning around an ambulance was leaving with someone that was in the accident. I'm sure there was more injuries, as they weren't letting anyone even pass through. After we had driven away, I got to thinking about all of Warren's wrong turn and how maybe they were "right" turns. They wasted about 10 minutes so that we might have avoided being either in that horrible accident or witnesses to it. Thank You God!

This video made me cry this morning.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzmgAM8rIgo



I've never seen the video, even though I've heard this song thousands of times. It touched me for so many reasons. For one, it's Veteren's Day today! Happy Veteren's Day! I know what a sacrifice that veteren's have made for our country. This video brought tears to my eyes because I know we will probably have to go through at least one more deployment before Warren retires. It breaks my heart that he might have to miss some of Cailin's and her new sibling's growing. I have family and friends that have either been to the war zone or have stayed home waiting for their husbands to return. I KNOW what a sacrifice it is!

Thank YOU to ALL the veterens for doing what they have done and continue to do for us! God Bless YOU!

Recent Funnies

It's been a long time since I have blogged! Mainly because we didn't have a computer. Ours went ka-put! We finally got a hand me down until we get a new one. It's not the greatest, but it'll do for now. I don't have any pics to share. I have to figure out why our new computer won't let me add pics. Something about disabling the cookies.

Cailin had a great Halloween. We got her the Tinkerbell movie and some treats, which she loved. We took her to a fall festival at a church in town. She really liked playing some of the games they had and getting the prizes. Then, we walked over to our HUGE mall (rolling my eyes) and did a little trick or treating at the stores. There was a ton of people there. I kept telling Cailing to say "Trick or Treat", but she kept telling the candy passer outers, "I scary." Meaning "I'm scared." Poor thing. All the dressed up kids and adults were too scary for her. So we left and went home to scare, I mean pass out candy to kids. Warren loves to dress up every year and scare the trick or treaters. Which is fine as long as they aren't little. He did make a little girl cry last year! So I sit outside and scope out our trick or treaters to see if they are scare material. If they are too young, I'd tell him not to scare them.

Sunday evening we were going to a play at a local church. Cailin was soooo ready to go, we kept telling her just a minute. So we were finally leaving and we were in the garage waiting for Warren. Our dog Ally was sitting there, waiting for us to leave to go into her little bed. Cailin, looked down at Ally and said, "Ally-boo-boo, you want to go to church? Go get in our cars. You want to go? Yes, you do? Ok, just a minute!" Little Ally, was just sitting there, minding her own business. I cracked up laughing. Cailin LOVES Ally, who she always calls "Ally-boo-boo". Ally hardly ever pays Cailin any attention. I'm pretty sure Ally doesn't understand much of what Cailin says.

This morning, I was fixing my hair and Cailin was sitting on the sink in front of me brushing her teeth. Well, mainly playing in the water. She started to wet her hair, but just on one side. So we have her crazy bed hair on one side and a slicked down side on the other. She smiled into the mirror and said to herself, "You're beautiful!" So funny! She was clearly proud of herself for "fixing" her hair!

I'll try to fix my computer cookie problem, so I can post pictures soon. Have a great day!

Our Bunny Round-Up

It's Friday! Woo-hoo! I have some fun girly things planned on Saturday. I'm having a breakfast at church for the women's club. They are having a inspirational speaker that is hopefully good. Then, Saturday night I'm going to a girly party at my friend Lori's house. They are going to drink and sing Karaoke. I'm going to eat, drink water and watch! Ha! Here's a cute pic of C yesterday before I took her to daycare.

Last night, we decided to let the bunnies out for some excersise. C chased them all over the yard! She kept telling them to, "GO". I'm sure their bunny hearts were going 90 mph!

Holding Emma! She loves to be held like a baby.
Poor Eddy was exhausted after all of his hopping! I love when he lays like this with his back legs all sprawled out. Look at his little bunny butt! That always cracks me up! Miss Ally found this big guy on our sidewalk. Eeek! It was HUGE!
That's all I've got for now. We are going to meet the girls and their kids at BK, so I might have more later. Bye!

