I love me some handmade baby jammies!

My DEAR friend Kristen (you can find her on her BABY STEPS blog) made my sweet girl Peyton some even sweeter jammies out of the goodness of her heart. Here are the results!

How you ask did I get her to actually sit still for the camera? Why, I bribed her with Jelly beans of course. Don't all Moms do that? Right before bed time like I do, I just bet.



Oh, I guess the toes are pretty tasty too.

Thanks so much Kristen! I am still not sure how you manage it. Staying home with your 2 sweet girls is a LOT of work! To make your friends daughters P.Js on top of it, well, you are my favorite domestic goddess.

The end of Spring soccer season. Grade 1

We had our last soccer game of the spring season on Saturday. We ended our best season yet with a 4 game winning streak. It was quite nice to watch our girls WIN! I know we are supposed to be teaching the kids about being good sports about winning & loosing. But come on. Lets be honest. We as people are hard wired with the desire to win. To be the best we can. Its natural. So YES. I was GLAD that our girls ended up winning the last 4 games. And darned proud too.
Coaches Travis & Byron and the Blue Dolphins.

See that face? That's the face of a girl who loves to play soccer, and a girl who loves to WIN at soccer!

I Heart Jackson

Here are some pictures I took today of my favorite nephew Jack. (Ok, you got me, he's my ONLY nephew. But that's not the point.)





He is SO the cutest baby boy. In my own very biased opinion that is. Oh could you say a prayer for him too? He is pretty jaundiced and if his Billiruebin (sp?) count goes up much more he will have to be hospitalized under the billirueben lights. He has the billi "blanket" right now that he is in pretty much 24/7. So pray that it will go down and he can be a free little man! Thanks!

And here he is!

Jackson Charles Lewis.
The most perfect and wonderful nephew an Auntie could ask for!



More photos most certainly to follow. One thing is for sure though. I am in love. He is going to have his little pinkie wrapped around my heart forever.

Welcome to the family little man.

Easter Photos

I am not going to write about what we did on Easter, but just show you pics of my adorable daughters. And one of my sweet niece Olivia too. :-)
Trying to get a good shot of all my girls together..

Not that I succeeded all that well.

Peyton is impossible to take pictures of!

Great shot of Alex. Somehow I missed getting a solo of Maddy though... Very surprising.

And of course, my niece Olivia. A little lady whom I adore.

Keeping it real..

My Friend Tammy on her Raising Angels Blog challenged me eons ago to participate in this game called Keeping it Real, and I am FINALLY posting the picture I took when I read her blog oh so long ago.. It has just taken me until today to download all my pics!

The rules?...
Take a picture of yourself right now. No primping or preparing. Just snap a picture. Load the picture onto your blog. Tag some people to play.

I am tagging:
My sister Charity.
My friend Kristen
My new blog friend Jodi
And my friend Angie

Hope you do this too!

Oh no she di'int!

Note to self:

You no longer need to use shameless bribes to help Maddy make goals in soccer. She can do it on her own.

Yeah. So this morning I made a "deal" with Maddy. If she were to make 2 goals at the soccer game today, she could have a sleep over with a few friends. I honestly thought this was a long shot. Um, guess what. Not so much. In literally the first 5 minutes of the game she had scored the two goals she needed to have her slumber party. Crap. Now I have to have a little girls sleep over at my house. Something I promised my self I wouldn't do until my girls were about 10. Or 25. Ok, I secretly told my self I would NEVER let the girls have sleep overs. Ever. I would probably let them have ONE friend over to spend the night every once & a while, but that would be it. Guess I ruined that huh.

Oh well. Look on the bright side. It'll give me something to blog about. Yay.

Warning! Cute Pregnant Belly Shots Posted!

My little sister asked me a while back to take maternity photos of her, and we decided that sooner was better then later since she probably won't be pregnant much longer so we took them today.. So here are a few shots that I have played with. More to come I'm sure! Tell me what you think! Oh, and thanks Elizabeth for letting me post these on here. ;-)

Some of these are duplicates with a color copy & a B&W copy.

Give me my iced tea, NOW!

Hello, my name is Stacey, and I am an Iced Tea-aholic.

Step 1. Admit you have a problem. Check.

Step 2 - 12 ???

I am going through serious, I mean, SERIOUS withdrawals right now. Its B-A-D. And hello, its only for Iced tea. And its only day 2. How pathetic. The reason I am blogging right now when I said I wouldn't, is because if I didn't I would be down stairs popping an IV into my arm just so I could get my caffinated beverage injected directly into my blood stream. Not Cool.

I don't know if I can cut out the drink cold turkey folks. Just don't think I have it in me. HELP!

And before I go, did you hear about the plane crash in Newberg yesterday? It was literally 100 yards away from my brotha mans new place. Crashed into the front yard of my dream house. Crazy. And so so sad. May the 2 people who lost their lives rest in peace.

A loose tooth and an early baby. Possibly.

Wow. I honestly didn't think I would be posting ANYTHING today, but apparently I just can't stay away. So here I am. With news non the less!

I took my big girls to the kiddie dentist today. Dr. Noyes, for all my friends who haven't ventured that far into the child rearing stage. And he is AWESOME. Anyways, my girls have great teeth. No cavities at all, and my Maddy finally has a loose tooth! I KNOW, she is 7 and this is her first loose tooth. Seems crazy to me. But oh well. I asked the doc about how long it will take to fall out, and quite frankly was expecting to hear, oh about 3-4 WEEKS. NO, he said 3-6 MONTHS! Crazy huh. I guess since I have never dealt with this before I had other expectations. For all of you who have gone down this road, how long did it take your kiddos?

AND, even bigger news, my little sis is in the hospital in early labor. They are trying to stop it since she is still 5 weeks away from her due date. I have always said that her baby will come 3 weeks early, so I guess we'll see how close I am! I can't wait to meet baby Jack, but I still think he needs to wait at least 2 more weeks. Just so he has no issues with under developed lungs and such.

Well, that's all I have. I seriously doubt I will post tomorrow, but I guess anything is possible.