Ingram Family

2010-08-08T11:32:00.000-07:00

First day of school!!!
Here we go!! Three of my babies goin to school!!!
Tadhg's first day of Kindergarten!!
Tadhg's desk
This is what happened on the day the kids went to school. It was so quiet around here she fell asleep on the couch.

They ride the bus to and from school.. Its sooo nice! They even get to eat free breakfast :)

Oh what fun!

They apparently needed more space.. and Lex wanted to try and touch the top of the doorway to the dinning room. He's so crazy! I love his creativity.. always thinkin that one!
Olive wasn't getting enough flying time so she took her turn on the couch! Can you tell it aint her first flight!
Indie made Olive a dress out of one of her skirts.. Turned out pretty cute! I know the girls had fun
Not at all posing in this picture... so cute!

This is Tadhg's old look.... I thought he needed an upgrade so we did this....
Ohhh ya baby!!! My little Wee-Woo is so cool! I love his awesomeness!! He wanted his Mohawk black so I colored the tips with a sharpie lol

My tough man

Mexico Beach, FL

2010-05-30T19:23:00.001-07:00

Wakulla Springs, FL

2010-05-30T13:11:00.001-07:00

What a nice big brother. Olive is so lucky to have two sweet brothers to take care of her. Lex was so sweet to push Olive all around the lake. He as always been a big softy!

Look at this happy lil dude! He sure looks like he likes that cold water!
Always ready for a snap shot! This one just melts me.... thats all I have to say about this gentle lil midget!
I still cant believe my Lexy boy is going to be ELEVEN! That is insane!
Look at these four crazy kids! Just the way we like em!

just a lil reminder for Lex that mommy can still whip his butt.... that's right even in a bikini and apparently only one finger ;)
The boy showin up his sister but jumpin off first when she was scared!

Daddy couldnt take it any more.. grabbed her and jumped!

Look at that cute lil Miss Muffet! She sure loved that freezing cold water!

I had the camera clued to my face... giving all my attention to Indie trying to get the courage to jump of the tower.. I hear small, quiet snickers coming from all around me... I turn around and see they are all looking in my direction.. hoping I'm not actually me they are giggling at.. so I to my side and look down... Olive, our little nudist... has her swim suit around her ankles. I say "Olive!" and the nudey runs for it... cheeks a bouncin'... mouth a smilin!

She is really growing up this one! She is so funny, beautiful, smart, and wonderful! I see her already trying to branch out and become her own person.. give the girl some room! My little Indie Gaga... perfect little goofball.

Hey look not only is she actually clothed but she has on her adorable sunflower dress! She is my crazy maniac who keeps me on my toes! ALWAYS! Miss Muffet my perfect little mess.
How cute is that?? She even likes to cook in the nude!

FINALLY.... ya ya I know

2010-05-04T16:35:00.000-07:00

When I walked outside to at 4:30am to go to the gym this is what I found... Paul and the kids decorated my car for my birthday! How cute is that!
Lex playing Violin at his homeschool program.... he did SO awesome!
I call this one.. "A closet full of nothing to wear!" this is what she did while I was at the store and daddy was "watching" them
We kinda look a like, right?? Lil bit?
Me and my big boy
My Lil Gaga and her creative ways
Craz and her ways
All my babies!
A real live doll......from Hell
Lex's pet of the day... he caught a giant flippin bee.. froze it til it was almost dead.. took it out and tied a string around it like a leash. Who needs video games when you have this creative mind!
Look how cute these lil nuggets are!

A little family time!

2010-02-28T10:22:00.000-08:00

Finally!! Some much needed family time! We went to the Zoo, the park, AND out to eat!! I don't even know the last time we did that!
I can't believe how big this guy is getting!

Look at these cute girls having fun!! Maybe someday Olives hair will actually grow!!
This guy is a goober! Just like the rest of us!
The little stud and the homeless looking child
Check out those blue eyes!
They had a blast having daddy chasing them around the playground...especially Lex!

My little Wee-Woo got hurt.... this boy is my heart and soul! I would give him the moon!!
Still got that adorable smile!

My little Indie girl has quite the "style" going on..... We call her our little Junie B. (Jones).. OK, you're right... I have to admit... it kills me!! I absolutely hate going out in public with her near homeless/orphan ensembles... You should see what she tried to wear to church today.. Thank heavens they have to wear school uniforms!!!

So... its been a while......

2010-02-24T12:25:00.000-08:00

I know I know...its been way too long since I updated this thing! So sorry! Here is a few pics of whats been happening!
Olive changing diapers... and using half a thing of wetwipes to do so
The boys being crazy as usual

Oh, and trying to get Indie up for school... that is always fun!
Me and my Indie girl... man she is getting so big!
Me and my little Wee Woo.... he's the stinkin best!
Olive twirling in circles like a "wincess"
And if you can believe it we actually had snow down here!! The ground finally ended up getting covered! It didn't last but a day.... perfect!

Here the hoodlums are "sleigh riding!" .... wheres the snow you ask... why in the sky of course! Where else would it be in Georgia!

Christmas time!!

2009-12-17T15:42:00.000-08:00

My and my friend, Joy, were elves for our Ward Christmas party... and here are the elf outfits I made! It was a lot of fun!

I was on the computer and Olive was on my lap, of course, and we saw a princess bed and she went NUTS!! And now she won't stop talking about it. She keeps pointing to the tree saying "Santa, for my wincess bed!!" ..... looks like Santa better get to work!

A few pics to update

2009-11-12T11:31:00.001-08:00

Here is some interesting things the kids have been doing. They made people out of blankets and dressed them in clothes...... no this is not because we homeschool now and they don't have any friends so they have them. Well, at least I hope not!
Lex helping Tadhg with his handwriting
Olive eating her sucker for going potty on the toilet!
you know I have to put a cheese pic in here! It wouldn't be a post with out it!
Playing Indians one day
The kids designed their how they wanted their faces to be painted
My mom used to do this for me and my siblings when we were little. Then she would braid my hair like a "cowgirl" and then we would tie my little sister up to the clothes line and run around her making either Indian noises or pretending to shoot guns.

Lex and his never ending fetish for building forts
Me and my wittle babies!

Halloween........

2009-11-02T11:40:00.000-08:00

I was a Greek Goddess, believe it! Olivetta was the cutest witch EVER!! Of course none of my pictures really turned out this year! I'm really kinda ticked off about that!
Big daddy was a Zombie, his favorite.
Eating donuts on a string
Tadhg was Spiderman and Lex was um, dressed in black?? Not really sure what he was actually.
Indie, also dressed in black, was a robber... that's right. A robber
Miss Muffet doin a little cheating while eating a donut on a string. I'm not sure how many she ate before we saw her

Cousin Hannah, who was a spa girl, came down with granny and grampa! It was so much fun and the kids all had a blast! We went to our ward Fall Festival and had tons of fun! And got enough candy to feed Africa and then went down a few streets trick or treating old school style! It's the best!

2009-10-30T20:26:00.001-07:00

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The good night moon

2009-10-27T17:15:00.000-07:00

Wow. It's finally over... this freakin day!! I yelled. I swore. I rolled my eyes on more than one occasion. Olive peed on the floor three times. And came in and handed me a piece of pooh smashed all over her finger while trying to do spelling with the kids. Lex was being a punk and wouldn't listen so he got to do a whole chapter in math (including learning something new in fractions) he still wasn't done at 7PM and what he did do he did WRONG!!! So now he has to redo it ALL tomorrow! Can't wait for that. Olive freakin headbutted me in the mouth, made me bleed and gave me a fat lip. I went to smack her butt, without thinking. I missed. She probably has a bruise on her leg. Tadhg got mad because Olive kept turning the lights out while he was in the tub so he decided to throw buckets of water at her ALL OVER THE FLOOR! So I called him a 'little shit.' Well, Olive heard... and wouldn't stop saying it, of course. I think I scratched my eye because its really irritated and I can't wear my contacts. And now Indie is crying because she was jumping around on her bed and smacked the holy crap out of her head on the wall. Oh, and Paul took all the Hershey's kisses to work today so I had NO chocolate to help me through this glorious day! Bring on the night!! But on the bright side.... I did learned how to fishtail braid my hair today!! YEAH!! Thanks youtube for making my day a little brighter!

Salsa time Y'all!!!

2009-10-11T13:46:00.000-07:00

That time of year for makin' salsa! I love making salsa! I could make 18 batches and still want to make more! So far I have made 40 quarts... and eatin about 5!
Me and my little Indie girl.... ok not a very good picture of her but pictures with me in them are hard to come by so it will just have to do!
Nothing like eatin' it right outa the pan!

My baby girl is TWO!!!

2009-09-28T13:22:00.000-07:00

Olive was so excited when I brought home all her party stuff. She loves pink! Who doesn't!!??

