Update in Pictures :))

Geez so I'm way behind for an update again. It's basically the same thing...living life everyday w/ my 3 girls & good ol husband. Danielle will be 9 in just a couple days & Eric & I will celebrate our 14th wedding anniversary on the 15th. Thought I would update w/lots of pics to get sorta caught up....These pics are April & May. Will post more soon.

This first pic is from Spring Break at the Loogootee City Park. Of course on this particular day they decided to run the tornado drill & we almost lost our hearing--haha. That's just another reason I would never live in the city...

One of our new Dutch rabbits that Kayla is holding. Purchased this pedigree at the Bloomington Fairgrounds. Since then we have purchased mini lops too. So now we have 3 breeds. We enjoy our little rabbitry just as much as an athlete enjoys sectionals or a collector discovers a rare find!
A home ballgame...cousins Haylie & Landon Mathies w/ Olivia in the middle. Cheese Landon Wade:)) One of the rare nights that Olivia let me put a hair clippy in & left it in!
Olivia w/ her Mr. Potato Head glasses on ....
Chillin in mom's bed...... She loves to watch Elmo in my bed. All we hear is "watch Melmo" like 100 times a day:) That's okay though. I know one day I'll wish I was hearing it again!
At the Breakfast w/ the Easter Bunny that our Relay for Life team puts on w/ my Dad & Olivia...this was as close as she would get to the Bunny!
Easter morning after collecting eggs from the Easter Bunny & finding their baskets...
Hunting eggs Easter morning in the backyard. That rabbit gets sneakier every year.
Olivia found one on the back deck even!
All dressed up & ready for church Easter morning in their dresses.
A rare pic of just me & Eric ready for church.

Olivia Jean after church...
Cousins Landon & Haylie w/ the 3 girls after church..
On the steps of St. Martin's Church..our home church:) My mom, dad & brother w/ my gang.
Hunting eggs at my Papaw Brown's later in the day...Danielle & cousin Kameron. He kept pulling her eggs out of her basket and putting in his.
Danielle acting goofy at Pap's.
My brother Josh w/ the dark hair & cousin Levi Brown acting silly. Danielle, Haylie, Kayla & Olivia in the back at Pap's.
This is a pic of Papaw Brown's great-grandkids. In the back is Danielle, Haylie, Kayla & Matthew. In the front is Landon, Kameron, Olivia & Hunter.
Here's Pap in the pic w/ the greats. Eric is in the back--way to go.
Pic of the grandkids w/ Pap. In the back is Ashley & me. In the middle is Josh, Tonya, CJ & Brett. In the front is Levi & Nikki.
This is the kids minus Beck. She was gone that day. Clifford, my mom, aunt Peggy, Charlie & Papaw Brown.
This is the kids w/ their spouses. Clifford w/ Vicki, my mom & dad, Peggy w/ Gerry and Charlie w/ Darlene all w/ Pap.
Four wheelin at my parents house. Shawn, my bro Josh, Danielle and Olivia w/ Eric.
Danielle driving my dad's four wheeler around the place.
My beautiful flowering crabapple tree in the early Spring:) Love this--it's my fave!
Danielle pushing Olivia around outside in the early Spring. She loves to wear sunglasses.
Ginger dog sleeping w/ Fiona. If they are both awake Ginger will not let Fiona rest!
Pap's b-day: oldest great Kayla w/ oldest kid my Mom.
Some of the the grandkids w/ Pap on his bday. Of course he let them blow out the candles.
Papaw Brown w/ his favorite companion Amos. I don't know what he'd do if something happened to good ol' Amo!
Danielle on her First Communion Day...looking lovely & innocent:)

Us watching Danielle receive her first holy communion and my Dad gave her the wine for the first time.

At the reception...my brother & Danielle. I love this pic cause I picked Danielle up & threw her on his lap so they were both laughing.

Our little family of 5:)

Danielle w/ her godparents Jared & Tonya Mathies. Isn't her cake gorgeous. Courtesty of Heather Arvin of course. She does all of our cakes and they all melt in your mouth!

Danielle took this picture but I love it! Wish I had taken it and I would enter it into the fair!

I snapped this pic at night...love it when Olivia drags her blankie behind her. She calls it her chi-chi.

Danielle ready for the recital. Don't you just love her pose?

Kayla all grown up looking and ready for her recital too....
A together picture:) This was Kayla's 8th recital & Danielle's 3rd.

Olivia's 2nd b-day & Snow Day--pics

Olivia turned 2 on Feb. 12th so we had her party on the 13th. Thankfully, we did the party before the biggest of the snowfalls came! We all had a blast & everyone enjoyed themselves. We had the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse theme & Heather Arvin did the cake of course~~delicious:) She's so funny now & saying so many new words & sayings. She can say every name imaginable & lists all the kids' names at Mindy's (her sitter). I love it when she says Mindy's dog's name "Max"! So funny! I really think if I put more effort into it, she'd already be potty-trained, but you know how you get to slackin' & thinking "she's too young". Well, she now takes off her diapers as soon as she pees OR poops! Which means it will be everywhere if I don't catch her in time! The big girls, Kayla & Danielle, are growing like weeds. They both got their hair whacked off after Christmas so now, from the back especially, they look identical! Love not having to mess w/ hair every morning though plus my girls NEVER liked clips or bows, etc. Here's some random pics:

Danielle w/ some goodies @ her Valentine's party. Isn't her hair cute?!
Olivia w/ her new Dora kitchen we got from my good friend Rene'. She loves it. In this pic Eric asked her to say something & she was getting mad!
Liv w/ Kayla & her new kitchen:)

Her Mickey cake made from Heather Arvin. It was soo yummy!


