The Tilley's

2009-11-02T21:57:00.000-08:00

Ok, so I have not updated my blog in almost a year. I am so very sorry. I will try to keep up with it.

Its been a very busy year. Everyone is doing great just very busy. Ashton started Kindergarten this Aug. It started out pretty bad and sad but has turned out to be wonderful. He loves it now and is doing so good. All the other kids are doing great in school this year too. Melinda is in 6th grade now and in middle school. She has all honor classes and is keeping A's in all classes. She is loving Choir this year too and still loves dancing. Stephanie is now in high school and loves it. Jacob is still in College and is doing great this year.

New kitten's

2008-11-15T19:44:00.001-08:00

We got two new kittens. Well one is ours Cuddles and Jacob wanted to get one so we said ok. He is Bugeara(sp).

Hair thingys

2008-10-12T16:40:00.000-07:00

Hello friends, i have been very busy making lots and lots of hair thingys. I have some holiday ones and normal day ones. I am looking into getting a website put together so that i can sell them. But, for now i wanted to show you them. If you want to buy one or more just let me know. The prices range from $4.00 to $5.00 depends on the hair thingy and the ribbon it takes to make them. Thanks for looking.

Our California Trip 2008

2008-09-03T16:36:00.000-07:00

Ok so it has taken me forever to get going on this. Sorry man its been busy around here. We always take a few pictures of us leaving our house. Ashton had to have several of his friends join on on our trip. On our first bathroom/filling up gas/ eating stop we all got a kick out of all the old cars there. : ) Then back on the road and man what a long long drive my brilliant hubby thought he could make the drive from here to there in all one shot its like 22 or 24 hours of a drive and yes we did it but as you can see from our last bathroom stop i was looking pretty ruff and very very tired and cranky. Ok so first hotel was great we loved it and even had a special entrance to the pool with two chairs and a table its was cute! We usually just hit the beaches there and walk around and drive around. We decided to do the Ships tours and it was awesome we loved it well Lee was a little worried about me in the Submarine.

We stayed there just a couple of days then on our way to the Malibu area. Ok so its a long drive well you know that 2 hour drive that some times takes longer because you just kinda sit there in traffic. Ok so on our ride there Ashton had to go pee and there was no way we could turn off the road we were sitting still. So, Lee says ok just let him pee in a bottle i was like ok but hurry up before traffic moves again. He goes and then later down the road i say i hope we get there soon i really gotta pee bad. Well, Ashton says just pee in a bottle mommy. I say i can't i don't have a dingie (our word for penis) he then says well i sure hope you grow one soon. He is so funny some times!! Sorry no pictures of the peeing! lol

We get to where our hotel is we had reservations at Country in and Suites in Calabasas a nice area i might add. WELL the hotel stinks!! and i mean really stinks!! YUK! smells so bad i almost get sick. So i pee and we say sorry dudes we are so not staying here! well in other words that was Stephanie's word for it. lol We then look all over town well in our areas we love for hotels they are all booked up. We finally end up at a hotel its cost us$300 a night this is with a discount If you know my hubby he does not like hotels with cost like this but he just looks at me and says Happy Birthday! lol We get in the room and he is more excited then the kids because there is a robe in the room. lol I have stayed in the Beverly Hilton before so i was not impressed as much as them. but i have to say it was the nicest hotel i have been in since being with Lee. : )

We had so much fun there Lee and I both want to live out there so much. We drive around a lot looking at stuff. We spent time at the beaches. We love the Santa Monica Pier we have so much fun there. Our new favorite place to eat out there is Dukes its yummy! We met up with some friends from here at the Huntington Beach. Then on our last night we spend it at the Santa Monica pier one last time before heading home. We ate dinner at Marisols (sp) a restaurant at the end of the pier well i had two beers ended up getting burned on my finger buy our waiter. Well i have to say after those two very very big beers i had tons of fun playing darts! i think i killed a couple of poor little teddy bears and waisted like 80 bucks on that game!!

Well i am sure i am missing so much from our trip but my kids are so loud right now i need to get going. Dance class tonight.

Our California Trip

2008-08-27T16:47:00.001-07:00

Wow, almost 13 years!

