The Iveys

Yikes! Its been forever!

2011-04-01T15:28:00.003-08:00

Alright, i have some serious time to catch up on! My last post seems to be over a year ago! hmmmmmm....thats sad! Alright heres a QUICK recap of the last year, and here's hoping I can keep this up better! (wink*) Of course everyone is a year older (and wiser hopefully). Camping trip after camping trip, our garden, raising chickens, BBQing and family have kept last summer full and fun! Snowmachine trips and holiday parties and school has kept our winter fun and busy. Morning sickness has been slowing down the begining of 2011 BUT a bundle of GIRL to meet around August 18th 2011 will surely make it all worth it! let the naming games begin! I'll be posting pictures here soon. And here's hoping I can do better at keeping my blog up to date! see ya soon!

Sledding Pictures!!

2010-03-24T14:06:00.002-08:00

I diddnt take a ton of sledding pictures, the kids zooomed tooo fast down Papas hill, they were blurry in the pictures, BUT here some fun ones that looked good!

James

Samantha

Ian

What do you get when you add a....

2010-03-22T20:42:00.006-08:00

dad, his sons and a HUGE SNOW BIRM?????

A SNOWCASTLE!!

This is a 14x20 foot snow castle complete with a slide (see samantha on the left laying on the sled) The stairs on the Right, by the shovel, go up to the top level that wraps around the back. Then there is a doorway between Josh and I that goes into a room that is probably 5x9 Ian and Isaac are sitting the the wall that goes into it. Can you see Grandma Elaine in the back? :)

The kids want to play on this ALL DAY...they LOVE IT!!! Josh wants to make this into a family tradition every year.....he is already planning on 3 levels for next year....what fun!

Snowmachine Weekend!!

2010-03-15T08:50:00.008-08:00

Spring break was great we went out to Grandma and Papa Iveys "Green Cabin" for 4 days. We had a blast, it was soo fun just getting away and sledding with the kids and hanging out with the family.

Josh even made a 4 man totem pole going sledding. James Ivey in the front then Ian, Isaac and Josh. That was great!! There was sooo much sledding out there this weekend! Everyone had soo much fun!

The kids also LOVED the little kid snowmachines. It was too fun to watch them drive around the feild by the cabin. Here Samantha crashed into this tree and got her ski stuck. She had such a great time driving around.

Isaac.....

and Ian Loved their turns on the 120s too!

Isaac even got to try driving Grandma Elaines machine....He did great. Next year he will "HAVE TO HAVE " his own machine i'm sure.

This last week Josh bought the kids a little .22 rifle called a Chipmunk. Josh and Isaac took it out to do a little practice shooting. Isaac did great and loves it. Its just his size.

More pics soooon!

Kids are great!

2010-01-30T23:37:00.003-09:00

Sooo for this last school year Isaac has been going through the math curriculum called MathUSee. Great program by the way. The other day at swimming I went to pick Isaac up and noticed that the chalk borad next to the part of the pool where his lessons are had a few math problems written and answered on it. I asked him if that was him writting on the board (looked like his hand writting) and he said Yes. Seems I get him to swimming a little too early and he sits there ready to get in the water and does math until his lesson :) Thats great, he could be doing worse.

There is a little math game we like to play, he asks for it all the time. Heres how it goes...

I say "Isaac if I am 6 and together we are 9 what are you???" "3" Little intro to algebra....He gets it right all the time!

I'm so proud of him he really is doing great at math, he just loves it!

Ian has been surprising me more and more lately, today he wrote/drew a card for my dad (whos birthday party is tommorow) and has amazingly great penmanship for a 4 year old (at least i think so). The other day while playing a math game, the one I mentioned above, with Isaac, Ian chimed in and answered one of the problems. I guess it pays off to hang out with Isaac durring school :)

Samantha and Zoa are getting to be such great buds. Right now Samantha and Josh are off snowmachining on a daddy daughter weekend. Zoa and I were sitting here at the computer checking on my blog and she started getting fussy so I played the video of Samantha singing and she INSTANTLY stopped crying and started jumping and smiling HUGE, Zoa sure does LOVE Samantha and Samantha Loves her!!!