She got lots of baby stuff, books, and her very own princess dress made by naunie!!
I can't believe she is already two years old! It seems like yesterday we had her! She is getting so big and so smart! She talks so much it's crazy! She is ALWAYS happy! Ever since she was a tiny baby she's been that way. She is so much fun to have around and just when I think I couldn't love her any more she says something so adorable or flashes me her cheesy grin and my heart just about explodes! Man, I sure do love this kid!!!!

2009-09-20T12:38:00.000-07:00

This is what Olive calls her "monkey face"..... looks just like one, doesn't it??

Lex letting his frog Sticky get some climbing time on the wall. He has made another blog to showcase all his animal, insect, and anything else that sparks his interest! Check it out it's pretty cool. He took all the pictures himself and did all the typing,too! Check it out HERE
Sticky chillin on Indie's glasses
My handsome boys!
What blue eyes this one has! Or maybe it's just the pizza that brings them out.

That time of year.... again...and still missin my pops!

2009-09-18T08:09:00.000-07:00

I can't believe September 18th is here AGAIN! Crazy how time flies. Eleven years ago the worst day in history... well at least for my family it was! As most of my blog readers know it's the day my daddy died. Eleven years sounds like an eternity! But for those of you who have lost someone so close know that in such a situation an eternity and yesterday some how seem to have the same feeling. The memory of the tragedy seems like yesterday but feels like and eternity since I've seen him. So weird. Some of you know I actually really like to write poems from time to time and this time of year really brings it out in me. Last year was the first time I posted one and thought I would do the same for this year. So break out the tissues mama cuz here it is! And can I just say thank you mom for the most perfect childhood ANYONE could ever hope for! Seriously, perfect. I love you mom and all you continue to do for me and my family. I know this day is almost unbearable for you and I wish I could be near you but know my thoughts, prayers, and love are.

Second of all,to my Grandma-ma Johnson... the one who raised my dad to be the perfect man he was by being perfect yourself! It always seems hard to wish you a 'happy' birthday today being that it is also the day your son died but Happy Birthday to the most wonderful, amazing, loving, inspiring, humble, and PERFECT person to ever live! You are truly the best!

I thought I'd be OK today but apparently I'm not.
Because here I sit, still waiting for your return.
It's amazing that life has gone on without you
Eleven years ago it seemed the world stopped turning
And still here we are , without you.
Living our lives, raising our children who've never met you.
And us trying to carry on you legacy.
But where do we begin?
There's so much to teach.
Your loving compassionate ways.
Your ability to inspire everyone and anyone
Your sensitive heart that touched so many.
How DOES life go on without you??
In my children I see your strength
Your tenderness and love.
I pray that I can teach them like you taught me.
That I can be gentle and sensitive to their needs
like you always were with mine.
How did you do it, all you did?
Sometimes I don't understand
It seems you never gave up
That always inspires me!
You knew Gods plan and despite your pain you never questioned the Saviors love.
In my eyes you couldn't be more perfect!
Of course, I know that's impossible
But that's still how I remember you.
So thank you daddy for all you've given me
The unconditional love
The example you always set
For so many things that continued to bless my life.
And, like always, I think of you and miss you everyday of this life
and can think of nothing more joyous as our reunion above!
I love you daddy a hundred more times than a daughter could ever love her father!

Who has time for blogging???? Well NOT me!

2009-09-02T11:54:00.001-07:00

Cute cake Naunie made!
Me and my little girlie-O! I can't believe she's 7!!
Lex made these shorts for Indie.... Way cute!
Thanks for the Littlest Petshop Naunie!

Seriously, sometimes it is so hard to just sit at the computer and post a few pictures here and there. Maybe it's because I know I will not JUST be sitting down to post a few pictures... some how I always seem to get sucked in clicking from link to link and I HATE IT!!!! So before I get hooked here are a few pictures just for show. A few from Indie's bday and a few from Naunie's house where we spent most of our summer. Like all of my pictures are burned on to CD's and I just don't feel like loading them on my computer so someday they might be up.... But we did have a rockin time visiting naunie and grampy!! We miss ya'll!

2009-08-11T19:28:00.000-07:00

The wonderful treehouse built by grampa!! Well, and me, and Lex!! It is huge! 7 1/2 tall and 10 feet off the ground! The kids love it, of course... who wouldn't! Thanks grampa, you so totally ROCK!!!

Lexie took some adorable pictures of Olive in her cute little, okay I mean BIG tutu I made her! She is so stinking cute. And as usual Lexie did an awesome job!

2009-08-10T10:37:00.000-07:00

for some reason I couldn't get Indie's video to upload so here it is!

2009-08-10T09:55:00.000-07:00

the kids figured out how to video on my moms computer... at first they didn't know they were recording and we found like 75 videos on her computer! Here is some for your enjoyment!

The butterfly pavillion

2009-07-30T14:13:00.000-07:00

We went to the butterfly pavillion with Naunie yesterday and had a great time. We saw tons of butterflies and cool bugs. Some big ole tarantulas! The kids, well not Indie even got to hold it! Even Olive and I held it!

Rosy the Tarantula!

The boys trying to hold still so a butterfly will land on them

Caught one!

So did I!!!

Indie was very excited to hold this one

Naunie and Olivetta

The butterflies loved this guy's shirt!! They were landing all over him

Here is a picture of Olive's new face.... real adorable. (Her eyes are during a hazel/green color! You can really tell in this photo)

2009-07-25T14:57:00.000-07:00

My brother just went on a 4 day painting hike in the mountains. Besides it being one of the best experiences in his life, next to me beating him in arm wrestles when we were kids, of course. He has painted some of the most beautiful paintings that he will be selling at an art gallery next month. Some of the proceeds will go to the area where he hiked to help preserve it so the miners don't come in and destroy it. Check them out HERE....

Sea World

2009-07-23T15:31:00.000-07:00

Ok, I really don't feel like typing so here are a few photos of Sea World... More to come!

The cool glass tank
The cousins

This Shamu was HUGE!!!

They do some really really amazing tricks. It makes you wanna just jump in and swim with them. Sadly I don't think my doggy paddling would make the cut.

This trainer was pregnant she did a cute little routine with this baby whale and its mama!!

Colorado

2009-07-21T21:57:00.000-07:00

I have so many pictures to post on my blog it is ridiculous!! We spent all last week in Orlando with Paul's family spending every day either at Sea World of Busch Gardens. It was so much fun! Thanks granny and grampa! I haven't been able to load those photos on my blog because the computer won't read my 4GB card.... boo! So when I get the pics be prepared to see some roller coasters and some very tricky whales! Mean while enjoy some photos of us at my mom's house!
My uncle Terry has over 600 cars... yes, that's right 600!! Needless to say Tadhg was in HEAVEN!! Here the two car boys are lovin every minute of it! Tadhg just kept asking him so many questions and he would answer all of them. It was adorable!
Here he is by his favorite car the Hornet..... the yellow one, of course!

Lex had a lot of fun checkin out all the cars as well. He is so cute with Tadhg. He was a wonderful big brother!

Here is Olive's first haircut! She was so funny! Grinning the whole time, big surprise! When Naunie was done she was going to trim Tadhg's hair and Olive just kept running back to the chair saying "my turn, my turn!"
Every time I tried to take her picture she would show me her hair like this
Thanks Naunie!!!!

Silly Indie int the pool. That girl always pulls a crazy face...what a nut.

Some old pictures

2009-07-10T12:04:00.000-07:00

I found two of my old camera cards and had to put some old school photos on

Tadhg around 5 months or so

What a cool Uncle to paint a rockin tiger on Lex's baseball helmet!! There were some very jealous boys on the team.

Hey, Aaron remember when you hurt Indie's arm?? Then after that they only person she wanted was you! You had to brush her teeth, help her with her PJ's, and put her to bed!

Look at these adorable boys!!! I can't believe they annoy me now!! Wait, yes I can.

The only way to eat pizza...

Happy 4th Birthday Tadhg!!!

2009-07-08T13:57:00.000-07:00

Here is our handsome sweet little boy who turned 4 today! FOUR!!! I can't believe it!

We had a party at the church with a bunch of his friends. They basically just entertained themselves but we did play the classic pin the tail on the donkey.... Tadhg was just a little off.

Present time!! Tadhg was in car heaven! Everything he got was either cars or Monster Trucks! He couldn't have been happier.

We got him a new bike. It's a little small but he has a one already but refuses to even sit on it! It's even a Hot Wheels one! He has a Diego tricycle that he adores but it's broken. Every time I try and throw it away he breaks down in tears. So we just keep it for the redneck collection in our yard. So I found a small bike that was the exact same as is trike and had to get it! Just look at that face! He hopped right on and rode it all over the gym!

I didn't get a very good picture of the cake but it of course had to be a monster truck. The above picture is blurry but I wanted to just show how big the cake was.

Happy 4th of July Ya'll!!!

2009-07-05T14:42:00.000-07:00

Here are the cute outfits I made the kids... you can't see them very well but they turned out pretty cute!

And a punch to the......face! One of Tadhg's favorite quotes from Nacho Libre.

The big Cheese doin her thang

No fourth of July would be complete without shootin cans with the
BBgun!!

