Birthday Girl!

Today my baby turns one! She's so Big! I can't believe how much she has grown over the last year. Still not as much as she should have, but I think it's a lot. We had her one year portraits done today. We went to a place called Portrait Innovations. I must admit that I liked them a lot. They are a bit more expensive than I like, but still cheaper than Lifetouch. I liked the portraits a lot, but I still like Film better than digital for portraits even if it does take two or three weeks to get your pictures back. Anyway we don't have to get her pictures taken for at least six months now. It will be a change from once a month or more! Well here are just some of the great pictures we had taken today. I got a disk with 62 pictures one it! Can you believe it?
Edit: I have more pictures, but for some reason blogger won't let me publish them right now! Grrr! I'll try again later so be sure to check back to see them!
Second Edit: Well I got one to load, but not any more! Aggg!

Update!

I haven't sat down to write in a long time. We've been very busy around here. Sophy is as active as ever and we are running to keep up with her. Jeff went away for two weeks to Portugal. He had a good time, but hated the actual travel. I think he was very ready to get home on sunday! Sophy and I toughed it out all alone for two weeks and boy were we glad to have him home! Sophy is one day away from her birthday. It's hard to believe that a year ago I was still pregnant and she wasn't even here yet! In someways it seems like I've known Sophy my whole life and she's always been here, and in other ways I can't believe she's already a year old. It seem like yesterday we were bringing a tiny new bundle home from the hospital! Ok so the last two weeks in reveiw:
Jeff left on a sunday and boy was I sick! I was sick for a full week. On monday after he left Sophy started crawling out of her bed and over her baby gates so I headed off to baby depo for a toddler bed and three new baby gates that she can't crawl over. They worked great. Trish brought her nephews over to use our pool. They had a blast playing in the pool, with our xbox and playing with Sophy. It was super cute. On Sunday I finally started feelingwell again. It was very nice. I had Trish and Aaron over to celebrate her birthday on Tuesday night. Aaron p[layed with Sophy and we all ate a good meal. We had church on Wednesday night and on Thursday I readied for our final garage sale. Jen watched Sophy while I manned the sale on friday and we did very well. On Saturday around noon I was sure we had done all we were going to so Trish and I packed up the remaining stuff. Jeff was supposed to get home on friday night, but didn't make it until early sunday morning instead. So I spent most of saturday cleaning up the hose after the garage sale and cleaning the garage up. When Jeff got home, Surprise! He got to park in the garage too! Both cars finally fit! It was exciting. I made enough in the garage sale to go buy Sophy's birthday present. I can't wait till her party to give it to her. She gets her portrait taken tommorrow and we'll have a little dinner for her. Then her party is saturday. I'm more excited than she is, she doesn't know what's going on! So now we have a week at home before we head off to Omaha with Jeff. That is of course if tinker doens't change their minds about things the night before (they've been know to do that). I guess that's all with us!

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Big Girl, Big Bed!

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A trip out to play, the lost post

(This is a lost post. I just realized that I wrote it and never posted it so here it is:)
Today was a really busy day. We have all been sick around here and finally we felt well enough to go out and play a little. I had my crop that I go to each month that is hosted by Trish and Jeff quested with the boys on WoW. Then that evening I took Sophy to a birthday party for a few of the boys at church. We went to a place called Pump it up. they have a lot of those inflateable things to play on. They had a giant slide, a jump house, a obstical course and a few others. I got stuck in the obsticle course. Not easy to do with a baby!
Sophy LOVED it. She jumped and bounced and slide and LAUGHED! I highly recommend this place to other parents because they allow the adults to get in and on the things. It's nice when you have a little one like Sophy. Otherwise I never would have let her on! She'd end up trampled! All the kids had a good time.