2008-07-21T16:20:00.000-07:00

Wow, i can not believe tomorrow will be mine and Lee's 13th anniversary! Some times it seems like forever! Some times it seems like not so long at all. We have had ups and downs over the years. But, by far its been great! We have four wonderful kids. I really don't think i could have gotten through all of these years with anyone else other then Lee. He really is a great guy. He puts up with me and he is so easy going he kinda goes with whatever i might want to do. By saying that i am kinda just thinking that so many men probably wouldn't go with every idea their wife might have no matter how crazy that idea may be. If i say i want a trip we do what we can so we can go. If i say i want to go out to dinner we go. If i say i want another child he is like OK lets do it. Yesterday i was like hey i think i want a new baby kitten, so what does he do tries to get us to petco before they close so we can see if they have one. : ) They were closed but i think its great how he is so up for whatever i want. I love him more then anything in this world. He is such an awesome man!

Now, to find something fun to do tomorrow so that 13 is not a bad year you know how the number 13 is suppose to be a bad luck thing i would love to make it more of a good luck thing not bad. We were suppose to be on vacation for our anniversary but we had to postpone the trip for a few weeks. If you have any ideas on something fun to do here in Dallas area let me know.

Friends are Great!

2008-07-21T16:08:00.001-07:00

I had been sick for several weeks and i had been really feeling like i was missing out on the friends thing. I had two wonderful friends check in on me several times and make sure i didn't need anything. I love you both for that and i think you know who you are. Isn't it funny how you don't really realize who your real friends are until you are down. Really makes you realize what wonderful friends you have.

Well, I finally was able to get out of the house after being in bed for almost 2 weeks. I went out to a bunco it was so much fun and i really needed to get out. Then on sunday we went to a BBQ at my friend Shanz house. This is when i really realized what wonderful friends we have. I am not only making friends for me and my kids but i am also making friends for my hubby. I am loving this. Its Awesome! Friends really Rock! I have some of the best friends a girl could want. I am going to add just a few of my wonderful couple friends. We love you all. Thanks for being such awesome people.

Ashton's last day of being 3

2008-06-21T13:57:00.000-07:00

Ok, so yesterday was Ashton's last day of being 3 so Lee and I took him out to spend the day with just him. This is not something we get to do much with having 4 kids. : ) So, we had a lot of fun! We took him to the Harbor in Rockwall we walked around and enjoyed! Then we went out for dinner to Ruby Tuesdays. After that we walked around some more then we took him to see a movie this was the first time he has ever been to a movie. We say Indiana Jones well i should say Lee saw Indiana Jones Ashton and mommy watched some of it but he did not want to sit long at all so we went out to go potty and just walked around. We went and got some M&Ms and lets just say that is a word Ashton says very funny you will have to here him say it next time you see him. Well i let him order and the guy laughed and said can you say it again well then a young girl said Oh MY Gosh that is the cutest thing i have ever heard can you say it again! so we stood there while ashton intertained them for a little while. He ended up having two bags of M&Ms out of the deal one with peanuts one without. This confused him a bit he kept saying i just asked for ONE!! Oh and he was a little confused with the movies he kept thinking we were going to blockbuster to see a movie he kept saying they don't have seats there where will we sit? He was such a good boy yesterday and it was a very very long day but we all had so much fun.

May and June

2008-06-19T21:22:00.001-07:00

Wow, it has been a super busy few months. I just added some pictures from some of the things we have been doing the past two months. We had Melinda's Choir field trip Lee and Ashton and I went with her class. It was such a fun day! Sandy Lake is where we went and it was also the first time Ashton had ever rode on rides like that. It was so much fun to see the joy in his eyes as he got on each ride. There was not a lot of kids his age around when it was time to let him have fun, we had taken Melinda and some of her friends around all day and let them do their thing. Well after the girls got back on the bus to head back to school, Lee and Ashton and Melinda and I went crazy. : ) Ashton was the only little one at the rides at first so the guy took him on a tour of the rides letting him go crazy on them. It was so funny to see. Although at one point i turned to look at something and heard the guy yell Oh NO sit down and it seemed Ashton was tired of riding in the front seat of the boat and was moving to the back seat while it was going. Freaked us out but he was fine, he said it went to slow for him.

lol Next was Melinda's field day at the school Ashton was sick that day so i stayed home with him so daddy could go with Melinda to that. Not many pictures from that being Daddy didn't take as many as mommy would have if she had gone. He took more pictures of the animals at the petting part. and of birds flying bye you know things like that! She had fun though.

Next we had Jacob's graduation from High School. Yes, this was such a wonderful time and such a sad time as well. My baby is now out of High School. Oh MY!! I am sad and Happy at the same time. We had Stephanie's 13th Birthday right before the Graduation. Can't believe she is a teenager now!! Man the time is going so fast with these kids.

