REFLECTION

Well tomorrow is mine and Ians 10 year wedding anniversary and after 10 years I have learned quite a few things.. Figured I would share...

No matter who you are when you get married and the whole "Your now united as one thing" is a little tricky.. In the beginning not a day went by that I didnt want to strangle my husband! The little simple things he would do would drive me mad and make me wonder why in the WORLD did I get married.... I mean seriously why would he do some of those annoying little things that he KNEW would drive me crazy??? I think he did it as a test... I remember we fought soooo much that everyone expected us not to last a year.. However, we were determined to not have a failed marriage and face it we were just kids.. I was only 17 and he was 19 so we didnt know crap when it came to being out on our own.. I remember how stressed out it was to try and figure out what a personal property tax was... Half was through our marriage we knew we were soul mates.. Since we had got to spend time together as a couple we knew it was time to start a family.. I found that once we had Austin I saw things in my husband that I never saw before. And having our first child made my love for him grow sooo much.. Even though we wanted to pull our hair out when we didnt get any sleep and we would beg one another to get up with him in the middle of the night (me usually loosing and having to do it).. At that point though my love for him turned into a type of love that is never ending.. For him to be such an amazing daddy and take care of our son soooo carefully.. Its amazing.. Well then we had little miss Kenzie.. And once again the love grew even more.. The little things he did and still does that use to drive me so crazy is really nothing anymore. I guess you learn to ignore the petty things and focus on the important things in life.. He works so hard to provide for the family and sometimes gets nothing in return.. He spends his weekends off with the kids while I work, not because he doesnt have a sitter because usually his mother offers to watch them. But because he loves our children so much he cant stand to be without them to long. He treats me like a princess and caters to me even though I can be soooo vicous at times. He tells me how beautiful I am every day even when I KNOW he is lying.. If you ever seen me wake up with my mascara smeared all over my face you would understand exactly what Im talking about.. LOL... He calls me a thousand times a day not to check up on me but just to talk to me because he would rather talk to me than anyone else. Even though I usually rush him off the phone because I HATE talking on the phone. I am the luckiest girl in the entire world to have found someone so caring, loving, determined, and faithful! Sometimes I think I forget how lucky I am.. I thank God every day for my family! I have the most precious gift in the world and even though I stress about the material things in life sometimes NOTHING is better than the love that my family shares. God had given me a gift and I pray that everyone in the world can experience the love I have in my life.. I can honestly and truly say The last 10 years have been the most exciting, amazing and happy years of my life. Thanks to my amazing husband Ian Haynes!!! I LOVE YOU SOOOO MUCH baby.. Im your #1 fan for the rest of our lives!

Back in the Saddle

Hey everyone

I know Im writing again so soon!! SHOCKER right?? Anyways, hope everyone is doing wonderful! Were all doing great.. Everyone in the family should be getting my letter if you havent already.. Hope you all enjoy it! We have been enjoying the weather here. All except the rain of course.. For some reason my son is obessed with thunderstorms.. He watches the weather channel by choice every night and tells us where there is a thunderstorm brewing. Such a sharp little guy! He cracks me up sometimes with the things he comes up with. McKenzie is just as amusing with her little comments..

Grandma wanted me to let everyone know about what she did the other day at the home. She is such a looney toon its not even funny. Apparently she decided to get up and dance.. Yeah I know, GRANDMA!!! They were playing music and the song "the twist" came on and she got up, and shook it! She had a blast! She even told me that she hasnt had that much fun in years.. Im so happy she is feeling good! She has lost alot of weight and that has helped her to get around and have more energy than she use to! She called me laughing and telling me allll about it! Be sure to call her, she is a hoot to listen to..

We bought a new toy the other day.. IF anyone hasnt played Rockband 2 yet, its AMAZING! Me and Ian play it all the time now.. Im the singer and he plays guitar! Were on tour right now.. Its alot of fun and I LOVE to sing!!

