This was emailed to me from my friend Riki. Thanks for the giggle girl it is pretty funny! You won't have to worry about me giving the election to McCain, how about all of you out there? Make sure you Barack the VOTE tomorrow
Monday, November 03, 2008
November
Can you believe it is November already? Doesn't it seem like it was just last week that I started my Christmas countdown and we had 20 weeks? Guess what it is now... SEVEN! Whew! I am so ready to get my shopping done. I have 2 people checked off my list but that's it.
Halloween was over and apparently Fall left with it. We have temps in the mid 70's! Seriously, last week our high was 45. What the heck? Next up is Thanksgiving and I imagine we will be staying home and I'll be cooking for the 4 of us. Fine by me, I enjoy our quiet family holidays. There are some aspects of having all your family around during the holidays that I wish we had but in those cases you have to take the good along with the bad soooo, yeah.
Our busy times are slowing down for a couple of weeks, well at least during the week. Travis will be traveling a ton this month, joy. He has several trips to Chicago and one to Ohio planned. He and 2 of his brothers bought some property up there so he will be going up to do some work, I wish we could go with him but I am not going to pull the girls out of school. Oh well.
The girls are both doing great. They both seem to have gotten a worse attitude lately though. Not sure what the deal is there. Mykenzie has been fine with us but super mean to Kaylee. Kaylee has just been behaving horribly for a couple weeks now. She is generally ok when it is just her and I but add anyone else in the mix and watch out. We are working on it. On the plus side with the girls though they are both doing great at school! Kaylee has learned alot and has not gotten anything but a green light all year.
I had Mykenzie's parent teacher conference last week and her teacher had alot of wonderful things to say about her. She said she has the potential to be a great leader if she can gain in a little more confidence in her abilities. She also got her test scores back from the TCAP testing at the end of last year. She scored really well on everything. She is barely below average in Vocabulary and Language everything else she scored in the 70's and in Spelling she scored 81 and in Social Studies she scored a 94! If she can vamp up her vocab and language I see a politician in our future. Let's just hope she is a democrat! In her defense her wonderful (she says sarcastically) teacher last year did not work on vocab and writing with them hardly at all last year. I actually thought it was strange that she never had to do any writing but thought maybe the little bit they did do was normal. I don't think so now, I so dislike that woman. I think this year we will see a big change in those scores because she has a much much better teacher.
November 4th is tomorrow!!! It is FINALLY election day! I am so over the election, I know you would never know it from talking to me or reading this blog! lol I really want my guy to win,for once but I am tired of listening to the back and forth and at this point they are both just saying the same things over and over. So if you haven't voted already (I love early voting and cast my vote for Obama last week) make sure you get out and vote tomorrow!! ESPECIALLY if you live in a battleground state and you are voting for Obama!! Hopefully we will know without a doubt who our new president is by tomorrow at 9!
Halloween was over and apparently Fall left with it. We have temps in the mid 70's! Seriously, last week our high was 45. What the heck? Next up is Thanksgiving and I imagine we will be staying home and I'll be cooking for the 4 of us. Fine by me, I enjoy our quiet family holidays. There are some aspects of having all your family around during the holidays that I wish we had but in those cases you have to take the good along with the bad soooo, yeah.
Our busy times are slowing down for a couple of weeks, well at least during the week. Travis will be traveling a ton this month, joy. He has several trips to Chicago and one to Ohio planned. He and 2 of his brothers bought some property up there so he will be going up to do some work, I wish we could go with him but I am not going to pull the girls out of school. Oh well.
The girls are both doing great. They both seem to have gotten a worse attitude lately though. Not sure what the deal is there. Mykenzie has been fine with us but super mean to Kaylee. Kaylee has just been behaving horribly for a couple weeks now. She is generally ok when it is just her and I but add anyone else in the mix and watch out. We are working on it. On the plus side with the girls though they are both doing great at school! Kaylee has learned alot and has not gotten anything but a green light all year.
