this crazy kid can write his name...

We decided a couple weeks ago that it was time to teach Case how to write his name...we had taught Hayden at this age while he was in his first year of preschool too... Case has been writing "c", "H", "T", and a couple other letters for a while. I wrote it once and he copied it with out any problem...I was a proud momma...

(by the way, these are his glasses...he had them on last week while watching TV...ding dong...)
The day after showing Case how to write his name, he brought this home from school...he had remembered how to write it by himself...I was all smiles on the way home...I couldn't believe how smart he was to remember!!!!!!!! Then it made me sad...how could my little baby be old enough to write his name!?!?!

traci~momma

It was sunny, so we took some pictures...

You all know this time of year "outside" time is limited... today it was a little sunny and not freezing cold...we spent some time out in the MUD...

This is down at our pond...the boys love throwing in rocks and Cash loves trying to retrieve them...

Look at those beautiful blues...

I am in love with these next two pictures...love them love them...and him too :) I took these at the bus stop today while waiting on Hayden...

traci~momma

Somebody is 55 today...

Happy Birthday to mom today...
she's the best mom anyone could ever have...
we love her dearly...
wish she lived closer...
and we are so proud of her everyday...

Happy Birthday mom, I love you so much...

traci~momma

The rest of the pic's...

Here's a review of all that went on while Buck and Thea were back...
everything from boys jumping off the ottoman to Case swinging upside down by uncle Bucky...

traci~momma

Oh Newman...

This is Buck and Thea's dog, Newman...

I love this dog...
Maybe because he reminds a little of myself...
He's cranky.
He's loyal to his family.
and numerous other facts that somehow relate him and I as being alike...

traci~momma

Happy Birthday Buck...

Today is my little brother, Buck's, birthday!!! He's 28 years old now and I can still remember the day he was born and how tiny he was!! Now he towers over all of us...
I hope he has a wonderful day filled with memories of the past 28 years and knows how much we love him and wished he lived closer!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUCK...LOVE YOU...


This picture was taken last weekend when Buck and Thea got to come back to celebrate Christmas...it was great spending time with them!!!

traci~momma

My Treasure...

Hello...
Hope everyone is having a great week so far!!

Just wanted to touch on a subject from Christmas...I'm so excited about this item, it has consumed my thoughts daily...


My wonderful, thoughtful, giving sister and her wonderful husband gave me a new camera for Christmas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was never so surprised and so emotional to receive this dreamed about treasure!!!

She knows how much I absolutely love taking pictures of just about anything and everything...and wanted to give me my jump-start on a future venture I'm still "toying" with...
I'm getting really frustrated though, my Nikon software will not download to my computer!!!!! So I can take pictures, but can't really do anything with them after that... :(
Keep your fingers crossed that I'll figure it out and jump into making my pictures better to look at!!!
Thanks GG and T'Bone....Love you!!! Thank you!!



traci~momma

Christmas pic's...

We had a wonderful Christmas this year! And oh boy were the boy's excited that it actually snowed on Christmas!!!! How magical snow is when you're young!!

There are a ton of pictures...enjoy

This was taken the day after Christmas at mom's after we opened our gifts...Kent (aka uncle T-Bone, no longer uncle Tent) trying to get in a cat nap...

calm down honey, you're getting out of control...

Grandma Carol's house...

We made Kent try on Wranglers and a pearl snap shirt!!!!!!! Looking good uncle T'bone!!!

Jenni doing a little staged modeling with her new antique hat...

We had our annual Ireland cooking contest again this year...Jenni won...again...even though she doesn't cook anything.............hum, weird...............

Grandma Berba's house...the boy's playing outside with Wade, my cousin...

My cousin's, the models...Meg, Audra, and Jetta...

Mom won a thong while playing Christmas games at gma's...can also be used for flossing...

Hayden wanted "a whole bunch of dollar bills" from Grandpa Billy...here they are all on top of him...

Our church program was cancelled Christmas eve, due to weather, so we had it the Tuesday after Christmas. Jenni and Kent came over for it...

I'm so proud...Hayden as Joseph and Case as a shepherd...

traci~momma