another blah day for me… and so once again, the people who light up my life….

meleia and douglas going to rinse the car– pre being sprayed

love, love, love them…

so recently the local rock radio station lazer 103.3 had a photo contest in which i let douglas take me on a photo shoot for… it was so cold, but so fun!! there will soon be a gallery at his site so you can view them all but for now everyone should go vote for me by clicking here!!!! They put my name as SpringFling, lol… Here is a preview shot.. .

with the weather being so wonderful today, and douglas having the week off work, we decided to take advantage and go for a fun family day….

daddy’s girls walking to the water…

meleia wanting to put her feet in… but was TOO cold!!

“dosey” and meleia…

a little playground action can never be passed up…

and the last stop - the dairy queen to get some ice cream and french fries… meleia likes to wear daddy’s hat!

ah. the start to summer… and lots of wonderful times. 

a very young crystal and lyndsay…

and a more recent…

crystal is my cousin, more like sister… i have learned a lot from her.  we are very close. always have been and always will be… i was her maid of honor in both of her weddings and she’ll be mine (if that time ever comes) we’ve been through a lot of disasters, rough rough times, but we’ve also been through tremendous amounts of joy together… we’ve had our fights but nothing could ever really tear us apart.. no matter what she is always there for me, and i am always there for her.. i gave her chicken pox when we were little… we both had to stay at grandma’s all the time… we fought so bad sometimes they had to put us in separate rooms… then we grew up. and she snuck me out of windows… she ran away and always let me in on her secrets… she lost me in a rock quarry… and then we grew up some more. and we partied a lot… we went to college together… we helped each other through some tough adult times… and then…. we grew up yet again…

and here’s the next generation of us….

now we are able to share stories about being mothers, the trials and the joys… we get to talk about having a family.. we get to talk about how our mother’s are loosing it!!! we get to enjoy, still to this day, the same thing we always have been able to.. just the company.

love you crystal!!

this easter was a very special one.. my first one with my own family, our family… and actually, the first year my mother up and left town.. haha. but.. we had an amazing weekend.. better than i could have ever imagined.. and i received the most special gift in the world from my amazing douglas.. see it here..

waking up and seeing meleia try to find all her hidden eggs and opening her easter basket was amazing… seeing doug cuddle meleia for an hour was amazing… her taking a nap and allowing me to lay on his lap was amazing… dinner was amazing… and having crystal, jerod, bray, and matthew visit was amazing… as well as the night with my love

thank you douglas, for our first easter.. thank you for making it so terrific, for bonding with meleia so much, and for making me know that there will be many, many more to come..

early morning… she still kinda looked rough.. lol


before nap time, cuddling.. still bummin’

the loves of my life all cleaned up!

so lately my grandma has been having a little of a rough time.. she fell and broke her shoulder and has been recovering in the nursing home for the past two months.. there was a point there that we had a very scary moment and thought we might loose her.. thank god for miracles.. she is healing well and gets to come home soon.. now, you have to realize something about my grandma.. she is a CB freak!!!   there is a certain man, heavy (they call him) that will talk to her until all hours of the night on the cb.  today, he got into a car accident and passed away.. my grandma, being old and ill, this is very hard on her, as it would be for any person.. so tonight we went to give her a card and visit her at the nursing home… she seemed very happy for the company.. love you grandma joy!!

meleia and grandma…

meleia holding out her cookie to grandma, douglas in the background..

RIP Joe McCloud

with doug working nights, sometimes danielle comes over to visit us.. meleia loves playing with danielle.. and she is a good friend to me as well… we all love her around here, including mr. douglas

so i hope you enjoy the picture as much as we did having her company tonight…

for those who don’t “actually” know me… as a lot of those stalkers out there..
my amazing daughter calls douglas daddy, because we are now comfortable with that. and he is an incredible daddy to her, in fact. her biological father, in fact didn’t just up and leave her, he agreed with me… that things would be better this way. and again, once is all okay. he actually loves her, i’m sure. but things are perfect as they are… and i got what i wanted, like always…

just wanted to clear up any confusion out there that some might have..
it’s nice not to have to share your child…