We had our own little BBQ.... Lex's idea of course! It was a blast just hangin out with our kids!

Olive and Lexy boy chillin on the swing

Tadhg and Indie had fun swimmin in the pool

Mom and her favorite fireworks.... sparklers! I could do these things all night!

And Paul could light them all night long!

more summer fun with our friends

2009-07-01T05:19:00.000-07:00

We have had a lot of fun this summer with our friends the Goodmans. Their grandpa just bought a new house with a salt water pool and we have gone swimmin with them a few times. It has been so much fun and a great way to spend these HOT summer days! It's my first time swimming in a salt water pool and I love it! Thanks Melissa and girls for letting us hang out with you all summer! It was hard to get a good picture because the sun is so bright! But these are her girls. Hayden, Haleigh, Hannah (in order of appearance) and their cousin Ethan.

Indie and Hayden.... whom Tadhg now calls his girlfriend

Taddy boy chillin by the side

And Olive's favorite little chica Heidi!!! I think Olive literally says her name about 150 times a day! She has already said it 47 times will I have been typing this post.

The three amigos....or should I say amigas!

Melissa's sister teaches swimming lessons to babies!!! She was even teaching a 7 month old baby! It was amazing!! She would roll the baby on to her belly and she would hold her breath and just float there! Then she would try and teach her to roll over onto her back it was so crazy! And though we did actually have Olive take lessons Olive LOVED swimming with her in the pool and jumping to her from the side.

A picture that isn't actually blurry with sunrays!

More silly pictures, how unusual.

No photo shoot would be complete with out Lex trying to dodge the camera!

I had to put this random picture up of this crab Lex found on the beach! Isn't it crazy looking! It looks so fake!

Indie and her friends at her Girl party!!!

2009-06-23T13:12:00.001-07:00

A day at Wakullah Springs, Florida

2009-06-23T11:51:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday Lex!

2009-06-10T18:11:00.000-07:00

I cannot believe I have a ten year old! Where does the time go?? My little Lex, not so little any more! A whole decade, double digits...Wow. We are so blessed to have this sweetheart for a son. As much as he drives me crazy, but no more than any normal boy would. I sure do love and appreciate the heck outta him! He is always thoughtful and caring. And I kid you not every time I ask him to clean something up he does it~ without arguing! Just does it. Amazing! He is so easily pleased.. he excepts snuggles, hugs, a few minutes of alone time, and a good ole back tickle as payment for just about anything. He is also an awesome big brother and has no problem playing cars with Tadhg, Littlest Petshop or America Girl Dolls with Indie, or reading books to Olive or chasing her around the house. He loves animal, insects, and stuffed animals all alike and believes that if you hurt any of the above in any way you are abusing God's creations. (Lexie does that sound familiar??) What a great kid we have! Man, just thinkin about how awesome he is makes me feel bad for gettin so mad at him all the time...... I blame you Aaron for being such a pest to me when we were growing up. I get too many flash backs of how annoying you were! Thanks a lot, good thing you've changed ;)

This is what the boys call "snuggle time!"

We had Lex's party at the skate park this year. The kids had lots of fun. This is friend from school, Christofer, (girl)friend from church Isabella... I can't quite tell whether Indie liked her or not?? And Austin or nieghbor/friend. But Paul definitely takes the cake... peek~a~boo!

I didn't get very many good pictures before it started pooring rain! Bummer. But I'm sure I will get some more this summer when he goes back to use his awesome new skateboard Justin gave him for his bday!

If you click on this picture you can see Lex lookin right at Austin's feet And Indie looking at him like he done lost his monkey mind!!

Here is a couple random pictures of Olive that I just couldn't resist posting for obvious reasons! She is a nut! She kept bugging me or Paul to put the goggles on her so finally Paul put them on her and she was just walking around the house like that. Then the other day she came around the corner with a baby dolls shirt on her head and a purse in hand. She sure is a funny little goober!

Daytona Beach

2009-06-02T06:36:00.000-07:00

I have so many pictures to post it is ridiculous!! And sadly I find myself on a anti-blog kick. I just have so much going on this week and not enough time in the day! I am going to do put up more pictures than I probably should right now but OH WELL!
Last week Naunie and Grampa let us use their condo in Daytona beach and I was THE BEST EVER!!! It was so awesome we can't even describe it to it's full capacity. Does that sound great or what?

We left last Wednesday and stayed until Saturday. I don't think we have ever stayed any where that long that wasn't in a tent or at my moms! Thursday morning we woke up and saw dolphins of the balcony. Awesome!!

There was a lazy river to float around and it was a blast the kids could have stayed in ther fro hours!

Daddy giving Lex the ole' heeve-ho!

Ok, you know the post with Olive and the bubble bath?? Well, she also has a fear of the beach. She screamed so much and so loud that she literally lost her voice! She went absolutely crazy. It was sad, madding, and slightly embarrasing! People were probably wondering if I was really her mom or if I had snatched her up some where. I just held her and let her cry for a while then took her to the pool and she loved that. But every time she would see Paul in the ocean she would just cry and yell "daddy, daddy!" That was pretty sad. We aren't sure if it was the unknown of the beach that scared her or if it was the bubbles the water would make when the waves would crash. She also feaked out at the kiddy pool. It had a playground in the middle of it and water falling every where from all sorts of things. Also at the water that would come off the slide. And then she would cry when Paul would blow bubbles with his gum! Now that is just weird! Any ways she finally got used to the beach friday and she was able to have some fun before we left. All my beach photos are on my other card that I have to get burned on to a CD so those pics will be here soon!

When we got back from or pizza dinner we played some games and hung out. Tadhg was so tired he fell asleep during the prayer!

There will be more pics to come since I have so stinkin many! But that should do it for tonight. A HUGE thanks to naunie and grampy for hook us up! It was so good to get away and so much fun to stay at the condo. You guys are the stinkin best!!!

2009-05-26T20:14:00.000-07:00

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Bubble bath of terror!!

2009-05-24T13:05:00.000-07:00

So they other day I was cleaning under the sink and found some bubble bath and thought to myself...." Olive hasn't ever had a bubble bath, I bet she would think that was great!" So as I'm preparing this wonderful bath thinking about all the cute pictures I'm going to get, I put her in the tub and this is what happened..............

First I thought maybe the water was too hot but no, that wasn't it...

So I showed her some bubbles to cheer her up......... But by the look on her face it looks as if I'm holding someone's head on a platter!

Here, let me put some on you and maybe then you will realize how harmless they really are.

What the what!! Is there acid in these things or something??

I have never seen a baby terrified of bubbles! Seriously. Has anyone? I almost feel bad for taking these pictures but how could I resist! Guess that was the first and last time I will be giving this child a bubble bath!

Enjoying the few days left I have with my two younginz!

2009-05-19T12:10:00.000-07:00

I only have a few days left until the big kids are out of school and then it is mayhem from there on out! I have to admit, I really enjoy the few quiet hours I have at home with Tadhg and Olive. They seem so peaceful, so low key. Rarely do I have to break up any fights, Tadhg usually just gives Olive what ever she wants. I don't have to send neighbor children home every ten to fifteen minutes because they are all bugging each other, or me. I don't have to smack any children in the back of the head for giving me any lip. Ok, maybe on occasion I pop Tadhg but it's not as much fun to make him cry for being a punk since he is just following suite. So school ending is always a little bitter sweet for me. On the bright side no more alarm clocks going off at 6A.M! Unless, of course, I want to enjoy some peace and quiet! So here is few pics of our last few days before we are invaded by bigger siblings and neighbor friends!

Tadhg and his new love juicy fruit. And, of course, cars!

Olive has found a knew favorite pair of shoes! Well, boots actually. She adores them! And they look adorable on her! She was a hit around town. Thank you thrift store... $2!!! Oh ya!

The day isn't complete with out a few of these being past around!

Olive has been going potty on the toilet a lot lately....sweet!

When ever I can't find Olive, never fails she is some where reading books. She must take after her mother....

Tadhg is an amazing towel folder!! He folded all these himself and he folded them quite perfectly I must add. I am so proud! And so he is...

A lot of birhdays today!!!!!!!

2009-05-17T16:11:00.000-07:00

Happy birthday to my little sister!!! Who is 28 years old. It's so weird that you are 28, I should be 28~ not you! I love you and I don't know what I would do without you! You are my best friend It's funny to say that because if anyone would have told us when we were young we would be this close we would have laughed in there faces! Actually, I do think mom told us. Moms really do know everything! Love ya sis!

Happy birthday to some one we like to call Playin Boy Grampa! Seems I can't find a picture of you without your eyes half closed lookin like you'd been smokin a dooby all night. So I ch0se this sweet one of you holdin our little Olive girl! Happy birthday grampy, we sure love you!!!

And the third shout out goes to my step-sista Angie!! Whom I cannot find a picture of !! I even tried coping on from your blog, not many photos of you by the way, and one from your facebook account. But either it can't be done or I am just an idiot. We'll go with the idiot. And Aaron, I'm sure your going to say it's because I don't have a Mac so blah blah blah to your comment already!

