Things are wonderful!

I don't ever post much on here other than pictures.. I guess if I were to write something I would never know what to say exactly... so here it goes.
Things here are wonderful, Baylee is growing like a weed and all of her pants are getting too short for her, we are having to wear low riders, so that they will touch the top of her pants, I just can't bring myself to buy brand new ones when winter is close to being over! She measured 331/2 inches tall at her 2 year old doctor appointment, so now all of the 18 to 24 months are shrinking on a daily basis. She is learning new and exciting things, we go to the "Little gym" on Tuesdays and it is really a lot of fun for both of us, it gives us time together to play and be silly for a while. So far these are things she has mastered: a forward roll, swinging on the parallel bars, walking on the balance beam with a little help from mommy, and galloping around the big red mat. We worked on a sign yesterday for "up" and "down" and she now runs around the house yelling, "up" and "down!" Quite funny and cute!
She loves to copy Bryan and I in every aspect of life, I had a hard time getting her to brush her teeth and holding her down wasn't an option after the first couple of screaming fits, so I left it alone and one day last week she came to me with her tooth brush and said, "brush teeth momma!" and just grinned to show me her teeth, so now every morning and every night before bedtime we brush our teeth, we are so happy she picked up this good habit from us! Thank goodness! Some other pretty funny things are: she runs around the island in the kitchen yelling "going in circles, circles circles" we just laugh and chase her around... she now has the imagination movers cd in my car and doesn't hesitate to lean over and say "nope" when she doesn't like a song and wants to move to the next one, I never knew that a 2 year old was that picky about her music!! Wow, I am continuing to learn a lot from her! The other day, I was told when she woke up from her nap that she would like to see the "Big Truck" and I had absolutely no idea what she was talking about and we went downstairs and she ran to the front door screaming "big truck, big truck" and I was just baffled until I heard a truck noise and walked outside with her to see a large dump truck and tractor pulling up part of an old curb by the street, I guess she had seen them when we drove home, and I hadn't even noticed them, so we ventured out and watched them "scoop or "scup" as Baylee would say all the dirt up and toss it into the dump truck!
Bryan is good, just staying busy, Celebrations has finally moved into its new building and we are trying to get the new logo, signs and truck wraps ready, which should be exciting to finally be a completely new identity than the company they purchased 5 years ago, wow I can't believe it has been that long!
I am doing good, just trucking along, taking care of Bryan and Baylee, I said that one of my major resolutions was to get organized and I think I have finally done it, Bryan has his little file drawer with his color coded tabs of information and I have mine, it feels so good to have everything put in its proper place. I do have a slight problem with having things in the so-called proper place in fact some would say I have a little OCD but I can't help it, and "yes?" it does make for quite a challenge when dealing with Baylee's room and playroom, I find myself straightening out more than the average person, but overall we are all good, so ready for some warm weather and nice outside adventures! We hope to see everyone soon, take care and happy blogging!

Carousel Time

Baylee and Daddy at Columbiana Mall riding the Carousel!

This was her first time and she thought it was so great, she kept wanting to change horses every time around.

Baylee's 2 year old Birthday party!!

Leapin' Lizards party time!!

We had Baylee's 2nd birthday at Leapin' Lizards, it is this wonderful rubber place that has inflatables, puzzles, balls, dress up, play tents and any other kind of toy that you can think of for little ones and big ones!! Baylee loves coming here, she has been to a couple of parties here and visits on some Saturdays with Daddy for some playtime!! We brought in the cake and they did everything else, which to me is completly worth every penny! It was cold and rainy, which made for a perfect indoor party, I think everyone had a blast, they played for an hour and then had birthday cake and ice cream! I would imagine that everyone thrilled their parents by taking a nice nap when they arrived home! Baylee enjoyed being with her family and friends and got some wonderful gifts, we enjoyed it too, seeing her face light up and the thrill of it all! Happy Birthday baby girl, we love you!

Throwing the ball, her favorite thing!

Shannon and Christie

Shannon, Lynn, Christie and Merideth

Little Sophie Gray and her momma!

Bailey Strawhorn loves her ice cream!

Mommy, Baylee, Mimi and Grumpie

Showing Papa your balloons!

Uncle Jamie, Baylee and Aunt Jane

Cousin Lane

Everybody enjoying the cake and ice cream

Brogdon and Milling

Baylee, Sudo, Guncle and Grumpie

Blowing out the candle!

Maggie, Kyndal and Reagan , cousins

With her mommy and daddy!

