It has been a while, once again....

It has been a while but I am still here!!! My last post was about Amber's birthday. Well, at her surprise horse party she got lots of gifts and enough money to buy herself a new bicycle!!! She was SO excited!

Here is a little video of her riding. I will update more later. ENJOY!!!!

Special 200th post!!!!

Today is March 19th and it is my 200th post and today is also my sweet little Amber's 5th birthday!!!! I haven't been blogging much but I am still here!

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I wanted to share a little bit about my princess Amber. I mostly post her pretty pictures where she is posing like a beauty queen but today I want to show you a few other sides of Amber. She is very girly but she is also silly. Sometimes we just sit back and laugh at her while she puts a show on. She loves to dance and sing. And she loves to make others laugh. She has a very sensitive side to her also. If I get onto her she usually busts into tears and starts saying how sorry she is. She is quick to tell on herself. And she makes friends VERY easily. We can go to the park and within minutes she is playing with someone.

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I love this little girl with all of my heart and I am SO glad that God has blessed me with her!

Here are a few pictures of my little Birthday girl!

Making a silly face for the camera.

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This is from the day that the kids were all playing bad guys, I LOVE this picture!

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And here is "Princess Amber"

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Me and my little angel.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMBER!!

I LOVE YOU!!!

My little girl is growing up....

This past Friday night Amber and I went to my friend JoAnna's house for her daughter, Alyssa's, birthday party. Alyssa had a sleepover. Amber didn't sleep over but we were invited to come for some "girl time". I have to say that Amber was one upset little girl when almost 10:00 came and I told her it was time to go. She just cried! She wanted to sleepover with the big girls! So we had to promise her that really soon she and Alyssa can have a sleepover, just the 2 of them. And that made her happy!

I wanted to share a picture of Amber's very first "big girl" party she went to. Alyssa's cousin, Lauren, is at the right and she didn't stay either. Then of course Amber is right in the middle. And the birthday girl is right by Lauren with the purple sweat suit on. Here it is!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ALYSSA!!!!!!

Sleepover pictures..........

I wanted to share a few pictures from the night of Jacob's party. We went skating and then all the boys came here and stayed the night. They were all really good! It went very good. If I sound suprised it is because I am!LOL Don't get me wrong, these boys are good boys but when I got all 6 of them together at one time without their parents I was a little concerned. I had no reason to be though! It was such a fun time.

Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Me, Jacob and George.

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George, Jacob & Jonathan(my nephew) getting ready

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Christian and Jacob

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Noelle(April's daughter)

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On the left is my niece Kassie and nephew Jonathan and on the right is my friend Misty's daughter Destinee and Jacob.

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Amber playing a game

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My nephew Joey-AWESOME smile!

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Jordan(April's son)

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My nephew Joshua

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Me and George skating-we are thinking of going here one night on a date without our kids, it was SO fun!

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OK these next few pictures are from the sleepover part. The boys were feeling a little crazy and their faces show it! LOL

Jacob

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Christian

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Joey

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Joshua

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Jonathan

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Jordan

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Happy BIrthday Jacob!!!!

Ok, this is the last post from the life of Jacob! LOL


If you are just now joining us, go and look at the first post in this series titled "BLAST from the Past" and catch up with us. Lots of pictures and fun!


First I want to post a couple of pictures of me and my Jacob. My life was forever altered the day he was born. I had such a fear that I wouldn't be able to have children and the day the doctor told me I was pregnant I thought I was dreaming! I didn't believe it until I saw the ultrasound. I know that I became a parent the day I became pregnant but on the day he was born I became a MOMMY! There is no name that I could think of that I love being called.

This first picture is a couple of days after he was born. (I wouldn't dare post any from the actual day, it was a LONG labor and TERRIBLE delivery!!! I needed a couple of days to look normal again, even though this is a rough picture of me, I have great memories from it.) I had such a feeling of love come over me in the moments right before this picture was taken. I guess that was the time I had bonded with him. We had been alone for a while and it was the most awesome thing to lay there and hold MY baby!

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This next picture is just a random picture that I found that is one of my favorites of us. It was a fun day, we had family over and grilled out. He was such a CUTIE!

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These next pictures are just Jacob through the years. Some are from babyhood and some are from birthdays. Hope you enjoy my Jacob!

Sweet Baby boy!

