The Adventures of Kaydence and Ahria.

Go, go , go little man!!!

Double click on picture to enlarge!
These pictures are for anyone wondering what I accomplished in the last five days....NOTHING!! Little boy wonder and his amazing little sister came for a visit and as you can see they were very busy. Kaydence does not let time stand still , he is one busy little man. And you know, I love every minute of it. This was the first extended visit for Ahria and she did pretty well. The first three days were a breeze but the last two she got a little homesick for her mommy and daddy but still overall I was impressed with her new found independence. Luckily for the Antley girls their cousins got to be my models . Anyone who knows me very well knows that I think a camera and kids go together like peanut butter and jelly so here are just a couple of the pictures I took of the dynamic duo. As you can see Kaydence really adores his sister, she is the perfect target for both his affection and his naughtyness! When he is not loving her he is bugging the daylights out of her. But for the most part he really looks after her.
Do they not look like little angels here.
Just thought this picture was cool!

Now that I have updated my blog I can get back to work. Next blog I will update everyone on Sharae's and my new adventures into the land of retail. Stay tuned.

okay, get ready everyone!

I am babysitting Kaydence and Ahria and will have pictures and an update of all my fun soon! Stay posted, believe me a three year old has quite a lot to say, probably a lot more than he should. This blog update will happen of course, as long as I survive the five days and four nights.

More Easter pictures of the big kids.

A rare picture of Jaden. This is Easter Sunday, but we also celebrated his twenty- sixth birthday since the family was all together. I find it hard to believe that he is that old I still so clearly remember him as a little boy with the mischievous smile that got him out of a lot of trouble. He is a wonderful son and so loving and loyal towards his whole family. I feel very blessed that he is my son.

I had some fun at Easter taking pictures of the kids. The above pictures are of our sweet Kelly, Colton's girlfriend of over two years. (Don't tell anyone, but we like her more than we like Colton). Kelly showed up as we were taking pictures of the little kids and so of course she became our next model, like it or not. I must say her pictures turned out so cute (this is just a couple of quite a few, the top one is my favorite and the bottom one is Kelly's favorite) and she was a good sport about doing them. I do find taking pictures of a sixteen year old a lot easier than doing the little kids. Kelly is a very important part of our family and she adds a lot of fun to any special occasion. Colton is not allowed to ever break up with her!

Here of course is my little grouch! He, unlike Kelly, was not a good sport about having his picture taken. Thank heavens for our Crystal, she managed to get a smile out of him for us. I think he was pouting because Easter Bunny couldn't come until everyone arrived. But I love the pictures and think they are so cute. I don't know why my big kids don't like their pictures taken..maybe I took too many when they were little. The girls of course, always say, just wait until I have makeup on, or just wait until I have lost this baby fat (they need to quit getting pregnant or I will never get any pictures of them). Colton and Doug just don't like pictures taken, Jaden at least will let me take a few as long as I don't get carried away. And heaven knows, I can get carried away once I get my hands on a camera and willing subject. Sadly for me, my willing subjects are getting fewer and fewer, but I think I still can bribe Tasia with chocolate, actually that probably might work for a few others I know of.
Boy that was a close call, I almost lost this post! And believe me that would not be great as it takes me awhile to do these.

easter, easter, easter

What a fun weekend, we had everyone out and this was the first time Kaydence and Tasia have painted eggs. It was a bit messy, but they were so cute. Most excited though, as usual, for the easter bunny to come was Doug Jr. Why does he still believe in Santa and the Easter bunny? We dressed the kids all up for pictures and we forgot all about poor little Alexcia! Hard to believe, as she usually makes sure all of us are aware of her presence. Nevertheless, the other three looked so cute. Took some pictures of my big kids too, although I personally do not find them quite as cute as the little kids.