I am having such fun with my kids right now. Lately they have been really good and fun to be around, I feel so blessed!

My Private Blog

2010-01-25T09:49:00.005-09:00

Sorry everyone, for some reason I felt the need to go private. I hope this isn't an inconvenience to you. I've got some cute pictures i'll be posting here soon.......see ya then!

Halloween 2009

Here's one of my favorite pictures! Love it!

HAPPY GIRL!!

2009-12-03T09:34:00.003-09:00

Zoa Mae Ivey

2 months old!

She sure is a SWEETIE PIE!!

ZOA MAE IVEY

2009-09-26T10:55:00.006-08:00

YEA!! ZOA MAE IS HERE!!! She got here at 11:06 am on Sept 25, 2009. She weighed 7'13" and was 20 inches long. She is doing great!!

Sorry but i couldnt get this one twisted right...but here she is. She sure is a sweet little girl.

Isaac and his new favorite lady!! He said over and over again yesterday "Mama you did a great job!!" he thinks she looks so much prettier than he ever imagined!! he is a fun boy!

Ian and Zoa! We think these two look the most alike, Ian Loves that!! He just LOVES ZOA!

Samantha and Zoa! Immediate new (princess) Best Friends. Samantha is LOVING this little girl!! Samantha is soooo excited.

We are so excited, she came out just perfect!! ZOA MAE IVEY!

My princess Samantha Singing her FAVORITE song.

2009-09-08T13:49:00.007-08:00

Here is Samantha Singing Families are Forever. She absolutly LOVES to sing this song!

She started out wanting to be sung to every night and so I would sing different songs to her. This one and I am a Child of God and The Popcorn Song have been the ones she asks for every night.

It was very cute on the trip down the gulkana this summer she sang this song at least 5 times a day. She LOVES to sing and I LOVE listening to her sing......

24 days to go!

2009-09-01T22:11:00.002-08:00

Heres some good news.....In 24 days I will be holding my 4th baby! We are going in the 25 of September for a c-section!! I'll be getting some fun pictures up of Zoa Mae Ivey as soon as I can! We cant wait to meet her!

Adoption day WAS GREAT!

2009-06-18T08:25:00.003-08:00

My Sister in Law and Brother in Law adopted their 2 little foster boys yesterday, June 17, 2009! The court part was so great hearing that Becki and Nick are Mom and Dad from here on out to Alvin and Paul brought a tear to me eye. I cant help myself, they are such a cute family! The BBQ afterwards was great there was a ton of people! So much love and congrats from everyone! The whole day was SO GREAT!

I am SOOO Happy for them. My kids have offical cousins that are here to STAY! we are so happy to have them in our lives!

CONGRATS YOU GUYS!!!

I love summer!

2009-06-14T23:08:00.005-08:00

Sorry i havent blogged in a while, i was just thinking how much went to the wayside as soon as it was fun to be at the parks all of the time.....hmmmmm.

Summer is going great we have just been doing everything fun outside as much as possible. The other day we were out at parks (2 different ones) from 10 am till 3:30 pm i got red but not burned and the kids went to bed early that day! It was a blast! Weve also headed out to willow and camped at Bilbo and Elaines house, always a blast to stay with grandparents!

Isaac started T-Ball and absolutly LOVES it. He cannot get enough of it. His team is the Red Dragons. They pretty much just hit the ball and run a base. But getting the hang of where to run is the begining. Ian and Samantha just play in the woods and under the bleachers the whole hour. They all Love it!

Here's Samantha at my Moms house playing with all the garage sale stuff...Silly Manta, that stuff is for sale!

Summer is looking like a low blogging time with a TON of fun things to blog, so i'll try to do my best. Have a Great Summer!

What kind of shoes are you wearing???

