Kevin, Tammy, Bryant, & Annaclaire

2009-05-02T13:59:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone here was my early Birthday/Mothers day gift. Kevin and I had been talking about getting a mini schnauzer for like a year now. I have wanted one for like 9 years but have never gotten one so he suprised me a few hitches ago with Mr. Remington von Hellnick. Remi for short. Isn't he precious? He's such a sweet baby and he is all my dog (thats what I love about him). Sometimes it gets a little annoying him being under my feet constantly but hes just so full of love its wonderful. He is like the next best things to kids the difference is I can crate Remi and leave him....can't do that with the kids :) Anyway Im gone for the day Kevin and I have a date tonight. See you all tomorrow at church.

2009-05-02T13:46:00.000-07:00

Here is Bryant and Annaclaire after the egg hunt at Granny Libbys.

I did it I figured out how to add pictures on blogger! Whoo hoo. I can now say that I have had a productive day. LOL. Anyway here is Kevin and Sister on Easter sunday after the egg hunt at Granny Libbys.

Ok Im going to do one more post and then Im going to leave yall with it for the day. But, I have put all three of my babies on this one and I have to put a pic up with my newest baby on it! See most of you tomorrow at church.

Ball Season

2009-04-28T08:32:00.001-07:00

Hello to all,

Man, I haven't blogged in a while and I have missed all of you guys so much! Life has been a whirlwind for about the past month or so. Its been crazy. So, Im going to catch you up on a few things:

Bryant, started baseball season again...so its been run home get ready, run to practice, run home, do homework, cook supper, get bathed, and get into bed! LOL. (now do you understand why I haven't had time to blog). And then somedays I couldnt get to him to get him to practice so for all of you out there that helped run him around for me thank you from the bottom of my heart. I really do appreciate it! You know this single mom thing was not easy, I met Kevin and it got better but heck for two weeks every two weeks Im complete single mom again! Anyway, I love my life and wouldnt change it for anything. Back to Bryant, He had his first spring break which he totally loved and enjoyed. He spent the better part of the week with my mom and he spent one day with his PawPaw which was good for the both of them. He spent so much time outside im jealous of his tan. He's studying for Dibbles coming up next month and looking forward to summer break. Although, he doesnt want to leave his friends and teacher. Its really sweet.

Annaclaire has been doing really good. She has started coming to my office to see my doctor, a chiropractor, and has gone her first pollen season since she was born with no breathing treatments! I am so excited. I dont care what anyone says chiropractic care is amazing! She has a pageant coming up next month and she is going today to get her hair cut, something I dont just trust anyone with. As best as I can remember she has had one cut her whole life and that was when my mom trimmed it so Im a little nervous about this. Im so afraid they are going to chop her hair off.

Kevin has been a busy bee when he has been home. Last time out he worked over so he was only home a week last hitch. He got garage doors up on the house, helped his cousin build a porch, and figured out everything for the shop he is going to start building this time home. Then it was off to the oil rig again for him. He will be home this Thursday night but Im afraid with this shop building project he will be just as busy as he was last time home.

Ive just been running around trying to keep up with everyone! LOL. Anyway, Theres a quick little update on everyone. Sorry, no pics Will get some posted though quickly.
Oh one more quick little not and when I figure out pics I will do a post about it a week ago the kids, and some friends and I went to Disney on Ice. I recommend it to everyone. It was absolutely amazing. Ok thats another post another day.

