Provonsha Family Adventures

Happy Halloween!

2011-11-07T18:30:00.001-08:00

We had a wonderful Halloween. Wyatt loved walking everywhere, it was a great day. We were a super family. :)
Super Mom, Super Dad, Violet, Supergirl and Spiderman!

Wyatt's Baptism

2011-02-21T17:42:00.000-08:00

Wyatt had such a wonderful Baptism on Feb. 13th. It was such a special and sweet day. The girls loved walking around the church with Dr. Dudley and Wyatt did a wonderful job just being his sweet little self.

Some recent photos

2011-01-31T16:09:00.001-08:00

Happy New Year. We had a wonderful Christmas and fantastic start to the new year. We loved all of the snow. Lucy wanted to be in it the whole time...Willla not so much. :) Wyatt is growing so fast and becoming such a little dude. :) He will be 4 months old on Feb. 5th. WOW. Here are a few pictures that were taken for Wyatt's 3 month photo shoot and one of me and my little man.

WYATT

2010-11-08T15:58:00.000-08:00

Okay so it has been forever since I have written on here. Maybe nobody looks anymore because it has been so long. But I thought Okay I will give it another try. Here are some pictures of our newest addition.
Wyatt Stroup Provonsha
Born: October 5, 2010 @ 6:13am
Weighing it at: 9 lbs & 5 oz's

I wish I could say we are sleeping lots and all are rested but that would be a lie and all mother with newborns would hate me. However we all are adjust well and the girls adore him!

Hope to add more soon!

Crickets

2010-01-19T04:17:00.000-08:00

Lucy told us the other day that she had Crickets in her neck. We both laughed so hard because she was trying to tell us she had a Crick not "crickets" in her neck. When her feet fall asleep she says she has ants in her feet. My child likes the bugs huh?

Willa's new favorite catch phrase is "See Ya". It is so sweet. She also says WOW all the time. I can't believe how fast she is talking.

I love my girls and my family so much...so blessed that they can make me laugh in all the craziness of raising children. :)

Merry Christmas 09

2010-01-07T13:28:00.001-08:00

We had such a wonderful Christmas. It was a great week in Nashville with all our family. John, Sarah & Maddie Mae (or Mad according to Lucy) came down from Vermont. Gram came from Butler, PA and the rest from Chattanooga. The girls all had so much fun together. We played lots of cards, watched the Polar Express a million time for Lucy, ate way too many cookies, drank lots of yummy champagne and rested. Thanks a million to Mom and Dad for being awesome host and providing our crazy crew with lots of food, child care and a wonderful time! It just went way too fast. Happy New Year to all!

Girls wearing a Mimi dress at the Opryland Hotel...buy why do you have to pay so much to park?

Getting Holy Supper ready

Sweet Sweet Sweet. Lucy (3) and GiGi (88)

Lucy and Willa's new kitchen from Santa

Santa Came for sure

Lucy found her umberella first then off to the Kitchen.

Willa finding the Kitchen

Willa and her Baby from Santa...so happy

Maddie Mae on Christmas Morning.

Mimi, Maddie, Willa and Teagen Playing.

Jason, Sean (John & Sarah's friends Jill, Sean & Teagen came for Christmas) and John playing on Christmas Day

Lucy and Willa Christmas Day

Jason, Mimi & GiGi playing Cards

Lucy & Willa on the play train on Signal Mountain

The Frost girls joined us on that cold morning. :)

Some Holiday Pics

2009-12-14T04:06:00.001-08:00

Hi All,

It has been FOREVER since I have posted on here. I got overly busy reading the Twilight Saga and ignored everything in my life until it was over. :) We had a wonderful Thanksgiving in Knoxville and then spent the next week in Nashville while JP was in Miami.

Here are a few pictures of the girls over the holidays. Mimi made the dresses for the girls...all of them.

Also in the first of December we saw a little snow. Willa was not sure at first but warmed up quickly. Lucy LOVED it. We are very excited for Christmas and counting down the days.

Lucy & Willa on Thanksgiving, getting ready to go to Knoxville for yummy Turkey.

At the Trees of Lights in Knoxville, Lucy waited to see Santa for an hour and when it was her turn freaked out and would not get near him. Poor daddy.

Grandma & Girls

Girls in their dresses at Mimi & Pap Pap's

Me and My girls

Lucy was ready for Santa this time...no line she ran right to him and give him a hug. Willa would have NOTHING to do with him. :)

Jason & Lucy in the snow.

