Elephant

I cant believe how close we got to amazing huge animal. I know you can ride them and whatnot but we got to just hang out and watch her get a bath and she was so close to us we could have reached out and touched her. It is amazing how much they can learn. They told her to pick up certain legs and she did exactly what they said. They said for her to open her mouth, she did it. They told her to lay down and down she went. I can't get my dog to do that. Amazing. All the fun facts we learned about elephants was amazing as well. They really are just amazing animals. I'll leave it at that...LOL
Anyways I wanted to have a picture with all three kids in it but as it turns out that never happened that day so this was as close as i got.

Short and Sweet...

Can you believe that my two babies are on this BIG, big kid ride. I think it was call the Boomerang. They are sitting in the very first row. If you can zoom in on it they are the two tiny little things sitting in those first two seats. They are so brave because I don't think that I would ever get back on that ride. If you look even closer My husband is a couple rows back. What a chicken...LOL. I wish i could have gotten better pictures but man that ride moves quick.

We had a great time there in Discovery Kingdom. I can't wait until we head back over there.

We are moved in

YAY!! we did it, we moved in.
At first it was weird, but now it feels OK. I'm not scared at night anymore...LOL.
Of course there are a ton of never ending chores. But i guess that is the same at any house. well i tried to post a picture but blogger is being lame right now, so that is not going to happen-- today at least.

What am I going to do?

Well... pepper ( my dog) had her babies last week, and the kids have been dying to hold them. I have told them NO,but now that they are a week old I told them they can hold one while they are sitting down.

Since it has been a week their eyes are starting to open and IT happened.

Emily fell in love....her eyes go all sparklly and huge and she has this most addable smile on her face... This face...you can't say no to this face.

Well we are not keeping them, in fact we will be selling them when they are ready to go. She is not going to let them go with out a fight and that sweet smile will turn into the meanest devil face.

I can't wait!!!!

They are back

My kids got their cousins back!!!! Of course they have all their cousins from my side of the family, but they have two cousins on Phillip's side of the family that they haven't been able to play with for over a year. It was sad...they had a lot of fun together and then all of a sudden the kids were ripped out of their lives. But as of a couple of weeks ago they have been able to play with them and they are all having a great time together.
I can't believe how big the two of them have gotten. Last time I saw them they were barely speaking and they were not potty trained. Now they talk your brain off and they can use the toilet.
To add to the joy they will be getting a new cousin as well. Hopefully all goes well so that they will get to know her/him.
They are pretty cute huh....

Secrets

We all have them....I have them...Some I like to share some I am horribly embarrassed of. I couldn't even imagine how many secrets I have had in my 29 ---almost 30 years of my life. Most I have told. (side not...I can't keep to many secrets for to long....unless I know the extreme importance of it.)

I like gossip..it's sad. I like hearing it, I like saying it. I guess that makes for good secrets.

Maybe I should list some secrets of mine for you to hear....
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GOTCHA.....THAT CANT HAPPEN YET!!!!

what a mess

Believe it or not, but this is our after shot....as you will soon see it was pretty bad....

The big empty spot was where we set up our pool.

This is one of our before shots....it gets worse

Can you believe that all that is weeds...after we did half of the yard we decided to call it quits for now until it cools down...since it is a 100 degrees outside...The plan is to go to the dump tomorrow....I hope that that happens!!!

playing on the mower

breaking the silence

Well kind of... I still don't have much of anything to say, but really how long could that last. I mean I have gone through a couple of months of a silence...Then to talk about pretty much nothing... and I guess that has not really changed but I'm trying.

It's hot already. I'm sitting here in a pair of sweat pants and my socks and a shirt of course and I am dying of heat already... and It's just gonna get even hotter....blugh

What else can I talk about... I'm tired. But who isn't right?

Silence

I've got all kinds of things that I could be blogging about, but I can't seem to pull something together. It's not much of anything to say but it's all I can come up With right now... at least.

chipped tooth

So yesterday I had a meeting at the school to discuss the upcoming spring fling. While I was in the meeting kaelina, Emily and Jacob were outside on the playground playing. I think I was only in the meeting for maybe 20 minutes. I come out and see that Emily has a fat lip and is kinda bleeding. I take a closer look and I see that her front tooth is chipped and a little bit wiggly. She already lost that tooth so if she loses this one than she won't have a tooth. That annoys me. So I guess I will be calling the dentist today so he can take a look at it.

Bowling award ceremony...2009

Well the winter league of bowling ended on a good note... It's hard to see but here is all the trophies.

This is hellen...she runs the show...She is a great coach. She loves kids and the kids love her. She takes time to teach each child the tools they need to bowl a great game.

This was a total shock to all of us, all three of the kids won scholarships for college this year. (last year kaelina won 50 dollars in scholarship for college) So when Jacob was called up I couldn't believe it. He won 75 dollars. Then at the very end of the ceremony Kaelina, Emily and Jacob were called up. They each won a 50 dollar scholarship because they sold the most raffle tickets earlier this year. So to all who bought one...Thanks. So If you didn't keep track....That is 275 dollars in scholarship money for the kids. Just for fun I'm gonna break it down for you...AGAIN. Kaelina won a total of 100 dollars. Emily won 50 dollars and Jacob won 125 dollars total. HOORAY...Good job kids.

We had talked about not going back for at least a season...but after the award ceremony the kids are amped up and ready to start another season on may 11. Who am I to stop them...Hey whatever money they can wrack up for college, I'm not going to stop. So every Monday (probably for the rest of my life....LOL) I will be at the bowling alley...

update

I took Jacob in for his appointment and the Dr said that the area shouldn't be red and it shouldn't hurt like it does so he put Jacob on some antibiotics and said everything should be OK. Hopefully that is how it will work out...

