HERE I AM!

Hello! I have been saying for months that I need to get some pictures on here...lemme see how many I can get before I go out for girls' night!

Here we are on Homecoming day back in November.

Here is a picture that Scott took on deployment, not sure where...ha. Here is Lydia with Leo on the only day our teams played each other.

And here are the girls with Scott for the Daddy/Daughter Dance tonight!

Ok, time to go out!

Bye!!

Try the limes!

Here are some pictures....FINALLY.

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First, Lydia's big idea to peel a lime and eat it like an orange. We all had to try.

P.S. It was not yummy.

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The girls on the way to a Halloween party!

Pumpkin donuts!

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Lydia started cheerleading practice tonight. She had so much fun!
Maya learned a little, too!

So, there you have it. I'll try to remember to put some videos up later.

XOXO BYE!

Picture pages, picture pages...

Here's a cool tree where Lydia will go to Kindergarten. Here's our living room after I moved the couch and made some pillows and painted the lamps! I like the yellow in there a lot!
Trying out the panoramic thing.
Lydia's picture of me as a princess and Scott slaying the dragon (with a plastic sword, she says. Also, she says Trish's husband, Jim, is in the dragon costume.)
Peace out, homies.

First Class!

Scott is a First Class now!

Here he is during the award ceremony. For his uniform, he used to have 2 of those V's under the eagle on his arm, now he has 3. Pretty sweet, right?!

Ok, that is all for now. Bye!

Pictures, Pictures Everywhere!

Ok, so I've been meaning to post pictures for a while, so here are a bunch!

Here are the girls last week. (The night before Scott went on deployment.)

Hooray for sleeping bags!

Here is someone's lawn not too far from us. I've been wanting to take this picture forever, but I never have my camera ready...until a few days ago! This person actually made trees out of sea shells. Their neighbors must be thrilled.

Here are the girls at the Mother/Daughter Tea. None of us had tea. One lady actually gave me a strange look when I asked her if I could have ....*gasp*....cold water!!!!

Here are the girls after Kelly did their hair! I love it-but it made me feel a little lazy cuz the most they get outta me is usually a ponytail.

This is what Scott and I look like after eating tons and tons of food at Rei Do Gado...I mean tons! Oh wait, we look no different from every other day....crap. Oh well, at least we looked pleased with our gluttony.

Here we are with our ridiculous gardening tools.

Scotty with the Ove-Glove and the girls' plastic rake.

Kelly and I lookin' purdy.

Shelly and I doing what we normally do. We tried like 5 times to get this picture of both of us with only one eye crossed.

That's all for now. I'll put more pictures up when I find the cord for the camera.
BYE!

Deeelicious!

I made homemade granola bars! They are yummy, but I just ate too many. I better go do my workout before Scott gets home and I don't feel like doing it anymore! Anyway, here they are...love them from afar!

Maya is 3!!

So, we had Maya's surprise rainbow party today! I think the most fun for me was seeing all my friends and their kids hiding behind my furniture. :) I wish I would've rememberd to get my camera out for that. Of course, Maya had fallen asleep for a few minutes right before they came home, so she wasn't exactly thrilled when everyone yelled "SURPRISE!" She kindof side-stepped over to Scott and hung her head, like she was embarrassed. Oh well! We tried. She cheered up after a minute and had a good time.

I was so thrilled with the cupcakes. The recipe was a little strange because they ended up tasting like sugar cookies, but I think they were delicious and the colors in them turned out perfect. She had requested for the icing to be pink with sprinkles and although, my vision for them was with white icing and sprinkles, how could I say no?

I totally failed as a game organizer, though. I only got 4 punch balloons as the big prizes for the games (which were pop the balloon with your butt and a spoon/egg race), then Scott used all 4 prizes for the 1st 4 balloon poppers, so I scrambled for more prizes, luckily, I had bought 4 pinwheels for the start/finish of the egg race, so I used those as prizes. I figured the first 2 and last 2 racers would win so the smaller kids would still get something. But Lydia and her friend won 1st and 2nd, so I didn't want to let Lydia get the big prize, so she was mad. Then her friend had already gotten a big prize for the other game and I didn't want her to get 2, so she was mad. I realized that I should've just bitten the bullet and bought everyone the same big prize OR we could've just said "yay for the winners!" and given everyone their goody bag. Anything would've been better than the 2 oldest kids there crying and pouting. Oh well! I felt silly for that happenning, but what can you do? So I went against my whole little plan for the party and gave all the kids their goody bags, then had cupcakes, then did presents. It all worked out in the end and as I type this, Maya just fell asleep on the floor next to me!

On a side note, we learned how far you can blow up a balloon. This picture below was taken just seconds before it burst and we all screamed like little pansies. Isn't it HUUUUGE?! (Also, the ballon blower upper thing is awesome! I may never have to touch my lips to a nasty balloon again!)

We also learned that our old Barbies are very welcoming to the new Barbies.