Some Baby Shower Decorations

Last weekend I had to do some decorations for Monica's sister-in-law's baby shower. So I thought that I would show some of the decorations that I did for that. I got the idea for the one from the Woman's World Magazine. My mom and aunt Nunu found it and thought that I may be able to use it. It is the one with the pacifier in it's mouth.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM!!!!!!

This past Saturday was my mom's birthday. And on her birthday I helped her finish wallpapering my kitchen. I will post pics of the finished wall soon. I still need to get some things out of the way. (like a cabinet) We had her a birthday dinner on Sunday since she was off on Sunday. I fixed spaghetti and a salad and Sheryl made a wonderful chocolate covered cherry cake. mmmmmmm. Mom got a sewing machine for her birthday, a cell phone, a carnation plant, pens, a sweater, and a picture of her kids, their spouses, and grandkids in a frame.
For the most part we had a really good time and the food was really good. Especially the cake, but don't tell Sheryl :)
Now also this weekend Mom and Casey had a conversation on the way to DJ's house. And here is how it went.
Casey: Vivi is ur husband dead?
Vivi: No.
Casey: Did him get anutter girlfriend and leave?
Vivi: (not wanting to explain divorce and why things just don't work) she said, Yes.
Casey: Well, at least you still have your job.
Now when she got up to my brother's house, DJ asked her if she missed them. She said no. DJ asked her why she was up there. Casey said to watch TV because we didn't have cable.
As everyone knows Groundhog Day has come and past. And the groundhog here did not see his shadow. But Casey will argue with you and say he did see his shadow and that we will have 6 more weeks of bad weather. And that everyone else is wrong.

Now before I end this post I do want to send another Happy Birthday out to my Uncle Dennie, whose birthday is today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY DENNIE!!!!! :)

Just an update

I haven't posted anything for a while, so I thought that I would update everyone on what's going on in my neck of the woods. It seems that Nunu and me caught the same sinus bug. I wish that we could have killed it instead of catching it. Both of us are on medication and seem to slowly be getting better. I know that the people around me have been a little happier because I have lost most of my voice. :)
Last week I pulled a few 3rd shifters so that I could do some things during the daytime and so that I could have Friday off. My mom came over Friday afternoon so that we could take the wallpaper in my kitchen down. Now the wallpaper that was in my kitchen had to come from the 70s and Mom found me some that was alot more modern and not so yellow and orange. Well, as we are taking down the wallpaper, which has been up since before we bought the house, we were a little weary of what we would find behind it. For the original part of this house was built in the 1950s. All of it seemed to come down okay, and all we found around the counter was that they had use contact paper for wallpaper at some point before the wallpaper. Then came time to move the refrigerator, which has not been moved since we moved in. We took down the wallpaper and there was a hole in the bottom part of the wall, and the middle of the wall seemed wet looking. Well coming out of the hole looked like a pile of dirt, so the first thing I do is call Eric to let him know that we are going to have to repair a wall. Now to make a long story short, it wasn't dirt falling out of the hole. The wood in behind the sheetrock had rotted and was falling down. I took some pictures which I will post before and after pics when we are done. The wood had rotted all the way to the outside siding. There wasn't any insulation or anything. So now we have repaired the inside part of the wall, and just need to finish the new wallpaper and then when the weather clears we will be remodeling the outside of the house so we can insulate and definitely replace the wood in that particular wall. I am just glad we found it when we did or one day we would have came home and walked into a kitchen that had the ceiling caved in and the wall on top of the refrigerator.
I will post more when we get the inside wall completely done.

More funny pics!!!

When Cody seen the pics of me and Casey I had to take some with him too.

Just some funny pics from the puter!!!

Me and Casey decided to use the photo booth on my laptop and these are a few of the pics we took. I thought that it would be something different to post and something everyone could have fun looking at. I won't post the ones that we took at work even though they were really funny. I don't want to make anyone mad at me. :)
Have a good weekend and I will post again later.

Just a little note....

I haven't taken any pictures lately. I must be feeling bad or something. :)
I am mostly posting a request right now. Let me tell you the story first. I want to say yesterday but I may be wrong on the exact day. Anyway, the past couple of weeks, a friend that Samie grew up with had gotten extremely sick. He had athsma and ended up getting a type of pneumonia. His lungs were not strong enough to fight the pneumonia. I hope I am telling this right. He ended up going into a coma. Yesterday he past away. He was only 12 years old. My request is that you pray for his parents, his friends, and his family. This has to be one of the hardest things a parent could possibly go through. And I couldn't begin to imagine. But it is hard on his friends too. Samie grew up with Austin. They lived really close to each other and went to school together. At 12 it is hard to understand why things happen. It is hard for someone my age to understand why things happen. I do know that God has his reasons and only he can bring comfort in this time of need for this family.
There is so much tragedy in the world right now. Just this week a 5 year old girl died, because she was being abused. I don't know any of the details of how. I just know that her dad is being brought up on charges.
All I can think about is my little girl is 5, and I couldn't imagine anyone hurting her that way. It makes me sad to think that a parent could hurt their child or any child for that matter.
So give your child a hug and kiss and let them know you will always try to protect them and not harm them.
Thanks for reading my request. God Bless Each and Everyone of you.