I had Mykenzie's parent teacher conference last week and her teacher had alot of wonderful things to say about her. She said she has the potential to be a great leader if she can gain in a little more confidence in her abilities. She also got her test scores back from the TCAP testing at the end of last year. She scored really well on everything. She is barely below average in Vocabulary and Language everything else she scored in the 70's and in Spelling she scored 81 and in Social Studies she scored a 94! If she can vamp up her vocab and language I see a politician in our future. Let's just hope she is a democrat! In her defense her wonderful (she says sarcastically) teacher last year did not work on vocab and writing with them hardly at all last year. I actually thought it was strange that she never had to do any writing but thought maybe the little bit they did do was normal. I don't think so now, I so dislike that woman. I think this year we will see a big change in those scores because she has a much much better teacher.
November 4th is tomorrow!!! It is FINALLY election day! I am so over the election, I know you would never know it from talking to me or reading this blog! lol I really want my guy to win,for once but I am tired of listening to the back and forth and at this point they are both just saying the same things over and over. So if you haven't voted already (I love early voting and cast my vote for Obama last week) make sure you get out and vote tomorrow!! ESPECIALLY if you live in a battleground state and you are voting for Obama!! Hopefully we will know without a doubt who our new president is by tomorrow at 9!
Friday, October 31, 2008
More Fall fun
Our 5th trip to the Pumpkin Patch
Some of our group at the patch
Halloween Fun this week
Girl Scouts 1920's/ Juliette Low Party
Kaylee dressed up for the "Down on the Farm Day" at school
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Carving Pumpkins :)
We spent a couple of hours hard at work making our pumpkins look pretty for Halloween on Friday :) Kaylee colored hers with a marker. I think they look awesome!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Back in Time
So we are driving around after school running errands today and we were singing Kaylee's Halloween song that she learned at school and Mykenzie piped in and said that is sounded similar to the song she learned. As she was singing it I realized that once upon a time I once sung that same song. Then I got to thinking about things from my childhood and this song popped into my head. My favorite from when I was about 5 years old! And yes I remembered every word.
So I was jamming to Jem and reminicing about the Smurfs and Fraggle Rock and singing songs from my favorite Cabbage Patch Kid record. Then we got home and of course I had to find them all on youtube (what did we ever do with out youtube and google?) Mykenzie and Kaylee got a kick out of seeing them and thought it was pretty cool. They are jealous I think ;)
Mykenzie had to shoot me down though, she asked if we had computers back then! lol Then I had to tell her all about Oregon Trail, the BEST computer game of my youth! Ahh, to go back to those days when everything was so simple. Nice to think back and laugh about it every now and then at least
(Kaylee's Halloween Song...We're stirring and stirring and stirring our brew, oooh oooh, oooh oooh Tip toe, tip toe, BOO)
So I was jamming to Jem and reminicing about the Smurfs and Fraggle Rock and singing songs from my favorite Cabbage Patch Kid record. Then we got home and of course I had to find them all on youtube (what did we ever do with out youtube and google?) Mykenzie and Kaylee got a kick out of seeing them and thought it was pretty cool. They are jealous I think ;)
Mykenzie had to shoot me down though, she asked if we had computers back then! lol Then I had to tell her all about Oregon Trail, the BEST computer game of my youth! Ahh, to go back to those days when everything was so simple. Nice to think back and laugh about it every now and then at least
(Kaylee's Halloween Song...We're stirring and stirring and stirring our brew, oooh oooh, oooh oooh Tip toe, tip toe, BOO)
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Friday, October 17, 2008
The week is over
I feel like I have had an unusually busy week. Well, at least the second half has had alot crammed into it so it feels that way.
Kaylee is sick.... again. Double ear infection. She has a cough at night but isn't really coughing during the day. It sounded croup-like last night but the Dr. didn't think so today I guess. If she is barking again tonight she will be back in the morning. If not she will be back in the morning along with Mykenzie to get their flu shots.
Kaylee had her field trip to the Pumpkin Patch yesterday. Last year it was cancelled and this year it was again crappy weather with occasional rain but we went anyhow. The kids had a great time and Kaylee was so happy to be on her first field trip! Though she was a bit bummed they didn't get to ride a bus there. It was nice to go and do a guided tour instead of running wild I gotta say.
