Spring is finally here!!!!

As I went to pick Cody up from my Aunt Norma's house, I seen a bunch of daffadils growing in her yard. Lucky thing is I had Cody's camera still in my purse. So this is one of the many pics I took. It is my favorite sign that Spring is finally here!!!

Cody's B-day Dinner

We all went out to eat for Cody's Birthday on Saturday. We went to Ryan's, so that everyone would get a variety. As you can see Cody sat right in front of a window and the sunlight was not kind to the pictures. Now these pics were also taken on Cody's camera. Now the top picture has a little story to it. Last June for Lacy's birthday, My mom(Vivi) asked Cody to make her a birthday card for Lacy, well, she got the card you see in the picture. After she read it she told him that it wasn't exactly what she wanted for her granddaughter who was turning 6, and who wouldn't understand the card. So Vivi saved the card that she actually paid Cody to make, and gave it to him for his birthday. That is why he is making the face. After dinner at Ryan's, Cody had a friend of his over to watch movies and play playstation. The two of them stayed up almost all night. But they had a good time.
Now Cody also got his cast off on Friday. He still has to wear a brace for 2 more weeks. Then Samie broke her ankle yesterday. She had broke the left one a couple of years ago. This time she broke the right one. So I will be posting some pics of Samie in her new cast soon.

Happy Birthday Cody!!!!

Today my baby turned 13, I told someone recently that I didn't feel like I was old enough to have a teenager. So as a way to remember when he was small, I did a little collage on the computer. There is a picture of his 1st birthday. This is the only picture I have of his 1st birthday, and it was messed up. We took a video that day and it is at my aunt Norma's house. There is also a picture of my Pawpaw holding Cody, this was at my cousin Mike and Meredith's wedding. This is the only picture I have of my grandfather holding one of the great grandkids.
The picture of Cody on the phone should have been a sign of things to come, because all he does is talk on the phone and on the internet.
I have to tell you the story behind the one with the birthday cake. When Cody turned 3(this pic) when it was time to blow out the candles, Cody sneezed all over the cake instead. It is funny now to look back at that day, but it was kind of gross when it happened.
And I put the one with him at the wheel of the dune buggy. Cause I know that it will only be 3 more years before he is actually old enough to be behind the wheel of a car. I said old enough, not that I would let him. :)
The hardest thing for me right now is to believe that Cody is 13 today. Time flies, and kids grow way to fast. I can't even hold him in my arms the way that I did when he was little, because he is bigger than me now.
Happy Birthday Cody, even though you are growing taller and becoming closer to becoming an adult, you will always be my baby.
Love, MOM

HAPPY ST PATTY'S DAY!!!!

I hope that the Luck of the Irish is with you for the rest of the day!!!!:)
These pictures were taken yesterday, since St. Patrick's Day was on a Saturday the kids wore their green on Friday. Of course Cody wore his green to the dance on Thursday. But I thought that I would take a couple of pics of them with green on anyway. Good Day to One and All and God Bless!!! By the way Casey gets mad when I call it St. Patty's Day that is why I titled it that way. ;)

All Dressed Up!!

Casey picked out her dress this past Sunday for church, as she does every Sunday. But this particular dress I remember that I had a picture of Samie wearing it. Now the only difference is that Samie is actually a couple of years older than Casey is now when she wore the dress. That is how much bigger Casey is than Samie was. But they both looked very pretty and lady like in the dress. :)
It is hard to remember Cody and Samie that small. Cody will be 13 next Friday. And it is hard for me to see him that much bigger now. They grow up way to fast.
Well, we are almost finished with the kitchen, all we have left is countertops. I am so excited.

Ducks On Ice!!

