Playing in the Snow....

I know I haven't posted on here in FOREVER but I'm going to try and keep it up to date. :)

Last week we had our first measurable snow. It was only about 2 inches but the kids had fun playing in it nonetheless.

Remember Us??

I know it's been FOREVERsince I've updated the blog and I'm sorry about that. I just thought I'd post a little update to let everyone know that everyone is busy and dloing fine. Since I've posted last Jeremiah has had 2 surgeies and school has been out so its been a pretty busy summer. We are about a week and a half from school starting again and everyone is excited. I hope all of your summers are going good!!!

Love having our nightime fire!!

Since some nights lately have been a little bit warm we have started having our nightime firepit fires again. The kids love these since it feels like their camping and somehow food over a campfire always tastes so good!


Here's Kara sitting by the fire....

And doesn't Lindsay look thilled..lol!!

Disney Store Earth Day Giveaway Correction!!

Originally it had leaked that the free gift for bringing in 3 empty water bottles on Earth Day, April 22nd, was a reusable tote. Now, its been verified that its a reusable water bottle instead. Its still very cute I'm sure! So, take in 3 empty water bottles and get a reusable Disney water bottle for FREE! I'm sure my kids will be emptying a case of water tonight! lol

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Calling all Mickey Lovers....

And some of you know who I'm talking too (wink). April 22nd is Earth Day and The Disney Store is giving out cute little tote bags for free if you bring in 3 bottles to be recycled. Sweet!!

Just testing from my Blackberry to make sure this works. :)

It's been a crazy month....

I'm so sorry that haven't been keeping up with the blog. Sometimes when you keep up with so many online things, something gets left behind. And with doing Facebook, Twitter and Blogger, unfortunatly the blog is the one that got left behind. BUT, I just signed up to be able to post on my blog from my blackberry so I "should" be able to keep up with it now. Anyway, it has been a big month around here. We've had two birthdays, Austin turned 9 and TODAY is Kaylee's 8th birthday!! It's so hard to believe that they have grown up this much!! Also, for those of you that may not have heard Jeremiah just had major hernia surgery and ended up with a 6" scar and is still recovering and in pain, PLUS he was recently layed off from Comair, not becuse of the surgery but because the company is doing a MAJOR downsizing and is probably on its way out. So, anyway that is what's going on here right now. I promise that I will try and keep the blog somewhat up to date for those of you who live out of town or for those who are local and I just only get a chance to talk to you online. :)

Happy 6th Birthday Jenna!!

I don't know where the time went or how it happened but somehow my little baby turned 6 today. :( Happy Birthday baby!!

Jenna in her new Hannah Montana Dress....

No more cast and something only I could do.....

So last week was a good one for Lindsay, she went on Friday to get her cast taken off, which she was MORE then ready to do. And was very happy to have use of her arm back although she wasn't expecting it to be as sore as it always is after having a cast removed. So hopefully, cross your fingers, there won't be anymore casts around here for awhile. Now broken bones is another story......Which leads you to me, I have a broken finger, AGAIN!! The same finger, may I add, that I broke last year!! Oh joy, NOT! Seriously only I could break the same finger twice and in such a stupid way! I won't bore you with the details, lets just say it involves very heavy wooden blinds, falling off the wall and onto my hand....enough said. Only I could break a bone with a mini blind... Here are some pics, and I know the lady thought I was nuts taken pictures of Lindsay getting her cast taken OFF. lol.

Kara's Bowl...

Kara made a really neat bowl in Art Class that she wanted to show everyone. It is her favorite color and really cute!!

Conservatory and Spring (sort of).....

So we've had some pretty good weather lately. It's been up into the 70's!!! But as we kknow it's only March and I'm sure this is just a tease because winter isn't usually done with us yet. :P BUT, we took advantage of the weather over the weekend and went to the Cobservatory, it was so nice to see all the beautiful flowers and think about Spring!! They had this "Moroccan" theme going on with beautful colored "jeewels" all over the place, it was so pretty! As usual you will notice Lindsay is not in the pictures, she is a teenage now (as she points out often) and doesn't like to "do" family things anymore.

