HOMEOWNERS!!!

CONGRATULATIONS TO MARK AND LORI!!!! They are closing today on thier first home and we are so happy for them!! Congrats guys we love you and can't wait to see your adorable new home in the spring.

Much love from me and the boys!

:)

House pics

Okay please keep in mind that it is still a "work in progress" I guess it always is eh?

The playroom.... color Kiss of Kiwi....still searching for the "perfect curtains"...also have to hang some art on the wall....all in good time. At least I have the pics that I need to hang..now gettting them hung... another story. I need to say though that my hubby has worked VERY hard on the house....

Another view of the playroom......

more playroom.....

The living room

new "telephone stand"


In this pic I think you can see both new tables and a wall thing I bought at Pier One...( I know I still need more on that wall.

Finally my new rug.....

okay that is all for now.... the upstairs is all painted and new carpet...

and breaking news today...WE HAVE HEAT!!!!

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Tanners girlfriend

I found a roll of film and there are about a hundred pics of "Ms. Keelee" boy someone must LOVE Ms. Keelee.....


I don't know Tanner...she is a married woman..... watch out Lou.... ;)


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PICTURES

Okay here are some pics. Tanner and Daddy preparing Thanksgiving. Tanner with his Turkey hat and Nemo backpack full of toys for a day at the Purcells and Evan fresh from the bath.

BRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!

It is cold in hear. The good new is that the guy is here to put in the new furnace as we speak. Yipee!!! It was like the furnace knew it was being replaced and just quit! How sad somebody! Well, I will be so glad when it is done and hopefully I will see a difference in heating bills as well.

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The joy of homeownership!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO TIM!

Gotta love this picture .... I am sure Tim would be thrilled I put in on the web....but all in birthday fun! :P


HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my hunny! Thankfully this is the 1/2 of year that we are the same age...I have an older woman complex. :) We tried to serenade him this morning but Tanner wanted to wait for his party to sing. I tried to explain to him that Tim wasn't having a party... It was too cute!!


The money pit....that is the new name for my house!!! Well the new carpet was put in friday and we just love it and we are really happy with the way it is all coming together. THEN the drain in the basement backs up and there is food and sludge all over my laundry room floor. UG!! So, the plumber was able to come yesterday morning and get that fixed. Then at 3:00 am.... Tanner comes in and says. "Mom there are noises in my bedroom coming from the laundry room" I tell him to snuggle a minute and be quiet or he will wake up Tim. Well, then I see Tim coming down the steps with the drill. Turns out the heater had broken...and that is what Tanner heard. It is not the end of the world since we already knew that the heater was about done....so we have a new one being installed Saturday Dec 3rd. Looks like we will need to call and get that moved up to now! The good news is....pretty soon we will have a whole new house!!!! Tim and I actually laid in bed at 3am..trying to think what could go wrong next.....dare we challenge the house....ut oh I am afraid!

Well our turkey day was awesome and I will have to post some pics. Tim took the camera hunting over the weekend...so I was without it for posting. We went to the Purcells and had much good food and good times with friends. We also played a game which was a blast...called shout about movies!

Saturday I took Tanner to the movies...with his friend Jack and his mom to see Chicken Little...cute but Tanner and Jack had a very hard time sitting still.

Yesterday I went to the tea in the trees with Lindsey, Cindy,Beth, Julie, and Kari...it was great chatting with them all... I was so glad I went.

Okay...more later!!

:)

With pictures!!

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Tanners playdate

This is Tanner and his friend Jack. Jack's mom picked them up at school yesterday at 11:00 am and took them to McDonalds and back to Jacks house to play. When we went and picked Tanner up we ended up eating some pizza with the Hendersons. It was a fun time. Thanks to Cindy ( Jack's mom ) for being soooo brave to take both boys for the day.

Okay thanksgiving pics to be posted tomorrow.

But I hope everyone is having a great turkey day.

GIVING THANKS

HAPPY THANKSGIVING ALL!


I guess this is a good time for me to give thanks for all of the blessings in my life.

