birds by amy

this is just good is a picture 

stranger by amy

leave it to amy to take a picture of somebody she doesn't know 

train tracks by amy

she took this one while riding on the back of the train 

hippo by amy

 

 

punch by ariel

this is funny it looks like taylor is being punched 

mikey by ariel

michael stole my "hug a tree hat" and i guess it got left there, boohoo 

another by ariel

this is not mike's best side 

abby by ariel

this one turned out good 

gator by ariel

this time i picked her up... 

bars by ariel

when you are too short to see over the fence.... 

the gorilla

ariel got a good one of the gorilla too! 

ariel's self portrait

 

ariel's picture of taylor

she did good on this one.. 

ariel's first picture

i didn't think ariel was ready for a camera but she was a little shutter bug, it took her awhile to get used to it and this is her first picture she accidentally took of her shirt, that's junior asparagus from veggie tales. 

abby and amy on the train

 

the grandparents and their grandkids

mike took this one and ariel and taylor would not comply, it was hot, the train was late, yada yada yada, oh and their 4. 

swan lake

by abby 

ariel and taylor

this picture taken by abby, all the girls had cameras on our wonderful trip to the b'ham zoo during spring break and i'm bloggin' some of the best, sorry it took me so long, my computer's been sick. 

studio time

mike's been in the studio alot lately, seems spring brings artists out of hybernation or maybe they just finally got some money but anyway, we're glad to have 'em. below is Ben working on his solo project, his band #1suspect was here during spring break and Melvin came over last weekend to work on Artillery which is gonna be awesome! Go God it's your ressurection day!! 

shabby sheek?

our kitchen looks so rough right now, we finally got the handles back on after another can of spray paint, and mike bless his heart despite severe allergies continues to mud n' sand, mud n' sand, maybe next week we can paint, i hope! 

home improvement?

this is definately a picture of how things get worse before they get better... 

foam crazy

hey i went along with his strange aversion to this foam that he acted like was gold, men? 

mike strippin'

you gotta love a man that'll go along with all your crazy honey do's 

a family that strips together....

who would've thought stripping wall paper would be a family activity, the girls fought over who got to strip, of course they fight over oxygen intake.  

rock star amy

look out world, here she comes... 

amy's first guitar lesson

amy got an electric guitar for her birthday, and here's mike giving her her first lesson 

janet and michael

janet rode michael around most of the day, i walked up just as he was about to dive into the water! 

mr. michael

michael had a blast, he was all over the place... 

amy and gracie

Amy and her best friend Gracie... 

taylor and liz

here are the girls playin'.... doctor that is on a giant "operation" at sci-quest 

mike and tom

here are the boys playin'..... 

purepraise-feb

here's the band at Harvest Baptist, at our last PurePraise, it went well, unfortunately we had had another one scheduled for the next week and it got postponed, it was discouraging, but I know that God's will will be done and when He wants us to minister He will open the doors!! please pray for us!! 

themindodmikecia

here's mike at amy's sci-quest party

 

drama queen

here's Amy wearing her birthday crown she got from school, me and Mike took the ghecko to hers and Abby's class for show and tell that day, he went over real well, we also took him by Headstart but when we got ready to leave Ariel wanted to come with us, so of course I couldn't leave her there.

 

the fabulous foursome!

 

amy turned 6 on mon. jan. 29

we just had cake and ice cream after dinner at our house, she got to pick it all out and what we had for dinner, so she picked kid quisine! Her siblings were so happy and me too! She's used to big parties and said this wasn't fun because she didn't have her friends, so I've gotta have another party soon for her.

 

super soaked ariel

 

abby and amy building their snowman

 

ariel jumpin on the trampoline in the snow

she came in soakin' wet

 

double dog dare

abby really loves the snow 

our house with snow on it

 

my log steps

 

michael and cocoa

Michael stayed in the house thank goodness, we all had hot cocoa and oatmeal and the kids bus ran two hours late.

 

my rock path

 

more snow shots

 

alabama snowman

notice the track where amy and abby tried to make a snowman, and see if you can make out the three lumps that once were the snowman, They were outside playing in it at ohmygod:30! Ariel was so cute she came and asked me for a carrot for the snowman.

