Saturday Morning Scene!!

Here we are again! A new Saturday Morning Scene...

I tried to "grab the button" but I don't know how to do it so if you wanna join in, link up with Katie over at Loves of Life...

Ok, our morning started out pretty good, no breaking of side mirrors lol! When I went in to get Livvy up, this is how her hair looked...



no, she doesn't have a mullet...it just looks like it here!



Oh my geez!! Her hair was crazy!! She has curly hair and we put her to bed last night with wet hair, not a good combination! 

We had our breakfast and watched Max and Ruby, one question...where are Max and Ruby's parents?? I know I wouldn't let my kids run around like that, and Grandma comes for a visit every once in a while. HMMM??

I worked on some new bows for Livvy.

And got her Easter outfit ready for her to wear to see the Easter Bunny!!!

Then we headed to Sportsmans Warehouse to see the Big Furry Guy! I was so nervous that she would freak out when she saw him and I prayed that she wouldn't and she didn't Praise Jesus!!

 Here she was wanting to push the buttons on the elevator...let me tell you a little story about this elevator. The bottom of it now contains my lens cap for my camera! Yup, it wouldn't be a good day with out me breaking, losing or damaging something!! I was trying to put my lens cap back on when the door opened, and it slipped out of my hands and rolled right the the tiny slot and into the elevator shaft! OH my! Thank goodness for Wal-Mart, they had a cheap-o replacement that fit!

 Waiting for the Easter Bunny...

OK, so not the best picture of her but at least she wasn't freaking out!!! She did great! She sat there and looked up at him and giggled and then just smiled! Luckily they took her picture too so she is actually looking at the camera in that one!



I had so many compliments on her outfit! It makes me so proud that I can make her clothes and everyone comment how cute they are :) makes my day!

After the whole lens cap fiasco I had to make a quick run to Wal-Mart to get the new lens cap and there the checker told me that ColorTyme was doing pictures with Elmo! Olivia LOVES Sesame Street...like she could seriously watch it all day long and not tire of it! And Elmo is her favorite! So off we went to ColorTyme...

She just loved on Elmo and wouldn't look at me at all!

 I Love this picture of them, she was pointing at something but she looks like she is hugging him! Oh my this girl!! She just melts hy heart!

So that was our Morning! Hope you enjoyed it! I know we sure did!!

Saturday Morning Scene!

I am linking up with Katie from Loves of Life for "Saturday Morning Scene". This is new to me but I figured now that I have my new Camera...I should take some fun pics on it!!

Ok so my morning started out at 0dark30 aka 6:30 a.m. when Kevin was getting ready for work and I realized I had left our roast out to thaw all night. So I ran to check on it and luckily it was OK. Kevin suggested I go ahead and start it, so I rummaged through the cabinet and realized I had everything but a packet of brown gravy mix. :::ARGH::: So I decided to run to the store to try to make it back before he left at 7...in a rush to get out the garage door I smacked the side mirror into the garage frame and knocked off and busted the mirror!

So, yeah...that's how my morning started! Not good! Hubby was pissed and I was all kinds of worried about 7 years of bad luck haha!

I went back to bed and prayed that Olivia would sleep in. AANNDD She did! Until 10!! WOO HOO! So we got up and had some breakfast. When she was done I asked her to "pick" what she wanted to do today...



When she finally "picked" where she wanted to go...

...She pondered her decision a while...

...so while she pondered, I picked out and outfit for her...

...after she was dressed, I attempted to get a good picture of her...

...but obviously the excitement of her beloved red sparkly shoes won over a decent picture...

..."Olivia Look at Mommy!!"...

...instead she kicked her feet and watched the sparkles...

..."Olivia...LOOK at Mommy!!"...

...Oh this kid!!...

...FINALLY, one where she is looking at me...

We left for the baby and toddler fair and tootled around there for a while. I picked up a few things with her picture on it. You see, last year we went to this and they were looking for new babies to be on the new flyer for the fair, they picked her to be in it!! (can you blame them??)

There she is second from the left with the pink headband!

Here is the whole composition! This was (obviously) the flyer to show people where to put their tickets. I asked if I could have it for her baby book.

The picture was also on the fair map, and they will also put it along with the individual pictures up in the family birthing center!! I am such a proud momma!!

We took a tour of the birthing center and I'm not gonna lie...it made my uterus heart ache a little...OK a lot! I want another baby so bad but right now, I have got to get through this last year of school! We are thinking in November when Livvy is two we will start trying again.

When we came home the house smelled delish and our roast looked soo good!!

And that was our morning/afternoon! Hope you enjoyed it!!

Tangled?

No, this has nothing to do with the new Disney movie...this has to do with my husband, and his new desire to grow out his hair. You see, since I have known him, he has always had short hair. HELLO, he was in the Army when we met! But that was 9 years ago...Even after he got out, he has had short hair. Well, this last Hunting season was the last time he shaved his head. Now, it has gotten long enough to get tangled. Yesterday we had a huge wind storm (Not a new thing for Palmer, but when it happens in Anchorage it makes the news??) So he was working and wasn't able to wear his hat because it was too windy and it would blow off. So last night I hear him cursing and complaining, when I asked him what his problem was he tells me "my hair is so tangled". I had to laugh. I got out some detangler I had and sprayed it on his hair to help and he was still whining. MEN, such babies lol! So I told him to get the good thick conditioner and take a shower and use it. He told me he would just wait until the morning.
Then this morning, he calls me from work to tell me how "soft" his hair was since he slept with that detangler in his hair and using that conditioner. He may be a guys guy but he does have a feminine side to him. And that my friends is funny!
I am hoping that he comes to his senses soon and decides to get it cut...we'll see! He claims he is growing it out until this hunting season so it will be a year of growing out but we will see what he decides and how long it gets when he finally cuts it!

