Edwards' Family Blog

Christmas 2011 and more...

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Christmas outfits

Beautiful nightgowns from Uncle Marty and Aunt Christine

Caleb's Birthday

Daddy Daughter Dance

Thanksgiving in Pensacola

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From Family photos 2011

First Tooth

2011-11-28T08:44:00.001-05:00

Ann lost her first tooth at her cousins house on November 23rd!

Family Photos 2011

2011-11-28T07:59:00.001-05:00

From Family photos 2011

Tea time

Fall 2011

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From November 1, 2011

July, Aug, Sep 2011

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First day of school:

From July, Aug, Sep 2011

Story time:

From July, Aug, Sep 2011

Doctor Ann Marie:

From July, Aug, Sep 2011

My princesses

From July, Aug, Sep 2011

A little early... but Ann is ready for Oct 31

From July, Aug, Sep 2011

For Aunt Judy :)

2011-09-17T16:39:00.002-04:00

From March 2011

I wear my sunglasses at night

2011-08-24T09:23:00.002-04:00

We found Ann Marie sound asleep in her bed (at night) with Sunglasses on! I forgot to ask her about it this morning... so not sure what was going on here. :)

Birthday photos 2011

2011-07-17T17:15:00.001-04:00

Click the Hello Kitty Pinata to see all the photos for Ann and Lynsey's 6th and 3rd birthday! Mom made the pinata and the cake... next year we'll scale it way back. But it was Ann's idea to theme it Hello Kitty and I couldn't help but make some of the things for the party. :)

Goofy Thanksgiving

2011-01-31T14:51:00.000-05:00

This is going back a few months, but I thought these photos were so funny.

I got a shot of Caleb eating so he had to get me back.

Christmas 2010

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The gowns

2011-01-31T12:59:00.000-05:00

My mom brought down some of my old dresses. Ann likes to call them gowns. :) Ann was happy to model for me. Lynsey not so much.

Can you believe it?

2010-09-26T14:15:00.004-04:00

Ann is in Kindergarten and Lynsey is in a big girl bed.

Orlando Science Center

2010-09-26T14:00:00.000-04:00

The girls had a blast at the Orlando Science center yesterday!

Trip to Indiana

2010-08-20T23:23:00.003-04:00

We had a fun time in Indiana for a full week at the end of July ... We played "cornhole", visited Great Grandpa, went out on a pontoon boat - lake wawasee, went to the Elkhart county fair (largest county fair in Indiana), visited my brother Marty, Christine and Jackson, grandpa made some block 'stilts' for the girls, and we hung out with my cousin and 2nd cousins... I think that about covers it. :)

July

2010-07-18T16:24:00.002-04:00

Happy Birthday Ann and Lynsey!

From 2010-07-18

Here are a *few* photos from the last couple weeks.

June 2010

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A few more pics of the friends that stayed with us...

Ann's teachers - Ms Sherry and Ms Kimberly

Her classroom...

Preschool graduation

A couple of the girls... Lynsey is getting so big and her hair is getting long.

Ann wants to grow out her bangs :)

forgot to mention

2010-06-06T19:45:00.002-04:00

Lynsey is getting so big and smart. She says lots of words and copies her sister all the time...

Ann has officially stopped thumb sucking and is learning to ride a bicycle with training wheels. She loves it and wants to ride morning and evening!

May 2010

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Lynsey drawing with chalk...

Below Lyns sporting nicely knitted socks by my sister-in-law

Good friends and their twin girls that stayed with us for two great weeks.

A little blast from the past (note the glasses)

Got to take some family photos of them...

Got to also take photos of Kristie's family and her sister's family. It was fun to see them!

The Anticipation

2010-05-14T07:44:00.000-04:00

Dry Thumb

2010-04-28T07:18:00.004-04:00

This morning marks Ann's first 24 hours with a dry thumb! She didn't suck her thumb all day yesterday and all night last night. It took a few days to work up to this point, but she has been really motivated by the sticker 'method' that the dentist gave me on Monday. I'm very excited and hope we're on our way to thumb free days. It should take about 3 weeks and a few prizes along the way to break the habit.

March and April

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January and February were quite the blur. I had a lot of work and extra work - so I was pretty busy. Here are a few photos of the girls during those months.

Lynsey fractured her arm in January and ended up wearing this for 3 weeks. She was sitting on the arm of the office chair and fell off backwards. Poor Lynsey!