2009-05-18T08:27:00.002-08:00

The cutest thing happened the other day I just have to share with you. We are trying our hardest to get out the door quickly for swimming lessons but every kid cant find something. So i'm getting a little short with them. Then Ian (my 4 y/o) comes out of his bedroom with one flip-flop on and says "MOM, I wound one whip-wop but i tant whind my other whip-wop!! Tan you heop me whind my odder whip-wop???? PLEASE!!!!" Oh, how can you not laugh at that!!! That turned my whole day around! I just love that his alphabet only has about 20 letters! I just love how much (and how) he is talking!!

cover your kids eyes and ears!! WARNING EASTER BUNNY SPOILER!!!

2009-03-27T08:30:00.008-08:00

So the last few Easters have not been good. Either I have a puking child for 24 hours during Easter or seriously I remember that it is Easter at midnight the Saturday night before. Yea, that happened but I have really good reasoning to have forgotten.

Last year I bought baskets that seem durable and have a cotton lining so this year we are going to fill them with kid made "grass" and the Easter eggs that we decorate and put them out on the couch before bed. (this is kinda a Christmas stocking theory) Then the Easter Bunny will come by and take the decorated eggs (my sister in laws idea) that we put in the baskets the night before and hide them for the kids to find in the morning. Then he will fill them with fresh fruit, spring colored packaged breakfast bars or mabey homemade muffins?? (i heard that since the puking child may have been a result of too much candy in the morning and a flu bug at the same time sweets wont be the only thing in the basket, too tempting with no alternative!) BUT he will be putting some treats in to be enjoyed later in the day BUT not too much. He may also put books and good toys in and mabey a movie, all Easter themed of course.

This helps with the few problems i do have with Easter....

Cheap ugly baskets that get thrown away or broken before the next easter, having 2 sets of easter eggs 1 set the kids helped decorate and one set that is decorated that the kids dont know about that "the bunny" leaves, And last but not least too much candy. That is always one thing i over do every christmas and Easter with my thinking that only one handful of candy will make the basket look empty.

So there's my new Easter Ideas, I am so excited to do this! With Easter being almost 2 weeks away i'd better get working on this!! I'll deffinatly be taking pictures and will add them to this post after Easter! See you then!

Being pregnant is...no fun.

2009-03-06T14:21:00.002-09:00

I don't know many women who love to be pregnant. Seriously the first trimester is no fun. My poor daughter the other day was pretending to puke in the toilet! Why do kids always pick your least flattering experiences to imitate!??

I cant wait for the 1st trimester to be OVER! I love the middle of pregnancies, you start to look pregnant and you can do anything!

What does a Snow Angel look like?

2009-02-23T11:06:00.003-09:00

Joshs parents took Isaac and Ian out to their cabin for a little vacation (Isaac and Bilbo were there for 10 days and Ian and Elaine joined them for the last 4 days) While they were there Bilbo and Elaine showed them how to do snow angels. They had a lot of fun. Then Bilbo saw Ian fall face first instead of back first. He rushed over to Ian and helped him up. Ian was crying by now. He asked him "what are you doing, your suppose to fall back first?" Through tears Ian says "but I wanted my snow angel to have eyes! (sob sob)"

that boy is just too cute!

Josh is just a big KID!

2009-02-10T13:52:00.005-09:00

I finnally figured out what type of parent I am.....I am a single mom with 4 kids (not three). So for the last year (ish) we have been trying real hard to get the kids to stop playing with thier toy tubs. It is really annoying when they dump ALL the toys everywhere just to play with the toy tubs. So one day a few weeks ago I heard a ton of laughing and saw Josh run out to the kids room . He looked satartled when he saw me and was laughing. Of course I am still in mom mode (i have been policing toddlers all day) And say "why is the toy tub on your HEAD??" Josh says "were being Mushroom People!!.......and besides the tubs were already empty!" Umm, yea, I now know why the kids are still dumping their tubs!

He is the funnest amount of carzy and the best amount of parent when needed! he is the BEST!

The Boy and his Scissors!

2008-11-29T18:52:00.006-09:00

I just found this among my posts that i started but didn't finish, so here you go.

Every fairy tale need is a princess and a villain. Here is the villain.