 

snow at our house

here's a shot from my backyard over the birdfeeder

 

cowboy michael

My favorite gift to give was this little spring horse and Michael loved it! That's a snake in his mouth, all boy, what can i say. For those of you who don't know, I have a dream of having horses one day soon. 

because of winn dixie

Abby had read the book and loved it so we got her the movie and the stuffed animal and to our surprise Dave Matthews is in the movie and he sings and plays guitar in it, too cool! 

mooo!

the farm is a big hit too! 

Michael and his tools

Michael loves his tools, it even had a working tape measure! 

cowgirl amy

 

Ariel's Christmas present

we got her a cool little pink bike that we can push from behind, it even made noise and lit up on the handle bars but it was really annoying after about 5min.! 

my mom and all her grandkids

here's my mom and ronnie with all their grandkids, Ronnie's son Chad (far left) had to hold his son Sam, who is the cutest little boy! 

great grandma and second cousin

my mom, steph and taytum, Krissy lives in Georgia so it was the first time alot of us had seen her and she got passed around pretty good. 

steph and ryan

here's steph and my nephew Ryan, we were glad to get to see him, he's been at a, well a, place where young men who need help, get help, anyway he's doin' good. 

me and my great niece!

 

Steph huggin' Pam

I think Steph and Pam broke a record for the world's longest hug, when she opened the keys to her car. It was real emotional for my aunt because it was her husband's car and he passed away not too long ago, but I think it also made her feel good because she said he had wanted to give it to her. Thank you Russ!  

Kelly and Taytum

 

My sister's a Nona!

Here's my big sis Kelly helping her daughter Krissy with her daughter Taytum, too sweet! 

Michael on the back massager

yay! I got a back massager from Tom and Janet and Michael gave it a test ride!! 

Amy rockin' out

 

little sisters are a pain

Abby got what she wanted, a CD, Mp3 player from Grandma and Grandpa, and Amy got one too, thanks to them, Abby had bought one with her Christmas money from my mom and so Amy got that one. But that doesn't mean she's gonna leave her big sis alone to tune her out! 

Ariel and Taylor, bouncin' buddies

The kids picked out Taylor's gifts and Ariel got one for her too and they had a ball! bouncin' around! 

Superstar Taylor

the next American Idol, look out Simon! here she comes!! 

Stephanie has a license to drive!!

Steph finally got her license Thursday after a very stressful and long day at the DMV. I am soooo glad she passed! and I know she is too, she turned 16 in August but hasn't had a chance to go get her license. My aunt Pam gave her my Uncle Russ' car for Christmas and it is sweet! It's even got a sunroof, super sweet!! I'm so happy for her. 

Abby and Jessie

She is so excited about going to school and showing her friends these pictures tomorrow. I'm glad she likes it so much. 

Abby and her gecko

Abby's still a little "freaked out" by her, but she's doing great taking care of her. We have to feed her live crickets and fruit flavored baby food, so we have to feed the crickets fruit and veggies too. I caught Michael spraying her cage with water the other day, but that's good because you're supposed to keep it humid for her. We are learning alot about reptile care and it's gettin' easier every day. Crested geckos are pretty low maintenance, they don't need heat lamps or rocks, and they love to hide and climb and jump! She loves to jump from one person to the others hands and tonight she jumped from Mike onto Amy. She's lots of fun and we've all fallen totally in love. Stephanie got one too and she named hers Bo, I haven't heard how he/she is doing yet but I hope she's enjoying him as much as we are enjoying ours. 

Our New Baby

Here's Jessie! Ain't she cute? in a weird sort of way. 

Mike and His new buddy Jessie

Here's Mike letting Abby's cool new gecko climb on his shirt. We are all soooo in love with him or her we can't tell yet, he's just a baby. Mike even took him in the bathroom to play with him today. 

my great niece

check out pictures of my sister Kelly's daughter, Krissy's new baby girl, Taytum Reed,
she's gorgeous...
http://myspace.com/krissi321

steph n bev

Here's me and my baby girl , and i'm wearing the cool scarf she gave me.

here's her myspace. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=134023998
here's the link to the video/photo montage i made for her for her sweet sixteen:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1574655487

steph n nate

sorry so fuzzy, but here's the cute couple

 

Ariel's stealing Steph's boyfriend

Ariel calls Nathan her boyfriend, it makes him blush.

 

Stephanie came home for Christmas

here's steph opening her gifts from us, she and nathan came over mon. night and had dinner with us and opened presents, it was great, they hung around till pretty late while us girls gabbed the guys played guitar. 