The first and foremost is my wonderful husband. I truly feel that he is heaven sent. He is a gift from my parents from above. I could not be luckier then to have him in my life...truly my soulmate. Of course my two wonderful boys. They show me everyday the amazement and joy of this world just by seeing things through thier eyes. I can never take, stars in the sky, airplanes, flowers...anything for granted with them in my world.

Next of course is my wonderful family and friends. Really we have 2 families. Our blood family and our airforce family. We are so lucky that we can have this extended family that makes where ever we are feel just like home.

Not only are we blessed with family and friends we are also lucky enough to have everything that we need to be happy, healthy, successful and emotionally fulfilled in life. Truly blessed in more ways then I could ever list on a simple blog.

Tomorrow we will be spending the holiday with a group of great friends...and we are so lucky that we had other friends that we were invited to as well. I am just so touched by the love and acceptance of all of our friends. Blessed is the only word that can be used.


Happy Thanksgiving to all and best wishes for a Happy healthy holiday that is spent surrounded by those you love.


:)

Underwear and Roses!

I know ....crazy title eh? Well first Roses...

Yesterday I got a dozen long stem red roses delivered to work "from my loving husband". How wonderful is he??? I was shocked, amazed and overjoyed all at the same time. Sometimes he reads my blog... Love ya hunny! You are the best! I am very blessed to have you.

On the Underwear front...

Tanner is wearing underwear to school today! He woke up....went poop on the potty.. and wanted to wear underwear. So, I put him in his Nemo underwear! I just called school to check on him and he is doing great so far..no accidents. Could it be???? Well, time will tell but I am pretty hopeful.

I am soooo glad it is Friday. Sunday we are headed to Denver. Bruce and Tim are going to the Broncos game ( Tim's birthday present) and Billie and I are going Christmas shopping. I am sooo excited for the holidays this year. I just know that Tanner is going to have such a blast.

Okay well back to the grind...


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Introducing Baby Nolan

Well here he is......

How beautiful is he???? I know way beautiful! I am so glad that I got to meet him tonight. I also put in a pic of his glowing Mommy and his proud Dad..gotta love the shirt!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY MCMENAMY

Nolan Richard McMenamy was born 10:50 am today. He weighed in at 6 lbs 6 ounces and he was 19 inches long. I am told by proud daddy Brian that Mommy ( Samantha) is doing good but a bit tired. I am looking forward to visiting him this evening and I will post a picture as soon as I have one.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NOLAN!!! WE ARE SO HAPPY THAT YOU ARE HERE AND WE CAN'T WAIT TO WATCH YOU GROW!!!

CONGRATULATIONS SAM AND BRIAN... I JUST COULDN'T BE HAPPIER FOR YOU!!!!

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I loved this book

A million little pieces by James Frey. I just loved it! It was raw and disturbing but still very good and addictive. I finished it at just after 4am last night..... thank goodness! The boys are sleeping through the night but Mom couldn't stop reading this book.


Thanks to Julie for letting me borrow it..... I think it is on its way to Beth next!

:)

So, what book should I read next?????????????????????


:)

Off to lunch with Keelee...for my favorite salad at Applebee's.

The boys

Here are some pics of the boys from the weekend....

Tanner was so funny...the night he destroyed his dinner like that...I said Tanner why do you have mashed potatoes everywhere...he said "Cause I am frustrated" Hard to not laugh at that logic....hummm I wonder where he would get that from?

Well we went and ordered the carpet for our upstairs and I splurged and bought an area rug for the dining room...I have wanted one forever... so I am excited about that. I will try to post some pics of the house here soon.... still a work in progress...but we hope to get the carpet on Saturday if all goes well.



:) Tammi

WHAT A WEEKEND!