Oh i did have a wonderful Moms night out also that month with some great friends it was such a great night out. Sorry it seems i am getting these events out of order sorry about that man there really was so many things going on.

Well the next thing coming up is my babies Birthday I can not believe Ashton will be 4 on sat, Man the time with him has gone super fast! We tried 4 years for him and although he is a lot of work some days he is so worth it all. We got him a black truck for his birthday he kept asking for a pink jeep like he has gotten to ride over at Tanner and Mckinlee's house Lee said NO to the pink jeep so i thought a black truck might help him get over that. : ) He loves it although he did say he still likes that pink jeep better. Go figure!! Thanks for reading all of this. And, if you were there for some of these wonderful times in our lives thank you so much for that. I have realized over the past few months that i have got some really awesome friends!

Jacob's Senior Prom!

2008-05-05T22:49:00.001-07:00

The next big event in our house was my son Jacob's first ever High School Prom! He went with her girlfriend of almost two years. They looked so cute all dressed up.

2008-05-05T22:04:00.000-07:00

I have been so busy i have not had time to do this in a while. So, i will say we had Melinda's 10th Birthday Party. This was in April. sorry i have not had time to post it sooner. We went to Nickleromas with some of her friends. It was a very nice night out. Here is Melinda and some of her school friends. I had to add one of us mommy friends. : )

The Magic Time Machine ( Night out with friends)

2008-03-29T01:02:00.001-07:00

We had such a fun night out tonight we went out with some friends to the Magic Time Machine. What a fun place this was. Lee and Ashton and Jacob wanted to go too so they went and got their own table they ended up in the heart room it was too cute! The girls and I had so much fun going around and getting pictures with all the staff dressed up as some of their favorite characters. It was great hanging out with friends! We can't wait to do this again some time real soon.

St. Patricks Day Party

2008-03-15T23:21:00.000-07:00

We had a wonderful ST. Patricks Day party last night i just had a small group of friends over for it but Gosh it was fun! I love my friends they make for such fun times. Thank you all for coming. Dawn i am not sure why none of the pictures i took of you didn't turn out. I will make sure to get more of you next time though. : ) Can't wait for my next party!! Gosh i sure do love parties : )

What a fun few days!

2008-03-10T18:46:00.000-07:00

Well it has been a very very busy few days. But, very fun as well.

Sat, i went with a very good friend to the mall and we met up with another very good friend and we just walked around and shopped and had lunch and laughed and talked. It was such an amazing day i had so much fun!! Can't wait to do it again soon.

Sunday, we went to a family playdate it was an Easter Egg Hunt at my friend Shanz house. We always have so much fun at her house my family never wants to leave not even Lee. :) At one point i was wondering where he was and i asked my daughter Stephanie well she said daddy is around the side of the house having a beer with his little friends. She was talking about the other men there that day of course! lol I will post a few pictures from that day it was so much fun.

Monday, well Ashton has been bugging me to have a Tea Party! Yup you read that right he saw on tv that wow wow wubbsie (sp) had a tea party with his friends so Ashton had to have one. Well, after i had told everyone we were having a tea party i really thought i could find stuff i could use for boys and girls because he is a BOY! Well, no such luck i couldn't find anything except pinks and purples with flowers lol so i ended up just getting green party type stuff and kinda made it more of a playdate. we used Dinosaur and other cookie cutters for their sandwiches and the boys loved it they were letting their dinosaurs fight at the table while they were eating them. lol It was too cute! We had so much fun there was no actual tea party to this tea party lol but i really think they had a good time anyway and i know i loved having some mommy friends over to hang out with. Love my friends! I will post a few pictures from that as well.

So glad its Friday!

2008-02-29T16:49:00.001-08:00

Wow, this has been one heck of a long and stressful week. I am so glad its Friday. I have gone through some things this week and realized during it what an awesome group of friends i have. I love each and everyone of them. Thank you ladies for being such wonderful friends to me i am so glad i have found each and every one of you! I have been in bed most of the week so this weekend i can not wait to get outside and do anything i can. I feel awesome! I want to go Shopping!! Lee and I are going to go out on a date tomorrow night i can't wait!

New to blogging:

2008-02-28T23:12:00.000-08:00

Wow, who would have thought trying to figure out how to blog would take me so long. lol I am super tired and really really drained this week so i am sure that does not help. I will figure this out i am sure.

Laura