happy new years

meme

i got meme'd by karen (the big trade off) and beth (from her majesty's throne) The Personal Soundtrack Meme 1. First Song you remember hearing on the radio as a child. Oh yeah, it was by Ricky Skaggs, Honey, Honey, Honey won't you open that door . this is your sweet daddy don't you love me no more? Honey won't you open that door. I think that this is proof that I was raised in Oklahoma. 2. First Album you remember listening to as a Child. Like a Virgin - Madonna It was in my cousin Lisa's red toyota and we would sing it at the top of our lungs from Norman to OKC. 3.Album that takes you back to junior high. um....that song that says, I like big butts and I cannot lie, no other brother can deny when a girl walks in with a itty-bitty waist and a round thing in your face you get sprung. yeah, didn't know what 'sprung' meant back then. :) 4.Most Played Album in High School. there were a couple. Counting Crows August and Everything Everafter. or Alanis Jagged little Pill or Dixie Chicks Wide Open Spaces 5. Favorite Album in College probably Bare Naked Ladies Maroon or Dixie Chicks 6. Best Relationship Angst Album I'm with Karen here, definatly Jagged Little Pill. it rocks. Head over Feet was in our wedding CD mix. 7.Personal Soundtrack today george straight, dixie chicks, jennifer knapp (this is my house cleaning music) 8. Song that reminds you of what it was like to be cool probably anything mariah carey. yeah, me and amanda used to ROCK OUT to her on the way to PCN 9. Favorite Albums to Roadtrip with Anything by the Dixie Chicks, my friend KC Clifford, Neil Diamond, George Straight. Maybe Toby Keith for laughs. or DMX for laughs. 10. So if this is your personal soundtrack what's the plot of the movie in 50 words or less? um, a girl who likes country music and married a man who can't stand it still likes to listen to her old school music?? who do i want to do this meme? 1. bilbrey 2. jamie 3. ashli 4. insert yourself here

santa was good, but i'm glad he's gone

ok, so karen, you were right. santa was very good to my spoiled brats. not only did oliver recieve cranky (from my mom). but santa brought him...drumroll please....the coveted ROUNDHOUSE. but, to make sure that my holiday was far from perfect, oliver discovered it HIDDEN under stuff in the garage a few days before. so i had to make up some dumb*** story about how santa's sleigh was really full and he had to drop it off early. then, to really top things off I FORGOT CHARLIE! oh yeah, mother of the year, here i come! oliver runs in christmas morning to see what santa brought, and he goes, ' oh, no. santa didn't bring charlie anything. she must be a really naughty girl'. yeah. good move mom. so then came another dumb*** story about how he left it on the front porch for her. i am officially Retarded. nice huh? so, that was our christmas in a nutshell. the kids got ridiculous amounts of toys and oliver is in heaven with all the new thomas train paraphanalia.

'Happy Holidays'

Merry Christmas to you and yours...Love to you all!

smarty pants

ok, so my son is really really loud. so, generally, when he starts to yell about something i just tune him out. this morning (like 2 minutes ago) he apparently hurt himself and just started yelling. nick says, hey, please stop screaming. oliver says back " what? do i have to yell at you to make sure you hear me?" i had to leave the room because i was laughing so hard. i'll tell you what. my son has some kind of mouth on him. i wonder where he gets that??

brusha brusha brusha

i just had to post this picture because it was sooo cute. this is what she does every day when i am getting ready. she sits in the sink while i dry my hair and put my makeup on (when i can actually be bothered to do that.) it's so much fun to have a girl to do 'girlie' things with!!

the new love of my life

Here they are...the newest members of our family! they make my life complete and oh so much easier. let me say that the most amazing thing about them (so far) is the amazingly HUGE loads of laundry that they do. also, the dryer automatically stops when it senses that your clothes are dry. it's the most exciting thing in my life so far. yeah me!!

Oh, Christmas Tree

Christmas Tree Exhibit 1

Oliver's Addition to the tree....what do you think santa is saying??

