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2011-05-30T14:28:00.000-07:00

Christmas 2010

2010-12-03T07:42:00.001-08:00

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Sorry

2010-05-27T09:14:00.000-07:00

I'm sorry I haven't posted anything on my blog in forever! Since we now have Facebook at work I have been posting all of my pictures there.
I noticed that when I left off, I was writing about weight....let's just say I don't want to blog about that anymore. I have since gained 20 pounds and am now 26 weeks pregnant. So, nothing to brag about there!
I will try to post some updated pictures this afternoon.

No weight gain....yet!

2010-01-15T08:07:00.000-08:00

Well my weight hasn't changed since the first of the year when I weighed even with being 6 weeks pregnant! Yippeeee! But once again my husband wants to go out to eat at a Mexican restaurant...so here comes the quesadilla and chips with cheese dip! hehehe!
I imagine all this eating out is very quickly going to catch up with me!

On another note, Lacey is very excited and sings to the baby every night and this morning she hugged it goodbye before going to school. I think she is going to be a GREAT big sister. She thinks that I'm having twins, a boy and a girl, like my brother did. Who knows...maybe we will find out February 10th at the first ultrasound! I'll keep you posted.

dieting...only lasted a week! :)

2010-01-11T13:35:00.000-08:00

Well I've come to the realization that I don't want to talk about dieting nor do I want to hear anyone else talk about dieting, so I'm going to end my blogs on diets! (You can say thank you now!) I've realized that although I don't mind writing about it, truthfully I hate to hear other people talk about it so why would I even write about it? I'm sure you don't want to hear about it either! So....I pigged out on a whole chocolate cake, drank 15 sodas, ate 15 pieces of pizza at the buffet and other stuff that I'm ashamed to admit.....just kidding. I didn't do any of that, although I might have liked to. I will continue to "diet," let's just say eat healthy but I won't post any of it!

On a better note, I am expecting a baby in September. So that might explain the first paragraph a little better! I am very excited and so is Zane and Lacey. We are truly blessed and we do not deserve what the Lord has given us. We are forever thankful and pray that we will continue to be blessed with a healthy baby. I will definitely keep everyone posted on upcoming doctor's visits.

Day 5

2010-01-08T13:39:00.000-08:00

Did pretty good today and last night...soup for supper last night, cereal for breakfast and a frozen lunch and a salad for lunch. The cafeteria ladies swear it's low fat ranch dressing, but I'm not so sure. It sure did taste good. I only had a little bit though. Tonight Zane wants to go eat at Old Mexico for dinner. What do I have to eat there that is on the diet list??? No chips...can't do that! I won't order the cheese dip though. Chicken soft tacos? What's the fun in that? So dieting and blogging about it is hard! I guess I could lie and say I'm going to not eat any chips and only order 2 chicken soft tacos and water...but then why go out to eat, right? Can today be my reward day and I eat healthy the rest of the weekend? YES!!!!!!!!!!! That's what's going to happen. I will weigh this weekend for the first time since the first weigh in so next week I may change my tune a little bit and seriously diet!
Happy dieting and happy weekend! Yeah....one day I'll get back to posting pictures, I know my mom is about to have a fit!

Dieting Day4

2010-01-07T13:25:00.001-08:00

Ok, so dieting is hard but I think I've been doing ok. I've stayed away from fast food. The other night, Tuesday I think, my daughter wanted McDonald's for dinner so she could get the Alvin and the Chipmunk toy, so I took her. One thing I learned in Weight Watchers was that if you are really craving something don't deprive yourself of it but have a small portion, so I ordered her the mighty kids meal and ate 1, yes one, chicken nugget and only 3 french fries. Of course I wanted more but I think that's good enough will power and it satisfied my taste buds for a little while. As for what I'm eating the rest of the time...every morning I have cereal for breakfast and I do drink 2 diet caffeine free cokes throughout the day and then water the rest of the time. At school, our lunches are pretty healthy. They don't fry anything and they haven't been serving the delicious buttermilk ranch dressing, so that's a big help! Today I brought a frozen box lunch and tonight we are going to cook shake n bake chicken, green beans and probably stove top stuffing or something like that.
Ok, so all that sounds wonderful but I must confess I haven't completely given up the chocolate. I did finish off the bag of Lindt truffles but only 2 at a time per day! So, is that really that bad? Probably but it's better than eating 5 or 6, right? :)
I'm not a big exerciser so I really haven't been doing what I need to. Today was the first day that I "worked out" on the wii fit. I did physical workout for 21 minutes (worked up a sweat) and then I did several minutes of the balance training. I'm sure I should have done it for about an hour but I had an audience of students watching me...no fun! They enjoyed it though! So, maybe tomorrow I will increase to 30 minutes.
Amanda, how are you doing with your dieting? Please tell me you've cheated a little bit...if only to help my feelings! :)
Happy dieting...and Roll Tide!
(Oh, funny story...one of my students is a Texas Longhorn fan...boo. I made a "bet" with her that if Texas wins I'd bring her a treat, if Alabama wins she can bring me a treat...just for the record, she's the one who bought me the Lindt truffles...hehehe! BUT, I told her since I was dieting that she could just bring me a can of soup instead of chocolate. She laughed and told me to buy her a book, cause Texas was going to win!) {I bet betting with a student is a major no no in school board policy, huh? Might not should have posted that! Just kidding!}
Once again, happy dieting and Roll Tide!

New Year's Resolution

2010-01-04T06:11:00.000-08:00

Hummmm? Wonder what it could be??? What every woman wants to do....loose weight! So, I thought if I kept track of it on here than maybe it will hold me more accountable. We will see.
I weighed last night and I weigh 4 pounds less than I did when I was 9 months pregnant. So, with that being said, I need to get busy. Knowing that I was going to start dieting, yesterday I tried to finish off all the Lindt Lindor Truffles...I didn't get them all eaten so I'm going to have to donate them to the school. I am proud to say that I brought a box of chocolates (still in the wrap) and several other bags of candy to put in the teacher's lounge! (But I didn't have the heart, yet, to donate my truffles...can't I reward myself on the weekend?) Uggghh! That's heartbreaking.
Ok, so today is the first day of dieting....I ate a bowl of cereal (and in just a few minutes I have to go down and "have breakfast" with my coworkers...I'm going to try not to eat anything!!!). For lunch I brought a frozen meal. It only has 3 grams of fat for half the box. I will probably eat the whole box so that it fills me up. In comparing it to the Lean Cuisines and the Smart Ones it has less fat and calories. So hopefully that will work. I'm sure anything is better than McDonald's double cheeseburgers and fries! :) Happy dieting!!! I'm off to the breakfast...with McDonald's biscuits, grits, sausage, doughnuts, breakfast casseroles, etc. Let's test my will power....it's probably a good thing it's not a chocolate buffet or my diet would have to start tomorrow! :)

Ok, so I made it through the breakfast and what do I see when I get back to my computer??? An email asking me to buy Girl Scout cookies! (They only sell them once a year, what will one or two boxes hurt? I'll freeze them and that can be my reward too!) Man, dieting is tough. I am proud of my will power at breakfast though, not so much on the Girl Scout cookies! Well it's 11:00am and time for lunch. My bowl of cereal and fat free milk is way gone now and I'm starving!!! So, here's to my frozen lunch in a box! Happy dieting!

More Tennessee Pictures

2009-12-04T13:24:00.000-08:00

My beautiful bed that I'm sure y'all are tired of hearing about! I'm so excited about it because it is soooo BIG and we needed it! (Zane steals all the covers!!! Not anymore!)

My beautiful darling!! Saw this on the back of a car thought it was cool! My sentiments exactly! (Oh and it was hard to get a pic of that on those curvy mountain roads...and my camera lens was fogged up from leaving it out in the car and then having the heat on!) :)

Playing ski-ball at the arcade!

Lacey and Daddy riding the go-karts! They went 40mph and that was fast on a go-kart around a curve and down a hill! A beautiful creek through the mountains!

Me and Lacey at the top of the sky lift!

Lacey looking down below and at the mountains! Lacey and Daddy at the top of the sky lift!

Going up the sky lift!

You looking at me?

Mountain Trip Continued! Piegeon Forge

2009-12-02T06:27:00.000-08:00

View from Obergatlinburg. Nice ride up the mountain!

Lacey with crazy static hair! Too much fleece and running around!

Lacey and her daddy on game day at the cabin!

Cheesing for the camera!

MaryLynne and Lacey acting silly at The Christmas Place! The dinosaurs at the Jurassic Boat Ride. I was more scared for Lacey than she was of the ride!

In front of a train at The Christmas Village! That is an awesome Christmas shop! They have everything!

Playing in the leaves!

Lacey in front of the creek!

View from our cabin!

Still more to come!!!!!

Gatlinburg in Parts

2009-12-01T12:27:00.000-08:00

Carolyn and Lacey sitting on the back porch! MaryLynne didn't know I was taking her picture specially when she was getting into the cake!