Anywho! Happy Birthday to all you special people in my life! I love you all!!!!

Let the battle begin.......

2009-05-14T13:30:00.000-07:00

Prepare yourself young one

Bring it old man!!!

Our family home evening activity for the night.....
Battle of the Jedi knights!

Happy Anniversary!!!

2009-05-11T08:07:00.001-07:00

I'm not sure where the rest of my post went I just checked my blog and two whole paragraphs are missing!! Dang!! So I guess I will try it again...
Last week we celebrated our 9th anniversary! Still married..... seriously amazing! We have been through a whole lot you and I! Some good and some bad but like all couples in love we weather the storm! We have had so many adventures together some seem a life time ago and some like they were yesterday. I knew I was going to marry you THEE MOMENT I SAW YOU!! Actually, I think I really knew before you walked of that plane to come to my brothers wedding! Literally. It was the craziest thing I had ever experienced! I didn't even know you! AT ALLl!!! But I knew God had a plan for us and there was no denying the attraction.... ooh-la-la! You entered my life at a really crazy time and loved me like there was no tomorrow! You helped me through the hardest time in my life and for that I am eternally grateful. I honestly don't know what I would have done with out you. We have definitely had our struggles but 9 years later we are still known as the Ingrams! We have had a family since the day we met and you took us and loved us, and still do, like you knew no different! I love you, Paul! You were definitely my knight in shinning armor!

This is where we ate dinner. It was right on the beach and below was our view.

Isn't this pretty! It was hard to get a picture driving 60 miles an hour so it didn't turn out really good but better than nothin!

Oh ya, and you get to do a lot of this without any kids around to say "gross"!!!
We would like to give a big shout out to Sarah Jane Ingram for coming down to watch our beautiful babies while we ran away for a few days! It has been a really long time and it was much needed! Don't let the flame die out!! (ten points if you can name the movie that's from)
So we give you granny gran a great BIG THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!!!

Happy Mudder's Day!

2009-05-10T14:40:00.000-07:00

Happy Mudders day to our wee little mudders! Who teach all we know. We want to tank you for lovin us and learnin us and helpin' us to grow! Y'er der fer us and listen to us when we got somethin' to say. And weder it be good or bad ye love us anyway! So tank ye mudders fer all ye do and fer guidin us along de way. We couldn't love ye any more and that's all der is to say!

Happy Birthday to me!!!!!!!!

2009-05-03T13:59:00.000-07:00

Here I am on my 30th Birthday!!

I got to go out with my girlfriends for my birthday and it totally rocked! We went to a restaurant and we were there for 5 hours!! A little eating and a LOT of chattin! Ok, so I totally had my first "30" year old moment ON my birthday! I showed up to the restaurant (Loco's) and couldn't find my friends any where so I called Melissa and asked where they were sitting. So I'm walkin around while talking to her and I still can't find them anywhere! So she comes to the front to find me and as am walking around she asked "are you even at Loco's!!? So I look around and I notice all the staff are Mexicans......... "No, no I'm not!" I say. I am next door at the Mexican restaurant! Nice, real nice.

Any ways thanks to all my girlies for hangin with me on my big day!!! I love you all and am so glad we are friends!! Cuz Albany would really REALLY suck with out you!!

Happy Birthday Grampa Corey!

2009-04-26T04:20:00.000-07:00

Yesterday was my daddy's birthday he would be a very young 53 if he were still here. Like my sister said the older I get the more I realize just how young he was when he died... only 42!!! He lived an unbelievable life! (besides the sick part of course!) He was always doing something fun, spiritual, funny, and just being nothing other then the BEST!! Next week I am turning the big THREE- O!! It is so weird because it seemed like yesterday my dad was turning 30 and man he hated it soo bad!!! We all thought it was pretty funny! I was Indie's age... man how time flies!

So in honor of my daddy we went out to enjoy nature!

Thanks for loving me, baby!

Indie found a "toilet" on our nature walk.... leave it to one of my kids to find something related to bodily functions!

I love this picture!

Tadhg bringing mommy flowers

Bug spray, come and get your bug spray!!

Lex staying true to his name of Lex Cordell ( my dad's name ) by climbing trees.

Olive trying out the fitness bars at the park

Olive missed her nap time and she sat down on the trail and said "nite nite!"
Poor baby.... sorry Miss Muffet!

Weekly photos

2009-04-24T14:32:00.001-07:00

It was only a matter of time before at least one of our kids got these bad boys! If it weren't for my astigmatism I think her eyes would be as bad as mine! Poor girl! She was so excited to get them. She said " I can see the flip flops on the purse up on the wall!!" This is the first pair now we need to get a back up pair!

Tadhg is such a good big brother. He loves to share with Olive and always tries to make her stop crying when she is upset. I can always tell though when he is the one who has made her cry because every time he sings her Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. It rarely works but it is cute!

Here is his new favorite thing to do while the kids are at school.....hold the bunny!!!

Lex never seizes to amaze us and he engineering capabilities. We let him but up his drumset and he did it all by himself! He said he remembered what they looked like and remembers watching daddy set them up. Amazing!!

This is what I found walking past the bathroom yesterday..... and she went pee pee!! She has been going potty on the toilet before bathtime and sometimes when I stick her on the pot while diaper changing! Can't wait for antoher potty training experience!! Psych.

Monday night fun

2009-04-20T17:46:00.000-07:00

I love this picture of my boys!!!

She is so stinkin cute! I could just pinch her cheeks right off!

Do you like the pudding on his face?

Olive loves to record with the flip.........her finger!

Indie and her little bunny!

Me and my big girl!

Easter fun

2009-04-14T05:22:00.000-07:00

We had an Easter egg hunt with the cousins and the kids had a blast!

You can tell from this picture that every time Olive would find an egg it would immediately get opened and eaten....

They have a great yard for egg hiding! Trees everywhere! Oh and Uncle Craig got all artistic on the kiddos and color coordinated the eggs for the big kids to find! Nice thinkin! I think you should be on the Easter Bunnies back up list in case he gets sick!

Indianna and her basket of goodies!!!

Olive actually go really sick while we were there. I think she has strep throat (the doctor didn't test her we just went straight to the antibiotics!) But as you can tell from the picture she was still able to squeeze out a "cheese" when I broke out the camera! And granny read to her and that is Olive's favorite thing to do!!! Thanks granny!

Daddy and the fish..........

2009-04-13T13:05:00.000-07:00

Ok.......... I was totally kidding Paul before. He really did catch this awesome fish! I couldn't resist teasing him because he called me and asked me to post the pictures so he could show his buddies at work. Now tell me how can a Johnson resist that temptation!!!

2009-04-11T08:25:00.000-07:00

Indie finally got this nasty front tooth out!!!

Lex's picture from art class got pick to be hung up in the mall! We are so proud of him! This is the first time he has ever worked with oil before and his teacher was very impressed! He has always been quite the artist!

Here is Indie's new pet!!! Isn't it adorable!!!! A wittle bitty teenie weenie bunny wabbit!!!
Indie is so excited.... and I have to admit- so am I!!! For now at least!

Isn't it so tiny!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY-O!!!!!!!!

2009-04-09T11:59:00.000-07:00

It's here again!! One year older and one year wiser!
I asked the kids a few things about daddy and here are there answers!

Why do you think daddy is one year wiser?
Sorry hun, no one could answer that question......

What is daddy's favorite thing?
Lex said, "fishing!"
Indie said, "us!"
Tadhg said, "the Holy Ghost."

What makes daddy a good daddy?
Indie said, "He tells us great stories!"
Tadhg said, "Because he loves the Holy Ghost."
Lex said "That he's my daddy!"

If Tadhg could give him anything in the whole world it would be candy!!! If Indie could give him anything it would be when I die I would give him my life.(???) Lex would give him all the money in the world!
Oh and Olive laid down on the floor, smiled, giggled and said "Daddyyy!!!!"

Happy birthday darlin' I love ya..........dude.

2009-04-05T11:59:00.000-07:00

Olive loves her daddy boy!!

She is still a cheeser!

So this is our spring break......... this is our back patio, or it was.

This is out the front. The street was starting to flood over! It was really crazy!

Indie's summer do!!!

2009-03-26T12:27:00.000-07:00

2009-03-17T10:14:00.000-07:00

Happy Birthday me brutha!!! I hope you are having a wonderful time! I wish we lived closer to each other!! Thanks for all you do for me..... like listen to me when I need someone to talk to! You are such a good example to me and I thank you for that!
Paul says........."Remember Paris??"

2009-03-16T14:40:00.000-07:00

I was a brave mama this past weekend and took the kids to Orlando for a few days ALL BY MYSELF!!!!!! My mom and John had some time open up at the condo there and so off we went!
We left Thursday and came home Saturday. It was so much fun! We swam, played in the game room, ate, swam some more and partied it up!!! Orlando is one happenin city! I could spend thousands of dollars there with out even blinking! Sea World was a mile to the left of the condo and Disney World was a few miles to the right.... with Outlet Malls plastered in between!!! Luckily my kids were very content staying in the condo and just hanging out. We did manage to pick up a few souvenirs.... Thanks Naunie and Grampy for letting us go! We had a blast!!! And hopefully we can all go before we move out west!