He's a cute one, but some times his imagination gets him into loads of trouble, I think that its because he is a crazy, fun loving boy. Its a fact that he has even driven a toy ride on car straight off the top bunk. Seriously when he hit the floor he shook his head and looked a little stunned because it should've been pain free, but that story is for another day!

Along comes the princess.........Of course every princess has prefect hair but thanks to our villain, she does not. He decided a haircut was in order so to the chop shop she went. Ian grabbed Ian sized hand fulls from her head and snipped off about 4 Ian sized hand fulls out of her hair! I was pretty sad to come back in the room from switching the laundry to find clumps of princess hair everywhere!! It was rough!

I am happy to inform that her princess hair is S-L-O-W-L-Y growing back. And there will be a happily ever after until the villain strikes again.

Happy Thanksgiving!

2008-11-29T18:33:00.003-09:00

Hope your day was great, Mine was wonderful!

In an earlier post I said that I wanted to enrich our lives and learn the true meaning of thanksgiving. Well we had a few learning times about being thankful and about the Pilgrims and Indians so many years ago. We also had a wonderful thanksgiving FHE the Monday before the joyous pig out day! We talked about the 10 lepers and how only 1 came to give thanks, more should have. We also made a thankful tree at FHE! It was alot of fun. I made a TON of leaves and we wrote things we are thankful for on them. What the kids were thankful for was the cutest part. They were thankful for things like....Castles, the Wii, Wall-e, the Rocketeer, Family and Primary Teachers! Then we taped them to the tree! It really turned out GREAT! The kids really LOVED this part.

Ohh and don't look too close at the door, It has been sanded but not painted. Here's just another one of my projects that will get done......someday!

The ABC's of Me!!

2008-11-21T10:57:00.003-09:00

I've been tagged by my friend Kathryn. (well she said on hers anyone who wanted to, and i want to, so here we go!)

A- Attached or Single: Attached
B- Best friends: Josh (my husband), Erika (my sister), Becki (my sister in law)
C- Cake or Pie: Chocolate cake and Pecan Pie come in close!
D- Day of choice: Saturday, Big Family Day!
E- Essential Items: Family, Friends and Chocolate.
F- Favorite color: really any natural color especially Sky Blue like today!
G- Gummy Worms or Godiva Chocolate: Id Have to say Godiva BUT I Want to say any European brand (lindt, toblerone, rittersport! YUMMMM!)
H- Hometown: Palmer, AK
I- Indulgences: going out for sushi or thrift store shopping
J- January or July: July, for all the fun out door activities and not having to bring coats everywhere we go. Josh would say January for the snow machining!
K- Kids: Isaac 6 years, Ian 3.5 years, Samantha 2.5 years and Josh 28 years!!
L- Life is incomplete without: Christ, Love, Family, and laughter!
M- Marriage Date: August 4, 2001 WOW its been 7 years!
N- Number of Siblings: 3 Sisters (Shana, Paula, Me and Erika)
O- Oranges or Apples: Oranges!
P- Phobias or Fears: Moths, I know weird! But they are so hairy and fat and gross! Oh and Heights!
Q- Quotes: I'd have to say that currently a fav quote is "Raising Kids is like being Pecked to Death by a Duck!" My cousin Ambriah said that once and I have LOVED it ever since. Often it applies to me and other times, not so much!
R- Reasons to Smile: Anything I am grateful for!
S- Season: Fall! Love the colors!
T- Tag Friends: Anyone who wants to do it.
U- Unknown Fact About Me: Someday I would love to have a Stained Glass Studio in my home and sell it at my dream booth at the Fair!!
V- Very favorite Store: LOTS! Micheals, Value Village, Fred Meyer, CTMH.com, walmart, etc.
W- Worst Habit: Playing on the Internet and not doing my chores! like now!
X- X-ray, Ultra-sound or Mammogram: none of the above, they all sound annoying. All i have had of those is an xray.
Y- Your Favorite Food: Tator Tot Casserole, Asparagus Chicken over Rice.
Z- Zodiac: Libra

Locked and Safe!

