Yay! Cake!

Rileys first birthday, was wildly succesfull! She had tons of people here, tons of cake to share, and got tons of new presents!! She loved her cake!

I cant not believe that a year ago today, I was preparing to have a child! I didnt even know what motherhood was going to be like! I remember taking a nice bath the night before, poutting the finishing touches on the nursery, and finishing last loads of laundry. None of that could have prepared me for the joy our little one is! We love her more and more each day! Happy Birthday (tomorrow) peanut!! We love you!!

Just cause its been a while....

Everyone is still doing good. Trying to prepare for the big birthday party this weekend!! We are having a tinkerbell party, complete with streamers, tinkerbell plates, napkins and a tinkerbell cake. I can not believe that our wee one is turning one!!

Two Pink Lines

Well. Derrick and I have done it again. We are pregnant!! Due in May! We are both really excited, but I think in shock! It took us almost a year to get pregnant with Riley, so we figured that if we started trying this August, it would take us a little bit. How wrong we were! We are so excited for this little addition to our family!!

Yay! Blogger is normal again!!

Now I can uninstall that Mozilla Firefox, or whatever it is!

So not much going on here. Planning Riley's ist B-day. We are doing Tinkerbell. Should be cute. But then again, anything that involves Riley is pretty cute.....

Hoping to get some scrapping done this weekend. I took a nap this afternoon, just so I could stay up later... is that sad or what??

At least I can post pictures...

But I have no idea why they are all running together!

Here is one from last night. Little cuties!

Creative-ness from the weekend

Started this one before we went out for a girls night last night and finished it up this morning... Am working on another one right now of Riley and Daddy.....

I win,

Holy Crapness. That could not have been any stupider. But here is a picture for everyones veiwing pleasure!

By the way... I had to switch browsers, to firefox. Dad--are you proud, I did that all by myself!! Helloooo-- I am kinda techie!

I am going to win this battle if it kills me.

Or not. I tried to copy and paste. But why would that work. It would be to easy. I checked blogger message boards. Looks like its an issue with blogger. Anyone else having an issue???

Trying again....

Nothing. I still cant post pictures. Help? Anyone??

i think that blogger hates me.

I have tried. Tried and tried. I can not get pictures to post. I have no idea what I am doing wrong. I think this thing hates me. I will try tomorrow. just wanted everyone to know that i am alive.....

New addition pics

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<----5


People begged. I promised. I thought about it. I didnt post. But here they are!

1. from the NW corner
2. looking in from the french doors (that are not there yet)
3. looking out our current back door (from the kitchen, into the addition)
4. From the far NW corner of our yard
5. Looking down the SW corner of the addition.


So there you have it folks! In all its glory!!

Weekend Over?

Grrr. I can not believe that it is Sunday night already. I DONT wanna go back to work tomorrow! I feel like I have accomplished NOTHING this weekend. Nothing. I have however, cleaned the entire house. I have vacumed the living room at least four times. And fired up the grill three times. I just want to crawl into bed and sleep! For some reason, these last couple weekends have just draaaaaaged on. Its like they are so long, and yet so quick. Is that even possible? Today after I cleaned the rest of the house, I sorted through some scrapbook magazines, and got some good project ideas, and got rid of some clutter at the same time! Small feat, in my scrapbook room. I guess that Derrick is going to get the inside of the addition cleaned out tomorrow, so that we can discuss "placement" options. Let me tell you how that conversation will go:

me: "I dont want it that way. I want it this way"
derrick: "But Kristen-"
me: (rudely inturrupting) "I dont care. My way.
derrick: "will you just listen to me?"
me: "nope. I know what I want"
derrick: (getting frustrated) Kristen, just liste--"
me: (insert tears if necessary) "but derrrrrick" (said in the best whining vioce possible)
derrick: "fine. we will talk about it later"
me: (perform small victory dance while derrick isnt watching)

Hey it never hurts to win!! Okay so it really isnt that bad. We are just both VERY opintionated when it comed to some things, and it takes us while to work it all out. We are both very visual people, so we want things drawn out, so we can visualize things.