Jason & his girls

My sweet girls

2009-11-07T17:29:00.000-08:00

Just a few pics of the girls that I have not posted. They are growing so fast. They love to play together and Willa now calls Lucy "susy". Very sweet!

Lucy's sharing her Halloween candy with Willa

Enjoying the out doors.

Playing at our neighbors bridge

Dressing up in Mommy's old dance outfits. :)

Isabella's Birthday Party. All the kids, prior to them all getting sick! :)

Enchanted Maize

2009-10-24T17:45:00.000-07:00

We got to go to the Enchanted Maize at the bottom of Lookout Mountain this week. We had so much fun. However, we let Willa lead the pack for a little while and before we knew it we had been in the maize for over an hour. The kids were getting very hungry and thirsty! After the Maize we rode on a hayride. Lucy loved it. She was unsure at first but loved it in the end. It was a VERY hot day in October, but we will not complain. What a fun time. :)

Entering the Maize

All of the kido's 13 total and I think we came out of the maize with them all.

Lucy & Willa leading the way!

Some of the girls, poor JB was WAY out numbered! :)

Lucy on the Hay Ride

Very Happy Mommy's from L-R
Andrea Smith, Ashley Zimmerman, Nicci Ruberti, Lindsey Frost, Kelly Reese, Courtney Johnson & Me

Portland Or Trip

2009-10-18T15:57:00.001-07:00

This past week Jason & were lucky enough to get a little vacation with out the girls. Thank you mom and dad for watching them and not sleeping. I know you are glad to have us back with them:O). We had a wonderful trip. We got to sleep, eat and watch movies when we wanted too. It was very fun.

We spent a lot of time trying all of Portland's wonderful micro-brews. Lots of very yummy beers. We hung out in the Pearl District, NW 23rd, Hawthorne, headed to Cannon & Seaside Beach, Checked out the Columbia River Gorge and visited Hood River. It was such a wonderful vacation. Here are a few of our pics form the trip.

Cannon Beach, it was so windy and rainy that we did not even make it out of the car. Very bummed that we did not get to check out the town but it looked super cute. The drive was beautiful.

Fenouil, our one fancy dinner. It was very yummy french food. Then we went to a very cool bar called Teardrop where a "mixologist" made us drinks with egg whites in it. Strange but yummy.

Jamison Square in the Pearl District. It will go it our book of statues. :)

VooDoo Doughnuts...YUMMY is about all I can say, but this place was so funny. Very punk donate shop.

Mt. Hood

Columbia River Gorge

Latourell Falls incredible cool and beautiful

Multnomah Falls, again gorgeous!

Nashville & New Hair Cut

2009-10-06T11:49:00.001-07:00

We went to Nashville last week while JP was out of town for the week. We got Lucy's hair cut, about 4 inches. It is so cute. The dresses were made by Mimi, Love them! :) The first 2 pictures are from last night, the girls were watching TV after their bathes. So sweet. I did not realize Lucy had on her new shoes from her birthday. So funny! We are just having the best time. Lucy has now started telling me "mom, you are my favorite super hero". Who knows where she got that! Much love! :)

Loving Lucy's shoes

Lucy's new hair cut

Willa eating dirt...she loves it!

My sweet pie

Nothing like playing in the dirt and sand! We love coming to Mimi's & Pap Pap's!

Happy 3rd Birthday Lucy!!!

2009-09-27T12:45:00.001-07:00

Lucy turned 3 today! WOW I can't believe my sweet baby is 3. How time flies by. I keep saying that, maybe someday I will believe it! We had a wonderful day. It was a rainy day so we used our basement for the first time. It was perfect for the day. We had a small carnival, with a balloon animal maker, pin the horse on the carousel, popcorn, a pinata with tons of candy and cake and ice cream...all before noon! :) Parents were loving me. We just had such a wonderful time. Thanks to all who made it so special!

Lucy's Cake & Cup Cakes (made by mommy & Lucy)

The Family

All the kido's L-R
Laney Frost, JB Zimmerman, Lucy, Delaney Zimmerman, Willa, Isabella Benton,
Sophie Spanilo and Charlie Beasley (standing)

Happy Birthday to You!

Nothing better than cupcakes!

Very Happy Children! :)

Aunt Patty

2009-09-17T10:27:00.000-07:00

Today has been a sad day in our family. My Aunt Patty, daddy's sister, lost a long battle to cancer. She was too young and it has been very sad for this to come. No one was ready to see her leave this world. I am greatly saddened for my Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and my Grandmother. It is never easy, at any age, to loose a child. Thank you to all for your continued prayers!

In Christ Always!