Valentines party day at school

Lynsey didn't want to be in the photo, so she had been crying

I cooked on Valentines night and we all ate by candlelight
Here is the Publix recipe. Delicious!!!

It has been one cold Florida winter. if I had known how long it would last, I would have bought real winter jackets!

Ann's play dough people

Happy Birthday Caleb (early)

2010-01-18T19:13:00.004-05:00

A little fun with IMovie and Ann Marie and here is what we came up with. Happy Birthday Caleb!

(If you click through to YouTube - you can view it in 'wide screen' so that it doesn't cut off the right side. I think my blog design is too narrow.)

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Kids wanna rock

2010-01-01T17:23:00.001-05:00

Thanksgiving in Pensacola

2009-11-28T15:59:00.002-05:00

From Pensacola

Art and School

2009-11-20T22:30:00.003-05:00

Ann loves to paint. Lynsey loves to be outside. Ann brought her painting outdoors so we could all be together.

Sadly – Ann's preschool teacher, Miss Carla, has found a job full time that will suit her better. Ann will miss her I'm sure! The assistant, Miss Kimberly will still be there, so at least there will be someone familiar in the class along with the new teacher after Thanksgiving break.

Family Photos

2009-11-20T22:28:00.003-05:00

We haven't done an entire family photo since Lynsey was born. We needed one for church and my friend Heather is taking a photography class - so we became her assignment. We did the shoot in downtown Sanford.

If only Lynsey's pony tail was on the other side...

Pumpkins, Pebbles, and Princess Anneliese

2009-11-20T22:18:00.002-05:00

Around the end of October we visited a small pumpkin patch

From November 2009

Fall festival at a local church – pony rides, balloons and more all for free

Lynsey didn't like the feeling of hay.

Pebbles

Princess Anneliese (from a Barbie movie)

Random October

2009-10-23T20:33:00.009-04:00

Cute sisters - starting to play together more

Lynsey's new love is rolled up balls of playdough that she can hold, carry and stick in weird spots.

Somehow we got volunteered for a video shoot about a lock on our door that can be opened with a fingerprint. Commercial will be playing at Ace Hardware by next month.

Lynsey likes spicy things lately. Here she is getting into chips and salsa.

Ann is making some really great drawings.

Check out the firetruck drawing as well as her name written all by herself!

Last weekend, I had two glorious nights away at Lake Aurora with the women from Lifepoint church. It was a great time and Caleb and the girls did AWESOME without me!

From October 2009

My favorite 'sippy cups.' I had one from Target and finally found more from Walmart. Leak free cups.

From October 2009

(You can click on "October 2009" to see the photos above and then some...)

Indiana 2009

2009-09-18T21:07:00.002-04:00

The annual pilgrimage to the promised land. I mean - our annual trip to see Grandma, Grandpa, Great Grandpa, aunts, uncles and cousins. The weather was beautiful however a little colder would have been nice to me, but at least it was sunny and not rainy. My cousins came down from Wisconsin with their newborn - so we planned to arrive the same weekend and get all the great grandkids together with Great Grandpa Yoder.

Outdoor lover, Lynsey, was in nature heaven with a high chair right next to a sliding glass door with a bird feeder outside.

From Indiana Sep 2009

My birthday was Friday - so my mom made cupcakes with my FAVORITE candy. Good 'ol 9-11.

On Friday - one of the amish neighbors took us all out on his pontoon boat on Lake Wawasee. That was a lot of fun and the girls did pretty good out there for a couple hours. Caleb caught a 24" pike fish and we cooked it up Sunday - very tasty. I think Ann ate for the first hour of the fishing trip... banana and lots of cheetos.

lots of beautiful houses on Lake Wawasee

Caleb's Pike fish

I was a true tourist - taking pictures of the buggies.

Lynsey was a little freaked out - I had a hard time getting close to great grandpa with her.

We spent time with Marty's fiance Christine and her son Jackson. Ann had a LOT of fun hanging out with Jackson.

funny thing

2009-09-08T10:13:00.003-04:00

Okay... ignore the messy desk, but notice how Lynsey managed to pull the mouse and keyboard off the desk and the monitor is starting to tilt. Ahh! She was playing in my office while we were finishing up dinner. I heard a funny noise and found this going on. She also managed to message Caleb a couple lines in an open chat. :)

Lynsey loves to...

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swing (all time favorite right now), be outside (a lifesaver after dinner and before bedtime), play in the rain, hold any real phone, hold her stuffed grover and big bird.