For Karen

Ok, totally never do this. this is just for Karen...Apparently I've been tagged by Karen to participate in a meme. It's my understanding that the word is pronounced "meem", not "me-me", "mehm", or even "meh-may". Seven things I hope to do before I die: 1. Go to NYC and Vegas 2. Take my children where ever they want to go 3. Go somewhere exotic and hot 4. read all the 'classic' books 5. run a marathon 6. make a quilt 7. Watch my children grow into understanding, honest, loving adults. Seven things I cannot do: 1. sew 2. cook very well 3. be obsessive about cleaning my house 4. sing 5. dance very well 6. sleep in on a daily basis 7. be a creative thinker Seven things that attract me to my spouse: 1. great dad. just great 2. he is compassionate, and loves all people, would do anything for anyone 3. so cute when he smiles and the lines around his eyes crinkle up. 4. he is in love with his daughter (and son) 5. he is a great dancer 6. he is occasionally funny. i mean, like peeing your pants funny 7. he is still with me, though i probably don't deserve it. Seven things I say often: 1. WHAT ARE YOU DOING OLIVER????????? 2. angel baby charlie girl... 3. are you kidding me?? 4. i am sooooo sorry about last night. (in many different contexts...) 5. some cuss words.... 6. No, Oliver, not right now. 7. answer the phone somebody!!! Seven books or book series I love: 1.The Anne of Green Gables Series 2. The Harry Potter Series 3. Abram's Daughters Series 4. anything by Kevin Henke (children) 5. The Devil Wears Prada (and other chick lit books) 6. The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit 7. James Patterson books...i know, i know Seven movies I could watch over and over again: 1. My Best Friends Wedding 2. Legally Blond 1 and 2 3. Mona Lisa Smile 4. Anything Harry Potter 5. Anything with Hugh Grant 6. The Cutting Edge 7. Father of the Bride 1 and 2 Seven people I want to join me in this Seven Sevens meme: 1. Jamie- keith family news 2. ashli - gr8scotts 3. kristen-micah mccarty 4. amanda panda 5. greg cause i know he never would... 6. nick 7. Insert yourself here. If you want to participate leave your link in the comments section and I would love to visit your blog and read it. Tag! You're it!

An idea I stole from Karen...heehee

OK, so Karen does this thing where every week she talks about her favorite kid product. Well, I am officially going to steal her idea. First up this week... The new Sippy Cup from Gerber. They are called a 'transition cup', but they are AWESOME.

The handles on the cup move around to different positions, so that however baby wants to hold it, they can. It can be kind of difficult for a baby to get the last of the sippy cup when the handles are on the side, but when they are in the front, it is an entirely different story! AWESOME CUP!!

fun in the snow and a beautiful girl

do not look here

if you don't want to see the cutest baby in the universe....CHARLIE - GIRL!!!! She's wearing a bow!!!!!!!!

exciting, exciting, exciting

we got a washer and dryer!!! hooray for us!!! also found the cable so here are some pictures!!!! lily is the little girl, anna is the big girl and oliver is the only boy..

Thanksgiving

We are back in the real world. The world of having your own computer!! HOORAY! Thanks to bob and allie for the hook-up. I wish you many dirty, messy children...!! Thanksgiving...well, it was the normal hecticness that comes with a Thanksgiving dinner for 20 people. Kids and chaos. They go well together. Ashli, Chris, Anna and Lily were here for the long weekend. We had a great time with them! It was so good to see my girls! Ashli and I enjoyed a 13 hour shopping marathon on Friday. It was AWESOME. I'm glad I didn't know about the Hannah Anderson outlet before now. I would be in serious trouble with mr. swanson if that was the case! I'll post some pictures soon of the girls and my boy and girl. I've got to find the thing that connects the camera to the computer soon....

I am really a parent now- yikes!

Ok, so today was Oliver's Parent-Teacher conference at Preschool. I have been panicking about it for 3 days. I was worried about EVERYTHING. I could just imagine that they were going to tell me that he's a horror, has ADD and is obsessive compulsive. Well, it wasn't that bad. They did say that he is 'talkative' (duh) and 'persistent' (duh again). I think that was nice teacher speak for annoying as hell!!! Anyone who has ever talked to me on the phone can attest to the fact that Oliver has to tell me AT LEAST 35 times that he needs juice. or applesauce. or needs to poop. What a life. Oliver spent the time with his new friend Chloe at Chick-fil-a. Melanie is a braver woman than I am. It was SUBURBIA central. All the cute, put together mom's with their louis vuitton diaper bags having fried stuff. BARF BARF BARF. I'd like to take the time right now to introduce you to my cousin Karen's Blog. http://thebigtradeoff.blogspot.com/ Take the time, read it. It's really freakin funny. I aspire to be more like her in my blogging, but I just don't have the brain power!! Happy Thursday!