Last night was our Light the Night walk. It was cold and raining and nasty outside but the people were out full force to walk to cure Leukemia and Lymphoma. I dare say there were more people total than last year. Our group was a little smaller but we raised money and walked for Jenna. Hopefully I will be able to add the group photo to share soon. I didn't get it on my camera and I didn't take many pictures this year cause I was too dang cold. We wore shirts with the picture of Jenna with her sticking out her tongue. They turned out really cute and we had several people stop us and tell us they loved them. Another Thank you for the walk too; Rachel thank you so much for sponsoring me!!
Today was Mykenzie's schools fall festival. The kids had a great time and Mykenzie won us a cake at the cake walk, yeah baby. There were so many kids there and the lines were pretty long. In the years we went in the past there were no where near that many people and the lines were not nearly as long. I decided that we were going to walk there since you couldn't park at the school since the stuff was set up in the parking lot. Yeah, the walk there was fine but the walk home it was really cold and dark and the girls were tired and whiny and it felt like it would take forever. Did I mention it was freaking cold? Ahh well, we are home and toasty now.
No big weekend plans other than the pumpkin patch (again) with girl scouts (joy) on Sunday. I may try to talk Travis into going to the zoo tomorrow night for their Halloween thing but I don't know. Stupid me bought flimsy costumes for the girls and it is COLD, especially at night now. We shall see
Kaylee is sick.... again. Double ear infection. She has a cough at night but isn't really coughing during the day. It sounded croup-like last night but the Dr. didn't think so today I guess. If she is barking again tonight she will be back in the morning. If not she will be back in the morning along with Mykenzie to get their flu shots.
Kaylee had her field trip to the Pumpkin Patch yesterday. Last year it was cancelled and this year it was again crappy weather with occasional rain but we went anyhow. The kids had a great time and Kaylee was so happy to be on her first field trip! Though she was a bit bummed they didn't get to ride a bus there. It was nice to go and do a guided tour instead of running wild I gotta say.
Last night was our Light the Night walk. It was cold and raining and nasty outside but the people were out full force to walk to cure Leukemia and Lymphoma. I dare say there were more people total than last year. Our group was a little smaller but we raised money and walked for Jenna. Hopefully I will be able to add the group photo to share soon. I didn't get it on my camera and I didn't take many pictures this year cause I was too dang cold. We wore shirts with the picture of Jenna with her sticking out her tongue. They turned out really cute and we had several people stop us and tell us they loved them. Another Thank you for the walk too; Rachel thank you so much for sponsoring me!!
Today was Mykenzie's schools fall festival. The kids had a great time and Mykenzie won us a cake at the cake walk, yeah baby. There were so many kids there and the lines were pretty long. In the years we went in the past there were no where near that many people and the lines were not nearly as long. I decided that we were going to walk there since you couldn't park at the school since the stuff was set up in the parking lot. Yeah, the walk there was fine but the walk home it was really cold and dark and the girls were tired and whiny and it felt like it would take forever. Did I mention it was freaking cold? Ahh well, we are home and toasty now.
No big weekend plans other than the pumpkin patch (again) with girl scouts (joy) on Sunday. I may try to talk Travis into going to the zoo tomorrow night for their Halloween thing but I don't know. Stupid me bought flimsy costumes for the girls and it is COLD, especially at night now. We shall see
Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Thank You!
I have several thank you's to throw out tonight. The first one in to my mom and a woman named Rebecca that I have never met before. Thank you both so much for sponsoring me in the Light the Night walk. I had raised $0 until your contributions and now I have met my goal. I love you both for helping me bring money to such a wonderful cause.
My next thank you is to Senator Barack Obama, thank you for clearing up in a national forum for the whole world to hear the fact that pro choice is NOT pro abortion! It was so wonderful to hear you say tonight during the debate that "no one is pro abortion" Thank you Thank you! If I would have been undecided before tonight you would have gotten my vote from that line. Luckily I already loved you though cause I don't like to vote on a single issue, as I have stated before ;)
My next thank you is to Senator Barack Obama, thank you for clearing up in a national forum for the whole world to hear the fact that pro choice is NOT pro abortion! It was so wonderful to hear you say tonight during the debate that "no one is pro abortion" Thank you Thank you! If I would have been undecided before tonight you would have gotten my vote from that line. Luckily I already loved you though cause I don't like to vote on a single issue, as I have stated before ;)
Sunday, October 12, 2008
This is too funny
Don't get your panties in a bunch I do believe we need bipartisanship but this made me laugh out loud.