Playing in the rain:

4 year old accomplishments

2009-08-20T20:40:00.004-04:00

4 year old accomplishments:

Ann learned to float on her own in the big pool with her floaty jacket and a noodle. That made swimming much more fun.

Ann had her 4 yr checkup at the doctor this week. I left Lynsey at home with Caleb so that I could hold Ann for her 4 shots! After that torture I took her to get ice cream.

Ann no longer gets a pop-ice every time she poo-poos. She took the news really well (I thought it would be hard to break that reward). And she is learning to wipe her own poo-poos. One less dirty butt for me to wipe. :)

We went to orientation tonight for the Pre-K class she will be going to. Florida offers all kids pre-k for free. Starting Monday, Ann will go to school M-F from 8:30 - 11:30. I'm so thankful the church/school is only 5 min from our house. On our way there tonight she said, "I"m so nervous"... but I think she was more excited than nervous.

For other mommies out there... I had been struggling with Ann's naptime. She would go 4-5 days with no nap and be really whiney by dinner time. The 6th day she would crash in the afternoon for 2-3 hours and be up until 10:30 at night. So I started sending her to bed for naptime with a timer. This has been a lifesaver. She stays in bed for 25 min until the timer goes off and most days she falls asleep. When I hear the timer - I go in and wake her up. This short nap prevents most meltdowns at the dinner table and she is still tired enough to fall asleep by 8:30. Naptime problem solved for now!

Logan had an early birthday party because their family will be out of town during his b-day. It was a really fun morning/lunch. Logan is really into horses. The kids are usually jealous of the turtle floaty that Lynsey rides in the pool. So while I was looking for something for Logan - I found a blue donkey (or horse) for 3-5 year olds. He loved it. Kristie said - "thanks to Stacy, my son will never learn to swim now." :)

Bikes, babes and beach

2009-08-01T16:30:00.008-04:00

From bikes, walking, beach

I took Lynsey for her first bike ride in the neighborhood. She loved it. It was a slow ride as we followed Ann on her trike. We found a medium sized, big girl bike that a neighbor put out on the curb for trash. So we picked it up and it's waiting for Grandpa to come fix it up with new tires and training wheels. I think it will be just the right size for Ann in about 6 months.

Lynsey's walking is coming along. She is walking a lot more now days. Although she still loves to be held (a lot). I think she has several molars coming in at once. Ouch.

We went to the beach with some friends today. We were on the intercoastal and saw this ice cream boat. We thought that would be a fun job. :)

Happy Birthday Ann Marie

2009-07-13T21:12:00.005-04:00

Today is Ann's official birthday. Ann had a blast at her and Lynsey's birthday party on Saturday with friends - Sydney, Logan and Madison. Ann has been very busy playing with her new toys the last few days. She's growing up so fast, learning and comprehending new things every day. She is a real sweet and funny girl.

The party was a beach party / kiddy pool theme. This is the sand castle cake.

From Birthdays 2009

We borrowed a friends pool and slide to add to the fun.

Sydney and Madison

Lynsey's own sand castle cake. All she ate was the yogurt candy around it. :)

my baby is 1

2009-07-07T07:33:00.006-04:00

Lynsey is one year old today! Since Ann's birthday is next tuesday, we'll be having one party this year on Saturday. I love Lyns to pieces... she's such a cutie. I can't believe she's one, but honestly, I'm sooo glad. We're on our way to a little girl who can walk (almost) and jabber (soon).

From lynsey

While Laura was here last week, she started standing up and walking with a walker:

Cousins

2009-07-04T22:11:00.007-04:00

My cousin Laura came to visit for the week with her girls, McKenna (4) and Alyssa (6) (a gift from Darryl). We had a great time with them. I haven't seen Laura a whole lot since highschool, so it was fun to spend a week together with our kids.

Monday they dressed up as princess's all day. Tuesday we went to the beach. Wednesday we went to the zoo and splash pad and throughly wore ourselves out. Thursday we went to a park playground and played in the kiddy pool at home. Friday we went to Chuck E. Cheese's - first time for all. McKenna said that "it was better than she had hoped." :) Laura is great with babies, so she helped entertain Lynsey all week. I took them to the airport at 6am this morning. We had Ann say goodbye last night, but she was still sad this morning when they were gone. After breakfast, she said she missed her cousins.

Click for more pics...