long absence

Ok. so it has been a really long time since i posted. ridiculous i know. halloween was great- oliver was spiderman and charlie was a chicken. oliver was sooo excited about trick or treating, he kept saying ' you mean i just go up to the house and they'll give me candy?' it was so funny and sweet! charlie stayed at home with nick crying to hand out candy to trick or treaters. she hated the hood on her costume. oliver and i drove over to my mom's house after we were done in our neighborhood, and he asked me ' what comes after halloween' i told him thanksgiving, and he asked ' now, who is going to thanksgive us?' it was hilarious b/c i had been telling him who all was coming to our house for thanksgiving (ashli, chris and girls), and he was soo excited! Another funny Oliver story is that he must be taking cues from sam (his cousin) and he told his babysitter a few months ago that his name is Oliver 'Cool' Swanson, not Oliver Cole Swanson. Pretty funny boy. In preschool he has a friend named Chloe, he came home last tuesday kind of upset and when i asked him why he said that it was because Chloe had cut her hair, ' and i just don't like it, i liked it better when it was long'. i thought that was funny that he is 3 and has an opinion about this! new with charlie, she is crawling everywhere and pulling up on everything, and she can stand for 5 seconds by herself without holding onto anything!! she can also say BYE BYE. and BABY. Very sweet (although those two sound kind of similar.) i'll leave you w/ some halloween pictures of spiderman and the baby chickie.

snow, the house, and nick

Well, FINALLY here are some pictures of the snow we had sunday/ monday. Here in Highlands Ranch we got about 5 or 6 inches. Oliver had a blast. Even Charlie thought it was interesting. I am posting some pics of our house. REMEMBER that it is in progress. still stuff in oklahoma and on the way from england. Every piece of furniture in there is from a garage sale or from a thrift store. I'm pretty impressed with myself. :) Nick is in oklahoma this weekend picking up some of our stuff that is there. If you want to see him, go to Galileo's tomorrow night around 5pm. Sad I am not there with him.

no computer

we have no computer at our new house, so i have to go to my mom's to use it! here are some recent pics

head scratching and moving

here is a pic of our charlie doing what she does all the time. scratching her head. since we moved to denver she has had really dry skin. so does everybody else, but it's kind of funny (and a little sad) to see a baby scratching her head. funny. we're moving on saturday! we got the keys last night, so i guess i'll go and clean today and tomorrow! can't wait! i'll post pics as soon as i take some!

Moving in a Week

Hooray! I am so excited to be moving into our own house! It is really time for that. Oliver keeps saying he doesn't want to move, but i think it's because he thinks he'll be moving away from Denver. He doesn't quite understand that we'll just be 10 minutes away from Mimi and Pops. The house is quite nice that we're moving to, it's 3 bedrooms and 2 baths, with 2 living areas and an AWESOME view of the mountians from our deck. Re-church: We have tried 1 church so far while we've been here. I don't know when we'll try another one. who knows?? but, i'll give reports of the ones we've tried, it should be amusing at least. our friends chris and ashli are going to the coldplay concert tonight in Dallas. You are braver than I am, but I hope you have a great time. get some close up pics of Chris Martin for me. He's a hottie!!!!!!

ear infections rule!

This is a picture of Charlie and her cousin Breklinn, they are 3 days apart. Charlie is older. I took the charlie girl to the dr today for her 6 month check up. She weighs in at a whopping 14.8lbs and is 25 5/8 inches long. They were cracking up at her doing the 'sit ups'. When you lay Charlie down flat she lifts her head and feet at the same time like she is doing crunches. hilarious. Also found out she has ANOTHER double ear infection. That is not a good sign! She just had one a month ago. Poor Kid. Oliver got a shot today (the flu shot) and he didn't even cry. He was really proud of himself and so was I ! Hopefully the flu shot will work (he's never had it before). Charlotte will go in 2 weeks for hers. Well, I'm off to work, gotta go get the antibiotics first though!

Cheeky

Here I am at blogspot. We'll see how it goes. Here is a new picture of Charlie-girl. she had just finished a cracker. LOVE the cheeks.