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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

100 Days of School

Kindergarten is always celebrating something, and the 100 days of school celebration is always my favourite.

On the 101st day

Rockin' the high waisted look

Cute old man

On Sunday, January 18th, we were all rushing around, getting ready for Church. All except for Joshua, who was playing with the dog. He was standing at the top of the stairs and threw Shadow's doughnut down the stairs. Shadow bumped into him as he ran down, knocking Joshua into the wall backwards (luckily it wasn't down the stairs). He started crying and Caleb went over to comfort him. I heard a "Um, mom, I think you need to come here" and opened the door. I saw a little bit of blood on Caleb's hand and went to inspect the damage. His hand wasn't very bloody, so I wasn't expecting much. I asked Joshua to show me where it hurt (he is waaaaaaay overdue for a haircut). As I started to look through the hair in the general area that he pointed, a drop of blood fell onto his neck, followed by another. I stopped looking and opened the linen closet (luckily it was right next to us) and grabbed our red washcloth (luckily I procrastinated putting it back into the first aid kit, which we keep downstairs). I pressed it onto his head for a few seconds, then went back to looking. The second I saw the gash, I yelled for Perry that a trip to the ER was going to be coming. Thankfully I remembered that the urgent care center run by the children's hospital was open- it's about a mile down the street and the co-pay was $70 less than the ER. Perry took him while I finished getting the kids ready for church. Six stitches and an hour later, they were home.

Tuesday, January 06, 2009

Just a Little Excited for Christmas

Strike!

A few months ago Perry and I went bowling on a date. We hadn't been since we were first married. We had forgotten how fun it was! We went again at the beginning of December with Caleb, when he was too old for the childcare at our Young Women sponsored shopping night, and started working on his Bowling belt loop for Cub Scouts. We decided to take the whole family during the Christmas break when Perry was emailed a coupon (we ended up spending $30 for 2 hours of bowling for all 6 of us- including shoe rental!).

Yes, I know you are all loving the form.

Caleb had a good game- even had a few strikes.

Mischa would've been a serious contender if she got a little more power behind her.

Josh loved it!

Sorry, hon, couldn't resist.

Anneliese decided at the end that she wanted no help from dad whatsoever.

Happy New Year!

We had a really nice New Year's Eve. We went to our friends house and had pizza, tons of snacks, and lots of fun. The kids played XBox and various board games and had a dance party. The adults enjoyed the kid-free time to play Yahtzee. My visiting teacher from Church sent some fireworks over for the kids to enjoy. The only thing that I would've changed is it was so freaking cold! A cold front decided to come through that day and it was close to 20 at midnight.

We started setting off the top half at 10. When we finished that, we went inside to warm up. We started the second half at midnight, but we still have a few left over for July.

25 seconds to go....

Midnight!

New Year, New Look

I finally got bored waiting for my hair to grow another 2 or 3 inches to be donated.

Here I am in November in Chattanooga:

Here I am now:

Saturday, December 20, 2008

Mischa's Recital

Mischa had her 2nd winter recital today. She did a duet with her piano teacher on Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and did Nuttin' for Christmas. She did really well.

Caleb's First Concert

Caleb started playing clarinet this year. He's really enjoying it. The 4th and 5th graders had their winter concert at the beginning of December. 4th grade did really well doing songs using only 3 or 4 notes, and the 5th grade band was very good. It's amazing what a year can do!

Visiting the North Pole

We go to Santa's North Georgia Embassy before Christmas every year (this is our 3rd year). He and Mrs. Claus go all out in decorating their yard and house. My favourite room is their bedroom. All of the decorations there are nativities. They have a huge yard size nativity in the corner.

Caleb asked for an I-Coaster roller coaster set (and I guess the I-pod to go with it).

Mischa wants silly putty.

Joshua is fixated on a wireless Wii nunchuck.

Liesie was too shy again to sit on his lap. But she wasn't shy enough to accept a candy cane from him. She wants a Barbie.

After we saw Santa, I put her down to give my arm a rest. She started to throw a fit and we told her it wasn't a good idea to be bad this close to Santa (we had received a call from him the night before for setting off his naughty radar). Joshua chimed in "Yeah, you'll receive a lump of coffee!"

Not Quite As Creative As Kris

My sister-in-law, Kristine, is the card master. I'm not that great at paper layering- I have no sense of colour combinations- so I stick with the simpler stuff. But, Joshua's teacher still loved the card.

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Just For Mom

The dog does exist-

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Great Site

Found this today through a link from da Momma: Moosebutter. If you like Weird Al, you won't be disappointed

Friday, November 28, 2008

My Tears Weren't Because He Was Getting Older

Josh's sixth birthday will be talked about several generations from now. I'm still not in the laughing about it stage, but I'm no longer crying. Let's see what this is about, shall we?

It all starts out with Joshua's theme for his cake. He wanted a Ben 10 character, like Caleb had (but not the same alien), then decided to go for a Teletubbies cake. That really didn't fly with us, so I came up with Bumblebee from the Transformers, Joshua's favourite. I was going to do the car, but when I went to get the cake pan, I realized I didn't have any rectangular cake boards. It's Black Friday, and I'm not going anywhere near Wal-mart or Michael's. I did have round boards, so I had to modify the design some. The car was gone, and I chose the Autobot logo instead.

I did keep the cake in Bumblebee's colours, though. I've been trying to liven up my borders some.

I was just sitting down at the computer, all done with the cake, when I heard the dog drinking in the kitchen. Then I realized he wasn't drinking. As I run to the kitchen in slow motion, the scene from A Christmas Story flashes in front of me- the dogs eating the turkey. Yep, life is imitating art right in my own home. Lucky me!!

Ooh, pretty bad, huh? Wait, it get's worse....

Um, it wouldn't be the back that's destroyed would it? Oh no, front and center baby!

Perry and the kids convinced me that they would still eat the cake if I cut off the destroyed parts (we'll eat from the back to the front). I had used all of my white to make the black, so my shells are different in the fixed part, but overall it isn't too bad.