A Few of My Favorite Things

Today looks like it's going to be a hot one! I just wanted to share a few new pics. I'm loving my new camera that my husband got me for my birthday! I'm always snapping pictures now.

Here's a close up of C. She's always saying, "Cheese" for me now and smiling this little grin. Yesterday, she was trying to get me up to get her something. So she said, "Let me help me." She meant, "Let me help YOU". It was so cute! Sometimes I can't believe she puts together such good sentences. It looks like she has a mole on her right chin in this picture, but she must have had something on her face.

We went to play at the little park behind our house Sunday. She ran all over and she loves the little slides there. They are all her size, small!

I'll leave you with a few pretties from around my house! My HUGE sunflowers (they are the size of dinner plates!), a four-0-clock that somehow came out this wonderful combination of yellow and pink, all the other ones are white, and a canna.

Happy Wednesday! Bye!

Recent Happenings

I have so many things that C is starting to say that I need to write down in her journal before I forget them! Everyday it seems like she says something new. Yesterday morning I was trying to get her hair put in these piggy tails and she was fussing. So I said, "Let's make your hair pretty." So she said, "Cayee's pretty, Mommy's utiful!" I have been trying to get her to say "I'm beautiful" meaning her (not me~ha, ha). So, sweet and cute! When I was changing her diaper last night she started sing the alphabet, it was really jumbled, but I started singing it to her. She chimed in on the LMNOP and WXYand Z parts! Warren says we need to stop teaching her stuff, yeah, that's possible! Geez!

Here's a pic of the cute kittens my hubby found. I hope we have a home lined up for both of them! C has to say "bye" to them before we leave anywhere!

We went to the "pretty" park on Sunday. She had so much fun running and playing. She always says, "Mommy...Run!"

Here's a few recent scrapbook pages that I have done for her book. These really arent that great of pics, but you get the idea anyway. I just realized the other day that I'd have to start a new book soon. I have one for every year, 0-12mo. and 1 year right now, I'll need a 2 year before I know it...wiping tears :' )

And last, but not least.....I went into the local Goodwill store yest. at lunch just to see what was in there. They had some really cute, OLD, stuff! I found this adorable little dolly that I just couldn't leave there on their shelf. So, I paid a whopping 0.14 cents for her and took her home to her new mommy, Cayee. Who proclaimed that she was "cute". Then she wanted me to take her dress off of her, she's been wanting all her babies naked lately. So we have doll clothes thrown everywhere these days! I said to her, "Aren't you glad she came to live with you?" and she said, "Yes". Aww, she's really into playing with her babies. It's so cute. She picked one up last night and grabbed my purse, went to the back door and said, "Bye (waving to us) Lub You" Warren said, "I guess you'll come back when you get hungry." She's so funny!

Better go for now, once again I've got a loooooong post. Bye!

Pics From This Weekend

She really liked this turtle shell that the Albq. Zoo brought to our library on base. She kept knocking on it saying, "Turtle". This is what we did on Thursday afternoon.

On Friday we went to the zoo with some friends. C loves the zoo! She just runs around looking at all the animals and saying "Hi" to them.

Then, she found the geese! She has no fear, I swear! She was going right up to them and talking to them. She thought it was so funny that they were walking around with us. She ran around with them and I really thought she was going to get bit by a few that were hissing at her.

After the zoo we were pretty hot, so we decided to go to the pool with our friends Eve and her girls. The girls had so much fun swimming (well mostly walking around in the water and making their mommy's nervous by going up and down the stairs!).

Here she is pretending to be asleep! She's a nut! I've got more pics, but this blog is so long already! I think I'll have to show them another day! Bye!