So just a cutie little picture of the wee one. I took this yesterday in the truck. Isnt it a riot? Everytime I put the sunglasses on her, she would beam! TOo cute, my little button....

Well. Have a good week everyone! I am not saying I wont write for the next of the week..... but you know...

Just Cause

I dont even feel like typing tonight, but figured I needed a good picture to share. I know that sounds mean, but I am burnt out. Seriously. Just tired. I feel like I need a good four days of sleep to get back on schedule. Or to de-stress myself. I went through Rileys clothes this week, with her help of course, and we found this cute hat that Amber gave us. We have been wearing it continously the last couple days that we have been home. She is too cute! Alright. Enough said... more tomorrow, I promise!

Poor peanut....

I'm not stupid. I knew it would happen. I just hoped that it would happen when Derrick was home with her! Poor Riley was playing this morning and bonked her little noggin. She has a little mark, and a tiny little goosegg. I checked her pupils. They are dialating and undialating (is that a word??) Just fine. I have been watching her closly, just in case. Poor, poor peanut! Of course mommy had to take a picture of the injury, just to scrapbook......

Just some new creative things from the weekend!!

Holy Crapness. . . .

Amber--I just want to tell you, seriously, I love your pictures! They rock my world. I wish I had half the talent that you do!

Everyone else....doesnt this picture rock? We went to have Riley's 9 month pics taken, and Amber edited and sent me this pic to post. Isnt it amazing?? I was so proud of Riley cause she really wasnt as mean as she has been! We got some good smiles, and had a lot of fun. Plus we stopped at DQ on our way out of town, and who can resist DQ?

Not much else going on around here. We did hear from Matt, he is in Kuwait. *waving* Hi Matt!!!

Derrick is of course, working on te addition every night. Its kind of hard right now cause there are no real "visual" changes. Like he is cutting these peices for the roof, which is great, but you cant tell anything. Knos what I mean? Its getting a little frustrating... He is on vacation next week, so hopefully there will be more accomplished during that time. I cant complain though, we are not having to pay anyone to have all this done!

Well I think thats about it for the night.....

Utter Cuteness

<-----is this not priceless? Is it a ghost? A shodow? Nope. Just my child! Riley has become obssessed with all things bathtub. Get the dogs toy. Put it in the bathtub. Folded laundry. Put it in the bathtub. Half eaten ritz cracker. Bathtub. Cordless phone? You guessed it. Bathtub. After hours on hours of bathtub fishing, the wee one is down for the night. i think that her and daddy have had an enjoyble couple days together! I think that when she is good its so much easier for them to get along! Plus now that she is soooo mobil. Oh. I just realized that it sounds like Derrick and Riley dont get along otherwise. But they really do. She is 100% a daddys girl. The whole way. Loves him like no other. Enough said. Well. I got my new scrapbook order today, so I must get creative....

Okay. I cant get these in any type of order, but they are just some new pages I wanted to share.... I took these pics of Cindy last weekend, and just finished them for her maternity album. The {she} page is of Riley Alayna (of course) and is one I did laast night. The boys are busy outside working, and Riley is (at the moment) sleeping. I have already cleaned house and done laundry, so now its "creative" time. I need to work on my AAM book. (all about me).

The walls are all up, the plywood is being completed as I type. Thank God for all these helpers! I need to post some pictures of the addition, maybe I will do that later today.

Matt left to go back to Ft. Dix. It was so hard (again) to say goodbye to him. Its just so weird to think that he is going to fight for all of us, while we sit here, in the air conditioning, drinking our ice water, typing on the computer. Reading a book. Sleeping in our comfy beds. Its not fair and its not right. We all need to thank our soldiers, and say a special prayer for them, each and every day. We love you Matt!!!!!

Okay. off to be creative. But now, the dryer stopped, so I have to fold clothes, and make the bed. Maybe that will inspire creativity? I doubt it!!

*tap* *tap* is this thing on???

Hello??? Is anyone out there? I keep posting... I get all excited for comments... I get all disapointed when I dont see any.... I'm just sayin'......

One last one....

Loving this. LOVING IT! But I have to go to bed.... its getting late, and I am sure the wee one will be up bright and early...