How 'bout them EAGLES!!!

E-A-G-L-E-S.....EAGLES!! Yeah How 'bout them Eagles! I don't know what is the best part...that everyone counted them out...or that we stomped the Cowboys!!! Either way...good stuff Birds...Good Stuff Birds!!

:) :)

Okay I know that I owe you pictures of the Christmas fun... I will hopefully get that soon!

Thanks for stopping in!

Tammi and the boys!

Merry Christmas Eve

Merry Christmas Eve to all!

I know that I have said it many times on the blog....but I LOVE this time of year!! Especially with the boys this year...there is pure magic in the air! They are over the moon. We are blessed to have Grandma and Grandpa, Uncle Mark, Aunt Lori, Anna, and Uncle Matt with us in Ohio to celebrate. The boys are very lucky to have this whole extended family to spend time with over the holidays. I hope that these are memories that they will truly treasure. We will be attending church tonight and tomorrow it will all about watching the kids and thier excitement.

God Bless everyone during this wonderful time of year.

Thanks for stopping in and Merry Christmas to you and yours!

I am thinking the posts will be limited with all the company but I will try to slip something in if time allows.

Love to all!

-Tammi and the boys

So it feels like you were there...

This should make you feel like you were there... :) Tanner kept telling me that he was wearing a donut on his head but I swore he meant to a halo...well he was right it really was a donut. Thier costumes were so cute and so well thought out. Lots of costume changes.

Well thanks for stopping in!

Much love to all

Merry Christmas!!

Tammi and the boys

More padgent pictures...

Here are some shots from the padgent. They really went all out. The kids all did great!

The girlfriend!

Well last night's Christmas Padgent was a huge success. Tanner sang in a lot of songs and both kids are quite the little hams ( I am not sure where they get that from really) :) I have not downloaded my pictures...really Thank God for Ms. Julie. But I thought I would share a pic of Tanner and his girlfriend.

This is Hope...aren't they so cute? Anyway, Hope and Tanner are "officially boyfriend and girlfriend" per Tanner as of this last week. He also told me that lots of people are breaking up but not them :)

Well another thing is when Tanner came home from school wearing his glasses for the first time I asked how it went and he indicated that everyone laughed at him...but not his girlfriend..she didn't laugh. And not two other people either. I have to say I was a bit suprised that kindergarteners even know to laugh at kids that wear glasses :(

Anyway, I will try to post the rest of the padgent pictures soon.

Thanks for stopping!

Tammi and the boys!

Christmas Festivities....

As promised we had a little Christmas Gathering and here are some pictures of the fun. We ate, drank and were Merry....even watched some episodes of the office. ( Nothing says Christmas like the Office)





These pictures are compliments of Ms. Julie because I have not downloaded my pictures yet.

This cake was Red Velvet and SOOOO Yummy!

The kids loved singing Happy Birthday to Jesus.

Ms. Julie brought the cake which is appropriate because my kids always thinks she bring cake!

Evan in his Nerf gear that Ms. Julie and Mr. Russell bought him for Christmas

This was a HUGE hit ( for the big kids too)

Tanner Action pose

The whole gang..

(L-R Tanner, Mike,Evan, Russell, Julie, Nick, Natalie, Brian, Me and Tim)

Today is the kids Christmas program at school and Tim is the parent teacher volunteer for the day at Tanner's school. Tanner is very excited to have his Dad be at school with him. I will post some more pictures of the show when I get them.

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Much love!

Tammi and the boys!

As promised....

Little bit decorating the tree
Tanner

With the tree

I let the boys decorate the 3 rd tree in the house... they just love decorating...so why not!

I stole a few pics and one shows how cute Tanner looks in his new glasses!

Thanks for stopping in!

This is such a busy time of year but I LOVE it! I am so excited. We are having a small get together tonight so I will try to post some pics of that.

Much love,

Tammi and the boys

Amblyopia---

This is a bit of a public service announcement for all of my fellow moms out in blog land. I know most of my readers are moms and I think this information can be very important.

Tanner was recently diagnosed with Amblyopia. This is commonly known as " lazy eye". Many of us may think that you would notice lazy eye but for Tanner this is how it unfolded....

Tanner had a preliminary vision screen in his Kindergarten classroom and when he did he was slotted to go to the nurse for a vision screen. When you get information from a 6 year old... this is what you get..."Mom and Dad I see different out of one eye then the other...like if I cover up one eye I see different then if I cover up the other eye" Tim and I were not sure where this all come from ( he did not mention the eye testing) So, next step 2 days later I recieve a call from the nurse indicating that he failed his eye testing. She explained to me that he cannot see out of his left eye....So off to the pediatrian and eventually the eye doctor and fast forward to where we are today. We are doing some patching and hoping that we will be able to get something going in his left eye. The Dr. believes he has some vision it is just that the brain has shut off messages from that eye because it has gone on for so long. As it stands right now Tanner cannot see through binoculars or a telescope or a view finder or see 3D or have any depth perception. I am sad it took so long to catch this but I am so happy that we caught it at all.



