ODE to SHAYLA

Ooooooooh! Look at that cute pic of Wyatt!!!! Waaaaaaaaaait a minute....who is that weirdo behind him? That's right folks, it's SHAYLA!! Picking her nose!


Well a few posts ago...I believe it was the 4th of July bash, my adorable sis was super sad :( after she read my post and saw that I neglected to put any pics of her in there. She WAS there, but evidently she was pretending to be invisible and avoided the the camera all night.

Well Shay (aka: Shay-bay, butt-munch, shnookums) we don't want you thinking you're not loved!!! So here are some pics from our latest bash. I basically followed her around with the camera... She chuckled at first--then she just thought I was creepy and kept trying to kick me. I'm sure she can now empathize with famous people. (not that your NOT famous Shay...)



Here she is all beautiful and such. (You should have SEEN her prep for this pic. Holy friggin cow...I was laughing so hard I'm surprised I was able to keep the camera still.) But she did it. Such beauty!







Sorry Shay-boy she's gonna be mad I put this one in-but I had to do it. If you have a dorky pic like this of someone else, you have to show everyone. It makes you feel better about yourself!

She's telling a funny story about how she hit an old lady with a spit-wad at the grocery store and then hid.





Now usually I would put this pic on my blog and talk about how much I love my cute grandma, but not right now. Basically this pic is here because part of Shayla is in it. See her? She's on the left.

(Grandma is holding cute baby Wy-Wy. ...wwwhhhooo is Shayla's son! Yessss! I KNEW I cute tie her into that too!)















Beautiful!!! (She worked so
hard for this pic, I would feel bad
putting it in only once.)




Here Shayla is guffawing! It's a fake guffaw, but you can't tell can you?! Man, she's the best fake-guffawer in the WORLD! I love her sooo much!











Again, one would think that I put this cute pic in my blog because it's of my sweet son going down a water slide. But alas, it is not. This pic is here because of the gorgeous chick pushing him down the slide.







Go Shaaayla. Go Shaaayla. It's your Birthday. But it's actually nooot. It's Bohdeee's. But this blog is about yooouuu. So who caaaaares!
(Sing that to "it's your birthday" tune, then it make sense.)







Finally folks. The grand finale!! Yup I did! I put it in! We can't have a Ode to Shayla blog and not put in this pic. Seriously?!


We love Shayla so much! Every last inch of her!!!








I'd like to end this blog with a short 'Shayla' anecdote. (I have MILLIONS!) Yesterday my innocent husband called her, albeit early in the morning, to ask her a quick question. When the brief conversation was over and it was time to end the call, Brandon opted for the normal, "...okay, talk to you later." But evidently Shayla had decided previous to this conversation that we need to be a closer family. So she followed up by saying, "...love you, bye."
Confused, Brandon opted to not vocalize his reciprocated love.
Later, when she was notified of her apparent love for Brandon, she was deeply offended that he did not return the affection. Soooo NOW we all have to tell each other how much we love each other WHENEVER we talk! No matter how long or brief the conversation, or what the relationship is, we HAVE to tell them we love them! What a pain! But who knows, maybe it will bring us closer together as a family. After all, family is forever right?!


We LOOOOVVVVEEEE you Shay!!!