Happy Birthday to.....

ME!

The big two-seven today! I spent most of the day in my jammies watching cartoons with a sick kid. I guess once you become a mom some things are more important. Gary took me to dinner last night since he had a meeting tonight, well wouldn't you know the meeting was canceled and I had no plans for dinner. So birthday dinner was McDonalds, exciting huh? I did sneak off for one of my favorite things, a bath! I even had a Lush bathbomb stored away in the closet for a special occasion. I've been putting off using it b/c of the mess it would make, but what better night for a confetti bathbomb than your birthday. I have a tub to clean now, but that can wait until tomorrow.

What's in a name..

Ok stole this from Kari's blog b/c it was so interesting...do you all agree?

What Lindsey Means

You are relaxed, chill, and very likely to go with the flow. You are light hearted and accepting. You don't get worked up easily. Well adjusted and incredibly happy, many people wonder what your secret to life is. You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing. You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long. You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start. You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people. You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts. You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals. You are balanced, orderly, and organized. You like your ducks in a row. You are powerful and competent, especially in the workplace. People can see you as stubborn and headstrong. You definitely have a dominant personality. You are the total package - suave, sexy, smart, and strong. You have the whole world under your spell, and you can influence almost everyone you know. You don't always resist your urges to crush the weak. Just remember, they don't have as much going for them as you do. You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone. You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together. At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together. You are a free spirit, and you resent anyone who tries to fence you in. You are unpredictable, adventurous, and always a little surprising. You may miss out by not settling down, but you're too busy having fun to care.

What's Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

What Gary Means

You are deeply philosophical and thoughtful. You tend to analyze every aspect of your life. You are intuitive, brilliant, and quite introverted. You value your time alone. Often times, you are grumpy with other people. You don't appreciate them trying to interfere in your affairs. You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection. You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. You have the classic "Type A" personality. You are wild, crazy, and a huge rebel. You're always up to something. You have a ton of energy, and most people can't handle you. You're very intense. You definitely are a handful, and you're likely to get in trouble. But your kind of trouble is a lot of fun. You are a free spirit, and you resent anyone who tries to fence you in. You are unpredictable, adventurous, and always a little surprising. You may miss out by not settling down, but you're too busy having fun to care.

What's Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

What will Aiden be like....

What Aiden Means

You are usually the best at everything ... you strive for perfection. You are confident, authoritative, and aggressive. You have the classic "Type A" personality. You tend to be pretty tightly wound. It's easy to get you excited... which can be a good or bad thing. You have a lot of enthusiasm, but it fades rather quickly. You don't stick with any one thing for very long. You have the drive to accomplish a lot in a short amount of time. Your biggest problem is making sure you finish the projects you start. You are balanced, orderly, and organized. You like your ducks in a row. You are powerful and competent, especially in the workplace. People can see you as stubborn and headstrong. You definitely have a dominant personality. You are friendly, charming, and warm. You get along with almost everyone. You work hard not to rock the boat. Your easy going attitude brings people together. At times, you can be a little flaky and irresponsible. But for the important things, you pull it together. You are very intuitive and wise. You understand the world better than most people. You also have a very active imagination. You often get carried away with your thoughts. You are prone to a little paranoia and jealousy. You sometimes go overboard in interpreting signals.

What's Your Name's Hidden Meaning?

Winter Zoo Trip

Saturday was sunny and the temperature was about 39 degrees so we took a trip to the zoo. Papa, Aunt Jessica, Uncle Tony, David and Kyle came along too. Some of the animals weren't out but Papa did some snooping around and got us into the buildings the animals were in. It was pretty cool (and stinky) to see the giraffes up close.

Bundled up and ready to see the animals...












Uncle Tony bought all the boys a big sucker, Thanks Uncle Tony!


Papa took all three of the boys in the gift shop and bought them each a little something. Aiden picked out a little stuffed giraffe key chain that he makes me kiss all the time. Thank You Papa!!

Buster

Buster was having some fun with Aiden's Cars racetrack today. As buster has gotten older he's been more of a sit back and watch kind of guy so it was nice to see him having some fun.

Happy Birthday Papa

Friday we spent the evening with Papa celebrating his birthday. We had a quiet evening with pizza, cake and a game of Left Right Center. Papa was the big winner of LRC and won $14.

Papa and his boys, we couldn't get a picture of all of them looking at the camera.


PapaMom was teaching the boys to stick marshmallows to their nose.



