A trip down Memory Lane!

I have been working on getting some old photos onto the computer. I posted some of these on Facebook a while back, and they were such a hit-ha!, I figured I should post them over here for our other family and friends to enjoy!

Easter 25 YEARS ago!! Were we a stylin' bunch or what!? That's Grandma Jewell, her sister Mable, Mom, my sister, my brother and me!
hahahahaha! Sweet be-jesus! This picture will always be one of the funnies things I have EVER seen! Me, Dad and my sis! Aren't we a happy bunch!?

Me!

Another lifetime favorite of mine! Lord, who let us do this to our hair!?

High School Scotty! (love you, sweetie!)

High School Andrea (with my oldest and bestest friend, Angie!...we have been friends since we were 5!! She invited me to her house because I had soft skin and the rest is history! hahaha!)

What I spent most of life doing...cheering! I am the one on one knee! Go Cougars! ha!

College Scott and Andrea! This was the first pic we ever had taken together. We were just friends and didn't start dating until about 4 yrs. after this. Aawwww.....such babies! (oh, and don't worry, I am CERTAIN Scott was just holding that beer for someone!;)

A huge part of my college life....Tri Sigma!
With Sara, my best friend and sister in law (little did we know it at that time, though! ha!), and our friend, Amy!

Don't worry...I have MANY more pictures and will promptly be embarassing each and every family member...Utley's and Seaton's...you are not exempt...we are working on getting some of your old pictures on here, too! haha! Love you all!

Lazy Sunday!

We have had a nice, relaxing Sunday. It has been storming on and off, and the cold front is just now coming in. Can you believe this weather!? YUCK! I think the high for tomorrow is 38! :( Anyways, we have spent the day coloring and painting MORE easter eggs, baking cookies, playing, we got to get out and take a walk in between rain storms, and we have been doing a lot of nothing. So nice, especially since we have a busy week ahead of us.

Painting eggs!

Check out that contraption Gi-gi and Goggy brought her! That is some serious egg deocrating there! ha!

With some of our 'prize' eggs. No playing around today. We used vinegar and did some real coloring and decorating! :)

This cracks me up. Look who got an egg....Bebo the Psychotic Robin that won't leave our home! haha!

Olivia practicing her standing!

And, playing her favorite game where we say sweet baby and she lays her head on us. It is so sweet and she will stop and do it no matter what is going on! It's so funny!

7 Things....

Brooke tagged me to do the 7 things that I love list! I am going to try to list things that I haven't talked about, yet and I am NOT listing the obvious: God, my family, my friends, etc....those are all givens! :)


1. Pictures (stold that one from you, Brooke:): taking them, looking at them, displaying them in my home....I could sit and look at pictures forever. I love going through old photos. It doesn't matter how many times I have seen them, I love looking at them.


2. Dolly Parton. Yep, I am a Dolly fan. I think she is, hands down, one of the greatest song writers EVER! I have at least 5 of her songs on my ipod, and 'Why'd You Come In Here' is currently my PowerSong on my Nike+. haha! I think she is funny and honest and she's on 60 Minutes tonight...YAY! ha!


3. Going to see shows/musicals/concerts/etc. I LOVE musicals, I could watch Riverdance everyday, and there is nothing better than seeing Big Head Todd in concert (be still my heart...Todd Park Mohr is going to be my second husband, he just doesn't know it yet...hahahaha!)! Mom and I are going to see A Chorus Line next month and I can't wait. Scott would rather shoot himself in the foot than sit through the shows/musicals (theater people creep him out-ha!), but I LOVE it! Getting him to Cirque was HUGE, and you know what...he sort of liked it! ha! He loves concerts, too, though. Too bad we get to go to about 1 every couple of years..haha!


4. I LOVE to dance. I miss the college days of going out with the girls and dancing all night! And, Karaoke! I can't sing to save my life, but get me with some friends and forget it...I think I am Madonna! ha!


