Thursday, February 14, 2008
I can't believe my baby girl is already one!!!
This day is a little bittersweet.... Where has the year gone??? I'm not sure but somewhere, somehow my baby girl has turned a year old...I can remember this day a year ago like it was yesterday... Dawson was with Amanda, waiting on baby Daityn... All he wanted was a camoflauge baby... And all I wanted was to get him that baby!!
We had her party last weekend and she had so much fun!! It was great!! I'm gonna just post pictures on this blog... I've gotta go and make some cupcakes for Dawson's Valentine party at school!!
Happy Valentine's Day!! And Happy Birthday Daityn Blair and Mrs. Sparks!! I love you both more than you'll ever know!!;)
This is the cake that Aunt Olivia brought from Fayetteville!! Rick's makes the best cakesEVA!!!
This was Daityn Blair's personal cake!!
All of the food on the cute little table!!
This is me making Punky work hard to get Andee's Gym ready for the party!! Can you tell she wasn't very happy about that?? 
Here is all of the goody bags!!
Here is the table with pictures from the past year of Daityn Blair!! After the party I split them with the two great grandmothers that made it to the party!!
David and Uncle Bobby waiting on the party to get started!
The table that the kids would sit to eat on!!
Of course trusty Amanda was there to help every step of the way!! Here she is serving punch with Kaley!!
She loves Aunt Punky!!
Here she is sitting in the bouncer watching all of the boys jump!!
She really got into opening her presents!! I remember at Dawson's 1st birthday party he didn't care about all of the gifts!! She is a true girly girl!! 
After awhile I had to call Dawson over to help her open the presents!! There were SOOOOOO many!! And I think she was getting tired of it!
I have bragged and bragged on Dawson!! He is such a little man! He did AWESOME at his baby sister's first birthday party!! I'm so proud of him!!
She LOVES balloons!! I don't know how many were blown up for her, but it was ALOT!! Here she is loving on a balloon!! This is one of my favorite pictures! 
Jumping with Sarah and Amanda!! There is uncle Bobby taking some pictures for us!!OMG!! Here she is having her first kiss... Cooper Rambo, you better watch out!! I think it was love at first site!! They went on and on and on!! It was so cute!
Here she is walking with Conk!! She is almost walking alone!! I think she could if she would slow down a little bit!!
Here is my pretty little princess! She had such a wonderful time!!
Needless to say... She loved the cake!! 
And Daddy got to be there!! He was so proud of that! Things sure have changed since this time last year! But I can't imagine our lives without you little princess!!
My little birthday girl!! I love you more than words can say!! And I'm so proud of you!! Muah!!
Monday, February 04, 2008
A HeckOfA New Post.... To catch you up for the past 3 months!!
Gosh.... I know.... It's been too long... But we've been so freakin' busy.... If and when you get to the bottom of this post, you will understand!!I know I always say this... On like every post for the past 10 posts... But this time I mean it... I'm going to start keeping my blog updated more.... I promise!!!
David got back home the first part of November and we've been spending a lot of time together with the kiddos since then... And of course Christmas is always hectic and stuff.... I knew in the back of my mind that's it had been a while since the last post on here... But when I logged in and saw that my last DRAFT was from the first week in November, I knew it had for sure been WAY too long!!!
David is supposed to be leaving here in the next few days, so I know there will be a lot of late night without sleep that I'll post I promise!!
I guess that this one is going to be more about pictures and catching you up on what's been going on in the life of the Ladd's over the past few months!!
Always adventurous.... ALWAYS!! But that is how we like it!!
I'm so glad that all of my babies are back together!! Oh so glad!! I know I've said this before, but that man means the world to me and things just are not right when he's gone!! And my babies are in love with their daddy too, fo sho!!
We had Thanksgiving here this year! We had a great time!! Instead of the usual turkey and dressing we had taco soup!! Which I think was a great hit!! And then there was the whole red beans and rice thing, that absolutely flopped, but we won't go there!! I think it was because my crock pot is a piece of junk.... Yeah, that's what happened!!Mamaw Woodie was here I think she enjoyed herself!!
Daddy was here too!!
Olivia, Granny and Dawson, all with their head turned... Relaxing after a big dinner!!
Mr. Dale and Dawson wrestling as usual!!
Daityn Blair's favorite part was playing with Mamaw's "stick"!! She played with that thing for a solid hour!! 
Here are some of our Christmas pictures!!
This one is my favorite of the kids!! They had so much fun!!
We all did!! And I thought that getting a couple of good pictures out of all the ones that I snapped we did a really good job!! That just proves that we really were having a blast!!I just set the timer on the camera and ran back and forth for the ones of all of us!! So of course we had some funny ones... Like this one...
We all had a funny look on our face!!But the ones of Dawson and Daityn Blair truly show the love that they have for one another!!
They love each other so much!! 
Daityn Blair giving her daddy some sugar!! Or at least that's what it looks like... She was really trying to get his gum because he was teasing her with it!! Silly daddy!!
Here is one of the few that is good of all of us!! Besides Daityn Blair.... She would look at me the whole time that I was setting the camera and as soon as I started running to get in the picture she would start messing with Dawson's hat!!
Here is another one of my favorites of the kids!! Just playing in the grass with each other!