Laura's visit June 2009

Beach

Zoo

VBS

2009-06-27T18:08:00.004-04:00

Ann and Sydney attended their first Vacation Bible School this past week. It was a long week for their age group, but they had a blast. There are a few more pics in the album if you click on the photo, but here are the highlights:

From VBS

Not sure what was happening up front - but they were mesmerized.

From VBS

The kids standing up to perform the songs that they learned throughout the week.

From VBS

This is what Sydney and Ann did during the entire 5 songs that they sang. They faced the opposite direction of audience. The problem was that the music videos they had watched all week were playing behind them.

From VBS

The firefighters came in at the end of VBS. They were taking questions (and comments) from the students. I think Ann had the last comment - it was "My house is green and I love it." I think all the talk about fires and houses spurred her on to share this. We were cracking up.

From VBS

For those interested, my hard drive data was deemed unrecoverable. The only way to get anything is to do invasive recovery (instead of just running software on it) and that costs big $$$. So we won't be doing that. :( But it hasn't been so bad. I have rebuilt several of my files and I'm on my way to 'personal recovery.'

May Showers Update

2009-05-30T09:58:00.008-04:00

Rain, rain, rain... our lawn looks great and we're saving $$ on the water bill.

I think we've been sick 2 (maybe 3?) times this month. I lose track after a while.

Our best neighbor and substitute grandma and grandpa, Paul and Beverly are moving to Vero Beach. We are seriously going to miss them! At least they won't be too far away and maybe they can even make it back for Ann and Lynsey's birthday party in July.

From May 2009

Ann finished up preschool last week with a music show. Preschool was great and we all loved it. We especially liked sharing the experience with Sydney and Kristie.

Ann with pig nose for one of the songs.

From May 2009

She's in the front row, second from the right.

From May 2009

Lynsey is crawling all over the place and loves to get into cords and the pantry. She's starting to pull up on furniture and stand. She waves hello and good-bye, says uh-oh and ma-ma-ma.

From May 2009

In other very, very sad news... I woke up Sunday morning to a beeping computer. I restarted only to find a gray screen with blinking question mark file folder. Sigh. My hard drive had gone bad. We took it to a repair technician and he repaired my computer with a new hard drive, but was unable to recover any data from my old HD. This was a huge blow as I had not backed up certain work for about 2 months! So, my old HD is with another technician who we have used over the years and I'm hoping (and praying) that he can recover data. It will take several more days to know for sure but it's not likely. Meanwhile this caused us to realize how old our 'work' computers are. So we decided to bite the bullet and buy "new" used computers. I prefer to buy last years model so you don't lose so much by driving it off the car lot if you know what I mean. We also need to look into various automatic backup systems out there and invest in one of those so we can avoid this problem in the future.

It's been a distracting, disorganized week as we tried to figure out what to do, what can be done, and how to get back to work! Arg.

Oh - and our 8 year anniversary was Tuesday. Happy Anniversary Caleb! :) We had a date night planned for last night, but our babysitting family had a sick child that Ann was excited to see. So we decided to postpone until he is feeling better.

Work portfolio

2009-05-14T21:55:00.002-04:00

Every so often - I get the urge to update my portfolio and it's hard for me to do anything else until it's done. DesignByStacy.com. I didn't realize how much new stuff I had over the last year or so. And how much of it was worth showing (at least I think so). Enjoy. :)

At the dinner table

2009-05-10T13:53:00.003-04:00

This is my video blog lately. :) I have uploaded 4 short ones (check out the video bar to the left).

Video 1: There is a little sibling rivalry going on around here. Ann wanted me to video her eating since I took one of Lynsey (which is next). So I set the camera on the table and started it rolling. It's probably entertaining for me and Grandma, and that's about it.

Video 2: About 2 weeks ago Lynsey didn't want me to feed her the baby food, so I started giving her the spoon. Before I knew it - she was picking it up and putting the food in her mouth. At first I had to wiggle the spoon from her grip to give her another bite - but now she drops it so I can get her more food.

Video 3: Lynsey so cute playing peek a boo in her high chair.

Video 4: I was cleaning out the high chair this week and Ann decided to pop into it. A little role reversal for Ann and Lyns.

Sidenotes: In the last month Lynsey has become a huge Daddy's girl. If she sees him, she'll fuss and cry until he holds her. It's a nice break for me.

Happy mother's day!

Lynsey is really crawling now!

