Happy Birthday Nana

Today is Kevin's mom's (akak Nana) birthday. I, being the snicky person I am - did up a surprise party for her at her apartment. I had Kevin and Athen take her out to dinner while I was busy at work on the decor....I Like to think that she was surprised - She told us that this is the first time she's ever had a SURPRISE birthday party....
The Candles

The Cake


The Gifts

The Crew

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NANA! WE HOPE IT WAS A GREAT ONE!!!

To my wife......part 2

I LOVE YOU!!!!!I LOVE YOU!!!!!!I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!GUESS WHAT..............YUP,I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!

To my wife......

Baby i just wanted to know that I LOVE U very,very much!!!!You are a very good wife,mother,friend and companion.I am terrible at showing my appreciation for everything that you do for me/our family.You are a very generous and kind woman that deserves all that you want.You work very hard and you are the backbone of our family.I will say to everyone that reads this that if it wasnt for you id be dead,in jail or maybe even worse by now!Im very grateful(even though i dont show it much) to have you in my life!Im also grateful for the gift that ONLY you couldve given me and that is the best son in the world!!!!!!!(n yes he looks like me!)Let me not forget that your family also i am grateful for.You have alot of characteristics of your mother(if you know grammie you know that this is a very high compliment)which i am lucky to be able to enjoy!!!You also have some of your fathers too(sorry Mr. Randy,your better half has trumped you this time)that im thankful to enjoy and sometimes just love to see your facial expressions when i tell you i got some fish!!!!(or crab legs!!!)To sum it all up im very thankful that i have you and your family in my life!!!!!!I LOVE YOU!!!!(im not gonna be like pa and tell you that when we got married and if it changes ill let you know)I LOVE YOU!!!N MY BOO 2!!!!!I LOVE YOU BOO!!!!!Oh yeah and you 2 diezel!!!!!!!If anyone has any questions or comments about my love and thankfulness please free to contact me.If you got left out you are not forgotten but i had to express my love for my wife and child so maybe someone who thinks theyre not loved to stop and look at all the people they have in thier life that loves them,before its too late!

Pet Peeves...

I need an outlet... my blog, my outlet.

***Stop Reading if you are not going to understand that these are MY thoughts***

I know that everyone has pet peeves, and everyone has different ones... One of mine is the lack of customer service in this country. If you are employed where you have contact with people - BE NICE. Its really not THAT hard is it? I mean, I understand that people have bad days and what not. But it shouldn't effect your work to the point that you are just down right rude to people. I can not stand when you go to a fast food establishment and the servers are rude. I get that they don't' get paid that much and they are probably not working in their "dream job" but the fact still remains that you are employed there and that is your job. So do it with a smile on your face! Check the attitude at the door! On that note... If you work in a professional place, be professional. This isn't home, this isn't the barn yard, so don't act like it. Don't be yelling and saying crude things and make crude jesters, don't be telling every Tom, Dick, and Harry that walks thru the door you life store. You are at your place of employment to do a job, do it. Another one of my pet peeves is lack of seriousness there is in getting married... Its NOT a "Oh, well if this doesn't work out, I'll just get divorced..." commitment. In my job I see it 8 hours a day, 5 days a week. And along with divorce, adultery. Has it ever occurred to anyone {Note, I haven't heard it put this way in any sermon} That SEX is a sacred that its the ONLY reason God gives for you to remarry. Not if your spouse hits you, not if they drink, do drugs, kill.... SEX is it. So, with common sense applied wouldn't people THINK that sex should be sacred??? That you shouldn't just be bedding down with whomever, whenever you like??? That it is meant for a MAN and WOMAN {Note: not a MAN and MAN nor a WOMAN and WOMAN} that are husband and wife to share. That is theirs and theirs alone to give to one another... Does people not realize the importance of it if that and that alone is the only reason God commanded us to be able to remarry? I would really like to hear a sermon that stress this point. I am sure that it could be done better than I have. I think that it should be stressed to teenagers, who think that its "OK" to have sex before they are married. I think it needs to be stress the IMPORTANCE of sex and what it MEANS. On to that fact, your children. How can parents love themselves more than their OWN children? How can they be SO selfish and so self destructive? How can they profess to "love" their children? Many people have told me "....you will understand when you have kids" I think this logic can apply here... I can now better understand the LOVE that you are have for your child. {side note, this love is not to be "more" than the one for your spouse - I am working on the biblical reference} I truly believe that their are people that are so selfish and so self absorbed that they can not love their own children - which, by the way, are probably the ones that professes to "love" their children all the time. "You are my world" "You are my love" "You are my everything" No they are not. So don't profess that they are. You are lying to yourself to make yourself feel better. Wake up, put your "big girl/boy pants" on and do an about face. Yes you should love yourself, if do not then you can't start to love anyone else. That is not what I am talking about. I am talking about selfishness. Really, that were LOTS of problems in relationships lay. Sleeping with someone else - Selfish, Worrying about you and you alone - Selfish. Spending money you don't have - Selfish.
I just needed to get this out of me... Again, my blog - my thoughts.