The week that Cody broke his arm, I think it was on Thursday when these pictures were taken. We were driving on our way home to get something before we could pick Casey up, anyway, we past this house that has a manmade pond and has ducks in the pond. Well, when we looked at the pond we seen that the ducks weren't swimming they were ice skating. :) So when we got to the house, we both grabbed our cameras and whatever I needed to take to Casey when I picked her up off the bus at daycare. And after we picked Casey up, we stopped at the pond so that we could take some pictures of the ducks on the ice. Here are a few of the ones that I took. I will have to get Cody to show you the ones that he took. Or I will post them this weekend. My favorite one is the one that looks like the duck has earmuffs on. I think that it is ice. Now to let you know, we had had a bad cold spell for a while and lots of snow and ice, but this particular day it was in the 50s and it was like that through last weekend. So I am so looking forward to Spring!!!! Enjoy the pics.

The Little Mermaid Party!!!

Okay the pics are here!!! These are just a few pics of Casey's B-day party on Saturday. As you can tell we had alot of kids there. 2 of them are not in the picture. For we couldn't get them to participate. :) But I counted and we had 16 or 17 kids there. Great turn out. The picture with the frame and other things is the invitation, autographed photo frame, coloring book made by me for the goody bag, a blow out thingy, and the girls got a belt clip, the boys got a cars disk launcher. I didn't have any of those left to take a picture of. The boy with Casey in front of the little mermaid is the same boy that brought her the flowers before valentine's day. That is Robbie. (her boyfriend) The other little boy is Trae, a girl I work with little boy, and he really likes Casey and wants to be her boyfriend. :) Young Love, it is so cute!! :)
I did decorate the cake, I can not do faces. But other than the horrible face I think that it looked exactly like Ariel. NOT!
The other little plate with the Ariel Candle, that was Casey's personal Icing. She won't eat cake, so I make icing for her cake, and the left over I put by itself just for her. Aren't I a nice Mommy?!
And if you look closely at the tshirt in the top pic of Casey, you will notice a familiar picture, Sheryl made this for Casey. The Whatever girls on a tshirt of her own. :)
It seemed that the kids had a really good time. It was loud, but we let them play outside on the patio for a little while, that seemed to help the hearing problem in the building. Casey got lots of stuff. She got 7 movies, one being the Wizard of Oz on dvd. I can't wait to watch it with her this weekend. She has never seen it. And it use to be Cody's favorite movie. His favorite character was the witch. He would run around on his broom, saying.... I'll get you my pretty, and your little dog too! and he would curl his finger like the witches and everything. She also got several barbie movies, so now her collection is complete until they come out with a new one. She got all kinds of little mermaid stuff. I got a barbie doll little mermaid to put on the table for decoration. But I talked her into putting that with her collectors barbie dolls in the curio downstairs.
Well, I hope all is well with everyone, enjoy the pics. See you later!!!

Cody's Broken Arm

Here are some pics of Cody in his new cast. He was supposed to have it put on yesterday but due to circumstances at the doctor's office, we had to schedule it for today with a different doctor. He picked out a blue cast and I got to be the first to sign it. He said that it was uncomfortable but I told him he would have to get use to it. He gets to have it taken off the day after his birthday. What a birthday present!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CASEY!!!!!!!

Today Casey turned 6 years old. It is so hard for me to believe that my little baby girl is 6 already. I remember the day that she was born. I was put in the hospital 2 1/2 weeks early and they had induced my labor. My mom had left because the doctor said that it would be the next day before she would actually be born. Well, Mom had been gone about an hour maybe a little longer and the doctor had just finished a c-section on another patient. He came in and checked on me, went out to the nurses desk, ate 2 slices of pizza and then came back into the room I was in to tell me that he was going to go ahead and do a c-section because the baby was flatlining( Casey's heartrate wasn't increasing with the contractions). So little Miss Casey Paige was born at 10:02 p.m. As soon as the doctor took her out of my stomach I got to give her a kiss. And for her to be early she was a chubby little thing. She came into the world weighing 8 pounds and 2 ounces!! and she was 21 inches long.
That first sight of her was just great and mesmerizing. she was so beautiful. I didn't get to see her again until the next evening, because she was under the oxygen tent and wasn't wanting to breathe outside the tent. So when they moved me to a regular room they took my bed into the nursery so that I could see her.
The funny thing about the whole thing was that my baby shower was scheduled for that Saturday. Mom had given me a baby shower with Cody 2 1/2 months before he was due and I was in the hospital on the day of his baby shower with early contractions and labor that had to be stopped. So when it was Casey's turn(7 yrs later) Mom decided that she would throw the shower a few weeks before my due date. Well the shower was scheduled for that Saturday and I had Casey that Friday. So again I missed the shower but this time was to have Casey. Mom said that she would never throw me another one so I better not have any more kids. :)
Casey didn't come out from under the oxygen tent until around midnight the following Sunday night Monday morning. So the first time I actually got to hold her was on Monday morning and Sheryl was there. She was the 2nd person to hold her after she was taken out of the Oxygen tent. Eric was the first to hold her because he got to carry her to the nursery.
And now to think that all of that was 6 years ago. Where does the time go? Why do they grow so fast?
Casey will be having her Little Mermaid Party tomorrow with her friends over. I will be posting pics from that tomorrow night. Tonight, her dad and me are taking her to dinner at Ryan's so they will sing Happy Birthday to her.
Cody is at camp for the weekend.
So I again say HAPPY BIRTHDAY CASEY PAIGE!! I LOVE YOU!! I tried reposting the pics.