Me and Lacey in front of a creek. She almost knocked me in!!! Grandpa and Lacey cheesing for the camera!

Lacey eating cake!

My Dad! He's smiling because he figured out how to play the Playstation game. Dad playing the Ninetendo DS! He's playing Littlest Pet Shop or something like that. It's a virtual pet spa!

Lacey's cousin Jadee. They played so well together. I'm glad Lacey had her to play with! Lacey waking "Cookie" up. He wasn't expecting the flash!! We gotcha Cookie!

More to come!!!!!!

Glamour Shots (at home!)

2009-12-01T11:45:00.000-08:00

Ok, so this isn't that great but Lacey and I had a lot of fun for about 5 minutes! She loved me putting makeup on her. She has a pink shimmer eyeshadow, mascara and a neutral (although it looks heavy) lip gloss. She also has a touch of blush on. Once I pulled out the camera for the pictures she started acting silly. For some reason she cocked her head to the side in all of these pictures. I was trying to get a close up of her face and eyes. Oh well, it was fun. Oh and we decided to do these at about 8pm one night! So, that's why the colors are a little darker.

November 21, 2009

2009-11-23T13:27:00.000-08:00

My plan for this past weekend was to invite one of Lacey's friends from school to come over to our house and play while I cooked and cleaned. I was hoping that a friend would keep her occupied and I could get something done. Well I knew my plan would either work or backfire on me! It just so happened that it worked! Lacey and Rachel played WONDERFUL together! They played outside on the swing set, they drove the car, they painted, played hide and go seek and doctor with the baby dolls all while I cooked dressing, cookies and peanutbutter balls in 3 hours!! (Not joking...I did it all, while they were playing! It was awesome!)

Lacey and Rachel having a ball in the Mustang! They ran into every tree, bush and swing they could find. They had a great time together.

Rachel and Lacey painting.Cute picture of Rachel.Lacey with Santa. Santa, please bring her a BABY ALIVE doll. She wants it because she wants to practice changing diapers! Haha! Keep practicing Lacey!!

The Peanut Festival

2009-11-10T14:00:00.000-08:00

One afternoon we surprised Lacey by just showing up at the Peanut Festival. She was sooo surprised when she saw the Ferris Wheel and she realized that was her surprise! She went nuts, she was so excited! Feeding the goats, llamas, cows and sheep at the petting zoo.

Riding the tea cups! First ride of the night!

Lacey bungee jumping! She loved that too. Not heavy enough or daring enough to try to do flips!

Mommy and Lacey on the Ferris Wheel. Mommy was a little nervous! That thing is high and goes slow enough for you to realize how high you really are! The view from the Ferris Wheel. You see the Wild Mouse ride? Well you have to be 42 inches tall to ride it and Lacey really wanted to ride it. Well she's only about 39/40 inches tall. Well the little guy that was operating the ride asked it she was tall enough and I said yes. So we waited in line for 20 minutes. He kept eyeing Lacey like she wasn't tall enough. So I put her hood on her head and told her when she walked by the man to stand on her tippy toes or he wouldn't let her ride. Well we get up to the gate and she is on her tippy toes. He measures her and tells her to stop standing on her toes. Well she would NOT get off her tippy toes. I had to physically put her heal down so he could measure her. She was about an inch short (with the hood on) but he let her ride anyways! Lacey was determined to ride the Wild Mouse!!

Zane and Lacey going down the slide!

A very fun evening!!

Long Overdue!

2009-11-09T13:14:00.000-08:00

Some of Lacey's friends at school. Her friend Rachel.

Some of her classmates.

Zane wanted to take us on a boat ride to see the changing color of the leaves. It was a little chilly that morning, so we bundled Lacey up in her ski suit. She was pretty warm!

Decorating the pumpkin!Our finished product!

Halloween evening with Scott, Tina, and Ivy.
Lacey and Ivy playing with a box! Out of all the toys they had the most fun with a box!

Ivy wasn't thrilled about having her picture taken!
Lacey getting her face painted!
Now it's Ivy's turn! She wanted a butterfly! Lacey actually wanted her whole face painted but we just couldn't do that!
Ivy's birthday party! November 1, 2009
The girls dancing for the camera!

Mrs. Debbie's wedding cake, October 24, 2009. Something simple! One cool evening Lacey wanted to have a campfire, so we roasted hotdogs! That was a lot of fun. Too bad she wouldn't eat them! Mommy and Daddy did!

Soccer! Lacey's team was undefeated!!

Coach Marc! Lacey LOVES Coach Marc!

I have no idea what to title this! :)

2009-10-22T13:35:00.000-07:00

I have to first apologize because I have not been updating my blog like I have in the past. I guess the newness of it all is starting to wear off. Don't get me wrong, I do enjoy posting pictures and writing tidbits on here but I just haven't found the time to "play"! I promise I will post some more pictures soon. I have pictures of Lacey getting her soccer trophy, her completed and organized room, and pictures of her for crazy hair day. All coming soon!
Ok, so now that you know I don't have any pictures to post let me tell you a few of Lacey's cute and funny sayings...

The other day I was getting her out of the car and I had her unbuckled but she was taking her dear sweet time. I had about 5 bags of groceries in my hands, the mail, the keys, etc. Well I told her "Lacey, hurry up and get out, my hands are full with the groceries!" She looked at me and said, "Momma, that's not my fault!" What do I say to that? Stop talking back or true? Especially to a 4 year old! How witty!

Ok, another one...She won an ipod shuffle at school for being the top seller in her school. Well she came home that day and said, "Mommy, I won a shovel at school today!" I said, "You did! What do you do with it?" She said, "Mommy, you know you dig with a shovel!" Too cute! Oh, and by the way, we have this apple ipod shuffle thing and don't have a clue what to do with it. I looked it up at Walmart.com and they are selling for $75 so it seems like a good prize but I am clueless about this type of technology! Ok, so I am exaggerating just a little...I do know what to do with it but does it take a long time to download 500 songs...and what 500 songs am I going to put on there for a 4 year old? Oh, I know, her favorite song...Apple bottom jeans and the boots with the fur, and the whole club was looking at her!! HA!
I hope everyone has a WONDERFUL day and I love you all!!! Thanks for reading and taking a look into my crazy world as a mother!

Playhouse Disney Live and a few other pictures!

2009-10-15T12:20:00.000-07:00

A beautiful promise!

Windy day, just messing around!

Lacey dressed up as Dorothy! We've watched the "Lizard of Oz" about 50 times! The cake I made for Madison's birthday. My first attempt with fondant pieces and actually making the fondant myself. That was pretty fun!

Cookies I made!

Soccer pictures!

Lacey being silly!

The twins' birthday party.

Yummy, cake and bubble gum!

At Playhouse Disney Live....

The girls wouldn't stand closer together to have their pictures taken. Atleast we got them to finally smile!

Donald, Tigger, Pooh and Handy Manny

Handy Manny with his talking tools! Mickey and Minnie at the clubhouse.

Mickey looks a little drunk....Sorry Mickey! He doesn't know which door to go in or out!

Ok, next is a project Lynn and I decided to tackle at about 7:00 Sunday night. We took everything out of Lacey's closet, toy boxes, bookcases and went through and organized it. These are the before pictures. I'm not going to post the "after" pictures just yet because I want to take them this weekend and show Lynn that Lacey's room is still clean and organized! Thanks for your help!

Just a few little tidbits. No pictures though! :(

2009-10-08T13:41:00.000-07:00

Ok, so Lynn told me I should write a few of Lacey's crazy sayings down on here that way I won't ever forget them. Here goes....
I went for a parent conference yesterday and the teacher is showing me Lacey's work. Well on one piece of paper it is a picture of me and her and it says My mom and I are laying on the couch. And I think, ohhh how sweet she drew a picture of me and her on the couch. BUT, the next picture is My Daddy plays with me outside while I drive my Barbie car and takes me to the Japanese Steak Restaurant. And a picture of the cook with the tall hat and the knifes! Ugghh! Mommy lays on the couch and daddy takes her out to eat. Boy was I embarrassed after that!

Ok, so now another story. I got pulled over the other night and Lacey started crying when I told her the police was stopping me. The officer asked me if my child was ok and I said, "yes she is just scared!" He gave her candy to calm her down but the whole time she was whimpering in the backseat. The only reason he pulled me over was I forgot to turn my lights on. Now, every time I get in the car, day or night, Lacey informs me to turn my lights on! And is afraid that we will go to jail if we don't have them on!

One morning before church I pulled out a cute navy dress with hot pink polka dots and asked her if she wanted to wear that and she said, "No, that looks too Madisonny!" I don't know what Madisonny looks like but apparently Lynn dresses Madison a certain way and we should just hand over that dress to Madison.

At the ballgame the other night, while sitting with our principal (our boss) and several other teachers. Lacey looks at our principal and says while pointing her finger, "You know Babs (that's what she calls her) that's why I call you the BOSS!" Everybody heard her and died laughing! She was so animated in her speech it was too cute! And of course the prinicpal loved being called "The Boss!"

