Alrighty,  Dev and I need to do some blog fixing up.  Our banner is a little out dated as we now have two children and no longer have Bob the dog.  We also are missing a lot of you on our blog roll- I will work on that and organizing those.  And we need a button to my new-ish blog.  www.LynnSpin.com That’s right I ask people to put it on their blogs, but I don’t even have it on mine   No good.  So, lets all make a goal of adding that little button (wink wink) to our blogs   I love you all!  Thanks for reading our blog and for enjoying how awesomely funny I am (another wink) 

And GOOD JOB on your comments lately- I am very impressed!  I get like 4 a post…not too bad (brushing my shoulders off)  …not to shabby        ME LIKES!

Add one of these and I will hug you and kiss you!- Probably just a hug

Your mascara seems to be running…. how the heck did that get on your face anyway?  Big trouble…..

Adventures in Charlie- Land.  Never dull.

Charlie Loves to play with her friend Brooklyn. They are quite the dress-up queens.  haha.

Charlie looks like Madonna- Strike a Pose!

They did my hair too.  My eyes watered just a little   From the tugging of little fingers

I don’t know how to get rid of red eyes…can someone tell me? (above pic of Charlie)

Here are these two crazies at the zoo earlier that day.

Their dads were fishing together on a charter boat, so we went and had a fun day too.

Thanks Chanel, Brooklyn, and cute baby Gaige!

My sweet happy man

Thanks for taking this pictures Katie!!

Here is Miss Charlie at her best….

Loves to smile for the camera

Loves to garden with dad

Loves to make “dinner” for everyone

Loves to play outside and have adventures

She drives me crazy some days, but I can’t help but love her and her big personality

Last night Charlie was running a temp of 104.2.  Hoping we could get it down before it reached 105 and needed to trip to the hospital, we sat cuddled together on the couch eating snow cones and watching High School Musical 3.  It was nice.  Not nice that she wasn’t feeling well, but nice to hold each other and need each other.  Dev and I rarely get to hold Charlie.  She has never cuddled with us, she was a colicky baby and went straight from that to a running toddler.  So the moments we get to hold each other are wonderful.  I love my little girl.  And, even though she is busy all the time, I know she loves me too.  We are a happy family

And as for the title of this post.  Today I can’t help but be overwhelmingly grateful for my beautiful and healthy children.  I am glad Charlie’s temp is back down, and I am glad she is such a happy, fun loving, wild woman.  And she is allllll mine.  Oh I love my babies.

And I am grateful for the man that helped my make these beautiful babies   I could not have dreamed I would marry someone so kind.

college days

I have a blonde moment here and there, probably more than most, let’s get real   But, at least I can admit it and laugh (after turning a light shade of embarrassed red).

I referenced our “inside umm… joke”  a few posts back and I thought I would let you in on my little embarrassing secret.  Well, here it is:

After Dev and I got married we went on a lovely little date to the pottery painting place and decided to make a salsa dish as seen here.

After three years, one child, and one more on the way, we finally finished our dish.  I was pregnant when I made this mistake…maybe that makes this a little better.  ANYWAY, the last touch was to write yum… on the inside.  Or yummy.  But when we picked up our dish and looked inside we discovered I wrote LOOK BELOW

Yeah…    “Umm…”  umm… this is delicious    That works right   Oh well, it makes us laugh every time we look at it.  Silly Lynnie 

Charlie had her first tea party with a few of her best buds.  They are so stink’n cute!  We ate peanut butter and jelly in the shape of flowers, dressed up, went outside to pick flowers, and DANCED of course.  These girls had lots of fun during the tea party.   So fun having a little girl

WARNING! PICTURES MAY BE DISTURBING hahaha….

One day I was walking into the kitchen and saw this poor little doll in time out.  It freaked me out at first, looked so real for a second.  I then heard Charlie from the other room yell, “Two mintues baby!  Bad Baby, Time OUT!”             First thought that went through my brain “Ahh!  I am really this mean?”    I very kindly asked Charlie to come over to talk to me and proceeded to tell her that the baby was not bad, she is too little to go to time out, and that we need to be nice to the baby doll.  I also told her, when she makes a bad choice sometimes I need her to sit in time out so that she has time to think about making a better choice next time. . . ugh!  Who knows if any of that sunk-in to her two year old brain, but it made me feel a little better about dolly being yelled at and shoved in the time out corner.  Oh man… Some days I have no idea what I am doing.

It’s been a month or more since Beck got his teeth, but now they are really poking out.  He is the most smily baby I have ever met.  I honestly think that (tell me if you disagree, cuz ya won’t if you meet him )  Here is him chowing down on some deliciously disgusting baby food.  He is a little food inhaler too, scarfs everything down.  I love my little man!!