Happy Halloween!!

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)

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!

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!

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....

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!!

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!!

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!