Tuesday October 21

I'm going to see the NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK tonight!!!!   Really the only teasing I have had to endure was Jerrod last night asking me if I was serious and then asking when they're singing ;-)  Who cares what they're singing???  I should have awesome pics to post, hopefully tomorrow!!!   I'm just waiting on Elizabeth to drop off the tickets for me and Jenni, I have to pick Nick up from school at 4:30 because he is now in the chess club.  He has no idea how to play, but knowing him he'll come home today with all the rules in his head.  He beats me at checkers almost every game so I don't know if I wanna learn this  :-D   On Thursday we (me, my mom, my dad, and Ellen my dad's gf) get to go eat breakfast with Jacob at school.  That should be interesting.  

Nothing much going on here....

I worked yesterday and today 9am to noon.  I was very surprised today that my boss said Jacob could have his shoes and socks off if he needed to.  The kids aren't even allowed to have their shoes off, but since Jacob was having a minor (ha ha) heart attack b/c I kept putting them back on, Jake my boss said to pick my battles.  It wasn't hurting anything and he was much happier. Besides, if his feet got stepped on, I had free reign to say see, shoulda had your shoes on!!!   We didn't do anything, it's pretty chilly out and by the time we get home and eat lunch, it's almost 1:30.  The kids are off playing and watching tv and bugging the cat I'm sure now......

First day of MEA week

After I got woke up at 7:20 this morning (so much for sleeping in!) and we had breakfast and played and watched some shows, I dug some paints out of the cupboard for the kids. Of course Emily had to take a pic with Rosie ..... this poor cat is so neglected ;-)

Emily and her caterpillar
Nick painted something that has to do with Super Mario Bros I guess

Nice. This is the blurry inside of a 9 yr olds mouth

Bored Jakey.

Here's hoping we figure out more stuff to do tomorrow and Friday!! Maybe the mall, or the park, or even Como Zoo. Anyone wanna join us? Anyone? Bueller?

Nick's soccer career

I have to say that I'm impressed he stuck it out. He wanted to quit a few weeks ago, but I reminded him that he made a commitment to the team and needed to honor that. I also talked to the coach (who is VERY nice) and he didn't want to see Nick quit either. Nick just isn't an athlete, he just sorta wanders on the field, and makes half hearted attempts to kick the ball when it's by him. He got hit in the face 2 yrs ago in a game, and has since been apprehensive about it. We didn't really have any solutions other than more reminders to run, pay attention, etc. They ended the season in third place, and the first playoff game was last Wednesday. They won 6-0, played Saturday at noon and won that 2-0. One of those goals was a penalty kick and the other was with about 3 minutes left in the game. Then they played today for the championship, which they won :-D The score was 1-0, and that goal was scored within the first few minutes of the game. I felt for the other team though, their coach kept yelling at them saying they shouldn't be tired already, don't they see the ball, etc. It's nice to win but at this age it's more for learning the game and having fun. I was so proud of Nick for sticking it out, and he was very proud of himself as well. I do think this is the end of his soccer career, so it went out with a bang ;-)

I thought things were going to slow down when soccer was over!

The kids had their last soccer games last week, or so I thought, forgetting that Nick's team is a level higher than Emily's, and being that they keep score, they do playoffs and the tournament.  This is the busy week so far: They practiced on Monday, I had a MOPS meeting on Tuesday night, first playoff game last night, tonight NOTHING for once, tomorrow my mom is picking up Nick so he can "help" babysit Scooter and Banana (that is her new nickname b/c that's what scooter calls her. It's so cute.)   She's going to keep him overnight, we will meet them at his game on Saturday.  If they win, they play RIGHT afterwards. If they lose, they play Sunday morning. I have MOPS tomorrow morning, I work Saturday afternoon, I think mom is taking him to a movie during that time so she'll probably keep him that night too, church Sunday, unless we have soccer.  After that, nothing. Whew.   Next week is MEA (eek) so I will be bringing them to work with me, I have bible study Monday night, we have church on Wednesdays, I have a work meeting next week, etc...... In the words of Charlie Brown, good grief!!!    I can hardly wait to see how busy we'll be when they're in middle school/high school!!!

Day at the Park

Yesterday Melissa and I and our kids met at the park after school. It was so nice out and the kids had a blast :-)



Piper and Emily looking for berries I think


Reagan was impressed by Emily's skillz ;-)


Jakey

more skillz

Nick and Emily

If I graduated back in the 50s..........

I would look like this..............


HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!! I saw this on Lindsey's Facebook and about fell off my chair laughing. www.yearbookyourself.com has different pics for diff decades. You upload a picture and voila!! Instant hysterical-ness ;-) I bet mom and meri ann actually HAVE pictures like this of themselves.....but you can't see Meri Ann's teeth b/c she had braces  :-D   he he he

Soccer Star

Emily and Nick had their last soccer games tonight, and let me tell you, I couldn't be more excited. I love watching them play, but it gets really boring and frankly, I'm tired of yelling at them ;-) Nick's team actually has a practice on Monday to get ready for playoffs (all teams make it to the playoffs) but Emily's team got their trophies tonight. I don't know when it is when they ALL stop getting trophies. I don't remember how old I was when we got nothing at the end of the year...........anyways, she was very proud of her trophy. She was goalie for the last quarter tonight and let in a goal because she was busy jumping up and trying to touch the top bar of the goal. sigh. Only Emily. After that though she made a couple great saves.

Emily's glasses

Finally Emily got her glasses today. And of course today was picture day so we'll be doing retakes since we picked them up after school. She got to pick out her own case, pink with a handle. It is so cute it looks like a little purse!! And has cleaner for them too. She is very excited to have them :-)

First Day of School

Other than Jacob's bus not showing up, it went fine. I was a little upset that I couldn't walk the other kids to their stop b/c I was still waiting to see if his bus would show, but they were excited to go by themselves. I ended up bringing Jacob to school, and everyone was fine. No tears :-) His class gets to go to the middle school once a week to swim. I told his teacher, good luck getting him *out of the pool ;-)




They had to give Rosie about a million hugs and kisses before they left. I'm sure she is glad they're gone, heh.