Bye Bye 2009!

Well..I decided to look through all of my pictures, and see if I could do a 2009 Year Review. We were all sitting around the table at work yesterday, talking about how glad we would be to see this year over....that this had just been a hard year, and wanted to just have it past us. I figured if we looked through our pictures, we would find we also find that we had a very good year, and a lot of things to be thankful for. I am terrible about not taking enough pictures..but here are a few from "some" of the good times in 2009! Alyssa's Field Trip

One of my very best friends, Shari started working with us!

CJ turned 40!

Aaron turned 16! Every picture I had of him, he was turning away! Teenagers!

Logan's First trip to the Zoo with his class.

Camryn's Ballet Recital

Aaron participating in the JROTC program..his Daddy was sooo proud!

Logan graduating from Kindergarten

Camryn receiving 2nd place for Accelerated Reader in her class.

Alyssa turned 10!

The kids attended Bible School..here is Camryn and my niece, Caitlin.

Making homemade ice cream at work..for 4th of July Cookout!

Rhonda, Matt and Cathy...grilling the burgers for 4th of July.

Rhonda and I turned 33!!!

Jamie, Jesse and my brother Dave posing at a Family Cookout!

Me...trying to play ball with a Spongebob Bat..we had a lot of fun!

My Daddy with ALL of his brothers and sisters at the cookout!

Nathan turned 13 and we went to the beach..he's laying out on the porch with a kitty at Nanny's (CJ's Mom).

Took the kids to the park...such a HOT day!

Logan turned 6...no shirts required for this kid...we were lucky he wore his shorts! ;)

Camryn turned 8!

Our BIG family, took our first trip to Myrtle Beach..Nathan posing with the girls from the Dixie Stampede!!

Alyssa, Logan and Hunter at the Aquarium!

Camryn, Logan, Corey and Alyssa...trick or treating at the hotel..and had the BEST time!!!

Stole this picture from Rhonda...most of us after the meeting!

Cathy and I went to SC to do some training..this is the office on the lake!

This is the view from the office...how relaxing!

Cathy and Debbie in the SC office..we had so much fun!

Logan received his GREEN belt in Karate (Tae Kwon Doe).

So proud!

Camryn, Me, Logan and Nathan on Christmas Eve!

I'm looking forward to 2010..and new resolutions...I'm looking forward to spending more time with my family and friends, and taking more pictures along the way. Happy New Year to all my Blogger Buddies!!!

So sleepy!!!

This morning at 1:00 am, our house phone rang. In the few seconds it was ringing my thoughts were, is CJ on call and I forgot, is something wrong with one of the boys, what has happened?!?! CJ's stares at the phone while it rings, I guess trying to figure out who's number it is and I yell, "ANSWER IT"! Then I heard CJ say, "Alyssa..is that you..don't do that anymore..you scared us too death"! LOL Camryn was having a coughing spell, and instead of getting up to come get me, Alyssa just figured she would call me from her cell phone! Ugh!!!

So, then at 2:00 am, Alyssa comes in the room to let me know Camryn coughed so much that she threw up...in the bed! Great!!! So, I had to get all of that straight and go back to bed.

At 6:30 am (luckily I was up), Logan starts screaming for me...he needs some drink! He said "I called you and called you last night and you didn't bring me any"!! I looked at that child and said, "Well, I was in here at 1 and 2, and you were fast asleep, you should've gotten up and asked me then"! LOL

This is one Sleepy Mommy today!!! They go to their Dad's tonight, so hopefully we won't have any excitement!!!

Back to Blogging

I can't believe my last blog was titled,"My First Private Blog" and was dated October 14th! I think I have become so "addicted" to Facebook, that I have seriously fallen behind on my blogs. Instead of trying to catch up on everything from October, I'll just move forward!



I'm probably the only person to admit that I am glad Christmas is over! We have so many places to be, that sometimes it's just to hard to enjoy! As always at Christmas time, I took very few pictures. It's hard to take pictures and keep up with Logan at the same time!



Camryn, Me, Logan and Nathan waiting on CJ. We were getting ready to go to his sister's on Christmas Eve!

Aaron, Me and Nathan! The kids were having fun with the camera!

Logan and Camryn finding their presents under the tree. They wanted to be ready when everyone got finished eating.

My cute Logan!

CJ's Mama got Logan his very own Park Ranger Uniform...just like hers! He was so excited! He loves to dress up!

My nephew Cole, and my brother Dave at my Uncle Mike's house Christmas Day.

Playing Charades at my Uncle Mike's.

The kids had a wonderful Christmas...the girls got a WII, a new comforter set for their room, clothes, makeup and tons of toys...Logan got a new bike, Toy Story Comforter Set, and tons of toys, Aaron and Nathan both got big remote control air planes, clothes and money. Everyone was happy and my house is still a mess! Why do all these toys have so many pieces?? I have seriously got to rethink how I am going to organize their room. I want them to be able to enjoy all of their new toys!!! If you have any organizational suggestions...send them my way! Hope you and your families all had a wonderful Christmas!