Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Christmastime!


I got to enjoy a great visit with Cara and her husband over Christmas! We don't get to see each other nearly enough. I love it when my friends marry men who are just as fun to be around as they are. Makes for some good times.


Jade and Nick worn out from all the Christmas festivities.



Tickle, Tickle, Tickle


Ring around the Rosie on Grammy's bed!



Kissing Cousins


Some of my favorite cousins!


Me and Gram


Emma stuck in a bucket


Playing Mad Gab was so much fun at the Emmorey family Christmas


Aunt Kenda thought we were hilarious while watching us play



Gram thought we were pretty funny too

Saturday, December 27, 2008

A little bit of Christmas.....


Emma and Jade in some Christmas outfits. These two are near impossible to get a good picture of. Wouldn't call this the best but def the best of the ones we took!

Dancing on Grandma's bed.


Nick sleeping with his baby! LOL

Emma giving her daddy an adoring look


Dressed for playing in the snow!


A very high snowbank in my parents driveway. Good shoveling, Erin, Dad and Jeremy!


Mom tried to help Erin up and ended up in some trouble herself!


A very BIG snowball!


I MIGHT'VE pushed her a little bit!


Before the push.....


Another big snowbank! Michigan had a LOT of snow! Over 5 ft this year!

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Friday, December 5, 2008

A crazy but fun night!

Timmy the terror!



Egan, Graham and Rosie making popcorn chains for the first time.


Graham with his little chain.


The finished product! They were so proud of themselves!



Well, I am sitting at work tonight with all four of the kids in bed sound asleep, my feet are freezing, and I am wishing that Erin was here to start a fire for me. She is quite good at it, and I am....well, I don't know how I am because I have never tried. But I do know, that I have no clue even how to begin! Anyways, I am trying to wind down from a very crazy night with the Dewitt kids. When I got to work, Amy started telling me how her youngest, Timmy, had about driven her insane all day because he was getting into everything and that she had caught him playing in a toilet that his brother had not flushed. He had a hand towel and two rolls of toilet paper in the toilet, and water all over the bathroom! So when I came in she had just finished giving him a bath, and scrubbing down the whole bathroom. She and her husband got ready and left for the night telling the kids they could string popcorn chains if they wanted to. So I started rushing around getting things ready for that when I heard Graham (3 yrs) start wailing in the bathroom! I ran in there and saw him standing next to the toilet with --to put it delicately--a very big, mess in his pants which were hanging around his knees. Apparently he passed a little gas while he was using the potty and got a bit of a surprise! I had decent clothes on and the mess was such that I was worried I would get a bit "dirty" cleaning it up, and even worse--be stuck in dirty clothes the rest of the night-- so I told him not to move and I ran upstairs and raided Andrews t-shirt and sweat pant drawer. I changed faster than you want to know. Meanwhile, Rosie and Egan are running all over the house finding me a trash bag, paper towels, wet wipes and a hair band (to keep my hair out of things). I ran back down and took care of the mess and put Graham in the bathtub, accompanied the whole time with Graham wailing at the top of his lungs. I finally convinced him that accidents happen like this and he really didn't need to cry anymore, and thankfully he stopped. Whew! So then we went downstairs and I got the popcorn popped and the kids made their first popcorn chains ever. Rosie and Egan did a great job and loved every minute of it. Graham liked it too, but after poking his finger 5 times, with 5 pieces of popcorn to show for it, decided that maybe I should finish it for him. By then popcorn was ALL over the floor and for the first time I began to wonder where their vacuum was. Thankfully, it was close, but unfortunately, it didn't work! These kids are the best kids and they both ran and got brooms and started doing their best to sweep up the popcorn. They worked right along with me until every drop of that popcorn was picked up. I was impressed. And, I remembered why they are the only family that I will give up my precious, free nights to babysit for. :-) So all in all, I have had a very busy, crazy night, but I had a lot of fun as well.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

Some more odds and ends....


All my kids that I presently am responsible for. It goes from left to right:
Riley--5, Kyle--12, Brooke--11 months, Zach--11, Ashley--5
Brooke and Ashley are sisters and the rest are the family I live with. I stay pretty busy most of the time!


Brooke took one look and was not wanting anything to do with Santa!



She likes me pretty well though. :-)

A few more....


A few more of my little Emma Em! :-)






Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Emma's Christmas pics


There are more, but they got messed up so we will have to wait for the rest. Emma is NOT an easy girl to get pics of! But the bribing from Aunt Holly to go get some candy helped quite a bit. :-)



Monday, December 1, 2008

Thanksgiving weekend....


Emma was the only grandkid/niece home for Thanksgiving so she got a LOT of attention.


My sister in law, Melissa, myself, and Erin.

Emma loves Santa


They had a Mrs. Claus too. Emma isn't shy at all!






As soon as she got on Santa's lap she started playing with his beard, I thought it was so cute!





This is one of Kaelah's old outfits, that Emma fits in now.




Emma loves her Grandpa!





Thanksgiving dinner at the Emmoreys. We sure missed Ryan and Melissa and their families, but we had fun.







Tuesday, November 25, 2008

First Pigtails! :-)


This is my first attempt at putting Brooke's hair in pigtails. Surprisingly enough, she kept them in for a trip into town, but then after I brought her home and she started crawling around, they came out pretty fast. lol


Here's the "after" pic!




Sunday, November 23, 2008

Check out this beautiful little family! ;-)


Ryan, Maria, and Mary.
(for those of you who haven't read the comments.....No, Ryan doesn't have a lot of static electricity in his hair! lol Its just a flower arrangement BEHIND his head. Who knew?!! Lol)

Friday, November 21, 2008

Nothing new....


Riley enjoying a cupcake and having trouble with the frosting!


I love to bake now that I have people who will eat my baking, but Kyle is not much of a sweets eater. He mentioned one day that he likes "white" cupcakes, so I decided I would indulge him a little bit. This pic was taken after we grabbed them out of their piping hot pans, slathered frosting on them and then tried to eat them with frosting dripping everywhere. I thought our mouths were pretty funny. I must say, I made it work much better than he did! lol




I just wanted to share some cute pics of the snow princess! She wasn't in a very princessy mood though, so not the greatest pics, but still, the outfit is too cute not to share pics of!