Blast from the past

So Lee and the girls are gone this weekend, but one of our dogs (*Lee's* dog!) is being ridiculous this morning and woke me up earlier than the girls do when they are here :-/ So anyways, I decided to make the most of my early morning by sneaking in a little blogging--lucky you! hehe

Last night I stumbled across an old photo album from high school. Too funny looking back on those pics. Which made me think that maybe I should blog some old pics for your entertainment :-)  I don't have much of anything on my computer from before graduate school (and honestly, my high school and college days were not my most attractive LOL...I was a chunkster :-P  But  here are some photos that I did dig up---enjoy!


Here is baby Shawna....awwww






and baby Lee....








And now we take a BIG jump, because I  don't  have any pics on this computer until lee and I met...

Here was my "profile pic" on the dating site when we met online haha...and Lee's profile  pic

 

Oh man, I love this pic---I think I was at my absolute thinnest ever ;-) Ahhh, those were the days!



Here are more random pics from when we were dating :-)

 

Check  out  my fine, soft, non curly hair! I still can't believe it went super curly after I had Brielle :-o

We bought our dogs, and bought our house actually, before we were married :-P Here I am with little Griffin!

In case you think that I only like dressing the girls up, here is little  Griffin in one of his many outfits! haha. Before I had kids I did daily photoshoots with Griffin---and he had an extensive wardrobe :-) Sadly once  I had  kids I let Lee take over Griffin raising duties for the  most part--he still a super sweet dog but I just couldn't keep up with dressing and photoshoots for THREE "kids"!

 

Lee got his dog Gunner a few months after I got Griffin

This picture always makes me laugh!

Engagement pics!




Wedding pics

Wedding reception LOL

Honeymoon pics! We spent a week roadtripping out West

Watching Old Faithful at Yellowstone

More random pics....

Cardinals baseball game

Look at his baby face! ;-)

 

Family pic, before kids :-P

I actually don't remember when this  pic  was taken---I'm assuming before kids though if we could  party on New Years lol

We always sent out Christmas cards even before kids lol....this was one year


And then before we had  kids we had  our psuedo baby, nephew Sawyer! He was the first baby born in our family and since you all  see Sawyer in many of my Tuesday posts I thought you'd like to see some of his adorable baby pics ;-)

Sawyer and Daddy

My brother and sister-in-law

And then Miss Raya was born, and the daily blogging and pics began!




So now you are all up to speed on my life before blogging ;-) Talk about a blast from the past!!!

Updates

Well,  I have a few things that  I  promised to update  my loyal readers on so today we're going to do just  that! :-)

First, Raya has been seen by the  speech pathologist a couple times now during preschool.  I continue to get updates that she is super cooperative, easy to work with, and a hard worker---go Raya! Apparently the speech pathologist got a speech sample from Raya and determined there  was only 3% nonfluency, which is completely  within the normal range. She's going to get a couple more samples, but Raya continues to look  just  fine so apparently the stuttering is just the type that many kids  her age do and she'll  grow out of. The speech pathologist also has  worked with her on the ending "k" sound in words and she said that Raya can do it fine with modeling, so once again it's a non-issue. Good to know!

Second, I think I've won the bedtime saga with Miss Brielle! After a couple nights of trying different things we finally settled on timeout. A couple times Lee put Brielle  to bed and  she did just fine, but then Daddy got boring too and she started throwing the same fits she did  for me haha. So I explained to Brielle that she had two choices each night---timeout or bed. Each time she started crying/trying to get out  of bed/bothering Raya/ turning on the light/etc. I asked her "timeout or bed?" and she often said  timeout (so she went!) and sometimes she just cried or yelled so I chose timeout for her. She sat in timeout behind our couch with no toys or  loveys. The first night she did this for about 45 minutes---crying, snot nose, etc...and periodically she'd say she wanted to go to bed but then  she'd throw a fit again so  back to timeout she went! Finally she tired herself out and went  to bed. The second night she threw another fit and went to timeout once, but then after about 5 minutes  chose bed and went right to sleep. Then every night s ince then she's gone to bed with Raya without a single peep! Mama-1, Brielle-0 -----bedtime battle has been won :-) Let's hope this continues to work!

Third, today the girls went to the babysitter for the second time so that I could sew. You may remember last time that  I was told Brielle cried for the first couple minutes but then was fine, except for a couple times  later in the morning where she'd fuss for just  a tiny bit. But overall both girls had a good report. Weeeeeeeeeelllll, not so today! Brielle screamed when I left today, but  I assumed she'd stop like she did  last time. Well, I go to pick  them up at 1pm and the babysitter tells me that Brielle SCREAMED nonstop apparently from 8am-10:30am, and then continued to cry most of the time after that until  I picked her up, only stopping to eat lunch pretty much :-o  And Brielle refused to let the sitter change her diaper haha. The funny part was that Brielle was at the door when I came to pick them up and when she saw me she smiled and said "mommy!!" and I said "oh, did you have fun?!" and Brielle said "yes!" .....and that's when the sitter said, "did she just say 'yes'? ...because she screamed the whole time"  lol. So yes, we might be banned from ever going back there again haha.  I asked Brielle (in the car when we left), "why did you cry the whole time?" and she said "I wanted Mommy....they bite me"  haha....I said, "they didn't bite you!" and she just smiled and did her  evil laugh :-P  That  kid is a monster lol.

And now this afternoon we have dance class and then when Lee gets home he's taking the girls to his parent's  house for the weekend---waahoo! I get a weekend to sew and be childless :-) Lee has something he wanted  to do back  home so I figured we'd send the girls along to Grandma hehe. Since my Etsy shop has been doing well I plan to sneak away from my sewing on Saturday to do some spring/summer shopping for *myself* as well! Lee said no buying clothes for the girls--only for me lol. It will be hard, but I'll try!

Have a great weekend everyone!!!

Rocker Chick!

I have a busy day of sewing ahead  while the  girls are with my  mom---just stopping by  the blog real quick today! (And for all my bloggy friends, I'm still reading my favorite  blogs! ---just having trouble keeping up with all the commenting the last couple days---I'll  be back at it shortly ;-)


Watch  out American Idol---there is a new rocker chick  in town, and she's bringing her Dora microphone along! hehe

The bruise  on her  forehead is from daddy's watch!

Happy  Thursday  everyone---rock  on! :-)

Cousin sleepover party!

My sister-in-law is on spring  break  out-of-state this week, so my brother is single  dad right  now. Since  I watch my neice and nephew on Tuesdays anyways I told him they could have a sleepover Monday night--fun times! We ate spaghetti, played, took a bath, had a popcorn and pop movie party (watching The Little  Mermaid), slept well, and then played all day today--whew! Aunt Shawna is exhausted now haha.

Today I took  these  pics of the cousins---I loved that we managed to have our kids in "doubles"--Brielle likes  to  tell me "Harper is *my* friend, Sawyer is Raya's  friend!"

I  walked in and found them sitting in bed together like  this LOL

And then last night I took a bunch of fun cousin bath pics---ya know, for future blackmail purposes :-P

Things started getting crazy! Needless to say we ended up with a lot of water on the floor :-P

They started spitting water "fountains" at eachother

That's  it! Going to finish up my sewing for the night and then go to bed---need to recover from all  the "fun" we've had the last couple days! lol :-)