Ok, I'm sure I could go on and on and on. But that's all I remember for today. We have soccer tonight so I'm sure it will be fun!

An official "Soccer Mom!"

2009-09-09T13:18:00.001-07:00

Lacey and Madison on Alabama game day! Daddy and Lacey ready for the football game!

Lacey with the ball! Go Lacey!

Soccer wears her out pretty good! Got to replenish the fluids!

Number 4! Ok, I know her clothes are too big but the shorts are an XXS, and I've got them tied and safety pinned up!

My little circus clown!

Lacey and Carter! Can you tell she LOVES Carter!

Lacey and Carter!

Colby Mac and Lacey!

I have never seen my daughter sitting with her legs crossed! Carter number 7!

What is that? A soccer ball? What do I do with it?

Photographs from Mrs. Susan!

2009-08-31T12:10:00.000-07:00

I think this is one of my favorites too because this looks like her everyday! Nothing fancy but just precious!

Beautiful smile! One of my favorite pictures!

This was a great idea but the pictures didn't quite turn out liked we had hoped. Maybe next time.

At home playing around!

2009-08-24T13:11:00.000-07:00

Trying to pose! Check out those calf muscles!

Chasing after the soccer ball. Tryouts are Thursday. I hope she makes it. She needs to run off some of that energy!

Granny playing with flipflops on!

First Day of Preschool!

2009-08-12T11:47:00.000-07:00

Laceygot her first homework assignment the week of PreK orientation. She had to create a poster with pictures and telling all about her. To be completely honest, Lacey did the majority of this poster herself. I know the finished product looks like Mommy did it but this is what I had her do. I pulled up all the pictures on the computer and she picked out every picture to put on her poster. She also wanted glitter since glitter and glue are her favorite things so I put the glue and she put the glitter (yes, I have glitter everywhere but I love it too so it's ok!). She also wrote her name, a few of the captions and that she love starfall.com. She placed the pictures where she wanted them but I did add the colored paper behind the pictures, but she picked out the colored paper! :)

I love the backwards "s" in her name but not starfall.com.

This is the first morning of preschool! Lunchbox and bookbag with all the 100 forms signed!

Mrs. Lisa Salter her teacher. She is WONDERFUL. Lacey loves her!

This is what she looked like when I picked her up! She was exhausted and they only went till 11:30 the first day! She was so tired and so hungry!

Ok, a few little stories about preschool. She has already learned a few songs, to raise her hand when she wants to talk and how to go to the bathroom stalls by herself and lock and open the doors! Amazing for 2 days. Now, there have been some problems. The first day of school a girl pulled her hair and a little boy asked if she was alright. Lacey said she told the little boy, "I'm just fine!" He was a nice boy! Then she told us about the boys at the lunch table TRYING to burp and a little boy that was chasing her around the playground trying to make her eat a stick. After much worrying about the boy making her eat a stick, she now knows that only alligators and dogs eat sticks and that she might want to play by the teacher today (also she wanted to wear her tennis shoes so that she could run away from the little boy and be faster!).

I can't wait to pick her up today and hear all the new stories that today offers. Oh, and now I know how it feels to be the parent in the pickup line at school....it's not very fun!

Long overdue!!!

2009-07-29T18:42:00.001-07:00

My beautiful princess smiling big! I like this picture but now that I look at it, it looks like she might be scratching her hiney! Not sure about this one anymore! hehe! (I don't think that's what she is doing though!)

While in Kentucky we went to The Lost River Boat Tour in a cave and also to the Dinosaur World. In the butterfly house, trying to catch a butterfly.

MaryLynne, Lacey and Grandpa waiting patiently for the boat ride in the cave. It was a great time. We had to duck down to go under a big rock to get in the cave. That was actually kind of scary! (You know, in looking at these pictures, I think I get my big forehead from my dad. Oh, and I also have those wrinkles starting between my eyebrows too! Thanks dad! Whew, getting old stinks) I'm only kidding! But I do see a resemblance...that's always a great thing!

Here's our boat!Grandpa made a friend! He looks excited to have found one! Lacey's not so sure about the match! Big Wooly Mammoth....Grandpa...and Lacey!

Belle of Louisville. This is as seen from our hotel room. That is the Ohio River if I'm not mistaken!Messing around. Lacey wanted to wear that dress to town and she was admiring herself in the mirror. Had to capture it with the camera! Excuse the bathroom in the background!

4th of July Pictures

2009-07-05T09:47:00.000-07:00

Granny and Mr. Fish! Two silly girls!

Chastity being silly!

Always laughing and always smiling! What wonderful children!

My favorite! My little angel!.....but sometimes not so angelic! ha!

Madison "double fisting" with popsicles! That popsicle almost cost Lynn $5! HA!

Summer pictures!

2009-07-05T08:36:00.000-07:00

Topic for church last Sunday. I took this picture several weeks ago at Buffy's baby shower. It was on a poster behind her and thought it would be nice to post!

Lacey praying! I asked her to say her prayers while trying to take her picture and I managed to get a good one. Silly Face! It's hard to get Lacey to smile without making a goofy face!

One of my favorites!

Cameron

Cameron and Chastity aka Mr. Fish and Umpha-lumpha!

Myrtle Beach

2009-06-28T16:52:00.000-07:00

This is where we stayed! Yes, it says a campground but it had campers, tents, houses, converted campers into houses, you name it! And it was HUGE! But it was super nice and we loved every minute of our time there! Zane's cousin rented a house for a week with all the amenities and graciously invited us up to stay! She had a come as you please policy so we were able to do a water park, play putt putt golf (twice), play in the arcade, ride in the golf cart parade every night, go to Medieval Times, play on the beach, play in the "kitty kat pool" as Lacey calls it, and all as we please! Ours is the second one with the flag. I hate I didn't get a good picture of it!Golf carts everywhere!
Golf cart parade every night! Reminded me of the strip at Panama City except everyone rode golf carts. (reminder to self: we are not letting Lacey go to the beach by herself until she's married!) The boys were hollering at the girls and the girls were wearing next to nothing and I just thought to myself, "God help us!"The Kitty Kat pool at the campground!The beach! Boy was it crowded! This actually doesn't show all the people! I'll post others later!Lacey at the beach. Notice the sand and water color. Much different than Florida!Sunrise over the Atlantic!Sunrise again!Ok, so I thought this was funny and a "heaven on Earth"! Who would have ever thought of an M&M vending machine? This is a chocolate lovers dream!Every day at 3pm they offered free fire truck rides with the lights and sirens! Lacey loved it! That's her, Jadee, Deborah, and Andrew on the top!

Zane teaching Lacey how to play putt putt golf!

Not quite following daddy's advice!

Sunset at Creek Rats in Murrell's Inlet south of Myrtle Beach!

Myrtle Wave's Water park!
Water spilling out of a volcano, Lacey is down in the purple and pink bathing suit!

I didn't ask her to pose, just smile!

Lacey rode this slide and loved it! She called it the toilet paper ride because you slide into what looks like a toilet bowl! I took several pictures to show how tall it was. The first time climbing up the ride, Zane and I caught Lacey praying! She had her hands together and was asking God to keep her safe and help her not be scared! Once down the slide it became her favorite ride!

Zane and Lacey climbing to the top!

the toilet bowl! That's Lacey coming out of the slide. This is Lacey coming out of the slide into the water 8 feet deep. She loved it and wanted to go by herself! Look how little she is compared to the slide!

I'm no where near finished posting pictures but I'm ready for a break and time for supper so I've got to run! I will finish later!

A days worth of work!

2009-06-14T19:19:00.000-07:00

This is what kept me busy half of a day on Saturday! Mrs. Dean called me to help her cake decorator do these 3 cakes. I did most of the top one (the top 3 layers), all of the groom's cake, and only the square layers on the last cake. I'm not at all a fan of the last cake but it is exactly what the bride requested. I think it would have looked a lot better if they would have filled the layers between the cakes with lots of flowers but now a days brides like simple and plain cakes. Just thought I would share. These pics are from my phone, sorry about the quality!

Yard Sales!!