2009-03-15T15:19:00.000-07:00

Olive is quite the dancer! She loves music and loves dancing!! Oh ya, and she also love tipping over
garbage cans!

2009-03-15T14:47:00.000-07:00

This is what happens when a mother decides to take four kids to a pool by herself.... at night.
Someone goes in the water involuntary.
So as I was turning on the video camera I just happen to be pointing it in the direction of Tadhg pulling Olive out of the water! Indie notices then comes to the rescue. Luckily it was only 2 feet deep and Tadhg was actually the one who pulled her in in the first place! It was scary funny!

2009-03-11T14:36:00.000-07:00

Indie lost her front tooth!!! And she is still nothing but beautiful!!!

Me and my little man!

I bought a yoga DVD for the kids to do with me and it was so much fun!

This is called the rocking horse..... Olive couldn't resist riding it!!! Indie is so flexible its crazy!

The airplane~!

Olive is such a daddy's girl!!! I was washing my car and she had to pull up a stool so she could watch him the whole time! She just kept saying "Daddeeee!! Dadddeee!!!" She loves her daddy!

Cutie boy!

Gross, I know. But I had to get a picture before I puked and he started coughing up hairballs!

My Lexi boy!

Catching up on some pictures!!!

2009-02-26T15:42:00.000-08:00

Here is a picture requested by my hubby and my sissy..... I won the 5k in my age category so here is my metal!!! Oh ya!!

2009-02-19T11:57:00.001-08:00

I know I am a slacker about posting but I found this link and I had to post a link..... Please check it out...............

http://blossomsofblessings.blogspot.com/

2009-02-03T10:05:00.000-08:00

Her new cheeseball face! It's hilariously cute!

I got this cute outfit for Indie at a garage sale for $1!! But Olive sure seems to like it!!! Sunday morning and we were trying to get ready for church and she found this and INSISTED!! That we put it on her! She went running down the hall laughing to show big sister. It was so dang cute!!!! And yes, she is ALWAYS this happy! Really.

Tadhg loves this Spiderman cape we got for Lex in Mexico! He has been telling us some pretty funny stories lately. The other day he told us that he had been fighting bad guys and then Jesus came to help him......... and he (Jesus) was black and he had a green gun and he shot everybody up. Very Interesting.

Here is Indie on her basketball team. Can you tell which one she is? The ONLY white girl on the whole league! Sweet. The last game we had I was talking to one of the mothers and she asked me which child was mine. I, of course, looked shocked that she would ask me that and I bluntly said, "Uh, the only white kid out there!"

This is the look of frustration...... homework time. Need I say more?

And here's Indie at homework time. OK, it's not always this bad but it does always stink in some way! Seriously what do they do in school all day??! Why do kids have so much flippin homework!? I swear there is NO time for kids to play anymore! I could be done with a whole day of homeschooling by the time we are done doing homework! It's RIDICULOUS!!

So this is what happens when homework time is dramatic.............. I eat. A lot.

Just some random pictures...

2009-01-20T14:05:00.000-08:00

Indie got a Littlest Petshop plug in game and by the way my kids were playing and jumping around you would've thought it was a Wii!! I gotta say the best after Christmas sale gift yet!! $6.99 Thank you Target for the hours of fun!

Me and Taddy painted the furniture Indie got for her American girl doll. It was so fun!

Just a cute picture!

Olive is doing her new favorite thing.... raising her hand and saying "Me!" You can tell what she is saying on her little lips. So cute!

Nice mohawk!

Silly big sister!

Olive is getting so big!!! She is still all smiles! Love that baby!!

2008-12-28T17:26:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas!!!! We had a wonderful Christmas this year! We were lucky enough to have Naunie and Grampa at our house this year and it couldn't have been more fun! Well, unless we could've changed our 80 degree weather for some snow!! It is still so weird having Christmas when it is so warm! But despite having to air condition the house it was pretty awesome! Christmas Eve day was a little hectic and the kids didn't even get to bed until 10PM! But we still managed to do a few fun things!

Since we have changed opening our Christmas pj's to the night we put up the tree. This year I bought the kids some really cute bears at Hobby Lobby and they each got to stuff them. We all stuffed and Grampa played and sang us some Christmas carols on the guitar. It turned out to be pretty fun!

Then we sprinkled our reindeer food everywhere.....

Then we put out Santa's cookies!!

Then hung up the kids AWESOME stockings!! Lex and Indie got their stockings from Paul's Nana before she died and then Paul's Mom carried on the tradition and worked her butt off doing Tadhg's and Olive's! They are all hand sewn and stitched which take HOURS and HOURS of work!!! And we love them! So thanks Granny Sarah!

Here is Christmas morning!!! The kids woke up around 7am and they waited on the couch while we rounded every one up and camera and all. I think Gramps is still a wee bit tired!

My mom and I were up until 5AM!!! We didn't start wrapping until well after 10PM!! And we had to wrap for 8 people! We had a lot of fun though and it was the best Christmas present for me to have my mom here with me!

Lex got a Ripstick G and was very excited! Tadhg asked Santa for a big fat wolf! I have no idea where that came from but I love the picture above cuz you can see Tadhg in the back rolling around the floor hugging his wolf.

Indie go a scooter for her American Girl doll......

Of course Tadhg got some cars, his favorite thing in the world!
And here is a close up of Tadhg hugging his big fat wolf!!

Lex got every Spy Wear (or gear, whatever it's called) known to man!

Indie's new American Girl doll, Josephine.

Olive was SO stinkin cute this Christmas! She caught on very quickly to the unwrapping business! Every time she would get a present she would walk over to grampa and have him open it. It was adorable!

This Christmas Lexie, my sister, came up with the plan to do a scrapbook for Grampa and Naunie. We ( me, Lexie, Aaron, and Angie) did it through Shutterfly and it turned out awesome!! They really loved it and I think we might have to make it a tradition!?? What do you think guys!?

We want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! And we hope this year finds everyone happy and healthy! Despite all the craziness that is bound to bring some hard times ahead!

2008-12-22T06:32:00.000-08:00

Olive and Tadhg play so well together.... even if Olive occasionally likes to trap her big brother in a rubbermaid!

I love my babies!

2008-12-17T12:45:00.000-08:00

This is how Tadhg fell asleep today...... real comfy!

I can't believe how big she is getting! She started saying "daddy", "NO!" and "Bye" but with a southern accent as she waves.

My cute girls! Indie loves taking care of Olive! It is so nice she will take her in their bedroom and play for hours! OK, not hourZ but one time it was two hours and it's usually a pretty long time! I of course keep the monitor on to spy!

I love my little Wee-Woo! He is so much fun, I just love spending everyday with him! He says the funniest thing.... which are usually lines from Nacho Libre. The other day we were at the Doctors getting Olive's shots and he was wrestling with another little boy in the waiting room. They were rolling around pinning each other and then Tadhg jumped up and said, "Take it eazzie!!" With an accent of course. I think he has the whole movie just about memorized! He and daddy love to watch it over and over!

What a goofy boy! He is such a good big brother! Tadhg gets so excited to see Lex after school. Lex is a good playmate....as long as you play his way that is! Oh ya, and don't touch any of his stuff!

This picture cracks me up because she actually got stuck in this cupboard. Her butt was just a little too big! Well, that and the mufftop spilling over her diaper! She finally shimmied her way out. And I know her hair looks red, or orange rather, in this picture but it's just the lighting and my flash.... though she does have a reddish tint exactly like mine!

2008-12-06T20:35:00.000-08:00

We went and saw Old Saint Nicholas on Saturday! Indie was the only one brave enough to sit on his lap! He gave her some bubbles and Tadhg drank them!! Yikes.......
They also had a little train the kids could ride and Olive was so upset when the train left with her brothers and sister onboard!!! It was one of those cute but sad moments!

This is how I found Indie doing her homework..... strange.

This how I found Lex Saturday morning. At first I thought he was dead! I was watching him and I think it was about 20 minutes before he moved! Now to explain what the heck this new contraption Lex has come up with is! ..........A bird catcher! As you can see in the above photo he has a plate with bread crumbs and that is on a piece of cardboard. Next comes the green thing, which happens to be that little thing that goes under our raingutter so it won't pour in one spot. Then the rubbermaid and with him ontop holding the screen to our window, then the rubbermaid lid ontop. I tell ya, this boy has such an imagination!! He never seizes to amaze us! He is alwasy inventing some sort of a contraption! As much as I hate the mess he makes or when he takes something apart to aid in to what ever he is building at the time. I love seeing his little mind work and figure things out!

Tadhg decided painting with his figures was a whole lot funner than using his crappy brushes!