5. So, this is sort of one of those 'givens' I was talking about, but I LOVE being a Mom. I really, truly do. Even the crazy, chaotic, tempted to run into oncoming traffic moments...I love it all! Sure, there are days when I REALLY don't want to have ANOTHER tea party, but I also know that one day I will long to have a tea party with my girls! :( And, THAT is why I will have 1 million tea parties a day, if that's what Abby wants to do. We are about 99% sure that we are DONE having kids, but that other 1% would love nothing more than a few more kids running around here. Like I said, I thrive on chaos! ha!...and, I am pretty sure that that 1% of me is certifiably insane!


6. I love Mexican food. I pride myself on being able to make the best queso dip around. ha! I could eat mexican food every day. And, Margaritas has the worlds best chicken fajitas. I ate them almost every Friday night during my whole pregnancy with Olivia! And, I had mexican the night before I went into labor with Abby, and my mom had mexican the night she went into labor with me!


7. I love to stay up late and sleep in!....and it NEVER happens anymore! ha! If I stay up late, I pay dearly for it now. I will NEVER, EVER be a morning person. I have been getting up early for years now, and I will never adjust to it. Sleep is amazing...I love sleep! ha!


I now tag: Abby, Ansley, Alicia, Autumn, Leslie, Amanda, Dawnjulene and Jessi (maybe it will force you to put up some new pics of Jackson..actually, don't make a list, just put up pictures for me...haha! :)

Few Funny Things...

Couple of cute/funny things....

1. I was cleaning up in the dining room the other night and I hear the following...

Scott (in a panic): Abby, WHAT are you doing!?
Abby: Peeing like you do!

haha! Yep, she was standing up, trying to pee over her little potty. Pee was EVERYWHERE: the carpet, her pj's, the potty! We had to have a little discussion about how girls SIT on the potty to pee EVERY time! ha!


2. She was playing with my hair the other day, and I said, 'Whatcha doin'!?' and she said, 'just lovin' on you!' Awww...I almost cried!


3. When Abby goes to bed, she says, 'tuck me up!' instead of 'tuck me in!' I love it!

'Hey, Olivia!'

How do you feel about eating your vegetables!?

Really!?...That bad, huh!? haha!

**She CRACKS me up! She just started making this face a few days ago and it is HILARIOUS! If she gets mad, doesn't want to eat something, etc. this is the look we get now. What a little nut!

Coloring Easter Eggs!

Yes, I know it's a little early, but we colored some eggs today. Abby has been dying to color them since she saw me bring home the kit. And, we eat lots of eggs (it's one thing that Abby will always eat), so we will have no problem finishing these and having time to color more for Easter! :)

This was her favorite part. I tried to show her how to gently lower them into the water, but she just threw them in. ha!

Waiting patiently for them to dry! Is she a doll or what!?

And.....'sitting on the eggs, waiting for them to hatch!' hahaha! Again, where did she come from!? :)

Cutest little Easter egg in the house! :)

Ode to Dixon!

As I have mentioned before, there is a member of this family that gets very little 'blog time!' Last night I watched Marley and Me. Haven't read the book, but LOVED the movie. I sat and cried like a baby, actually. That movie is a play-by-play of our life and our life with Dixon. It was almost like someone had videotaped us and then made a movie about it (up to this point in time, that is:) While watching I realized that we don't give Dixon nearly enough credit for what a great dog he really is. Sure, he is mostly a huge pain in the ass. He eats EVERYTHING and then pukes it up on my kitchen floor. He sheds...REALLY bad. He drives us crazy, following us everywhere, longing to be right next to us every minute of every day. He cries and whines when the wind blows too hard at 4am. But, mostly he's a great addition to the family! :)

Now, I am by NO means an animal person. I can actually think of maybe 2 other dogs that I even like, other than Dixon, but when we got married, I moved all the way here, I was lonely, I wanted a dog! Rewind to Feb. 2005. I beg and plead with Scott. 'Let's just go look at them, come on, we don't have to buy one, blah blah blah!' Well, as you can guess we came home with a puppy that night. Not just any puppy...DIXON! The one puppy that wasn't jumping and yapping for our attention. He was just a fat little blob that sat there calmly while we met all the puppies. Scott even bargained with the breeder and we got him for $50 cheaper than what she was asking for them. He was bargain dog! haha! We decided on Dixon (thanks to my brother in law) because that is the name of Scott's home town, so Dixon it was!

