Wednesday, November 5, 2008

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NOLAN!








Today Nolan is 6! He got his favorite cereal that he gets once a year on his birthday for breakfast...Cookie Crisp. Baylie and I painted all the windows on the truck. When I dropped him off at school and picked him up he felt so special! (I think he was a bit embarrassed too!) After a pizza dinner we all ate raw cookie dough with a candle in it. We LOVE our little Nolan!! Happy Birthday Bud!

Monday, November 3, 2008

Ben and his body spray

Today Ben's teacher told me she kept smelling something...she asked the class what it was. It was Ben. He brought his Axe body spray to school. He would go out to his locker and was spraying it all over himself at random times during the day. When his teacher laughed about it with the class, one of the girls said, "I think he is trying to get us to love him or something with that stuff!"

Sunday, November 2, 2008

Ben can't wait to be a teen-ager


Ben had us all cracking up...he said "When I am a teen-ager it is gonna be so cool because I am going to have braces and drive an extended cab pick-up truck."

Neighborhood Halloween Party

Ben, John Luke, and Nathan
Ben and Nolan riding a CAMEL!


They had a monkey. YIKES. (I just kept thinking disease)


Nolan, Peter Pan (Elijah), Power Ranger (Kevan), Ice-Wolf thing (Trey), and Fallon the vampire.


Chris and his hippie girlfriend, Dannisha. (Danny Baum)




Golf Cart Contest

This is a real bobcat. yikes.



The Pirate Ship was the winner!



Our neighborhood had a Halloween golf cart decorating contest. The theme was creatures great and small. Our cart we thought was just ok until we got there and saw some of the others....needless to say, ours was quite pathetic! :)

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Dumb Dog 4 Sale...

Roxy is two years old and would make a great pet for you! Come pick her up today!!
I am not an animal person. We solely got a dog for our kids...BIG mistake. I am annoyed daily by dog poop, dog smell, seeing her dig in her ears and eating her earwax, eating out of the BATHROOM garbage, not to mention all the places she licks on herself. Well today I wanted to dump our precious mutt at the city pound. Our dumb dog dug up our sage bushes behind the pool. Once where there was purple, plush blooming bushes, there now is a deep barren hole! She dug so deep she hit the rock waterfall and the pool siding. To make matters worse, Ben, Nolan and I were outside in the backyard the whole time planting 2 oak trees. She is in a time-out! To all my dog-loving friends who treat their pets like humans, let your dogs sleep in your bed with you, feed them more expensive food than I feed my kids, etc. Don't get all worked up...I'd never really dump her at the dog pound. (I would gladly give her to you though for a better life!)

Sunday, October 26, 2008

MONSTER MASH








Last night was our school Halloween Monster Mash. We decorated our car for trunk-or-treat, played tons of games, danced to the DJ, ate dinner and the kids got their faces painted. I did not get that many photos! Chris was the best Johnny Depp pirate! Arggg. I was a witch...again. It just fits my personality! (I should have grabbed someone to get a family photo)

Carving pumpkins




Ben and Nolan carved their pumpkins. Here is their work of art. They had so much fun they carved both sides. Baylie did not carve hers yet so I will post hers when she's done.

Friday, October 24, 2008

cHiCkEnS!



On Nolan's field trip today, he kept wanting to go back to the chicken pen. I never thought he'd be so interested in chickens. It is so funny to see how nervous he was trying to pick one up. By the end of the day he wanted to take one home. When I told him "no, this is their home", he said "we could pay the guy." Nice.




Thursday, October 23, 2008

Kindergarten Field Trip





Nolan went on his first field trip. I chaperoned. I forgot to pack myself a lunch so I was starving all day, a little girl purposely wiped a handful of boogers on the back of my favorite sweatshirt, and I am a dork who wore clogs with no socks so I got a HUGE blister. I was glad I went though. We went on a hayride, picked pumpkins, fed, pet, and held animals, had a picnic and played at the park. It was a perfect day to be 5!