Whew!

Christmas has come and gone! It is so crazy how long we all prepare only to have it over so quickly. We had a great week leading up to the big day. Friends came over on Tuesday for our annual ornament exchange and we all got super cute ornaments that we love for our tree.

Mykenzie finally caught me on the right day a few weeks ago and asked if her friends could spend the night over Christmas break so that took place Tuesday night. Two of her BFFs from school came over and had way too much fun. There were little giggles well past 1am. They are really good girls so we will definitely have them over again.

Girls with friends and gingerbread house creation

Wednesday the day I have been waiting for and the thing I had wanted to do for years finally arrived. We went to see the Radio City Christmas Spectacular with the Rockettes!!! It was the first time I had ever set foot into the Grand Old Opry and the show was fantastic. I will probably never go back (seems like something you only need to see once) but it was worth it and I would recommend it highly :)

Girls at Grand Old Opry

Thursday was Christmas Eve. Travis needed to wrap some gifts so I took the girls to movies to see the newest Disney princess movie The Princess and the Frog. It was really cute. After some dinner we spent the evening opening gifts that family had sent us and playing board games till it was bedtime.

Mykenzie reading us 'Twas the Night Before Christmas

Christmas morning was relaxing. We all remained in our pjs all day. We were up at 6:30 and opening gifts. The girls got way too much and were very happy with w

hat they received. We all just hung out and played all day. Ate too much ham and sides and just chilled.

Here are the photos from the day :)

4 year olds are tough!

Kaylee and Travis were wrestling around this morning and he pinned her down on the bed with his leg. She says "Dad, I am 4 I can handle this!" Too funny :)

Kid Speak

My kids have been cracking me up lately with the things that come out of their mouths. They don't mean them to be funny but they are. Here are a few....

Kaylee~ While we were getting ready for Mykenzie's birthday party yesterday.
K~"Mom, I need to get a license"

Me~why?

K~"I don't have a license for skating and I want to roller skate."
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Mykenzie~ Travis and I come downstairs in the morning and she is playing on Poptropica on the computer and is super excited.

M~"I found a cheat on youtube!"

Both~what?

M~"It was a Hallelujah moment!!"

(we went on to tell her she was not allowed on you tube without parental supervision)
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Kaylee~ this morning after using the bathroom.

K~"Why do we have to wash our hands after we go potty?"

Me~Cause you get germs on your hand from wiping your bottom.

K~"But we don't touch our bottom, the toilet paper does."

Me~You still get germs on your hands, you have to wash them.

K~"What will happen if we don't wash them? Will God kill us right now?"

Me~(After attempting not to spit my drink all over the kitchen floor) No babe, God will not kill you now, but you still have to wash your hands.

Too hairy!

Mykenzie came downstairs after showering the other night and told me that she needs to shave her arms! lol Apparently there is too much hair and it is really dark and she wants to shave it off. In reality she does not have too much arm hair and what she does have is not noticeable at all. So we told her that if she shaves it that it will grow back darker and thicker than it is now. Then she asked if I had ever shaved my arms and I told her no, then she asked Travis if he ever shaved his (he has alot of arm hair) and he told her yes, that he used to shave them all the time. LMBO! So we told her she could chose to have her arms look like mine or Travis'
She said that she had the razor in hand and was going to do it but then she decided she better ask permission first...... thank God!! So luckily I think we have averted this first teenage decision disaster before it happened. And I *think* I have talked her into waiting for quite a few years before she shaves her legs and she will wait for me to teach her how to do it properly. I am so not prepared for all this but I think overall we handled it well and I am very proud of her for making the decision to come to me and talk about it before she did it. She is turning into such a little woman now.

Beautiful Weekend

We have had beautiful weather here lately! It has been fabulous! We had a pretty low key nice weekend. Friday night I had 2 of the girl scout leaders over so we could plan our bridging ceremony and build a bridge for it. It went pretty smoothly and the bridge came out pretty cute I must say. It will be a very simple to the point but nice and sweet ceremony. I say that but we still have to practice it with the girls. Hopefully it goes as smoothly as we have planned. One of the leaders 2 girls spent the night. They are both really good kids so I wasn't worried, well not until she told me that the youngest (she is 6) has never spent the night with anyone before. It was all going well, I put them all to bed and they were all playing games, the 2 oldest had their DS' and the 2 younger girls had the leapster. They started to get a little loud but I did really think anything of it, as that is typically how little girls are. Next thing I know the oldest girl is crying and I hear "I wanna go home!" OH LORD. So I go up and talk to her and she is crying telling me it is too wild and she wants to sleep and blah blah blah. I tried to talk her into staying but she just kept crying saying she wanted to go home. So I had to call her mom. The youngest was like no way man this is my first sleepover and I am staying. She did great. Her mom was shocked that the oldest wanted to leave cause she has never done that at a sleepover. Turns out they were all dancing and acting silly and she got hot and tired and wanted to stop.... but she wanted everyone to stop NOW. And they didn't, so she got mad. At one point I had all 4 girls crying, she wanted to go home, Kaylee was crying cause she was getting blamed by Mykenzie of being crazy, the youngest was crying cause her sister was sad and Mykenzie was crying because she didn't want her friend to go home! OH MY GOD!! I could have been out drinking and hanging out with my friends! It was insane. So the oldest left, the youngest stayed, they were asleep not 10 minutes after the oldest left and they woke up and had a fun morning playing. I gave up alot of things for that and it sucked. Girls = Drama now you know why my blog is named what it is. How am I going to make it through the rest of my life?

