more birthday pics

boy, blogger is not making it easy to upload pics, i'll add more to these later

Kaitlen is 4 years old!!!!!!!!

On Oct 18th, 2002 at 12:15pm little miss Kaitlen Marie-Matilda entered the world and our hearts. She weighed in at 9#'s 7oz and 21 inches long. She is a spunky little girl who knows what she wants, lol. Which is just fine. She loves her brothers and ofcourse her boyfriend, Daddy. yep, she says they'll get married as soon as he gets her a ring. She can hardly wait for her sister to be born. She's got big plans for the both of them. Sleeping together, feeding her and probably dressing the poor girl up.
Kaitlen loves to play dress up and dolls with Matthew but then also loves to get Cody in an armbar. I might say she does it pretty good and fast. A future in the UFC??? I'd say she's a pretty good mix of sugar and spice.

I'll have to add pictures in another post.

very cool

We were at Sears last night and saw this. It was the coolest lawn ornament that we have seen yet. the carosal actuatlly rotates. I don't think we'll be getting it but we both agreed it would look good at Lani and Annas new house. So Lani and Anna, you have to get it so my kids can enjoy it, LOL. Ok, your kids too. We also saw a light up lawn train set that we would have definitly got Betty for her Birthday this yr.

more birthday pics

Here's the cake we ordered. I think we wanted way to much on it for the small size we ordered. I made the boulders out of white chocolate, the bakery painted them. we had two other dinosaurs that ofcourse were not going to fit on the cake. So it was just the velociraptoron there and he's as big as the volcano,lol

Here's the cake Auntie Anna made, we all love aunties cakes. i think when we left CEC her cake was just about gone and the other cake was almost completely still there.

Matthew jet skiing!!!

Emily Tita

Kitty Kat

Christian

william, willy, billy, will- he's what ever comes out your mouth at the time.

Matthew, machew, fat boy

Thomas

Cody is 7!!!

On September 21, 1999 at 9:04 am Benjamin Cody came into this world. 9#'s 10oz and 21 inches long. He was perfect, not just because i said so. They all said so. not a blemish or a bruise or anything. Some of the nurses even thought he was a c-section baby because his head was so perfectly round.

The king of the day wanted Chinese buffet with his favorite crab legs and crawfish

We then headed to Chuck-E-Cheese

Cody has been wanting a game cube so that was his main gift from us. He was a happy boy. We also got him the Rocket Rod, it's a fishing pole for kids. It looks pretty cool and i got him a Velociraptor killing claw. I got it off Ebay and we are still waiting for it to arrive from Australia. Maybe in the next week. It, of course, is a replica.

Notice the tiny roboraptor on top of the LARGE roboraptor. Well we got him the tiny one and auntie and uncle got him the big one, yea, guess whos the favorite now, LOL. Actually the large one is a very cool robot!!!

there are more pics i want to post, but im think im pushing my luck with blogger right now. I'll add those tomorrow.

Matthews Costume

Red Ranger Matthew. Everytime we got a Halloween costume catalog he'd have me tear out the power ranger page. it wasnt hard to figure out that he wanted to be a Power Ranger. He was so excited when the package came. He kept saying,"me,me,me". Kaitlen has two costumes a tinkerbell and a snow princess. Her auntie got her tink and last yr Betty got her the snow princess one. She never wore it last yr . So she'll wear one to the church get together and one out trick-or-treating. Cody is still not sure, something scary im guessing.
Edited: boy if you read this before i edited it you probably thought i was tipping the bottle. It made no sense, LOL. I wasnt drunk, just a bad, bad pounding headache.







Even Power Rangers take naps.

Fridays Thunderstorm

We had a bad storm come on Fri and our trees took a beating. This on had a limb come down, its hard to see it since it fell forward.


















this one has one limb on the ground, one hanging and one split up on top.












this limb is hanging, Bens going to have fun cutting all these down


















This pore tree didnt make it at all. It's so sad because it was the only one we had that turned colors.









this skunk was leaving our property when i went out to take pics and our cat Jack was about to start a fight with it. He looked pretty beat up from the storm. poor fella.

Abigails 3D ultrasound

Just click here to see them. :o)

New Blog

I have added another blog called Just Pictures. There is also a link to it in my sidebar. It is just going to be of random pictures that I have taken that are not of my kids, but that I still want to post. Enjoy.

Cody's snowsuit

2.99 at Ebay!! and im done snowsuit shopping. Thomas has snow bibs that should last for yrs to come and just needs a jacket and since i dont know what size jacket we'll just stop off at Wallyworld when it gets cold to get him one.

Steve Irwin :o(

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14663786/?GT1=8506

http://news.bostonherald.com/editorial/view.bg?articleid=155888

" A death on those terms may be cause for mourning and sadness, but it is not a tragedy. It is a life fulfilled. " -By Jules Crittenden

Kaitlens snowsuit

Kaitlens snowsuit 10.75, Ebay

GO USC!!!

This Saturday the Trojans play the Razorbacks in Fayetteville.

OK, Im sure I have just commited a crime in the sate of Arkansas by doing this that is probably punishable by death.

Gotta love Ebay

I got Matthew this snowsuit for $2.50

1st day of school

Today Thomas started HS and Cody went into the 1st grade. I dropped Cody off first and almost made Thomas late for his first day. The school changed there routine and we did alot of walking to get to to class and then I had to walk all the way back to the car. Im not so sure if was the length of the walk or the slow pokes I was stuck walking behind, with noway around. If a pg woman is on your tale while walking you are going to slow. When i went to pick them up from school i stopped off and picked up a cake. I wasn't racing the clock this time i was racing the storm and the storm won. M was asleep and i was holding him while getting the cake and we picked out stuff to do the writing on it and by the time we were checking out it was pouring so hard outside. i put the cake on a bench and run the kids to the car and go back and grab the cake and head back to the car and somehow it was raining even harder. I was soaked but the kids were only a little damp. so while waiting for Cody to get out i write Happy 1st day of School '06. The wind was blowing so hard it would rock our car. I'd like to blame the messy writing on the cake from that, but i can't. I havent uploaded that pic, but i will later.

