Christmas Slideshow!

Jingle Bells!!!

Our almost 3 year old niece Ky has learned the song Jingle Bells! She sings it with the funniest voice...I was crying from laughing so hard when I was taping this. Hope you enjoy it as much as our family has!!! Merry Christmas to everyone!

Please Say a Prayer...

My Grandpa is in the hospital and not doing very well. We are all flying back to Missouri on Jan 11th-13th to spend some time with him. Please prayer for him and our family...we hope him knowing we are coming to visit will build his spirits. He can't wait to meet Natalie Paige!

Thanks for your prayers!!!

We were elfed!!!

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1551418609

This is pretty funny! Check us out ;)

Merry Christmas and Happy 2008!

Thanks Jewelz!!!

Well, I love the pic things that Jewelz always gets done for her myspace so she offered to help me get one :)

So, here is the one she had made for me! I love it Jewelz!!! THANKS a million!!! Can't wait to see you!!!

Vegas Slide Show :)

The longly anticipated slideshow! Vegas was a lot of fun. We went dancing and had a blast. The time just flew! Hope you enjoy the slideshow!!!

2007 is almost over...SURVEY!!!

As 2007 comes to an end...

1) Where did you begin 2007?
In our home...we were still living with Allie, Jere & Ky. Jen, Mike, and Toria spent the night and we all partied!!! GOOD TIMES!

2) What was your status by Valentine's Day?
Married...have luckily been VERY taken for 12 years

3) Were you in school (anytime this year)?
Well, I am in school everday since I teach. But I also have been taking classes since September...but they were online :)

4) How did you earn your money?
I am a teacher and I also tutor.

5) Did you have to go to the hospital?
Unfortunately...my Mamau passed away in March. The most recent hospital visit has been the best, our niece Natalie Paige was born November 16th!!!

6) Did you have any encounters with the police?
Not personally thankfully...but we have the police at our school on an ocassion.

7) Where did you go on holiday?
August--Maui, Hawaii

8) What did you purchase that was over $1000?
Nothing other than paying for classes!

9) Did you know anybody who got married?
Our friend Deanna...
Our friend Matt...

10) Did you know anybody who passed away?
Allie & Jen's Grandma Lorraine :(
My Mamau :(

12) Did you move anywhere?
Moved from Buena Park to Fullerton

14) What concerts/shows did you go to?
Tim McGraw
Anthony Cools
I'm sure there are a couple others...just can't think of them right now.

15) Are you registered to vote?
yes

16) Who did you want to win Big Brother?
Dick...I thought he was freaking hilarious!

17) Where do you live now?
Fullerton, California

18) Describe your birthday
Family

19) What's one thing you thought you'd never do but did in 2007?
ummmm nothing that I can think of right now...

20) What has been your favorite moment?
Witnessing the birth of Natalie Paige

21) What's something you learned about yourself?
I'm very ready for a baby :)

22) Any new additions to your family?
Our niece Natalie Paige

23.) What was your best month?
November

24.) What music will you remember 2007 by?
Not sure....

25) Who has been your best drinking buddy?
Allie & Jen

26) Made new friends?
a few

27) New best friend?
nope

28) Favorite Night out?
Any night with my fav peeps!

Vegas was a blast!

We had such a great time celebrating Brigitte's 50th Birthday! I am still uploading some pics...so I will have new pics up soon I promise!

Just wanted to tell you to get prepared for more photos haha!!

Jere's 30th Birthday!

Jere is going to be the big 30 on December 5th! So this weekend we celebrated!! It was a blast! Hope you enjoy the pics! There are new pics of our nieces throughout the slideshow ;)

Enjoy!!!

Talk about Charlie Brown Christmas Tree :)

Well,our Christmas tree this year is VERY small! But we have a very small place...therefore a small tree haha. I took a couple pics so everyone can see it! So enjoy!!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving!! On Thanksgiving we celebrated with Brent's family. My mom went with us and spent the entire day! Below are some pics of our Thanksgiving with the Cooper's! Enjoy!!!

Saturday we celebrated Thanksgiving with my family! We were all there it was wonderful. We were only missing Aunt Suzy, Jason, Karisa and of course all of our family in Washington and Missouri...we miss and love you all!!! So below are the pics from our Thanksgiving! Enjoy!!

