I've been tagged

A-Z Tag
A * Age: 30 something
B * Birthday: Christmas Eve
C * Cake or candy: chocolate candy
D * Desserts I love: Yep, I love desserts!
E * Easiest Person to Talk to: Adelina. My favorite is when she's telling me something and then she just says, "OK, I'm done talking know" and we hang up.
F * Favorite Song: Hmmm...I can't think of one because I hardly ever listen to music anymore.
G * Gold or Silver: Definitely silver
H * Habit: I crack things when I'm not even thinking about it. Knuckles, neck, wrists, back and ankles mostly.
I* Instruments you play: I can play a couple of songs on the recorder, and probably the same couple on the clarinet. Yah, that wasn't my thing.
J * Job Title: Staff accountant, softball coach and mommy (not necessarily in that order)
K * Kiddies: 3
L * Lust or Love: Love
M * Married, Single, or Taken: Married
N * Next to you: Yoplait Peach Yogurt and a heater (they keep it FREEZING in here!)
O * One Wish: Hmmm....just one? No debt.
P * Person you called last: Mom called me and I called Joe
Q * Quote: Don't tell me what to do
R * Reason to smile: my kids laughing and playing together
S * Steak or Pork: Nope. Chicken
T * Turns you on: good manners and good smells
U * Unique Talent: Just about everything on my body cracks..j/k. I guess I can pitch fast pitch pretty well, even though I'm 30 something.
V * Veggie: corn on the cob
W * woke up at: I woke up (briefly) The first time I woke up was breifly when Joe got home, then again sometime in the middle of the night when I moved from the pull-out bed with Talon and Hailey to my own bed, gave Lacy a bottle at about 4, gave her back her pacifier a few times, woke Joe up at 6:08, gave her back her pacifier a few times and finally got out of bed for good at 6:40.
X * X-rays: Teeth and ankles, both numerous times.
Y * Your favorite color: Purple
Z * Zodiac sign: Capricorn

I'll tag Laurie, Lindsay, Jill...and Jessica Jones (write something already!)

Lacy

Here is a picture Erica took of Lacy on Saturday. She's getting so big and she loves smiling. She'll smile at you just about every time you say her name.

Getting potty trained...finally.

Hailey wore the same pull-up all day yesterday without wetting it once! I'm so proud of her!! She asked to go to the bathroom and church, at lunch, at Jennifer's house and at the Smith's for dinner last night. The only time she wet her pants was during the car ride home. She's turning into such a big girl, but don't tell her! She'll tell you, "me no big girl!" Then she'll raise her hands way up in the air and say, "See me widdew girl!"

Breakfast with Tara and Andy

So, as I mentioned in our last post, we had dinner with a second cousin of Joe's on Thursday night. Well, here's the reader's digest version of how we met them. A few weeks ago I got an email from Tara. She had recently "googled" her last name (Dairman) and found our blog. She showed it to her father and he said he was pretty sure he's a cousin of Joe's dad Dennis, and it turned out he is. Exciting huh? Her and her fiance, Andy, were planning a trip out this way (they live in New York) and fit us in to their plans. Go ahead, tease me about my blog now Joe! Anyway, the came out Thursday night and had dinner with as many of the Dairman's as we could get together on a weeknight, stayed at our house, and we took them to breakfast at Cracker's. Man, Andy can eat! Even Joe was impressed! Here is a picture we had someone take for us after breakfast. Sorry Lacy's not in the picture, but she's asleep in her car seat.

Monsoon

Thursday night we went out to eat at Tia Rosa's with Dennis, Charlotte, Jono and Joe's second cousins who were here from New York. It rained so hard at the restaraunt that the it came inside! The room we were in had a leak under the window and by the time we left the whole floor was full of water. We thought that was pretty bad, but then as we were leaving, the entire entryway was flooding. The roof was leaking out there. When we got home, the kids wanted to play in the rain, so we gave them an umbrella and let them.

Potty time

I'm not SURE what happened in the bathroom last night, but apparently Hailey was trying something new, and Joe had to teach her a small lesson. Here's the conversation when they found me in the laundry room.

