Just a little blast from the past...

Look how dang cute we were!! Here is Jenny, Brynn and myself declaring who we loved at the time in good ol' sixth grade! 1994! I love these girls too much!

Blog Burn out?

Yes I have been feeling a little of the blog burn out, I guess you could say. I am trying to get back to the reasons of why I love to blog. Here are some of the questions I had to ask myself?
Do I blog as a way of journaling? Sure.
Do I blog as a way of showing fun pictures and bragging about my family? Yep, Uh huh
Do I blog as way of connecting with my friends and people who I have lost touch with? You betcha!
But mostly I think I want to use blogging as a tool to get back some of my stuff people have borrowed! :)

So for the following people please return the items immediately!
Donny Fabrizio: My Snoop Dogg CD (you borrowed this in the 10th grade and I never saw it again).
Brandt Neider: My Tupac CD that you gave to me and then borrowed back from me. (real classy.) I really liked my rap back then!
Natalie (my sis) Go ahead and look in your CD case. If they have the name of Aly Durham on them, which most of them do, those ones are mine. :)
Also missing my T-ball shirt and my 9th grade diary.( might wanna find that one) Britney Spears Greatest Hits, Bone Thugs, Michael Jackson History..and so on. Love me some ipods!

Also to the people I still have stuff from:
Ashlie Jenkins: I have a Sir-Mix-a-lot CD with your name on it. (Sorry it's a good one.)
Natalee: I have a pair of your Gap plaid boxer shorts probably since the 9th grade, and also one purple CTR ring. Sorry.
Brynn: A Lisa Frank tiger notebook with notes written back and forth from you and me. I like this one and I won't give it back!
Lacie: I have a polaroid picture of you and Johnathan Taylor Thomas(I need to mail that one to you already!)
Nat(my sis) So many pairs of your earrings, what can I say you have great taste!
Heidi your Swans Crossing poster. Ahh how we loved that show. I think I am keeping that one.

To anyone else who has my stuff, give it back! And if you think I have yours let me know.
Love me, Love my blog.

Crazy Craftin' Mommy...

That is what Joey calls me, Her crazy craftin' Mommy! She is too funny. Holy crap the crazy week is done! The Scrapbook Expo has come and gone again. It was so busy the past couple weeks. I have to admit that I have been pretty self absorbed. I don't know how full-time working moms do it. It has been nuts! It of course was a lot of fun, I work with a great group of gals, but I was happy to have it all over! I taught two classes of my own project this year and it went better then expected. I was pretty nervous about it because you always worry if people will like it and also you worry that they will yell. :) It went so well and it was so nice having Lizzie in helping me on my second class. I also helped with 3 other VIP classes and that was super scary.("Nice scrapbook instructor") -That is a story for another day! Here are some pictures of our cute Media/TV team. I love being apart of it. Gotta love late nights of working and really not sleeping at all! Thanks to Chris who has put up with me the past couple months getting ready for this, for all the late nights of helping me put stuff together, and letting me sleep in so late on Sunday! Thank you to Heidi and my Mom for watching the girls for me on Friday! I couldn't have done it with out all of your help! The girls were so sweet when I left them, but they sure took it out on me when I got home, when putting Joey to bed she said,"I don't want you to go to the expo tomorrow, it's sorta hard on little girls." She was very happy when I brought them home cute stuffed bear purses, but she did wish that it was pink.

Pictured: Going clock wise starting with me in the hot pink, Lisa, Paula, Wendy, Stacie, Trish, Natalie, Lori

Not pictured: Lizzie & Lisa

If you can't tell what the top picture is we are spelling out Roberts. Yeah, we are nerds! Look how happy we are on 3 hours of sleep!

Oh Kendyl Bug...

Another exciting day of dress up. Kendyl has some sweet head band on and a sleeping beauty shirt and no pants. Gotta love no pants. I do. She was running around the house laughing so hard when I was trying to get this picture. This is the only one that wasn't blurry. I kind of love this picture too much.

So this is love...hmmm

These two love each other so much. Joey is such a little Mommy. Even though she will tackle her kick her and bug her a lot of the time, she is such a protector and is crazy about Kendyl. They are constantly snuggling and giving each other kisses. Joey always wants to hold her on the couch when they watch shows, and for some reason Kendyl lets her. Anything that Kendyl does that Joey thinks is cute she looks to me and says, "Ahh she is such a sweet baby." And if Kendyl doesn't want to be bugged, she says to me, "She is such a sensitive little thing sometimes."

Kendyl's words: I love you, Thank you mama, all gone, potty, stinky, Where she go?, Daddy..work.. back?(he'll be back?) drink, juice, swiper no swipin..Oh Man (in the lowest voice.) Cute shoes, Help you(she means help me) shows,
When we put her to bed: Bye, Love you, She laughs and then says funny, funny. bear? Duck? binki? And then we give her all three.
When she wakes up in the morning she asks for: Jo, Daddy, Mama, Drinkie, ba ba (in that order)
She is obsessed with Sleeping Beauty right now and says this over and over: Spindle..touch it.. spindle...touch it I say...oh no..Beauty..where'd she go?
She cries when anyone leaves our house, she loves visitors! She will just cry and say their name over and over.
Kendyl has an inner struggle when I ask her what show she wants to watch...I will ask her she says, "uh Calliou, uh Barney, uh Calliou?, uh Barney and it continues like this for a while. If I decide to put on Barney she will whine for Calliou, but when I put on Calliou she never asks for anything else. A few times that she has fallen asleep on me, I take her upstairs to put her in her crib and she whispers Calliou..Barney. It just makes me laugh so hard. This little girl has the sweetest personality and is so dang funny. We are always laughing at these two.

First Day of Pre-School!

Joey started Pre-school today! I know it sounds dumb to be sad about pre-school, but I am! She is just my little best friend, and I am so sad that she is getting so big! She was so excited to go to school today. Right when she woke up she got her clothes and her back pack on. It was so nice to have Chris home so he could come with us today! She has been talking about this day for months, asking me all the time if Summer was over yet so she could go to school! I was kind of worried if she would even go to school since she is such a Mommy's girl! We got there and she cried for a second when she thought I was leaving. I went and sat by her for a few minutes while they did play dough. I told her it was time for me to leave and I would be there if she needed me. She told me she would be just fine. I got up and left and she yelled out, "Love you Mommy"! It was the sweetest dang thing in the world. Kendyl really had such a hard morning without her sister around. She kept crying and saying Jo over and over. She would say "Jo sleeping"? It was so sad and so sweet too! Joey had so much fun and was so happy when we picked her up. She talked our ear off the whole way home and was so excited for school on Friday. It was so hard to pick what pictures to put on here, because there were 30 of the funniest poses. I didn't tell her one thing to do she just did a pose after pose! This girl has so much fun!

Last night when I was putting her to sleep. She said, "Ask me what I am going to do tomorrow Mama?, I asked her and she said, "Well I am going to get up and exercise before Pre-school, so I can be really healthy and happy, Then I am going to go to school, but Kendyl can't come she is still a Little cub." This girls makes me so happy. I seriously love this girl so much! I am so lucky to be her Mommy! Holy Crap I love my little Fam!