Jack, Aunt Jane and Charles at the bug table!

Baylee's birthday cake!

Getting ready to sing!

Lynn and Milling Galloway

Playing with Reagin and William

I love Guncle!

Merideth and Bailey Strawhorn

Sophie, so cute!

Bouncing...

Here we go again...

Sliding down with Aunt Jane

Watching the triplets come down

Baylee and Gramie

She loves puzzles

Playing with the trains with Mimi

Happy Birthday sweet girl!

Baylee jumping in the big pool with Charles Pardee, this is by far her favorite thing at Leapin' Lizards!

'Tis the Season

Merry Christmas to all...

We started the Christmas season just right, we bought a big tree for our den, put up the new white tree that Bryan gave me for my birthday in our keeping room and worked very hard to make our garland stay up around our fireplace, thanks to my mom it stayed for the whole month, who knew that thumb tacks were so strong...

Bryan was so good to put up all the lights outside so that by Dec. 8th we could have our tree out front lit, like everyone else in our neighborhood. It was so nice to be reveling in the Christmas spirit, I was sort of contemplating how I would approach the Christmas cards this year, Baylee is not really the child to sit for ANY extended period of time for me to take her picture, so I decided to try and take some photos, if you scroll to the bottom you will see how we started off, but if you got our card this year, you will know that eventually after 20 or 30 shots we finally got the perfect one! Then... Bryan volunteered us for the Kinard family Christmas party, which was fine, I like to entertain, but you always have that "fear" of family coming over, "what will they say about your house" will they think its clean, pretty, or just fine!" But, needless to say, I worried for nothing and the party went off with a hitch, I will say that having 6 to 7 seven children in your house all at one time, will definitely make you rethink the number of offspring you decide to produce! But enjoy the photos, we did have a nice time and the chinese christmas always makes everyone laugh, our family does it every year and there is always a gift that no one can believe someone brought! (Sorry Jimmy but the sausage is always THAT gift!)

Baylee explaining Santa's reindeer route on Christmas Eve!
SScott opening his gift, not sure what it is..

Timmy and Gurnie checking out his gift!

Jan helping Lane open his presents...

Baylee loving her bath flutes, she may go to Juilliard on a bath flute scholarship

What!!! Another gift?

Talking with Uncle Jamie and cousin Alison

Thomas, Maggie, Gracie, Reagan and Kyndal

Everyone helping themselves, the food was amazing... we always have everyone bring one or two items, so, NO I didn't cook it all!

This is the picture that Baylee picked out for our card, if you received one, you know her vote was vetoed!

Holiday parties!! Merry Christmas y'all!!

Holiday Market "Mix and Mingle" Preview Party 2008

I must admit that this is one of the most fun events that the Junior League puts on every year, and maybe a teeny tiny part of why I joined, I love the Holiday Market and it is so much fun to prepare for. This year, Lynn and I helped to decorate before the preview party and it was so nice to walk in and feel like you pitched in. It is a black tie event and all proceeds are donated, it really is nice, this year the Sensational Epics played and the decorations were so beautiful!

We always pre party at Dianne's on Devine and we usually don't afterparty and its a good thing, because Baylee woke up in the middle of the night to do a little cartoon watching, but nevertheless hope you enjoy the pics!

Getting ready to go...

Mommy and Daddy

Baylee and Mommy

Bryan and his little girl!

Lynn, Rachel and me

Clint and Bryan "silly boys!"

Cyndi and Me

Bryan and Ken

The Vervettes!

Me and Stephanie

Cyndi and her girlfriends

The Long's annual Christmas Bash 2008

Yes... it is that time of year again, where everyone that works for Long's Drugs, Long Term Care and well just anyone who celebrates that company comes out to the annual end of year stress reliever at the Marriott, and every year to our amazement some hilarious event occurs that we all talk about for the next year and can't wait to see what happens at the next party! I swear this party just takes the cake for blowouts! We always have so much fun here, this year they had Tokyo Joe play and the food was amazing and yes... I did have a martini from the frozen ice block, so cool! Anyway, I won't go on and bore you with the details, but I will say that my flash on my camera worked a little too well and yes,. I do actually go outside during the year and no... I am not as pasty as the photos show, so keep that in mind and I won't care if you look at the pics!

Merry Christmas y'all!

The Christie's or Christi's

Me and Bryan

Beverly and me

The Roofs, Lee and his wife

Me and our favorite babysitter, Miss Whitney

Ken, Beverly, Bryan and David

Bryan and Lee

Me and Tanya Roof