This had made both Tim and I realize how amazing our little guy truly is. He has become quite the hockey player he is being put with kids much bigger and older then him and he is skating great and scoring a number of times everytime he plays. As far as school he is doing great despite his vision. I am growing more concerned that when we think he is reading...he is in fact memorizing. At least now we know what to watch for and he is doing vision therapy ( patching and such) and he will also be wearing glasses. I am hoping this will all make a difference in his world.



My only message here is ....Take your kids to get thier vision checked by an eye doctor. This could have been caught as early as 6 months old. I never knew this. Because Tanner's "lazy" eye is not noticable by appearance it was missed.



The patching is hard work and he gets very upset and frustrated but we continue to try and pray.



I will post some pictures soon of how adorable Tanner looks in his new glasses. If they make as much of a difference in his vision as we hope it might change his whole world or at least the way he sees it.



Thanks for stoppin' in and checkin on us.



Much love,



Tammi and the boys

Tanner's wish

I thought this was sooo cute! This is what I pulled out of Tanner's backpack today. I hope that you can read it. It says Tanner's wish is Uncle Matt lived closer and complete with a drawing of him and Uncle Matt. Melts my heart. More to post but gotta get the Christmas cards in the mail...and Year without a Santa Claus is on and that is my FAVORITE cartoon Christmas movie.

Love to all!

Tammi and the boys!

Hobbyin'

Maybe it is our age sneakin up on us but Tim and I have takin to Hobbyin'. Tim has been doing a lot more with his airplane hobby which the kids LOVE. He has takin to some ameatuer aerial photography.... I am hoping he will let me post the video that he made at some point...it is pretty fun! If nothing else you get a good view of my neighborhood.

Anyway, I have taken to stampin'. I am really enjoying it and I never thought I would. With the help of my friend Julie I have made my Christmas cards... they are done and should be headed out in the mail in the next week.

I am glad we have hobbies... I feel I am starting to have more time for it now that the kids have thier activities and thier time spent doing what they want.... yes my boys are growing up :(

Okay more soon... just wanted to pop a post in just in case anyone stops by.

Take Care

Tammi and the boys

Tree hunting

Look what we found... After much searching we found.... our Christmas tree. We had a great long weekend with Uncle Matt and one of the things we did was head to a local tree farm and cut down a tree. We had a blast!!!

The winner
Token family shot

Just the boys

This is how we found the tree farm...

Evan riding in the sled... :)

It was a fun time and no so cold and windy so that was a nice change from years past. The house is all decorated. Tim outdid himself on the outside.. I love Christmas time! :)

Thanks for stoppin' by!

Tammi and the boys!

Turkey day!

Lucky me I got to eat with all these handsome men

( Bryan,Mike, Uncle Matt, Tanner, Tim and Evan )
Tim's I am too full for pictures face.

Dessert!

Evan's feast!

Tanner enjoying his dinner

Okay well I cheated but I still had a great Thanksgiving! We went to the club for a buffett. It was very yummy and I ate too much for sure! I enjoyed a lazy day finishing up a book and watching the Macy's Thanksgiving day parade in my jammas. While it was very nice... I don't know if I will take a break from making turkey and all the fixins again... I did miss the smells in the house.

I hope everyone had a great holiday!

More soon!

Thanks for stopping!

Tammi and the boys

THAT MOM

I always said I would never be THAT Mom. The one that shows up at stores before they open and stands outside to run in and see if "the" toy was on last nights truck. Well, I am officially THAT Mom today. When I said I would never do it.. I did not think about the power of a 6 year old looking at you saying, "It doesn't matter if it is not in the stores Mom I asked Santa for that and he will bring it" Hence, I was at Target this morning with all the other poor saps....waiting for the doors to swing open. There was not any pushing or shoving or anything... but I will admit when I got in there was some running by me... and I tell ya not much gets me to a run these days. All for my boys! I know I owe pictures and I will post soon we are hoping to get our Christmas tree today and I should have pictures to share soon.


*** On another note*** It gets really hard to talk about Christmas stuff when your child can spell... and the bad part is I did not see that coming until he started saying what we thought we were being sneaky by spelling...

I love this time of year!!

Thanks for stopping in!

Much love!

Tammi and the boys !