There's Daityn Blair with her daddy getting ready to ride in the Christmas parade for winning the pageant earlier in the summer! She had so much fun!! We didn't think that she was going to ride on top of the car because we tried to sit her up there while we were waiting on the parade to start and she wanted no part of it!! But as soon as we turned on Main street and she saw all of those people, she started smiling and waving!! It was priceless!!
Here is just a random picture of Dawson asleep, halfway on the couch!! I can't remember what we'd been doing but he was tuckered out!! 
Here is Daityn Blair playing peek-a-boo with PawPaw and his hat!! 
She thought that was so funny!! He would put it back on his head and she would try her best to take it off and do it all again!!
Random picture I took of Daityn sitting in the front yard!! I've talked so bad about her for such a long time, but now she is a really happy baby!! And just a joy to all of us!! 
Dawson with the cupcakes that we made for his party at school!!
Dawson with the kids in his class!!
Here is Dawson and his pre-k teacher Mrs. Laura... Dawson loves her so much and she has truly made his first year of school very special!!
The kids Christmas Eve in their Christmas pajamas.. 
They are so silly!! They can't do anything without laughing at one another! 
We spent Christmas Eve, Eve with my mom at her house with my aunt and cousins!! We had a blast!! Here Daityn Blair was giving Conk some lovin'! 
Here is my cousin Julie with her little boy Reece and Daityn Blair!! They love each other so much!! They had so much fun!! They just could not keep their hands off of each other! 
Daityn Blair tried to make every step that "BooBoo" (Reece) did!! And of course he did the same!! 
Here is Emma watching Dawson open a present!! 
Daityn Blair and Aunt Punky!!
Dawson opening his grain drill from Conk and Gramp!! He was so proud of that! 
Someone special made a special trip all the way from the north pole to see our kids this year!!Let me tell you it was absolutely priceless!!
Granny tried to sit Daityn Blair in his lap and she went into histerics!! I'm not so sure that Dawson didn't think about running himself!! He walked in saying "ho ho ho" and Dawson started tripping about not being in the bed yet... So immediately he started explaining himself!! David asked Santa if Dawson had been a good boy and Santa said that he's been watching him and he'd been "naughty".... Dawson looked like he was on trial and started explaining that he was going to start being good tomorrow!! 
Then Uncle Lawrence (aka Santa), Uncle Bo, PawPaw, Granny, Mr. Dale and Uncle Patrick came to watch the kids open their presents from David and I.
Dawson and I made sugar cookies for Santa and Daityn Blair dug into them!!
Dawson showing off the new cross bow that mommy and daddy got him for Christmas!! He was so proud of that!! 
Here are the cookies left for Santa, along with some yummy Chocolate milk!! 
Dawson decorated them himself!!Then low and behold in the weeeee hours of the morning.... Santa Came!!!
To see Dawson...
And then Daityn Blair... 
Of course she was happy!! 
It took Dawson a minute to wake up... Christmas is always a sleepy time around our house cause we are always so busy!! 
Then PawPaw came over with more gifts!! Some more stuff to go with the X-Box that Santa brought!! 
We waited until after Christmas this year to have it with Granny, Patrick and Mr. Dale so that Olivia and Bobby could be here too!! 
Here is Dawson after opening his present from Mr. Dale
But Aunt Olivia was the best gift giver of all!! She got him a Caterpiller Combine!! All that he'd asked for!! On Christmas morning he was upset cause he said that Santa forgot the combine... 
Daityn Blair and aunt Olivia...
Dawson, Daityn Blair and cousin Aslan!! 
Amanda and the kiddos!!
Daityn Blair loves some Amanda!!
Me and Amanda!!
Amanda Rick and Daityn Blair!! Rick is about as crazy about Daityn Blair!! 
And again, Daityn loving her Manda!! I have no idea what they were looking at!This is so funny!! Here she is with Mamaw Sue.. She makes this face like she smells something!! 
Here she is loving the bows instead of opening presents she left that up to big brother!! 
After Christmas with Mamaw Sue we had fight night at our house!! This is one of the few times that she has ever let someone rock her to sleep and of course that made PawPaw's night!!
And then there was the fireworks!! 
Thanks to Rick!! 
It was so cold!! Manda had Daityn Blair snuggled up!!
Here she is eating!! She makes such a mess!! But she threw her bottle away herself two weeks ago tomorrow!! She is getting to be such a big girl!! 
She loves to "call the hogs" when she is in her high chair!! 
Here she is caught in the fridge!! 
Here is Nicole and Meagan having facials before bunko last month!! We had so much fun!! 
Crystal and I doing the same!! I wish I would've got more pictures that night!! We had SOOOO much fun!!
Here is Dawson helping David put together the kitchen that PawPaw got them for their birthdays!!
They had just as much fun playing with the box!! 
We had a little going away party for David and Daddy last weekend in Lake Village...We had a really good time!! Family time is so important!!
Here is a picture of Dawson alone because he ducked out of the big picture!! Little stinker!
I also made some cupcakes because David and Daddy are going to miss the kid's first and fifth birthdays.... I think they really enjoyed this!! I know Dawson did, now he can't understand why he's not already five!!
Half of All of our little cousins!!
Here is David holding Daityn Blair with her cupcake!!
David helping Daityn Blair realize what the pretty cupcake was for!! 
That's all it took!!!!! 
And she was so proud!!
I think that just about catches you up on everything that's been going on in the past couple of months!! Next weekend we are having Daityn Blair's birthday party so I'm sure there will be more yummy cake pictures!!
Hope everyone is doing good!!