Becoming a big girl!

The tooth that is loose was the first one she got when she was 8 months old. She even tried to pull it out herself! But I guess it is just not ready. But I am sure it will be VERY soon!
Oh and she wanted me to take a picture of her saying *cheese* with her tooth sticking forward.

Sewing!

IN YOUR SENIOR YEAR DID YOU...
1. Did you date someone from your school? Yes

2. Did you marry someone from your high school? No

3. Did you car pool to school? Sometimes

4. What kind of car did you have? Chrysler lebaron

5. What kind of car do you have now? Dodge Durango

6. It is a Saturday night...where are you now? Home with the kids sleeping!

7. It is Saturday night...where were you then? Out hanging with friends

8. What kind of job did you have in high school? Waitress at Golden Corral or Old Country Buffet

9. What kind of job do you do now? FT Mommy

10. Were you a part of a clique? No way!

11. Were you considered a flirt? Umm.. yeah

12. Were you in band, orchestra, or choir? Choir all the way!

13. Were you a nerd? No

14. Did you get suspended or expelled? No

15. Can you sing the fight song? Not then ..not now!

16. Who was/were your favorite teacher(s)? All! They let me graduate!

17. Where did you sit during lunch? Sometimes in the Cafeteria at a table sometimes standing in the commons area.

18. What was your school's full name? Northrop High School

19. When did you graduate? 2001

20. What was your school mascot? Bruins

21. If you could go back and do it again, would you? HECK NO!!

22. Did you have fun at Prom? Not really.

23. Are you still in touch with a HS boyfriend/girlfriend? No.

24. Are you planning on going to your next reunion? I only went there one year and everyone thought I was a Freshman soooo.... No.

25. Do you still talk to people from school? Honestly I can't think of anyone off hand so I don't think so, but maybe??

26. School Colors? Orange and Brown, EWE!!

27. Did you do Senior Skip Day? I don't think I did.

28. Were you in any high school sports? No

29. What was your favorite high school memory? GRADUATION!!

Video Blog

Ready for Halloween!




Look at the tong action!!




This is his favorite thing to do!




Leo being Leo!

Labor Day Weekend Re-cap

So not much was going to happen here for us. It was just going to be a long weekend at home. We were not even going to church because Leo got a snotty nose... again. I was just about to make bread Sunday morning, but then around 9am I got a phone call from my Dad. Oh yeah he was going to VA this weekend to check on my grandparents land that they still have. I decided I would meet him half way or something. I looked up how long the drive was going to be... only 4 hours!! Heck yeah I will go see him. I decided I would drive all the way instead of meeting half way. So about an hour later the kids and I were on our way to go see my Dad. The trip consisted of many cute phrases that all sounded like this :

Leo-"when we get to Grandmas house can we play with her toys?"
Me-"We aren't going to Grandmas house."
Leo-"when we get to Grandpas can we play?"
Me-"We aren't going to Grandpas we are just going to go see Grandpa."

And so on and so forth. It was really cute. I finally explained that we were going to go meet at a hotel. It was really a quick drive and the kids did a great job. So we got to visit, stayed the night, had breakfast, got to visit a little more and then came home. But not without pictures.

I know you can't see them very well but there are 3 baby birds in there. It was a nest built between the window and screen of my Grandparents back door. There were 4 but Dad scared one away when he stuck his had down there before we knew the nest was there. It just looked like a pile of pine needles had collected there. The window was broken. The other 3 birds were gone before we left that day.

This is a tree that was planted back when Steven was a baby. So roughly 30 or so years ago. My siblings had a picture taken standing in front of it. At the time that tree was probably about 2 feet taller than Katie, I think. And now here are my kids in front of it. I don't think my other siblings will ever see that tree again, so I wanted to get one last picture of it.
Mom says "The tree was nothing special, just a background."

I do not know if this was taken by Katie or Leo. This was at the hotel waiting to leave to get dinner.

Another taken while we waited. Photographer is Katie this time. I also found pictures of the microwaves and another that I could not make out because of the finger in the way.

Here is Me and Dad. Look at his nice straight teeth!! I took a lot of pictures of us but I didn' t think he wanted the world to see him trying to pick my nose. Plus I kept chopping off his head.

So after I returned home from VA I decided to make that bread I was about to start the day before. So I prepared the dough and got it rising. I then had time to throw dinner together to get it ready for the oven. After that I divided the dough into the pans and let them return to rising again. It was then that I realized the bread and dinner were both going to need to be in the oven at 4. WHAT WAS I GOING OT DO? After 3 phone calls (one to each of my sisters and one to my Mom(not in that order)) I decided to cook them together. I was a little worried about the chicken flavor being cooked into the bread. Thankfully that did not happen. Before I go on about the bread let me tell you about dinner! It was the FIRST meal I made up myself!! No recipe or ideas from someone else! And it was delicious! Everyone ate it and liked it and there were no leftovers. Ok on to the bread. So my bread turned out beautiful looking and I decided to capture it on camera and blog about it. Took a picture and brought it up on the computer and this is what it looked like.


Whats wrong with this you ask? Well nothing except for it being purple and horizontal lines going across it!! (Enlarge it and you will see). Man!! That will be the 3rd camera I have broken in the last 18 months!!! UGH!! How frustrating. So I thought maybe it was just the lighting. Nope, took a picture of myself and the same thing. So I banged the side of the camera with my hand a little and thought "yeah, let's hit the camera. That's really going to fix it..." (Very un-hopeful, if that is even a word) Took another picture of myself and vwala! It worked!! Holy cow! Hitting my camera out of frustration and disappointment actually fixed my camera. So hear is the lovely bread I made. And it tastes SOOO GOOD!!

Problem Solved

Yup, that was a really short break. As a matter of fact the break was over about 5 min. after my last post. I searched around the settings and decided to take off the "leave comments" setting. It makes me feel better this way. Aside from that...

Pictures!!!!

Sage is HUGE!!!!

She really is a good dog... just hyper. I am still learning things in how to train her. Although she does not run away from me. I have her off the leash and out of the gate all the time to play ball. It is only for a few min. at a time. She really does enjoy playing ball.

Next up....

Simon and Leo hit puberty!!

They are both way to cute in their stages of life right now. Simon rolls and rolls and rolls and rolls. He is really good at giggling too. At the last Dr.s appointment we went to he weighed in at a WHOPPING 18 pounds!! He is gaining weight like crazy!! I figure he is just playing catch up from his delay with his heart. But he is doing great now.
And Leo is such a charmer! And somehow at the same time is is such a trouble maker. I do hope that it is true about boys being difficult as youngsters and easier as teens. He really does find some enjoyment out of pushing my buttons. However, it is so easy to change his mood. He could be crying one min. and you just mention Ice Cream and let me tell you he has a smile on so fast, you would have never known he was crying in the first place. He really can be easy going if you know just what to say.

Katie's FIRST day of school!!!

It was so exciting!!

After school she was waiting like a good little Kindergartner!!

The children play while Katie is away!

Wait! What!?! What is THAT!?! Oh right, it's Katie's new pet. It is a cut gerbil (I know only I could think a rodent is cute). I think the name is Max but that could always change, it used to be Mickey. but then it got changed. We will see what it is in a week. But it really is cute. We did have one for Leo but it had a sick eye and one of the pet store people put medicine on it an pushed on the eye a bit and irritated it so i took it back. I would rather return a pet than have to explain why it died after a few days.

I suppose that's all for us right now. I will try hard to not make such long posts. Ta ta for now.