My President's Day!!

I thought that I would tell you about how my Monday has been. First off this morning around 5am or so, Casey gets up and is sick at her stomach. I am thinking, well maybe something didn't agree with her. Then at 6am this morning she was up again, I then when and felt her head. She felt like she was on fire. Her head was just hot as could be, but when I took her temperature it was a little above normal. She threw up a few more times this morning. So I called in to work to stay home with her, because I can't send her to daycare if she is sick and I wouldn't want to. We laid around this morning watching cartoons, she drank Sprite and ate some salt and vinegar chips to settle her tummy. The kids were out of school anyway because it is President's day. I told Cody to go feed the dog. And on the way down the backyard with the empty bowl. He slid on some ice, snow. He fell and hurt his arm. Well, I told him to rest and that it would be okay. After about 10 or 15 minutes he was still complaining that his arm hurt. So I got ready and took him to the Emergency Room. And I tried to scan the xray but it didn't work out. So I will just have to tell you, He broke his arm. Close to the wrist. The distal radius has what they call a buckle fracture. So the ER physician put a splint on his arm and Cody will have a cast put on Thursday morning. Poor thing, but he hasn't taken anything for pain. So just pray that his arm heals fast and heals right. And that Cody will be patient to wait for it to heal. :)

New Setting

When I talked to Weezy this weekend, she said that she had problems commenting on my blog. So I have put it to where anyone can comment, but I will have to approve it before it is posted. So please, if you comment anonynmously, leave your name. Thanks, and we will see if this helps Weezy comment.

Rich's Surprise B-day Party!!

This past Saturday, we all went to Eric's brothers house for Rich's surprise birthday party. He was the big 40. It had started to snow when we left here on Saturday. It wasn't snowing to bad down at Rich's house. Weezy had fixed alot of good food for us all to eat. And they had several of their friends and their friends kids there. So the kids had alot of fun too. Except for Cody, and the girls kept taking his clipboard and pencil and hiding it from him. It was funny, but he was getting a little upset. As we stayed at the party, the roads back home got worse, so mom told us it would be better if we stayed at Rich's house for the night. So we got to surprise Rich for his birthday, and he was surprised. And then we got to spend some time with all of them. On Sunday morning we were going to leave early enough to come home and go to church, but they cancelled church due to the weather conditions outside. So we stayed at Rich and Weezy's until the roads had time to clear and then we headed home.
The kids had a good time. As you can tell they piled themselves up on top of one another. They would take turns on who was on the bottom. I think at one time Casey was on the bottom, but that didn't last long. And then I played around with my camera trying to figure out how to take sepia toned pics and I figured it out. I like this picture of Casey. She is just so cute and pretty. It is hard for me to believe that she is turning 6 in a matter of days. I will post more on that later.
In the mean time. Everyone be safe and stay warm and I pray that God keeps you healthy during the rest of the cold days till Spring!!!!

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!!!!