Did you know that you can post?

I know that many of you read my post because you tell me that you do or you email me comments.... But, did you know that you can post comments right here on each post? YEP! You just have to click COMMENTS and sign up for an account. Oh come on! Sign up, you will eventually anyway! It's a GOOGLE account and GOOGLE is taking over the world like AOL did years ago and then lost it when they didn't forsee everyone seeing past their facade of hey, i don't have to pay for AOL to get the internet!!!!!!! WOW! Ok, back to my discussion! SIGN UP ALREADY!!!!!!!!!

Sorry for the disappearance!

Wow! This motherhood and career woman is exhausting me! I have no idea how single mothers do this job. I am exhausted and I have tons of help from Chris and our families. We went to the beach last week and had a blast! We stayed in the Crumps condo in Orange Beach and WOW! I thought my house was nice but this place had some unique things. I post photos later (hey i'm a working mom-photos are my last thing this week).
Chris and I leave for Colorado with the Spirit Singers on Thursday. On our free day, we will spend it with each other only. I'm looking forward to that. The boys aer always with us so we never really get to speak with each other at all. It will be awesome.

It is 1 am and i'm finally sleepy so i'll post sooner this time. Promise!!!!!!!

Trying out Adobe Contribute!

I purchased the entire Adobe CS3 Web Premium Edition today and i'm so excited that i can edit and post my blog or websites via Contribute very easily!  I'm addicted Photoshop and now that i have my hands on all these other goodies, oh my gosh i'm about to burst with joy!  I know, some of you are thinking "What? Is something wrong with her?"  And you may be correct.  Something is very wrong with my love and addiction for Photoshop and now everything that Adobe creates!  It is a sick thing, a sick thing i have for this program and all of it's little buddies now!  Oh i cannot wait to learn them all!  I'm using Contribute right now and i'm posting this entirely from it.  I have this problem where i cannot leave well enought alone.  I can make something very beautiful like a photo or a webpage, something someone else thinks is gorgeous, and i have to P-E-R-F-E-C-T it to my tastes!  I am a perfectionist.   So, i've never been completely happy with my blog and how it looks.  I want it to look like no other blog out there!  I have to put MY look on it so it says Audrea!  And i may have to use Dreamweaver for that part.  See, someone thought enough of a program to name it DREAMweaver!  They have this sickness too!  LOL!  Ok, i'm leaving now to feed my addiction to all these new adobe products!  I am so excited!!!!!!!!!!!!  Here is the link to what i bought if you are interested!  It has Macromedia Flash 8 too!  Ooh, Oooh, i gotta go play!  Bye!

Comedy in our everyday lives..........

Every Tuesday and Thursday my mother keeps Skyler and Tyler. Sandra has them on Monday and Wednesdays. But, on Tuesday, my mother took them into the room to lay them down for their daily nap. They sleep on a bed together but she lays down between them (so she can rest some herself) until they go to sleep. This also cuts down on the fighting. Skyler loves to say words that he thinks sounds funny. This particular day "Pookey" was his choice of repetition. Tyler was almost asleep and Skyler would not let up on saying the "word" over and over. She had told him to stop but since he continued, she decided she would just keep her eyes closed and ignore him. A few minutes later, she heard Tyler say "Granna's not hearing you" and as if he was saying - "Skyler - HUSH". But, Skyler did not care and he continued.... so Mom quickly reached over, popped him on the mouth. He just stopped, very stunned and then said very calmly - "She heard me then!" He rolled over and went to sleep. My mother almost couldn't control herself. She did all she could do to keep her laughter inside.

Praise God for the comedy he blesses us with in our everyday lives...........

Isn't she beautiful??????????

and hard to take a photo of! Miss Priss wouldn't go to sleep at all. Lacy fed her like 5 times just so she would sleep and so the photo you see here is the only one we really got of her asleep. We didn't even get to remove the blanket because we were afraid she'd wake up. So, i just took photos of her on the blanket but it turnd out great for the way i ended up doing the card. She is a very happy little girl! And she loves her Aunt Ree! (That's what my name is going to be i think since Aunt Audrea is a tongue twister!!!!!!!!!!)

I know, i know, it's all weird

I know the blog has been weird and has changed like 100 times in the last few days. I've actually been using it as a guinea pig for our work site. I've been posting things in the html code to play as to not mess up our work website. So, sorry it's been changing constantly.

While playing, i decided I'm also going to change the blog up a bit. I'm one of those people that is never satisfied with something - it has to be PERFECT and even then i want to see if i can achieve even better than PERFECT. I know, it's got a name - Obsessive Compulsive or something like that - and i have it. My sister is now yelling at her computer saying it's called something exact that i cannot pronounce i'm sure. WELL, I HAVE THAT! So, if you are reading the blog, bear with me.............................i'm changing it! AGAIN!!!!