Trip to St. Louis Part Two

Well it took me longer than I thought after returning home to get on here to post. So let me think back to our trip....
On Sunday we went to church with Heather and Graham. It is a nice and very friendly church. After church we went to a dollar shop on the way to the house for lunch. I saw a butterfly net and decided to get it for Heather's kids. LilliAnn and Grayson have recently discovered the joy of catching bugs....a joy I DON'T share with them! Grayson immediately took it out to try his luck with Evie at his heels! Boy were they cute running around the backyard in their Sunday clothes. Sophy has been walking very well with help. She got lots of loving and lots of help from her cousins. I'm so glad that she has cousins close to her own age to play with! It makes visits so special. We ate lunch and then the girls went to a GREAT scrapbook store in the neatest mall I've ever been in. They had a huge children play area and it looked very fairytale-ish. I loved it. After that we went swimming and played games in the evening. On Monday we went to the Zoo, Central Station Mall and The Spegetti Factory. It was a really fun day. The zoo is a great Zoo. You could go two or three times and still not see it all. And I LOVE spegetti Factory. It's the first one there ever was. Even before Spegetti Warehouse. There was a guy that walked around doing balloon animals. He made Sophy a balloon Ladybug. It was one of the cutest things! Sophy loved it! Funny story: On the way home from Spegetti Factory Grayson's Balloon Sword popped. He was sad so Graham asked Jeff to give him a toy. Jeff handed him his turtle and he instantly stopped being upset. He held out his now limp balloon to Jeff and said "Thank you you have my sword now". Jeff just took it with a look of "ummm, do I want that?". Tuesday we had a pretty lazy day at the house. Time in the pool, the guys playing games, and lots of Good food. We packed up and went home on wednesday. Sophy hadn't been feeling so great so I called her in an appointment with the doctor for thursday. By Friday I was at the doctor and Jeff was staying home from work. We spent a very sick weekend at home. Jeff is better, not haveing been hit as hard as we were, and is back to work. Sophy is doing better and she even cut another tooth. That makes 5 now. She sure is happier when teeth aren't coming in! I feel a lot better, but still have an awful Cough. It keeps me up most the night it seems. Sophy however is finally sleeping like a rock. So at least that's better now. All in all it was a good trip, but I'm glad to be home and feeling better. I do have to say that St. Louis is a beatiful town and Heather and Graham are lucky to live there. Congrats guys! Pictures: 1- Grayson and Evie hunting for butterflys in the Backyard. 2- Sophy practicing walking with Evie. 3- The family (minus Aaron and Trish, she wasn't feeling too well) at the St Louis Zoo. It was VERY hot! 4- LilliAnn poses with a penguin...no they don't actually let you get THAT close. though they do let you get very close. That is a fake. Good picture though. 5- Grayson with a couple of Lizzards. Great picture of grayson, but also fake lizzards! 6- Grandad carring a VERY grumpy Evie around the zoo. She wouldn't go to anyone else! 7- Heather and Jeff holding Evie in the alley next to Spegetti Factory. If you look in the background you can see the arch! Beautiful City!

Trip to St. Louis Part One

Well we made it to St.Louis. It was a long drive and Sophy cried for the last hour. Not a fun trip, but we made it without anything worse happening. Yesterday we spent the day swimming, cooking, and enjoying our various hobbies. The Boys played WOW and the girls scrapped. It was nice. Sophy was so sleepy and refused to go to bed because her mouth hurt her. Finally she calmed down and Lo and Behold.....Sophy got her 4th tooth. She has two more trying to break through, one of which I think will happen before we leave. So she is making up for all the lost time! She was really cute in the pool. Heather had a baby floaty and we put her in that and she would splash and spin and laugh! It was really cute! I got some pictures, but I'll post them after I get home, no way to link up while I'm here. Man I would love a wireless camera! That would be awesome!

Good News.