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New Song

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Spring Fling

2009-04-28T13:22:00.003-04:00

Last Wednesday was "Spring Fling" at Preschool. The kids artwork was on display along with a picnic outside. Click for more pics.

From Preschool Spring Fling

Easter Activities

2009-04-12T22:52:00.001-04:00

We had a weekend of Easter Activities that started Saturday morning at Lake Mary City Hall ... check out the album!

From Easter Festivities

Enjoying the weather

2009-03-25T17:17:00.002-04:00

We went outside yesterday to enjoy the 'cool' weather before it gets terribly hot. Lynsey is doing a lot of reaching forward on her knees... not too long before she'll be crawling!

From Enjoying the weather

Bird watching

2009-03-25T17:14:00.001-04:00

I worked at preschool today as a helper and the kids learned about birds. Here they are bird watching... more photos are in the album.

From Preschool & bird watching

Catching up...

2009-03-14T12:13:00.001-04:00

Since I'm too lazy to post all the pics to the blog - you'll have to click through to the photo album online. :)

From March 09

new song

2009-02-13T17:06:00.002-05:00

Ann has learned the months of the year by song:

Valentines

2009-02-13T16:58:00.003-05:00

Ann made Valentines for her classmates. She really enjoys craft/art projects.

Sydney and Ann just happened to wear the same shirt today and Kristie got a pic of them. This photo cracks me up. Ann is trying to keep the sun out of her eyes and Syd is trying to smile.
Lynsey has a little runny nose and she gave me her best sick face.

Recent pics of the girls

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She can sit up now!

2009-01-18T14:12:00.003-05:00

Here is Lynsey - one of her first times sitting up and playing last week. Narrated by mommy and Ann. :)

Spinning around

2009-01-18T08:38:00.004-05:00

Last night we had some friends over. Below is a video of the girls spinning after dinner and desert (yummy homemade ice cream cake and no bake cookies). We had 4 years of children here – Lynsey 6 months, Leah 1.5 years, Maya 2.5 years, and Ann 3.5 years. Fun, fun!

Holiday pics

2009-01-01T14:29:00.004-05:00

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Click the photo below to see some photos from the last few weeks. Lynsey had her first cereal, Ann had her first Christmas play, my brother-in-law and his family came to visit for 24 hours, we made a snowman, and Grandma and Grandpa Miller have been here for 3 weeks. We also made Christmas goodies and opened presents.

From Holidays

All Aboard

2008-12-03T15:34:00.003-05:00

Lynsey has graduated from her beloved bouncer to this exer' car saucer. She really liked the exersaucer at preschool nursery this morning, so I dug out our car saucer walker thing. I'm hoping this will provide at least a half hour of entertainment every so often for both of them.

Interaction

2008-11-23T22:43:00.001-05:00

Voter

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Ann and Lynsey

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Ann has been asking to hold Lynsey often lately.

From Ann & Lynsey 11/15/08 3:03 PM

Lynsey is holding her own.

Ann learning about Thanksgiving at school. They dressed up as Indians.

I put this sleeper on Lynsey, but somehow, I don't think this will fit by the time Christmas rolls around.

Sydney's 4 year old birthday party. Rodd and a friend were up till 5:30 in the morning putting together the maze behind them. A labor of love!

Lynsey has been getting ahold of her feet.

Halloween

2008-11-15T15:20:00.004-05:00

Ann was Snow White (once again). We mentioned Halloween once and she asked about it the rest of the week.

Madison and Ann

From halloween

Uncertain wealth

2008-11-05T15:17:00.002-05:00

I am working on a 'Thanksgiving Report' for a local church. Below is one of the verses they want to use... I thought the verse was a good reminder of where we should put our hope. Especially these days when it's so easy to worry about finances and the economy.

Command those who are rich in this present world not to be arrogant nor to put their hope in wealth, which is so uncertain, but to put their hope in God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment. 1 Timothy 6:17 (NIV)

Indiana Trip

2008-10-25T09:24:00.003-04:00

We just got back from Indiana. It was a nice break from the norm. We saw family, lots of farm animals, leaves and soft grass. Below are some of the highlights. There are lots more photos in the 'picasa' photo album if you click on the photos.

Great Grandpa Yoder with the girls

From INDIANA

Ann going fishing off Grandma and Grandpa's pier

Lynsey was there too

We had dinner with my cousin Laura and her family

Alyssa (Ann's second cousin) came over the next day to play in the leaves

Lynsey in the bouncer

The girls with Grandma and Grandpa

Marty (my brother) with the girls

On the way home...