The rest of our weekend went pretty well. I ran to the grocery store Saturday while Travis pressure washed the front of the house. We just hung out, played out side and the girls wanted to eat dinner outside so we did. Had some smores, yummy! And then Sunday was more of the same, church in the morning for us girls while Travis pressure washed the back of the house, some yard work, playing out side, dinner outside and smores :) Nice, easy and relaxing aka perfect.

A day with my girls

We have had a really busy really fun day today! In fact I am too hyper to sleep and technically it is now tomorrow. We started out the day by going to McDonalds for lunch and playtime with Chandra and her kiddos and then ran across town for more playtime at the DC. Mykenzie has been begging to play with Ryan so she was so excited to hang out for a few hours. Then it was home to get cleaned up a bit and head back out the door to meet up with our girl scout troop and head into Nashville for our first Predators hockey game!

Kaylee was so excited and was cheering a lot for the blue team (Preds). She definitely wanted the blue team to win and not the red team (Columbus Blue Jackets). Much to her dismay the blue team was not winning for alot of the beginning of the game :( She was cheering one minute and I swear sleeping just 60seconds later. Crazy. Let me tell you it was LOUD! It was scout night and they sat us all in the same section... yeah it was loud. Poor kid was so tired, I didn't think she would fall asleep during the game though. The rest of us were wide awake as we watched the blue team grab the lead only to have it get tied up in the last few minutes of the game... what does this mean you ask? OH YES! OVERTIME! I swear I NEVER watch a game that does not end up in overtime, no matter what the sport... overtime, every time, never fails! LOL Overtime turned into a shoot out. (Didn't know what that was before tonight) For those who don't know still, each team takes turns. One player on the ice, he tries to hit in into the goal. 1 guy against the goalie. Then they swap. Each team gets 3 tries, the team that scores the most goals out of those 3 wins the game. Got it? lol

So the blue team gets to chose who goes first (home team advantage? I don't know) They let the red team go first.... nope they miss, blue team.... Miss, red team.. miss again, blue team... MISS, Red team, last chance.... MISS, Blue team, last chance SCORE!!!!! Preds WIN!!!! Yay!! Seriously, what a great game! We picked a good one to go to for our first one! Mykenzie loved it and wants to go back. Kaylee I am sure would like to go back as well, we just need to make sure she naps first. :) We will definitely go back as a family at some point and hopefully not have to sit in the nosebleeds next time! lol Bad choice of words I guess, I hope the dude that got smashed in the nose by the red teams high sticking is A OK now.

Well, at least they look like girls

Both of my GIRLS today had some bizarre things come out of their mouths today. First would be Mykenzie as she is riding Kaylee's new bike through my downstairs and then turning the wheel real fast so that it skids across the floor to a stop (yes she was told to stop doing that to my floor). Then she says "Wow! Mom you should have just seen me I was just totally smoking the blades"

What? I.Don't.Know.


Then they are both upstairs doing who knows what when I hear Kaylee say "Stop! Wait, I gotta put my muscles on."

Really? Girls?

This has nothing to do with them being boys on the inside but it is something funny that Kaylee said a few minutes ago. She made a small nativity scene for us for Christmas it is Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus. She is holding Joseph and says "What is name again mom?" I answer and she says "And we call him the good chef right?"

Comic relief for sure

4 days!

Wow time is flying! We are down to 4 days till Christmas now! All of the gifts are bought, the ones I needed to mail I mailed on Monday and Tuesday. We bought the fixin's for our Christmas dinner this morning. Everything right down the list is checked off. All that is left is the wrapping! Yikes! That will be fun. That will happen Christmas Eve after the girls are asleep though. I still need to get in the attic and locate their Christmas PJ's so I can get them wrapped before Christmas Eve. I have gotten gift cards from my sister and money from my BIL that I will go pick the girls some stuff with to open on Christmas Eve. Who knows when that will happen though since they are both out of school now.