The best photos are unplanned..........

I wanted to take the boys down to the grafitti wall in old dora to take photos of them since i remembered it and since i also sprayed my name on it many years ago. Of course, my name is long gone and painted over now. But, it was still cool to go. Starla heard me mention it and she decided to go along with me. I'm so glad because the photos we got are priceless and ones the boys will never forget....... And of course, we tried the "hey, look at me" and "stand here" stuff that i always know doesn't work and DOES NOT give you the best photos but it's innate in us to do that. So, finally we just let them be little boys and we got the best photos! I have soooo many good ones that i didn't know what to pick from today so this is my first little goodie for you all. We also went up to the train tracks where there was grease!!!!!!! Can't you just imagine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'll post some of those later.

Can i touch him mommy??????

Carey and Sandra (AKA- Grandad and Sani) wanted to take the boys down to see Thomas when he came to town. I had always wanted to take them but never got around to it so they let me go also. We had a great time. Skyler was in amazement and as most of you know, he loves ALL things Thomas. When we were standing to take a photo with Thomas i bet he asked me 10 times if he could touch Thomas. He was in Heaven! When we went shopping in the TENT that you could spend THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS in, Skyler found the perfect train - SPENCER. He informed us that Spencer was the FASTEST engine on Sodor. So, he carries Spencer everywhere he goes right now, even to bed. Ty likes Thomas too but not like my little Skyler. He just wanted to play and wear his cool new sunglasses. We all had a great time! Thanks Sani and Grandad!!!!!!!!

More photos of Annalace.......and us

I'm adding photos daily. the boys were very excited! VERY EXCITED!!!!!!!! We'll have to give it a few days and a lot less of a crowd before they can be there with her. I don't have any photos of them holding her because i was helping hold her in their arms, so Aonya, send me photos. Anyway, here are a few of us holding her. And I'll post more soon!

Welcome to the World Annalace....

Annalace was born at 11:21 on Monday morning, weighing 7 pounds 12 ounces and 21 inches long. She is beautiful and sleeps like her daddy (mouth open). LOL! We can't tell who she looks like yet but her eyes are blue. She has very tired but HAPPY parents. Lacy is very glad that she is here and out of her body. We've all been there haven't we ladies????? I'll post some more photos later. The boys are on their way to see their new cousin!!!!!!!!!!! This should be interesting!!!!!!

Here's the kicker...................

SKYLER took these photos!!!!!!!!!!!! He began to show an interest in the camera one day so i showed him how to push the button, look through the lens, then wait until it focused, and of course taking the shot!!!!!!!!!!! I have to say, i'm so proud!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have groomed a little photographer. It's really hard to get this kind of sharpness and clarity (you are seeing low resolution for web) in photos so i guess that is why i'm so proud.

These shots will be called my silly faces photos photo shoot. I converted them to black and white since i needed some self portraits anyway for this weekend's Scrap Etc event. So, they will go on a Scrapbook page, of course. I may even let him help with the page since he took the photos!!!!!!!!!!!

One Room at a time..........

I have exhausted myself moving into this house and i'm still not finished. But, i have found that it's just easier now at this point to decide i'm going to completely clean and unpack one room at a time until it's finished, then move to the next room. Also, we ordered ALL new furniture so none of it had come in yet until this weekend...... We got the boys bedroom furniture set up and in their room. So, the room is almost finished (one more box) except for decorations, etc to get put up on the wall. So, here is the boys room, playroom (ignore old couch-i'm getting a cover soon) and the front door. My favorite thing about our house is the floors!!!!!!!!!! Love them! I can show you the front door, because there are no boxes in there! LOL! Still need furniture in there! Anyway, here's at least a few rooms!!!!!!!!!

3 Amigos!!!!!!!!

We had our first "playdate" in the new house. I think i went upstairs 1000 times to check on them. It was alot of fun though. The boys were estatic when i told them that Logan was coming over to play. The asked me 100 times before he even got to the house "when is logan coming?" So, when he finally got there, they took off to the playroom and had a wonderful time! I fed them grilled cheese sandwiches (here's proof Starla since Logan couldn't remember what he ate) with Lemonade. They also showed off for the camera as you can see..... Oh and we had to move a chair to the bar for Logan to sit on that day BUT the boys refused for days to let me move it back to it's place because "it's Logan's chair"! LOL!

we moved in!