Well we have been busy little bees at our house. Friday I had to go out of town to Douglass for a training for work. When I got in the playroom was already well underway. As of Saturday night the playroom was completed....painted "Kiss of Kiwi" still awaiting curtains and stuff hanging on the walls. I am looking for a cable or something to hang the kids artwork from to string across one wall. On Sunday after church and a trip to Lowes we started on the living room. This time the color was something chocolate....but really had a pinkish hue to it and we were scared... I think it dried a bit on the khaki side. Now keep in mind when I say "we" I really mean Tim .....he worked so very hard this weekend. I mostly entertained and took care of the boys. Tanner and I set up the playroom all day Sunday with toys...and he is just so anxious to have his friends come play. We also made some homemade bread which he just thought was sooooo very fun and baked a cake. So, that was that. We did get to have dinner with the McMenamys and the Hlivkos on Saturday night... and we enjoyed thier company. We are all anxiously awaiting Sam and Brian's new baby boy which the Doctors are planning to try to persuade to come tomorrow morning. How exciting!

Well, I did take some pics of the boys this weekend... nothing of the house.. WAIT I almost forgot...we redid the hallway too... see the biggest thing is that the popcorn ceiling is no longer and the hall looks great...just painted white. We still need to do the office...and we are going to go order the new carpet today.... yippee!!!!!!!

So I will post pics of the house when all is said and done...

:)

Happy Monday!

Where has the week gone?

Wow!! Humpday already! Time flies when you are raising kiddos. So far so good. Monday night I went and met with Father Gary. I am trying to start a womens bible study but I don't think there is too much interest. So, if nothing else I may just get to have one on one meetings with Father. To be honest I feel like I need the spirtual guidance and the postive energy these days. So, I have to do that for me. Last night I went to a spouses meeting.. and there was lots of dessert so of course that was a blast. I was glad to have the opportunity to hang and chat with my friend Julie a bit...seems that I always see her in groups so it was nice to visit one on one.

Tim and Tanner ran to Fort Collins and picked up our new furniture and when I got home and walked in Tanner said....Mom I know what you are going to say "what happened to this house". So, I laughed and I did say just that. I like the furniture but the coffee table is too big for the space. We are thinking we like it and we won't be in this home forever so it is all good. Tanner is just SO very excited for his playroom. I am hoping we can get it all done this weekend....but we will see. He just wants his playroom right now... it is all a work in progress... isn't it always?

See...that is why I haven't posted nothing exciting at all going on here.

FUNNY TANNER STORIES....

Okay 3 years old seems to be the age for the funnies of things.. I will color code because one was mentioned on Sam's blog.

Friday night funny: also on <"www.samandbrian.blogspot.com">Sam's blog. Sam, Kim and Avery came over to hang out and chat friday night. Of course as usual when friends come over Tanner thinks that they are there to play with him. So, Sam sat down and started playing a puzzle with Tanner. This is a puzzle of his name that Ms. Keelee gave him. Tanner was handing Sam letters and when it came to the everything but the "T" being there...Sam said hand me the "T". Tanner walked into the kitchen opened the fridge and grabbed the pitcher of iced "Tea" and brought it to Sam. It was too funny.

Sunday Morning funny... this is a bit more bathroom humor... Tanner wakes up and decides to try to pee... well he is trying and he can't go..so he looks at me and say" It's won't work..it needs batteries!!" I laughed sooooooooooooo hard!

Monday morning funny: This morning I told Tanner to get his bib off of the coffee table. He can't find it.. I tell him that table in front of the couch is the coffee table.. he says," no its not the coffee table Mom that is a chocolate milk and juice table.

Weekend fun: Well friday night I hung out with Kim and Sam and as you can imagine with Evan and Avery being a little over 2 months apart in age and Sam due here REAL soon we mostly talked about babies... :) Of course a little bit about husbands... when doesn't that happen right?

Saturday Tim came back from alert about 1:45 or so and we had lunch, napped, went to church and went to the Hendricks to hang out. We thought we would have stayed later...but we were so tired we about both about feel asleep on thier couch. It was nice to see them and let the boys play. Linda and Shawn's son Garrett is 6 and thier son Hunter is about 2 months younger then Tanner and Rylee is 1 month younger then Evan. It was fun to see the babies together. We ate pizza and chatted. It was a nice time.