2009-06-11T13:31:00.001-07:00

I know I'm corny that I took pictures of the items that I bought while yard saling but I had to show everyone the great deals I got. Lacey, my mom and I got up Saturday morning and headed out at about 6:20. There were 34 yard sales that morning (of course we didn't go to all of them but about 10 or 15 of them!). Only a few that we didn't find something! We gave Lacey $5 to spend and loaded the addresses into the GPS and went on our way to find some great deals, and we did. I'm going to post some of my favorite things but there are a lot of things I didn't take pictures of just for the sake of not over doing it! This is what I found that I didn't take pictures of....a rack that holds sodas in the refrigerator, a purse, a beautiful black and white skirt, several pairs of shorts, one pair of capris, a dance video and mat for Lacey, wire organizer rack, a $5 grill for Zane (it is the perfect size to take canoeing or on a small camping trip, his friend joked at him because he called it a "pink" grill...it's red that's been faded and only $5, you can't go wrong with that!), Lacey a brand new pair of Dora tennis shoes, some kitchen towels with the tags still on them, a necklace making bead set for Lacey, some books and various other things that I can't think of at the moment!
This is a picture I bought for $3. It is huge! That's an 8x10 frame sitting beside it. I got the other frame for 50 cents! I hung this picture up in my room. It makes me think I can walk out into a beautiful courtyard! Another large picture that I got for $3. A lot of my walls are bare so this will help!Ok, so I'm undecided on these curtains. I absolutely LOVE the color and that they are damask material but I haven't been able to find some tie backs that I like. Don't laugh at the cord I'm using now cause I'm going to find something else to tie them back. But I got these curtains for a dollar!! I looked at Walmart and they didn't have any this nice or the thickness but each panel cost $17-$30 each! These were so new they still had the wrinkle marks where they had been folded in the package! They must have not fit the window and the person didn't take them back! I'm still undecided if I want to use them in my bedroom too because I have 3 mini blinds but don't really know what to do curtain wise. If I don't keep them in my bedroom I will put them in the living room and spare bedroom. They will be perfect there, but still only a dollar!

I bought this shelf for 50 cents at a yard sale that upon first glance I thought "they aren't going to have anything"! This is the same yard sale I got the beautiful skirt from! Anyway, the shelf was black and I really don't have any black furniture so I had some stone spray paint and painted it. I think it turned out good. Once again 50 cents! Wow! (Dad and MaryLynne, I put your picture on there!)

As I stated in the last post, Lacey and Madison have had this thing with Batman ever since I had to make a Batman cake. Well Lacey found this costume at a yard sale for 50 cents. It's a little big but she loves to dress up in it and have the muscles! Oh, how I love those abs! Prettiest Batman ever!

Got all of this for $4 and would you believe that not a piece is missing from these games? Except the funny bone in Operation but I think Lacey lost that! Operation cost $20 at Walmart and so does the Whac-a-Mole game, so a steal in my opinion.
And this chair with the tag dangling from it. We have 2 of these already but Lacey wanted another one and had her money, so we got another chair to add to our collection. We will take it to the beach next week!
That was all of my yard sale stuff and now on to a different topic. This recipe is for Lynn. She is always asking me for something different and how to cut back in fat in her recipes so here is this one. I LOVE this soup and it was sooo easy. I found it in a Weight Watchers recipe book that MaryLynn gave me. It's called 5 ingredients and 15 minutes (my favorite!). All it is is turkey sausage (I'm sure you can use whatever but the turkey sausage was lean and had a good flavor), a can of fat free chicken broth, rotel tomatoes (I put mine in the blender a little cause I don't like chunky tomatoes), a can of black beans (rinsed), the recipe called for green peppers but I used an onion instead and I also added a half of a can of corn. I cooked the onion and sausage together a little then through everything else in a pot and heated it up, then grilled me 2 quesadillas using fat free cheese (I know, that part stinks, but you can use real cheese if you must). It was delicious! It has a lot of spice because of the rotel tomatoes so go lightly if you try to season it with anything! It really shouldn't need any spices but I did add some black pepper!

Swimming On Saturday!

2009-06-07T11:30:00.000-07:00

Ivy relaxing on a float!

Lacey relaxing on a float. That lasted all of about 30 seconds! Glad I had my camera handy!

Zane relaxing by the pool!

Ivy laughing and having fun! Daddy throwing Lacey into the water!

Catching her breath after coming up!Ivy's turn to be tossed into the water!Playing Shark!

Ivy thinking about jumping in!

Silly face full of hair!

Going off the diving board. It's amazing how pool water can get in her eyes but she hates it when water from the bath gets in her eyes! Jim Ed, the host of the pool party. He grilled up some great food! Enjoyed every bit of it. Thanks Jim!

Lacey and Ivy enjoying a friendly game of pool ping pong. Don't think they fared too good though!

Boat ride and entertaining a 4 year old!

2009-06-07T10:39:00.001-07:00

I remember Tina mentioning how hard it was to occupy a toddler during the summer months and let me tell you it is hard. You don't want them to sit in front of the tv all day, and it's so hot and muggy outside that being outside all day isn't a good idea either...so...what I really enjoy doing with Lacey is baking and cooking. She loves it too! We decided to make cupcakes and at first she wanted to make batman cupcakes after I made a batman cake that weekend. I eventually talked her out of it and we decided on butterflies, after a lot of encouraging! We rolled out the fondant and used a cookie cutter to cut out the butterflies. We then bent them up a little and let them dry while we made the cupcakes. Once they dried I gave Lacey 4 medicine cups of foodcoloring and water and a paintbrush that hadn't been used and let her hand paint the butterflies. She also rolled the center bodies out and did a really good job. We let them dry on an upside down cake pan and waited for the cupcakes to cool!

Mixed some yellow icing, per her request! Added the handpainted butterflies and some pastel flower sprinkles!
Wednesday we headed up to the creek to borrow a friend's boat for a 2 hour boat ride. Lacey and I wore our matching dresses just to get some sun. Lynn, I love the dresses but after the boat ride Lacey and I had to go to Winn Dixie and boy did we get stared at! I won't ever wear these in public again...atleast not at the same time!

I love, love, love Lacey's smile on this one! She enjoyed going under the bridges! An alligator that we saw swimming close by. He was moving fast so it was hard to get a good picture of him. Zane felt like he was about 7-8 feet long or so!

A bird feeding her babies! Lacey loved the wildlife we saw on the water. Her favorite part was watching the turtles slip off the logs into the water when we passed by! I didn't catch a picture of that, maybe next time!

After our Monday cupcake making session, Lacey saw a Backyardigan's episode that had them making a pie so she wanted to make a pie. I thought, once again what a great way to entertain a 4 year old, so we went through about 10 recipe books to find the perfect....well easiest pie recipe! We found a recipe for a carmel chocolate pecan pie and immediately daddy loved the sound of that one! So we decided after the boat ride on Wednesday that we would make the pie and then take it to a friends house to be eaten! We gathered our ingredients after going to the grocery store and it costing $25 to make this pie. The pecans were $12, so I don't really recommend this recipe that is why I'm not going to put it on this blog. Basically it was a pecan, sugar and butter crust, melted caramel, a layer of chopped pecans, and melted chocolate on top...one big ole' turtle candy if you ask me. Now, don't get me wrong, it was good but it was super rich! Maybe a graham cracker crust would have worked better!The hardest part to making the pies....opening all those dang caramels! You'd think, since they are made for baking you could buy them unwrapped! Oh well, that was something that Lacey enjoyed doing!

This is Lacey opening the Ghiradelli chocolate bar. She is pretending it is a "Wonka bar" and she's looking for a golden ticket like in the movie, "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory". Much to her disappointment there wasn't a golden ticket, maybe next time! (ah, just noticed all the art work covering my refridgerator in the background! Everything has to make it on the refridgerator. I think most moms have a fridge like this!)
And the finished product a scrumptious pie and a proud little girl!

May 30, 2009

2009-06-01T13:06:00.001-07:00

Lacey at the park. She got up the courage to slide down the pole! After the inital shock of being up high, she loved it!

Hanging from the bars!

Lynn had a great idea to dress the girls up alike and have them walk through our pine trees. Well we didn't make it home before dark so this is how they turned out....maybe next time, Lynn!The girls are ready to go swimming, just wishing that momma and Lynn would hurry up!Lacey hates water in her eyes in the bathtub but LOVES jumping off the diving board!

Splashing on the side of the pool! Got to love that poolside hat! We took the girls to the Goodwill to just look for junk and came home with some hats!

I think Madison has had her picture taken a few times before, she knows how to pose just right! Lynn, once again with her brillant ideas saw these dresses in Target. They had the little girl dresses and the adult dresses too, so we all bought "hippy dresses" and took our picture together...sunburn and all from the pool!Automatic setting too, so it's not really zoomed in...probably a good thing!

Lacey is soooo excited to be sitting in a "big girl seat"! We got her a booster seat this weekend and she loves it!

What a wonderful weekend! I'm looking forward to a summer full of good times with my family and friends!

Photographer wanna be....

2009-05-24T08:53:00.000-07:00

Lacey really wanted to go to the "barber shop" to get her hair cut! I wanted to get some of the stringy ends cut off and give her a cute little bob for the summer. I think it turned out really cute and will be nice for the summer! Lacey was soooo excited to be getting her hair cut and she did a really good job sitting there still!

Lynn and I were going to try our hand at being a children photographer....boy, that is hard work. Lacey and Madison wanted to play the whole time....looking at caterpillers, playing hide and go seek behind the background material, playing with the umbrella, not wanting to walk on the concrete barefoot and so on, but we managed to get a few good pictures in the process. We tried posing them and then some we just let them go and were snapping pictures as fast as possible. I think I got more pictures of Madison because she stood still the longest! My crazy little girl was running around and hard to catch! Hope you enjoy our beautiful princesses!

