An oldie but goodie

This post just made me laugh.. I just had to share it again...

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Will update soon with Ashton's birthday!

10 Years Ago today....

I was holding the most beautiful human in the world! I was in such awe and amazement. Lonnie and I were on top of the world! It was also the day that "made" me a Mother and Lonnie a Father, together a FAMILY!

Born on her Father's 25th birthday, Raegan Ivey was born, not with out a little hitch, at 1:35 AM December 31, 1999 weighing a light 7lbs 2 oz, 20 inches. No, she wasn't very big but she sure did end the Millennium BIG!!! It was the MOST amazing experience of my life, becoming a Mother, my life changing in and instance! There hasn't been ONE dull moment with her in my life!

I love her so much. She totally gets my humor ( as if this is about me, but..)

She is kind, sweet, funny, ornery, creative, friendly, athletic, artistic, beautiful, helpful.. the list could go on and on! I have so many adjectives that would describe my first born.

As you can see by her baby photos she had black hair when she was born.. it all fell out and came back blond and her eyes never changed. I love it that she is unique in that way to our family.

Our fist picture together...(well the ones that developed)

Here is is about 2 months old.. Her eyes were sooo dark blue!

So much has happened in 10 years.. it has been such excitement watching watching her grow through the years and discovering life living!

I love being her Mother!

Thank you Raegan for being my daughter. I am glad your spirit choose me!

I LOVE YOU!!

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Sydney's debut performance!

Here it is, our daughter Sydney singing in front of an audience of about 475 students and hundreds of parents. I know this doesn't seem like a "big" deal to you, but you have to understand a little something about Sydney.. She was the baby you could never ever ever ever put down.. she was literally glued to my hip all of the time until she was about 3 and we had to start weaning her off!!( I had two more little boys to take that place!) Sydney is shy and quiet. Most of the time she doesn't speak her mind(brothers and sis do not count).

Sydney has seen Raegan do a few little performances at the annual talent show and decided she was just going to sing all by herself!! Raegan of course has always had an entourage of friends to do it with, she would never dare do one alone.. and of course that is what I thought about Sydney.. boy I am learning to NOT under estimate my children's abilities.

I think for a seven year old who has NEVER sang, besides in the car or at home with me etc.. She also had to learn to sing with just music and no words.... SHE DID A GREAT GOB!!!!

My nerves got the best of me waiting because she was like number 65 out of 70 performances!!

Well here it is and I hope you enjoy it!!

O' Christmas Tree!

Last year Lonnie and I started a new tradition.. pick out a fresh real tree for our home! It was quite a disaster last year.. I did not know you needed to water it at least twice a day, so it died two weeks before Christmas. It was a mess! I had to shopvac all day long..

This year we waited until two weeks before Christmas and went to Longbranch Christmas Tree Ranch. It was a whopping ZERO degrees that day, so.. it took us 5.5 seconds to pick out our perfect tree! At first we thought we would get a pine, but then we saw the Frasier Fir's they import in from Wisconsin. The needles are thick and soft!

As they were preparing our tree for the journey... we warmed up in the barn by the wood burning stove and some hot apple cider!

They had tons of ornaments and decorations. We all picked out our new ornaments for the year!

Nathan freezing and not wanting the sun in his eyes!

Even though it was freeeeeeeeezing, the kids had a good time at the ranch!

Mine and Lonnie's ornament(reindeer)

My ornament from a Christmas party.



Raegan's ornament.. what sophisticated taste!!

Sydney's ornament... again... with the sophistication!





Ashton's Sleigh ornament. He was the very last one to choose his. Too many options!



Nathan's ornament! all so whimsical! Just like him!








This is also a new ornament to our tree this year.. IT was a gift from a good friend of mine. She said this is Perfect for your tree!! Hmm I wonder why?





And here is the tree at home! Yes it may not be the "perfect" tree with all the ribbons, bows and glass bulbs etc.. but it is our tree that we are building memories with each every year. Each year we add a new ornament from each of us..... it will be chock full of memories and happiness!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

PS... getting pics on blogger is soooo aggravating! part reason why I have not blogged in a long long time!

What's Bugged me this week!!!!???

Tori, since you asked... I was going to say it anyway... !!


