Hockey Girlie

Let me first just say how excited I am that Emily wanted to play hockey. She actually started about 2 months into the season, (and missed pictures) but she was all for it!!! Her first practice was today and she did really well. She isn't the best skater, so for a lot of the practice (they had 4 teams on the ice at once all doing the same thing) she had one on one with a coach. I could tell even by the end of the hour that she was doing much better.
Helmet adjusting

Jakey!

Some sort of drill.

She is 3rd from the left, kneeling with no name or number. She will have number 18. She wanted 8 but it was taken.

Bored Bubba.

They did some sort of drill where they kneeled down, stood up, layed down, stood up, etc.... They also played Red Light Green Light.

Watching me take pics.....

Babysitting

I got Jerrod and Lindsey tickets to the dinner theater at my church for saturday night, so the kids came over to our house. I had a feeling Scooter would have a blast because he is obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine, and we have at least five of them. Sure enough, he carried those around all evening. Savannah slept for the first 2 hours they were here, I *did get pics of her, but my camera sucks and they disappeared. ugh.


Close up!

Not sure what this face is......

He was laughing at Rosie for awhile, and I *think he threw this book at her, but I can't be sure.

Gonna whine for just a minute....

....this weather sucks. Yesterday neither of our cars would start. We had Chief's towing come out to jump the van, which didn't work and cost $30 which normally would have cost $50 had it actually worked. Then they towed us to Amoco, where we spent $100 on a new battery....blah. I dropped Bill off at work and finally made it to *my work 3 hrs late. Better late then never right? We also finally got the tree up on Sunday, the kids were decorating it, and Jacob is putting the ornaments on the strands of lights rather than the branches, and gets mad when we move them. So Sunday I was laying in bed reading Eclipse (for the 10th time) and Bill cam ein and said something like, "now I know why we put up the tree" I went out to look and this is what I saw:

Rosie-cat (she's not just Rosie anymore) was *in the tree. Right in the middle. Sigh. This thing is coming down Dec 26th!!!

Busy Day

This morning we had the 4th grade parent breakfast at school.  I always get excited for these school things because it means more hanging out with Jenni and her girls (who I don't see enough of as it is HA HA!)   Her girls are also in 4th, 2nd and Kindergarten.....anywho, on Fridays at school they have pizza. Not BREAKFAST pizza, actual sausage pizza.  Which I guess counts as a breakfast food.  Nick ate his piece, my piece, Jacob's piece, and then went up for another piece.  The kid doesn't eat any lunch but eats everyone else's breakfast. Oy.  After the food there is always a craft in the library (which I need to get a picture of) it was a LOVELY candle holder I'm sure I will cherish for years to come ;-)   Emily and Abbie took off at that point so I walked Nick to his class. As I was getting my coat on, he walks by the lunchroom and gets ANOTHER plate. The lady handing them out says, "Didn't you eat breakfast already Nick?"  He goes "YUP!" and keeps walking.  I was like dang whose kid is that??? ha ha!  So I went back to his room to tell his teacher he may get busted for eating again. (he didn't)  Mr Searl just laughed, he's pretty cool.  After I dropped Jacob off at school I headed to MOPS.  Jenni and I got very festive yesterday decorating, so we had candles to light this morning  :o)   We ate, played a game with white elephant gifts, and made teacher gifts....which I think may still be in my car.  Hmmmm.  After that I went to Jerrod and Lindsey's for a bit to wait for Melissa to call so I could go over to her house and play her Wii with her 3 yr old while she baked a cake.  I'm sorry to say she beat me. I need more practice!!  I came home, got the kids some snacks, then we headed over to Taylor's to watch their kids while they performed in the dinner theater at church.  I had my kids plus a 5 yr old, a 21 month old, and a 7 month old.  We were busy but had fun!!  Tomorrow night we're babysitting my neice and nephew.  Apparantly I can't get enough of kids!!  

We wish you a merry sick-mas ...........

The lovely flu is making it's way through our house.  Emily started Monday night and was home on Tuesday, I had to pick Jacob up from school on Wednesday, then later on that evening at around 9 or so I started throwing up.  At 10 I guess Nick felt left out because *he started puking!  So the boys and I were home today.  I'm not expecting Bill to get it and if he does I will be *really surprised. I have never seen him have the flu.  I suppose never being here would do it ;-)   Fortunately everyone will be well enough to go to school tomorrow.  Nick and Emily get to go to Kennedy to see the holiday show, so I'm glad he was home today instead of tomorrow.  Right now we're all just worn out and achy.  Jacob feels the best though, he has eaten a bowl of mac and cheese and 2 corn dogs so far today while Nick and I have only had saltines. yay.  :o)

Tiny peanut girl

The kids and I got to babysit Savannah on Thursday. She is so cute!! The kids were very excited. We call her Banana b/c that's what Scooter calls her. ;-) In preparation, I cleaned my living room and kitchen. See? I bet you never knew I actually had a table!!! ha ha

She is adorable. She sat and watched everyone run around and play. At one point she kind of started making a whiny noise and Nick goes, "Emily, play with her!!" ha
Emily took this.