Photography skills

2009-05-22T10:10:00.000-07:00

This is my attempt one afternoon to be a photographer with a back drop and a 4 year old. Let me say that it didn't go well at all and I have now realized that the best pictures of children are natural pictures when you catch them off guard and they aren't posed. I bribed Lacey to let me take her picture in her ballerina dress by telling her that after pictures we would bake cupcakes, which we did. The first 2 pictures are of her pulling out a "wedgie"! And the other pictures are the best that I could get. You can tell by the coloring and lighting that I was playing with the different settings. I'm still not sure about the different shutter speeds, the ISO, etc! Still learning. But until then I will have fun taking the various pictures! Oh, and some were outside and some were inside. The ones with the reddish tint to her hair were inside and the crisper pictures were outside. Big difference! Lynn and I are going to be brave this weekend and see if we can get some more pictures to add to our collection! I definitely need to take some photography classes! But here you go.....

These are the cupcakes that we made. On another blog I found these rainbow cupcakes. I didn't have a recipe or anything but just figured you put food coloring in the batter and then layered them in the cupcake pan...well we did! We stumped our toe when putting in the food coloring so that's why we have such vibrant colors! Note...the gel colors work the best, but you only need a little bit. If you use liquid food coloring you will need a lot to tint the cake mix. The purple and blue were Lacey's favorite colors!

May 16th & 17th pictures

2009-05-19T06:11:00.000-07:00

My princess! She had to wear the dress to Lynn's party. That didn't make Madison too happy as you can see in the later pictures. Madison didn't understand why Lacey was wearing hers and she couldn't wear hers too! Lynn surprised at her hubby for pulling off the surprise!

Madison still not too happy about the dress!

OK, so we are trying to introduce Lacey into the world of sports so she can earn her scholarship to college! hehe! No, just kidding, she is a very active little girl. She's still all girl because notice the t-ball attire! Dress and croc shoes!

Lacey is also going to be a chef! She LOVES to help out in the kitchen. She goes in the dining room and pulls a chair to the kitchen counter! She wants to do it all!

That's my cake decorating bag, but Lacey put it on and said, "Get your cotton candy, right here! Get your cotton candy! Popcorn! Popcorn! Get it here!"

My first attempt at fondant icing! I had to make a wrestling ring cake. I don't think it turned out too bad for my first attempt!

Birthday Parties...yes plural!

2009-05-14T10:56:00.000-07:00

Ok, first.....on her birthday Zane had to continue with tradition and give her 4 birthday "licks". She wasn't so sure about that but then laughed it off!Zane wanted to give Lacey something for her birthday that he loved as a kid so he ordered these off the internet for her! She LOVES Pete's Dragon! We got Pinocchio also to teach her what telling a story is all about. She's starting to fib a little bit and she doesn't understand what she's doing!
Zane and Lacey watching Pete's Dragon!
First birthday party to celebrate being 4 years old. Her babysitter allowed us to bring balloons, cake, ice cream, cheese puffs, juice and treat bags to celebrate. I left work for a little while to watch her blow out her candles. Oh, and since her "real" birthday party was going to be all matchy matchy, I let her pick out everything for this. She wanted Tinkerbell plates and a Thumbelina cake and primary color balloons and treat bags...oh and she also wanted to put the dirty teeth mouth pieces in the goody bags! So, I let her!

Her best friend at daycare, Emily! Beautiful eyes!

Blowing out her candles with Emily, Leah, Katie, Luke, and Miley!

When we got home this is what we found in our yard! Lacey loved it!Ok, now to Saturday, the day of the big party! Cameron's sister, Sissy cut his hair so my dad and brother had to fix it. They actually gave him a cute hair cut that will probably be nice and cool for the summer!

Here is what I worked on Saturday morning....Would you believe that I don't have a picture of the finished product? Lynn does! Check out her blog!

Mom painted this board for the kids to throw water balloons at. My intention was to put point values on the board and let them aim at the board. All evening I debated on whether or not to bring out the water balloons and opted to not get them out! I knew if I got them out, I'd be the first one hit! So it was a good idea in thought but not gonna work this year! Serious and Silly face! Car crash!! I think Lacey and Cameron took out the t-ball set!

Lacey and Granny!

Ok, so another idea for a party game was to paint 3 flowers on the side walk and have the children throw sticky frogs and try to get them to land in the center of the flower. The kids enjoyed just throwing the frogs more than anything! I don't think they even noticed the flowers too much!

Ok, if you click on this picture and look at the girls' faces you will see how serious Madison is and how Lacey is hopping....not on the hop scotch! The side walk chaulk and blow up jumping toy was the hit of the party! The kids loved it!

Too cute! I wish Lacey didn't have such a dirty face! The black nose is because earlier that day she went to a town party on the square and they had face painting. She let me wash off everything except the black nose. I couldn't say no and so I let her wear the black nose throughout her party!

Drunks....do not play hop scotch very well! Trust me, my mother knows all too well! That was too funny! I wished I had my camera but I was too busy playing too!

Daddy and Lacey dancing the first dance....Low, low, low! Apple bottom jeans and the boots with the fur!

Madison with her dress hiked up!

Since you put one of me on your blog here's the only one I took of you, Mrs. Popwell!

Carolyn and her sister Shirley, and her daughter Debra! (We are going with them to Myrtle Beach in a couple of weeks and really looking forward to it! Yeah!)

Debra!

Cameron is such an awesome baby! I LOVE snapping pictures of him! Chastity is too but he just can't help but smile!

Flu, Chops, Lance, Phillip, Jay and Scott...the normal gang minus Jim Ed and Z!

Dad with his handy blender! Marguritas anyone?Tina, you're going to kill me for this picture but I love Phillip and your face! I couldn't resist! Jim Ed Jams! Thanks Jim! Mom, after playing hop scotch!!!

Sunday playing ball with Daddy and cousin, Rebecca (Carolyn's brother's granddaughter, does that make them cousins?)

May 1st-3rd

2009-05-04T11:50:00.001-07:00

It looks like I just took a lot of photos of Cameron but I did take pictures of Lacey and Chastity too but Cameron is just soooo photogenic!

In the trees!
I LOVE this picture! (Minus the cheese puff he's holding, but it kind of blends in with the weeds!)

In color! This one is cute too! Still wish I could erase that cheese puff!

Lacey playing horseshoes.

Cameron playing horseshoes!

Lacey cheesing with her sunglasses!

Chastity playing with her earrings. They didn't last but about 20 minutes in her ears! We had a girls shopping trip on Saturday. It was me, my mom, Lacey and Chastity and we went to Dothan. The girls did good but by the time we got home we were exhausted!

Lacey eating a JUMBO lolipop! 3 licks in and she was done!

Looking at the bubbles after washing the car! Buckethead!Thought this was a cool picture of her in mid air! Washing the car!

Lacey driving Cameron around! Michael and Lacey...booo....Auburn hat on! Take it off! Don't let daddy see that picture!

Smelling the flowers!

Just Messin' Around!

2009-04-28T05:56:00.000-07:00

Just a few pictures from last night. Again I was playing with my settings. These look dark on here but on my camera they were a little lighter. Oh well, still cute! My two booga bears! Lacey told a parent at the beach who was asking her name, "My name is Lacey Johnson, but my daddy calls me booga bear!"

Ok, so I finally caught the hummingbird in flight. Again not the best picture so I'm still up for the challenge of trying to get him!
A weed....but a very interesting weed. Thought it would make a cool picture. One day when HGTV comes to my house to redo a room maybe they can do something creative with all these pictures!

Ok, this is Lacey's birthday present from us and grandparents. Yes, we gave it to her 2 weeks early. How do you hide something like that? She's a little scared still but getting the hang of it!

Driving in between the pine trees! Good steering practice!

A Clean House

2009-04-23T13:04:00.000-07:00

Ok, so I am a firm believer in this cartoon...well I shouldn't call it a cartoon because it's not funny to me but the truth! :) I cleaned my house last week before my mother in law came and after only 4 evenings of sleeping at our house since we work during the day, it is completely destroyed! For some reason we just can't seem to clean up after ourselves. And I'm not just talking about Zane or Lacey, but myself included! I am bad about taking off my pajamas and leaving them lay. I'm bad about taking clothes off the hanger and not liking the way they look and dropping them in a pile! I have several piles of clean clothes in our house! I'm trying to teach Lacey to clean up after herself but Man, I've got to start practicing what I preach and clean up after myself! Zane if you're reading this....you too! No, seriously, I think after working all day the last thing I want to come home and do is work some more. I always put things off till the weekend and then come time for the weekend I have a mess....as I do this weekend! The crazy thing is, is that it never takes me long to clean it up, maybe an hour or so! Maybe next year that will be my New Year's Resolution...see I'm putting it off until next year. No, I'll work on it. But I do love this "cartoon" and thought it was very appropriate to my life!