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Not to toot my own horn or anything
Well, I actually did what I said I was going to do today. I took the girls to the park to play and enjoy the beautiful weather we had today. Then we came home and made the below crafts :) I managed to get 25 new Layouts uploaded on my scrap blog, I had no idea I had that many to put on there! I am caught up to this time last year! WOO HOO! I rock, whatever ;) LOL
Look what we made today :)
We all pitched in on the house, Kaylee did the Ghost lantern and Mykenzie did the Spider lantern.
CUTE!
CUTE!
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Today and stuff
I am happy today, especially now that the sun is shining and the rain has gone away. My morning was AWFUL! Kaylee was a total brat having a fit first about not wanting to wear panties cause they go in her butt all the time (this is a new frequent battle) and then about not wanting to wear socks cause the "line hurts my toes!" This is also a recent battle, just in time for cold weather, joy. Once we got out the door things were fine. We went to the Discovery Center and met up with some friends for a playdate. We stayed till about noon and then ran over to the library and we each grabbed a few books (here's hoping I actually read the ones I got this time!) Mykenzie is FINALLY learning to enjoy books!! I was so worried that she would always hate to read and it would always feel like a chore to her, but lately I have seen a bit more excitement in her about reading! I am soooooo happy!
Then we came home for lunch and the off to Michael's to pick up a few Halloweeny crafts to do tomorrow for something to do. I have been fighting getting out the couple halloween decorations that we have but I may have to give in tomorrow. I am not a fan of the decorations I own so I wasn't going to put them out but I guess I just need to get over it and get them out, then at least we will have SOMETHING!
I have the girls Halloween costumes! Yay! They are both being the same thing this year which is a little strange for me but was my idea! lol They are both going to be Flapper's from the 20's :) We are working on a try-it (badge) in Girl Scouts called Through the Years where you learn about how people were in a different decade. We are going to incorporate it with our Juliet Gordon Low (the founder of Girl Scouts) birthday party which happens to be on Halloween. So since Brownies were founded in the 20's we chose that decade to learn about. So the girls are going to make the Flapper headbands at our next meeting (Monday) and make makeshift cheap versions of the Flapper dress. I decided that since we were doing this anyhow I would just buy my girls the Flapper Halloween costumes and kill 2 birds with one stone for them. Look at what they are gonna make at Girl Scouts though :) I am all proud and think they came about pretty cute for the amount of money spent, around $20 total for 17 girls. Not exactly a Flapper dress but you get the point with it. To buy the fringe you would typically use for it was $2something a yard (remember at least 17 girls) Instead the beading I bought I got for $2.75 total for about 10 yards!! Score!
Then we came home for lunch and the off to Michael's to pick up a few Halloweeny crafts to do tomorrow for something to do. I have been fighting getting out the couple halloween decorations that we have but I may have to give in tomorrow. I am not a fan of the decorations I own so I wasn't going to put them out but I guess I just need to get over it and get them out, then at least we will have SOMETHING!
I have the girls Halloween costumes! Yay! They are both being the same thing this year which is a little strange for me but was my idea! lol They are both going to be Flapper's from the 20's :) We are working on a try-it (badge) in Girl Scouts called Through the Years where you learn about how people were in a different decade. We are going to incorporate it with our Juliet Gordon Low (the founder of Girl Scouts) birthday party which happens to be on Halloween. So since Brownies were founded in the 20's we chose that decade to learn about. So the girls are going to make the Flapper headbands at our next meeting (Monday) and make makeshift cheap versions of the Flapper dress. I decided that since we were doing this anyhow I would just buy my girls the Flapper Halloween costumes and kill 2 birds with one stone for them. Look at what they are gonna make at Girl Scouts though :) I am all proud and think they came about pretty cute for the amount of money spent, around $20 total for 17 girls. Not exactly a Flapper dress but you get the point with it. To buy the fringe you would typically use for it was $2something a yard (remember at least 17 girls) Instead the beading I bought I got for $2.75 total for about 10 yards!! Score!
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
I got to do it today!
