New tradition?

Seems I have started a new tradition of sorts. The last 3-4 times I have posted have been on holidays. Crazy, hu?! Well, today I was taking pictures of my Valentine gift and decided to upload all the pics on my camera finally. I still have chirstmas pics on here. Thing is I only have like 5 christmas pics cuz my battery died right in the middle of opening presents. So any way here are some pics.

First the christmas pics. My Grandparents and Jeremy's Uncle John are the people you don't know from the last 2 pics. Yes I forgot to rotate my Grandparents!

This first one from the spelling be that Chey and her best friends Madison and Makienze all participated in. Chey was out the first round as were over half of the spellers. The twins took 1st and 2nd place. The last 2 are the black and scraped eye that Dylan got while running around with a friend. He tried to jump over a wooden crate and didn't make it. Took the crate right in the eye.

Then there are the pics of Bricktown Ballpark and Toby Keith's I Love This Bar and Grill. This is were Jeremy and I spend our anniversary in Oklahoma City. The roses and bear I got today from my hubby. Aren't they pretty?

Merry Christmas!

We have been really busy! There has been Christmas shopping, school Christmas parties, Christmas goodies baking and Christmas decorating. There has also been a lot of Christmas movie watching. Now it's finally here. We will be doing some more baking today. We're making chocolate covered popcorn, puppy chow and Santa cookies. We also have a Gingerbread house to make. Then tonight we will open our presents, read The Night Before Christmas and the story of Our Savior Jesus' birth and shuffle the kids off to bed so that Santa came visit our house.

This year is bitter sweet because I think this will probably be Dylan's last year to believe in Santa. He is 9 after all.

Then tomorrow the kids will no doubt wake us up before the crack of dawn jumping on our heads in utter excitement. We will gaze upon there glorious haul for a few moments. then we will rush to get dressed, get loaded into the car and head to Wildorado to see my Dad's family. Then we will be off to Borger to see Jeremy's family for a few days. We will then go to Oklahoma on Friday to drop the kids off at my Mom's so that we can spend our anniversary alone together, a miracle in itself, in Oklahoma City. We will be having dinner at the Mickey Mantle Steakhouse on the Canal. Then we will be able to walk to walk the canal and see the Christmas lights that will still be up. Really that's about all I have planned out but I do know they have horse drawn carriage rides that I think would be a wonderful addition. Then we will go back to spend time with at my Mom's. And on New Years eve, my lil' sisters b-day, we are suppose to be at my Uncle's playing some guitar hero, which I must add I am pretty awesome at!

Hope everyone has a wonderful, fun fulled holiday season! Love to all!

It's that time of year!

The time of year when there is no time. We've been busy, busy with birthdays, thanksgiving and Christmas preparations. We had Alissa's birthday and party on the 3rd. Thanksgiving, of course. Then there was Dylan's birthday party on the 25th and birthday on the 27th. We also went to the Christmas parade downtown on the 27th.

We had been fighting a stomach virus here from the end of October till the weekend before Thanksgiving. Unfortunately we all ended up with it, except of course Jeremy. I actually think he was gladhe was in Washington for that.





Jeremy did get to come home for 6 days at Thanksgiving. We stayed home and I made a huge meal. We got snow, too! That's a really odd thing here so the fact that we got about 5 inches on Thanksgiving and then about 3 inches that Sunday was just crazy. Jeremy also brought me a month late birthday present, I think it was out of guilt. :) It is a very nice Sony digital camera. It came in really handy since my other one is about 5 years old and half broken. We can now all thank Jeremy for the pictures that are posted with this entry.

We did some Christmas shopping on Black Friday and got a really cool Christmas tree. Yes it's fake! I'm allergic to trees. It's up and fully decorated and looks absolutely gorgeous. I don't have pictures of that yet though. We didn't get all the outdoor decorations up before Jeremy left so I'm not sure how much of that will actually get done before Christmas. Some is better then now though, right?

