For Lorelei

I know she's gonna love this one :)

I found some old pics today

And I just had to share

This was taken the night before my bff and I went of to college.... this was our group of friends... and it was such a sad sad night. It brings back alot of memories.... good and sad.



This is my sister and I, we were young,maybe 4 and 2... It was taken at Benson's Animal Farm on a solo trip with my Dad.... I love it... its one of my favorite childhood photos. Between the "backside" written on the back wall and my sister not being tall enough to actually fit into the frame, it just makes me laugh.



This was a pic of my girlfriends and I before heading out for Senior prom :) We all went stag, and yes I know my dress was super green but it was in 17 Magazine that year for being stylish, so plllllllllllll (that's a raspberry)


And lastly this is my 13th birthday. It was a suprise party with pizza (obviously since i'm stuffing my face with it) and all my friends and family :) Don't ya just dig my color change shirt and tight rolled pants? I sure do

Friday Photo - 3 Years of Christmas Photos

I am participating in Calli's (http://creatingmotherhood.com/) Photo Friday. This weeks theme is early or first Christmas photos. And so I share Rowan's first Santa Claus Experience. This was taken in 2006, she was 8 months old. I love her cute little bare feet and the fact that she was OBSESSED with santa's beard. I actually had to warn him when I plopped her in his lap, to watch out, because she was a puller and amazingly enough his beard was real.

Enjoy! :)



And Because I can't simply stop at one, here are three photos from Christmas morning in 2006.





And of course one from last year, 2007...... how fast they grow.



And lastly, One from a few days ago all dressed up in her Christmas dress for her concert at school.

Rowan's Christmas Pageant

Tonight was Rowan's Christmas Pageant and it was adorable! It was nice and short which is good because it was at 7pm, Rowan's bedtime. In fact she yawned a few times haha

Her big line in the play was "in the manger" which she was to say after Miss Sharon the music teacher asked her "But where will the baby sleep?" Of course the second the microphone was in front of Rowan's face she yelled "In the MANGER" as loud as possible and before Miss Sharon even finished "where" haha ahh well, at least she said her line.

Here is a slide show

This first video is where she says her line, if you listen closely, as soon as you hit play you'll hear Rowan yell "in the manger!!"

I had bad timing with turning the camera on and I missed a good part of it. Ahh well I tried :)


The line



The singing

Oh and just so we're clear on why he fell in love with me

Oh and just so we're clear on why he fell in love with me

Reason # 1 Why I love my Husband

When Barney and I met, we were in our mid 20's. And damn it we were both hot. As I noted earlier, I'm going through old photos today and uploading them to snapfish for safe keeping. I found a disc from 2004, which included all of these lucious photos of my hubby when he spent all his free time at the gym. I thought i'd create a slide show for all my girlfriends that like to drool over him (Elissa you know who you are)

And thus I fell in love ;)

Our Wedding - Flash backs

I have been on a huge cleaning/decluttering spree today and in that process I found the disc with our wedding photos on it. I immediately uploaded them all onto snapfish so that we'd have them saved somewhere if the disc was ever damaged.

I perused through them reminiscing about the ceremony and the trip.

For those that don't know, Barney and I were married in 2005 in Vegas. We'd both been married before and had both experienced a large wedding. We'd started planning a small potluck style wedding at his parent's house but before we knew it, we were looking into renting tents, chairs portable potties and a gazillion other things. It was supposed to be small and low key and had morphed into something huge.

So, after a frustrating lunch break spent researching rental prices, I finally brought up expedia and curiously checked out prices for a trip to vegas.

To my surprise it was cheaper than the "cheap" wedding we were trying to plan. One quick phone call to Boo and I was booking the trip.

It was a spur of the moment decision and within a month we were on the plane.

The only people we told were my parents and my sis. We were hoping my mother and sister would come along so at least someone was there... and they agreed. Actually we ended up booking the ceremony for January 27th, my mother's birthday. :)

We had it at the Las Vegas Garden of Love Wedding Chapel, which unfortunately doesn't look to be in business anymore. Sniffles.

Anyhow, the ceremony was short and sweet. We laughed alot... cried a bit... and then we kissed and headed off to the Stratosphere Tower to have dinner.

Along the way we also visited all the cool hot spots in town and took a bus tour over the the Hoover Dam.

Oh we announced the wedding by sending out post cards from Vegas to our family and friends :)