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Looking like his uncle Gary! LOL

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Before his first haircut.(For all of you who wonder if his hair was like Nathan's)

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His picture from when he was in preschool. When I quit work and pulled him out they wanted to keep him and give a scholarship because they loved him so much.

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Him and Daddy on his 3rd birthday. He LOVED this bike!

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4th birthday,beginning of Sponge Bob phase, it is still going! LOL

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5th birthday, looking too cool!

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6th birthday, this year we got him a basketball goal. He opened the basketball first and then we told him to go look in the garage, he was SO excited!!

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7th birthday, such a handsome young man!

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8th birthday, Mrs. Tobey, Jacob and Mr. Lem

There is a great story to this birthday. We had the idea to raise money for missionaries instead of getting gifts and he was so excited to do this! So he picked Mr. Lem's parents who are missionaries to Africa and he raised $280.00 for them! I think he is a pretty awesome little guy! He has a heart bigger than his little body!

I can't believe that my baby is going to be 9 years old tomorrow. It has gone by too fast.

Jacob, I love you with all my heart and soul. I wish the best for you in your amazing life God has given you.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JACOB!!!!!

WE LOVE YOU!!!!!!

A Father's Love

(If you are just now joining us we are going through memories for Jacob's birthday, go to the post titled "BLAST from the Past" to see the beginning of this)

Well, Jacob's birthday is tomorrow and we have a lot to do in the morning so I am going to be posting 2 times tonight. I know it is a lot to take in but I probably will not be posting for most of the weekend so you will get a break from me. LOL!

This post is dedicated to Jacob and his Daddy. I usually post a lot of pictures of me and the kids so you won't be seeing many of me with Jacob in these posts. I don't get to post many of George with him so I thought this was fitting. And the fact that Jacob thinks his daddy hung the moon!

Here are some pictures through the years of the two of them.

ENJOY!

Such a good Daddy! Helping the little man ride the cow, how CUTE!

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Hunting Easter eggs, Jacob has always loved to do this and his daddy and Paw-Paw were usually the ones to help him!

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Jacob's very first fish he ever caught! He was casting that little rod and reel in my house from the time he could stand up! LOL

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Cooling off on a hot summer day.

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Jacob and Daddy at a fishing rodeo.

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After a tournament.

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At Christmas, George and his shadow!

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All about Paw-Paw

(If you are just joining us, please scroll down to the previous post that began this journey of Jacob's life. It is titled "BLAST from the Past".)

Paw-Paw and Jacob.

(bad crop of this picture but I couldn't resist putting it on here!)

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Today we will talk about Paw-Paw in this post. As I said before, he passed away in September of last year and that was the first real loss Jacob has had to endure. He was so small when Nanny passed away so I don't think he really understood much. But when his Paw-Paw passed he was 8 years old and it was as if he had lost his best friend. I think my pain was deeper from seeing Jacob hurt than feeling my own loss.

His Paw-Paw took him hunting and fishing and they just understood one another. From the time Jacob was born Kenny(Paw-Paw's real name) would talk about taking him hunting and fishing. He always played with him as a baby. And through Jacob's 8 years Kenny gave him little treasures like a pocket watch, a cool little flash light with different shape tips, cool fishing and hunting books, you know, guy stuff. Jacob still has all of his little treasures and I am sure he will forever.

Jacob had a realtionship with Paw-Paw that none of the other grandchildren had. He loved them all the same I am sure, he just could tolerate Jacob better. It was like they were buddies. So today I will share pictures of Jacob and his Paw-Paw with you through the years.

Jacob and Paw-Paw at Jacob's first easter. Fun day!

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Jacob with his 2 favorite people, his daddy and Paw-Paw, hunting easter eggs.

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Cooling off under the shade tree.

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Playing.

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Fun times at Paw-Paw's house.

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My favorite picture of them. Jacob loved to go and sit on this swing. It was in my mom and Kenny's back yard and there was a train track right to the left. Sometimes Jacob would fall asleep sitting here.

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Just sitting one winter day.

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The day Jacob caught his very first fish. It was a day to remember!!!

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Jacob and dad went this day to help Paw-Paw get his deer out of the woods. Jacob thought this was too cool!

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Jacob, Paw-Paw & Amber

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Jacob with Paw-Paw the last time they went fishing together. He caught some huge catfish that day!

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We miss you Paw-Paw!

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