Colorado Weekend

Carter and I were able to visit my family in Colorado this past weekend. My soon to be Sister was having her bridal shower, and my bridemaids dress arrived, and Ann's mom offerd to do our alterations, so I needed to get fitted. Our flight out there was a full flight, and I was a little nervous as to how Carter would handle it. Thankfully I sat next to a very nice college student who didn't mind the noise Carter makes when he is falling asleep(you all know what I mean). On our way into Denver, I was able to stop in Byers to see my cousin Sjana who just had her first baby boy in January, Samuel Dean Shelley. It was great to get to see my cousin and aunt, and just to meet the new addition to our family. He did make Carter look somewhat like a spaz, because he is just calm and quiet, and Carter is a loud wiggle worm.
Once into Denver, I just hung out with my family until it was time for my date. I took my Dad out for a belated birthday present. We got all dressed up and went to a very yummy restaurant named Carabas. It was good to get to spend one on one quality time with my Daddy. I miss him so much, so I took my time keeping him to myself. While we were out, My brothers and the ladies kept Carter. They said he did well, so I was happy he cooperated with them.
Satruday morning I was fitted for my dress and discoverd that it was about a size to big.so I was happy that it needed to be taken in and not let out! Then we got ready for Ann's bridal shower. It took about 2 1/2 hours to set up, and about 5 hours to complete. By far the longest shower I have ever been too. It was a lot of fun to get to see Ann's friends, and meet all the girls who are in her wedding as well. I mostly sat back and observed everything, and took care of Carter, but I had a lot of fun. I can't wait until I get a wonderful woman as my sister. Chris is a very lucky man, and so is Ann.
Sunday morning we all went out to brunch before my Dad took us to the airport. I haven't been able to eat with the whole family in a while, and I miss our fun times. I was sad to say goodbye, but reminded myself that I will be seeing them again in 6 weeks for the wedding. I can't wait. While on the plane, we were delayed for about 15 minuets. Some fuel was put in the wrong part and in the wrong amount, so they had to transfer some fuel, then check the gauges. Luckily Carter pooped before we took off durring the delay, so I didn't have to disturb anyone by changing a stinky diaper. After that, Carter started to chew on my thumb, and I noticed something sharp, and felt his gums. His first tooth and broken the skin. His bottom left tooth is in!! YAY!! I couldn't wait another hour and a half to tell Terrance so I had to call him!! The woman sitting next to me just laughed at my excitment. But now he is feverish, and fussy as the other one pokes through. I can't believe how time flies.
Our trip to Colorado was wonderful, and I can't wait to go back in 6 weeks.

Caught in the net!

Look at this little girl.. Charming isn't she? Well, your not the only one to think so. Since the weather was warmer yesterday, after I was finished cleaning the church, we had about an hour before Terrance got off of work. So I took Crysta and Carter to the park at JC lake. There was another family there, 2 boys and their mom. One of the boys was Crysta's age and was swinging. Crysta just so happend to pick the swing next to him, and he began to mimic what Crysta was saying. (I am assuming as to get her attention). Eventually it worked, and they began to talk and laugh.. His mother, couldnt speak english very well, but we tried to have a conversation non the less. Crysta decided to slide, so naturally the boy, who I later learned was called Thomas, followed her. Time wore on, and another little boy, the same age, joined the group. At one point Thomas slid down the slide, and looked up to see Crysta sandwiched between 2 other boys waiting to slide down. "Hey, Get away from MY GIRL, Thats MY GIRL!" Thomas yells at one of the boys. He waited for Crysta to slide down, then he proceeded to take her hand and lead her away from the other boys. "Come on my girl" he says. his mother and I share a laugh. More time passes and all 3 boys start to chase Crysta all around the park, and one of the other mothers informs me that I should buy my baby girl a baseball bat to warn off the boys! "Not yet!" I scream in my head, but right as I was saying that Thomas gives Crysta a great big hug! "Time to go" I say, breaking up the hug! Im not ready for boys, and judging by what I saw yesterday, they are definatly in the FAR FAR FAR future! Looks like we will be investing in a bat after all!!