Baby bath time

2008-10-11T11:38:00.000-04:00

Lynsey SCREAMS during the entire bath. I guess she doesn't like them. Maybe because I only get around to bathing her about twice a week?

From baby bath time

Girls

2008-09-28T17:05:00.000-04:00

Did Lynsey see a ghost?

No... she's just in her sister's arms.

Princess Party

2008-09-28T17:00:00.000-04:00

Sydney's cousin, Madison, turned 4 years old. She invited Ann to her Princess Party on Saturday. Ann loved every minute... from getting dressed up as snow white to swinging on the tire swing. As we left she said, "Mommy, I had SO much fun today."

Madison is the princess in blue. And the boys came as pirates.

The Bangs

2008-09-28T16:58:00.000-04:00

I think we have gotten used the haircut... I was a little iffy at first. But it's growing on me. And sometimes I think it's really cute.

What a smiley baby!

2008-09-15T08:49:00.000-04:00

Shirt Model

2008-09-04T09:52:00.001-04:00

This shirt has been hanging in Ann's closet for a while. This morning it caught her eye and she wanted to wear it. My Aunt Judy got this shirt and another one while she was in Africa for me to wear when I was a little girl. Thanks to my mom saving them - Ann can now enjoy them. She's got several poses for you if you go to the gallery (by clicking on the photo).

From Shirt Model

Smiling

2008-09-03T19:16:00.000-04:00

Lynsey started smiling about a week ago (keep the volume low - Ann is yelling in the background).

First week of Preschool

2008-08-29T10:04:00.000-04:00

This week has been the first week of Preschool. On Saturday, I had orientation at the church where they hold the preschool since it's a Co-op and I will be helping about once a month (which also makes it more affordable). Caleb did a great job looking after the girls while I was gone for 3 hours.

On Wednesday we all went to the Preschool/Open House day for a short half hour to meet the Teacher - Mrs. Tamez. The class theme is Believer Bears. There are 10 kids in her class. The class is just two mornings a week.

They got to decorate a sheet of paper that morning with stickers and markers that will be used for their 'cubby' where they put their backpack. Each child has a color and Ann's is blue for the year.

From Pre-School

Mrs. Tamez sent us home with Ann's first 'homework' assignment. We had to take a paper bear and put some kind of texture on him. We glued striped fabric to the bear Thursday morning...

Fuzzy Wuzzy wasn't fuzzy, he was stripy! That is part of the poem on the back.

Today is her first full morning of school by herself. I took this video... she was pretty excited.

Kristie, my carpool partner, came to get Ann this morning.

Syndey and Ann in the car

Walking in...

Kristie sent me this report when she returned this morning:
"They were SO cute this morning. Outside the classroom had all this stuff set up for a bear hunt. They were both so excited and both ran into the classroom. They were the first ones there and I saw playdough set up on the table—so they put their backpacks in their cubbys, showed the teacher their bears, and they were off on their great adventure."

I can't wait to take them next week!

3 videos

2008-08-25T15:40:00.001-04:00

In the video bar:
1. I don't want to play with you
2. Flashlight funny faces
3. Ann calming Lynsey (and Caleb's obscure comment about the TV show Big Brother)

Sweet little Lynsey

2008-08-25T14:22:00.000-04:00

7 weeks old...

From Lynsey 6-7 weeks

A couple more...

2008-08-21T10:39:00.000-04:00

Newborn photos have arrived!

2008-08-09T17:28:00.000-04:00

Natasja did a great job last Saturday getting some beautiful newborn and family photos. Click on the first photo to see the rest.

From newborn photo...

Lynsey

2008-08-06T16:05:00.000-04:00

This one is for the grandparents and family. Nothing too exciting - just thought you guys might want to see Lynsey in action. I think the toy octopus hanging above caught her eye. She seems to be looking right at it. Her umbilical cord fell off today. And she is starting to look like an old man cause her black hair is falling out.

Ann Marie and Lynsey playing with the "activity gym" together.

From Ann and Lynsey

Don't touch my laundry

2008-07-30T11:32:00.000-04:00

Photos with Lynsey

2008-07-27T15:50:00.000-04:00

From Lynsey

Ann Marie is 3! (officially on Monday)

2008-07-15T21:02:00.000-04:00

Ann had a blast at her birthday party on Saturday! All the new toys came in handy on Sunday since Caleb, Lynsey and I were in the hospital the next few days.

