"mega-watt smile!!"

The braces came off yesterday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can't believe she had them on for 2 1/2 yrs.
She looks gorgeous (and so fit!) and was excited they are finally off. Now she wants the purple out of her hair. ha hahahahah........Always something!
And she turns 16 in a few weeks and wants a car.
So I said.................."hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm, braces cost $5000............that would have been a nice car!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She didn't find me very amusing.........

"the mystery has been solved!!!!"

The culprit was my SISTER!!!!!!!
I had a feeling it may have been her with the mystery package, but everytime I asked her she just didn't answer the question!!! She said it was fun messing with me!!! ahha......She finally had to fess up today. I flat out asked her again!!!!!! Thanks sista :)
And I believe no one is safe now that I have a scanner. This is Donna in 1987 as a senior at South Albany High School. Damn girl..............you were hot!!!!!!! (but why are you rolling around in a field? hahahhahaaa) Way more oldie pics to come. I've been going thru old pics and having hubs scan like crazy!!!

"cutest kids ever!!!"

8 years later.....Tyler, Gunner, Nicole, Drake..........Christmas Eve 2010Seriously......................the cutest kids ever.

Nicole, Gunner, Tyler and Drake.....................Christmas Eve 2002...... Scary that the two oldest ones are now old enough to DRIVE!!!! Where did the time go?

I was supposed to be cleaning up my room (like I tell my kids to do!) and found some old pics and got distracted and didn't get my room cleaned. ha haha

But I had the hubs scan a bunch of OLD pics for me. Can't wait to start posting them.

"I got a mystery package today........"

So I got a text from the hubby today that I got a box from American Greetings Photoworks? Ok......I didn't order any pictures...............Even though I need to from Christmas and that's on my to-do list! It's actually a cutting board with these fabulous pictures of my family!!!! So there is NO enclosure.
No note. Just says "3rd party billing"........
So obviously it's one of my awesome friends that reads my blog because I don't post new pics on facebook and I'm sure Nicole doesn't have any of her brother on her facebook page. So.........I determined someone took them off of my blog???????????
And how do I properly THANK the person if I don't know who it is??????
What a wonderful, thoughtful gift. I LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!
So who ever sent it THANK YOU.......and if there was supposed to be an enclosure.....there wasn't! hahahahhahahaa
So nice to come home from work to such a lovely gift.......................thanks friend...........

"holy mother-of-purple..."

I guess when you are the daughter of a hair stylist you can choose that you want purple in your hair!
And you mother is willing to do it.
It's very VIOLET.... (she claims it's kinda blue). Photographs a little blue-ish. But trust me......it's purple!
Either way.............she can rock it! Very bold and edgy........
It's just the front not all over. And it was a lot of work....had to take out the red we put in it LAST time..........and a fresh hair cut....but I got to spend 3 hours with my daughter and we laughed alot.
She has been begging me for a month to do this. I finally had some time (well......not really, since we left the salon at 9:00 pm last night!) But if purple hair is the worst thing I have to worry about with my 15 year old...........I'm in pretty good shape! (and I'm praying it doesnt fade to an ugly ciolor in the next 2 weeks!)

"Happy New Year (Eve)....."

Well~we finally showered and are headed out to celebrate for New Years Eve! Happy New Year! (make good choices....hahhahahaaaaa)

"O Holy Night....Christmas 2010"

Wow..........another Christmas come and gone.
So much work. So much time. So much money. Decorating. Cooking. Dishes........
But good memories are worth it all.
I hosted ALOT of the festivities! Christmas Eve and Christmas Day at my house. Lots of family. But my kids and hubby and I love to be home so thats the price you pay to make it happen!Tyler wanted to open presents so bad. He was checking them all out waiting for everyone to get to our house! He knew what some of them were just by the box. And he found one in the attic earlier in the month when I sent him up for some Christmas decorations. I FORGOT it was up there! And I can't lie so I had to fess up and admit when he asked that it was his..........

Oh mom............NO MORE PICTURES..........hahaaa.....they know I'm going to take LOTS!

So my sister Donna and I had this "grand plan" that the kids would LOVE to frost sugar cookies on Christmas Eve.............just like we used to when we were younger. So we begged our mom to make them....................I think I heard 11 dozen cookies????? Well............these kids look all happy and merry. They each frosted 2 cookies, where done with it and moved on..........

So Donna and I had to frost ALL of them by ourselves! They just didn't get the joy out of it that we used to! But we had fun. Our hubby's made fun of us. It is like when your kids want a puppy. They promise to walk it, feed it, take care of it. That lasts a couple of days and then the job is all yours!!!!!

We had a lot of shinanaganns...........These kids were wild. But funny and hilarious. One of the best Christmas Eve's I've had in a long time.

My sister Donna and hubby Mark and her kids Gunner and Drake came. Her mother in law. My inlaws. My kids. The boy. We had a great time. Laughing. Drinking wine. Eating. Frosting cookies!!!( and eating cookies!) And opening gifts.

Me and my sis!

The bar is very important when you have 48 straight hours of guests!!!!!!!

They look all sweet and innocent!!

The pizza bar was great!

I enjoyed the kids alot. Even though they are older we still had lots of fun.

We busted those cookies out FAST!!!!!!! And ate lots..............I have a food hangover today.........

We all get new jammies on Christmas eve.

And of coarse mom is still up at midnight doing last minute Santa gifts and stockings!

Their awesome quilts that I enlisted my sister Donna into making for the kids "santa gifts". They turned out amazing! LOVE IT! Kids did too.......

I finally had to wake Nicole up at 10:00 am on Christmas morning. Tyler was very tired of waiting! And we had company coming at noon and still needed to shower and open gifts. Christmas day I had another crew over. Grandma and Grandpa Mac. KayDee, Brandi and Colton. Gma and Gpa Mary. The boy. My hubby and kids.

Grandpa Mary wasn't feeling good so he slept thru the entire Christmas.........................missed it all.......

Christmas day after I got the kitchen all cleaned up, my sister KayDee and her family were going out to my aunts house in Lebanon. My house was clearing out. Nicole went to the boys house, and my boys were playing with their games. So I tagged along too. We had so much fun. Got home late and maybe a little tipsy and finally was all partied out! Today I took down some decorations. Put Christmas dishes away. Made a really healthy dinner and watched movies with Nicole. Hoping to get the tree down tonight. Another year is coming to a close. Hope 2011 is a happy, healthy one.........................