Happy Anniversary - 4 years together!

Today is our 4 year anniversay! Wow, it seems longer than that....but in a good way!

As I was looking through some wedding pictures to put on the blog, I came across an old journal that I had started several years ago. It documented how we met, our first date, first kiss, etc. The cool thing was that I found a note that I had written to Clay after he proposed to me. Here is that journal entry:

January 8, 2003

I’m engaged!!!!!

Clay asked me to marry him tonight while we were at JB Pivots for a swing night. I am so excited! I can’t wait! We are going to have an awesome life together. I just finished writing him a letter that I am going to give to him tomorrow morning. I thought I would copy it to my journal, in case he would happen to lose it. Here it goes:

Dear sweetheart,

As I am writing this, I am still trembling from the excitement. Tonight, you have made a dream come true – you asked me to marry you! We’re engaged!!!

As a little girl (and often as a bigger girl) I have tried to imagine what it would be like to find “The One” and finally know that you want to spend the rest of your life with that one person. But all of my hopes and all of my dreams don’t even compare to the love & happiness that I have found in you.

Your love of God, your dedication to your work, and your devotion to your friends are only a few characteristics of how awesome you are. Your consistency in our relationship shows me the true commitment you have for me.

I have never doubted your love for me and I promise never to cause you to question the depth of my love for you. There are two things I know for certain: 1. That God is my eternal and 2. You are my now. I couldn’t imagine anyone else who I would rather spend the rest of my life with.

May the music of our love play only louder each day. May each movement we make be together, balanced, and connected by our hearts and our hands. And may this dance last a lifetime…together!

I love you so much!

Your loving fiancé,
Terri

Clay, I love you more today than I ever have. You are so special to me and together we have an amazing life and a beautiful family. I cherish every day I have with you. Thank you for marrying me 4 years ago and I look forward to sharing many more wonderful years with you as your loving wife. Happy Anniversary sweatheart! - Terri

potty training....amen!

working hard for a smile....

Abby's Hair

Like everything else on her, Abby's hair has been growing like crazy lately. Here is a picture of her hair after I brushed it out. It sort of came together to a point forming a mohawk. The back is thinning out a little from where she lays on it so much. So we have a little girl with a mohawk and a bald spot. She's still cute though!

Abby's 2 month check-up

Another great doctor visit! This time Cody went along for moral support. He had fun playing with all of the cool stuff in the room. The nurse even let him sit with Abby while she got her check-up. He did such a great job...until it was time to leave. He threw an absolute fit...laying on the floor screaming and kicking his legs. He insisted on playing with the toy cars in the play area. I had to just pick him up in one arm and grabbed Abby's carrier with the other and walked out to the car. He was all toddler at that moment.

Here are Abby's 2-month measurements:

10 lbs 8 oz (50th percentile)

24 inches (75th percentile)

Build-A-Baby

My friend Tracy had gone to Build-A-Bear recently and was showing me her poodle she had made for her daughter and all of the outfits that she bought to go with it. I didn't realize that you could make poodles at Build-A-Bear, but I guess that have a whole bunch of things to choose from....and alot of outfits to get for your new creation. As she was showing me the outfits, I said that they looked like they could fit on Abby....so, of course we had to try it out. Here are some of the pictures of Abby with Build-A-Bear outfits on.

The Little Things...

It is funny how some days can go by and you don't even remember what you did. Well, fortunately I have my camera handy to try to capture those special little "nothings" as they happen. I may forget them too someday, but I'll try to hang on to a few of the fun memories at least for a little while.

Here is a picture of Cody's shoes on the wrong feet. If Cody were dressing himself it would have been pretty funny, but knowing that Daddy dressed him and still got it wrong is even funnier!

I decided to give Cody a Chocolate PopTart for breakfast. That wasn't very smart on my half. Here is a picture of him as he finished it off. Too bad this picture couldn't catch how sticky he was too. He had chocolate everywhere! I know his teachers must think I am a horrible parent that he looks like a disaster by the time he gets to school. They probably say, "Oh look, there's Cody. You know the sticky one." Or maybe they just call him "Cody Sticky". Oh well...I can only do so much right? At least he hasn't come to school naked (yet).




I said that I would dedicate a whole blog entry to the garage (I will once it is finished). I thought I would give an update while it is still in the process of being cleaned. Here is a picture of the first load of trash out on the street. It happened to rain that morning too. It is amazing that we had that much junk. Someone said we looked like "Sanford & Sons". : )

And here is a picture of the Stuckey Cousins all together. Heath, Willow, Cody & Abby. We had lunch with them and the Grands. Heath informed me that eating Mentos and drinking Coke will make your stomach explode. Willow quickly added that it may not make a person's stomach explode, but it will make a pig's stomach explode. I figured out that they had seen that experiment on an episode of MythBusters and were pretty impressed by it. Who wouldn't be?

8 weeks - the "Stuckey Finger" lives on...

At Clay's Grandmother's house there is a huge portrait on the wall of Clay and his brother when they were young. Clay looks as though he might be four or so in the picture. Anyway, he has his hand positioned in a way that makes his middle finger stick out. Obviously no one caught it until years later someone pointed out that little Clay was "flipping the bird". It has always been a great conversation piece at her house.

Well, Cody had that problem alot when he was a baby and now it seems Abby is carrying on the tradition. There are many pictures of Cody with his middle finger presented, but here is one from Easter 2006 and then a picture of Abby at 8 weeks (above). I know it is awful, but it is still cute!

There are a bunch of other cute pictures from Abby's photoshoot today. So don't worry Grandparents... there are plenty of prints coming your way!