So VERY Thankful!

Thanksgiving time. What a great time of the year to reflect on all the gifts and blessings that we have in our lives. This has been a difficult year both personally and for our country but we still have a laundry list of things to be thankful for.

First and foremost, I am thankful for my church and my faith and our wonderful loving and forgiving Lord. I am of course thankful for all that we have been blessed with.

I have the amazing love of my husband. With all the ups and downs that life has to offer I could not imagine being on this journey with anyone else. He is my partner and my very best friend. We enjoy each other and just make a great team in every way.

I have these 2 wonderful boys that make life both joyful and challenging. Everyday is a new adventure ( hence the name of the blog) . Tim and I discuss how every night we worry about thier well being and if we are doing a good job in molding them into the young men they will someday be. It is such a honor to be thier mother and get to watch them grow. Motherhood, is the one gift that you never know how much you get from it until you have been given it.

I also have family and great friends scattered around the country. Somtimes I think about what it would be like to have lived in one place all these years. Sometimes we miss being close to family. However, then I think about how I would not have the blessing of this military family all over the country. Where we get to spend holidays together and be there for one another in ways that is unheard of to others. I have asked of my military family favors that I would be hesitant to ask of my own family or the friends that I have known for years in the town that I grew up in. It is truly a phenomenon that is unlike any other and I am truly thankful for the whole experience.

I am thankful for so many other things that I know we take for granted. I am thankful for our home, that we have food and all of our needs met. I am thankful to live in this great nation and as much as I worry about the state of our country at this time. I am thankful for our freedom and I know that it does not come without great scarifices from so many.


I am thankful for all of you reading my blog too.... because I know that you are all family and friends that I love and most of you are reading this because we will not get to spend Thanksgiving with you.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I promise to post some pictures soon :) Maybe of the holiday celebration!


Love to all!

Thanks for stopping.

Much love Tammi and the boys

Sad news

Helen-Marie Lithgow, 68, of Pittsgrove passed away on November 21, 2008 at the South Jersey Hospice Center in Bridgeton. Born in Camden, Mrs. Lithgow was the daughter of Russell & Helen Carr.
She was a member of St. Ann's Roman Catholic Church in Elmer and had retired from the Law Offices of Daniel Rosner in Vineland. Her family was everything in her life, everything else was secondary. She was a very generous, loyal and kind person. Helen was a collector of "everything", she loved going out to breakfast, especially to the Kountry Kitchen, and she loved her dogs.



Nineteen years ago Thanksgiving will be the anniversary of the death of my mom. Not a day goes by that I do not think about her. Sometimes it is a little thing like overhearing a co-worker on the phone with thier mom asking them a silly question and sometimes it is a deep yearning for her guidance in this world. Either way, my dearest and longest friend lost her mom this week. Her mom was my 2nd mom. I referred to her parents as mom and dad. I feel like her family took me in and made me a part of thier family when I was just a young lost child. I am so sad not only because I know the loss that Donna is dealing with on a very real level but in my own selfish way too. I will surely miss her. She would do anything for anyone and when I lost Wyatt this summer she called and talked to me and cried with me and felt my pain in a way I don't know that anyone else could. It seems that every time this happens to someone we love we are shocked and hurt and bewildered by it. I will continue to pray for my "family" and as we believe, " Where two are three are gathered in my name, there I am in the midst of them" Matthew 18-20. There is not a doubt in my mind that both of these woman are with our Lord right now. I just wish we could have had them here longer. Your thoughts and prayers are always welcome.





Thanks for stopping by and for all of your love and support.



Much love,



Tammi and the boys

Dayton Bombers

Watching
Evan practicing

The boy

What a cutie!

All geared up to play... I think he is saying ( C'MON MOM stop taking pictures!)

Well it is that time of year! We are in the full swing of hockey and Tanner is LOVING it! Evan cannot wait to play so it looks like next year we will have two on the ice. Here are some pics. It has been a crazy week I am sorry I hadn't posted.

Thanks for stopping by.

Much love,

Tammi and the boys

Blast at boonshoft!!

The children's musuem was a total blast!!! It is by far the best children's museum we have been too!! Enjoy the pics!!

See what happens when Dad's the judge....

Shopping the store...

Maybe Tanner was in jail because of who was on the witness stand.... little brother!

Evan thought the body shop area was awesome!!

The tree house part was amazing... lots of exploring and bird watching!

Tanner compared to a redwood tree.... made me realize I need to take the boys to see the redwoods...so amazing!

Enjoying the large water play area...

Checking out the planets with Dad

Okay that is enough for one post...

Thanks for stoppin in and checkin on us!

Much Love,

Tammi and the boys!