Halloween pics

Here's what I've got. First, I forgot to grab my camera when we were walking out the door. Then my acient camera sucks and for some reason some of the pics I took when we got home didn't get saved. Alissa was an adorable monkey who feel asleep before we even made it home. I'll have to get the pic of my phone and post it. The picture of Dylan is him tring on Chey's fake lashes. The one of him in his Darth Vader costume didn't save. UGH!!!

So many exciting things

Last thursday I took the kids to eat at El Chico's like we do often. It's hard to pass up $.99 kids meals. To make it more enticing they have a drawing for a bike on the last thursday of every month. Of course, we have never won before. Last thursday was a different story. ALISSA WON A BIKE! I think she won because her birthday is this saturday. :) It's even a really cool Barbie bike with a backpack on the handle bars. We were all very excited.



These are pictures of how Alissa looked when she got home from school last Monday. No one is sure how the black eye was aquired but there certian it happened on the playground. Alissa never cried or told the teacher about it. What a tough girl she is. I especially like the bottom picture because my sweet little girl looks stoned even though she is completely unmedicated.


Then there was Chey's trip to the dentist. She goes back on Nov 19th to get 4 filling which will cost me $155 after insurance. Then we will be making an appointment with an orthedontist to discuss braces. WOOHOO! Can't wait to see what that will cost. On saturday she also has an appiontment with the optometrist so that we can get her some new glasses. She's so excited.

Saturday is also the day that my little bitty 33lb baby girl turns 5. How in the world did the time go so fast?! I was watching her sleep last night and I can't believe she has been here for 5 years. But on the other hand I can't remember life without her. It's just so crazy. My baby is almost 5 which means she is not a baby anymore.

And then there is the excitment of today. Alissa got to wear her monkey costume to school today and they had a parade though the school and collected goobs of candy. Then she got to have pizza for lunch. Then tonight we will put her back in her monkey costume, make Cass a queen, turn Dyl into Darth Vader and Chey into a vampiress and walk our neighborhood and beg for candy. Does it get any funner then that? I will put up some pictures tonigh or tomorrow of my little terrors! Happy Halloween, ya'll!

So much going on

There has been a lot going on since the last time I posted. The biggest would be my oldest child turning 11! Can you believe Chey is 11 years old? I sure can't. We had cake here at home with her 2 best friends and then we let them all go to the movies alone, we did walk around the mall though so we were in the same place.

Now it's October. I was suspose to start my christmas shopping months ago so that I would be about through by now. No such luck. I haven't even gotten any shopping done for Alissa and Dylan's birthday's. Those will be Nov. 3rd and 27th. So now I am worry mode. Worring about having the money(which is really not something I need to worry about but old habits die hard), worring about what to get, worring that I'll wake up tomorrow and it will be too late(time has been flying lately). Like I have tried to explain to Jeremy, honestly after 12 years it should not have to be explained, I'm a worrier by nature. Even when there is nothing to worry about I worry. That's just who I am. I have to admit though it does seem crazy to me that it's already October. Less then 2 weeks from my birthday actually! Crazy!

And then there halloween to get ready for. Alissa is easy, she wanted to be a monkey. Target was all to happy to obliage with a nice monkey costume and they even put it on sale for me. Dylan wants to be Anikin Skywalker. Yes, he's a a Star Wars fanitic! He even wants us to dress Scooter as Yoda. Cass wants to be Hanna Montana which I'm hoping will be easy to do with out having to buy a costume. Chey changes her mind every other day.

Dyl also has a school play this week. He has a singing part and he dances. Hopefully I can get some picks. He's so cute!

Cass is my spelling ace. That girl is amazing. She has made 99's and 100 on every spelling test so far. She takes after her Mother....hehe Chey and Dyl have been doing really well too! I have some smart kiddos. :)

Finally we like preschool!