Well I cent think of anything else to write about right now... Im a little jealous of April and Amy for getting to spend the week on the beach but other than that... :) J/K... I would seriously love to go sometime though... Well TTYL Love you all


Ang~

Its been a while

Hey everyone.. I know it has been forever since I posted. I have been enjoying spring/summer.. I love this weather! It makes you want to get out there and enjoy every day! The kids are at an age now where they enjoy the outdoors so we try to take them out and play. Which they cant play here at our house because our yard sucks but we go everywhere else.. Austin went out on the boat with Ian for the first time yesterday.. I didnt get to go cause we didnt have a sitter for Ms Kenzie and I dont trust her being out on the boat yet. She is toooo fearless.. We went to a friends house and took the kids in the pool Austin is still a little leary of the water and too scared to get all the way in but Kebzie would dive off the edge if I let her.. I gorra keep a tight rope on that girl.. The kids are doing great though.. They are getting soooo big and precious.. Kenzie has a little attitude which I Ian has been working looong hours and really seems to be exhausted at times. He has made the decision to go to line haul next year.. It will help us as far as in buying a house which is our #1 goal right now. I will be quitting Hastings next year also so that Ill be home more. Life is good and things are going great.. Grandma seems to be feeling really good latley! Now Ians Grandpa on the other hand isnt so good. They found out he has Prostate cancer and it has moved up into his back. They put him in the same nursing home with Grandma temporarily until this coming wed actually. He is in bad shape so please keep him in your prayers. I was on vacation last week and did my spring cleaning I have bags and bags of kids clothes for a yard sale. Im thing of a fall sale since most of the clothes I found was winter clothes. I hope everyone is doing great and I miss you all... Ill try to write more and not be such a stranger. Love you all

Ang!

Its been a while

I know... Its been forever since I posted but hey I have been super busy latley. Between work, kids and hubby its always a mad house around here anymore.. Since summer is coming up pretty quick I started tanning so that I dont blind people when Im out in the sun.. Im sooo pale! How is this possible when my father looks like he could be Mexican? Just sayin! Anyways, Im kinda burnt right now so that is VERY frustrating but it will turn tan soon enough.. Kids are good! Kenzie is going through a new stage! The DRESS up stage! I love this stage cause its sooo cute.. She got some of those plastic heels and so now she walks around in a tshirt, diaper, big pink sunglasses, huge necklaces, headband, and heels and carrys one of my purses. Its adorable! The problem is Austin sees the attention she gets from it and thinks he want to dress up too.. How do you explain drag queen to a 3 year old?? LOL.. I try to get him to wear his fireman hat or something so he dont feel left out! Last Friday when the storms hit Ian and I went to Cape and wasa t Best Buy.. Next thing you know its gets dark, winds blowing, pouring rain and hailing!! Electric goes off (which is reeeeeeeealllly scarry in an electronics store) so we all are told to come up front.. (you know by the big glass windows in fron of the store) Just when we get up there the Tornado (or as Austin says Tortano) sirens go off.. I FREAKED OUT! They told us to go to the safe zone which is by the bathrooms. I was proudly the very first one there even before the employees! I called Daddy and was FREAKIN OUT! He thought is was funny! How messed up is that? Anyways were alive.. Thats all good.. Well I just heard thunder so here some another storm TTYL

love
Ang

BTW CHRIS SHOULD HAVE WENT HOME NOT DANNY!!!!

wowzers

Oh where shall I begin???

