BOY OH BOY!!!

DO WE HAVE NEWS!

Before...

After!
HELLO...My name is CHUBBY!
And I'm built just like my Grandma Skinner...
Chubby came really fast when he decided to make his entrance and because he was soooo big it really bruised his little face...they even had to tell people in the hospital by putting a note in his bassinet!
This is his SCARY FACE! He was due on HALLOWEEN!

His weigh in!

I wonder if I stripped off like this for weight watchers...

I would do better maybe...hmmmmm?

My FAVORITE parts!

Uncle Zach says he now believes in evolution...just look at those piggies!!!

The new FAMILY UNIT!

Vote YES for Prop 102! I couldn't resist...LOL

Karsyn meeting her new little bro for the FIRST TIME!

Mama and her kiddo's

Where's his nose Karsyn?

Where's Karsyn's nose?

Aunt Stephanie begs to take him home...

she has fallen madly in love

and so has Grandma

and his Papa...

who now shares his name with

SETH PHILLIP SHUMWAY

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY....BABY SETH!!!!

FAMILY...

~ SATURDAY TO SATURDAY~ I know Nicole feels really big and ugly right now but I believe there is nothing MORE BEAUTIFUL than a woman about to pop and bring a new little life into a family...This is Nikki on a really good day...isn't she just cute?

Last Saturday after the BABY SHOWER Stephanie was a wonderful help organizing Baby Seth's new clothes for Nicole...Stephanie is a great organizer...she has been a huge help to me over the past!She is just as beautiful on the inside as she is on the outside!Brer Turtle and TEAGAN...

She took a huge liking to one of Seth's new little gifts.On Sunday...lots of great food and FUN!Our littlest RASCALS!YABBA DABBA DO!

Don't they look like Betty Rubble and Wilma Flinstone?Shake your Family Tree and watch the nuts fall!

On Thursday night...we did!On Friday...My little preschool class went to the Pumpkin Patch and Nicole and Karsyn came along...I wanted Stephanie and Teagan to come as well, but Stephanie had already committed to teaching Art Masterpiece at one of her children's classes...she is good like that!

Grandma LOVES all of her little pumpkins!

It's Pumpkin Time!

E-I-E-I-O

I was worried this hayride would get Nikki started into labor...

cuz it was just a little rough! Her dad use to take me for rides in the mixer to get me started...trust me it never worked...all it did was hurt!

Saturday...Halloween Block Party...This is Karsyn dressed like the 50's

and Homecoming!

Speaking of Homecoming...or COMING HOME..For me there truly is nothing half as pleasant as coming home...and being with my boyfriend, our children and our grandchildren...my GREATEST BLESSINGS are the ones that call us MOM and DAD and GRANDMA and GRANDPA and like branches on a tree, we may grow in different directions, yet our roots will remain as ONE. Take my word our little trees did not fall too far from the NUT!

I found it really interesting how the different shades of purple

were really the going color this year

Brody and Val

PUTTIN' ON THE RITZ!

All dolled up for their big night on the town...

Mesa High School's Homecoming Dance

The VICTORIOUS CONTESTANTS

finally received the feather in their cap!

Both Monya and Bryndee were given a little gift basket

I whipped up as an expression of friendship and

because Dallas chose thier comments from my

give-a-way...

Don't you all wish you would have played along now....

stay close at hand and tuned in for my next GIVE-A-WAY

They were chock full of playfulness and good cheer...

CONGRATULATIONS!

This coming weekend is HOMECOMING and it is guy ask girl...you have already seen the asking and the answering...last night marked the beginning of the date...the WHOLE group of guys who are all great friends were sooooo EXCITED to take their dates to the STATE FAIR! B kept telling me HOW MUCH FUN IT WAS GOING TO BE but I am such a nervous ninny mom when it comes to Brody or any of our kiddo's driving and carrying other precious cargo with them and especially last night letting B take the my car loaded with friends down the freeway, over the river and through the woods, through all the freeway changes finding the fairgrounds, parking in tight places and not hitting another car and then getting shot by the crazed owner of the fancy car...seriously I imagined everything and anything that could happen...

Ya know when I heard him hit my car alarm and open the front door and come in and then and only then did I know everything was okay and they hadn't lost anybody in Phoenix...I was counting blessings and feelin' mighty thankful for a watchful eye who watches over and protects me and mine...and brings my children all back safely home and my married children safely to their homes...I seriously wish I didn't make myself so flipping crazy fretting so much, but this world is nutzy and I'm a mom, BUT IS THIS COMMON???? Do you all become sick with worry over all these little silly things? I can 't sleep until I know they are safe. Is anybody out there demented and as neurotic as me?