So I know I've been bad about posting lately. I notice I post more when I'm taking more pictures....lately I've been bad about taking pictures. Why? My camera is on the fritz! Sometimes it works just fine, and sometimes it doesn't. It's driving me nutty. I think it might be time to get a new camera. It's diffucult though because my camera hasn't officially died. It's hard to buy something expensive when you already have one. At least for me it is. I'm planning another garage sale (so I can have my garage back) in July. The second or third weekend. Not sure which yet. Maybe I'll make enough then to get my camera.....doubtful.
So what is this good news you ask:
Trish is Pregnant! Whooo Hooo. This is really happy news for the family. Mom is getting her 5th grandchild. Right when we thought that Tammy was catching up! I so wanted Trish to have the next baby so it was good for me too! I was terrified I would accidently get pregnant before Trish and dreaded telling her! Now it's no more worries! So now Katie is due in January and Trish is due in Febuary. Who wants March? Anyone? What no takers? (in the back of the room sits Jeff praying it won't be us)
Jeff got a book from a friend at work about how to get your kid to sleep. This guy has twins and they both take 2 naps a day and sleep all night long. Although I'm very happy for him (ok, only kinda happy) I'd rather not rely on a book to tell me how to take care of my kid! It's not like Sophy NEVER sleeps. She just doesn't take 2 long naps anymore. I wish she did, but it just doesn't happen. She will sleep through the night most nights. I'm still not sure why Jeff thinks this is all such a good idea. Maybe if we had started this from the beginning, but since we haven't...yeah don't think it'll work. After hearing my arguements on this subject he handed it to me and said "well here it is to read when you get the chance" Ummmm, hello, Sophy doens't take two long naps a day and is trying to walk......when do I get a chance to shower let alone read a book? You gotta be kidding me.
Ok that is my rant for the month.
On a totally different note: If you don't watch The 4400, you should! It's awesome!

And We're Back!

We've been gone for Two weeks! Vacation you ask? Well....kinda. Jeff had to go to Shreveport and I tagged along. Jeff dropped Sophy and I off at Grandma's house in Dallas. Mom, Heather, and Trish came on Thursday and we all went to the Arlington Great American Scrapbook Convention while Grandma watched Sophy. It was so hard to be away from her! At least I wasn't that far away so It wasn't too bad! I was very happy to hold her when we got back though! Sophy was great! Grandma said she was an easy baby. I'm glad she was good for her, but I wish she was that good for me! While at the convention we did a lot of free make and takes and did some great shopping! We went to the friday evening crop and it was like a big party with some scrapping thrown in! We got great goody bags just for going and had a lot of fun. I didn't get alot of work done (too many distractions)but the pages I did turned out great! All in all I highly recommend the Great American Scrapbook Convention to anyone who likes scrapbooking, card making, or stamping.
After the convention Sophy and I stayed another week. Sophy LOVED to play with her cousin Hana. They were so cute. Hana apperantly likes to ride like a horse on her brother's back. She would see Sophy crawling across the floor and assume it was an invitation. Before we knew it Hana would stradle Sophy and sit down on her back, at this point Sophy's arms and Legs would go shooting out from under her and there they both would be on the floor. Sophy looking at me like "help?" and Hana bouncy like "why won't it go?". It was very funny. I'm happy for Sophy that she's going to have so many cousins and second cousins so close to her age to play with as she grows up!
We also spent a couple afternoons up at Grandma's office. It was a chance to get out of the house, check my email, etc. Sophy made an uneffective and very cute receptionist for Mastersound. All in all it was a good trip and we are very glad to be home again.
Oh yeah...Sophy cut another tooth. That makes two now. If only she could cut a tooth AND let us get some sleep......that would be great!

Quizes!

Since everyone liked the last quiz so much I thought I'd add a couple more just for fun.



Which Princess Bride Character are You?
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You are Princess Leia

Princess Leia 71% Obi-Wan Kenobi 71% Padme 71% Luke Skywalker 69% Han Solo 68% Qui-Gon Jinn 62% Yoda 62% R2-D2 61% Chewbacca 59% Lando Calrissian 56%

You are an excellent friend and an unselfish person, yet you like to spend a lot of time on your hair and fashion. You spend most of your time with guys that are too cocky, too hairy, or too related.

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Garage Sale!

