Two years ago today...

Ava Rose was born! I can't believe my Boo is two years old! Where did the time go? She is developing such a personality. And a temper too. But we'll only think about the good stuff on her birthday, right? Yesterday, we stopped at a Toys R Us and let her wander the store alittle, trying to see what would catch her eye. Pretty much ANYTHING. We let her pick out a Dora purse/bag with comb, brush, hair clips, a hair dryer (she's not much a fan of the hair dryer though) and a few other accessories. She also chose a couple small cars (Ava's got a thing for cars right now), fridge magnets, a Crayola crayon piggy bank and some wooden blocks. I have no idea what to tell family to get her! I sent cupcakes to daycare, and she got her favorite dinner today, McDonalds.

Well, here are a few of my favorite flash back pictures!

Happy birthday Boo!!!!

Pictures from Caseville!

We spent last weekend up in Caseville and we'll be heading up to Lexington this weekend. The girls are all about the beach.

Until I figure out the slide show below....I've add a couple pics of my beach babes. :)

I'm going to try and add a slide show in from Photobucket. Not sure if I'm smart enough to do it though! I think I may need a tutorial!

A couple of quick pics of the tree struck by lightening

It's quite a large tree, so hopefully, it won't have to be cut down.

And a close up....

maria

FINALLY!

Seems like forever since I was able to get on here and post! 3 long weeks with out a computer at home and my brother's computer friend (Todd) saved the day. Not only did he rebuild my computer (new hard drive and graphics card) he reloaded it with Windows XP professional, Office, a virus program AND, AND, he recovered ALL of my pictures!!!! I love that man.

Here's a few new ones. Love these smiles. Love these bright eyes.

It also seems like I just said this, but Ava is sick again. Another virus according to a probably very expensive urgent care visit. Poor boo had a temperature over 104 at daycare. My little thumbsucker picks up every germ imaginable at daycare with that little thumb.

Also, freak out moment of the month, one of the large trees in our yard was struck by lightening Saturday night. 3 AM. It was one of the loudest "crack" sounds you can imagine. John didn't find the spot until the next day. Very freaky. Thank God that tree is a good 75 feet from our house. I'll load some pics tomorrow.

Well, I'm off to bed soon. We have "strike team training" tomorrow morning. No idea what it entails, but the title probably makes it sound more important than it really is.

Maria

crashing computers!

My worst computer fear - unable to boot up and my precious pics of my girls aren't fully backed up! Four and a half years worth. I could have cried on Tuesday when I found my PC with a horrid blue screen with error messages. John attempted a patch, but really no luck. So we got in "safe mode" and plugged in our brand new back up harddrive and I started copying the files. Sure does take a looooooooong time in safe mode. Besides our "graphics card" problem we now know we have, there is something else wrong with our hardware, as for no apparent reason, it gets 'stuck' copying certain photos. No reason why, the pics are no different than any other. I've been working around it by stopping, skipping and copying the remainder of the respective folders, but that makes a slow process even slower.

Wish me luck, I've got another year or so of pics to copy before we get a friend to attempt to fix it.

On a side note, after shopping at Best Buy for the harddrive, I am in LOVE with the idea of a shiny, new lap top. John is drooling over a huge monitor for either this computer or a new one. We'll have to see if we can both get what we want.

Since we are temporarily computer-less at home, I won't be on for a while. Sure does feel WIERD to not have a computer at home. If I want to look up a phone number, I actually have to find a phone book. Haven't done that in years.

maria

well, its our turn for the stomach flu.

I've heard the stomach flu was going around, and it certainly found us. blech. Both girls have had temperatures and each has had varying stomach ills. Nooooooo fun. We are supposed to head up to Lexington tomorrow, but we'll see if they both are feeling better. No sense and sharing the germ with the rest of the family.

The other night, Alexa gave us a dose of our own medicine. We were driving back from Gigi and Papa Tom's and Alexa kept saying "well, I want to ....." "well, I have to watch those cartoons..." "well..." So, we were repeating her. First we get the standard "Stop laughing. That's not funny!" Which made us laugh harder. Then she said "Don't even think about it!" Huh, wonder were she heard that from??? ;)

Welp, here are some pics of my chicklets on healthier days...

Isn't this past my bedtime?

10:50 PM. John and I have a softball game. yes, really, 10:50 or later if the games before us are backed up. Oy. I'm normally in bed before 11:00. Every week game time rotates, so thankfully, we only have one 10:50 game, and a couple 9:40 games. My dad is coming to watch the girls, and will stay the night.

Nothing like a meeting first thing in the morning to force me to be on-time and one right after lunch! I'm going to need some serious caffiene tonight and tomorrow.