Picture Survey

Leslie always has creative ideas for new blogs, and so since I am searching for something to do, so I don't have to go into the church, I figured I would try it! Thanks for the idea Les!!! However, I didn't have as much luck as Leslie did with finding good images. Most of my answers showed people, so sorry if they aren't as fun to look at!

What's your first name? "Tinner", First off I had to write Tinner, b/c if I enterd TINA, I just got some pretty bad pictures of girls.. no thanks, plus I think this is funny that someone actually got this tattoo'd on!


What is your relationship status? "Married". It will be 5 years for us next Saturday! an I get a Whoop Whoop!


What is your favorite color? "Baby Blue". All blues are my favorite, and the color of my childrens eyes are really my favorite, but I couldnt type that in.


Who is your favorite celebrity? "Adam Sandler" because I have almost all of his movies, "Kate Hudson" because I LOVE every movie shes in, and I love her momma too, and Rascal Flats"because I hall all their cd's and they are the only ones that I can put in and listen all the way through! I have so many, but I will just put these three.






What is your favorite movie? "The Notebook". I have so many,but this movie is one that I can watch over and over again, and it never gets old, and it will always make me cry!


What is your favorite Dinsey movie? "Sleeping Beauty". Loved it as a kid, and still love it today! I even wanted to name my daughter Aurora! But I like Crysta better!


Where is your dream vacation? "Tahiti" and "Africa". I choose 2 because I want to do something diffrent at each. I could sit on the beach in Tahiti, but I want to go on a safari and do service work in Africa.




What is your favorite desert? "Chocolate".Anything chocolate will do!


What do you want to do when you grow up? "Travel". I have never really traveled, and when the kiddos hopefully are out of the house, I will still be young, and I would love to travel around the world.


One word to discribe yourself? "Mommy"


My phone is a: "Razor". Yeah Yeah, everyone has this phone...


My eye color is: "Blue-ish"I say this because I hear that they look green a lot..


The car I drive is: "Altima"Not the one in this picture, but I can dream!

New Steps

A quick update, yesterday Terrance, Crysta and I went to the Methodist Church Pre-school program to look into registering Crysta for the upcoming year. She liked it from what we could see. I don't really know how to do the school thing, so Im sure the director thought I was a little naive, but Im sure she sees that a lot. The only thing we didn't like was, there is no outdoor play area for them to play on. But there is a huge gym for them to play in, so atleast they will have room to run around in. We also found out that Stacy Hammner from church will be Crysta's teacher! That is a comforting thought in many ways. Since it is a church affiliate, we were a little hesitant about what exactly would be taught there. Apparantly on Wednsdays they will have a short chapel service, with bible stories and bible songs. While we were there, we were able to see how the teachers interact with the students. All the children at some point would come up and hug on the director. You could really see her relationship with them, and it was comforting to see that they trusted her, and genuinely loved her. So we went ahead and registerd her and payed the fee, thus holding her spot in the afternoon class. So I am content with the place she will be attending, and assured that she will have somewhere to go. We may still keep our eyes peeled for somewhere else. You never know if there is anything better out there. She will only be going 3 days a week in the afternoon, so I will be broke in slowly to the world of my baby going to school. Crysta is super excited about the thought of school, so I think I may be the blubbering baby in September.So, if any of you veterans have any advice please share.. Crysta did impress the director while we were there, by spelling her name with magnetic letters on a board. The director said that it was very impressive that a 4 year old recognized the letters and could put them together to form a word. Little does she know that Crysta can spell many words, and write all her letters! Crysta actauly surprised me the other day while I was cleaning the church, by writting MOM on the white board all by herself! She sounded out the letters, and wrote them down! I have never been more proud of her than that moment! I know I have a lot more of those moments to come. I have no doubt that she will make us proud in everything that she does! Even at 4 she strives to please us, and is eager to learn! I have never loved any one more than I love my children! How blessed we are to be parents!