Orange Beach Pictures

2009-04-21T12:00:00.000-07:00

Friday night at Papa Rocca's. Her and Ivy had a great time listening to the music and playing the drums with straws!

Ivy, enjoying her spaghetti!

Zane and Lacey on Friday! Very windy day!

I actually was able to get one photo of Lacey posing for me. The sun was in her eyes but atleast she was still!

Me and Zane before going out to eat on Friday.

Ok, so this looks like the making of a Playboy pose! No, I didn't pose her on this one, nor did I tell her to lay on the sand like that!

Zane and Lacey at Adventure Island! I think Zane enjoyed it more than Lacey...oh by the way, I shot 4 under par on the goofy golf and beat Jeff, Zane, mom and my brother by a bunch!

Pirate Lacey, arggggg! At Tacky Jack's for breakfast! Friday in front of the fountain. No, Momma! Not another picture!

Playing with the black and white settings and shutter speed. Eyes are closed but still pretty in black and white!

Playing again. Notice, I'm having a hard time getting any pictures straight on. I took 232 pictures from Thursday at Disney on Ice to Monday at the beach. I'm picking out some of the better ones. She is hard to catch...I think worse than the ice skaters zooming by!

Ok, I have no idea who this young boy is but I saw him standing there and thought that would make an awesome picture. I tried it in sepia and color and love the sepia the best. I just like it for some reason.

Disney on Ice

2009-04-17T07:55:00.001-07:00

Lacey before the show. I don't have time to really write about the show right now since we are leaving for the BEACH, in about 5 minutes. I just wanted to go ahead and get the pictures on here and off my camera since I took 95 pictures at the show!! I need to make room for more beach pictures now! Not sure how many the memory card will hold but right now it's got 400 so I imagine it's about time to clean it off. Well here goes a couple pics from the show!

Easter 2009 (Saturday)

2009-04-12T12:46:00.000-07:00

Easter Egg Hunt at Hopewell Baptist Church with Madison. My child wasn't interested in hunting Easter eggs but more interested in playing with all the cool playground equipment. Madison and Lacey listening as the Easter story was being read. Before we went to the Egg Hunt, I told Lacey that before they would hunt eggs someone would tell them the story about Jesus. Lacey said politely, "But Momma you already told me about Jesus last night. We can just hunt eggs."
Madison and Lacey at Open Pond at our family Easter Egg Hunt. I tried to get a picture of everyone at the egg hunt. Some knew I was taking pictures of them and others didn't! hehe!

Cameron

Erik (playing football with the fellas, didn't know I took that picture)

Graham...another unsuspecting victim!

Erika, she's hard to catch for a picture...constantly on the move!

Michael and ChastityBrandy

Gracie...huh????

Awe, how sweet!

Buffy The guys...just hanging out enjoying a beautiful day! (Graham, Lance and Zane, Erik is hiding behind Graham)
Madison and Grayson...watch out Lynn, she's already riding in cars with older boys!

Lynn....or should I say Mrs. Popwell!?!?

Grayson, Madison and Lacey on the peer!

Me, Lacey and Zane in front of Open PondThe kids linded up ready to take off and grab eggs! There were over 170 eggs hidden for 7 kids to find!

I found one!

Easter 2009

2009-04-12T12:03:00.000-07:00

Lance (Uncle Cookie), Lacey, Mamaw, and Daddy Having Fun!

Tired of all the pictures!

Lacey, me, Zane and Carolyn

Lacey and Granny!

Lacey posing...I didn't pose her like this! She did this herself! Hopefully she's getting into the swing of things with me taking all these pictures! Chastity, Lacey and Cameron

Fun with my camera...

2009-04-11T12:28:00.000-07:00

Flower in Carolyn's yard. Easter pictures.....COMING SOON! The FAT hummingbird that has been staying in my front yard. I have been trying to catch him in flight. That little joker moves fast! I zoom in and the minute he takes off flying I lose him and have to zoom out to find him and then it's too late! I'm going to get a good picture one of these days! The squirrel at the park! Lacey wants a pet squirrel like the ones on the movie, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory!
Once again playing with the settings on my camera. Full Moon....explains the kids behavior at school! :)

Father-Daughter Softball lessons!

2009-04-11T12:07:00.000-07:00

Ok, so my pictures are once again out of order...but you get the idea!

Wow! Daddy! Doesn't Daddy look like he's concentrating hard? Look at the admiration in our little girl's eyes! Ok, so I just about had to pull teeth to get her to pose like this!
This one too, but I like the way they turned out!

Lacey and Zane outside one afternoon learning the basics of softball. Zane taught her how to throw overhanded and also how to hold the bat. While in the middle of the overhanded lesson, Lacey felt like that reminded her of the umpa-lumpas on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory! So we had to dance a little too and sing the umpa-lumpa song! Oh, the attention span of a 4 year old!

Look at the smile on her face!

Picnic Fun

2009-04-08T06:04:00.000-07:00

Picnic after Church! Great family fun!

Daddy and Squirt walking to the Merry-Go-Round!Scared of the big slide!

Mommy and Lacey going down the slide!

Mommy and Daughter's Day Out

2009-04-06T13:44:00.001-07:00

Saturday we did our hair and makeup, and yes, Lacey had to have her hair curled and makeup put on. Usually she's very tomboyish but not for girls' day out! We went to Walmart and bought a few things for Easter, then went to the Pilgramage, looked at the art and the ladies dressed in their frilly dresses. Then we looked at the Corvettes (Grandpa would be proud). We then got ice cream and sat under the gazebo and watched traffic go by! After that we went to Burger King to play and back to the house. Once at the house we stained the rocking chairs and porch swing and Lacey did a great job! I sat the rocking chairs out in the yard and gave her a small paint brush and let her have at it! I came by every once in a while to catch the drips but they turned out nice. She did a good job and didn't get much stain on her! :) These pictures are out of order but you get the idea!

Pictures from the past couple weekends

2009-03-30T13:05:00.000-07:00

Lacey's favorite dinner! Oh, how I love cooking dinner for her!

Lacey earning her allowance. Taking her sheets off her bed and putting them in the dirty clothes basket! That's worth 50 cents!

These are pictures of Lacey rock climbing at Fun Factory. These are my old camera pictures.

Erika's cupcake cake

Kitten cupcakes

Practicing t-ball

Weekend

2009-03-23T14:01:00.000-07:00

This weekend was busy but a lot of fun! Lacey and I stayed outside almost all day Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday! And if I'd get off this computer and go home we would be outside some more! Well first of all I don't know how to really get my pictures in order so they may be out of sequential order. Saturday night we had a semi-girls' night out. We got together and went to dinner and then back to Tina's house to chit chat. It was nice not having children or husbands for a couple hours! Then on Sunday I made Gracie a birthday cake using my airbrush gun my dad got for me! While I was decorating a cake Lacey was riding in the battery operated jeep!

The side mirror that fell off after running into the truck! oops! got to work on steering!
Lacey riding her baby doll around! She asked if she could be the momma and drive her baby!

Lynn at Tina's house

Tiffany H. She was the Guinea pig for testing the flash on my camera!

Tina, Tiffany B., me, Tiffany H. and Lynn

Tiffany B. (also the Guinea pig for testing the timer button!)

Fishing

2009-03-23T13:41:00.000-07:00

My little fisherman! Turning her hat around backwards! Little Miss Bass Pro Shops!

Madison's fish! Lacey's fish!
My fish! I think Lacey out fished me and Madison!

geese

Madison with her glasses upside down! Too cute!

Lynn and Madison trying to reel the big one in!

Lacey and Pawpaw trying to reel one in!

Geese drinking!

My grandpa!

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I LOVE YOU, PA!!!!!!!!!!!

A few more photos

2009-03-20T07:18:00.000-07:00

I know this is not a picture of her face, but for some reason I love this picture.

I was trying to get her to pose with an Easter bunny but it didn't quite turn out the way I had planned but they are still good pictures!

Nature

2009-03-20T07:10:00.000-07:00

Isn't this a cool picture? I was about 4 feet away!

New camera pictures

2009-03-20T07:01:00.001-07:00

These are just some pictures I took of Lacey outside playing yesterday. It was hard to catch her because she moves so quickly!

Lacey

2009-03-15T07:30:00.000-07:00

My happy little girl! (Lynn, I stole that from your blog!)

Being Crafty...Bow holder

2009-03-12T14:03:00.001-07:00

I don't know what made me think to do this but I knew I wanted to paint something so I went to Walmart and saw this wood plaque. I then picked out some pink and green paint since those seem to be the trendy colors. Then, it just so happened that they had this plaid ribbon to match. So, I went home and got to painting. I actually free handed this so don't get out a ruler and measure but I think it turned out pretty cute. I can't wait to clip on all of Lacey's bows. Oh, and Lacey was "glittering" my table with glitter glue! (she had a coloring book but most of the glitter ended up on the table!) So, I used her pearly glitter to go over her name and I think it added a cute sparkle! The picture isn't that great because it's actually from my phone. But thought I would post it just for the heck of it!