2008-11-14T11:06:00.003-09:00

Okay I have found that no matter how secure of a Rubbermaid tote is my kids can usually get it open which defeats all sense of "well that's put away safely". The box in mention is the box that holds all of thier puzzles, flash cards and small peices games. Now enters the Luggage straps!I have used one for years holding my cat box together so that my toddlers wont "dig in the sand" I just thought i could take this else where. When you live in a small apartment that means usually everything is accesable by all. My kids cannot open these clips they are too big for their hands and are sometimes too tight for me.. And for just a few bucks at walmart!! We'll see how it goes! Heres crossing my fingers!

Happy Thanksgiving!

2008-11-14T10:35:00.004-09:00

So here we are, its almost Thanksgiving. In the rush of holidays I have never really sat down as a family to REALLY learn the true story of thanksgiving and I fully intend to this year. (I do basically know it). Well I found this article in my searches and really liked it. If you do anything this thanksgiving, besides practice making that turkey since Christmas is coming, sit down with your family and start some sort of THANKFUL bug!

http://www.more4kids.info/553/teaching-children-the-meaning-of-thanksgiving/

Check out this blog posting it really simplified, in my heart, this holiday that is usually just a good excuse for seeing family and eating like a pig! I would like to make this holiday one that is about food (don't want to change it just add to it) But one that's more about what we are thankful for, learn about the first thanksgiving and teach that being thankful should be a year long emotion!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Love, Loni

Homeschooling Isaac

2008-11-07T13:47:00.005-09:00

As many of you already know I am homeschooling Isaac. He really gets excited to see pictures of him "on the Internet" (on my blog) so I decided to make a Home school post just from him! He has really been having fun with his school. There are definitely days where he would rather play with Samantha and Ian, but all in all he really gets excited when he has a good day of school! The first picture is when he completed 12 subtraction problems with no help and did them all perfectly. This is his A+++ he is showing off! He was so excited!

Heres another picture of his "PE" class! He LOVES to go swimming! Here he is floating, I remember this part of lessons when I was a kid. I remember this being alot harder and scarier for me than it has been for him! He is doing really well! Funny thing after the fact......we came to lessons about 3 weeks ago and I was acctually getting a little mad watching his lessons because his teacher was not even looking at Isaac who was just playing in the water. He was not including Isaac in the class at all! So I went up to the director and asked him what was going on and he said that Isaac moved up a class and they have thier lesson time after the free swim time. (When he started he had lessons first then free swim time.)

Happy Halloween!!

2008-11-02T20:27:00.004-09:00

Heres Samantha (Strawberry Shortcake), Isaac (Iron Man), and Ian (Iron Man) at the Church for Trunk or Treat!! They had SOOOO Much fun and left with HUGE BAGS OF CANDY! Halloween was lots of fun! Josh was Frankinstein and I was a Witch! Mabey i'll post those soon!

Catch Up! (not the red stuff)

2008-11-02T16:11:00.009-09:00

The other day I was watching Isaac swimming and realized that I havent posted ANYTHING since APRIL! So much has happened so i'll just update by a ton of pictures. So here you go!

Ians 3rd birthday party. he really wanted a "Hoppity goes to Town" cake but since that cartoon is from the 40's i diddnt think that the Fred Meyers Bakery would have any fun cakes! who knew!

Samamntha LOVES strawberry Shortcake and when Toys R Us had a Grand Opening this summer SHE WAS THERE!!! Samantha wouldnt go any closer than in the picture. I dont know if you can see in the picture but she is clapping her hands!

We love to go to the Imaginarium! I took this shot this summer. Josh and Isaac had so much fun playing in the bubble maker thing (i'm not sure what it is called!?) Ian LOVED the train and the Mountain area! and Samantha just Loved it all!

We were out hiking this summer at Thunderbird falls and Ian gets into a funny face mood! He cracks me up!! Ian sat there for about 20 minutes making just the funniest faces then cracking up at himself! He is the biggest NUT:)

And here is my BEAUTIFUL little Girl! Samantha Iris Ivey!

My little Sister go married back in March! They are just perfect together! Congrats you guys!

