10 Years Ago today....

I was holding the most beautiful human in the world! I was in such awe and amazement. Lonnie and I were on top of the world! It was also the day that "made" me a Mother and Lonnie a Father, together a FAMILY!

Born on her Father's 25th birthday, Raegan Ivey was born, not with out a little hitch, at 1:35 AM December 31, 1999 weighing a light 7lbs 2 oz, 20 inches. No, she wasn't very big but she sure did end the Millennium BIG!!! It was the MOST amazing experience of my life, becoming a Mother, my life changing in and instance! There hasn't been ONE dull moment with her in my life!

I love her so much. She totally gets my humor ( as if this is about me, but..)

She is kind, sweet, funny, ornery, creative, friendly, athletic, artistic, beautiful, helpful.. the list could go on and on! I have so many adjectives that would describe my first born.

As you can see by her baby photos she had black hair when she was born.. it all fell out and came back blond and her eyes never changed. I love it that she is unique in that way to our family.

Our fist picture together...(well the ones that developed)

Here is is about 2 months old.. Her eyes were sooo dark blue!

So much has happened in 10 years.. it has been such excitement watching watching her grow through the years and discovering life living!

I love being her Mother!

Thank you Raegan for being my daughter. I am glad your spirit choose me!

I LOVE YOU!!

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Sydney's debut performance!

Here it is, our daughter Sydney singing in front of an audience of about 475 students and hundreds of parents. I know this doesn't seem like a "big" deal to you, but you have to understand a little something about Sydney.. She was the baby you could never ever ever ever put down.. she was literally glued to my hip all of the time until she was about 3 and we had to start weaning her off!!( I had two more little boys to take that place!) Sydney is shy and quiet. Most of the time she doesn't speak her mind(brothers and sis do not count).

Sydney has seen Raegan do a few little performances at the annual talent show and decided she was just going to sing all by herself!! Raegan of course has always had an entourage of friends to do it with, she would never dare do one alone.. and of course that is what I thought about Sydney.. boy I am learning to NOT under estimate my children's abilities.

I think for a seven year old who has NEVER sang, besides in the car or at home with me etc.. She also had to learn to sing with just music and no words.... SHE DID A GREAT GOB!!!!

My nerves got the best of me waiting because she was like number 65 out of 70 performances!!

Well here it is and I hope you enjoy it!!

O' Christmas Tree!

Last year Lonnie and I started a new tradition.. pick out a fresh real tree for our home! It was quite a disaster last year.. I did not know you needed to water it at least twice a day, so it died two weeks before Christmas. It was a mess! I had to shopvac all day long..

This year we waited until two weeks before Christmas and went to Longbranch Christmas Tree Ranch. It was a whopping ZERO degrees that day, so.. it took us 5.5 seconds to pick out our perfect tree! At first we thought we would get a pine, but then we saw the Frasier Fir's they import in from Wisconsin. The needles are thick and soft!

As they were preparing our tree for the journey... we warmed up in the barn by the wood burning stove and some hot apple cider!

They had tons of ornaments and decorations. We all picked out our new ornaments for the year!

Nathan freezing and not wanting the sun in his eyes!

Even though it was freeeeeeeeezing, the kids had a good time at the ranch!

Mine and Lonnie's ornament(reindeer)

My ornament from a Christmas party.



Raegan's ornament.. what sophisticated taste!!

Sydney's ornament... again... with the sophistication!





Ashton's Sleigh ornament. He was the very last one to choose his. Too many options!



Nathan's ornament! all so whimsical! Just like him!








This is also a new ornament to our tree this year.. IT was a gift from a good friend of mine. She said this is Perfect for your tree!! Hmm I wonder why?





And here is the tree at home! Yes it may not be the "perfect" tree with all the ribbons, bows and glass bulbs etc.. but it is our tree that we are building memories with each every year. Each year we add a new ornament from each of us..... it will be chock full of memories and happiness!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

PS... getting pics on blogger is soooo aggravating! part reason why I have not blogged in a long long time!