Birthday!

2009-03-09T14:17:00.000-07:00

Well, considering the circumstances I had a nice birthday! My mother and my best friend did everything in their power to make it a wonderful one and it was. The day before my birthday and before my grandfather's funeral my mother took me to the beauty shop and paid for me a massage, pedicure and manicure. We also had my hair done and eyebrows waxed. She bought me yellow box flip flops and a tackle box for my cake decorating supplies. (Bass Pro Shops at that! So my cake tips will have a namebrand caddy! Too funny, but wonderful!) Then the day of the funeral and my 30th birthday, I woke up early and rushed but still managed to go to a couple yard sales with Lynn, then make it to the funeral home by 9:15! Yes, 9:15! Can you believe it? Then after the funeral, I was able to rest a little bit and that's when Lynn brought me a cake and a gift card to go shopping! So, in all it was a nice birthday. I appreciate those that tried to make an otherwise gloomy day such a joyous day. I have wonderful friends and family and I am truly grateful! (Lynn, we will have our "girl party" later! I'm looking forward to it, but I'm still expecting the lasagna!)

Whining

2009-02-24T13:50:00.000-08:00

Do you ever want to tell people to stop whining?.......Oh, am I whining? Have I been whiny in the past few months? Ooops! Maybe shouldn't post about the subject of whining and whiny people!

Out of the FUNK!

2009-02-19T14:33:00.000-08:00

Ok, contrary to popular belief I was not in an "altered state of mind" last night. I was just in a GREAT mood. Don't ask me why, because I have no idea why. I did exercise and work my butt off (oh, how I wish! but my butt's still just as big!), so I'm not sure if that gave me a burst of energy or what! But, I was happy and was in a mood where I just didn't care and was going to have fun! I took Lacey outside and pushed her on the swing, cleaned my house, had a DELICIOUS apple martini (Yummy!) and just hung out texting my best friends! Ok, so I got a little carried away with it but it was fun! I even texted (is that a word?) the wrong person....ooops! So maybe my mind was altered just a little bit by the martini....nah or maybe I'm out of the funk now. I just wanted to have a good time. Live a little!
But, sorry girls I won't be texting tonight because I have 5th grade parent night! Maybe this weekend!
Right now, I am sitting behind my desk with my feet kicked up and enjoying the afternoon (writing article summaries, I feel like I'm back in school, ugghh!) Although I have work to do I have a sense of accomplishment because I'm knocking stuff off of my to-do list!
Tomorrow Lacey and I are off to Birmingham to the doctor. That sucks but hopefully this will be the last trip! Well I guess I'll end my post here by saying.....Thank God I'm out of the FUNK! (I know Lynn is happy too!)

Facebook

2009-02-18T05:46:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I love being on Facebook. I like looking at everyone's pictures and their posts. I also LOVE coming in contact with people I have lost touch with. Since I moved to Alabama I lost touch with friends I've had since 3rd grade. Friends that I saw everyday and took for granted that I'd see them again. I am able to see that they are doing ok now. People who I thought didn't even know me have asked to be on my facebook page and I'm in awe. Maybe it's that they want to have a lot of friends listed on their page or maybe they are like me and just want to see how everyone is doing. But, here's the flip side of my story. I can't get on facebook but like once a week. Of course at school it is blocked from our internet service except on the wireless connection. The wireless connection is soooo shady. It works for about 5 minutes a day and that's it. If you're lucky you will catch it working and can get on but it hasn't worked since Friday. And being the penny pinchers we are, we are too cheap to pay for internet service at the house when we are on the internet continuously throughout the day at work. So to all my facebook friends and those in waiting for me to confirm you as a friend, hold tight. As soon as I find a way to connect I will be on! (Also, I still haven't quite figured everything out on there. Connie is throwing me Mardi Gras beads and I don't know what to do???)

Long Weekend!

2009-02-17T13:02:00.000-08:00

Ok, so my husband asked if I was going to write about Valentine's Day on here....of course I am! It was a very nice relaxing weekend. My husband needs help when it comes to gift buying. I usually have to hint really big for him to get it (so here goes for my birthday on March 7th...honey, I want a new bedroom suit and a camera....not asking for much, ehh? But it's the big 3-0!) Just Kidding, well kind of. Anyway, back to the weekend, he asked me what I wanted for Valentine's Day and I said a day of rest. I want a day that I can watch Lifetime movies, daydream, stay in my pajamas, not cook, etc. So, he did that for me. He took Lacey to town twice and took us out to dinner. So, I got to enjoy 2 Lifetime movies and a day of semi-not cooking (I cooked breakfast). Sunday was relaxing...went to church, had a friend come over for dinner, some more movies, then on Monday, the same....movies and rest! It was very refreshing but it made for a lazy day today at work. My body got used to staying up late (well later than usual) and sleeping in. I did NOT want to get up this morning at 5am. It's amazing how when you are single or without children you take for granted the alone time or you wish to have something to do. I love my husband and my daughter but every once in a while I like to just chill out and not do anything....no cooking, no cleaning, no watching Barbie movies, no nothing but quiet time (a good book or a movie). Of course I would not trade my life for anything different right now but sometimes you just need a few moments to stop and breathe out. Thank you sweetheart for a wonderful weekend.

Lacey

2009-02-09T13:26:00.000-08:00

This is a picture of her writing her name in the sand "so the alligators will know she was there." Her own words. At the park having a picnic yesterday!
Those are our pine trees. Notice the one behind them is taller than pawpaw! They are growing so tall and will soon shield us from the road.

Lacey pointing to the alligator sign!

My daughter is growing up! I am going to the Elementary school tomorrow to meet the pre-k teachers. (I'm so sad!) Oh, one funny things she said this weekend....I said,"Lacey, you are so crazy!" Without missing a beat she replied, "just like my daddy!" She couldn't be more right!These are pictures of her "pole dancing". Yes, pole dancing. I have a canopy bed and she loves to climb up as high as she can go and slide down. She calls it her pole dance(I'd like to think that she is innocent and doesn't know what pole dancing is! I can assure you all that I didn't teach her that!

2009-02-08T14:38:00.000-08:00

Here are a few pictures from our painting adventure. This is a painting mishap! Stepped down off the ladder right into the paint tray! Felt great in between the toes! Before...pale sage green, blah!

Half way through!

The finished product! Looks a little dark but it's not really! It's really pretty I think!

Christmas 2008

2009-02-05T13:52:00.001-08:00

The girls at Christmas....Serious Silly
These are in addition to my other Christmas pictures I posted. I've been rather slow with the blogging lately. I will try to catch up! I've got to start taking more pictures! I did take pictures of the paint job my mom and I did last weekend. It turned out really well. I might post those later!

I feel your pain, Tina!

2009-02-02T13:54:00.000-08:00

Ok Tina! I think I'm in the same boat as you are....sort of! I've been in that FUNK too! Just going through day to day just blah! I hate to admit the stuff I'm about to write because I hate coming off insecure but I think we all have insecure moments and my moments have been over the past couple of weeks. It really started last week when I decided to color my hair....BIG MISTAKE! Ok, for those of you who know me, know that I've always colored my hair, well since middle school. Well the past couple of years I have just had it highligthed professionally to allow it to get back to it's natural color, (well as best as I would let it!) :) So, I didn't think that coloring my hair would be a big deal....wrong! It turned out tangerine orange! I was so embarrassed. I didn't want to go to work the next day, but my loving husband reassured me "it didn't look that bad!" So, I went to work and scheduled a hair appointment to have it "fixed". I told the hair dresser, "I don't care what you do to it, just fix it from being orange." Second BIG MISTAKE! She went LIGHTER! So now I am a bleach blonde with little orange tints! And many of you are going to say it doesn't look bad because you are my friends and family and I appreciate that, but how I know it looks bad is because NO ONE at work has come up to me and said, "Oh, I love your hair!" Like everyone does when you come back to work with a new hair do!
So with all that in mind, I think that has been the icing on the cake of why I'm in the FUNK, as Tina called it. I just haven't been liking my appearance. I have been dieting and exercising and only losing 1 pound or a half pound a week and that's very discouraging. But, I know I do have to be thankful for all the wonderful blessings in my life, and I am very thankful, but I think that I have been a little down lately and I just need to pick myself up. I know Lynn will agree with that!
I did feel good Saturday night when I actually hung out with people I don't typically hang out with. It was good to be in a different setting than the usual...
So, when will all this funk go away, Tina? Please don't tell me when my hair grows out! Uggghh!

Lacey, Ivy and Madison growing up!

2009-01-26T12:38:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Tina, here is the 2007 Christmas picture.

Madison, Ivy and Lacey Christmas 2005Ivy, Lacey and Madison (kicked back and relaxing) Christmas 2006

Lacey, Madison and Ivy Spring 2008?
I'm missing Christmas 2007. We try to take one every Christmas. Tina or Lynn do you have that picture? I have already posted their Christmas pictures from this year.

