Annie's First love Interest

This is little Caleb, One of the little boys I babysit.

How cute is that, they are holding hands.

Pumpkin Pickin'

Second step: Pick the right one up!!

First step: Kick the pumpkins

This was so much fun, muddy but fun.

Pretty in Pink

Okay, so who doesn't love a girl in pink? I just loved little Annie's Halloween's outfit.

Already learning to point her toes!!!

Little Ross was Johnny Cash but I am still waiting for Ross to upload those pictures.

This was the night of Trunk of Treat at my church.

Happy to You Rossi, Take two

This was Ross' family Birthday party. It was so much fun, I just love being with my family. It is so nice that they live close enough to enjoy these moments with him. I am so happy that he is able to have the same memories that I had growing up. I think big Ross is starting to see that it is nice to have family close by.


Okay this was one of my proudest moments, I made a firetruck cake that actually looked like one. Opening the presents always a favorite.

Rossi with Andrew and A.C. (Cousins)

He was so excited about his cake.

However, when everyone started to sing to him, he covered his face.

These are just a few of Ross' cousin, they are all from my side of the family.

A.C., Brianna, Josie(holding Harley), Andrew, Rossi and Kyra.

Its been awhile

On this day I decided to let the boys play in the leaves. However, we do not have any trees that lose a lot of leaves. So, I decided that I would do a service project and do my neighbors. However, I think she probably thought I was crazy. I just started to rake her leaves, hind sight, I probably should have asked first. Anyway, the boys had a blast and I got a chance to meet my neighbor across the street. By the way she was okay with it.

Little Ross being a dog, again. We had to put his water and cereal in a dish .

Yeah, Annie fond her toes!!!

This is fun stuff that Rossi got from Ben's Birthday party.

This picture cracks me up. I told Ross to keep the Red Eyes because that is what makes the picture.

Baxter, the giant

This is what I saw when I looked up from the kitchen window. Yes, that is our patio table.


He is becoming such a BIG part of our family.

Happy to You, Rossi

To explain the title of the blog. When ever Rossi sings the Happy Birthday song, he says Happy to You, so I thought that title was perfect. This little party was thrown together in about four days, since we were on a road trip for two weeks. I just didn't want his day to go unnoticed.



The two boys that I babysit which are his little buddies. Shooting silly string across the living room. Every boy got a turn and thought it was a riot.

The M&M Diego cake, his big cake is going to be a fire truck for the family birthday.
Daddy picked out the best present, a dinosaur that walks and roars.
We had so much fun decorating the night before, we even decorated ourselves.

Decorating their own cupcakes. They all did such a good job.
Ross' friend Thad from church.
His other friend from church, Ben.
It was crazy with five boys and two babies but it was a blast. Thank goodness Jenneen and Delinda stayed. Ross also had the day off so it was perfect.

Litte feather

Here is the story of our little feather. This feather got stuck to our van while we were at the Smith's. They jokingly asked us how long we were planing on keeping it on the van. We said until it fell off. Well this little Feather was quite a trooper. It held on all the way to New Mexico at speeds of 80 MPH. It held on the whole time we were in New Mexico. However, the little Engine that could did not make it back to OHIO. We lost it somewhere in Oklahoma.

Last stop, New Mexico

This is Ross' sister's house. It is an adorable little Adobe.

Here Ross and Boone are fixing Unlce Jake's bike. Baby Levi enjoying the fish at the aquarium.

The boys building with "Lincoln Logs" It was cute until Emily warned me of Black Widows and Scorpions in the wood pile.

Annie just being Annie.
At the Aquarium. Boone and Little Ross jumped right into this water feature. It was cute but probably not appreciated by others.
How much do these two look alike?

More "Lincoln Log pictures"

Aunt Emily with Annie.





At the lake, Big Ross and Uncle Jake Kayaked up the Rio Grand from this lake. I was so jealous.

I just love taking pictures of Annie. She makes it so easy.