So this is how my Garage looked this morning.....It's a little more empty tonight. I did go through the house and add some more stuff though. Handbags and organizers and such. Anyway I thought I would officially let everyone know that it went well. No annoying neighbors showed up to ruin my day. Sophy was a bit of a handful during the goings on though. I do agree with whoever said that during the neighborhood sale was the worst time to have a garage sale. People would come by and then decide "hmm, maybe there's something better next door...." And off they'd go. We still did ok though. Just not as good as the last two I've been apart of (wink wink Jen). Jen came by with Ty. She's looking so cute these days with her Baby bump. And I'd have to say Ty was one of the best behaved of the children that came by. Trish brought a lot of stuff over for the sale so I got to spend most of the day with her. It was nice we don't get to do a lot of one on one things anymore. She's also super great with Sophy so that helps too. Jessica brought over her couch to sell and she came by to help around lunch time. We just had a giant picnic on the floor of the garage. She sold her couch at the end of the day for more than either Trish or I made all day! I thought that was awful lucky....or just good salesmenship! Anyway everyone come by and see me tommorrow. Hopefully Jeff will be keeping Sophy inside so that she won't be hanging all over me! Hee hee.

Fun New Pictures.

So......I just thought I'd share some fun pictures with you. Also Sophy Got a tooth! Finally. It came in on Monday. So She barely got it in before she hit 10 months! Way to go Sophy!There is an excellent picture of my father giving Sophy an ice cream cone out there. As soon as I get a copy I hope to add it here too. Leave it to my dad to give her that! * Note: The first picture is of Mom Kissing a pirate! Watch out dad! The second one is of Sophy riding a BMW Bike! Doesn't she look good? Now that will be the last time she's allowed on a motorcycle! The third one is of mom and Sophy in Hot Springs. Who looks more tired and Hot?

So the left out weekend....

So about the weekend....I forgot that I didn't write anything about the weekend. We drove in on thursday after Jeff's office picnic. We got up early on friday to drive to Searcy. We went to the funeral and the grave side. It was a good service. A real celebration of her life. I enjoyed seeing my old friends and oegeans. We were going to hang around, but our original plans fell through and I was feeling ackward. It was weird to be around everyone again. Although everyone was as nice as can be. It was just weird. It reminded me of a time in my life that I have worked hard to get over. A time that I know was important for me to become the person I am today, but still sometimes it easier to just not think about. Anyway so we went back to little rock and spent the evening with my parents. On saturday Mom, Dad, Aaron, Trish, and us all went to Hot springs For the day. We went out to luch, Mini Golfing, and to the bath houses. The girls rode in the convertable and the boys in our car with the baby. It was a nice drive. It was a very hot day. We also went by the vespa dealership to look at them. My mom really wants one. Since We weren't shopping I took it as a photo op! On Sunday after church we had lunch and Jeff and I went to see X3 with Jackie and Max. I hadn't seen them in a long time so it was great! The movie was good, but for a last movie they still set it up for another one. On sunday night I went to sleep for a nap and didn't wake up till 11:00. So I just went back to bed. On Monday there were storms so we decided to go home on tuesday instead. By the time we got home all the rain was gone. It was a good weekend.