OUCH!

My poor mother in law has had to have so many surgeries on her foot lately. About 6 months ago she had a surgery to put 25 screws and 3 plates into her foot to "fuse" her bones together. Big Ouch! And then today she had another surgery to take out all but 3 of the screws. Here is a pic of them. Again, OUCH!!



And as you know Lindsay has a broken elbow. She went in to get her cast on last week. She already knowing what colors she wanted and everything. lol. She wanted a black cast with a red stripe going around it, here's how it turned out....

Neglecting the blog...

Wow, it's been forever since I've posted on here. I have really been neglecting this lately and I'm sorry. I promise I will try and keep it more up to date in the future. I did come in the 21 century and I have a Facebook now, so anyone who has one feel free to add me as a friend!

So where's my pot of gold??

We have had a lot of crazy weather here lately. Snow storms with a foot of snow one week and 60 degree temps with severe thunderstorms the next. Its been raining and reeeaally windy here all day and then we look out the front window to see this...pretty, but unfortunalty it's not Spring yet.

Another Broken Arm....

Yep, Lindsay has broken another arm...we think. We took her to the ER tonight because she FELL OFF THE COUNTER yesterday trying to get a sucker off the top shelf. lol. She's so embarrassed by that story and wants something tougher like she fell on the ice. :P Anyway, her elbow is really black and blue and swollen so we took her to get an ex-ray, they said they thought she could have a fracture in the growth plate in her elbow (does anyone else feel deja vu?) so they gave her a nice big splint/soft cast and told us to take her to the orthopedist next week, so we shall see. Here are some ninja pictures I took when she wasn't looking. Hee hee hee.......

Holy Icicle Batman!!!

Okay, first I apologize for the corny title, lol. But when I took this picture it was the first thing that popped into my head and I just went with it. :-P Anyway, this is hanging outside my front door! We don't usually use the front door and go in and out the garage door instead but still, this thing is huge!!

Day 4 of no school...

Thats right, I said day 4! And I'm going to be honest, they are really starting to drive me a little nuts, well thats not really a far drive but you get the idea. I don't expect them to have school tomorrow either and the weathermen are saying we may have another storm next monday. STOP THE INSANITY!! Okay, I'm better now. I had a little moment there. Here's a little pic, it was lunchtime at the zoo.

Playing in the snow....

Lindsay and Kara were the only one's brave enough to go out and play in the snow. And even they didn't stay for long. And when Jeremiah got home from work, he took part in that time honored tradition of throwing snow balls at your kids. :-P

Snow, snow and more snow.....

So this morning we woke up to 6 inches of snow on the ground. They had said it was coming but everytime they said snow was coming we got rain. ;-) But they said that this giant snow storm was headed our way and this time they got it right. We have 6 inches now and it is still snowing hard. From what they are saying by the time it stops snowing tomorrow afternoon we could have up to a FOOT of snow. Crazy....

The view from my front door...


Kara's deep foot prints going outside to measure the snow..

Silly Austin....

I was deleting some of the pictures off of my phone and came across these from last week and thought I would share them. We were at Sams and Austin, for some reason, really liked my moms ear muffs and wanted to wear them even if they were girly looking, and didn't care who was looking. I thought it was hilarious!! As you can see he looks completetly thrilled that I was taking his picture.

Inauguration Day 2008

The coverage was on tv all day, that was okay with me since I find it interesting to watch. My kids however, were not so thrilled. Seems, they had to watch it on tv at school (good for them). I reminded them that history was being made and it would turn out to be one of those things that when your older and talking to your kids/grandkids you will remember exacly where you were when our first african american president was sworn in.

See, I'm keeping the blog about family but we can allow just a teeny bit of politics since it was a historic day that needed just a little write up ;-)

Really busy and a new laptop.....

The lack of posts lately has to do with the fact that we have had ALOT going on here. My mom moved in over the weekend and we have been trying to get everyone situated. I also got a new laptop and am really slow at figuring out how to do everything on it. I will figure it out sooner or later. ;-)

Did you know we have 9 Hermit Crabs???

