Before....and after!

Ok so there are pictures that get taken that should never be seen, and this is one of them. But I couldn't find any good recent pictures that showed the out.of.control.hair that I had going on! So this is me Christmas morning letting someone under the age of 5 take my picture. Andy is one LUCKY man!

My fresh new very short do. I love it though. I think it is going to take me like 5 minutes to do.

Jocee thinks I look just like Cloe's mom, especially since I am wearing our matching sweatshirts.

PS-Londa. Sunday red sweatshirt:) We can totally be twins now. HAHA!

I've been payed back...

in a good way:) I've been wiping bottoms for 11 years now, wow that's a loooong time! Anyway...today I was going potty myself and low and behold noooo toilet paper. none. (I know TMI, but just stick with me!)Not even a tiny scrap. So the call went out, Jocee.pause. pause. Jooooocceeeeeeee. pause. pause. JOOOOCEEEEEEEEEEE, finally a response, can you bring mommmy some tp. Her she comes, in record time I must say (curious george was apparently on commercial), with tp in hand. And not just on little square either. Not too much, not too little. Enough to get the job done. Yeah!!!! I can not tell you the amount of times I've asked for tp in this matter or even just enough so I can blow my nose, and I get like one.little.square, sometimes not even a whole square. It's like they become tp rationers when it needs to be used for something practical, other than wrapping the dog up like a mummy or seeing how much square footage one.brand.new.roll can cover on the upper level of our home:) So today it all payed off! Thanks Jocee:) You put a smile on mommies face.

Not to leave anyone out!

My sweet Ariel

Christian rockin' out at rockband!

Jeffery and Caleb-these guys are almost 6 months apart to the day.

Taylor and Ashleigh-are also 6 months apart.

Noah and Jocee-somehow we didn't put our order in for a new baby soon enough, because these guys are 9 months apart, but still good friends:)

Jacob and Ryleigh-these two cuties are exactly 30 days apart, Ryleigh is the older of the two, let me tell you that was a hard last thirty days of pregnancy.

I dearly love all these sweet ones too!

Amy's wedding!

Brent and Amy's wedding Jan 2, 2010


Jake wasn't going to pose for any pictures, then he decided he would...kinda. He wouldn't move away from the wall at all. Luckily Amy was super sweet and just posed with him anyway, she was way more gracious then I wanted to be.

Amy and her girls!

Amy with my girls, two of her flower girls:)

This was the best I could do for a picture of all the kids together. Once again Jake has his own agenda...and I'm not on it:)
By the time we got through pictures Jake had fallen asleep and I totally forgot to have someone take a family picture of us:( It's not that often that we are all in one place with nice hair and clothes....EVER! So who is going to get married so I can drag my family to the wedding to get a nice family picture? Or I guess I could call a real photographer and get them that way....but that sounds like too much work!

These are the people I love the most!!!!!! Minus of course my family at home!

Me and my only sis! I am sooooo grateful for the gift God has given me in the form of Jessica!

Jack didn't make it to Christmas this year so he was stolen from his facebook page! (hey it's my blog!)

Jeff and Farah they volunteered their home for this crazy bash!

Joel and Kate

Jared and Crystal

Jason and Bethany if all goes well and she doesn't come to her senses soon, she will be the next newest member in the fam!

Will he is single!!!!!

Jonny is not so secretly my fav!!!!

Justin and Dianna somehow I didn't get them pictured together and so you just got another pic of me, it is my blog after all!

I can't believe that all these boys have grown into such men! I'm so proud of them all and love them dearly!

By the way I can grow mad facial hair too! Apparently it is the family theme. I just didn't want to show up the guys!!!!

Thank goodness for goals:)

Um NO I'm NOT pregnant, this is just a picture of my food baby! After eating pretty much everything in sight from Wednesday to Sunday this is what I looked like. So I got online today and printed out my new running schedule. Drake 1/2 marathon is 17 weeks from yesterday. And Dam to Dam is 6 weeks later. So the training begins!

With working it is going to be very interesting, but I seem to thrive on stress:)Anyone else want to join me? There is also an 8k with Drake or a 5k with Dam to Dam!

Hope everyone had a Merry CHRISTmas!

I'm going under...

and hopefully instead of holding me under water in front of the congregation Pastor Mike will pull me back up:) Yep that's right on Sunday I'm getting baptized! Last night at church I was talking to Pastor about being a little nervous and he said I could just read my testimony from a printed sheet. Ummm,yeah was he really going to give me another option? No Really PM do you want me in front of the entire congregation just saying whatever comes to mind?! Yeah didn't think so:) I told him he might just want his own copy of my testimony so he can make sure and keep me on track! So see you Sunday.