Addie's Bow Holder!

I finally did it!! After seeing something similar to this about a year ago, I finally made one for Addie! I'm not sure why it took me so long.. It was a super easy project. Well, here it is :)

It's not really being held up by that tiny tac.. I hung up the picture frame the normal way :)

Yay for easy crafts!

New Years Resolutions!

*What I'd like to accomplish by December 2011*

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1. Workout: I would love to get a gym membership with my sister and take some sort of workout class 3-4 times a week. I'd also like to run every morning when the weather starts getting better.

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2. Church: I really want to get involved in our church again. It's been a long time since we've gone to church regularly and I would love for Loren & I to start being closer to God together. Even if I'm worrying about the babies the whole time because they're in the daycare. (putting the kids in a daycare causes me stress)

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3. Job: I want Loren to have the job he wants and I want him to enjoy it! Every thing's going to be up in the air until he gets a good job. He's applied for the police department and the sheriff's department here and I really don't see why he wouldn't have a job with one of them.. He's a vet which is going to help a whole lot. And I would love it if he can have a good enough job so that I don't have to work and I can stay home with the babies. I love that I've been able to do that with the military and I'd like to continue :) I'm spoiled like that..

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4. Home: It would be AWESOME if we got the chance to buy a house! Loren & I want to live on the out skirts of town and have some property. We've always talked about finding & buying a house young and it being the house we always live in.. It'll be the house our kids grow up in and come home to after they move out :) We want our first house to be our 'home'.

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5. Photography: So Rachel text me the other day and wanted to set up a day were I took her family photos. I was soo excited! I would love to try to get into doing photography on the side. This year I want to learn how to really use my camera and to get good at it. This is also a goal of my sister's and it's something we want to do together. I just need her to buy her own camera so she doesn't have to use mine all the time ;)

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6. Car: So over 2 years ago Loren & I traded both our vehicles in for our Tacoma. It's was great while he was in the military because we only needed 1 car and it was a truck but the cab was like a car (good for family and hauling stuff). But now that he's done with the military, I'd like to have my own car now please! I'm sick of driving big vehicles.. I want a car or maybe something a tiny bit bigger.. But nothing as big as a van or truck. Anyways, the plan is to get me one after he gets a job!

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7. Me: I've spent the past 3 years (3 years in March) being pregnant, post pregnant, pale with bad hair, bad skin and bad nails.. So this year I'm going to get fit, eat better, go tanning!, get hair cuts/color done regularly, start getting my nails done, and wearing clothes that are cute and not just my comfortable clothes!

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Wish us luck!!

Nater's First Christmas

Merry Christmas!

This Christmas was really nice. We woke up and Jen & I took the babies to Grandma Vonna's! Grandma Veda, Aunt Dorothy, Mel, Trent, Stefo, and Gregg & his family were there to open gifts and have coffee :). The kids got a lot of nice gifts and Melissa & I got duck sweaters, crock pots and a really awesome cook book :).

After Vonna's we came back home and had breakfast (at lunch time) with my family and Ryan & Andi. Then it took Ryan, Andi, the twins, Jenny & I about 45 minutes to put together the kitchen set that Addie got from her uncle Josh..lol. After that fiasco we opened our gifts and spent the day eating and hanging out.

The only thing that could have made Christmas better is if Loren was here! I really miss him and I can't wait to be a normal family again!

Other then that, this Christmas was a success! Christmas is just going to get more and more fun as the kids get older :)

Only One More Week!

Ughh I miss my husband! I'm so so sick of waiting for him to finally be done in 29 Palms and COME home. These last couple months have been draggggging on.. I just have to hang in there for one more week! Unless they do what they did last time we only had a week left and make us wait another 3 weeks...

Just 1 more week!!

Addison Turns Two!

It's official! My baby girl is not a baby anymore. She's a big 2 year old!

I made her cupcakes for her birthday (and went a little nuts with the frosting) and we had some gifts for her but we're not going to have her birthday party until Loren comes home :) So until then, here are some pictures!!

Her pony from Grandma!
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The only crappy thing is that I had my ISO setting wrong and didn't know it until after I put all her pictures on the computer so some of these pictures turned out grainy :( Wahh

I love you my big girl! Hope you had a great 2nd berffday! ;)