We dont' have dogs or cats as pets, we have Hermit Crabs. They are easy to take care of and honestly don't really require anything at all, but food and water. Basiclly they just do their own thing. The kids really like looking in their tank and watching them walk around and do nothing or watch all of them pile on top of each other and sleep inside of a hollow log thats in there. We started out with only one that we bought at a pet store, and for awhile he had this whole tank to himself, but we read that hermit crabs like to live in packs so we started looking to buy another one, they are only around 10 bucks. Last september I was reading Craigslist and there was an ad in the free section about a pet store that was closing and the lady was giving away free hermit crabs, so I called and arranged to meet her to look at them, we told the kids we would get a "few", well when we got there we found out they were all the painted shell kind that my kids love so much and there was batman, and spiderman and all kids of different ones and before I knew it we had 9. But we love them and they are our pets. We don't really "play" them but we do get them out (not all at once)and let them crawl on the carpet and the kids LOVE it. Here are a few pics.........

Yes, this is about the cold again.....

I don't remember it ever being this cold here before. The current temp is....

Current Temp.
-6
Partly cloudy

Nope, you didn't read that wrong, it really does say -6. And that is the actual temperature, you haven't factored in the wind chill yet, and there is a high wind asdvisory for today. So we're looking at it feeling like -30 outside. CRAZY!!!!

It is TOO darn cold!!!

Okay, so it is a big 7 degrees right now, going up to a whole 10 today! And they say with wind chills it feels like its 10-20 below zero outside!!!! That is just too cold for this chick! And its actually not normal for this area to get this cold. I could understand if we were in, say, Minnesota.
Anyway, this weekend should be fun as my mom's move in date has moved up she will be moving in this weekend. There is good reason for it, and we can't wait until she's here but we are all going to freeze doing it. Send us warm thoughts.

Has everyone heard of Twitter??

Until today I had no idea what Twitter was, I don't consider my technology challanged but sometimes I'm just not "up" on what's new. So, today I discovered Twitter. It is a site that is sort of like a blog only instead of getting long posts with pics and whatnot you get short little updates. To be honest, that is actually easier for me to do than to get on here and make a big long post. Don't get me wrong, I will do both, but with the way Twitter is set up I can update everyone with what's going on in our lives better from my Blackberry. So, with that being said if you look to the right, you will see updates that I post on Twitter now as well. I'm still going to do regular post with pics of the kids and such but this is just a little something, extra! See, technology can be cool!! And if you want follow on the Twitter site, my page is here

Nothing going on here....

Sorry I haven't updated in about a week but there really hasn't been anything going on to tell everyone about. We've just been getting back into our routine of school/work and I've been sick for what feels like weeks now, only now I have laryngitis, which I'm sure Jeremiah and the kids are doing the happy dance over. lol.
Over the next couple of weeks I probably won't get a chance to update all that much either because my mom is going to be moving in around February 15 and we will be packing up my parents house. I'm sure it's going to be really awful for everyone, so please wish us luck and strength to get through it. We are really looking fore ward to having her here, although I'm sure she's going to miss "quiet" time because we don't have any of that here. ;-) I hope everyone is doing well and just know that we love and miss you all. See ya later!!

New Year, New Look....

As you can tell there have been some changes around here. I thought it was time for a change. I am still on the fence about the new look though so let me know what you think, good or bad, I can take it. ;-)

New "Grown-up" Glasses

So, Lindsay has had the same glasses for about 3 yrs, and they were kids glasses so they were small, but back then she was small small, fast fore ward 3 yrs and she is a full fledged teenager who is as tall as I am and has a size 9 women's foot! So, not small anymore and those "little kid" glasses needed to go. On Friday we took her to get a new eye exam and to Lenscrafters to pick out some new frames. I think the ones that she picked out look really cute on her and she LOVES them, PLUS she likes that they make her look older. ;-P Here's some pics.....


New Glasses..."Look at how cool and grown up I look in these" :-)



New glasses..."Okay,(sigh)take my picture"!!



Lindsay with her old glasses from last year