Our Beautiful Sweet Pea!!!

I took some pics of Nat...what a shocker ;) Uncle Brent did an amazing job with turning this regular pics into amazing photos! He used photoshop!!! Lovey you rock! I have been dying to put these up...I was trying to let J get them up first...but I just can't wait anylonger ;)

Enjoy our beautiful niece!!!

Great Grammy & Auntie Lois :)

This message is for you two! I hope you enjoy the pics of your great-granddaughter and great-niece :) She is absolutely adorable and perfect! Wish you were here to see her in person...can't wait for you to visit!!!! We all love and miss you!

The slideshow that is on the message below is from her arrival :)

This is a link to the hospital website that you can look on to see her hospital pics :) Too cute!! Enjoy!

love you both!!!

http://www.our365.com/WebNursery/WebNursery/BabyFinder/BabyFinder.aspx

Natalie Paige Mullaney is HERE!!!!

J & Kev are the proud parents to lil' Miss Natalie Paige! She was born on Friday, November 16th at 1:37am. She is 7 lbs. 11 oz. and 19 1/2 inches long. She is such a beautiful little girl. She is super quiet...so far ;) J was such a trooper during the entire delivery. She looks amazing and is doing wonderful. Daddy & Mommy are extremely happy & so far don't seem sleep deprived....hehe

Congratulations Sis!!! You have a beautiful daughter!!!

Everyone...enjoy pics of our newest niece!!! There will definitely be more to come...Ky gets to meet her cousin tomorrow!! WOOHOO

Much Love!

J is in LABOR!!!

Well, we are sitting in the waiting room impatiently waiting ;)! Hopefully she will be here in the next few hours!!! I will post pics later!

Happy Birthday Allie!!!

Well, Allie is in her final year of 20s! She is turning 29 on November 14th! Wonder if she will be sharing a birthday with our niece Natalie??? Just wanted to wish you a happy birthday Sis!! Hope you have a wonderful day!

We Love you!!!!

J is 38 weeks and beautiful as always!!!

Well, J has made it to 38 weeks. A month ago the dr. was afraid she wouldn't make it to 36 weeks! J goes to the dr tomorrow...hopefully with their assistance Nat will be here by this weekend! Keep J & Nat in your thoughts and prayers...keep checking back to see if pics of Nat are on here ;)! Enjoy this cute pic of J at 38 weeks!!!

3-Day Weekend!

Well, it is Sunday and all I have done this weekend so far is go walking! I really don't feel like I have done anything. I need to do stuff for work, but have decided to wait and do them later! Brent on the other hand has been very productive. He has been working like crazy on his homework. Architecture School is HARD...he is always and I mean ALWAYS doing homework. He eats, drinks, breaths, and sleeps architecture these days. Thank God he graduates this next coming year! I can't wait!!! I am sure he can't either!

Anyways...if you are curious as to what is going on with J and Nat. Well, she has another dr. appt on Wednesday and the dr. plans to help her move Nat along!! So...hopefully our lil' niece will be here by Friday!!!! So keep your fingers crossed!!! I will have pics up ASAP when she finally arrives. :)

Tonight we are going to celebrate Allie's birthday! We will be going to Yard House up in Victoria Gardens!!! I will have some pics up from that later tonight or tomorrow. So check back if you want to see how much fun we had :)
Until then....adios!

I was tagged!

I'm with Julie...I don't usually go for chain or tagging emails, but I'm caving since I was publicly "blog tagged". Plus, I'm scared my tagger won't like me anymore if I don't play along :P

Here are the rules:
A. Each player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves.
B. At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog, for these rules.

I am not going to do rule B, but if you want to play just pretend like I tagged you.

Facts/Habits:

1. I am a picture freak! I LOVE LOVE LOVE to take pictures. I always have my camera and love to take pics all the time. I take pics of my niece Ky contstantly when I am with her. If I were to do anything else as a career I would love to be a professional photographer. I don't think I am that great at it...but I love doing it! Brent says I need a hobby...so here this is it! HAHA

2. I am a horrible procrastinator. Ask anyone that knows me very well...works with me or has gone to school with me...I will wait to the last moment I can to complete something that I have had PLENTY of time to complete. For an example, I had to write and IEP that is for this week. I have been "working" on it for weeks...but just finished it tonight before I left work. I was there until 5:40 completeing it. Now I have 2 more to write GRRRRRR

3. I bite my nails. I am horrible I know...I tell my students all day to keep their hands out of their mouths and to not bite their nails. Yet when I am sitting it traffic for over an hour to get 20 miles I will bite away! I need a chew toy or something! HAHA You can always tell when I am stressed...my nails are a dead give away!