Stupid Neighbors

So we went away for the weekend. It was good. Then we came home....
We pulled up and I thought "hmmm we need to mow". It wasn't really bad, but it needed it. I mean we were gone all weekend so it'd been a little over a week. Well I check the mail and find not one but two notes from my neighbors. They said that if we have a home we should take care of it or get rid of it and that if we have pets we should take care of those pets or get rid of them. Now I know that my puppies aren't near as pampered as they used to be, but they are by no means mistreated. We left them in the dog run while we were gone and although they they didn't get their weekly bath they were still provided for. I had Casey checking on them each day and left food in their house and she added more if they needed it. We also left out a bowl of water with the hose in it so they'd always have fresh water. They have a nice big dog house and blankets if they got cold and shade if they were hot. I asked Casey to bring them in if there was bad weather, which there wasn't. I just don't see how they were mistreated? Shurely not so bad that the humane society needs to come take them away! Stupid neighbors. On top of that When Jeff went out to mow he came in and said "did you trim back the tree and cut out those dieing bushes?" I ran outside and found that the dieing bushes are gone completely and where there once was a tree there was now a stick! Who gave anyone the right to come onto my property and cut out my bushes and trim my tree? Even if it needed it (and that tree didn't need it that much!). I went next door and asked the only semi nice neighbor about the note. I didn't think she had done it but I knew that she knew who did! So of course about 30 minutes after a semi pleasent conversation I had the neighbor from across the street come over to yell at me. She didn't even want to talk calmly or anything. She wanted to yell and was totally irrational. She said that if we couldn't afford to pay someone to take care of our yard we shouldn't be living here. She said that if I didn't care for the yard (not that I don't in the first place!) or my pets than there is no way that I cared properly for my daughter. She said she felt sorry for Sophy that she was stuck with such a bad mother. Whoa! That was WAY beyond crossing the line! So now with a little advice from the most wonderful realtor EVER (seriously if you ever want to buy a house she's awesome so call and I'll give you her number) I am documenting everything and making calls. We have a solid case for harassment and destruction of private property. Not that I want it to go that far though. Of course if she pushes me to it it would pay for sophy's college.....hmmmmm. So now Jeff and I will be doing yard work instead of having a garage sale this weekend to fill the giant holes in our flower beds. Stupid Neighbors!
*Note: The first picture is of the yard BEFORE we mowed. The second is the stick that is left of my tree. The third is were my sad looking bushes used to be.

What are we doing?

Iverson Update: So we've been really busy around here. Sophy and I went to the doctor on monday. Sophy is all right, just a little head cold, I on the other hand am very sick to hear the doctor tell it. I feel ok, except for a head ache. She gave me some mondo drugs that knocked me out on monday night. I slept from 5:00pm to 7:00am. I felt great on tuesday though. I ran all my errunds yesterday. Today I am cleaning the house (boy did it need it) and washing clothes. I hope to have us all packed up tonight. We have a picnic with Jeff's office tommorrow. Then we leave for Arkansas. We have the funeral on Friday morning and I'll get to see some of my Oege friends that night. Then Since we're already in town we'll hang with the folks a little before heading home. We were not planning this trip (who ever plans a funeral?) so it kinda came up out of no where. So it'll be quiet on the blog for a few days.
Sophy Update: She has been super cranky lately. She's gotten very clingy and doesn't like to eat "baby food" any more. She wants to feed herself. She also screamed through her bath today, odd, every odd. She normally LOVES her bath! She has a tooth that is So close to breaking through it gives me hope she might get a tooth before 10 months! She has had two big breakthroughs this week. She learned to stop doing whatever she's doing when we say no, she's still not consitant with this one though but hey it's a start! And she's learned to use a sippy cup! Thank You Sara for the advice to use the soft top sippy cups. She loves them. After trying it out I went back and got two more. She still won't use a regular one, but it's a start. We also have started eating cut up cheese, fruits and veggies with out mashing them first. So no more baby food jars! Whoo Hoo! *Note: The picture is of Sophy in the super cute outfit Tammy got her. She's not too happy in it because she wanted me and I wasn't picking her up!

As Promised.....

