St Patrick's Day 2009

St Patty's Day Parade 2009!!! It was so much fun this year -like it is every year! My sisters, mom and I have been going to this parade for awile now and every year our group gets bigger! We meet up at mom's in the morning for coffee then we head downtown early to get our " spot" Then we watch the parade and hang out with all of our friends. After the parade we all go to this dive bar that has amazing pizza then out to more bars and so on and then we usually end up at someone's house and hang out next to a bonfire! Good friends good food and beer all day! What more could you ask for?!!

Here's Maverick and I making our scary faces

Tami says-"Nothing like a cold 16 oz at 10:30am!!!

Check out that tat sleeve! Hot yes I know!!!

A twin picture-me and JanelleTami and I attempting to ride a single bike double!

Our AWESOME bike parked right next to all the other awesome bikes!

Our first attempt was alittle better than the second

The Jodes

Pat, Adam, Erik, and Scotty-they hate when I make them pose for pictures!

BFF's Jason and Adam

about half of all of us that were there. It was hard to get everyone to get in the photo!

Janelle, Jodes and Addison, my cousin Tami. me and Courtney-just some of the girls!

Pat and I

St Patrick's Day 2009!! Carrie and Tami

Evie looking like she's posing!

Bob and Stacy-who are getting married in August

Brady and a buddy from school

Austin and his cool glasses and hair

our baby

The latest pictures of Tally-She turns 4 in April!!! or 28 in doggie years!

Look at her sitting pretty!

I like this one the best! She looks like one of those hunting guys that wear those crazy outfits!

Prego...

No not me!!! Terra prego with number 2! She just found out she is having a boy yay! So a little boy to go with all the girls! Poor guy! He will be forced to play with barbies and dolls!

girls night

On Wednesday we had a girls night at Jodie's new house. All of the girls have girls except Nicole and Jess but they live out of town. So when we get together like this it is extremly loud but alot of fun! The next girls night is at Ashely's house when Jess is in town. Of all us girls Court and I are the only ones without kids but that will change soon hopefully!

Mariah, Makynzie, Addison, and Emma

Baywatch

While on our trip to Fort Dodge Janelle became a little girls hero!!! I like to call her Baywatch now b/c she has mad life saving skills! Here's the story...
We were sitting around the pool talking with family and we hear this rather large kind of white trash(sorry if I offend anyone) woman yelling at her son. We turn our attention to her and we see that her little boy-no older than 7-stole her 12 pack of Bud Light and ran to the other side of the pool so she could not catch him. During this mothers yelling to get her beer back her 3 year old daughter managed to get into the deep end of the pool(5ft) and started to drown. The next thing you hear is the big woman yell at her son to save his little sister from drowning. As she is already standing on the edge of the pool no more than 2 feet away from her drowning daughter. There is no way this little boy could touch in that water either and Janelle and I look at each other run to the pool and Janelle jumps in and saves this little girl. The mother never said thank-you. How could anyone stand there and watch their own child drown and not jump in themselves. And how do you not say thank-you?? Had that woman not been 3x my size I would have had some choice words for her but honestly she was huge and I was a little worried what she might do to me! Tami with Ms. Baywatch! Right after Janelle changed out of her wet clothes.

cookies

So about 3 weeks ago I ordered girl scout cookies and I called Pat to ask him what kind he wanted. He misunderstood what I was saying because when I got home and every day after he kept asking where I was hiding the cookies. He thought I bought them right then and I was hiding them so only I could eat them. I would hear him in the kitchen slamming cupboard doors and I would ask him what he was doing and he would say looking for the cookies your hiding from me, I know you ordered them where are they?!! I would just laugh and tell him we havent gotten them yet and he didnt believe me. Well I came home with them the other day and here is what I found when I went into the kitchen. He walked right into the kitchen saw the cookies and just started eating. Really he's worse then a kid! He was still in his work clothes and work boots!

I sent him a text the day I received them and told them they were here and his response was Thank God! Really their just cookies!!!!

huh?!!!

So I thought you weren't supposed to have a favorite sibbling?? These next 3 pictures really prove who Kyle's favorite is! Why we took so many pictures together that night I have no idea!!! Huh-picture number one-what about me?? His face in this one says it all...weird I don't remember taking a shot that night?!! But I must have :)

Me trying to pull him off of her...This just proves my point he has a favorite twin and it's obviuosly not me :(

weekend away

Janelle, Pat, Maverick, Brady, Evie and I went out of town last weekend. Our first stop was Des Moines on Friday to see my sister Joy and her family then we went to Fort Dodge to see some more family. We had a really fun time but didn't have enough time to see all the aunts, uncles etc our next trip definitly has to be longer! We did stay in a hotel on Saturday so Janelle could take Evie swimming-she hated it! But the boys had fun! I didn't take a lot of pictures b/c I was too busy catching up with family so here are the ones I did take... Evie loving her bisquit

her messy face afterwards!

Who is this lady?? Evie and her Great Grandma Pat

Evie and Aubrey-one month apart and an 11 pind difference!

Evie and her 2nd cousin Emma- Evie didn't know what to think and neither did poor Emma
they are also a month apart