From Ann's Birthda...

Update...

2008-07-15T20:47:00.000-04:00

Saturday night we discovered that our newborn, Lynsey, was running a fever of 101.2 (over 100.4 is considered a fever) so we took her in to the ER at South Seminole Hospital. It was a grueling and emotional night with lots of tests on our newborn including a spinal tap. We are very grateful to God that the tests came back negative and the doctors have ruled out all the bad stuff like meningitis. There's a couple test results that we are still waiting on but most likely the cause was a viral infection. Stacy and Lynsey have been transferred to Arnold Palmer Hospital downtown for observation until Tuesday. We are just really tired and thankful that Lynsey is going to be okay. Caleb & Stacy
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We got home early this evening. Still waiting on one test result that will come in tomorrow - but they let us go anyway. Lynsey is looking and eating 100 times better. We're glad to be home again! Stacy and Lynsey :)
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Final test is negative as of today (Wed) – Praise God!!!!

Check out the video bar

2008-07-11T17:51:00.000-04:00

Video bar to the right. Ann with Lynsey... and Lynsey with one big yawn at the end. :)

Lynsey Hannah

2008-07-10T18:16:00.000-04:00

We are thrilled to report that on Monday afternoon at 1:19pm Lynsey Hannah Edwards landed safe and sound into this world. She weighed in at 8lbs and 9 oz's and is a sleek 21 inches long. That is a full pound more than her older sister was. The labor lasted for 1 and a half hours once we got to the hospital so we were thankful for that. Stacy is doing fine and trying to take it easy and get sleep whenever possible. Ann Marie is being a great big sister already and has held her new sister a couple times.

From Lynsey Hannah...

Baby Shower

2008-06-19T14:35:00.000-04:00

My WONDERFUL neighbor Beverly (far right) hosted a lovely shower for me today. I'm so thankful - I now have newborn diapers and lots of cute clothes to put on the new baby girl. Thanks to all for coming. We had a great luncheon.

From Baby Shower 6...

Ahh! I'm 8 months pregnant...

2008-06-19T14:32:00.000-04:00

Gotta get at least one picture of this!

Nana is here

2008-06-19T14:17:00.000-04:00

Nana Edwards is here visiting from New Zealand! Ann Marie has been having lots of fun with Nana. Ann (Nana) will be at our house for 2 weeks and then she will travel up to Caleb's brother and sisters' places in Pensacola for about 4 weeks.

From nana

At the end of swim time

2008-06-19T14:13:00.000-04:00

From kids

Eat your Peas Ann Marie

2008-06-01T13:14:00.000-04:00

Ann and Daddy have a pea eating contest.
Part 2

Backyard Picnic

2008-06-01T09:19:00.000-04:00

Ann and I have been having lunch picnics in the backyard. Although, it's usually under the covered porch/lanai because it's so hot and bright outside!

From picnic

Ann and Logan

2008-05-26T11:28:00.000-04:00

Kristie got this great pic of these two

Nascar

2008-05-26T11:23:00.001-04:00

Ann driving with Grandpa back in April while they were still here...

From nascar

At the Beach with Grandma and Grandpa

2008-04-18T22:27:00.000-04:00

Sitting on Sand Castles

2008-04-18T22:24:00.000-04:00

'Somebody' taught Ann to sit on sand castles. And she sat on every one of them after that.

Swimming with Grandma

2008-04-18T22:23:00.000-04:00

Scaring Mommy

2008-04-18T22:21:00.001-04:00

Mocha

2008-04-18T21:48:00.000-04:00

He likes this couch.

Easter morning

2008-03-23T17:11:00.000-04:00

From easter morning

Jonathan's birthday party

2008-03-23T17:01:00.000-04:00

Our friend from church - Jonathan turned 5 recently. His Grandpa took photos of everyone and sent us some photos he took of Ann (and me).

From Jonathan's bi...

Sleep over

2008-03-23T08:15:00.000-04:00

Our dear friends, Rodd and Kristie, watched Ann for us while we went to a friend's birthday party downtown. They attempted to have a sleep over... but as you can see they were having too much fun! So they put her to bed in the next room. Click the photo for more.

Getting a little wet

2008-03-17T16:56:00.000-04:00

It's getting up to 85 degrees lately - so we borrowed the neighbors sprinkler and Sydney, Logan and Ann played with the water.

cooking with mom

2008-03-17T16:48:00.001-04:00