Love the detail she does on her cakes. Always so pretty.



The birthday girl w/ her cake & everyone singing. Kayla, Danielle & cousin Haylie are around her.



Telling her to blow & she wouldn't....


so the big girls "helped" her blow it out!



Getting antsy to open gifts w/ Kayla, Haylie & Eric.



Opening gifts.




Cousins Landon & Hunter at the party. They were playing "Spiderman" & running around.


Some of the partygoers. The Hembrees along w/ my dad, mom, brother Josh & Olivia. Josh & Shawn were hitting the balloons everywhere like kids would do & driving us crazy! Ha.



Eric's grandma & his mom. Behind them is Lindsey M & Nikki G to the side.



The "Birthday Girl" would not go to bed for nothing, but this is how she crashed that night! Looks like she was cooking in her kitchen, then crashed in her Elmo chair!


We decided to buy her a new "big girl bed" with her b-day money. I did not know they made nice, wooden toddler beds! So cute & sturdy & this way we can continue to use her crib mattress for a little while longer. Here's Danielle helping Eric.



Olivia laying in the box while they were putting it together.



The finished bed & Olivia checking it out. This was before we put the big pillow on it too.



She just crawls right in & wants tucked in & kissed & sleeps all night long! So proud of my big girl!

Big snow day! This is me & Danielle acting goofy w/ Ginger.



Kayla & Danielle sledding w/ Ginger.

Poor Daddy Abel had to do all the shovelling! Such a hard worker-haha!

Good 2010 so far...

It's been a pretty good 2010 so far I believe. Thankful for alot of things still--my family, healthy children, stable job, house over my head & food to eat. I think that's about all the things a person needs myself. Some are not happy unless they have the best in life, best house, car, clothing, etc. I've never been a real materialistic person. I like those things but thankfully I don't find them necessary in my life. Some of the richest people are also the unhappiest. I'll stay poor & blissfully happy:)

Olivia has had a rough week this week. This past Saturday she played outside for about an hour. That evening she had no appetite whatsoever. Whoever knows my kids knows that they are definitely great eaters so I was worried something was up. Of course by the next morning she has a runny nose, still not eating & not playing as good as normal. We visited at my mom & dad's for a little while. Mom, Josh & Danielle took off to Jasper to buy new curtains & bathroom stuff for Josh's place. They had just left when Liv fell asleep on me. She slept good but when she woke up she was hot as fire. She is not a medicine taker either. We've tried everything from clamping her mouth shut, chewables, squirting inside of her cheek, etc. She just won't keep it in her mouth. Finally by that evening she was wanting to drink one of Eric's Diet Rite's. He suggested trying to put a chewable tylenol in about 1/4 cup of his pop. Believe it or not, she drank it down, asked for more & ended up getting the whole 2 pills in! Half hour later she was playing like she was back to normal. No more fever, but everyday since then she's had the diarrhea off & on throughout the day & even had to take a bath at her sitter's one day it was so bad. This morning I hear a funny noise, go in & there she is covered in vomit:( Of course she yelled "poop!" I put her in bed w/ me & she slept about 3 1/2 more hrs & has been fine. She's still not eating great except for requesting "dies" from McD's at lunchtime. I drove to town to go to the dollar store & to get her french "dies"! Gotta love her!

We had a great Christmas. I'll try & take my camera to work to upload the pics on here. I just can't do it from home anymore. We're hoping to have wireless in about 2 months here at home. I can't wait!!!!!!! It won't be as fast as work but I'll take anything! I'm desperate! I think the girls all got everything they wanted and then some! I requested gift cards to buy new clothing for work. The hospital put in mandatory dress codes starting Jan. 1st. All office staff in the hosp & clinics owned by them have to wear dress clothing. I have worn scrubs since 1993! So, Christmas Eve was my first day off til the start of the new year--I loaded all my scrubs up, hauled them to St. Vincent's in Loogootee & prayed for gift cards! I ended up getting approx $210 in cards at Elder Beerman, JCP & WalMart. Ended up finding some really good after-Christmas sales on clothing. Good thing cause I don't do dress-up! I don't mind wearing real clothes though except scrubs did a better job at hiding extra weight!!!! HA.

It's my New Year's resolution to get back to blogging regularly. I am going to make it a point to get on here & do this. My family likes checking in on here & it's good to do for the soul:)

Have a blessed year!

Jamie

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas....

Well, December is upon us & it's bringing pretty chilly weather, isn't it? Cold outside right now. Tonight we have our church Christmas party after Mass w/ Santa & lots of good food. Kayla has to go up at 2:00 & help decorate. Should be lots of fun--always is. It'll be lots of fun trying to get Olivia to take a pic w/ Santa. She is not too fond of actually sitting on his lap. She likes him, likes pics of him & movies of him, but when it comes to sitting on his lap--no way Jose`! Pretty funny. Guess she's not too fond of big hairy dudes wearing red suits & hats!

We always have had a real tree even when I was growing up. I have never known a fake tree in the house--ever! So we went to Home Depot in Jasper last Sunday & bought a really nice Douglas fir. We put it up & decorated & then this past Thursday on my day off Olivia & I decorated the house. She refused a nap so she had to help! She only broke 1 snowglobe that day!

Tomorrow the girls are in the Loogootee Parade. Hope to post pics of all our fun times soon!