Rolling over!!!!........

Melaney rolled from her back to her stomach for the first time today. She has been practicing this for awhile. She has been rolling from her stomach to her back for about the last month....tummy time paid off with this child...i think b was 5 months before she finally rolled over. she hated tummy time!!:)

one big happy family...

well, here we all are! for those of you who don't know my family...my dad is one of thirteen, so i come from a BIG family. i enjoy it . we are all very close and always have a lot of fun when we get together. this snapshot is of all the grandkids and great grandkids. my grandma and grandpa are also in the picture. this is all of us except for nine (i believe). Brad and B are two of the nine that were not in the photo. they were too busy taking tractors out of the boxes. Mel and I are in the photo, if you can find us...it's kind of like where's waldo!!:) I'll give you a hint...i'm not holding mel...someone else is. we have been taking this picture ever since i can remember. not everyone is looking at the camera, but it is a memory. the following photo is of my sister and her little one....

in case you can't see the resemblence...these girls are sisters. their brother is in the previous photo with his girlfriend.

grandma with melaney...

once again she sat on his lap with no struggle. she had to let the other kiddos tell him what they wanted, but i guess she wasn't completely finished with her list...she went and sat on my aunt's lap and said, "but aunt connie, i'm not done yet."

my godson who loves anything and everything having to do with skid loaders.

since b loved santa so much, she got to give him the plate of cookies....

this is my brother's wife. she is getting some practice with melaney. they are expecting twins and are due in may!

FUNNY!!.....check out the sunglasses that are upside down...

Have a merry Christmas!!!!!!!!!!

she's3!!!!!!!.............

we celebrated b's birthday on friday. all she wanted was a pink bicycle(i ran over her other one...at least it was just a hand-me-down). she got her pink bicycle along with some other surprises.

i am amazed at how well she can ride her bicycle...it's bigger than the previous one.

it was like a birthday for margaret as well because anything b got, margaret will get to play with also.

cinderella cake...it was delicious. thank you denise!

margaret had to take her turn blowing out the candles as well...

it actually looks like they are playing basketball...

the girls....

i was reading someone's blog the other day and they had a photo of their 2 1/2 month old sitting in a saucer...melaney constantly wants to sit up or stand, but still needs our help to do this, and obviously we can't do that 24/7. i thought she was still too little to use the saucer, but when i saw the picture of the other baby i thought i would give it a shot and she loves it. if she isn't sleeping, she is in her saucer because she likes it so much. when i look at these pictures i can't believe how much she looks like her daddy. sure she has my blue eyes and red hair, but everything else is her daddy. you may not see the resemblence, but i sure do...especially when he is holding her. she also looks identical to her sister when b was this age.

i was at kroger and they were giving away free ice cream...it is mango flavored...i think it is nasty, but b likes it.

cookies!!!

brittney and i made reindeer cookies last night. she had a blast!! her job was to put their eyes on the reindeer.

the finished product....