100th Day of School

Today was the 100th Day of School. All the Kindergarten students were to dress as 100 year old people. I think Kaylee made a sophsticated looking Granny.

Sun, Sun, Mr. Golden Sun

I have never been so happy as I was today to see the Sun. I think it has been a full month since we have had any extended period of sunshine. We spent most of the morning outside today. I could just feel the Vitamin D coursing through my veins. I've always thought I could live somewhere like Alaska where it's dark a lot of the time but after today I've changed my mind.

Hoppin' Over for Kaylee's party

Kaylee celebrated her 6th birthday at home with a Frog party. The mascot of her Kindergarten class is "frogs" So she wanted a frog party this year. We had Frog cake, ate on green plates, drank green koolaid and made stuffed frogs.
Nana made Kaylee's frog cake. Don't ask Nana how much she paid for the frog cake pan which apparently now is a hot item on Ebay. Although Nana does plan to put the pan back up for auction soon, before the prices start falling. (I'll give you an hint we could have bought 3 cakes at Sams for the price of the pan.)

Stuffing frogs and getting them ready to be dressed. Each person had their own bag of "fluff" that had to be re-inserted back into the frog. Someone commented it looked like a mini-sweatshop. Not true, but it did resemble one.

The gift that left me speechless. Yes, I was speechless, I know most of you can't imagine that. Here's how it went..... (to the best of my recollection)

(Kaylee opening the present) "MOM, it's something you don't LIKE"

Me - (Oh No! What could it be?)

Kaylee - "It's a BRATZ doll"

Me - (Quick, Sheri, think of something to say) (NOTHING, I've got Nothing)

(Sheri, quick the mom who bought the present is sitting right over there)

( Still, I've got Nothing) (Great! Now too much time has passed) (Maybe I can smooth it over later) (Yea, Probably Not..... OK Smile and look amused)

(Note to self: time to go over gift opening etiquitte with Kaylee Lesson #147 If you already have the present you act like you like it anyway, Add on to the lesson, If you know Mommy doesn't approve of the toy act like MOMMY will like it anyway)

You Never Let Go!

The song Says "Oh No, you never let go through the calm and through the storm, Oh No, you never let go, in every High and every Low, Oh No you never let go,Lord you never let go of Me"

Well, After hearing the song a few times on the radio Mia changed the "Me" to "Mia" I'm sure Matt Redman,the original artist, has never heard his song like this before. I think we like the way Mia made it personal for her own life. Isn't that what we're suppose to do anyway?

****COOL UPDATE**** I got an email from Matt Redman the artist,he saw Mia on the blog and here is what his email said:
"that's cool! She's an inspiring worshipper!
matt"

Oh NO! a South Paw

It's Official we have a Lefty in the family. We noticed Mia preferred her left hand from the beginning but now that she's writing and coloring we're pretty confident she's going to be a Lefty. I'm not sure how I'll teach her to do things, but we'll figure it out. I guess eventually we'll have to buy her the coffee mug that says, " Only left handed people are in their right mind"

New Year

We welcomed in 2007 in a very low-key fashion. The kids did some sparklers, bottle rockets and roman candles in the backyard. Then we went inside for a few rounds of CLUE and Spiderman UNO. Uno is Trent's favorite game and one of the few he can play without assitance. Zane's friend Taylor came over and we had a nice time all the way until.....ten o'clock when it was time for bed. Sparkler Fun!

Draw Two

Mia's preparing for a Texas Hold 'em championship.

Hello.... anybody there?

Sunday night Kaylee had a low grade fever so we decided to let her stay home from school. But by Monday morning at 9 am the fever was gone and she didn't appear to have any other symptoms. So, she and I spent some girl time together doing normal Mommy errands. Trent and Mia had pre-school so it was just the two of us. We went to Sam's and I was trying to figure out something on my cell phone,while waiting for our big pretzel to cook, and we discovered all the different ring tones. She had a great time playing all the songs all over Sam's Club. Then, she was the offical phone carrier all day long. After a long morning of errands we got back home, about 5 hours later. I went to our home phone to check the messages and I had 5 messages. They went something like this.
"Hi Mom, This is Kaylee, I love you."
" Hi Mom, I'm just sitting in the car, talk to you later."
" Hi Mom, I love you lots, call me back."
"Hi Mom, I'm going to lunch with my friends, bye, I love you."
"Hi Mom, I'll be home soon, I love you."

I did not even hear her make all these calls. I asked her how she knew to call and she said "well I know the phone number and I had a phone" (Geesh! she must think I'm clueless)
Wonder if she'll call me that much when she's a teenager and I want her to check in every once in a while?

It seemed like a good idea

I read a tip in a magazine about making big sacks for Santa to put toys in on Christmas Eve. Santa has not in the past wrapped the presents just carefully arranged them under the tree in little clusters belonging to each person. But with 4 children and a limited amount of tree space I thought this was a grand idea. So, this year I purchased 4 different types of material and we cut names out of felt and put them on each person's "loot sack." In my excitement, I failed to think about Christmas morning pictures as evidenced below.... However Trent's sack did do a nice job of covering his little motorized Hummer.

14 years ago today...

14 years ago today David and I said "I DO" Who knew it would lead us where we are today. Since Christmas ended for the year, I really have quit thinking about the 12 days of Christmas but my friend Gayla did this on her anniversary and I totally stole the idea.(See Davis family on right) It was a personal challenge to try to remember all the numbers.

14 years
13 doctors
12 months spent in braces
11 days spent hospitalized (Family combo)
10 Pets owned
9 occupations
8 local Wal-Marts
7 countries visited
6 vehicles owned
5 lawnmowers
4 children
3 homes owned
2 severe sunburns
1 happy life