She is getting so big!! She is always so happy! She likes to look at books, and she even notices when the book it upside down. She flips it over the right way. It's pretty funny. She runs all over the place, getting into trouble of course! She says "wuz dat" and " I wanna bit"! All the time! She likes to bark like a dog and pull out all our DVD's because she karate chopped the fiberglass that held them in the entertainment center in half! Cute and crazy... that's how we raise em!

Just a few pics!

2008-11-26T09:23:00.000-08:00

Mommy and Olivetta!

One cool dude.........

and a few silly kids! One night when daddy was out of town, we found ourselves looking for some entertainment! The kids came out dressed like this! The wanted to see who looked the silliest! They both look pretty goofy to me!

2008-11-15T12:42:00.000-08:00

The other night I couldn't find Lex and this is where I found him..... on the couch reading his scriptures! What a good boy! He is so cute and has really taken a liken to reading the scriptures! It all started last week when we had our Primary Program. After church I couldn't find him anywhere! I finally looked in the car and I found him in the back seat reading his scriptures. His part in the program was in 2 Nephi and that is where he decided to start reading, it really sparked his interest! I told him what I was reading about in the scriptures (1 Nephi.. trying to get him to start from the beginning) and he said "Well, you should hear what I'm reading about! That's where you should be reading!" When Paul came home from being gone all week the first thing he said was "Daddy, Daddy!! I read my scriptures all by myself and nobody told me to! And I was reading about when Christ comes and about all the wicked people and the buildings will fall upon them and earthquakes! It was so cool!" He was so excited and so interested, it was really great to see him so excited about reading the scriptures! He is SUCH a great kid! Man, we love our little Dude~!

Olive hates HATES to wear bibs! This one has a button so she can't slide it over her head. I was talking to Paul on the phone and came in the room and this is what she looked like. She thought it was so funny! I would pull it down and she would pull it back up and just stared at me......

Paul was out of town again last week for almost the whole week and the kids had Monday and Tuesday off so I let them turn the TV room into one GIANT tent!! Literally..... the entire room!

We love having a fireplace! Ok, you're right. It isn't cold enough for a fire here, yet! But they just couldn't resist it any longer! We had all the windows open and fans blowing everywhere! It was fun and isn't this picture adorable!

2008-11-11T11:55:00.000-08:00

The kids love to sleep in my bed when Paul is out of town. I went in to check on them and this is what I found..... Indie had fallen of my bed onto Tadhg and they were inner twined!! It was so funny!

Olive was on my lap and I was taking pictures of Daddy and Lex and then showing her them on the viewer. She thought it was amazing! Or maybe just amazed that her daddy and brother could look so silly!

This is what happened one day about 30 minutes before I had to go pick up the kids from school. This is in Lex's and Tadhg's room and if you know Lex then you know how anal he can be about his room and how everything has to be exactly how he places it or he just might have a melt down!! Well, he obviousely put a few too many books on this wire shelves!! Long story short it turned out OK and Lex did a good job NOT freaking out...... though I did have most of it cleaned up by the time he came home.

2008-11-06T05:57:00.000-08:00

Olive is quite a strong little munchkin!! She loves packing around Indie's pumkin!!
This pictures below are sadly NOT of Halloween..... just life with a big sister who loves to play dress-up! Tadhg is really going to hate me when he is older, isn't he??

Isn't this a cute picture!! We love when daddy comes home to eat lunch with us!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!

2008-11-02T17:00:00.000-08:00

Daddy and his girls!

Tadhg the vampire! Almost every time he would get a piece of candy he would sit down to eat it! We had to put a stop to that real quick!

Lex ended up not wearing his scary blood dripping mask that he just HAD to have!!! Oh well, it was pretty scary!

Indie's outfit was SO ADORABLE!!! I got it off ebay and it's from The Children's Place. It was so cute and it was just her style!! Below is a picture of the back of it..... that and her striking a pose!

Olive wore the Tinkerbell dress Naunie made for her cousin Sophie!! Thanks for sharing Sopherdoodle!!

For our ward Trunk or Treat we, the primary presidency, dressed up as Gypsies!! It was really fun!! And not to far from my normal dress!!

We went Trick or Treating around to some awesome houses!! People really went all out around here! There were people hiding behind bushes.... scared the crap out of Indie!! Real people putting dirt on a scary skeleton (looked like grave diggers), a box with a guy inside and the kids had to reach there hand inside for a piece of candy and if they chose the wrong one they go slimmed! And I had to at least share this photo of this Skeleton on a motorcycle!! It was so much fun!!! We hope everyone had as much fun as we did!!

A few family pics!

2008-10-24T20:34:00.000-07:00

Last Sunday we decided to take a few family pictures.... they didn't turn it out too well cuz it was so bright, that and Paul didn't notice the sunshine spots!!! Oopsie! Well have to try again when it's not so bright out!!

2008-10-21T07:34:00.000-07:00

Here Is a LisT of TADHG'S FavOrITe SoNgS!!!
I aM SICK oF LooKIng tHem Up oN uTuBe so We deCIded tO Post ThEm On the Blog!
ENJOY!

OUR cReaTiVe LitTle MaN

2008-10-20T18:07:00.000-07:00

Lex is forever building, inventing, fixing, and creating just about EVERYDAY of his existence! I have to admit.... sometimes it drives me CrAZy!!! But I pretty much let him do it anyways! Because he loves it so much and I think it is better than video games!!! Most the time...

This is his "Tree House"...... he likes to do his reading up here, lucky for me it rained and the box is now in the garbage! Paul took these bottom pictures. Lex didn't know he was taking them. He did a pretty dang good job!!!

2008-10-15T15:25:00.000-07:00

I love having a child old enough to read books to his siblings!! Tadhg especially loves it!

Is this safe??

Mama and her girls!

This is Lex attempting to keep Olive out of "Lego Land"

THANK YOU AUNT LECKA FOR the ADORABLE blanket and pillow!!! You did a great job!!!

WE MISS YOU NAUNIE!!

2008-10-08T08:28:00.000-07:00

My mom was here, FINALLY, last week and boy do miss her like crazy now!! It is always so much fun to see her. We hadn't seen her since Olive was born!! A WHOLE STINKIN YEAR!! That is just way too long!!! Luckily we will get to see her AND grampy for Christmas!! Thanks for coming Mommy! I wish we could see you more! I love spending time with you and love you so much! Thanks for everything! You help me more then you know! MISS YOU!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLIVE APOLLONIA!!!!!

2008-10-01T20:47:00.000-07:00

2008-09-30T19:39:00.000-07:00

Here is my baby girl on her !st birthday!! I can't believe she is already one!! Where does the time go!? I remember holding her for the first time thinking how amazing life is.... and how fat she was when she came out! In fact the first thing I said was, "look how fat she is!" She has brought us so much joy and happiness! She is the happiest baby I have ever had! She never fusses, unless there is a real problem! She is always smiling and I can't get enough of her! Plus she still has brown hair!!! Yea!

This is the first time she had food and below is just a cute picture! She has changed so much! Why do they have to grow up so fast!?

2008-09-18T03:54:00.001-07:00

Today marks the UNBelievable TEN YEAR anniversary of my Fathers death. I cannot believe it has been that long! When I think of all the things that have happened since then it is crazy!! I'm not going to lie it has been a REALLY hard "anniversary"! I think the build up of the day might be worse than the actual day but we will see how it ends. The only way I can explain this year is strange. Yes, strange. I miss my Daddy!! He was, and still is, such an inspiration to me. He was always kind, gentle, and loving. He knew me better than anyone. I was such a daddy's girl and I miss everything about him! I would give anything to have him here! To have my kids know him and not just of him! I know that God has a plan for each of us and I know I will see him again.......... But sometime that "again" just seems like an eternity away! I wrote a poem this year, we used to write poems all the time and read them to each other sometimes in the middle of the night. We'd meet in the kitchen and talk about our dreams or read our poems to each other over a glass of Ovaltine. I'm going to add my poem, it's kinda sad just to warn you! I debated whether or not to put it on but then I came to the conclusion that it's my blog and I can if I want! It's like my mini therapy session! Mom, Aaron, Lexie, Grandma........ I miss you guys SOOOO MUCH and I wish I could hug you all! I'm sure I will talk to you all today, not that we don't everyday! But know that I will be thinking of you all and I miss you all so much!!! Today is also my Grandma Johnson's (my dad's mom) birthday so Happy Birthday Grandma-ma!! I miss you so much and I wish I could see you! You are such an inspiration to me, you never cease to amaze me. You are my hero and I look up to you more than you will ever know! You are the most perfect person alive!!! And that explains why my daddy was so perfect, too!! I love you gramma!!
These are the only photos I have on my computer of my dad, thanks to my sister Lexie for emailing them to me! Of course the best one wouldn't load!!!!