5 Going on Teen!:)

I have to tell you a story about little miss Casey. Ever since she started day care, she has had a boyfriend. Luckily for me she doesn't know exactly what it means to have a "boyfriend". Since she started kindergarden this past year she got a new boyfriend. His name is Robbie. Now we have a friend named Robbie and his little boy is named Robbie. And then there is Monica and Robbie.
Anyway, this little boy is cute. He has blonde hair and wears glasses. And he calls Casey all of the time. Leaves her messages on the answering machine if we aren't home and everything. Well, yesterday after church we all went out to eat with Norma and then Eric, me and the kids went to Walmart. After Eric, Casey, and Cody got home, Casey's Boyfriend Robbie calls. And then it wasn't long after that his dad brought him over to the house. And Robbie gave the flowers in the pic above to Casey. There was a balloon attached to it too. But Casey said "Thanks Robbie" and went to take off to go color in her room. Eric stopped her and told her that she needed to tell Robbie bye. Then I came home about 30 minutes later to hear the story of the flowers. I think that it is so cute at that age. And it was sweet for him to bring Casey flowers.
The next picture is of Casey on the phone tonight. She was talking to one of her girlfriends. She gets more phone calls than I do and she hasn't even turned into a teenager yet. What have I got to look forward to!?!?! :)
Another quick story: The other day Casey was talking about food and eating. And she said that she was going to start eating healthy, but she wasn't going to eat broccoli or any vegetables. So I am not sure what healthy eating is to her.
I just wish that she would eat vegetables. She will occasionally eat green beans or corn or carrots, but that is the extent of it.
Hope everyone has a wonderful week!!!!

Oops! I guess I thought that I posted the pic of Roxy.

Long Time No Blog...

Sorry about taking so long to update my blog. But I have a really good excuse. My computer was having a bad few weeks. I put Mcafee virus protector on it and it took forever for me to load any pages on the internet. So I had to delete some of the Mcafee so that I could at least begin to get on the internet. But I decided to go ahead and purchase me a new laptop, so I got a Mac.
Now enough with the excuses of why I have not blogged in a while.
After Christmas DJ and Renisa brought the three kids over and we took some pics of all of the kids and of their family together. As you can see they included the newest edition to their family, Chili, he has been a part of their family for several months.
The one picture is of Matt by hisself. That was the best one of him, he kept making faces every time I told him to smile. Him and Lacy both would force a smile.

The week after Christmas was busy for me even though I was off work. On that Wednesday little miss Roxy had to go to the vet to get spaded. That was her Christmas present. Just kidding, we got her some toys and some rawhide bones. The picture of Roxy is that weekend after her visit with the vet. She is 6 months old now. She still likes to jump on you alot though.
For New Year's we rang it in at my brother DJ's house playing cards until 3am. It was fun though. I spent the weekend before New Year's trying to get Cody's wireless internet card working on his computer, never did get it to work. Then I called this past weekend and talked to our internet provider and I was on the phone with them for almost 2 hours and still couldn't get it to work. So I think that it is the card I bought.
I hope that everyone made reasonable resolutions this year, and I hope that you have a blessed New Year!!!!!!!
Sorry that it is a little late though.:)

Christmas With the In-Laws

The day after Christmas, Eric's brother Rich and his wife Elizabeth brought Caitlin and Jared up for us to have our Christmas together. I COOKED a baked chicken on my new George Forman Grill, and believe it or not it was good. (yes, I did actually cook) After dinner we unwrapped our presents to each other and Casey and Caitlin went to play dress-up with the gift Casey got. The first picture is of them in their costumes. Then we took some family pictures. All in all it was a good day, we had fun spending time with more family and Cody got to get Jared all hyped up on Chocolate. He was sooo hyper from just a couple of Reese cups, it was funny though. Cody said that he didn't want to be mean and not give the kids some of the candy. So he was trying to be nice. I did get some video footage of Casey, Caitlin, and Jared dancing. It was a different kind of dance. :)

Christmas Morning

Christmas was a very good day for us. We spent it with family and we ate way too much. Now to tell you a little about how the day went for the kids. Casey got up before me (i got home about 6:10am and went to sleep for a little while) she went downstairs and seen her gift, Eric heard her say how she liked it, and told her to go back upstairs and get mommy. Now after me getting up, waking Cody up, and Eric getting him some coffee, we went back downstairs. The pic of Casey is the 2nd time downstairs, and she was still extremely excited. Cody of course was the opposite, for at first he couldn't find his gift, then when I pointed it out to him, he seen that all he got was some rocks. Santa ran out of coal(or as Casey says "coaled". You can't see his facial expression from finding the rocks, but it was priceless. :) He found his real gift in his stocking, but it was fun.
Eric got a redneck weightlifting kit, and he is already starting to use it to get buff. :) Samie came over later after having Christmas morning with her mom, and I took a pic of them together, so I decided to post this pic instead of one of Samie opening a gift.
Just want to say a quick thanks to everyone for the gifts we got, the cards we got, and the special Christmas wishes. Hope that everyone's Christmas was filled with love, laughter, and spiritual fulfillment.