God bless each and every one of you

Love yall
Tammy

Help Abused Children

2009-03-19T12:36:00.001-07:00

Hey everyone,

I have teamed up with the child advocacy center located in Dothan. They service 7 counties in southeast Alabama, including Covington County. April is child abuse awareness month. I know not a single one of us wants to hear about child abuse but lets face the facts folks it does exist, and these little angels need our help. I am taking T-shirt orders for Blue Ribbon Friday for kids. They are only $10.00. All proceeds go to the Child advocacy center. It is a kid friendly center that uses play to interview children and give them the therapy they deserve. They service children who have been sexually abused and/or severly physically abused. They really need our help. Please get up with me to order your T-Shirt. Orders and money are due by April 8, I will then go to Dothan and pick up the shirts and have them ready for pick-up the next week, so we can all wear our Blue Ribbon T-Shirts on Friday April 24, 2009. Lets show everyone how much Covington county cares about these children.

a few statistics:

last year the child advocacy center serviced a total of 1114 kids. I know what your thinking that is 1114 too many, and boy do I agree. We can't stop abuse but we can do our part to help these children who are unfortunate enough to have to deal with this. Together we can give them the help, love, and care they deserve.

Just let me know you can email me at tammytharper@yahoo.com, or you can call my office 1-800-372-1391, or you can call my cell 334-804-1967. Spread the word too, get the people in your office to give you orders or your friends, family, and neighbors.

Thank you for helping me help a great cause!

broken cell phone

2009-03-17T16:05:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone,

LOL my cell phone finally broke...its been coming. Anyway, I let it get so bad that they could not retrieve my numbers off it. So, to make a long story short I have lost everyone's numbers. Please email me your numbers. My email address is tammytharper@yahoo.com. Thank you soo much. See you all later

Tammy

My 4-year old is turning in to a mess

2009-03-12T07:47:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone

I need help!!! Please, I am recently having the hardest time with Annaclaire. All of a sudden she has gone from me sweet, precious, innocent, well-behaving, well-mannered baby to a sweet, sometimes precious, not so much innocent anymore, not so well behaved, talking back, sassying me and my word we must have sent our manners to the moon! I dont know what to do with her. For example: we talk with food in our mouth now, and yes ma'am and sir and please and thank you are just all together gone most of the time, if I ask her to do something in goes in one ear and out the other, if Im talking to her sometimes it looks like shes looking right through me, and when i ask her to do something like get dressed she has 15 things to tell me all of a sudden and she finds 10 things to do before she actually gets dressed. Its driving me insane! I am all about lettting a child be who a child wants to be and I know she has a little OCD and that is fine with me but its driving me nuts that shes not listening to me and not using her manners anymore its like shes a completely different child in the past 2 months! Any suggestions on how to combat this i will be more than open to them. I never went through terrible twos with her so I guess were making up for it and its called ferocious fours! LOL. Anywho anyone who has been through this I will love to hear how you did it. Thank you so much.

Tammy

wow!

2009-03-10T06:43:00.001-07:00

I know two blogs in the same day....wow! Guess what I just learned? I just found that some of you have left comments on my blog! LOL. See you can teach an old dog new tricks....now if i can just figure out how to find out when you all post new blogs and if I can figure out how to comment on them! Whoo! Hoo! I feel accomplished. LOL. Have a great day everyone.

wow!

2009-03-10T06:43:00.000-07:00

Remington

2009-03-10T06:37:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to let you all know Kevin and I have adopted another baby to add to the bunch. I have been wanting a miniture schnauzer for a long time. We started talking about getting one about a year ago....and yesterday when I got home from work Kevin suprised me with one! He is sooo cute. He was born December 5, 2008 so he is a little over 12 weeks old. He is salt and pepper and his name is Remington von Hellnick. (Theres a joke behind it) Anyway we will call him Remi for short. He is absolutely precious and I know this sounds stupid but it took everything I had to leave him this morning to come to work. It just broke my heart. The good thing is Kevin is home and when he gets done with his running will get him out and let him play. Anyone that wants to come see him can and I will be posting pictures as soon as I figure out how too. Max is really good with him so far...a little jealous of me giving my attention to someone else but he's adjusting. Its hilarious Remi is only as big as Max's head! He gets up on his hind legs and tries too kiss Max....so cute so cute. Anyway Just wanted to let you all know.

