Copycat

by Ang

I was inspired by my sister's post below, so I decided to do the same thing. However, I had such an amazing year last year that there's no way I was able to narrow it down to just one picture per month. So.....please bear with me.

January:

February:

My nephew 'cooking' in my kitchen in my last apartment:

More 'cooking':

Colorado Springs:

March:

My beautiful shower and all of my favorite girls:

A new place to call home....

April:

Hawaii

May:

My pretty city from up high:

My sis & Megan up high (and windy):

June:
(had to get a pic of the puppy in!)

July:

My computer is giving me issues, so consider this Part 1. Sorry!

2010: My Favorite Pictures

By Amy

JANUARY

This picture is the epitome of my mother and father-in-law. He is a joyful guy. She is too! Or is she crying? (:

FEBRUARY

Awwww Costa Rica! This is on our way to the big boat. In a little boat. And we had the whole trip in front of us. Such a great feeling.




MARCH


An amazing night. French food. A Paris theme. And my sister, the center of attention.



APRIL

The day before my sister's wedding. When she was still mine. (:

MAY

Albuquerque. Gorgeous.

JUNE

When I see this picture I can't stop laughing.

JULY

I can't believe she was ever this little!



AUGUST

And they say this is the awkward age. I think NOT!

SEPTEMBER

My favorite people.

OCTOBER

I never want to forget the craziness of this moment.

NOVEMBER

Three people that each have molded me. I love them all.

DECEMBER

This isn't my favorite picture of December. It's just me. I wanted to say thank you for reading. I can't wait to see what 2011 will bring!

PS....you may have noticed that Little Miss A was absent in these pictures. That's because she is going to get her own twelve picture post. (:

Where the Heck Have You Been?

By Amy


Is that what you are asking me? Well, I'll tell ya. Between the kids being home from school, dog sitting, working extra hours, throwing parties for the kids and just trying to keep up with the daily stuff...I haven't had a second to even log on to my computer. I sneak at work and check my emails but that is about all the computer time I have these days. Plus my hubby is using my laptop because his is in the shop. And mine isn't that great to begin with. It's super slow and after I downloaded the pictures it won't let me move them around. Maybe that's a Blogger thing? Anyway, I guess you get the pictures in this order. Here is what we have been up to the past two weeks.



My son turned 25. Not really but doesn't he look older? I gasped when I saw this picture. He's only 14. For three more days.





We went to Charlestons for my mom and dad's 37 anniversary. They are cute aren't they?

I took the boy skating for the first time. He did pretty good! He's the one in the jeans and red shirt.
We ate donuts. Multiple mornings. And afternoons.

Lots of Poker and Tripoly was played.

My cute sister in law came to see me. Yes. Just me. It was all about me. Even though she didn't stay with me. And I only saw her twice. (:

This guy definitely came to see just me. I'm his favorite. I just know it!

That's all for now. I know you were expecting so much more but this is all I can do for you for now. Plus my computer is driving me crazy and if I don't stop now I may just throw it against the wall. Have a good week!

Fantasy Football

by Ang

For the past two years, my husband has been in a fantasy football league with a group of his friends. This year, they needed a 12th person. I knew NOTHING about fantasy football and frankly the whole thing completely confused me. I like football, but fantasy football is a whole new ball game (ha ha, get it?).

So I reluctantly said I would be their 12th person if they couldn’t find anyone else.

I did some online research but was still confused about how it worked. So my husband sat down with me and gave me a fantasy football lesson and some drafting strategies. This helped, but I still needed lots of help at the draft. Before each of my picks, I would ask him what he thought of my selection. The draft was then over and I had a pretty good team! So then came game one. I started who I thought would do the best based on projected points, who they were playing, etc. And then I would start them, but still have my husband check to make sure everything looked good. And I won game one! This was fun! And then I won game two. And three. I didn’t lose until game 4. I also lost games 8, 11 and 13.

I still asked my husband for advice, but towards the end (the past few games) I’ve done it on my own and started who I thought was the best choice.

I made the playoffs. Along with three other people (including my husband). There’s only one playoff game, and I was playing my husband.

I won.

Which means…..I made it to the Superbowl! The guy I’m playing has a good team…but he’s had a couple of bad games. I think the only way I’ll be able to beat him is if he has a bad game. But it’s possible! The Superbowl for fantasy football leagues is this week. I will know by Monday night if I won or lost.

So I think (win or lose) that my first year doing fantasy football was a success. I’m still undecided if I’ll do it next year or not, just because it is very time consuming and even a little addicting. But we’ll see how I feel about it then.

But this year…it’s been fun. And even if I lose the Superbowl, coming in 2nd place AND being the only girl in the league is pretty darn good I think.

And if I win, I’d like to thank my husband for helping me. And Reshard Mendenhall, Wes Welker, Ahmad Bradshaw, Steven Jackson, Roddy White, Vincent Jackson, Eli Manning, and the Pittsburgh Steelers defense (my key players). It’s been fun boys!

(my pink football avatar and my team slogan 'You have just been beat by a girl!')

My Wonderful Weekend

By Amy

I had a great weekend. No complaints here! My mom and dad came and spent the weekend with me. And guess who else was there?!?!?

She spends most of her time playing on my slide

Meanwhile.....

This was during a intense moment watching Go Diego Go!

Bath time!

Look how long her hair is!

This weekend was actually what I needed for my mood. How can you not be happy around her?

Back From the Pit of Despair

By Amy

You don't even want to know what went on at my house last week. Really you don't. Because I know you are so sick of hearing me complain about how behind I am and how overwhelmed I am. I'm really not that whiny, complaining person that I seem like here. Ask the people that know me! I mean REALLY know me not just from the blog.

In a brief, fact - stated nutshell.....all four members of my family were sick last week. I'm going to blame my husband for everything because he delivered the whopper of illnesses to the household ...pneumonia. We all had fevers and we were all miserable. It was quite sad actually. We were holed up in different parts of the house. Sometimes I would hear a small voice, "would somebody get me a drink of water?........anybody?" Crickets. It all started the Saturday BEFORE last and ended......maybe today when we all made to school and work for the entire day.

We are slowly getting back to normal. I have no pictures for you. Mainly because during the last week my camera weighed at least 55 pounds. The same with my toothbrush. So I've got nothing. Soon though I will have it together. You don't believe me do you? I kind of don't either. But I can promise you that I won't complain in my next post. And I'll have pictures of some sort. That will just have to be good enough.

Report Card

by Howie

(as told by Howie, our boy kitty)

My parents took me to the evil weird place today. The place with sharp pokey things, funny smells, and strange sounds. I hate that place! But I hadn't been since we moved here, so they thought it was time.

They brought along two of my sisters, which were of no comfort to me whatsoever.

I got poked, prodded, probed, squeezed and more. It was NOT pleasant.

When they were done torturing me, they gave my parents this blue sheet of paper.

Turns out it's a report card! My very own report card! Let's see how I did.

Look at all of my smiley faces! Look how healthy I am! My skin, heart and lungs are wonderful! And I don't have feline leukemia, which apparently is a good thing.

But wait....there's something written at the top next to 'Musculoskeletal System'...what is that?

Heavy?!? What? I'm not heavy. I only weigh 18 pounds! That's....nothing! They weighed my sister and she weighed 8 pounds, that's not much less than 18. Or...is it.

Okay, okay. So maybe I should try to cut back a little. The mean lady at the evil place said that even though I'm heavy, I'm healthy and told my parents not to worry about it too much. I'm hoping they listen to her. I love my food!