a year in pictures part 3

So today we finish up our year in pics. I don't know how exactly it got to be the last day of the year. I just know that it is. 2009 was a VERY big year for us. We delivered our second child into this world. And holy moly watch out world because she is a PISTOL! Delivering that second child into the world helped us to round our lives out and certainly helped to make it fuller and richer. So many blessings.
also today my dear husband turns 37 years old. Yes 37. Amazing. We were talking the other day about how we can remember a time when thirty seemed so old and yet here we are, and him on the down slope of the thirties. Not so bad ( or old ) once ya get here though. So Happy Birthday to Dave. I hope that we can make it a nice one. My parents are going to babysit Ashlynn ( though we will be taking the screamer with us) so we can go out for dinner tomorrow to celebrate.
Happy New Years to all. It is the start of a new decade. Y2K gone Y2K10 starting up. The last decade has been a crazy bumpy ride. Ups and downs of all shapes and sizes. So here's looking at you and maybe even being glad that some of it is gone. I hope that Y2K10 gives us a chance to grow as a family and as individuals inside of the family. We have hopes and dreams that we are just starting to pick up again after a long dormancy. This will be our decade and we hope that we will soar! I hope that all of you get to soar also.





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A year in pictures part 2

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A year in pictures.

For the next couple of days I am going to post the year in pictures. I am going to take at least one photo of the girls ( for the months we can with T bear) and post it. So as not to make for a HUGE post I am going to do it over a couple of days. I think we will be amazed to see the changes in our girls over the passage of a year. I know Ash hardly looks like the same kid... and Taryn has changed so much it is hard to imagine that just six short months ago all she could do was cry. Well here we go. I hope that you enjoy it. I will label which month that you are looking at as we go.


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March Taryn

And yet again more Christmas....

I thought I would keep up the trend of posting every day for you.... how amazing is it that I actually managed to post so many days in a row.... there were only a couple of times that I had to post two in one day for the Twelve days of Christmas. Not too shabby. So with out too much further ado Here's Christmas.... Again

More Christmas

Today we went over to my Grandparents house for Christmas. It was a lot of fun. It always is. Though with so many in our family it a party at noon takes a little bit more planning than just running out the door so it seems like the whole day centers around the party. Still we don't get over there very frequently and Ashlynn loves my grandparents so it is well worth it. This is the last that we have planned for a little bit. We still have to find a good weekend to get up to Dave's parents house and of course my brother will be coming home in a few short weeks and when that happens we will have the family Christmas. It was the right thing to delay it... It just wouldn't be Christmas with out him. I won't say too much more. I will just share some of the photos that we got from today and some more that we got of Christmas at my parents house. Life is good. And the smiles in these pictures prove it. So many people so much love... we are truly rich and our lives are full.

'Twas the day after Christmas

I don't know what it is about this day. It is a tough one to weather sometimes. A the pretty packages have been opened and the tree looks bare... no more need for Christmas carols... and you move on with a tinge of sadness that it is all over. Ash spent the night at Gramps and Granny's house with her cousin Ariah... Dave still hasn't gotten out of bed and Taryn has been and is now napping. I have been up now for nearly three hours so there is no point in me crawling back into bed and trying to go back to sleep. Though if anyone should get a chance to sleep in it is ME. I have a cold and I haven't slept in since last year sometime. But Dave seems to get the corner on sleeping in... although it is tough to call it sleeping in because he ALWAYS does it..... do I sound bitter... I guess that I am feeling that way a little. I haven't eaten yet ( aside from the cookies that I keep snitching) and that can have an effect on a diabetics mood. Besides it is snowing after two days of ice and a day of pouring rain...( our weather is RETARDED around here right now) and that can have an effect on a human beings mood.
Funny as a kid I never really thought about the clean-up of Christmas. I should be picking up all of the toys that have somehow exploded across our living room... or doing the dishes that didn't get done yesterday... but instead I am writing a blog that probably isn't fit to read. ( and coughing my head off... stupid cold) In a few hours though our house will be filled again with the endless sounds of Ashlynn playing and Taryn practicing talking and all will be well again. I guess I didn't know how MUCH I miss Ashlynn when she isn't here tearing the house apart.
Last night sitting in the big recliner that my mom got for Christmas rocking Taryn to sleep and listening to Ashlynn and Ariah play with their new toys, my belly full of prime rib and mashed sweet potatoes talking with my family was easily one of the BEST moments I have ever had in my life. So I am going to hold on to that... by posting a few pics of the girls opening presents over there. Merry day after Christmas to all of you. I hope that you are spending it in a way that is enjoyable to you.

Merry Christmas

Yes I am blogging on Christmas... the girls have opened all of their presents and Taryn is sleeping and I am blogging and cooking sausage while Daddy tries to get Ashlynn to go to sleep. Last night was great fun... Daddy got home from work at 6:30 which was a treat in and of itself.. then after Dinner Ash and I checked on NORAD to see where Santa was exactly. We then determined that we had enough time to bake cookies... so we baked cookies which Ashlynn set out with a Christmas card that she had mad herself for Santa. She went to bed and then "Santa" kicked into gear. Dave put together a little scooter trike ( like a big wheel only the front wheel isn't big) and I wrapped presents and filled stockings.
This morning Ashlynn remembered what we had done to prepare for Santa and was kicked into high gear the second that she woke up. She had a ton of fun opening presents. What follows is a hodge-podge of photos taken before after and during. There is one of Taryn throwing a fit because I took the wrapping paper away... she is at the age where the paper was FAR more important than the gifts inside. Here is the Haynie family Christmas in photos.... so that you too may be a part of it.
We will be going to my parents house tonight for prime rib cooked by my multi-talented wonderful husband... and more gifts. We adults will be waiting until my brother comes home to be a part of it... but the girls are going to open all of theirs. Hopefully we won't be Christmassed out and have a tough night tonight. More pictures will follow in coming days. By the way..... I may have finished the twelve blessings of Christmas... but the people in these pictures need another mention. This is the best Christmas ever. I haven't opened a single "present" and yet I have received so many gifts. And if you are reading this post than you are most likely counted pretty highly on my list of blessings.......... God is Great, Life is Good, I am loved and love so many!!!!!!!! This is what Christmas is about!!!!!!