Christmas Eve Cookie Decorating

Christmas Eve Cody and Casey decorated some cookies for Santa. :) I won't tell you which plate belongs to which child. But I will say that Casey used a little bit of everything on all of her cookies.

Christmas Lights

The top picture is of Casey at Roger's B-day party at Ryans. She is actually on my lap and sound asleep. I used a flash and she didn't even move. After we left Ryan's we went to the city park to see the lights there and then to this house you see in the pictures. Some of the lights would change how they were lit to the music that was playing on 88.1 at this house. Later we found out that a 17 year old boy had decorated the house. I like the blue lights on the ground that looks like water.

Happy 50th Roger!!!!

Roger and Stacy, I am sorry that this post is late. But we had fun at the party.
Just a quick story to tell you. Casey asked how old Roger was. We told her he turned 50, to which her comment was..."He is just now a teenager" So don't worry about turning the big 5-0 because now that is your teenage years.:)

So Far Behind......

I am going to try to catch up on some of my picture posts. We will start out with Cody's band performance. Sorry about the lighting. The gym has weird lights that make red look orange. I will probably have several posts today.

Merry CHRISTmas!!!

JUST A QUICK POST TO TELL EVERYONE, MERRY CHRISTMAS! I WILL HOPEFULLY GET TO POST ON CHRISTMAS. I HAVE SEVERAL PICS TO POST FROM THE WEEKEND. WE WENT TO A 50TH BIRTHDAY PARTY ON FRIDAY EVENING, AFTER WE WENT TO THE CITY PARK TO SEE THE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS, THEN WE WENT TO A HOUSE THAT THE LIGHTS DANCE TO MUSIC. I TOOK SEVERAL PICS THAT NIGHT. THEN ON SATURDAY I WRAPPED PRESENTS. AND CASEY HELPED ME WRAP THEM. SHE WAS VERY HELPFUL. I GOT THROUGH THE PRESENTS MUCH FASTER WITH HER HELP. SHE EVEN WRAPPED ONE OF HERS WITHOUT KNOWING IT.
ON SUNDAY, WE WENT TO CHURCH, THEN WE DELIVERED GIFTS TO MY AUNT NORMA(NUNU) AND TO MY MOM. THEN I SNUCK A GIFT TO MY MOM'S HOUSE, AND HID IT. :) I WILL LET YOU KNOW HOW THAT GOES. THEN ONCE I FINALLY GOT HOME, I LET THE KIDS DECORATE COOKIES. THE COOKIES CAME IN A KIT AND ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS PUT ICING AND CANDY ON THEM. WAIT TILL YOU SEE THE PICTURES. CASEY MADE SURE THAT HER COOKIES HAD A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING ON THEM. BUT THEY HAD FUN AND THAT IS ALL THAT COUNTS. THEN I TOOK ME A LITTLE NAP, SO THAT I COULD GET READY TO WORK. I WILL BE WORKING FROM 10 PM UNTIL DIANE GETS THERE AROUND 5AM OR 5:30AM.
SO HOPEFULLY I WILL GET THE CHANCE TO POST SOME PICS AFTER WE UNWRAP PRESENTS IN THE MORNING.
JUST WISHING EVERYONE A MERRY CHRISTMAS, AND LET US NOT FORGET THAT THE REASON FOR THE SEASON IS JESUS CHRIST. WISHING JESUS A HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!
MAY YOU ENJOY YOUR DAY WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS.
LOVE,
MELVA

The Christmas Play

Sunday evening was the Christmas Play at our church. I love watching the kids put on the show. It is always entertaining and a joy to watch. And Cody is always the star of the show. :) This year Casey was in it for the first time. She was a tree that was suppose to just sit there and not say anything or move. Like that child can just sit there. She was jingling her little snowman bell. Moving her little tree limb. Trying to stand up. But other than that she did good. After the story about the 3 trees on the mountain becoming things that they didn't dream of but being something significant in the life of Jesus. Very good story. Anyway, after the story, the little kids got up and sang Jingle Bells and We Wish You A Merry Christmas. You could here Casey jingling her bells and singing. It was cute.
Then it was time for the bigger kids. They were great. Cody was a reindeer in the first scene. Then he was Rudolph. And as you may be able to tell by the pics Cody loves to act and make people laugh. You should have seen him dance. :)

Happy Late Birthday Curtis!!

This past Friday was my nephew Curtis' birthday. We went to his birthday party on Saturday. He turned the big 11. As you can see the kids were wired on the cake. And my lovely sister-in-law taught the girls the "W" sign for "whatever" and of course they have to say it with the attitude. And we all know that Casey has the most "attitude" out of all three of them. :)
Any way, Happy birthday LATE Curtis.

Curtis and Lacy

Now some pictures of my niece Lacy and my nephew Curtis.