I put the first check mark beside a name on my Christmas list today! My niece is DONE! WOO HOO! Now I have one down a zillion more to go! lol I did pick up part of my other niece's gift today too, so technically I have one and a half checks ;)
Hey the Great Debate of '08 is on tonight, watch, learn, vote :) Oh and don't fall for McCain's lies ;) (I love all of my Republican friends just not their candidate,lol)
Hey the Great Debate of '08 is on tonight, watch, learn, vote :) Oh and don't fall for McCain's lies ;) (I love all of my Republican friends just not their candidate,lol)
Monday, October 06, 2008
Randomness
Guess what I learned how to do this weekend. I learned how to thread my sewing machine!! That's right people almost 2 years later I got it out of the closet, dusted it off and made it work :) Now don't get too excited, it isn't like I busted out a pattern and made my kids a fall wardrobe. I did however use it to stitch on a scrapbook page. My next step will attempt to make some pillows, then who knows maybe I will try a pattern. For now I am just happy it is threaded!
Not much been going on here. I have been laying low these days. I have gotten some scrapbook pages done. I am now caught up to this time last year! Woo Hoo! I am so ready to be caught up and to be able to scrap in the moment for fun rather than for catch up. My pages aren't wonderful but they work. I'll add them to my scrap blog soon if ya care to see 'em.
Today was our first day of fall break. We didn't go anywhere fun, just to pay a bill at the bank, to the grocery store pharmacy and to the post office. lol Excitment I tell ya. We will be heading out of here to find something fun tomorrow cause I am not staying cooped up with the girls all day again. It is like their little bodies have a clock to start fighting around 3 everyday cause that is about the time they see each other daily. Add them not listening and talking back and that sums up about 3 straight hours of my day. yeah, we will be getting out of the house tomorrow! lol
I need to search and find some fun fall activites going on other than the pumpkin patch that I have already been to once and am already over it. BUT I already have more dates scheduled to be there! lol A birthday party, a playdate, a girl scout trip and a school trip. We will be going to the Halloween at the zoo thing this year. We went the first year we lived here but haven't been back since so I think this is the year to go. Oooh and our playgroup is planning a trip to the apple orchard to go apple picking!! How fun will that be?!? I am really looking forward to that one!
Nothing else going on. We will hopefully be busy this week and I will be seriously starting my Christmas shopping soon! yay!
Not much been going on here. I have been laying low these days. I have gotten some scrapbook pages done. I am now caught up to this time last year! Woo Hoo! I am so ready to be caught up and to be able to scrap in the moment for fun rather than for catch up. My pages aren't wonderful but they work. I'll add them to my scrap blog soon if ya care to see 'em.
Today was our first day of fall break. We didn't go anywhere fun, just to pay a bill at the bank, to the grocery store pharmacy and to the post office. lol Excitment I tell ya. We will be heading out of here to find something fun tomorrow cause I am not staying cooped up with the girls all day again. It is like their little bodies have a clock to start fighting around 3 everyday cause that is about the time they see each other daily. Add them not listening and talking back and that sums up about 3 straight hours of my day. yeah, we will be getting out of the house tomorrow! lol
I need to search and find some fun fall activites going on other than the pumpkin patch that I have already been to once and am already over it. BUT I already have more dates scheduled to be there! lol A birthday party, a playdate, a girl scout trip and a school trip. We will be going to the Halloween at the zoo thing this year. We went the first year we lived here but haven't been back since so I think this is the year to go. Oooh and our playgroup is planning a trip to the apple orchard to go apple picking!! How fun will that be?!? I am really looking forward to that one!
Nothing else going on. We will hopefully be busy this week and I will be seriously starting my Christmas shopping soon! yay!
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Can I do anything but laugh at this point? My Wireless router.... My Coffee Pot.....
The 2 latest things to go down in this house. I think we have a ghost.
Wonder what will break next?
Can I do anything but laugh at this point? My Wireless router.... My Coffee Pot.....
The 2 latest things to go down in this house. I think we have a ghost.
Wonder what will break next?
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Welcome Fall!!
Yeah Yeah. I know the offical day of Fall was a week ago but today it finally FEELS like fall. The weather is Beautiful! I wish I felt better and could have enjoyed it but there is always tomorrow since the temps are supposed to be perfect all week long!