Thursday, January 29, 2009

Random thoughts about Olivia...

Can I just say that it's hilarious to me how much my Olivia is like THE Olivia?
Now that the cartoon is on Nick Jr. in the mornings, It's got me thinking about my Olivia as a little girl. I get to watch it with the babies AND Olivia, since she's home schooled, and Olivia the pig IS my little Livy the pig, messes and all! When she was 6 and 3/4ths like the pig, she played just like her...had a vidid imagination, made up stories, pretended to be everything under the sun, went on grand adventures, played dress up, got in to my jewelry and makeup, played tricks on her little brother Max The Wild Thing, and buggrd her big brother Ian even though they were best friends at the time. Oh, and she was (and still is) loud like the pig, too. We used to call her our little foghorn. I came across a book one day that best described her...Loud Emily...about a baby that was born with a loud voice and it just got louder and louder. That is Olivia. It's also one of our favorite books. The fact that her little "bother's" name is Ian is even funnier. The only thing that would make it perfect is if Ian was her OLDER brother in the book, like he is in real life at our house.

Saturday, January 24, 2009

I'm still the GREATEST!


Once again I am great!
My brother's daughter, Devony and her husband, Aaron...who adopted their first baby girl, Sydney, just over a year ago...delivered a healthy 9-pound baby girl last night! Isn't that how it always happens? You adopt after trying for years, THEN you get pregnant. They are so blessed!
I'm a GREAT AUNT for the 5th time! WOOHOO!
Congratulations Dev and Aaron!

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Bronze shmonze...

It's here...Anniversary #19! The bronze one.

To all those that doubted, INCLUDING US, Jon and Jenene have made it through 4 kids and another year of marriage!


It's been a crazy ride and there's much more to come!
I love you, my man! I wanna grow old with you!

Happy Anniversary, sweetie. You really are my knight in shining armour.

Thursday, January 15, 2009

and my gift should be, bronze?

5 days until our 19th wedding anniversary, which also falls on inauguration day. I wonder what he'll get me! The anniversary gift table stops at 15 and starts again at 20, but the unofficial gift for 19 is bronze. BRONZE. Grrr. I guess there are a lot of cool bronzey kind of things out there, so I shouldn't complain. If you count how long we've actually been together, I would also qualify for pictures. Hmmm. Pictures. 26 yrs. isn't officially on the table, either. Looking forward to next year. It's CRYSTAL!

Thursday, January 1, 2009

Happy New Year!

We are soooo glad to put 2008 behind us!
We're looking forward to a MUCH better year, so here's wishing you all a wonderful 2009!