Papa blowing out his candles.

Saddie

PapaMom called to tell us today that Papa lost another goat. Saddie was one of the original goats we got when Jessica and I were about 12 & 13. We had been to a petting zoo and after coming home had bugged dad to get us two baby goats. Aunt Mary Jo got in on it and said she'd buy the goats if we could keep them at our house. Of course we started out like every kid with a new pet and woke up early before school to bottle feed the little goats. Before long dad was taking care of the goats and they became his little project. A few years later we added a third goat to the mix and a couple years ago a friend's father had a goat he could no longer take care of, so dad adopted her. This past year both Molly and Sammy died, leaving the two original goats Sydney and Saddie. Now poor Sydney is all alone. Dad plans to get a new goat in the spring so Sydney isn't all alone, Jessica has started looking alredy.

It's snowing cookies?

My cousin Mike gets married this April, so while he is in from Germany and his fiance is in from California they thought they would have their bridal shower now. My Aunt Mary Jo asked me to make cookies as the favor at the shower, who knew it would be 90 of them!! My mom came out yesterday to help me. THANK YOU MOM, I'd still be in the kitchen if it wasn't for you.

Merry Christmas Take Two

Aiden must have been a good boy this year because Santa left a ton of gifts under the tree for him.





After opening gifts it was time to get ready and head to Grandma & Grandpa's for breakfast. Grandpa made us all a great breakfast and then it was time for gifts again.

Uncle Matt played the fishing game with Aiden while we waited for the fun to begin...


Aunt Angie and Uncle Tim got Aiden a huge firetruck...

I wonder who is having more fun with the firetruck? Aiden sits back and watches as Uncle Tim and Uncle Matt play with his firetruck...


It was Chloe's first Christmas, I think she enjoyed herself...



They had me practicing for what's to come in a few months...


Finally who wouldn't love this face...

Merry Christmas Take One

We headed to Aunt Jessica's new house to open presents with Papa, Papamom, Aunt Jessica, Uncle Tony, David and Kyle. We tried the one present, one child at a time but finally gave up and let them just go at it.







And who knew getting Mom some pretty bowls would make her cry...


I think this is one of the first pictures of all of us....

Snow Day

Aiden and I took a ride out to Papamom's to play in the snow with David and Kyle. It seems like it takes forever to get three little boys dressed and ready for outside.

All dressed and ready to go...


Now let's play...



Kyle loves to have his picture taken and always wants to see it when you're done...


David thought it was fun to roll down the hill in the backyard...


After a whole whopping 10 minutes Aunt Lindsey was cold and tired from carrying Aiden, who refused to walk through the snow, so in we go.

Jingle Bells

Some Christmas singing for your enjoyment!

It's a......

Today was our big ultra sound. We were very excited to have it on Aiden's 2nd Birthday. We dropped Aiden off with Grandma and Grandpa while we went to our appointment. The ultra sound was fabulous. Little Sprout was curled in a little ball head down at first. It took a little coaxing and me bending into some odd positions to get the little one to move. After some movement we got a ton of pictures (over 15 to be exact). The tech zoomed in on a potty shot and asked us what we thought we were having, it was obvious what we were having. Aiden is proud to announce that he will be welcoming a new baby brother in May 2008!


 
 
 
 

It's a boy!!

Aiden's 2nd Birthday Party

Well today was suppose to be Aiden's birthday with the grandparents and aunts and uncles. Mother Nature had other plans in mind when she decided to stop by with a winter storm and about 6 inches of snow. When the wind would blow we had blizzard like conditions. We didn't want family out driving in such horrible weather so we decided to scrap the party but since we had the cake and most of the food Gary's side of the family braved the weather and came to celebrate with us. Thanks Grandma, Grandpa, Uncle Tim, Aunt Angie and Chloe for coming to our party.

The Birthday Boy!


He got Aunt Angie to read him his top 6 books


Grandma & Chloe


Opening presents




We tried to get Aiden and Chloe together for a picture but Aiden was only interested in Pat Pat Rocket...


The Birthday Boy couldn't keep his fingers out of his cake...



Blowing the candles out...


Cheers for blowing the candles out...


It was a small crowd but a great birthday....



We missed you Papa, PapaMom, Aunt Jessica, Uncle Tony, David, Kyle, Nana Ethel, Aunt Carolyn, Uncle Bill, Billy, Emily, Meghan and Rodel....we'll see you at Christmas!!