Joe - Hailey tell mommy...do you pee sitting down or standing up?
Hailey - Me sit
Joe - Why?
Hailey - me no have a penis
Joe - Who does?
Hailey - Daddy, sanon (Talon)
Joe - that's right!

Dairman Look-alike Meter

Who knew we had the perfect baby??

MyHeritage: Look-alike Meter - Free family tree templates - Family reunion

Cheating tips for dieters

I came across these tips on a funny website today...because I'm soooo busy at work these days...Enjoy!

1.If you eat something and no one sees you eat it, it has no calories. (DUH!!)
2.If you drink a diet soda with a candy bar, the calories in the candy bar are cancelled out by the diet soda.
3.When you eat with someone else, calories don't count if you don't eat more than they do.
4.Food used for medicinal purposes NEVER count, such as hot chocolate, brandy, toast and Sara Lee Cheesecake. (Hot chocolate has calories? CRAP! How is that possible? It's mostly water right?)
5.If you fatten up everyone else around you, then you look thinner. (this explains why I get mad when Joe runs on the treadmill)
6.Movie related foods (Milk Duds, Buttered Popcorn, Junior Mints, Red Hots, Tootsie Rolls, etc.) do not have additional calories because they are part of the entertainment package and not part of one's personal fuel. (I don't really use this one anymore since I can't even remember the last movie I saw in a theatre)
7.Cookie pieces contain no fat-- the process of breaking causes fat leakage....plus, "I didn't even eat a whole cookie" can last A LOT longer this way
8.Things licked off knives and spoons have no calories if you are in the process of preparing something. Examples are peanut butter on a knife making a sandwich and ice cream on a spoon making a sundae.
9.Foods that have the same color have the same number of calories. Examples are: spinach and pistachio ice cream; mushrooms and white chocolate. NOTE: Chocolate is a universal color and may be substituted for any other food color. (Who eats pistachio ice cream??)
10.Foods that are frozen have no calories because calories are units of heat. Examples are ice cream, frozen pies, and Popsicles....corn dogs, burritos, pizza...I could go on and on.
11. Foods eaten while watching a major event on television do not count. Major events include: Superbowl, Hockey Finals, Indy 500, Jerry Springer show.
12. Powerbars and other type energy bars make you thinner. In all my years of exercising (at least three times a year) I have only seen thin people eating energy bars. Ergo (therefore) they must make you thin.
13. Snickers is the same as an energy bar (see #12)
14. Tasting other people's food does not add to your calorie count. (and they do NOT have to taste yours in exchange!)
15. Containers of food that list the number of servings as greater than one are lying. Every container includes one serving. Half gallon of ice cream, box of cereal, bottle of soda, bag of chips are all one serving. (4 1/2 chips HA! That's only for those skinny chicks that eat energy bars while working out at the gym wearing sports bras and spandex...excuse me, yoga pants!)

A couple more pictures from Amy

Talon & ShyannHailey & (her best friend) TrulieI LOVE this picture that Amy took while we were on our walk. They were holding hands, and everytime we went to take the picture they would wrap their arms up like that...it was too cute!

July 5th

Amy, Tyler, Branson, Shyann, Trulie and Jarvis stayed with us Friday and Saturday night (sorry traffic was so bad getting home). Here are Talon and Shyann, and the bottom half of Trulie, eating popcorn and watching TV in the bedroom.On Saturday, while Amy and Tyler went to visit some friends that were also staying in Payson, we met the (Glade) Smith family at the Taylor Pool. Here are Talon and Hailey in the kiddie pool......and Glade with his two youngest.Here are the bigger kids playing in the big pool with Joe.And most of the Smith kids playing in the pool. I wish I would have got one of their legs up during one of their handstand contests...man that brings back memories! Then Talon got really brave and wanted to jump off the looong diving board. Here he is in line with the "big" kids...that's him, the litte short guy in red trunks third in line.It only took a little bit of talking from the end before he jumped with daddy and Hailey watching. Later that afternoon we went for a walk out the back doorand up the hillHailey and Trulie walked hand in hand almost the whole time...Hailey said Trulie is her best friend. =)Then daddy let the kids blow some poppers...you can barely see the streamers above Talon's headThis nasty tarantula ruined the fun, because I was not about to stay there for one more minute with that beast aroundThe guys asked me if I got a picture, and I told them I did, but you wouldn't be able to tell how big it was without anything next to it. Joe suggested a quarter but nobody had any change, so Tyler threw an old card down. It was hilarious when he realized he would have to get that card back before we left.A long stick did the trick, but I made sure to be far far away when he upset that sucker! It creeps me out to even post the pictures of it. I would rather deal with cockroaches, crickets, beetles, or pretty much anything other than a spider; and that was the mother of all spiders in my book! Thanks Tyler for repeating that it can jump over and over again while Amy was trying to get a picture of it. So here's a stinking cute picture of Lacy holding her head up to bring us back to all that is good in the world.