Blessing

Odd how you find blessing in funny ways... For Christmas, mom and dad got Athen a DVD player that hooks on the the head rest. Well not long ago it broke. No more movies on the way to and from daycare... The only one that I had in there was Letter Factor and since he knows all his letters now {it does however teach them the sounds - in which he's started to tell me "B, bah, bah, bah"} Anyhoo, I was a bit put out that the DVD player stopped working... HOWEVER, now since he doesn't have it to watch he looks at his books and talks to me. He says the funniest things. Yesterday he had his "Dora/Boots" book and it has letters in it. He turned the book so I could see it and would point to the letter and say "See, 'A' Momma?" I would say "Yes, I see it" he would say "Good Job, See 'B' Momma" so on and so forth... He really does make me laugh. He will also say "Find ____" whatever letter he's looking for and then gets SOOOOO excited when he "finds" it. I love him! So with all that said, it was a "good" thing that the DVD player is broke - which I really don't know that it is or not. Kevin is going to have a look-see and if its not it will remain in the car, just turned "off" and we will use it if/when we go on trips... Or until I find another educational movie to play him so he can learn even more!

29 and doing fine

My oh my how time flies... Today is 29 months since Athen blessed our lives. He is so smart and into all kinds of things...

Some of his new things are - If you say "Thank You" he says "Ur lecom" If you sneeze he will say "Bless You" You ask him "What are you doing?" He will say "Nuff'n"

Tonight at dinner he said the prayer.... "God, food, AMEN!" Sometimes he calls Jett "Jettie-Man" There are lots more things, I just can't think of them at the moment... Here are some pictures of Athen at 29 months....

April 2007

April 2008

April 2009

Count Your Blessings...

29 months ago - RIGHT NOW - my whole world changed.... Athen really and truly is a blessing to not just our lives, but I believe that he will touch many lives.... I like to think he already has in his short 29 months of life.... I will post more about Athen and some pictures tonight... Just wanted to post at 12:35 - when he was born!!

Love you BooBoo! ox ~momma

Chatty Kathy

Athen most defiantly gets his talkativeness from his Daddy. Athen's newest thing to do in the car is talk on the phone... If you are on the phone he says "Who's dat?" you answer, then he says "I wanna talk to _______" He can carry on a pretty good conversation, then again - I know what he's saying. Most of the time whom ever is on the other end of the line does not. And if you are not on the phone and he sees it he will ask to call random people.... Jett, Ninnie, Sherry, Daddy, so on and so forth.... When he can really talk, he's going to give Jett a run for his money, and if you know Jett- that's a WHOLE lot of talk'n there!

Hang'n with the Boys

Finally, we have some nice warm weather we can enjoy... Last night Mom, Nikki and I with the boys in tow got supper and took it to the park and ate and let the boys play... It was the park by the college - Drexel I think? I liked it cause the playground has a ramp instead of steps - if you know my two left footed child....you will know why I am not a fan of steps.

Then today Mom cooked breakfast for all of us and then we got the "water slide" out and the boys ( Kevin included, and don't you know - I didn't have my camera!!) tried it out. They had a blast! You will note, Jett is in none of the pictures - he said "Playing in the water reminds me of Bobby Tucker and it makes me nervous" Haha, I have to meet this man! Really, he can't be THAT scary, right?

Then tonight mom and Nikki cooked dinner at mom's house and Aunt Sherry came over... Here's Athen coloring with "Sherrrreeeee"

My little man got him some sun today...

Again, I love him so good...

N-E-V-E-R a dull moment!

If you know Kevin, you know that he is the "life of the party" With that said.... Thursday Nights the Young Professionals from Church gets together and have fun, food, and fellowship. This past Thursday night we went to play Putt-Putt. I had been told that is wasn't worth the money and was so boring.... little did they know, I was with the next Tiger Woods =)

Everything was going well.... Kevin was doing pretty good!

Until we came to the hole in front of the water fall...

And his ball went in.....


...and so did Kevin....

Yes, he's for hire - need some entertainment???

Pictures

Here are a couple of pictures that I "borrowed" from Leiland's mom... They will be back down in just a couple of weeks! YAY!!!!! Kevin taking the candy from Athen that were in the eggs...

Here LeeLee, I will put my eggs in your basket

Silly Boys - when these two get together, you can FEEL all the energy!