As promised I'm updating. I haven't felt too great lately. I've run out of Zyrtech and I feel lousy. I think it might have turned into a sinus infection, but I'll get over it. Jeff came home a little early today because Sophy isn't feeling great either and I needed some help. He's giving her a vapor bath while I get to chill out.
It's been very busy around here. We have been cleaning and baby proofing the house for the last week. It's not perfect, but I don't want it to be. It is set up for her to explore without ruining what's important to me or breaking her neck (aka ruining something that is important to me....).
I also promised I would post a few of the Sophy & Molly Pictures once I had them. So Here they are! Didn't they turn out cute? And for those of my friends who don't personally know Katie (Jeff's Sister) she is now expecting! So we'll have three babies to photograph before long. I've been asked by many if this changes my feelings on waiting to have another baby, and the answer is "NO". I'm thrilled with Sophy and we hope to wait as long as God lets us or 3 years to have another, whichever comes first. So God willing it will be a while till Tammy gets another Grandchild from us! I told my mom that She might have started out ahead, but Tammy is catching up fast! She'll have 3 in January and mom will have 4... unless Trish isn't telling us something......hee hee.
We have simple plans for the weekend. I have a crop I go to on the third Saturday of the month which is this Saturday. Yea! It's the one hosted by Trish and they have childcare and it's free. It's a great time to work and relax! I'm looking forward to it! Any ladies that live around here you are welcome to come. It's at the believers Bible Church in Bethany from 12-6. I hope to see some new people! We have a lot of beginners that come so it's a great way to learn more. Plus you get to use other peoples tools and stuff so you don't have to buy them. Jeff let me get (it's easier for me to order it) the Karen Foster Clikit like mom has for Mother's Day so I'm hoping it will be here before Saturday. I also Ordered so Eyelets and brads for a really neat Site called eyeletoutlet.com . I have been without my camera because we left it in Kansas City on accident so Tammy mailed it to me, so I'm also expecting that to come in. So many packages! Jeff plans to play WoW all day on Saturday with the guys. I think those are all our big plans. I know, we're boring.
So hopefully that will tide you curious people over for a little while. As soon as I get my camera back I hope to be posting more regularly.

Muppet test

You Are the Swedish Chef

"Bork! Bork! Bork!" Your happy and energetic - with borderline manic tendencies. No one really gets you. And frankly, you don't even get you. But, you sure can whip up a great chocolate mousse

The Muppet Personality Test

Something new.....

I know this isn't my style, but hey we have to follow the rules right? At least I added a cute picture of Sophy. It's kinda old so she's bigger now.

Apparently, my punishment for commenting on a friends blog is that I have to repost this thing.
So here goes:
Comment and:
1. I'll respond with something random about you
2. I'll challenge you to try something
3. I'll pick a color that I associate with you
4. I'll tell you something I like about you
5. I'll tell you my first/clearest memory of you
6. I'll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. I'll ask you something I've always wanted to ask you
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on yours

Let's try this out!

So it says I can post on my blog by sending an email to a certain email address. So I decided to try it out and see if it would work. Tammy wants to set up a blog for her and Ron's trip over seas this summer. That way us sad non-world traveling people can read all about it and see pictures and know they are alive and all without them having to send a ton of emails to all of us. Also she said it's be like a travel journel to help her remember all the details about her trip. I think that is an excellent idea. Hey mom, maybe you and dad should do that too? Anyway we thought the whole email posting thing would be easier than logging in to post for her trip so I'm trying it out before we set her up with her blog and send her away! Every now and then I like to know the answer when someone asks a question so I've been know to do a little early work every now and again....I know I know me? Work? Shocker!
In other news: Our trip to Kansas City was great. It was nice to see everyone! We got to see MoMo and PoPo too! They came down for church on Sunday! Tammy and I took Molly and Sophy to get their portraits done. Tammy got a 16 x 20 of her two girls! Heather and I also did this for mom with LilliAnn, Grayson, Evie, and Sophy for mother's day. She said she couldn't wait to give it to her, so I hope I'm not ruining a surprise here. The pictures of Sophy and Molly turned out great. As soon as we get them I'll try to post them! Well that was our exciting trip. I can't wait to see everyone again!

Sophy Update!

Sophy went to the doctor on tuesday! We finally got good news. He said she was growing and was now at 25 % for height and weight and 90% for head! She was at 50 % for head last time and 10% for height and weight, so thats some growth! He said she looked great and that we didn't have to come in again until 1 year! Whoo Hoo! Can you believe we are less than 3 months from her 1st birthday! I sent out the email save the date invites to the family party yesterday! Of course I don't have everyone's email so if you're family you are invited to Sophy's birthday Party in August. Just call me for the details. I've included a picture I used for the e-vites.
We are planning on going to Kansas City for the weekend. We leave tommorrow morning. So we'll be out of touch for a few days! If we have bad weather and your near by check on my dogs ok....oh and don't forget about mingo my web pet, he's at the bottom of the page!