4th of July

We went to Payson with the Smith's for the 4th this year and we had a blast!! Hailey broke her bag of cheetos in the grass and it became a free for all for everyone who wanted any. I made a comment to one of the other mother's about how I was glad I wasn't the only one who didn't care that my kids were eating cheetos out of the grass, and she said, "I sent my kids over there!" EXCELLENT!!Hailey got a little bit tired because it was sooo hot when we first got there, so she decided to find her juice and take a little rest. Then, it started raining, and I mean it was REALLY raining. Some friends that were there with the Smith's had to move there canopy TWICE because they were in the path of the current of rainwater that started running through the park.

Thanks for those pictures Laurie! Luckily, we were REALLY close the house in Payson, so we got to go there, put on some dry clothes, pack up some jackets and sleeping bags to share and get back in time for delicious burgers (thanks Glade) and watch the fireworks.
The fireworks were fantastic as promised. =) We were about 150 yards from where the were being let off by the lake, and Talon even walked closer with me so he could see better!The kids were all bundled up waiting for the fireworks to start when it started to drizzle again, so they got to share a big umbrella. Amy and Tyler stayed with us at the house with their kids and we loved having them! Here is Amy, Tyler and Jarvis. John, Sherry and their kids watching fireworks all bundled up...we wished we could have spent more time with you guys while you were there!...And Lacy slept throught it all!! P.S. I'll also create a post for July 5th so you can see the huge tarantula we saw on our walk.

Gavin's Birthday Party - July 3rd

Happy Birthday Gavin!
We had a great time at your birthday party!!
Talon and Ava in the swimming pool
Talon LOVES birthday cake!
Hailey loves her cousins...here she is with Ethan. Thanks for the pictures Fran!!

Note to self...

It's not OK to change your blog setting to allow anonymous comments. Who knew I would get "spam" comments?

Circle of kids

Here is another picture I took with my phone of the cutest kids EVER!! =)

Crazy cloud

Talon and I went to Aunt Jennifer's house to get his hair cut last night. On the way there Talon said, "look at that crazy blue cloud mommy, it looks like a crocodile and it even has teeth." So, of course I had to take a picture with my phone.

Who does Lacy look like?

So, after looking through some old photos, I don't think there's any more questions as to who Lacy looks like. These are pictures of Talon and Lacy at about the same ages:

Crazy that I thought she looked like Hailey when she was born!

Hailey cleans up

This is how I found Hailey the other day:And here is how our conversation went:
Me - Hailey, what are you doing?
Hailey - Me ceening up!
So, I walked away and gave her some time to see what her plan was. A short time later I came back and here is what I found. Hailey - me find dese socks
Me - do you need help
Hailey - yes, big, big mess mommyNo kidding!But, she did help me find all of the matches to put them away - ceener!

New Pictures!!

We finally got some new family pictures taken today that include Lacy! Yeah!!

A glimpse into the future...

I was just giving Lacy a bath, when Hailey started playing with Lacy's baby lotion. I told Hailey not to open it, but in just a few moments she was showing me the lotion on her fingers. Here is how our conversation went:
Me: Did you get lotion on your fingers?
Hailey: No, baby Lacy do dat.
I guess I have a lot more of those conversations to look forward to in the next 18 years or so. =)

New Background!

I found this website from a link on a friends and finally update the background! Yeah!! Maybe I will become a blogging guru someday!

If you are interested...I added the link to The Cutest Blog on the Block under "favorites"...see I really am getting the hang of this! The best part is that the backgrounds are free when you use the link on the left, and the instructions are simple for newbies like me.