Happy V-day and Anniversary Sweetie!

I saw this posted on Camille's blog (THANKS) and thought it was great. So here's some "trivia" about my relationship with Shawn

What is his name? Shawn Cottrell

How long have you been together? We started dating about 8 1/2 years ago, and have been married 7 years now.

How long did you date? We got engaged after dating for 1 1/2 years

How old his he? 26

Who eats more? It depends on the day, but I think Shawn eats more than me in general

Who said I love you first? Shawn

Who is taller? Shawn

What is his favorite sport? He enjoys playing basketball, racketball and running, he did wrestling, cross country and basketball in high school

Who drives when you’re together? Usually him.

Who can sing better? I think that Shawn does, but he doesn't believe me.

Who is smarter? Shawn definately

Who does the laundry? ME, Shawn HATES the laundry, so I do it and he says that he will clean the bathroom since I hate that

Who pays the bills? Me

Who sleeps on the right side? Me, and Shawn sleeps on the left :)

Who mows the lawn? Maintence (apartments blah)

Who cooks dinner? Usually me, I am trying to do better on that, since I always thought (when I worked full time) that stay at home moms had all this time to cooking and clean, etc. Boy did I learn that isn't true. But I try to at least have dinner started by the time Shawn gets home from work.

Who does the dishes? Shawn usually does the dishes, since I cook dinner

Who is more stubborn? Depends on the day and the topic

Who kissed who first? Shawn kissed me first, a week after we started dating. When he dropped me off for Drill Team practice

Who asked who out first? Shawn. I was pretty naive. He asked me if I wanted to go fishing with him and his friend. So I just thought it was a group of friends going. Until, that friend cancelled and Shawn tried everything in his power to still do something with me that night. Ended up going to his house with a different friend and watched a movie.

Who proposed? Shawn, I knew that he had the ring. So everytime we went out, I would wonder is this it. But when it finally happened, it was perfect.

Who has more siblings? Shawn (5 sisters and 1 brother)

Who wears the pants? Both of us, Shawn would look pretty funny in a dress :)

Happy Valentine's Day sweetie!

I bet that you can't tell these two are siblings

Now both Chloe and Austin have cheesy grins. Whenever I pull out the camera to Austin and say "Cheese" he gets that smile and arches back his head as far as he can. And Chloe just love getting her picture taken, and then looking at the image and say, "Oh cute."

Chloe Singing

Too cute!! (sorry I couldn't figure out how to flip it around)

Crawling

Austin is crawling!!!! Well, sort of. But it is better than being attached to me all day. And it makes him happy that he can get things close to him. It is just crazy how fast my kids are growing up.....well, any kids for that matter. I keep looking at everyones' blogs, and think I remember when....(they were born/crawling/whatever) and now they are about to go to school. But I love this stage, probably because I didn't really experience it with Chloe. She only crawled for like a week and then started walking. So I am excited to see him crawling all over and we will see how long it is before he is walking also.

"Memo"

Chloe wanted to watch "Memo" tonight, which is Finding Nemo. Which made me remember a story, of when she was being watched by my mom when I had Austin. My mom asked Chloe what she wanted to do or watch. Chloe said, "Memo." (pronounced Me mo) And my mom couldn't figure out what she was saying. So finally my mom said, "Chloe I don't know what Memo is." So Chloe promptly said, "Its a FISH." Then of course my mom knew that she wanted to watch the show Finding Nemo. Crazy how kids are able to connect these things together.

Christmas Eve

I think that I have figured some of this stuff out. LOL. Anyways I thought that I would share some of our Christmas with your guys. This was our first Christmas without family, so it was a new experience. But good. We just realized that we need to write down what traditions we want to continue. After Christmas, me and Shawn thought of all the stuff we forgot to do this year. Oh well, there is always next year. But it was fun to see how excited Chloe was for her kitchen set and Austin excited for all the wrapping paper. :D

Managing a blog

How do you guys add pictures to your blog and change the background? It just isn't working for me. Any suggestions?