Well thats enough for right now i'm needed in the laundry room! A hundred plus loads await me!! wish me luck! tata for now!

If you give a MOM a cookie!

2008-04-17T13:23:00.002-08:00

I found this in the June 2006 Parenting Magazine. I just thought it was Hilarious! I just gotta share it!

If you give a mom a cookie,

Shes gonna want a glass of

milk* to go with it.

But before she gets the milk*,

she has to find her toddlers

pink ladybug boots.

To find the ladybug boots

she has to venture into

the playroom.

When she tries to tidy up

the playroom, she finds

daddy's left shoe, the salad

bowl, and an open package

of graham crackers. She also

finds her cell phone.

So she'll yell at her toddler

about the cell phone and

wake up the baby from

his morning nap.

But when she goes in to pick

up the baby the cell

phone will ring.

When she answers, it'll be

the doctors office reminding

her that she had an

appointment this morning

and would she like to reschedule,

say, sometime in November?

While she is trying to mentally

re-create he calender, the

baby will start to cry.

Then her toddler will run

to see what's the matter

and find the graham crackers.

When she finds the graham

crackers there will be

crumbs all over the playroom.

So the mom will get the

broom from the hall closet

and notice that daddy forgot

to buy diapers last night,

as she asked.

But she will find her

toddlers pink ladybug boots.

And when she finds the pink

ladybug boots, she'll remember

her emergency stash of

diapers in the car.

So She'll wrestle her toddler

and her baby into their car

seats and drive to

the store to buy more

diapers and more milk.

while she is buying the

milk she'll remember that

she wanted a glass of milk*.

And if she manages to buy

the Milk* without a tantrum

or poop episode from either

of her kids....

Then shes going to need another cookie.

(By Julie Tilsner inspired by Laura Numeroff's If you give a Mouse a Cookie)

I loved this and thought all of you would too! Oh the * next to the milk means in the origional printing from the magazine it said Latte. I can relate better when it is milk, so i changed it.

But hes a RAT!

2008-04-16T16:28:00.004-08:00

I constantly go through my day thinking oh thats funny, i should post it......and as you can see i have slacked. But this I just couldnt let pass. Yesterday I was putting down for a nap my nephew James Ivey ( i watch him everyday) and i got that erie feeling that someone or something was watching me.........uhhh i dont like that. I looked up and almost fell over backward scared. there was a HUGE moose starring at me through their window, holy cow thats AWSOME, naps over. I called all the kids in and we watched him for a few minutes and then i thought ya know i have a 20lbs pound bag of carrots left over from Erikas wedding that are going bad and so we even fed them. Oh it was sooooo fun! Oh and the cutest part was after about 5-6 carrots that mammas baby came over so we were tossing the carrots to him and the Mamma. it was fun Isaac said the mamma is a bad mamma because she kept taking carrots out of the babys mouth! oh it was a blast. if i thought about it i would have some pictures to post But all i have is an empty bag of carrots! ohh well. the kids LOVED it, my dog on the other hand acted as if she was screaming " do you know what you are feeding??? get away from that window, board it up and run save your self, i'll hold them off!!!!!" Luci is a summissive girl Lab/ German Shepherd dog. I have always wondered if she would make a good guard dog in the event some one broke into our home. After that i am a little more confidant in her.

Here are a couple of "Out of the mouths of kids!" stories...

Isaac the other day came to me whinning "mamma, James is pushing me" I said "But Isaac he is only 1 1/2 years old, you are much bigger, I dont think he could hurt you too bad, just tell him to be nice." he replyed "but mamma he has big muscles packed inside that little body."

Too Cute!!

We were at my parents for Ians birthday party and he's running around the house with an empty watergun pretend shooting my sisters chihuahua. the dog runs to my ssisters fiance and sits in his lap and he says "oh be nice, dont shoot the dog" (not a direct quote) then Ian says "But he a RAT!"

I guess he's caught on to the teasing.

Kids are cute!! wouldnt trade them for the world!

Sorry about that everyone....