Have a great day!~

What we can learn from children

2009-03-08T15:48:00.000-07:00

Wow,

Ok so Annaclaire had a beauty pageant last night. She did very very well but did not place...fine by me she had a blast playing cinderella yet once again. And it was also perfectly fine by her that she did not place. We were on the way home and she said to me in her little innocent voice mommy I looked at my feet one time while I was on stage. I simply said Baby thats ok you did a wonderful job and looked beautiful up there. She said mommy do you wanna know why I looked at my feet. I said why and she said here it goes a direct quote from my four year old "Mommy, I've won so many I wanted to give another little girl a chance to win" My heart stopped, my mouth dropped and my eyes watered. I have never been so proud and shocked at the same time before like that in my life. I could not believe what my four year old just said. Later on last night I got to thinking about it. First of all Sister and I needed to have a talk to make sure she wanted to do these pageants and not me (which she does) Second of all we needed to talk so that she knew if she worked really hard for something it was ok to win. Third of all, and this is the reason im writing this, I needed to reflect on what she had just said. How many times in my life do I not stop to think of how bad someone else may want or need something. Is it bred in us to think strictly of ourselves winning (or accomplishing) that we run people over to get it, Not realizing someone else may need it worse than we do. You know we have all got a little bit of a competitor in us but do we let it rule our lives to the point of walking over other people or worse stabbing them in the back to get what we want. All of you can take this anyway that you would like to but it really made me sit back and reflect and also reflect on what I was teaching my children. I like to think that I am teaching them the right things (after all she had to come up with that somehow) But, am I teaching them by example or by just words.

Anyway, Just wanted to give you all something to reflect on in the upcoming week. I don't know if it makes any sense or not. Maybe I just needed to get all this off and it doesn't make one lick of sense and if it doesnt forgive me and thank you for letting me babble.

Love you all
Tammy

2009-02-27T20:10:00.001-08:00

Hey everyone,

Yeah I know its been a while since I have blogged. LOL. Sorry, I just have a ton to try to keep up with and this kind of gets the bottom of the priority list from time to time. So, anyway a lot has happened.

Annaclaire has been diagnosed with severe allergies. Bless her heart they had to do the prick test on her back and it was horrible. But, she survived and got stickers so she was fine with it at that point.

Bryants been doing great in school. Amazing me daily on his abilities and what he is capable of learning so fast. He will start baseball soon.

Kevin has started a new adventure. He is now making hog traps (still working off shore also). It cracks me up. But hey, if thats what it takes to make him happy let him do it. He ordered garage doors for the house! Whoo hoo! Im super excited about that. They should be in when he gets home which means hopefully they will get put up while he's home. (Unless of course he gets stuck making too many hog traps! :)

Im doing fine. The office is going great. It is growing and growing and growing which of course we give complete 100% credit to the Great Lord for that. Its amazing what He is doing for us and through us at that office. Just pure amazing. And, I am looking forward to trying to put together the Sunday School Sleep over. Girls need pajama parties you know.

Ok thats long enough for now. I will try to get on here and post at least once a week from now on.

Love you guys!

Happy New Year!

2009-01-08T13:47:00.001-08:00

Hey everyone,

Yea so I know Im like a week late on this but Happy New Year everyone! The kids and I had a good time. We left on Tuesday night when I got off work and my mom, the kids and myself rode down to Palm Beach Florida for new years. Then on Friday we headed up to my grandaddys and spent the day and night with him and then left late Saturday afternoon. We got in late late late Saturday night. So, then Sunday the kids and I made our way back to our house and started getting ready for routine again. We had a great time and hope you all had a great time new years eve/day also.

When we were at my grandaddys we went to a farm and picked strawberries. It was so much fun. They had chickens on this farm that are just so used to people coming up to them that sister got to reach down and pet one! We took cheerios for the kids to feed the chickens and its like they knew. They saw us coming and were like "oh my kids they have food!" and they all came running and one grabbed the bag out of sisters hand. It was so funny. Bryant just threw out handfulls and they guzzled em all up but sister was trying to be polite and feed "every chicken mommy" and trying to rationalize it out and be equal it was hilarious. She finally gave up after yelling at the chickens for like 5 minutes. She kept telling them they had their turn already and they needed to share. She finally gave up and starting picking strawberries though. Anyway im rambling i know and i need to get back to work.