4. Like Julie...I am also a dessert freak! Brent and I have dessert almost every night. When Allie & Jere lived with us we past on this BAD habit! Sorry!!! I love sweets and can't seem to go to sleep without having something before bed.

5. I go to the gym Mon-Fri by 5:30am! Anyone that knows me is SHOCKED I am SOOOO not a morning person and here I am waking my butt up at 4:45am to go workout! CRAZY I know!!

6. Last but not least...I HATE cooking. I don't enjoy cooking at all. I do it so Brent and I don't starve on nights he has school...but whenever I can get him to cook LIFE is great!! :) I may eventually enjoy it more when we have a nice home and kitchen, but until then I will HATE cooking!

So....I am tagging whoever is reading this! YOU ARE IT!

Congrats Matt & Brooke!!!

On October 27th Matt & Brooke got married! Their wedding was absolutely beautiful and what an amazing location. They got married in San Clemente. Brent and I were playing around with our camera and entertaining ourselves...so enjoy the pics!!!

Congrats to Matt & Brooke!!

Still waiting for Nat to arrive!

Well, since Nat has decided to stay put for a little longer I thought I would put up picks of her nursery. J had me take some the other day. She did such a great job on decorating it and everything! TOO cute :) Hope you enjoy the pics :)

Welcome our newest baby cousin!!!

My cousin Marci and her husband Richard welcomed their first baby into the family on October 23rd. They have named their little angel Memphis Lynn. She is such a miracle baby!!! So hope you enjoy the couple pics that I am putting on here. I took them from Marci's website hehe!!

Marci & Richard...congrats on the newest addition to your family! She is beautiful! We love and miss you guys so much. Give her kisses for us!

Memphis Lynn...welcome to the family sweet baby girl! We can't wait to meet you!!

Wild Animal Park!!!

Saturday we went to the Wild Animal Park with Allie, Jere and Ky. We had a great time!! We were supposed to go with J, Kev, and my mom for J's bday party...but now that J is on bedrest they didn't get to go. We will all be going once Nat is here and big enough to take :)

Here is the slideshow from the day! Enjoy :)

2 More Weeks!!!

Well, apparently our little niece wants to meet her wonderful family sooner than she is supposed to! Jamie is now on strict bedrest for the rest of her pregnancy. They hope she makes it another 2 weeks at least. She will be 35 weeks on Monday...so keep her and our niece in your prayers please! Natalie we can't wait to hold you and spoil you, but you need to wait 2 more weeks atleast!!! :)

Some of my favorite pics for 2007 so far!

My Favorite Pics of 2006!

My Favorite Photos of 2005

Procrastination!!!

I am supposed to be doing homework for one of my online classes and instead I am chatting online with Brent, Allie and checking my emails. Hmmm I so have my priorities set! ;)

Update on my lil' sis J! She is officially 33 weeks preggers! Last Friday, she had a dr. appt and they had to give her a shot to stop her contractions! Apparently our lil' niece Nat would like to meet all of her wonderful family members sooner than her "due date" which isn't until November 26th. The dr hopes J can make it to 36 weeks! I will keep you posted!!!

Well, I should get to my homework. I will post more exciting stuff on here this weekend :)

Summer 2009!

Brent and I have decided that we are going to try and have a baby by Summer 2009!! I am soooo excited. We were watching TV last night and playing online with baby names :) Here is a link to some of our favs so far...we obviously have time to pick a name especially since we aren't even trying to get preggers yet. HEHE So, take a look and let me know what you think!

http://www.babynames.com/namelist/9545801

My Uncle...

My Uncle Lionel is in the military. He is leaving for Iraq and is no longer able to be reached via email until they arrive somewhere with email. I am so sad! He is going to be gone for 15-18 months...well that was the last we had heard :( It sucks knowing he won't be around when J has Natalie. We will be sending lots of care packages to him I'm sure.