2008-03-06T09:06:00.005-09:00

I changed the background and all the pictures went away!!! Bummer! So I will be downloading new pictures (and some of my favorites from the ones that were there) over the next few days!!

Thanks for coming to visit the fun stories of our family!

Heres the first picture of many to come....Samantha learned the fun of playing with Baby Dolls a few months ago. She loves it SOOOO much that if she is in a bad mood (you know when kids get the whinnnnnnne when things dont go there way) she will instantly snap out of it and go look for her baby. You just gotta ask her "wheres your baby?" I think this day she was thinking the cat button was her baby! Button diddnt mind at all!!! Acctually about 5 times a day i find a doll wrapped up sleeping, somewhere! I'll even find her blanket on the dog!

Talk with you soon, Loni

I Love Hard Floors!!

2007-12-12T15:08:00.000-09:00

I am not a normal mom.....I highly DISLIKE playdough. I dont mind at all moms that have it around but I for myself have never been a fan. Who knows?? But today i was cleaning out the junk drawer in my kitchen , you know the drawer, the one that things go into that you dont have the heart to through away because who knows one day (and probably only once) You may need it so you put the little "Thing" in "The Drawer". Anyways when I was done I was feeling pretty accomplished so i went to go put the last things from the drawer away in the bathroom and saw in the Livingroom....Playdough!!! Isaac or Ian must have found it before i could ditch it. He got it in his halloween basket. (Which I must admit he did play with it once or twice) Anyways the playdough was everywhere!! The Best part was i just got my vacuum and up and away it went completely!!! it was amazing. (wow i never thought amazing would work with the subject of playdough! ) So yes I lave Hard Floors!

I really hope everyone is have a great holiday season. We Really are off to a great start!!! Life has been busy but Fun! One of the Fun parts these days is we are watching James again he really is a good Boy. My kids keep him happy and Busy all day, They all play so well together!

Oh and Yesterday was Samanthas First Haircut! The Boys also got new haircuts! I'll need to post a New Picture of them for you guys! Samantha was getting close to being mullet lady! I really dont like changing nicknames so i opted to just do a trim! It worked she looks REALLY cute!!!

Isaac and Ian are having a blast with all of this christmas stuff and Isaac is doing really good at memorizing songs. He sings along to ALOT of them! i'm real impressed and Ian Oh man he is my "Nake Boy" at least that is what he calles himself. He would , any day of the week, perfer to be naked than anything else!!! (well with a diaper on) Oh man he LOVES it!

Good times!!

Birthday Season Ends....Holiday Season Begins!!

2007-11-28T11:24:00.000-09:00

Wow, these last 2 months have been crazy! (In a Super Fun way) There has been birthday after birthday all through October and November. Lets see...6 birthdays in October and 5 in November. I figure counting these months and then Thanksgiving and Christmas, our families holiday season is like 4 months long , sounds good to me! My birthday and Isaacs birthday were among the 6 in October. Mine was great, Josh made me a Quilt Chest!! it is solid birch ...Very Beautiful! Also my Ian has called me "mom mom" for the longest time and so when Josh ordered my cake Had the guy put "Happy Birthday Mom Mom" on it, it was SO Sweet!!

Isaac was king for a week with his birthday, he is into the Transformers and almost everyone got him a transformer.. I believe hes got them all. As for me and Josh we have spent some good time into learning how to transform them... You know if it takes longer then the attention span they cant do it. But ohhh man i have to admit i spent probably 30 min on the easiest one. I personally wouldn't call that easy. But for now they have turned into the robots and just kinda been the funnest that way so they have stayed put for a while just as robots!! Isaac lately has been writing like crazy, that is seriously all he wants to do between watching Christmas movies, he loves it!! Ian is...the Hulk that is what he was for Halloween, OH MAN HE LOVED THAT!! he asked to be the hulk for like 2 weeks before Halloween, solid desire!! Isaac was Optimus Prime and Samantha was a Duck (I'll get some Pictures on here soon) Ian was very funny, Ashley was a Gorilla, Of course, what else would she be......when Ashley was showing off her costume to the kids they were all okay with it except for Ian he was not pleased with her being furrier the he was. (or something) She got the funniest reaction out of him, he was terrified! I think she enjoyed scaring him.....a lot!
Anyways This has been a great couple of months OH and one more SUPER ANNOUNCEMENT Erika (my little sister) is Engaged!!! She is Marrying Nate Mitchell (i hope i spelled that right) !! He is a really great guy! we are all very excited!