It only took 9 days but by last Friday Alissa finally decided she liked school. Every morning before that she cried, told me she wasn't going and made up some very colorful excuses for a 4 year old. Her first one was that her belly hurt and she was too tired. That didn't work. Then there was the fact that she would miss Dora. She still had to go to school. My favorite was that she had a kick-off so she couldn't go. I have no idea what that even means. :) Her last attempt was that she was afraid they would hurt her head. After almost 2 weeks I really didn't see that as a possibility and again she went to school anyway. Every morning she clung to me and had to be pryed off by her teacher. Of course, she was always excited and happy about school when I came to get her. She always changes her mind by morning though. Then on Thursday it happened, she got out of the car without running to the back seat and tring to hide. She walked in and sat at her breakfast table like a big girl and told me bye. We did have to get in a few extra hugs and kisses before she would let me go but she didn't try to follow me when I left.

She also has friends, one boy and one girl. The girls name is Wildcat, but it's not her real name, and the boy... She describes him as the "hot spikey haired boy". Apperently she spends too much time listening to Chey and her friends.

Back to school!

The kids went back to school Monday. Alissa started pre-school. She goes from 8-noon Mon-Fri. The first day she did ok when we left her. The last 2 days she has told me as soon as she akes up that she's not going to school because it's scary. Of course once the teacher prys her off me and they go outside to play she's good. Today she even got a gummy bear for being a good listener. She also told me that she got to play with her "hot spikey haired boyfriend" the second time they went outside today. She has definantly been listening to Chey too much. We also learned that Alissa can read minds. She said her teacher said that her first day of school outfit wasn't cute. I said no they didn't. Her reply? "Yes they did, in there head!" Ummm, ok!

As for the other kids, Chey is in 5th. Her last year in elementry school! :( She has a male teacher for the first time in her life. He's funny though so she likes him. Dyl is in 3rd and Cass 2nd. They both like there teacher.

As for me, I'm liking the 4 hours a day of peace and quiet. I never get that so it's been a shock to my system. I don't have to listen to Dora and Deigo in the mornings now. I have actually even considered turning on The Today Show or something like other adults do. I'm not a big morning show person though so I have opted for reruns of Cold Case and dvr Days of Our Life. I haven't had to pause a show in 3 days though. It's crazy!!! And for next week

I'm actually gonna clean the house and not have a child behind me messing it up! Ho cool is that?!

I'm back!

My trip to Seattle was great. The flight was nice and uneventful. Jeremy was actually at the airport when got off the plane. We found our way around the state fairly easily. I didn't get to meet Tara due to a delay at the Canadian Border but I did get to talk to her on the phone. Maybe next time! We did some shopping in Seattle. Jeremy bought me a really nice handmade vase that I forgot to take pictures of. We saw the Space Needle. Of course, the only picture I took was through the dirty windshield.




We went to Mt St Helens. It was beautiful. The tree behind us was a tree that had been there the last time she irrupted in 1980 something. I also can figure out how to remove the second picture so you get 2 for 1 today. :)



Then we went to the forest to see the waterfalls. They were even more beautiful then Mt St Helens. I have learned that I have an uncontrollable fear of falling off the side of a mountain. Lucky for me there we're no guard rails most of the way through the forest. Makes it hard to enjoy the beauty around you when you have your eyes closed and are praying your husband doesn't drive you off the side onto the river below. Also lucky for me we got to pull into a little camping area and walk to the falls.




This was by the Space Needle. They have these pigs everywhere in Seattle.

I can't remember if this is Mt. Rainier or Mt. Adams. We saw both.

This was the side of another mountain I was afraid I was going to go careening over

Mt. St Helens

And Jeremy and I again at Mt. St Helens. There were tourist all over the place offering to take our picture for us.


We also went to the beach but I have no pictures because it was midnight before we found it. It was still very beautiful and I loved laying on the beach looking at the starts in the arms of the man that I love.

Jeremy took his vacation last week. We ended up taking the kids to Six Flags. We had such a good time there too. Our friend that went with us took pictures that I will post when I get them. :)