His first night home with us!

When he ate his first leash we should have known we were in for it, but wasn't it SO cute at the time!? ha!

When we got Dixon I had just quit my job and had a few weeks before I started my new job, so I got to stay home with him, Scott still teases me about my maternity leave for Dixon. But, it sort of was. I sat my alarm and got up every 3 hrs. with him to let him out to pee, to make sure he wasn't scared to make sure he had food and water. To his credit, the night we brought him home, he went to the patio door when he needed to go pee and in the almost 5 yrs. we have had him, I can only think of a few times that he had an accident in the house. Of course, one of those times left permanent stains in our old carpet, but hey...we don't live there anymore, right!? haha!

Around 12 weeks we started training classes with him. Ugh, he was SUCH a jerk. ha! He went to the bathroom EVERY class, tried to wrestle the other dogs, only listened when it involved seeing which dog was the fastest, etc. But, somehow he managed to graduate and to this day he is the fastest sit and down in town! haha!

I mean, really....look how sweet he is!? It's hard NOT to love this dog!........

Unless you wake up to THIS in the morning! DIXON!
But, he is always quick to apologize and beg forgiveness!

And, he has the will power of a saint! Look at that!! What a good boy! (never mind the fact that we had to remove whole sandwiches from his throat probably 10min. before this picture was taken! haha!)

When I was about 5mo. pregnant (oh, by the way...we found out I was pregnant about 4 weeks after we got him....little did we know how UN-lonely our lives were about to become! haha!). Anyways, when I was about 5mo. pregnant I went ahead and stopped working, since I knew I wouldn't be back once Abby was born, and I tagged along with Scott while he went to work in Tampa for 3mo. I could only stay 6 weeks, but that means we had to leave Dixon with Mom and Dad! I cried like a fool when we dropped him off. Oh, now there are days that I would happily give him to any stranger walking down the street! ha! (okay, I don't REALLY mean that, but some days I am tempted!)

Preparing for Abby! He wasn't phased one bit!

That summer we planted trees in our yard...Dixon got bored one day and took care of that idea!

A few days before Abby was born, getting groomed to meet his new little sister! ha!

And, when Abby came along Dixon's life changed forever! Those first few months it's a wonder we even remembered to feed the poor dog. Here he is being ignored during Christmas dinner. I am sure he was LESS than thrilled that his bed was the spot where all the boxes were piled! ha!

Oh, but don't worry, he managed to get a Christmas pie!

His first snow!
And, no...there is NOT something wrong with the camera....he's GREEN! Don't ask! *sigh*

Fast best buddies!

Poor Dixon...he had to ride all the way home like this after we had a birthday party for Abby at home. He didn't care, though, he was just excited to be a part of it all! :)

Dixon and Timmie have always been buddies! :)

And, now he has another little girl to love him! And, does she ever! :)

Scott is making fun of me right now for this post, but I don't care. I think we can all learn a lesson from a dog like Dixon. His biggest fault is longing to be with us and driving us crazy begging for attention, but if we were all a little more like Dixon, think how great this world would be: he's loyal, loving and has unwavering patience and dedication to his loved ones. What more can you ask for. We joke that Dixon will be one of those dogs that live to be 25, but at only (almost) 5, he is already aging! :( I know that when he passes, it will be the girls first taste of heart break, but until then, I am going to make an effort to show him a little more love and respect each day!! Thank you, Dixon! We love you....even though you are a pain in the ass! :)