It's been ten years and it seems so long, like a lifetime in black and white.
Your voice is fading, I hate that.
It scares me to forget.
It feels so very strange
To think that I've survived this long without you
Yet it seems like yesterday I saw you.
In the back of my mind I'm still waiting for you to come back
Ridiculous, I know.
But when you left I was just a child
You've missed so much!
I'm a woman now,
Married with four children of my own.
How is it that you don't even know them?
You've never even seen there faces
Never held them on your knee or kissed them good night.
I know you're better now
And that comforts me.
I know I'll see you soon.
But tomorrow is so far away
And yesterday is long gone.
And all I have are these memories
To help me carry on.
I miss your smile
I miss your face
I miss your tender and patient ways.
I miss the comfort I used to feel just from knowing you were there.
Daddy, where have you gone?
I still miss you just as much as the day you left.
Too young to leave our family
But too sick to carry on.
I know God has blessed you now and you are able to feel yourself again
But it's so hard without you, daddy
And I miss you more than words can say!
It's strange to think that the person who always knew me the best
Doesn't know me at all.
Have I become the woman you'd hoped?
It scares me a little to know
When you left it changed me,
So many things went wrong
And with out you I'm not so strong.
I've been through a lot without you
And I felt my foundation was gone.
I'm getting stronger
But I have my days
I know I'll make it through
You never cease to inspire me
This year is very strange
I feel you near but I cannot hug you
Your presences is so strong
But I cannot see you
I thank the Lord everyday for eternal life because I know I'll see you again
But until that day comes
I'll never stop missing you.
I love you, Daddy.

HAPPY GRANDPARENT'S DAY!

2008-09-14T18:59:00.000-07:00

Indie had Grandparents day at school this week but sadly we live to far away for any grandparents to attend! :(
I had a little photo album for Olive to look at that Naunie made Indie when she was little. And smart little Indie girl was so excited because it had a picture of Naunie and Grandpa!! She got to pretend they were there with her!! WE WISH!!! Indie loves all her wonderful grandparents and misses you all!! Love yunz!

2008-09-08T09:04:00.000-07:00

We went to a State Park this weekend and had lots of fun! The big boys went fishing while mommy got some shut eye in a camp chair while the little ones played in the sand!

Indie and Tadhg made a cute drawing in the sand for me! So sweet!

There was a lot of cool artifacts there. They also had a field for flying RC airplanes. The planes were huge! People would bring them in on big trailers! They were doing lots of cool loops and hovering straight up and down. Lex especially loved it!

Momma and all her babies! It was just a little bright out!

Olive wasn't to sure about these shoes! They were a little big but there were so many ant piles around that we had to put something on her tootsies!

Everything still goes straight to the mouth!

2008-09-08T08:45:00.000-07:00

Maybe Olive could grow up a little bit faster for Tadhg's sake!

FROGS!!! Lex loves to catch anything that moves!

We decided that since Lex is 9 now that he should learn to mow the lawn! He did a wonderful job and we are so proud of him! Now he wants to mow it everyday!! He is so cute!

2008-09-05T13:48:00.000-07:00

Well, I still can't figure out what is wrong with my stinkin computer so here are the most recent pictures I have of the kids!

Indie loves her American Girl doll!!

She is so cute!! I can't believe she is almost one!! She is so big!! She has 7 teeth and is walking all over the place! She has taught herself how to walk it is so crazy!! I love our Little Miss Muffet!!

This is a picture of Tadhg when we were staying at the Ingram's this summer. One night I couldn't find him and I was freaking out running all over the place! I finally saw his little feet sticking out of the bottom of one of the beds! It scared the crap out of me cuz I searched the whole house before I found him!

Taddy boy lookin handsome on a ride at Chuck E. Cheese's

Lexy boy looking big!!!

2008-07-26T05:38:00.000-07:00

Olive is quite the cheeser lately. These are her three favorite poses.

She has taken a liken to Grampy.....specially when there's popcorn!

She also thinks it is quite funny when we show her teeth. She has had the two bottom ones for about 4 months and then she got her top two fangs and then her two front teeth. It was so funny to see specially because she is ALWAYS smiling!

She is also clapping and so proud of herself!

Tadhg is my little helper boy! We are making the most DELICIOUS banana bread!!

Tadhg was so proud of himself because he figured out how to cross his legs all by himself!!! What a big boy!!

Florida here we come!

2008-07-23T08:46:00.000-07:00

We recently made a trip to Florida for a quick summer vacation and, of course, had a wonderful time!! We went to the beach one day, St. George Island, but it was windy and I didn't dare take any pictures because I didn't want to get any sand in my camera. I am sad now for not taking at least a few! Then we stayed in a hotel in Tallahassee, Florida and went to a place called Wakulla Springs. The water is a cold 69 degrees year round, unlike the beach's warm 87 to 90 degrees! They have gators across the small lake with nothing but a string floating between both sides! Crazy! You can go on a glass bottom boat ride and see Manatee's but we did that last time so we decided not to fork over anymore money this trip! We had a blast and the kids loved it. We love to visit Florida! And just incase you are wondering..... yes, Florida is all it's cracked up to be!

TADHG'S DREAM COME TRUE!!!!

2008-07-18T17:05:00.000-07:00

IT'S A....... MIGHTY MEGA MONSTER TRUCK!!!

On our way to Florida we saw this truck parked at a shop and OF course we HAD to stop!! Tadhg was in awe! It was pouring rain but we just had to have a kodak moment!

Indie's lost some teethers!

2008-07-11T20:41:00.000-07:00

ONE FOR THE MONEY......

TWO FOR THE SHOW!!!!
Indie lost her first teeth! One on Wednesday and the other on Thursday! She was not too happy at first, maybe because I said I was just going to "feel" them and not pull them....it's amazing how many times kids fall for that trick! All said and done she was excited for the tooth fairy to come and when she woke up the first night the tooth fairy had left her a dollar folded like a heart ( origami ) and the next night a dollar folded into a butterfly ( origami )!!! She undid them before I could get a picture.... I told her the tooth fairy was probably a little upset because it probably took her a while to fold those awesome things!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TADHG!!!

2008-07-11T05:32:00.000-07:00

I can't believe my little man is 3!!! That is so big! I have to admit, I love having a two year old! I think they are so fun! A handful, yes, but WONDERFUL!! Plus, when ever a two year old acts up all you have to say to people is "Oh, he's two" and they just nod their head and need no other explanation. But I guess now that he is three I'd better try and tame the beast! I love my little Tadhg and think he is PERFECT!!! It was also his cousin Sam's 14th birthday so we went up to the Lovelands house and celebrated!! We went to the pool, ate TONS of delicious food! Including hotdogs , Tadhg's favorite. Of course Tadhg wanted a Monster Truck cake! So I made it look (well, tried to make it look ) like they were crashing into buses. He loved it and it tasted yummy!

I can't quite tell were he gets his looks from??

He finally got a bike and boy does he love it! He had to sleep with it right next to him!

A hard lesson to learn

2008-07-01T13:24:00.000-07:00

Well, we had us quite the scare last night. Paul and I were in Albany looking for a house and little Olivetta, who was in her car seat in the back, reached over and grabbed my allergy pills out of the diaper bag and some how managed to get the lid OFF! She started crying and I looked back and saw the bottle so I jumped in the back and realized it was open and there where pills EVERYWHERE!! They where capsules with only a thin layer and there was one smashed and half eaten on her hand and her tongue was pink and she had powder all over her. I yelled for Paul to get to a hospital, lucky for us we had his dad's GPS with us so we were there with in about 5 mins. I showed them the pill bottle it came with 100. But, of course, I had no idea of how many I have actually taken but the bottle was fairly new. Then they told me there were only 56 left and I almost feel over! There was now way I had taken more then about 18! So that left a whopping 26 unaccounted for!! Then we found 3 stuck to her, one half eaten. So now 23 missing pills. They called poison control and lucky for us since we got there so fast they could give her the charcoal to drink and it should bond with the medication. So then they gave us a cup full of the black stuff mixed with Sprite and said she has to drink this with in the next 15 minutes. If she didn't they would have to stick tubes down her nose. The first 5 sips were ok but after that she was DONE with that nasty junk! I then had to restrain her in my arms while Paul held her mouth open and shot it down her throat with a syringe, then cover her mouth with his hand so she wouldn't spit it everywhere. It was so sad, I will never forget the way she looked at us with her little eyes all red and dilated and struck with fear and confusion! It sounded like she was drowning! She then started shaking uncontrollably and I really started to panic. Paul then gave her a blessing and she immediately calmed down and took the rest of the drink with out any problems and then threw up in the sink. She threw up so much pill matter and you could even see some of the capsule casing... it was really scary! Then she proceeded to shake and her eyes where going cross eyed and she was moving her head back and forth looking left right left right left right. She had no depth perception if you held something in front of her she could not grab it. She wasn't being vocal AT ALL she wasn't even SMILING!! Not once!! There was nothing you could do to make her even grin! She hardly cried when they drew blood even after sticking her 2 times and being swaddled in a sheet by two strange men! They then had to transport her to a different hospital, by ambulance, that had a pediatric floor. When Paul went to get the car seat he found 16 more pills underneath!! That leaves the count to 7! What a relief! Still and insane amount for a 9 month old, even an adult, but much MUCH better then 23!! When we got there she was doing a lot better but wanted to keep her on watch until morning. She was so wired she didn't get to sleep until about 1:30 A.M. and then 15 minutes later they had to come shine a flash light in her eyes and check to make sure she was doing ok. They had to check her every 3 to 4 hours like that. She was hooked to a monitor all night to measure her pulse. Her pulse when she was sleeping would go between 98 and 115. At first it was between 185 and 195!!! Very bad!! Any ways she is all better now and we left the hospital around 8:45 A.M. this all started at around 5:15 P.M. last night. Paul and I both said we'll no she is alright when we see her smile again! She gave her first smile to her nurse this morning around 7 A.M.
We love our little Olive and there is nothing that makes you love your children more then thinking you might loose them! So for everyone who reads this please learn from my mistake! PUT THE PILLS UP!! Because as the nurse reminded me, the aren't child proof... just "child resistant!" She said it happens quite a bit some times the lids just pop off! So thanks to everyone who was praying for our little girl last night, the Lord has blessed us once again!