This week was Sydney's 7th Birthday! Yay! for her. You can read all about our birth experience with her here.

We planned the party to be at the neighborhood pool on Thursday, they day before her birthday. How could the weather go wrong in the middle of JULY???!! Only in the two hrs that you have a party planned! yep, that's right! It was cloudy and even lightly rained a little! The girls were freezing! Overall, they had a good time!

Rewind a few days.. I had decided to make Sydney's birthday cake instead of opting for the cheap Costco cake. Yes, it does seem reasonable that a homemade birthday cake would be less expensive. My plan was to make a "beach ocean" cake. It looks like the beach and the ocean. In order to pull off the theme of this cake, it required I get decorations. Me and all the kids, plus another (that's 5 total) head to downtown Lenexa to a little cake decorating shop. This place is amazing! They have all sorts of cookie cutters, cake pans, every decoration imaginable! We walk in and I see no one! I continue to look around for what I need and all of a sudden I hear ( like a parrot I must say) "TOUCH WITH YOUR EYES, TOUCH WITH YOUR EYES!"


I am thinking my kids are crushing something.. NO they simply were touching a bag with little "made in China" cake decorations. This lady must have said "TOUCH WITH YOUR EYES" at least 30 times while we were in there. I guess she expected the kids to stand there like a frozen statue! And... seriously the only breakable thing I saw in the entire store was the sugar decorations and they were behind the counter on the wall!!!


It finally pushed me over the edge when Ashton (of course it had to be him) put his fingers on the check out counter to sort of lift himself up to see. She said to him "TOUCH WITH YOUR EYES".. I lost it a little! I said to her.. "look I have to come in and get these decorations at this time with all of my kids because you are closed after my husband gets home, so if you want my business, NOW is the time!" Handed her my debit card. "And I can't believe I just purchased $13 in decorations!!" Especially with the attitude she gave me and all my kids.. and not ONCE did she smile!


It is unbelievable to me that a small business owner would treat her customers with that attitude.. I wanted to tell her "seriously, do you think they are going to break something?" And nothing was that expensive (except the sugar decor. behind the counter). As amazing that this little shop is, I will be thinking twice about where I take my business!! RUDE RUDE RUDE!

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2nd encounter with RUDENESS!

Yesterday, Lonnie said he was in the mood for a really good cheeseburger. Around here there are not too many places, in my opinion, where you can get a really good ole' diner tasting cheeseburger! Back in the day, we lived on the Mo. side and by our house and by the Chiro school was a place called Max's Auto diner. Awesome! So, we decided to trek over across town and go to Max's. (plus it is next door to a favorite thrift store of mine).



We get there, the first person to order is Raegan.. Bacon Cheeseburger with must. only! I order for the rest of us... to my amazement for the 6 of us it was $54!! (sucks)


We get our order and Raegan's does not have Bacon on it! I take it back in and tell them they forgot the bacon.. the little "punk" who took my order said... in a HYPER defensive way.."you didn't order bacon for that one, cheeseburger must. only!" I said " No it was the first one ordered and she stood right her and said bacon, I watched you ring it up with bacon, you charged me for the bacon" He stood there and did nothing! Then the manager/owner comes over and wants to know what is going on.. I say " I just want some bacon on my burger!"


The punk continues to have "attitude" with me! He walks in the back and tells the manager that "that lady did NOT order bacon" . Then the manager looks to me and says,, "if you order bacon, we put bacon on it." I said, "yea, I DID order bacon and he didn't write it down, and I watched him charge me for it"


So He practically throws my burger back at me! I say to the entire place.. "I didn't drive ten miles to come here to get this kind of attitude from all of you! You are RUDE!"


It wasn't really about the bacon, it was the fact that he was soooo "right" about how the order was and no matter what I said he wasn't going to give me bacon, even if I paid for it. Plus, he didn't even know if the carrot cake was homemade! Dumb ass, little punk!



I have had my fill of soon to be twenty something adults this summer!



I have made up my mind, that I am not going to let people get by with the way they behave or their attitudes! I am going to say something.. I'm not going to take it.. especially if I am spending my money in their business!



Another thing, is it is amazing to me that some adults are still "bossy". Especially to people that they consider to be their friend! Do they not get it? Micro managing your friends is not a good way to keep them!





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The cake was adorable!