Heres the cake....

Both kids enjoyed there first day of school!!!

Vacation Destination

We are getting a jump start on planning our vacations. Cody complained that none of our vacations this yr left the state of Ar. Never mind the fact that we crawled all over the state of Ar. We have blamed not going anywhere far on Miss Abigail. Ben needs to save his time for when she's born. So, next yr, Spring Break, we are heading to California were we will be hitting Disneyland, Knotts Berry Farm, HB (shop, shop, shop) then on up to Santa Barbara and Solvang. Im sure we will also squeeze Nipomo in there for a Jocko's steak. After that on to Vegas to see my mom and the kids really like the Madalay Bay Shark Reef. Then in the summer Ben wanted to do a cruise but Cody says that they are dangerous, they sink. Even proved it to us because there was a movie made based on a true story. You know which one Im talking about... Titanic... boy what am i going to do with him. So we are going to The Nickelodeon Hotel!!!!! Which everyone agreed looks really cool. A bit of wisdom, DO NOT mention to your kids what you plan for vacation unless you want to here "is it time to go yet" about 3 times a day untill destination day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;o)

Nikon D50

Ok, We settled on the Nikon D50. Ben got it for me today :o) it's for my birthday. He actually said he had planned on getting me a Dyson for my birthday (never asked him for one, lol) bet i'll have more fun with my camera. I'm not spoiled, just loved......... actually he mentioned something about not wanting to hear me, a pregnant woman, whine about it....... Have no idea what he's talking about ;o)

Trying to convince Ben

To get me this camera!!! It's the Nikon D70 and i'm sure it'll be the end of my camera shopping. I have had 4 cameras in 9 yrs. None of them as nice as this one. I really wouldnt need another one after this one and if you add up the cost of all my other cameras it would buy this one. ( i should tell him that, huh!!) wish me luck on my birthday present quest.

New carpet

We had new carpet put in the den, I know it looks white here but trust me it's not. I guess it's a very pale beige with speckeled grey??? carpet fibers. It looked darker at the store, but i like it anyway. For those who have been in my house you might remember the built in cabinets and shelves on either side of the fire place. We took them out. I took down the shelves and Ben tore out the cabinets. He complained the whole time thinking for sure that i was getting him into something that we couldnt fix. It all turned out great and now we have 2 extra feet of usable space!!!!!!!! we put the L shape sofa in the garage untill we can get it re-apolstered and are using the furniture from the livingroom. and that paneling you ask??? we are going to put natural wood running horizonal to cover the paneling. It will make the room so much lighter. it has really been like living in a den, just so dark. speaking of dark we will be updating the light fixtures i just dont know to what yet. It would be nice if this happened before Abigail arrived but i dont think it will. you might notice that there are NO TOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!. i am turning the living room into a play room for the kids. We are short on bedrooms so there is no room in the rooms for toys ect. I tore up the carpet in the living room (which is what started this whole revamping of the house) there are hard wood floors and ben has been working on those during his free time and hopfully they will be done by this weekend. Then the kitchen. we were supose to get laminate put in on Wed but i guess are floor isnt level enough for laminate and the tongue and groove atttachment would eventually break so we are going with linolium that is padded and looks like wood. so that'll be good, easy to clean, kid friendly and a 10 yr warranty. Now later, later. my plan is to sand the cabinets in the kitchen to make them lighter and i dont like the "shade" to them they are kinda yellowy, i believe someone referrred to it as butterscotch. im so yellowed out. so i'll make sure a clear coat is put back on after the sanding. Ben is pretty sick of sanding and i think it would be worth hiring someone, we'll see. I hate to part with money when i know we could do it. I'll share pics of the livingroom when it's done. Geez, this got longer than i intented.

Sergeant Velasco

A couple weeks ago Ben went through the Sgt's testing and today he found out that he got it!!!!! Him and two other officers were promoted today. So we are going out to dinner tomorrow and I'll get him a cake. Another cool thing is that one of his friends that he worked with in L.A. is going to try and come back here. They have two boys, one Codes age (actually a yr younger because she was pg when we went on a cruise together and Cody just turned one) and one Kaitlens age. To bad they didnt keep going like we did, LOL. It'll be great if they do come out here.

The best duster

The Webster duster works great. We had it when we were a teen and it was actually fun to dust. Well, I thought, I wonder if they still make them? and through my freind, the internet, I was able to find it. I ordered one. It should be here in a couple days!!!!!I would post the picture of it but blogger isn't being nice today.

Buying for two GIRLS!!!!

No one told me how much fun it would be!!!!!!

Here are the shoes I ordered for Kaitlen

Here are Abigails!!

Then here is the tutu im going to order. I'll put a black bodysuit on them both and take pictures. Now, the hard part is guessing everyones sizes for an unknown time in the future. I figure we'll do the pictures when the shoes fit Abigail. Maybe at 3 months old??? So in Feb. Im hopeing K's shoes are a little big on her. We'll see when they arrive.

I also just bought them matching pink dresses while at walmart. I'll take pics of those later. Boy, Christmas pics are going to be fun!!!!!!! you'll probably be able to gag on all the matchingness going on. LOL