Lucy's 1st Dance Class

2009-09-14T10:35:00.001-07:00

Lucy had her first day of Dance today. She loved every minute of the class. It was so sweet. Only 4 little girls and 2 of them are her friends. So they were having a blast. Even poor Willa wanted to get in on the fun! Here are just a few picture that captured the moments.

Lucy waiting for Willa to get up from her nap so we could head to dance class.

Willa wanted to play too!

The girls and their teacher. From L-R
Isabella Benton, Lucy & Mary Blake Reese

Mimi's Dresses & Pool time

2009-08-28T13:30:00.001-07:00

Mimi made the girl's smocked dresses. They looked so darling on them, but as you can see Lucy still had her breakfast on her face! :) It was very hard to get a picture of them together. Then we spent the week in Nashville and the girls enjoyed the pool. Willa loved to get the water in her face and Lucy loved swimming around in the pool. It was all fun and games until Willa decided to poop in the pool!

Coolidge Park, Brew Fest & Timblins

2009-08-28T13:18:00.001-07:00

August 22nd was a busy day for us Provonsha's. Since Willa is no longer allergic to dairy we took a trip to Coolidge Park and had Clumpies Ice Cream. YUMMY. Nothing like waiting 11 months to have Ice Cream. It was so good. Then we hoped over to the Brewfest and watched a Krystal eating contest with the Frost's and had a couple of Beers. Willa was pooped!

The day ended with a bbq over at the Timblin's home. It was such a wonderful night and the kids had a blast. I did not get my camera out till late so I was unable to catch photo's of the Gregory's, and Frost's but they were there too!

We love our little town of Chattanooga!

Lucy & Ben Timblin...so cute! :)

Lucy & Baby Brady Timblin

Lucy, Ben & Laney playing with the car set...it was really fun even for me!

Willa walking around Coolidge park

Lucy at Brewfest 2009

Willa was ready to leave Brewfest 2009 :)

Willa is ONE!!!

2009-08-16T18:45:00.000-07:00

Willa is ONE!!!! WOW how did time fly by so fast. We had such a wonderful birthday weekend. We celebrated with Mimi & Pap Pap on the 14th, which was also their 38th wedding anniversary. We opened a few presents and enjoyed our time together as we prepared for the party. The next day we had some family and friends over to help us celebrate Willa's birthday. Mommy made Strawberry Cupcakes, Yellow Sheet cake and a HUGE allergen free chocolate cupcake for Willa to tear into. However, she did not do much tearing into and wanted out of the chair. Willa was feeling a little under the weather on that day. An hour before the party we were at the Dr.'s office making sure she did not have a ear infection. Turns out just a really bad cold and many new teeth. Poor baby!

The theme for the party was Pinwheels. They were every where and Mimi made Willa's birthday monkey dress. Thank you Mimi!

We had such a wonderful day and thanks to all who helped us celebrate.

Willa in her hat!

Yummy Icing...that was all the damage I made on the cake.
Presents!!!!!
On my actual birthday.
The family My loves. :)

Just a few new pics

2009-08-08T04:12:00.001-07:00

Here are just a few new pictures of my babies! They are the sweetest little monkeys around.

Lucy using her potty. We are so proud of her.
Big day for Lucy, mommy painted her nails. I am not usually one for this but thought why not.
This is what Willa's hair looked like when she woke-up after her nap...VERY FUNNY!
Just another shot, I could not believe it!
Lucy playing dress up and looking like a little Russian Girl. They paint is her wand.

Willa a Walker

2009-08-07T06:25:00.000-07:00

Willa is a total walker. About a week & a half ago she woke up for her nap and started walking all the time. That was the end of crawling for her. So sweet. She looks like E.T. :) She is such a sweet little girl. In the last week she cute 2 molars. I can't believe she will be 1 in a week. How time has flown by!

I love my little girls so much.

Potty Time

2009-08-07T06:14:00.000-07:00

So Lucy brought me to tears this morning! She told me she had to go to the potty. I said okay lets go and she put her hand up in a stop position and told me "no mommy, I do it all by myself". So I watched her and sure enough, she put her little potty on the big potty we to the potty and flushed. Then she wanted to clean it. So sweet! I am in love and she is getting so big.

Big Day

2009-07-17T11:56:00.001-07:00

Today was quite a day.

Willa is just a few day's over 11 months and took 5 steps on her own. We are so proud. She walked to Lucy and I & boy did she get some praise! :)

Lucy went Poop Poop in the potty! We are THRILLED. Long time coming. We celebrated with M&M's and she was very proud of herself. Lets hope it keeps on going in the right direction, in the potty! :)

I love my family!