"Zat?"

This is Livvy's new word...it means "What is That?" She used it tonight when pointing to something on my face...I couldn't figure out what she was talking about..."Zat?...Zat?" Then she started blinking her eyes really fast...she was talking about my eyelashes! HAHA! Then, she proceded to touch them and pull on them. I guess she has never noticed before when I wear mascara (which sadly seems to be coming farther and farther between now a days). It was so cute! I love how she is starting to notice little things and trying to talk. Makes me sad that she is growing up too fast but makes me happy that she is using more of her vocabulary.

Alright, it's late (12:15) and I have been dreading taking off my makeup to go to bed (which is probably the reason I don't wear it very often...I would much rather crawl into bed and not have to worry about washing my face). I wanted to post about this so I can have a memory of it...she cracks me up!

G'night all!

7 Years!!!

Today (April 3) is Kevin and My 7th anniversary! 7 years!!!! We have been through a lot in the past 7 years, living on base, moving and driving from Missouri to Alaska, infertility and several big hills to overcome but we are still working on it and are so happy!

Let me tell you what this amazing husband of mine did for me today...actually, it all started a few months ago...
I have been drooling over wanting a new camera for a while now and finally looked at Costco and found a pretty good deal on a Nikon DSLR. I may have mentioned it to Kevin a few hundred times and he kept telling me it was impractical, I have two neighbors who are photographers, I didn't need that much of a camera...So, I saved my money and asked him if he would give me money towards the camera for our anniversary and my birthday (11 days after our anniversary). He never would agree to that and I still got the same response as before, I will remind you that he does a lot of wood working and has LOTS of expensive tools, what is a few hundred dollars towards a camera that I want?

OK, so last night, I was getting dinner ready, we were going to have steaks and I pulled them out of the freezer, thawed them out and was just getting ready to season them to put on the grill. They smelled horrible! I wasn't about to feed nasty meat to my family. Around that time, I heard the garage door open and Kevin was home, I opened the door to the garage and saw Kevin getting out of the truck with roses...I shut the door and yelled "I'M SORRY!!" He said, just don't open the door...I will come in, I have to hide something. He came inside and I said, "I'm sorry, I accidentally saw my anniversary gift" He said "What did you see?" I said "Roses" he got all upset, threw his hat on the floor and said "I can't ever get your anything nice and suprise you"...Now, I should let you know that I am not a huge fan of roses, just think they are too expensive for what you get, over rated I guess. Ok, back to the story...We decided to just grab a bite to eat since our planned dinner was ruined. I told Kevin I would head into Wasilla to get something. I headed out and called my neighbor Sam to tell her I had accidentally seen my anniversary gift, just then she says "Hang on, your home phone is beeping in..." I was thinking OK, Livvy got a hold of the phone and accidentally called Sam. Well, she was on the other line for a long time...I knew Kevin had something up his sleeve!

So last night we had a discussion about what I wanted for our anniversary, I told him again that I really just wanted money towards a camera. He told me it was impractical to give cash to your wife, in his exact words "I am not your Uncle"...point taken! So he told me that tomorrow (our anniversary) I could order the camera and just put the money I had saved up into the account. So today, I was up with Livvy and come back to bed, try to fall back to sleep and Kevin Says, "Good Morning!"...it was 6 A.M! I don't even think so! So he gets up and I turn on the TV because I just couldn't fall back to sleep. In comes Kevin with my roses and my anniversary card. "HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!" He says! I turn the light on and notice that the roses are in a 2-liter pop bottle.

I asked Kevin why they were in a pop bottle, he said that was all he had, they were in a plastic sleeve thing and he didn't want them to dry out before he got them home so he found a bottle at work (The dump) and put them in there. I told him I have a vase, we can replace them.

Then upon further inspection, I notice that some of the roses are not very pretty, they are kind of falling apart, just not very pretty...how much did you spend on these flowers? 

He tells me that he thinks they would look best out on the table, I told him to put them out there so I could go get his gift, he insists that I go put them on the table...then I knew something was up! So I walked into the Kitchen and there is a box covered in a blanket...I thought "well, that's too big to be a camera!" I thought maybe it might be an embroidery machine, since I may have mentioned it once or twice. I pull off the blanket and there it was...a big yellow box with Nikon on the front!!

 I started bawling! I hugged him and just cried! Then he says, "did you see which one it was?" All I saw was Nikon, I didn't see anything else. It was the big kit...the kit with the camera bag, two lenses (one the standard lens, the other an ultra zoom) all kinds of how to DVDs! I was so excited! Then he tells me..."the roses were a ploy to make you mad because I know you don't like roses...I found them at work." OH MY GOODNESS! He found me roses in the dadgum dump!! I laughed so hard! He said everyone at work thought he was nuts for getting his wife flowers for their anniversary out of the garbage haha! Little did they know!

Oh and the reason he called Sam...was because the only camera the Costco he went to had was the floor model but he knew he had to have something, he wanted to see if she thought it was a good idea...which it isn't, so today we will head back into Anchorage and exchange out the floor model for a new one at the other Costco in town.

That man...he gets me every time! Thank you Jesus for giving him to me!!!!

Happy Anniversary Honey!! I LOVE YOU!!!

Here we were 7 years ago today! He has been home from Iraq for about 2 weeks, didn't even know if he was going to make it home ontime for our wedding, but he did!

Hope you enjoyed my gift and story as much as I did!