Ten things I bet you didn't know

So what is new in my world, not too much so I decided to search out something to amuse, entertain, or just plain educate all of you who take the time to read my blog.
Here are ten things I just didn't know:
-All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20. (I didn't know this, but I bet Jaden did!)
-Charlie Brown's father was a barber. ( Let me tell you, his father didn't make much money on old Charlie's haircuts, wasn't he pretty much bald?)
-Alfred Hitchcock didn't have a belly button. It was eliminated when he was sewn up after surgery. (Now who would have thought something like that could ever happen!)
-Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer. (What???)
-A pregnant goldfish is called a twit. ( I wonder what a goldfish giving birth calls her babies father, are little goldfish called babies or tadpoles?)
-It was discovered on a space mission that a frog can throw up. The frog throws up it's stomach first, so the stomach is dangling out of it's mouth. Then the frog uses it's forearms to dig out all of the stomach's contents and then swallows the stomach back down again. ( I know, really, really icky, but interesting don't you think)
-A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't. ( Is that where the statement , stubborn as a mule comes from?, notice it didn't say can't but won't!)
-To "testify" was based on men in the Roman court swearing to a statement made by swearing on their testicles. ( I can't even begin to comment on this one, but we all know how important those body parts are to a man. And if you don't know, I would like to know where you have been living all your life.)
-The characters Bert and Ernie on Sesame Street were named after Bert the cop and Ernie the taxi driver in Frank Capra's "Its A Wonderful Life" ( So how did they get such a bad rap on Sesame Street?)
-The letters KGB stand for Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti. ( Of course I knew this one, but I was pretty sure no one else did... come on, I went to school for six years, I have to use that education for something.)
So there you go , ten things I didn't know and hopefully we are all smarter now.
Now a little about the family. I promised you that this blog would brag about those delightful grandkids who make my world perfect. Just a few Kaydence stories. This weekend he came to visit along with his daddy and sister. AS always, he got to sleep with grandma. In the morning I felt that eyes staring feeling you get when you are sleeping and know someone is staring at you. I open my eyes and six inches from my face is this little boy with a huge grin. He says, "Gramma Lana, your snoring woke me up?" Gee, I love that boy. Then I told him that he was going home today (I always prepare kaydence because he hates leaving) He propped his elbows on me and set his head in his hands and looked at me with those big blue eyes and said " oh no, this isn't good!" No wonder he gets what ever he wants from me! Could you turn down this face?
Well that is about it from me tonight, I'm tired. But next time you get to hear about the other kids in my family, the in-laws or out-laws depending upon how they have been behaving. But since I didn't have room to put pictures on my header I want to show everyone how well my children did in picking spouses so that I could have adorable and perfect grandchildren.

Everybody welcome me to the land of Blogging

Well, finally, I have entered the land of blogging. I have been meaning to do it for ages but ...okay I have no excuse, well... if I think long enough I can probably come up with one. Okay I just did, I am technologically challenged for example I can`t figure out how to get off of this italic type. Okay, Sharae just showed me! This should be interesting!
I guess now I have to think of things to talk about. Okay here is a good one, we (meaning Sharae and I ) went running tonight. Sharae is trying to lose baby fat and I am trying to lose old people fat. Kaydence, my beloved three year old grandson , upon our return, informed Sharae that she was fat and needed to diet! But being the apple of my eye, he told me that I was not fat. I was feeling pretty good about that, until he informed us that he too was on a diet! So much for his theory of what is fat and what is not.
And a little side note for anyone interested, losing baby fat seems to be a lot easier than losing old people fat!
Well this isn`t so bad. I actually am a big fan of the blog. I read not only my friends blogs, but even go on and check friends of my friends blogs. What do you think that says about meÉ okay it won`t make a question mark now...Do you think reading total strangers blogs means one has no life, or that one is just plain snoopy. I guess either way you look at it, its not too positive. Do other people do that tooÉ ( sorry still won`t do a question mark). Anyway, enough of this senseless rambling... at least until next time.
Oh by the way, I was being kind, and hardly mentioned the grandkids! I`m saving it all for next time.