Curious George

2009-07-17T03:30:00.001-07:00

Curious George came to the Creative Discovery Museum. It was such a sweet exhibit. The girls loved it. It is very hard to get a picture of both of them not moving. This was the best I could do. Willa enjoyed the museum too. It is the first time she was able to get out and touch things. She had a blast.

Lucy, George & Willa

Figuring things out.

Willa cooking in the boat galley

Willa playing on the instruments

Lucy & Delaney on an archaeologist dig!

Cooking

2009-07-17T03:26:00.001-07:00

We love to cook in our home. Lucy loves to help and lick anything that is yummy! :) She had the funniest little chocolate mustache. She has Willa's apron on while hers is getting monogrammed.

I just had to add this little face on Willa. So cute!

Lucy & God

2009-07-07T11:13:00.000-07:00

This morning Lucy asked me "How much does God love me?". So I told her because she is His child He loves her more that anything she can think of. Then she continued on to ask me Why? and tell me that God is her friend and he plays with her and she loves Him. Talk about melting a mothers heart. God is so good and I am so glad my daughter is learning all about him at a young age. I just hope and pray she continues to love Him all the days of her life!

God Bless!

Willa's 3 new teeth

2009-07-07T11:11:00.000-07:00

So this morning I look at sweet Willa's smile and notice two new chompers. I thought man she really did cut some teeth. Thinking that 10 teeth at 10 months is a TON of teeth. No wonder she was up in the middle of the night more. Well low and behold at lunch I saw another tooth. Poor little Willa cut 3 teeth at the same time. Now 11 teeth at 10 months is a LOT of teeth. Sweetest Smile Ever!

4th of July 2009

2009-07-05T17:41:00.000-07:00

4th of July 2009. What a wonderful day we had. Mimi & Pap Pap joined us for the celebrations. We went to a parade on Signal Mountain then headed over to the BBQ at the park. It was so sweet and old fashioned. We loved every minute of the day. Lots of candy before noon. That might have been why Lucy did not nap that day. Then at 5:30 all of our friends came to the house for a potluck dinner. We had a pinata with a ton more candy. Everyone loved it. By 9:00 at night we were off to the park again to watch fireworks. Lucy first time to see them and she LOVED them. We thought she might be scared but she loved them. It was a very fun and busy weekend.

On top of all that, Jody & Jon Paul came down to show off the new ring and to see if Mommy would be the Matron of Honer in the wedding and the girls to be flower girls. Of course we said yes!

Ready for the parade

Such a fun day.

Mimi made our dresses, arn't we darling?

Starting to stand on my own.

eating yummy BBQ

Look at Willa go. Lucy is covered in Bug Bites.

Willa Pushing a Wagon

2009-07-03T03:57:00.001-07:00

Willa is starting to get the walking bug!!! On Wednesday the 30th of June I gave her the walker outside and she loved it. She did not want to stop pushing it. She would also bend over and pick up grass and put it in the wagon. How quickly they learn. So sweet. Lucy and her Delaney loved playing with the sidewalk chalk. They were so sweet drawing in the driveway. JB also came to join in the fun. We are having such a fun summer!

Go Willa Go!

She loved pushing it so sweet. Look at those chubby legs! :)

Lucy & Delaney, best bud's love playing outside.

JB came to join the fun.

New Jogger

2009-06-27T07:38:00.000-07:00

We finally got a new jogger for the girls. I think this will be the best 60 dollars we have spent. We took them on there first walk last night and they loved it. However, it was about 90 degrees outside and we about died. :) Summer is here.

Our first entry

2009-06-25T14:01:00.000-07:00

This is our first time to have a blog for our family. Hopefully it will be something I can keep up with and the girls will have for thier future. We will see. I am thinking it will be a diary of sorts.

This has been a fun week for us in Nashville. Jason had a trip to AZ so we have been visiting Mimi & Pap Pap. So much fun. 2 days of swimming, Off to the Zoo and a day at Opry Mills. All have been so much fun.

Lucy finally swam with her swimmers on and loved the pool. She is so sweet and cute in the water. Willa could really do with out the pool. She would much rather sit on the edge and snack. She makes us all laugh.

It has been a great week and I can't wait to see Jason tomorrow. We miss him so much.

Mom & Willa at the Zoo.

Giraffe's were really close to us. Lucy thought she could feed them through the fence.
Lucy & Chloe Kizer at the Zoo. What a fun day we had.
Sweet little girls.
Lucy at the pool...what a fun day we had.