Uncle Lionel, when you get a chance to read this...THANK YOU for being willing to fight for our freedom! We are very proud of you and miss you terribly! Be safe and come home soon!! We love so very much!

Everyone please keep my uncle in your thoughts! Thank you!!

Survey Says....

What's going on survey

What I was doing 10 Years ago....

I was in school at Golden West College. Brent and I had been dating 2 years at the time. I was still working at Robinson's May, and getting ready to start working at The Orange County Register.

What I was doing 5 years ago.....

I was still in school getting ready to graduate from Cal State Fullerton. I was working at Mardan. Brent and I had been dating for 7 years and were getting ready to move into an apartment with Scottie.



What I was doing 1 year ago.......

Brent and I were living with Allie, Jere, and Ky. I was just starting my 2nd year teaching. We were getting ready for J's wedding. Life was crazy as usual!

What I was doing yesterday.....

I woke up at 4:45am met Amy at the gym. Went to work and taught all day. Finished my homework and went to tutor Cole. Came home, made dinner, and spent time with Brent when he got out of school. Pretty much a typical day :)

5 places I'd rather be....

Hawaii
Ireland
Scotland
Austrailia
St. John


5 treats/snacks I love............

fruit and yogurt parfait
ice cream anything
chocolate
cheese
chips & salsa

What I would do with 100 million dollars...

Buy a house, pay off all our debt, buy our moms new houses, take a nice family vacation with our entire families, spoil our nieces, and invest!!!

5 favorite TV shows

Dancing With The Stars
Grey's Anatomy
How I Met Your Mother
Dr. 90210
CSI


5 people to tag....
you, you, you, you, and YOU!

Birthday Dinner Pics!

Brent just had his birthday on the 20th and Kevin's is on the 26th. We went to dinner at House of Brews there are a few pics enjoy! We had a lot of fun!!!

J & Nat's Baby Shower :)

Today we threw my lil' sister's baby shower :) J is due November 26th and we are all so very excited for the arrival of Natalie Paige! Her shower was wonderful. The shower was thrown by Natalie's Aunties (me, Allie, and Jess). We had a great turn out and it was all worth it. :) Enjoy the pics below from the fun day!

I am soooo excited!!!

Now that I just did the special post about Brent's birthday...I am sooo excited about this weekend! Saturday is J's baby shower. That means our lil' niece is going to be here soon...I can't wait to hold her and spoil her!!! J is so excited to see everyone that is coming to the shower and see what Natalie is getting from everyone! I will have pics up soon...you know me!!

Saturday night is dinner for Brent, Kevin & Mike's birthday!!! How much more can we cram into a weekend!?!?

Sunday is the Breast Cancer Walk!! J, Allie, Jen, Brigitte, Kevin, and I are all walking on Sunday! It is going to be awesome...doing this walk is such an amazing feeling! Seeing everyone doing something for a good cause is very moving! I am walking in honor of my Grammy that fought and won the battle against breast cancer...and Allie & Jen's Aunt Chris that has been battling breast cancer for over a year now and is Kicking butt! I am also walking for all women! We need to find a cure!!!

Krissy & Matthew are flying into town for J's shower too...we are sooo excited to visit with them! I love having my family around and this is a weekend of family!!! Love you all!!!

Happy Birthday to my Hubby!!!!

Well, today is my wonderful hubbie's birthday! He is 29 today...it is hard to believe that we started dating not very long after he turned 17! Wow that makes me feel even older!!! I just wanted to share with all of you how amazing my hubby is and let you all know it is his birthday!

This is his last year of school!!! He has worked so hard to complete Architecture school and has had to make so many sacrifices to do so. I am so proud of how hard he works and what a wonderful person he is. He makes me feel loved, adored, and like I could do no wrong in his eyes...although I am sure I can! HEHE

Well, I hope he is having a great evening in school. I want him to come home now! Anyways...just wanted to share...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LOVEY!!!! I love you!!

Jake's Birthday Bash :)

Well, this past Saturday we celebrated Jake's birthday a couple weeks early :) We spent the day at the beach. It was nice and relaxing...actually we got a little COLD! I almost forgot what it was like to be cold :) Well, here are some of the pics taken at his party. Enjoy!