Sunday was shopping spree day... We went and bought some much needed end tables, coffee table and a new TV stand. We are hoping to do a lot to the house in the next few weeks. We are looking to paint the living room, strip the popcorn cieling, and rearrange the living room... and also set up a play room for the boys. And also get the new carpet in. I am hoping this will be done BEFORE Christmas. We also went to TOYS R US.... we had to make a list for Santa... ( and he may have secretly got a few things) Thankfully Tanner is still young enough that we can trick him. After that we stopped at Jim's wings and headed to the Ludwicks to watch the game ( we won't talk about the game)

Okay well that is the weekend fun... I still need to watch Desperate Housewives.. i hope my TV recorded it this week.

Today was Evan's first day at the CDC and his 4 month visit and shots. He was a bit over 14 lbs and 24 inches long. He did great with his shots. He is such an amazingly happy baby.. we are just so blessed. He also is sleeping great! Friday night he slept from about 8 pm until 7 am... and the whole weekend he didn't wake up in the night.

Okay I know everyone stopped reading about 4 paragraphs ago...

:)

Happy Monday!

christmas pics...

Christmas pics of the boys from sunday. How cute are thier matching sweaters. That is what I love about Gymboree... you can get big boy and little boy matching!!

Yet another proud mommy moment... I have a lot of those don't I?


This Christmas is going to be soooooooooooo fun!Watch out Santa cause Tanner has a running list and it is getting very long. He even has went through the Fisher Price books and picked out things for his baby brother to get from Santa. He said to me ... " Mom, can I tell Santa to bring this to Evan for Christmas, cause he can't talk yet ya know?" I thought that was a sign of being a pretty good big brother... he also may just figure..the more toys in the house the better :) . Tim and I are still working on the toy room. We are hoping to get the upstairs recarpeted here real soon and then turn that room into a play room. Right now Tanner calls that room " Aunt Donna's room" It is kinda funny because it doesn't matter who sleeps in there since... and Donna has only been there once.... it is always Aunt Donna's room. Even after Grandma and Grandpa came this weekend today when he had to check out his red hair... he had to go into "Aunt Donna's" room and see. Yeah I said red hair... this morning we spiked it and colored it with the bright red gel... he just loves doing that.

Okay well I am hoping to meet my hubby for lunch very soon.

I will post more later.

:)

from the mouths of babes....

Okay I told this story and Lori ( my awesome sister-in-law) told me that I had to put it on my blog. It is a little on the "vulgar" side...but all moms of boys need to be able to appreciate a little of that. So, we took Tanner to the peditrician for his 3 year check up and she gave us this hand out about potty training. In the handout it says to explain to him that "poop and pee WANT to go in the potty and it is his job to help them" . Tim explained it first and I about died laughing but I held it all back. Anyway I mentioned it to him yesterday that they WANT to go in the potty and he looks at me all serious and says, "What about farts mom..do they want to go in the potty too?"

One more Tanner is too funny story.. we were in church a few weeks back and he got the hiccups... and he looked at me and said "Mom, my mouth is bumpin' " It was too cute! I need to be sure to write some of these stories down.

Kudos to my wonderful husband... this morning he let me sleep in and he took both boys to school so that I could relax and get ready.... what a guy!!!!!

This past Sunday we went to Fort Collins got new outfits for all of us and then got out family pictures taken... I am not so thrilled with them but we realized getting both kids to smile is about impossible!

We were sad to have to go to the funeral for Tim's grandmother but it was nice to see the extended family we do not get to see often. We also had Tim's mom and Dad for the weekend so that was a nice suprise as well.

Today was girls lunch and we even got to see Lindsey ( what a nice suprise) ! It was for Julie's Birthday ( Happy Belated girl!) We went to the Egg & I and it was really nice to see everyone and chat....I only wish we could do dinner or weekend lunches so we would have more time to visit.

OK back to the grind.. I am sorry I have been slacking on my blog these days!

Halloween pics

I thought I would share some pics of the boys ( and Tanner at his party at school!) Notice the "disney channel" pumpkin... has this become a true obsession now?

Hope everyone had a great holiday!