We moved into our house on Dec 31st. Our first night was New Year's Eve. We opened boxes until we just couldn't do it anymore and we rang in the new year ASLEEP!!!!!!!!!! All 4 of us! I've never slept that good before!!! LOL! We didn't even care that 2007 was coming. And, in the last 2 weeks, i've opened sooo many boxes and it's still not finished. I don't even know how we aquired all this stuff! And if it's still in the boxes, do we NEED it at all???? The boys love their playroom and bedroom. It's a big change from that 2 room basement! We do miss my mom, dad and aonya. Tyler and Skyler made the move pretty well with the exception of the first night. They played in the playroom while we moved in and when it was time for bed, Tyler cried to "go home" and get in his bed. It was sweet and yet very sad at the same time. He missed his bed. But, the next night he seemed better and since then, they've been happy with the house and the move!

Stay tuned and i'll post some house photos when the rooms become more presentable!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Hello and Merry Christmas! I haven't been in much of a christmassy mood lately. Mainly i guess because i was upset that my house isn't finished so we can have Christmas in it. But, i finally realized that it didn't matter how hard i tried, it just couldn't physically be done by Christmas. So, i chilled! I've also learned that the best photos are the ones rushed. I made this photo of the boys very quickly actually. I was upset at myself for not having it done yet so Chris and I threw these clothes on the boys and took them outside while at the lake for Thanksgiving. It was almost dark and i just shot away. I wasn't crazy about Skyler's face but it's really him!!!!!!!!! He was looking at his DADDY!!!!!!!! Chris was alot of help and realized how difficult it is to get two 3 1/2 year olds to stay in one spot. But, the best photos are not positioned, we just told them to put their hands in their pockets and VOILA!!!!!!!!!

Back to Christmas! Who out there reading this is really sick of the hustle and bustle of Christmas????? I am! Every year i feel exhausted and beaten - i feel like we loose the true meaning and all we care about are presents. So, just remember why we celebrate - Jesus' birth is the true meaning. HIS birth set everything in motion! Don't forget Jesus' birthday on this Christmas!

Hope you all have a great one and i look forward to a Great, New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Catching up - starting at Halloween

I know, i'm behind on photos! But, here are some halloween photos of our little lions. Skyler wasn't happy much - all he cared about was if Ty was going to get his seat in the van. Literally, they ran from houses to the van, fighting on who was going to get there first! They didn't care much about the trick or treating. But, we did have fun at the church festival. I don't have those pictures for the blog. But at least you can see the lions. Aren't they the cutest? LOL

Hang in there with me....

Sorry, i've been so busy with the house and work that i haven't even uploaded any Halloween costume photos. I know, i'm sorry. They were sooooo cute too! So, i promise, this week, i'm going to get you some photos.

The house is coming along. This week we should have power, hardwood installed and cabinets installed. I'm hoping that by next week, tile is down and the plumber can get us finished up, and carpet put down. i promise i'll post photos for that also. May be next week though.

Please pray we are in by Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!! I need my sanity back!!!!!!!!!

Men in Trees!

Well, i knew one day it would happen, they'd begin to climb trees! Luckily they couldn't move once they got there and they smiled for photos. Here they are- my men in Trees!

Loving my new zoom!

Bit the bullet and bought a zoom lens that i'd been wanting. It's the Nikkor 80-200 f2.8. I couldn't be happier!!! Here are a few from Sunday while playing outside. I also have some of them in the tree outside at mom's house that i'll post later. They were really great shots of the boys but i didn't have time to do them all today. Just decided to crop a few throw them in a collage and post! So, i'll get those on here a bit later!

House update - we are painting! Praise God! Hopefully i'll have some photos of that by next week sometime! YEAH!

House has trim!!!!!!!!!

Here is an updated house photo. The trim is on the house now! Most of it anyway. I think one of those doghouses is still needing trim, but all in all, it's coming together. The front door is closed on this one but it isn't stained yet. I think it is my favorite part of the house-truly. It will be stained a very dark chocolate like the trim is. They are priming the inside - so i'm finishing up my color selection here. My dining room is going to be apple green! Then alot of the house has blues and chocolates in it. I love blue and chocolate!!!!!!! The floors will be a VERY dark hardwood - i mean dark! YEAH! I'm going to have to get one of those little robots to clean it. I hear they are amazing and practically clean the floors for you so you never have to sweep or mop as much. I LOVE that idea!!!!! Now, if they'll only, cook, clean the showers and tubs and pick up after my 3 men, i'd be in business!!!!!!!!! I'd pay alot for that robot!! Also, the brick is going to be cleaned in a week or so......AND that port-o-potty won't be there when we move in either!!!!!!!! Isn't it beautiful?????

Gotta run and get back to working! TTYL!