Bullards bar hike...4/26/2009

This is an old jail....I cracked me up...Just in the middle of the town. Inside you can see a wooden frame for a bed. On each side of the walls there is windows with bars.

It was cute.

How can you not stop to take a picture with smokey. We were driving by a fire station and saw this. So we pile out of the car and snap some shots. The town folk probably thought we were crazy.

I love this picture. I think they look like they are in a magical place. Here they are trying to escape the smoke monster. ( From LOST)

This of course is big foot. With a back pack...LOL

This was one of the nature creatures we saw. It is either a salamander or a newt. It was neat to come across that. We also saw a blue lizard and a black snake with a orange stripe. And we saw a ginormous dead squirrel. Other than that we didn't see anything else.

After hiking for a while we came across this bench so we took a picture. Not one of our better pictures but what can you do.

This was early on in our hike.

This was one of our views we got to see... It was soo pretty.

This is the beginning of the hike. If you haven't noticed I uploaded the pictures backwards. Oh well. It was a nice day for a hike. We ended up hiking 5 miles. That was about all the kids could handle. Hopefully they can get used to hiking and we can do more. They were funny, about an hour into the hike they were like are we there yet. There... where is there?. It was a 14 mile hike. LOL...Soon they will enjoy it more.

Oh ya.... after getting home we picked up long john silvers for the kids and we walked in the door and for those who knows my husband he yells....can you guess it....WASH YOUR HANDS... anyways they do so and eat their dinner and then we watch a movie and then they get ready for bed and feed the dogs. They hop into bed and I'm doing my Goodnight routine when I hear ouch in the softest voice. So I ask what happened why are you saying ouch.

Jake says...Nothing

I say it's OK you can tell me

Jake starts crying and saying he doesn't want to tell me... So I get a Little nervous by his response and start laughing and trying to get him to tell me what is going on. Finally after him screaming and crying and me laughing and nervous he says he thinks he has a piece of a pine cone stuck in his butt cheek.

I just about die with laughter because now I'm super nervous. I get him to show me his butt. (man that was hard) and It is not a pine cone.....it's a TICK.

When we got home he noticed it and tried to rip it out and couldn't and didn't want to tell me because he didn't want me to pull it out. So he spent all that time in pain.(I remember seeing him squirming around while we were watching the movie) So I call Phillip in cause I couldn't stop laughing (poor kid...will be traumatized) and we pull it out and do the clean up. It's a little swollen but I think he will be OK. I'm gonna call the Dr and see what needs to be done.

I also pulled the girls out of bed and checked them out...only the one tick, thank goodness!!!!

Missing

Well the other day I thought that the cat was having her babies. The next morning I went to the garage and went to hunt them down, well to my surprise i couldn't find them anywhere. I have searched for a while and this morning when took the kids to school I gave it one more search and nothing. I came home and who did I see.....That's right--a very skinny lulu. So I fed her and then I waited until she went to find them. She ended up going 2 houses down and then hopped the fence. So they are back there somewhere.
After following her I wanted to see how she escaped the garage....I found her hole. I honestly cant imagine how she fit through this tiny hole. But she did.
Point of the story--lulu had the babies...I don't know how many or what they look like or if they are even alive....But I found my cat.

Jacob wants a sibling

This is Jacob holding baby Ray. Every sneeze and every hand jerk from the baby made him die with laughter. Every time he stuck his tongue out he giggled. When the baby cried he thought that was kind of funny too. Him seeing and holding this baby made him want a little brother or a little sister. He said it didn't matter. He just wants someone to share a room with and someone to play with.
That made me feel sad, because I can't give him that. (I had my tubes tied) I was also very happy to see how much love he has to share.

So I did what any mother in my situation, I reminded him of what it would be like if we had another baby.....

Jacob, be quiet...the baby is sleeping
Jacob Get me a diaper
Jacob throw this poopy diaper away
Jacob, I said be quiet.. your gonna wake the baby
Your hungry Jacob, Well hold on I have to feed the baby.
No we can't go to the park, It's to hot for the baby.
I can't hold you right now, I'm holding the baby
Sorry Jacob, I'm to tired to play with you.

After all these reminders he instantly changed his mind. I do feel bad but he has tons of cousins, so there are plenty of kids for him to share his love with.


I have to admit though....another baby is tempting......LOL

My superman

My little guy has always loved superman... but recently we went on vacation and he saw some cowboys and he decided that he wants to be a cowboy too...

While on vacation we stopped in a little town and it had a super old store with swinging doors. Once he noticed them he insisted that I take a picture of him coming out the doors like a real cowboy...



Now he is begging for some real cowboy boots.... Maybe for his birthday.

Multiplying

When we came home from our vacation last month I noticed that our cat is very, very fat. Meaning she is pregnant.....AGAIN. So as the days went on I barely saw her. She would come every now and then and beg for some food, but other than that she had another home.

Well last night I was about to go to bed I think about 10:00 pm and i heard her screaming at the door. This is her pattern... When it is time for her to give birth that is what she does.. So I opened the door and she ran right to the exact spot where she likes to give birth and take care of her babies....MY CLOSET.

Well as we have learned the hard way, I can't let her have the babies in the house. (a couple of years ago I let her in and we had a bad, BAD, flea problem) So i put her in the garage knowing that in the morning she will have had multiplied...


So this morning I head out to see what happened and she is not in sight so....I know she had them and doesn't want to leave them...( not to mention the smell that I smell)

So today I get to dig them out and put them in a box in the bathroom....Wish me luck.

Water

Today champ found his inner waterdog gene....he emptied their water bowl!!!

Gnome Home

If you have ever wondered where a Gnome lives.....