Random Pictures from January

Kaleb, Josh, Alyssa, Aaron

Random Pic from new years

Princess the kitty playing with a zhu zhu pet

View from my laundry room window

One of Alyssa's many weird faces!

Playing with her new crib life baby

Shirley (we were talkin about somethin who knows what) LOL  we were waiting on the kids to get out of school

Alyssa and Riely at their first of upward game

My granny!  Love her dearly

Aaron sitting in time out and not to happy about it!

Goofin around with the nephews cars

Not really sure what she was doin!

Aaron putting on his shoes

Riley goofin around during the game

Where my craftiness comes from!

My grandma (miss you dearly grandma theres not a day that goes by that I don't think about you) and papa on my moms side! Me my cousin and brother are also in the pic!  

(My granny on my dad's side! This was taken just recently)  

Those 2 ladies right there have taught me alot of things over the years!  I spent many days right there along side them either cooking, sewing or what ever else they could come up with to do when I was younger.  Sometimes there are days I wish I could go back and spend more time with them and pay more attention to certain things that I thought "I'll never need this"  Guess what I DO!  They taught me many life lessons!  Between them and my mother I am a better person because of them!  I love you all!

Family Fudge

One of my most favorite quotes is:

Families are like fudge - mostly sweet with a few nuts.  ~Author Unknown


This is such a very true statement!  Well when it comes to my family anyway!  The holidays are upon us and every year around this time the memories from childhood of our family gatherings come back to me!  It always fun and hilarious to sit here and go down memory lane!  

(one of the many Christmas's spent together)

But after going down memory lane I see my daughter and realize she'll never those memories like we did with the whole family packed in to a tiny house, with a ton a food and games and there was almost always a fight between someone but those are the things I miss about the holidays is our whole family together!

My kid will never have that all because of stupid petty arguments that have taken place since my grandma passed!  My aunts and uncles are grown adults and can't manage to get over the petty stuff and get along for the kids sake!  

Yeah I've done my best to make Alyssa's holidays as memorable and fun as possible but its just not the same!  

So I guess the whole point of this is even though you may fight and not always agree with your family love them and be there for them anyway!  You never when they won't be there!  

Random Pictures!

The kids (nephews + alyssa) couldn't manage to catch a live one so they found them a dead one to catch!

Back when everything she did was so sweet and innocent!

50's day at school for red ribbon week

One of my most favorite I've taken recently!

One of my weird crazy concoctions that I made for crazy hat day during homecoming week!

The crazy weird things I find in my dryer!

80's day during homecoming week

Poor tiger didn't stand a chance against me and my siccors!

Cool lightining pic I got during a storm a couple weeks ago

Alyssa's hangglider patch she got in awanas

About to meet his fate

A sneek peek at the quilt I'm making alyssa for christmas

Photo challenge day 1!

So starting today I'm going to do a photo (who knows may end up being more than one) a day for a year!  Yeah may seem crazy but I want to see where this ends up!

Ok so todays photo(s):

"Hurry it cold"

The whole group!

By herself!  

The fearless driver!  Man must be nuts if hes gonna drive a limo with 9 kids and only one adult for supervision on a trip to and from mcdonalds!

Today Alyssa got to go on a limo ride to mcdonalds that she earned by selling 15 savers cards for school!  She was excited!  She has been talking about it nonstop since she got home!   Lets just hope that the next time she rides in a limo is very far of in the very very very distant future!  LOL

It says so much!

"God Gave Me You"

I’ve been a walking heartache
I’ve made a mess of me
The person that I’ve been lately
Ain’t who I wanna be

But you stay here right beside me
And watch as the storm blows through
And I need you

Cause God gave me you for the ups and downs
God gave me you for the days of doubt
And for when I think I lost my way
There are no words here left to say, it’s true
God gave me you
Gave me you

There’s more here than what we’re seeing
A divine conspiracy
That you, an angel lovely
Could somehow fall for me
You’ll always be love’s great martyr
And I’ll be the flattered fool
And I need you

God gave me you for the ups and downs
God gave me you for the days of doubt
And for when I think I lost my way
There are no words here left to say, it’s true
God gave me you

On my own I’m only
Half of what I could be
I can’t do without you
We are stitched together
And what love has tethered
I pray we never undo

Cause God gave me you for the ups and downs
God gave me you for the days of doubt
God gave me you for the ups and downs
God gave me you for the days of doubt
And for when I think I lost my way
There are no words here left to say, it’s true
God gave me you, gave me you.
He gave me you. 

Day 1

So today is Day 1 of the diet!  Which I stupidly though was gonna be a breeze because you can pretty much eat anything you want and as much as possible (crazy I know but it is a crucial part)!   Well I(we) were wrong 1)the drops taste like ass 2) thanks to the drops its actually difficult to load up!  Like seriously 4 bites of pizza and I was stuffed!  But I will keep pushing it will all be worth it in the end!   Off to go and try and put down the 2 cupcakes my mom has donated to the cause!  LOL wish me luck!