First of all its been a crazy last couple of weeks.. I changed my hair again and workin towards being a blonde.. You know cause they have more fun and all.. LOL.. No really its summer so I like going lighter when its warm and sunny out! Well I also thought I would try this stuff called Dove natural tanner lotion stuff... OH BOY! At first I was loving it because it was making me look tanner since Im albino and all... Well I guess I went a little too crazy with it, now Im in the first stages of turning into an Umpa Lumpa like off Willy Wonka.. Im trying to let it go away now since I cant wear flip flops cause I look like I have been playing in red mud! I havent been working as much at Hastings cause I think I complained enough about working too many hours.. Now Im missing the money and OUCH thats hurts let me tell ya! Kids have been interesting the last 2 weeks. I think Kenzie has hit full blown terrible twos however when Austin turned 2 I dont remember him having such a little attitude.. My daughter is a diva drama queen let me tell ya! She has these facial expressions that you wouldnt normally see on a 2 year old.. She even bobbled her head and me the other day... I was like "OH I KNOW YOU DIDNT" Im having problems with her and Austin fighting but I know you guys think Im joking or being dramatic but they are going to serisouly kill each other. Like today she was eating a cocoa puff outta his bowl and he ran up to her, shoved her down and she got up and tried to bite him on the back. I told her no so she stopped trying to bite but then Austin hit her, so she smacked him upsode the head then he tried to hit her again... Sooooo I had to spank them and seperate them both... They are driving me insane! She doesnt bite ANYONE but him, and he annoys the living daylights out of her and makes her so made she tells him off and goes after him.. She isnt scared of anything. So if anyone has advise please let me know the secret to peace in my house! LOL... Well today I got crapped on, I was on my way into today and Kenzie told me she pooped but I thought oh ill change her when we get to the sitters I didnt know however she had a full blown BLOWOUT! When I got her out of the carseat it was running down her legs into her socks and alllllllll over my arm.. I had to take her in and hose her off.. That was gross.. If it had been Ian he would have lost it and probably been sick! I guess I have a little bit stronger stomach! I love this weather but I dont like the critters and creatures that come with it... I went out to my car the other day and almost stepped on a snake.. It was dark grey, wide flat head and was fixing to strike me but THANK GOD I seen it, I went back inside and wouldnt go back to the car till it was gone. I dont know what kind it was, Grandma said it sounds like a cottonmouth but I dont care its a snake! and I have killed like a million spiders over the last 3 days.. Like the wolf jumping big ones... OMG I HATE spiders.. I am thinking about making my own reality TV show.. I think I would have AWESOME ratings... What do you think?? LOL.. Well since its like 1 in the morning Im going to bed now.. I just wanted to update everyone on whats happenin in my world... Nobody has posted anything for a while so you all need to get on the ball already!! Well TTYL

Love
Ang...

Kids trivia questions...

Boy was this interesting to do with a 3 and 1 year old.. Thanks Aunt Kay.. LOL.. Of course since Austin doesnt watch Sesame Street I had to kinda tweak it a bit to get an answer of out him instead of a blank look on his face... I understand if those answers dont count..

Austin...

1) What color is big bird? He dont know who that is so I pointed at some peeps and asked what color they were? YELLOW!!! YAY!
2) Spongebob flat pants? Of course not! Austin loves Spongebob Squarepants he got this one right off the bat!
3) Do cars have 3 wheels? This one was easy.. He counted the wheels on one of his hotwheels and said "umm no, 4 wheels"
4) Whats the name of Elmos goldfish? I dont even know this one, LOL.. I made him at least guess and guess what he came up with "NEMO" LOL hey at least he tried!
5) Oscar the Grouch is blue? Yes or No? Well he dont know Oscar, sooo I asked if the grass was blue? he said no.. Thats as good as it gets folks..

McKenzie..

Yeah this was the real fun part.. She sure jabbers alot but 75 percent of what she says you cannot understand. The only words that are super clear are (No, Stop it, Brudder, Drink, Eat, Leave me alone etc..) So at one point I gave up..

1) ?
2) I sang "who lives in a pinapple under the sea???" and she said SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS! YAY!!! Teamwork.. LOL
3) ?
4)?
5)?

Well hope this helps... ttyl

Love
Ang

Happy Easter!

HAPPY EASTER!!

Here is a picture of my babies with thier Easter outfits on.. We went and had family pics taken yesterday which I am VERY excited about. We have NEVER had a actually family picture done of all of us.. There is also some of just the kids playing and holding REAL bunnies... Ian and Austin wanted to take one since they were free and they were giving them away. HOWEVER!! I dont think so! Church this morning was awesome.. The program was one of the best I think I have ever seen... Our church drama team is REALLLLY good.. Makes me want to be a part of it.. Then after church we headed to the inlaws for lunch!! YUMMY! Thats where the kids got thier Easter baskets from us, Austin stayed last night with mama and papa and I forgot to send the basket home with them sooooo thats how that went.. The kids really liked thie Easter baskets.. Kenzie of course wanted all of Austins stuff along with hers.. THAT was interesting.. Austin hunted Easter eggs inside this year cause it was too cold and rainy to hunt them outside.. Kenzie had no interest in finding eggs.. Just eating her candy!


This week has been a blur really.. Lots to do and I havent had time to think much... I was REALLY worried about grandma but she is recovering GREAT! She is already home which makes me feel 1000 percent better. So like I said this week has been nuts.. ..

Austin says hello.. He is on my lap asking me every 2 seconds of Im done yet... So im gonna cut this short. Im really tired and I got a ton of stuff to do... TTYL

Love Ang..