Both the girls school parties went well. Kaylee had a typical party that was fun. Mykenzie had a Christmas brunch that we brought a ton of muffins for (and had a bunch left over). She got to have something fun everyday the whole week so she was loving going to school. Both girls made us gifts that are waiting under the tree for Christmas morning. I love getting school gifts! They are always my favorite things. I really love when they make ornaments especially cause they are fun to look at every year when we put them on the tree. I have no idea what they made this year but I am sure we will love them.

Tomorrow is our girl scouts party/ceremony. My first time being a part of a ceremony. I generally get an award at the end of each year, but this time I have a part in it, its different. We (all of the leaders) got together Friday night and it continued Saturday morning to make shirts for all the girls. They turned out really cute I must say. Took us over 6 hours to get them all done but I think that they will really like them. That is their Christmas gift from us leaders. We are excited that they will all have matching shirts for field trips now!

We tried to go to the live nativity at the church by our house last night but it started lightening so they had to pull everyone inside and we only got to see the animals. They had camels though so that was cool. Hopefully we will make it to Opryland hotel to see the lights. I wanted to go tonight but that doesn't seem like it is going to happen. Oh well. I am slowly changing my mind as I type and I think I may start wrapping gifts tonight. I guess I need to get off this blog and get busy making dinner so we can bake cookies and get the girls in bed early enough to start wrapping tonight.

Crazy Kids

Can I please be 13 again!

Remember when you thought life was so hard as a teenager? You thought when you were an adult life would be some much better, so much easier. Well it isn't. Making your own rules and doing what you want is pretty great I have to say but that is the main perk of being an adult. Especially being a parent. It is really hard to know what to do in situations. When you make plans to be somewhere and work and money has been spent for you to be there but your kids are HORRIBLE all day long leading up to it. Do you still take them even though you have repeatedly told them to straighten up or they can't go and they haven't? Isn't this just rewarding the bad behavior? But then on the other hand you have already made a commitment to someone and they have put money into something so you can be there. Is it fair to them to back out last minute?

I feel like I am beating my head into a brick wall trying to get my kids to listen and do what is asked of them. I am at a total loss as to what to do. I have spanked, put them in the corner, taken away a TON of privileges and still they do whatever the hell they want to. I realize they are kids and test boundaries and don't always listen but this has gotten out of hand. And the blatant disrespect for anything I say is absolutely unacceptable. I am so so very happy that we made the decision when we did not to have anymore children. I love my kids, but I am about 5 minutes away from a total mental breakdown and I may have to be put in a white padded cell. Wow, that actually sounds good to me right now. Please someone lock me up for awhile, at least then I would have some peace.

What?

A conversation between Kaylee and I this morning about her no longer liking peanut butter....

K~ Why did you give me a peanut butter sandwich, I just wanted jelly

Me~ I didn't know that, next time I will give you just jelly. Why don't you like peanut butter now?

K~ Because fosheo's like me don't eat peanut butter.

Me~ what like you?

K~ fosheo's! You know, like me?

Me~ I don't know what I fosheo is Kaylee.

K~ I said a fosheo!

Me~ What?

K~ You know like fo

Me~ A Four Year Old!?!

K~ YES! A fosheo!

LMAO!!

Future Olympian?

While watching the women's track last night Kaylee looked at the tv and said, "I can do better than that mom!"

Never know.

Anyhow it is better than Mykenzie's dream when she was younger, if you remember the You gotta have a dream post from then. Where she wants to be our dry cleaner. She has moved on to a vet now thank goodness! lol


*Side note, Kaylee is still throwing up. I guess this time wasn't because of not eating and it is a virus. Not that I should be surprised by this since Mykenzie has started school. I swear she and Travis carry bugs into this house that Kaylee and I always seem to catch while they stay fine.

I can't take it any more!!!

I was trying really hard not to blog at all this week so that everyone who wanted/needed to read the post about my blog going PRIVATE in 3 days could see it and send me their email. But I can't take it anymore!! Mainly I just want to blog 2 things and they don't HAVE to be done now but I want to do them now.


Monday was Mykenzie's first day of school! She only had a half day but she had a good time. We have already gotten a news letter and she had homework last night! This teacher continues to make me happy! Just for the record the homework was just to fill out an about my favorite things kinda deal, nothing hard. A little girl in her class fell on the playground and broke her wrist or arm though. Poor thing, first full day of school. We haven't had any issues getting out the door on time. Afternoon carpool line is driving me nuts, surprise! Hopefully by next week people will realize that there are 2 lanes for a REASON! Above are a couple pics of Mykenize before the first day. She didn't want me to walk her in. I got dressed that day and everything just in case. :)

Today Kaylee wrote her name 3 times!!! I showed her how to do it a few days ago but today I was determined to get her to do it. I still had to talk her through but it is more of me saying "now what do you do", or "what's next" By the 3rd time she was over it but she still got it down for me. Obviously it looks like a 4 year old wrote it but she did good and I am proud.


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