Misc. Ramblings

I have some new pics and scrapbook pages that I'll try to post later today. We had a good weekend. We got to see and visit with our good friends "The Flips" on Fri and Sat. They recently moved back home to PA. We sure do miss them, but are glad they are doing so well. We also got to go to a friend's daughter's christening. This friend is works in the same dept. as Warren. His wife was pregnant (and almost due) when he was about to deploy. His little girl was born the day before he deployed. They brought her home just hours before he left! Praise God he got to see her born before he left! Then, her christening was planned for this weekend, well he was just running and his Achilies Tendon (I probably didn't spell that right) snapped. So they careflighted him to Germany and then to the US, just a week before her christening. He had surgery to repair it the two days before her christening and he was at the church on crutches to see it! Praise God! He works in little ways that we are sometimes blind to, but sometimes like that it's so easy to see these little miracles.

We went to church yesterday and it was so great to be around all of the people that know and love us! We felt loved in so many ways! First, they knew we were gone and told us they missed us, but they hope we had a good time traveling as soon as we got there. Then, this lady gave me a couple of pictures that she had developed of Warren teaching the children's moments. At the end of service this little handicapped lady came up to us. I'm not sure what is wrong with her, she's very short, her face is a little disfigured, but she is smart. She adores C. She always has since she was a little baby and I always kind of dreaded this lady coming up to her in her stroller. Why you ask? Well, being a first time mom, you are so scared that your precious little baby is going to get sick from germs, right? Well, this lady always stands SO CLOSE to you, which usually caused C to wake up if she was napping. Then, she almost always touches C's pacifier and tries to put it in her mouth. So that was enough then for me to just dread seeing her every week. Now, I'm of course so much less paranoid about germs. C's bigger and I know her hands are probably almost always germ ridden. So yesterday she came up to us and we said Hi. She talked to us for a while, tried to put C's pacifier in her mouth (of course) then she said, "C, I love you" Oh, it was the sweetest thing! I just realized that these people really love us, well mainly C ;). I mean they've watched her grow up there and I know that so many people really love seeing her every week. It was just so nice!

One more quick thing. We had a lady speak at church yesterday about her missions trips. She's with this mission group called Purpose. They've sent her to China to teach English at a University. She's not like a regular missionary that preaches to people or hands out bibles. Her mission is to just teach her students English and just live so her students will want to ask her why she's so loving and happy. How easy is that? She says she's not allowed to talk about her Christian beliefs openly unless she's asked specifically why. She says she's only been asked several times. It was a little wake up call to me that I need to start acting more like that too! I gossip, cuss, get mad, of course I do, I'm human, but maybe before I start to do these things, I'll think of her and remember to act better! ;o) We'll see if it works! Gotta go for now, I'll try to post pics later! Bye!

Fireworks, Dirty 30 and Mary Poppins????

We had SOOO much fun this weekend at mom's house for the 4th of July and my big 3-0 bday! One reason it was fun because my cousin and her family, my other cousin and her hubby, my mil and my uncle all stayed there with us! We bar-b-que'd of course, ate a ton of good food. Drank ALOT without putting on my ninja outfit or running through the street in what I thought was a bathing suit (but actually just a bra and panties)! Ha-ha! We all know who REALLY did these things.....right Patti! Oops, did I say too much? Hee-hee, I can get away with that because I'm her favorite sister. By the way, she gave me an awesome birthday party! The cake was beautiful, the food was sooooo yummy and she decorated it so pretty. Thank you Patti! I love you. Isn't she beautiful?

I got an awesome new camera for my birthday. Warren kept calling it my Dirty 30, which I didn't like. Here's a few pics from my birthday party we all had a lot of fun!

We went to see the fireworks and I was curious how C would like them. She kept saying "See the stars" She seemed to enjoy them. I love the 2nd pic of L holding her. She loves her "Uncle Gogie"

One more funny thing that C started saying this weekend was supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! I started having her repeat it to me syllable by syllable about a week ago, mainly to entertain us. I LOVE how she says "Super" Anyway, we were in the pool and I was starting her off by saying Super, well from there she just said the WHOLE thing by herself. It was so funny! Well, this morning I got her on video so everyone could see it and not think I'm making it up! With a drum roll please..........