Monkey's 11 months pics

Oh I can't believe that my monkey is 11 months old already. Our good friend did his pictures once again :) We hope you enjoy. Love yall

Cuteness overload

So Ian's Halloween outfit came in and of course I had to try it on him :) Hope everyone enjoys the pics :)

Our Chunky Monkey :)

Runaway monkey

Your going to mail me to grandma?

Mom please stop taking pictures

Peek a Boo mommy

What a week :)

Well this has been an interesting week. Mostly because I've been sick. So Monday i went to a scenty party and oh the smells :) hubby was so nice for letting me treat myself that day. After the get together i ate lunch with some great chicks :)!! i love that have amazing friends. So to make a even better day great in walked my hubby with a dozen pink roses :) just because . i didn't ask for them or say anything about them. He just brought them to me and suggested we go and do alil shopping for Ian's birthday. So off we went shopping :) i got some really nice things for him and saw things i wanted to get him for Christmas as well. I ended the day going to bed at 730pm lol whew shopping wore me out :)
Tuesday was another shopping day. Ian and I went with Rosy and Nicole for the day. Um mm got some awesome deals and great gifts yep for Ian. I know he is spoiled lol. I can't wait for Christmas some stores already have Christmas stuff out.. :) I already have my eyes set on stuff i want lol well i got home and it was a late night for will so he didn't get home till 830 and by that time i had a headache. And then it hit at 3am the body aches the runny nose the cough with congestion and a sore throat. Hubby has been doing a wonderful job taking care of me and Ian. And Ian has been an amazing baby the last week. I think he understands mommy doesn't feel good. So I've spend most of wed Thursday and Friday laying around. I'm treating myself for the flu and I'm now day 1 with no fever which is a great thing :) OK well enough babbling . I'm off to make dinner for the hubby (we are having chili). Tomorrow is a duty day :( but Ian and i are going with Jill to a tastefully simple party so at least i have something to make my duty day go by faster :) hugs and kisses to everyone. i miss y'all!!!
My beautiful pink roses my hubby got me :)

Its been awhile

Hey everyone!! I know its been awhile :) Everything with us is wonderful. Ian is getting so big he is changing everyday. He is now 11 months old (i know i can't believe it either) and let me just say he took 3 steps the other day and i about cried. We have been staying really busy and missing everyone. Nothing really new is going on. Will just works all the time and I'm at home taking care of monkey man :) On another note.. the new recipes have been coming along pretty good. Ive been a new dinner kick lol but i don't hear Will complaining one big. Instead of writing the recipes you can just ask me if u want them. :) so like always I've added lots of pictures of Ian and the goodies I've been making :)
hope you enjoy
Ian feeding himself potatoes for the 1st time

Ian playing with daddy

still at it lol

Rolling Ian

All we did was laugh

this is orange chicken with rice baked breaded squash and zucchini


this is a stuffed hamburger.. it is stuffed with onions and bacon u can also put shredded cheese in the middle but i opted to put it on top



Now this is something i did NOT make but my friend made while she was here .. but let me tell you.. it was so wonderful and so evil!!! its called monkey bread :)


well i think i have rambled on enough!!! again we are good here just getting ready will being gone and Ian's first birthday is right around the corner .. hope everyone stays safe

Its a duty day at the Washingtons

So today has been a fun day for Ian and I. Since Will had duty it was all about Ian today. We woke up and cuddled alil while and then i made him breakfast. He ate and well i got a cereal bath. After that we played with his toys in the floor for about 3 hours.. until i looked over by the toy bin and he was fast asleep. So i cleaned the house alittle and well got Ian and we took a nap :) After waking up we had lunch and just laid around the house in our pj's :) we watched finding nemo and alot of noggin lol. So then i got to thinking about dinner. I had found some really good recipes lately and well I tried a couple out. Tonight I actually cooked for myself. This is something very rare lol. Our menu tonight was Italian Style tuna cakes with twice bake potatoes. I made Ian some mac n cheese to eat with his potato and he tore it up. Then we continued our night with friends and a couple of shows on tv. Now im sitting here all alone and missing the hubby :) hope all is well with everyone. Im going to post the new recipes along with pics. I was so happy everything turned out great.

Our Dinner (another new recipe)
Italian Tuna Cakes

-9 ounces of tuna

-1 medium onion, diced

-1 cup zucchini, diced

-2 tbsp italian bread crumbs

-2 tbsp Olive Oil mayo

-1 tbsp lemon juice

-1 tbsp dried oregano

-1 tbsp dried savory

-1 tbsp dried parsley

-1/2 tsp salt

-1/2 tsp pepper

-olive oil for frying

Directions

1. In a large bowl, mix all of the ingredients up to the oil together.
2. Scoop out a large spoonful of mixture and pat it out on a plate or cutting board. Cover with bread crumbs and pat them in.
3. Heat olive oil over medium heat in a skillet.
4. With a spatula, carefully pick up the patty and flip it into the pan. With the spatula, make sure the patty is formed. Carefully pour bread crumbs on top and pat into the patty.
5. Cook for 3 minutes on each side.
6. While one patty is cooking, scoop out the next patty from the mixture and repeat the process. If you are skilled at this, you can do more than one patty at a time. Add more oil to the pan each time to prevent burning.
7. Serve with a lemon cream sauce or tarter sauce.