My how they grow up!

2009-01-26T12:23:00.000-08:00

I don't have any new photos to post so I thought I would post some old ones. It's amazing to see how Lacey and Madison have grown up. I am so happy that they have had a chance to grow up together and I hope they continue to be friends for a long time. I don't have exact dates but I can guess by the clothes they are wearing :) as to when these pictures were taken.

This one is probably Spring 2006. Correct me if I'm wrong Lynn. This one is December 2005 or January 2006.

Summer 2007

Ivy's birthday party October 2007

I've been tagged by Lynn to talk about my hubby!

2009-01-21T06:13:00.000-08:00

What is his name? Zane Dale Johnson

Who eats more? he does

Who said, "I love you" first? He did at Lynn and Jason's apartment.

Who is taller? He is.

Who is more sensitive? hands-down, ME!

Who does the laundry? We both do. He puts them in the washing machine and dryer and I fold them….when I get around to it!

Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? He does. Don’t know why because at our old home I did. His side of the bathroom is closer to his side of the bed and same for my side.

Who pays the bills? He does! Thank goodness. I was never good at doing that.

Who cooks more? I do, but I did teach him how to make scrambled eggs and waffles this weekend!

Who is more stubborn? we both are equally stubborn!Who is the first to admit they are wrong? I think we both do. Maybe he would first. I typically like to be right!

Who has more siblings? I do. One brother, one step brother, and 2 step sisters. He has 2 brothers.

Who wears the pants in the relationship? He does.

What do you like to do together? Sit by the fire, eat dinner, and play with Lacey.

Who eats more sweets? ME! But we both love ordering dessert when we go out to eat.

Guilty Pleasures? Zane-hanging out with his friends….late into the night, or should I say early morning. Me….shopping and chocolate!

How did you meet? At Sabrina’s party. Lynn and I went late one evening and Jason introduced us.

Who asked whom out first? That would be him.

Who kissed who first? We did it together on a canoe trip.

Who proposed? He did at my grandfather’s house and I didn’t think that he was for real. I thought the ring was someone else’s not for me.

His best features and qualities? He is very caring and wants only the best for his little girl. He is an excellent daddy and takes charge whenever he needs too. He is always willing to help out.

Tag you're it. Who do you tag? MaryLynne Healey, Grandma Healey, and Jessica Carr.

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2009-01-19T11:12:00.001-08:00

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Random pics from our vacation

2009-01-05T08:20:00.000-08:00

Scott and Zane on the slopes.

Lacey and Ivy

After a long cold day!

Our car with snow on it! A first!

Our snowman!

The snowmen's untimely death!

Ski Trip

2009-01-05T08:13:00.000-08:00

Zane is the one straight back in the picture with the brown jacket and the navy hat on. He's got his butt stuck out a little bit. The ski instructor kept telling him, "You're not trying to use the bathroom, you're skiing!"Snow maker

Sugar Mountain Ski Trip First Day

2009-01-05T06:18:00.000-08:00

A view of the slopes from the bottom of the mountain.
Zane and Lacey bundled up. The first day we were there was the coldest. The wind was really blowing hard. Lacey looks like a pink marshmallow!

I'm not so sure about cold weather!

Biltmore Winery

2009-01-05T06:13:00.000-08:00

Zane with 3 bottles of wine. We went to a tasting and I actually found 2 that I really liked. I'm hard to please when it comes to wine for some reason. I don't know what kind of wine we actually bought, one was a Christmas wine and the other had a long fancy name! hehe!

Biltmore House North Carolina

2009-01-05T05:57:00.001-08:00

Pictures don't do this house any justice. No photographs were allowed to be taken inside so I only have pictures of outside. I also had to take 3 pictures to get the entire house and I had to stand far away to get as much of the house in the picture. Zane in front of the house. Notice the people in the background near the house. That might show how far away we are when we took this picture and how big the house is.

This is the view from the back of the house. Pictures don't do it justice!

Me in front of the house. Stairs are in the bakcground. You can kind of see some of the detail work!

This is a picture of where the winding grand staircase is.

Me in front of the house. Again the whole house doesn't fit in the picture. Don't I look like a tourist?

This is the intricate wood detail around the window, again on the outside of the house!

Right side of the house.

Left side of the house.

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2008-12-28T17:35:00.001-08:00

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2008-12-26T17:31:00.000-08:00

Letter to Santa, cookies we made with Lynn and Madison, and milk all for Santa! Letter to Santa. Lacey wrote her name. I helped her with the rest of the letter.

Christmas at out house!

2008-12-26T17:27:00.000-08:00

Michael and ChasityGracie and Cameron

Granny and Chasity

Christmas pictures

2008-12-26T17:12:00.000-08:00

Fishing pole from pawpaw!

Lacey dancing.

Daddy and Lacey Christmas morning.

The 3 Girls!

2008-12-26T17:09:00.000-08:00

Lacey, Madison and Ivy at the Christmas Party!

Christmas presents

2008-12-26T16:57:00.001-08:00

From Santa: Lacey's favorite toy, the snowcone maker!Thank you to everyone for all the nice gifts. Lacey was truly blessed with gifts this Christmas.
She loves every present and couldn't wait to play with them all!

2008-12-24T18:16:00.000-08:00

I forgot to add these pictures back to my blog. So here they are...

Just acting silly! Me and Lacey at the fair, riding the "steering wheel"

Lynn and I enjoying a Girls' Night Out in Montgomery! After a long day of shopping, it was nice to sit outside and enjoy dinner and then a movie.

Changes

2008-12-23T11:38:00.000-08:00

Lynn and I have been rearranging pictures, columns, etc to my blog. Therefore, some things are a little out of order. If anyone knows how to move posts please advise! Otherwise look further down to see the newer posts. Those of you who are following my blog will have a ton of new post in your comments page. Sorry, trying to get things fixed.

Pumpkin Patch

2008-12-23T11:32:00.000-08:00

Lacey, Lisa and Madison

Our trip to Niagara Falls

2008-12-23T11:27:00.001-08:00

View from our hotel room.

Lacey and Zane at night at the fallsZane acting silly!

Us sitting in front of the American FallsThe mist gettng to Lacey!

The Maid of the Mist

2008-12-23T10:33:00.000-08:00

The rice krispy wreaths that Lacey and I made for daycare. Lacey loved licking the bowl!Lacey wrapping presents for all of her friends at daycare.
Daycare presents.

At the mall in Dothan waiting to see Santa

2008-12-12T13:06:00.000-08:00

Santa at the mall

2008-12-12T13:02:00.000-08:00

Lacey giving Santa a picture she made for him.
She wasn't scared at all!

Getting ready to go see Santa!

2008-12-12T12:57:00.000-08:00

Mommy had curlers in so I wanted curlers in too. Got to get ready for Santa!

Thanksgiving with Grandpa

2008-12-12T12:52:00.000-08:00

Lacey with Grandpa

Thanksgiving 2008

The Weekend!

2008-12-08T13:31:00.000-08:00

What a busy weekend we had! First of all we went to see Santa Friday night. Lacey was soooo excited. She loved seeing Santa. She stood at the side rail and just gazed at Santa waiting her turn in line. She even brought Santa a picture she had made at daycare. When it was finally her turn she ran up to Santa and hugged him with the biggest hug I have ever seen. She hopped up in his lap and told him everything she wanted for Christmas. (I took pictures, I'll add them tomorrow. I haven't taken the time to download them yet.) After seeing Santa we had to ride the Merry-Go-Round, but not with Daddy, but all by ourselves. Lacey is starting to be little Miss Independent and wants to do everything by herself. Next it was on to the escalator! What mall trip wouldn't be complete without a ride on the escalator? By this time it was 9 o'clock and our little girl was hungry for some dinner. So, we went to TGIFridays and I think she ate the most spaghetti she has ever eaten....and enjoyed every bite of it! It was all over her face. Before we even made it out of Dothan on our way to Andalusia she was down for the count! I know that was only a little family outing but it was a wonderful time just to enjoy the little things like spaghetti, the escalator and riding the Merry-Go-Round. We got to Andalusia pretty late but not too late that we couldn't make the Pancake Breakfast Saturday morning with Carolyn. (And I wonder why I gain weight, hummmm?) Once again another one of Lacey's favorite foods....pancakes with lots of syrup! Then my mother and I had to cater a wedding....that's another story another day.
Oh, I have to mention this too....Lance (Uncle Cookie, as Lacey calls him) taught Lacey all the chess pieces and how to line them up on the chess board! Amazing! But instead of calling the pawns, pawns she told me they aren't "lakes" mommy, they are "ponds". Silly me, I should have known better. What do I know about chess?
So, it was a busy but nice weekend with a lot of life's simple pleasures! I hope everyone takes the time to enjoy some of the simple things...next time you're in the mall and things are busy go ride the escalator and think of my sweet darlin!