christmas....

Christmas was great this year. We spent the day with Dave's family and had an awesome time. My girls had a great christmas this year. They got new bedroom suits and lots of money and clothes. I'm really happy for them. I did pretty good myself, thanks to Dave's mom she goes over and above for christmas every year. Let me share some pictures:

awwwwww........

Poor kitty is going stir crazy, you see she is an indoor/outdoor cat and she has not been out to hunt for a whole week. She's really starting to get creative:

What you've been waiting for........

This is the living room, it's so cozy.

And of course the Christmas tree.

This is the bathroom, right outside of the bathroom is the laudry area.

Kitchen and the hallway.

another of the kitchen, I love the cabinets, off the kitchen on the other side is a really cool deck, can't wait til the spring to start using it. It is a bay area with sliding glass doors.

Aerial's bedroom.

Another view of Aerial's bedroom.

Ryanne's bedroom on top and the bottom pic is her cheerleading shelf with all her cheerleading accomplishments, she did a awesome job on her room. It's really cute.

another view of my cabinets in the kitchen

And this is the master suite "Where the magic happens." teehee Don't you just love the ceiling and the pictures do not do it justice it is huge.

opps, I missed Thanksgiving

I love this picture, It's hubby Dave, his dad, his brother and his grandpa.

Grandma

mother-in-law and nephew

my beautiful daughter Aerial

Aerial being silly trying on Andrews safety glasses.

We did it.........

Anyone that knows me, knows that I absolutely hate my house. So we finally did it, we moved, just up and left it. I love the new house and I'm kicking myself right now that I didn't take pictures. I looked at Allison's blog and her pretty tree and it reminded me I need to take some pictures to post on here, so that's what I'm going to do tonight. Watch for them tomorrow.

I love the Sweet Potato Queens

Jill Conner-Brown is my idol. She is hilarious, she's an author and has the funniest books out. I'm really excited because she just came out with a new book titled "The Sweet Potato Queens Guide to Raising Children for Fun and Profit" If you enjoy funny books you should definately look her up. She has a book signing in Broad Ripple on Jan. the 18th. and me and my best friend, Renee are so excited to finally get to meet her. They have a Sweet Potato Queens Parade in March, in Jackson, Mississippi and I plan to attend this at least once in my life time. I recently wrote Jill an e-mail and I was overjoyed when she wrote me back ~ Let me share it with you:
This was my message to her:
Tell me Jill, how’s a woman who’s read all your books and dying to be a wannabe get to that parade when she’s so busy with life itsownself and raising two teenage daughters and contending to a needy husband, and doesn’t make a fortune and what she does make go to that aforementioned. Well one day me and my girlfriend we will make it and we’ll be so decked out you’ll never miss us. Heehee
Can’t wait to see you in Indianapolis on January the 18th.
Kelly
And this was her reply: LMAO
-----Original Message-----
From: spqhqtrs@aol.com [mailto:spqhqtrs@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 3:40 PM
To: Willis, Kelly Ann
Subject: Re: the parade

Hunny, This is just like that thing they tell you before you have kids--"if you wait til you can afford 'em, you'll never have any!"
Mercy, does it ever apply here! Them kids will suck you dry FOREVER--you have to start a double-secret slush fund with SPARE CHANGE, if you have to, and make it SACRED--NOT TO BE TOUCHED except to bring you to the Parade! YOU DESERVE IT--are you kidding me? with TWO teenage GIRLS? It oughta be a PRESCRIPTION!

See you SOON!

Be Particular--jillconnerbrowneTHEsweetpotatoqueen

This is the link to her website, you really should check her out!!!!!!!
http://www.sweetpotatoqueens.com/MeetTheQueens.php

Ryanne's Philadelphia Trip

My daughter was chosen by the UCA (United Cheerleading Association) to march in the Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade so I wanted to share a couple of her pictures from that trip. I am so proud of her.

Saturday night's alright with me, Saturday, Saturday........

I think I had the most fun ever on Saturday. We got up Saturday morning and all were still at Allison's. Julie and KellyJo went to the grocery store and bought some sausage and milk and when allison got up she made us breakfast. By the way, Thank you very much Allison, them bisquits and gravy were the bomb.
Me, Dave, Allison, KellyJo, and Julie all headed to Cinncinati early so we could get a hotel room. We decided to take a cab to the show so everyone could drink. It was an exciting hotel room, let me tell you.... there was a couple fighting literally, an empty stinky pool, a phone in the bathroom, someone from the next room over actually called me while I was using the restroom wanting to party. That's just weird!
So we took a cab to the show, there was a regaee band that came on first, it was funny because they said that this was a CD release party for ekoostik hookah, which it weren't. So we sorta joked about that and realized it was actually on the flyers, I really tried to find a flyer to keep but they were all taken pretty quick. Did you ever get one Allison?
We danced our asses off in front of the stage the whole show, it was sooooooo much fun. We laughed so much. The pictures tell all:
sorry the pics are all out of order, I still haven't figured out how to keep them in order......


I guess at some point I threw my socks on stage, I musta thought Cliff needed them LOL, we won't mention what else ended up on stage. lol


OMG I must'va been out of for this pic, but I think it's cool cuz it appears that John Mullins must of been hanging out with us at the end of the night.



Allison and Steve Sweney, here you go Allison!






Sweet KellyJo


Love it, Me and Eric Lanese


Allison, Eric, and 2 girls I don't know.


I have no idea what was so funny, do you Allison?



Allison in Wonderland





I wonder if they were avoiding my flash, hmmmmmmmm.





Me and My Baby!!!!!!!!!!


"The Girls"




Hotel Pics before the show.