See everyone soon!

Tammy

The end of another weekend

2008-12-28T18:38:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone just thought I would check in. Well, the long Christmas weekend is over and I will be returning to work tomorrow. Yuck! But hey, I am thankful to have a job that I love and an awesome boss to work for. This weekend was fun but hard at the same time. I have had a lot of fun hanging out with my family and friends that I don't normally have time to spend with and we have had a blast. But, Bryant and Annaclaire are at their dads and its killing me. Kevin is on the oil rig and the kids are gone and I have just sat at the house at times and wondered what in the world I used to do with myself before Bryant and Annaclaire came around. I mean there literrally is not a dirty piece of clothing in my house. Im going nuts and I miss my babies like crazy. I talked to them earlier today and Bryant told me he fell off his bike and hurt his finger. He told me Miss Jessica kissed it like 3 or 4 times but it just hasn't made it any better like it does when I kiss it. It made me feel awesome and like crap at the same time. Anyway, I'll quit going on and on about missing my babies.

Had a great weekend. Friday Liz, mom, and I went shopping. Then Liz, Gage, Avery, and I went to Dothan to get gages birthday present. We had so much fun. Its hilarious watching Liz shop. She cracks me up. Anyway then we sat up all night long wrapping presents...her and stan haven't had christmas yet because he's on the rig. Anyway then Saturday Amanda had Christmas dinner with her moms family and they all invited me so I went and of course ate entirely way too much food. Went back to her house and we all ended up falling asleep and taking a nap. It was great. I went to my moms Saturday night she highlighted my hair, and we played some games on the computer and hung out. Then sunday she let me sleep, much needed but it made me miss church. Then we went to my house and just hung out and watched movies all day. It was a nice close to a long weekend. Anyway, hope you guys had a great weekend too and Happy Monday for tomorrow.

Christmas 2008

2008-12-25T21:31:00.000-08:00

Hey everyone!

First of all Merry Christmas to everyone. Second of all I am new at this so bear with me while I learn and figure it out. LOL.

Third of all I would like to share my Christmas experience this year with everyone. Ive learned a lot this year. This was the first year when both the children completely understood what was going on and the magic was well magical. It was great. I learned so much through my childrens eyes this year it was unreal. I decided to do Christmas dinner for my family (all 18) of us at my house this year. What a treat that was. But, in the process, I was extremely stressed out about the last week before the dinner. My children, and Kevin, taught me without even knowing it that I need to quit sweating the little things. Let them go its going to be what its going to be no matter what and people can either enjoy it or not and if they dont then it is their problem and not mine. Give it my best and if it works out it does and if not o well.

Another thing I learned was nowhere in the Bible does it say that Jesus was born on December 25! See Kevin had to leave out on Christmas Eve this year to go back to work so we celebrated a day early, and it was great. We had a day full of just the four of us spending time together, and that is what Christmas is about family spending time with family and friends.

Ok real quick run down on dinner so Thursday morning rolls around I had all my casseroles together in the refrigerator all I had to do was put them in my oven when it was time to start cooking. All I had to do were my pies and set everything else out. Things were going great...the kids were playing in the yard with their new toys it was just a blessing. I walked into my laundry room for something to find myself standing in water...thats right my hot water heater busted! LOL. Thank goodness I had learned to not sweat the small stuff right! It was hilarious. I laughed it off threw some towels down and cleaned it up, called the landlord, and went on cooking. The only thing I have to say about it is...in about 20 years when we are all sitting down to eat we will look back on in and laugh our tails off!

Merry Christmas again to each and everyone of you and I hope and pray that you all had a magical, wonderful, fun filled experience this year like I did.

Love to all