Was yummy :) a few of the ingredients didnt make it in because i didnt have it but it still turned out wonderful :)

Happy Saturday

So today has been a good day so far. Ian and I waited for his daddy to get off work and he brought lunch home and well Ian had another kids meal (mac n cheese fries and apple juice) that he loved. He doesn't get these very often but when he does he thinks he is sitting high and mighty. I can't get over how much he is growing. Last night Will had duty and I just laid there watching him sleep and breathe (i know i know people already tell me I'm crazy). He amazes me more and more everyday. His vocabulary is picking up also. His words consist of Nana Dada-Dada Nana Paw-Paw Bubba hey and he is starting to clap his hands when you say yay and he also waves bye-bye. We have been planning his first birthday party which has been very emotional (i know when am i not emo) and it is all going well so far. We did find out Will might not be home for his birthday or party but we are planning someone special if that is the case. So much is going on it seems. If its not planning his party it is Christmas shopping if it isn't shopping it is the wifely duties lol. But im not at all complaining i love my life and wouldn't give anything for it. I hope everyone is doing well we love and miss y'all bunches. Enjoy
Happy Baby

Trying to peek in his daddy's laptop

SSSSHHHH mommy don't tell on me

Its my show mom stop

This juice is great

Yummy stuff




here are some videos I can't believe he feeds himself so well..


So after we cleaned him up and got him redressed he started getting fussy so I tried to get him to sleep.

But that wasn't happening. He wanted his daddy so 5 minutes later


My life is so complete. I don't know what I would do without these guys!! Ok so the child woke up and we are gonna go and do some adventuring!!! love yall

Sorry for those who are upset

I just want to say I did not mean to hurt any ones feelings by not putting the Roberson's pictures on the post. I was so excited by seeing everyone the night of the get together I didn't pull Will's camera out till almost everyone was gone. I did send aunt Donna a email asking her to email me the pictures that she took . In which i would be adding to the blog. I would never deliberately hurt anyone and I'm sorry if i did. Aunt Donna did tell me once she gets back from her trip she will email them to me. I just wanted this blog to be so people can watch us on our journeys in life and the growth of our son. Not to make anyone upset. I love y'all just as much as i love my mom's side. We are all family. Once i get the pictures they too will be added. I did look on my camera and got a picture off of it. Again let me just say I'm sorry for those that i offended. love "us"

Pineapple Beef Stirfry

Ok so I so went out of my comfort zone tonight for dinner. Will and I get so tired of eatting the samething over and over again. So i was browsing the Kraft website and stumbled across this. So i'm waiting on the hubby to get home to taste it. Pictures will be following soon. And thanks to my good friend Patti i now know how to cook a flank steak. Here is the recipe. I will also let you know how it taste lol.

1 (8oz can) pineapple chunks
1 tbsp oil
1 beef flank steak
2 tbsp water
1 tbsp cornstarch (i didnt have an so i used flour and it worked)
1/4 cup A-1 orginal steak sauce (i thought the same thing)
1 onion cut into pieces
2 cups hot rice

Drain pineapples reserving the juice and set that aside
Heat oil in lg skillet on medium heat
Add meat and cook until you reach your prefrence ( i cooked mine for about 10 minutes on each side then took it off the stove and went on and cut it up into bitesize pieces)
Add pineapple and onions
cook and stir for 2 minutes

Mix the reserved pineapple juice, water and cornstarch(or flour) until well blended
add steak mixtures cook 1 minute or until thick
stir constantly and remove from heat
stir in steak sauce and serve over white rice

this was dinner.. we also had a nice side salad with it :)
it was very yummy the hubby also agreed!!

Hawaii To Tennessee

Ian got to meet his paw paw for the first time on aug 19th 2009. We flew out of Hawaii on the 18th and it took us 11 hours to reach the Memphis airport. Ian was a champ on the plane. He slept the entire time and woke up while we changed planes got a diaper changed and a fresh sippy cup and back to sleep he went. My family was waiting on us at the airport and lets just say lots of tears fell in that airport. We had such a good visit. We got to see alot of our family. Ian went to his first football game at the highschool where i grew up. Although Ian didnt take very well to the family I was happy everyone got to meet him. Poor guy didnt sleep good and if anyone beside me, his daddy, his nana or paw paw held him he would just cry. The week went by very fast and I enjoyed having my niece with me the whole visit. It was so hard to say good bye all over again. The plane ride home was just as good as going. Ian slept the whole time. When we got home Ian touched everything in the living room as if he was making sure everything was still there. It was so precious. So thats it . It was a fast week visit but worth every minute of it.
My dad and Ian

My mom and Ian

Will with all the kids (Ethan, Ian and Taylor)

Me with Taylor

Me with Ethan

Ian at the football game :)

Ian with his Aunt Becky ( she only got to hold him cause she was bribing him lol ) he loved her though

Woo Hoo Go Falcons!!!

Will and Ian at the game

Me and My aunt Donna Jo

Me and my aunt Bo

Me and my Grandma

Aunt bo and Ian

Grandma and Ian

Aunt Donna Jo and ian

My sister Andrea the night before we left with ian

Me and Taylor the night before we left

I love my taylor kisses

Saying Good bye is hard to do