My little photographer

So, its been a while for me in the blogging world, and quite a lot has gone on. I am finally done scanning for Data Comm, and have been for a few weeks now. Softball season is quickly approaching, and we had our first "practice" this past saturday. I am so excited for softball, I can't explain it. Although I have never played the game before, and my future teammates might tell you that I am not that good, I have a BLAST playing it. I think we were all super sore after saturdays game, but we all had a great time.. I hope.
So Crysta has really been into taking pictures with our camera, and we let her because she is carefull and can get some really interesting shots. So I put together a slide show of some of her work. It is interesting to see what creativity a 4 year old has. The first part of the show is from my last day scanning. She went crazy with the camera, so I had to edit a lot of them. The middle part is from keeping little Whitney last thursday. She went wild again, and I had to choose just a few, but there will be more of her work in a latter show soon to be posted. The last group of photos is from playing softball saturday. Again, some pictures were edited out, but she took some great shots of herself, AND she got Julie Terry to smile for the camera, which most of you know is a rare and difficult task. I hope you all enjoy the show! Like I said, there are more pictures to come!

Catching up......

I have fallen behind on my blogging, so I will do a quick recap for those interested... We went camping at Mark Twain for Easter. It was fun, and a little cold, but it just made the campfire that much nicer. There is just something about a campfire, that makes the whole trip.. Crysta LOVES to camp, which I am thankful for, since she was born into a very campy family! Carter and Whitney seemed to do well too.. I think Carter is ready to crawl, so he's not so constricted, but lets not rush things. I really enjoyed the time with friends and family. And any time away from my chores at home, is welcome..
Next update Carter had his 6 month check up yesterday. 6 months already.. His weight has decreased dramatically. Not unhealthy though. He was in the 97th percentile for weight at his 3 month check up, this time around he is in the 50th percentile. He weighs 17.8lbs, and is almost 25 inches long. He is developing great, and a little ahead of schedule. He is healthy, happy, and VERY mobile. I don't think I have that much longer before he starts crawling.
Brent and Resa finally bought the big HDTV!, which means that we are the lucky ones to get their old T.V. Unfortunatly it doesn't fit in the spot where our old T.V. was. So thursday I devoted to moving the furniture around. It was fun to have a reason to change the look of things. We have had our furniture the same way for 4 years, so it was a little refreshing to have it switched around. I will have to get a concesus from friends if they like the new layout! But hey, atleast we gota new T.V!! Thanks Mom and Pop!
Another change up, I cut my hair wednsday. I am trying to grow it out for the weddings in June, so I didnt want to loose length, but I needed a change. So I just got layers, and bangs!! I got a lot of comments from people at church that night. I didnt think it was that diffrent, but I guess its more noticable than I thought. Im getting used to the bangs, but all in all I like it!
I will end with a few pictures!!

My Story

Well As you all know, I am a recovering coffee adict! I have been some-what sober now for 4 or 5 months. Give the occasional stop at Dunn Bros, or make me a cup while I scanned at data comm. I am proud of my self, my CA group (Coffeholics Anonymous) says that I am an inspiration to them. I try to hold myself to high standards, so I don't fall down into the deep oh-so-sweet pit of coffee bingeing. However, as I was walking down Wal-marts cheery isles, I needed peanut butter. Well ironically the peanut butter is right accross from the coffee, and then I don't know what happend, its like I blacked out. It must have been the smell, because the next thing I know I am grabbing a BIG can of Folgers, and putting it in my cart. It was like my concious was seperated from my body, and I couldn't controll it! NO!!! my mind screamed as I outwardly watched my hand put the coffee... The wonderful, bold, dark, strong coffee in my cart. There was nothing I could do. So instead of fighting myself by trying to put it back, I just went about the rest of my shopping. By the time I was finished I had forgoten about the coffee, and found it in one of my bags when I got home.
"Now What?" I asked myself. "Well, since I can't drive all the way back to walmart, just to return it, I guess I better keep it." So thats what I did. Then the real tradgedy happened about 10 minuets ago.. I saw it there, just sitting on my counter. hugging the coffee pot, and starring at me, as if to say, "Please put me in there, its where I belong." Well you can guess what happend next......
Am I ashamed? Have I fallen off the wagon? If I have, it is so great, because the smell of coffee brewing in my home again, is unexplainable! It smells so good!! So now I leave you with my story, while I go enjoy a nice, hot cup of caffine in heaven!