Chris Shredder

this is Chris preparing for his solo, i think he was on the phone with his agent, he did some cool shreddin' for us, he goes to our church and he's in master's commission, he's a cool guy.

 

Recital at RR Bazaar

There were a lot of kids and parents there even Tom and Janet came, it started out with 16 kids and ended up being a alot more, there were drum soloists too, but that took up a lot of time.

 

mike's with his students

Here's Mike leading his students in 'jingle bells'
at the Christmas recital at RR Bazaar.

 

mike's guitar recital

Neat Freak's first job!

I had my first organizing job this past Monday and it went really great. A lady from Choose Life hired me to help her with her garages, (yes 2, 2 car garages), and it went really well, I'm really looking forward to more jobs. A friend of mine who paints for a living said she did those coupon mailers and got more work than she could handle so I'm going to do that after the first of the year and hopefully get the same results.

Mike's Guitar Recital

Hey ya'll I am so proud of my hubby he's been teaching guitar for 3 years now and he's really had the opportunity to pour into alot of wonderful kids. He and the guys he teaches with at RR Bazaar are having their first guitar recital, Dec. 9th. Sat. at 2p.m.. Come support your local music teachers and up and coming little artists. It's going to be all Christmas music, with some percussionists too and Mike and his teaching buddies are going to do a lil' jazz ensemble.picturemania

The McAlister Family

Here we all are, after a good stuffin'!

 

ahh, brotherly love

 

Fried Thanksgiving Turkey

here's Tom with his fancy Turkey fryin' rig, it was delicious too!

 

Lindsay Makes Her Debut

One of Mike's Students came and made a CD for a Christmas present to her family. We had another guy come by during the holidays but didn't get his picture, but he's coming back to do some more, so I'll get on of him then, man that boy can sang, too! 

Mike's Bogo

I know I thought it meant buy one get one free but apparently it is an apparatise designed to deaden sound. My hubby is so smart and so creative! 

Nuber One Suspects Second Studio Time

We had our first repeat clients in the studio, these guys were great! They already put up the song on their myspace. 

Making Mommy a Birthday Card

I had an awesome birthday, first i took the kids to the verteran's day parade, then me and mike got to go out and afterward we went through the drive-thru at Sonic (where Steph works) to see her and she made me a card on the back of a to go box, it was sweet!

 

Michael Raking Leaves

 

Here's the fall

they thought this was so funny, they did it over and over again, i promise to get the video clip up soon. 

SeeSaw and Fall

Michael and Ariel were playin' See Saw and Fall

 

Michael's TowMater Truck

Michael loved his "TowMater" Truck he got from Grandma Janet and Grandpa Tom, he has played and played with it, he even had it up on the bed with us the other night, and inside the seat was a spoon and one of my Christmas decorations, thanks you guys are great! oh, and he loves the little car wheel Uncle Brian and Aunt Liz got him too, and I've read the books ya'll got him to all the little ones more than a few times!!

 

My Girls!

 

Firefightin' Cousins

Ariel and Taylor were of course buddy, buddy.

 

Michael's Two!

"Pizza! Yay!"

 

Bev and Steph

Stephanie came to Michael's party!! She's a sucker for Chuck E. Cheese.

 

Run Michael, run

 

It's Christmas at our House!

Here's Amy settin' up the nativity, We decorated outside,
and Ariel said "Mommy, it's Christmas at our house!!

 

too cool Ariel

Mike took this picture because he thought it was funny that she had on gloves, a hat and a scarf but wore capris, she is so silly. 

Ariel as Cinderella

Ariel dressed up as Cinderella to go see Disney on Ice, with her pre-school.

 

Halloween at the Hospital

Mike took this picture of the girls as they were off to see Grandma in the hospital. That night was so hectic I didn't get to my camera to take a picture of Michael, he just were a camoflouge sweatsuit, he got into the trick or treatin after about the third house, to which he ran up to. 

we got our van lettered!

check it out, we got the van lettered today, i'm fixin' to start workin' on my webpage, but wanted to share this with ya'll.

 

Russ' memorial video

Here's the link to My Uncle Russ's Memorial Video, everybody at the funeral loved it,
some parts of it made them laugh, most of it brought tears, we will all really miss him,
he was so sweet, keep praying for my aunt Pam.
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1306676039