Emily just loves her!!!

Enough toys there, Banana?

Checking Rosie out......

Cousins :o)

A trip to the store wore her out!!! And Rosie had a turn checking her out.

Reading before bed.

I have no idea WHAT Emily was doing here. She said "I look weird!!"

We had fun. I keep getting pestered about when she is coming over again.....we'll have to see!!!

Crazy Kitty

This cat loves to play in water. Not *in the water, but with the water I guess. Bill runs the faucet in the bathroom just to see her come running. And she loves to watch the bathtub fill up too. Sometimes she jumps in the far end and watches it touch her feet :-)

More halloween randomness

It only took me 5 yrs to figure out that if Jake has a sucker while he gets his hair washed, it cuts down on the screaming :o)

This is after only two days of fun. The sad part is, with Emily's new spacer in her mouth, she's now banned from tootsie rolls, now and laters, laffy taffy, gum, caramel, peanuts, and basically anything chewy and sticky. Poor thing. She is not happy. The boys only eat Hershey bars, Jake eats suckers and plain M&Ms, and Nick likes tootsie rolls, so most of this will get tossed or given out by next week.

I am in charge of goody bags for Nick's class party. Every class gets roughly $48 to spend (which only amounts to $2 per kid) I bought all this plus 2 bags of 100 pieces of candy for $38. Go me!!

Emily's spacer. It hooks onto her back molars, and goes straight to her front teeth instead of curving around her jaw like a retainer would.....that didn't make sense but you know what I mean

My personal favorite :o)

I've been tagged!!!!

Kristen tagged me, and since I love being random, here you go.................

1. Post the rules on your blog
2. Write 6 random things about yourself
3. Tag 6 people at the end of your post
4. If you are tagged, just do it, and pass the tag along!


1) I flush public toilets with my feet. It's true. I do NOT want those nasty germs on my HAND for crying out loud!!!

2) I could never be a Stay At Home mom. Props to those of you who are. (esp the one who also homeschool!) I have to be out and about as much as I can. I had the worst month of my life after I sprained my ankle, because shortly after that, school let out for the summer.

3) I am still the New Kids on the Block number 1 fan. It was only 11 or 12 yrs ago that Becky and I would drive around in my car blasting Hangin Tough and yes, we were 18 and 22 :-) ha ha (sorry I just outed you beky) I have been listening to their new album over and over and over and over......

4) My kids' sippy cups have ALWAYS had the right cover on it. If I can't find the right cover, I will switch cups if I need to, to make sure it has the correct one. I also have some issues with numbers....I think I may be a tad OCD.....

5) On Thanksgiving I eat about *this much* turkey (that is supposed to be a microscopic amount) and fill the rest of the plate with various veggies. I don't eat potatoes b/c really, I can make those any ol' time. Same with rolls. On christmas however, ham and cheesy potatoes all the way.....and Craig's deviled eggs and Grandma's banana bread ;-)

6) I sometimes tell the kids the battery on their Nintendo DS has to be charged just because I want to play it :-X

Ok those were random. I'm tagging whoever reads this and has a blog. Anyone else can just email me and tell me you have weird quirks too!!!

Enjoy!!!

Trunk or Treat

The past few years at my church on the Sunday before Halloween we have what's called "Trunk or Treat" People sign up to decorate their cars and you go from trunk to trunk trickor treating. It's fun, and people really get creative!! We got there this year all bundled up ready to spend 30 or so minutes outside, and everyone was in the church. Wimps ;-) ha ha ha..... We peeled off layers and went at it. My neighbor friend Dori and her daughter Lily came with us (they actually go to Jerrod and Lindsey's church) The kids had a blast. I think Jake came home with most of the suckers anyone had, he is all about suckers.


Princess Emily

Darth Vader Nick. ..... So here's my lightsaber story: We went to SuperTarget today for some groceries, and to look at cheap Halloween stuff (I am in charge of goody bags for Nick's class party, and since we only get a certain amount to spend, I need to budget that!) I found a lightsaber on clearance, gave it to Nick, and as we were walking down the main aisle he all of sudden goes "MOM!! This is a BLUE lightsaber!!" Me: "And?...." Nick: "I can't use BLUE!! Blue is for the GOOD guys, I am DARTH VADER, I need a RED one!!" Luckily we managed to find his RED one, thank goodness. Crisis averted.

Lily, Emily and Nick

This is the only picture of Jake I got

I was a Tony Stewart fan. I'm not really, but this is the only thing I could scrape up ;-)