This Elmo phone kept her entertained for HOURS!

Her is her crib for the night

She had to sleep with all these wires hooked to her all night

This is the bed Paul and I shared. Good thing we love each other and also good thing we weren't planning on sleeping too much.

Here is her smile! Letting us know she is ok! (Sorry for the nudey shot!)

2008-06-25T08:39:00.000-07:00

Douche anyone???

What a maniac!

Here are some more of the fun things we've been up to .....
going to the Family Place of Fun!!! aka giant toyland, glow in the dark miniature golf ( I forgot my camera for that one), still fishing, but now on a boat! Riding bikes, roller blades, and scooters, the waterworks park, regular parks, and just trying to chill baby!!

2008-06-12T15:15:00.000-07:00

My pretty girls!

The kids got to play in Grampa's classroom! They had a blast racing all over!

This is Lex attempting to be cool and ended up looking like a dork instead!

Lex is getting so big! He just had his 9th birthday!! I can't believe it! I would post pics but this is not my computer, still, and these pictures I figured out how to put on Paul's parents computer. So I guess those pictures will have to wait!

This is as good as it gets!! My mission this summer is to get really good pictures of ALL of my babies TOGETHER! We will see!

I cannot believe Olive is 8 months old now! She is such a joy! ALWAYS and I mean ALWAYS happy! She is so funny! She has been crawling for about 2 months now, eats everything, has two teeth (got those at 5 months, lucky me). Says mama, dada, nana, not knowing that any of those names actually belong to anyone, of course, but it is fun to pretend. She is fascinated with her tongue and loves to wiggle it back and forth while sticking it straight out! And weighs in probably over 20lbs by now!! She is the BEST baby ever!! And we all love her SO VERY MUCH!

Man, Gramps, looks like you are really enjoying the grandchildren???

One of the many fish Lex has and will catch on Granny's lake this summer.

Lex love to catch them but REFUSES to unhook them!

Granny picked this magnolia from a tree next door....... it's HUGE!

2008-05-31T13:57:00.001-07:00

Well, I don't have any pictures to post right now because I am not using my computer BUT I wanted to wish my Mommy A HAPPY 51ST BIRTHDAY!!!!! Last year we all got to be there but this year I am sadly still in Georgia..... boo hoo! You are so awesome mom and I love you and thanks for being so great! You are the best! We all wish we could spend the summer with you and Lecka and her family but we will just have to be there at heart! Miss you Momma!

2008-05-24T05:46:00.000-07:00

Lex had another AWESOME soccer season! OF COURSE! Daddy was the coach again and they came out undefeated! Lex scored every game and he and his best friend were the best players on the team! I don't think there is anything I love more than to watch my Lexy boy kick butt in soccer!!

Indie had wacky Wednesday. A perfect day for Indie! She wore pants on her head, socks on her hands, a shirt as pants (with shorts underneath), her shirt on backwards, and mismatch shoes on the wrong feet! What a Wacky girl!!!!

Olive loves to chew on her binky now that she is teething more.

Tadhg LOVES HIS BIG BRUDER!!!

For Indie's party the parents got to play dodge ball with their kids. We couldn't let go of each others hands and Indie and I won!!!! You know it!!!!

Indie earned the Presidential fitness award at school! We are so proud of her! There were only three kindergarteners that earned it!! Way to go Indie!!! Lex also earned some awards but they handed them out in their classroom when we weren't there and I had already loaded my card when he showed them to me. He earned Certificate of Excellence in passing reading requirements, outstanding performance with an overall A/B average, Accelerated reading points, and outstanding test performance by exceeding the standards in Reading!!! Great job Lex!! We are so proud of our babies! These are probably the last pictures I will post for a while because we are moving.........yes, again!!!

2008-05-23T13:05:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY LITTLE SISTER!

2008-05-18T18:00:00.000-07:00

I sadly could not find a picture of the both of us together, well that either one of us would approve to be viewed by public eyes! So here a some cute ones of her!

It's so funny how it doesn't seem wrong that I am getting old but when my little sister gets a year older it totally freaks me out!!! She is 27 and I can't believe it! She has been such a blessing in my life ever since I stole her strawberry shortcake baby blanket!!! Though it didn't always seem that way growing up! Now she is my best friend to whom I tell everything!!! She is my saving grace, my sanity! My personal photo expert and inspiration to be better at everything I do! Thanks for always listening to me complain and a special thanks for still loving me despite how many times I tell you all my redneck stories!! I miss you so much and wish we lived closer to each other! I really hope one day we will! Sorry this is a day late but it has been a little crazy around this redneck palace between trying to move and wreckin cars!! I hope I get to see you this summer!!! Bring your running shoes!! I love you and hope you had a WONDERFUL BIRTHDAY!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY LECKA!!!!!

The other none soccer players

2008-05-15T14:51:00.000-07:00

OUR AWESOME SOCCER STAR!!!

2008-05-14T05:16:00.000-07:00

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He always has his eyes on the ball!

I love the look on this kids face!!

Look how Lex moves the ball!

Lex and his best friend Nick

He loves that daddy is his coach! He is such and awesome soccer player! I love watching him! He never ceases to amaze me! He is such a natural!! My little soccer star!

2008-05-12T17:13:00.000-07:00

Here's Mama and all her babies!!!

Olive LOVES the camera and bouncing on my knees

And the tub!

This is Tadhg's knew parking lot for his cars........ I love it.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY MOMMY!!

2008-05-11T07:38:00.000-07:00

Here's to you, Mom, the greatest there is!
Thanks for teaching me with kindness
And raising me with love.
Thanks for showing me by example
The right choices to make
And for loving me
Even if I don't alway make them.
Your guidance will always be present
Beyond your earthly years.
I love you, Mommy!
Thanks for all you do
For all you say
For all you don't say
And for being my best friend.
So here's to you, Mommy!
Have a Happy Mother's Day!!

I love you, mom!!!

2008-05-09T05:52:00.000-07:00

Indie's class had a Mother's Day party yesterday and it was so much fun! The kids sang us songs, painted our nails, read us a book, and served us strawberry shortcake! When we first got there we had to guess which picture our child had drawn of us. I guessed right!! But not many moms had long brown hair either! Then the teacher had the kids fill out a questionnaire about their moms and we had to guess which one was about us. Indie's went something like this, "My mom is 20ft tall and weighs 12 pounds. She loves chocolate!! She knows all about making cookies and when we go shopping she always buys stuff to make cookies! She is so so smart because she knows all about launching us super high on the trampoline! She gets really mad when I drop my baby sister but is really happy when I give her hugs!" They also made a story book of why they love their mothers and Indie drew a picture of her in bed with me and it said "I love my mommy because she lets me sleep with her when I have bad dreams." It was so fun to spend time with her and do all the cute things they had planned and worked so hard on! It was even nicer because Paul was home so I didn't have to take the two little ones with me! Thank you INDIE girl!! Mommy loves you!!!

2008-05-09T05:35:00.000-07:00

Lex loves climbing trees, it must be the name!!! The trick is finding one around here that is thicker than Lex!

Taddy loves to watch airplanes! Ever time he hears one he has to run outside and sing our airplane song.

2008-05-03T17:23:00.000-07:00

YEA!!!! The day has finally come! Today Paul graduated from college with his degree in Accounting!!! I am so proud of him!

During graduation the speaker was in the middle of telling the students that they were to thank the people that put up with there shenanigans during school blah blah blah and so Paul stood up as the gentleman was still speaking and yelled, "I love you Mama!!" I know what you are thinking. No I love you wife of all my children?? Thanks for all the support?? All the countless nights you spent alone, putting all the babies to bed by yourself, living in a dumpy house(s), following me around the country (and Mexico)!" The list really goes on and on. Well, we all know Paul is a mama's boy so here's to you Sarah Jane! And here's to you Paul.........I hope the couch is comfy.

2008-05-03T07:54:00.000-07:00

My handsome boys!!

2008-05-01T19:25:00.000-07:00