Trust me, Leiland doesn't weigh much more than Athen does...

Athen and Batman Lavender =)

Another story...

...this morning on the way to day care, Athen was yet again looking at his coloring books and he finds a picture with something to count and this is what he says:

"One... Two... Three... GOOD JOB Athen!"
I heart him!

YAY! Finally!!

Ok, if you don't have a "large" monitor or a "newer" one you probably won't be able to see my background that I FINALLY got in a three column... Its so stink'n cute!!!! Its a MUST see... go to http://www.scrappinblogs.blogspot.com/ on the left hand side there are links - go to "Categories" then "*Go Digital Scrapbooking (14)" mine is the 2nd one "I love my Boy's" one... cute, right?!?!?! LOVE IT!!!

Good Job Momma!

Yesterday on the way home from daycare Athen was looking at his coloring book. He finds where I have written his name and says "A-T-H-E-N, uh huh. Good Job Momma!" He was very proud that I knew how to spell his name... =) so smart my child... LOVE him!

Kevin's Back

**please note that Kevin's Back has been moved from the "Prayer Request" side to the "Thank You Prayers" side - Praise the Lord!!!!!**

from blog to book...

((No, his name is not spelled with an "S" - Just the possessive form of Athen))

I, sad to say, never done a baby book for Athen. HOWEVER, I have found a way to be able to print the blog without loosing or cutting off any pictures {thus has been my problem till now} Therefore, I am going to start from the beginning and print the blog. With that said, please feel free to go back and post as many comments as you would like, or you can just start from this point forward - I will be printing those as well and compiling a baby book (hey, 2 1/2 years later, that's pretty good!) I think this will be even BETTER than a "regular" baby good (cause lets face it, when I have I ever done anything "regular") cause Athen will also have comments and encouragement from family and friends to go along with it. I just think its a splendid idea... so get to commenting - GRAMMIE THIS MEANS YOU!!! If you wish to comment but do not wish for the "world" to see it, feel free to email it to me - tiffanywalker@yahoo.com

Pray for Me

Please take a moment and just say a little prayer for me and my patience and tolerance. Thank You!

Happy Birthday "Maw"

Today is Grandma aka "Maw's" 72 Birthday, Also marks 4 years of NOT smoking!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAW, WE LOVE YOU

Good Luck Jett!!!

This week Jett is taking swimming lessons again with BOBBY TUCKER!

Family & Friends Day...

Also, wanted to ask for "Thank You Prayers" for a close family member who attended church with us today. Is also planning on attending services on our Family and Friends day. God does good work!

**I have added a link {to your left under "Prayer Requests"} for a bible study that you can print out... Its very good and great for beginners**

Athen's BFF...

Well, after two nights at the vet, one Rx and stool testing kit (that's all you babe), and $275.25 vet bill later.... Diezel is back home.... The Vet is pretty sure its something he ate... you think it could have been from Easter...? {see picture below} Glad you are home Diezel, more important - glad you are feeling better.

As close as brothers...

Last night was the first night that Jett has ever spent the night with us - Nikki & Eric had a date night. So we took the boys to Chick-Fil-A to eat and play. After Kevin told a little girl to hit another little girl back cause she hit her first (in the face mind you) and the little girl DID IT! We had to go! The plan WAS to take the boys to the park after dinner, but after a quick trip to Target oh and one to Wendy's to get Jett a frosty - day light was about gone... Thus my hubby came up with the idea to take the boys to Geren Rides {don't judge - there isn't anything to do in this town} The boys, all three, of them had a GREAT time...See that SMALL speck at the the very top that looks like a little boy - yep, that would be my child... can you say heart attack?

Here they come.... Can you see Athen's hands in the air...?

WHEW! made it!

Athen picked this ride ( its was one of the few he could ride)

This just note the irony in this - This ride is one Jett picked for them to ride (so Athen could ride, so sweet of you Jett to think of your little "brother") - Airplane. And then Athen picks a Boat.... um, I guess Eric really is Jett's Daddy and Kevin really is Athen's....

This would be the "Big Boy" ride... that they rode, twice! I don't know how had more fun, Kevin (who REALLY shouldn't be on it due to his back) or Jett....

So after the "Best Day Ever" as Jett said... We got up and I took the boys to play at a local school play ground - cause you get all this cool play ground equipment ALL TO YOURSELF... well that is until the police come and tell you that you have to leave - that's a bit of a downer.

Yep, he's about to fall, again.

This is typical Jett and Athen - Athen doing something "animated" and Jett climbing on something...

We had a great time with you Jettie-Man!

I hope that the two of you stay as close as brothers - cause y'all sure fight like them =)