Isaacs got a sense of humor!!!

2007-10-04T14:14:00.000-08:00

I've gotta post this funny story that happened the other day....this is just hilarious.

I was talking to my sister Erika on the phone and Isaac came up to us and asked to say hi to erika. So i gave the phone to him and left to take dinner out of the oven. When i came back isaac was saying that josh really wanted to talk to her so he would go get Josh. I reminded him that Josh was busy at work and wasnt even home, But before I could finnish Isaac turned around and in the deepest voice that he could muster up got back ont the phone and said "Hi Erika, this is Josh" he began to tell her a few things and then he went through being the whole family and Ashley he had a funny voice for everyone. It was hilarius. When he was samantha he even talked just as she does with her baas and mammmas. ohh i was laughing so hard! he is really getting a funny sense of humor. Another one is we went to Josh's work to pick him up and as always just Isaac goes in to tell him we are waiting in the parking lot ( i can see him the whole time) I told him to tell josh that I am out there reading so not to rush. Anyways josh comes out and says "I figured you were still here." with me confused he went on to tell me that Isaac went in and told him that he works for josh today and I dropped him off and went to run errands so that they could go to work together. Very fun days.

Gotta get going, have a funny day.

The Iveys

Crazy Days!

2007-09-08T16:33:00.000-08:00

When everything seems to be going well what do I go off and do? I start some other thing to make my days even crazier!! So, Yea, we started Potty Training Ian and I forgot how crazy the day gets when there is potty training in the home. BUT progress does happen everyday. Some days I can see more of it than other days but all in all he's coming along quite nicely. If anyone out there has a magic potty training pill send me a prescription!

It is pouring rain today and I am here at home while josh and Isaac went out to my Dads cabin site to help him get the ground ready for building a cabin. I hope they are able to stay dry, I talked to my mom who is also out there and she says all is great, everyone is dry and having a blast. Isaac was so excited to go, he had his own pack (only 10 lbs) for his gear. It is one that josh used when he was a kid! It is really cute on Isaac!

Anyways, Today is really a great day! Just Samantha, Ian and I hanging out at home!!

Well gotsta get going!!

Love You all, talk to you soon!

Loni Ivey

summers almost over!!!

2007-08-29T11:25:00.000-08:00

This is a bittersweet time of the year, summer is almost over, but winter begins. We've been busy finishing up last minute (only in the summer) house projects....fun, fun, fun!!! Isaac will be turning 5 this October and is getting bigger everyday!! He is really getting to be a big kid! Still a Spiderman buff but is venturing into the Ninja Turtles!! He is Raphael! Ian is really getting better at talking and he loves to be read to (well they all do but him now especially). He is 2.5 years old doing really good!! and Samantha Ohh she is growing like a weed and keeping up with her crazy brothers loving every bit of it. If they are into something, so is she, but she dosent get pushed around, she keeps those boys in line. Josh and I are just watching and playing and Loving life!!

Sorry it has been so long since my last post but keep checking and i'll keep posting!!

Love You All See You Soon!

-Iveys

ERIKAS BACK!!

2007-07-13T17:50:00.001-08:00

My little sister Erika is back from her mission to Lansing Michigan!! we are all so very excited!! she is doing good and got to meet Samantha for the 1st time at the airport!! I posted a picture of the two of them. WELCOME HOME ERIKA!!!Love YOU!!

2007-07-10T10:22:00.000-08:00

Hello To Family and Friends!!

This is the new blog for the Ivey Family.

Josh, Loni, Isaac, Ian and Samantha

There has been some great times this summer that I am excited to share with you! so look back every now and then and i will post new pictures!

Welcome to our page I hope you Love it.