Layout

Finished this layout last night and I love it! Thought I would share. :-)

Warm Day

Well today was certainly a very warm day! :-)

This morning the kids and I went and got flowers for mommy to plant and water shoes so the kids could play later in the pool. E's ear was still bleeding with the discharge. So called the pedia dr office. Love that office since they have appts on the weekend if necessary with the on call dr. It was our dr on call and she wanted to see her. Could we come straight down. So off we went. Yes E has a ruptured ear drum (the tube was gone) and the other one is barely in and junk in there too. So both ears are gross inside. So onto a new antiobiotic and keep up the ear drops. Then if we still see blood by Weds she wants us to call the ENT's office and tell them that she needs to be seen to clear them out before Monday (which is the day we have an appt).

Came home afterwards and ate lunch. Then outside for just a little bit to fill up the little pool so the water would be warm after nap. Then down for nap...which everyone needed...even mommy! :-) Got up and swimsuits on and outside we went. We spent 2.5 hours outside. Kids playing and mommy planting and cleaning up flower beds. I still have one more flower bed to go but atleast the main one is done and pots are planted too. N loved the sprinkler but E did not. She kept telling me it was raining. I think it was partly that she was tired out from playing and the ear.

Came in and had a warm bath while mommy cleaned bathrooms. Then time for dinner and a movie. :-) Now time for calling daddy to say good night. Then off to sleep. Then tomorrow will be another warm day and after church we will play some more. :-)

Have a wonderful Saturday evening and Sunday.

Mommy's New Toy

Well I finally decided what I was going to do about two weeks ago after going to the McCall weekend crop. I wanted a system that I could do alot more with and not cost as much in the longer run. I looked at two different systems. One you had to buy cartridges for. The other you did not but you might have to buy a few things (shapes and such) online but not if you could find something to scan and play with. So I decided that later. Well so I started searching to see how much I could get for all the "cutting" stuff I already had by Quickutz and Sizzix if I sold them on ebay. Figured out I could do it. So I listed everything on ebay and to some friends. I sold them all for prices that worked for me. I had enough!!! So called the local store and sure enough they had one in. So went and bought it the day M left town for his guys weekend away (Thurs-Sunday). All I could think of was now I had it!!! But I knew I probably wouldn't get to set it up right away. Sure enough I just got it set up and did the first test run about 20 minutes ago. So far I love it!!! I can cut anything from 1/4" to 8". Plus I can use any true fonts that are already on the computer...so no more buying new fonts or worrying about not having the right font. From now on I pretty much do not have to buy any more lettering or shapes from the store. I can make them myself!!! There is still much to figure out and have fun with but so far I love it!!! It is called the Silhouette by Quickutz. It's pretty much a printer that cuts. (Digital Craft Cutter). Now I just want to find or make a cover for it. :-)


So M is gone for the weekend. He left for work Thursday morning and then all of the guys meet at 2:30 and left town from there. He will be back on Sunday. They all take their computers up to a place called The Depot (sp?) in Cascade, ID (near McCall). Then they all play hooked up together certain games. The all choose a meal to cook and bring the food. That way only one of them at a time is cooking/making the food. They have a great time and it's good for M to get away like that!

The kids and I have been doing fine. It has gotten quite warm here so we have been outside alot. I finally worked on the flower bed near the walkway and have it all nice and neat and like I want it now! I am so glad...it has been bugging me like crazy. Then tomorrow we are going to work in the backyard. I was going to put out the bird bath and stuff since the kids are old enough now but I think it might be in the attic since I can't find it in the garage. So that means i need to wait for M to get home for that. :-( But I can atleast get my pots done and clean up the winter stuff in the flower beds. We might have to run to the flower shop but that won't be bad. :-) Plus I might get out the pool and blow it up and put some water in since it will be in the 80's here.

We won't be going to soccer tomorrow though. I figure we need a weekend here at home w/o doing a ton of stuff. N seems to be doing ok with his ear but who knows b/c the last time we thought it was gone all the way. We won't know for absolute until Friday. But E's pink eye is back some. (so more eye drops...which is not fun with her!). Then today she started crying and saying her ear hurt when we went up a small hill in the car here in town. Well look back and sure enough she has some drainage. It was wierd b/c she had never cried like that before with ear infections (drainage out of the tubes). So called the ear doctor and left a message for the nurse to call me back. She called me back and we talked about it. What worried her some was that the last time they looked the tubes were about half way out (which was about 3-4 months ago). So she isn't sure what is going on. She wonders if the ear drum might have ruptured. So she told me to start the ear drops in both ears. Then we go in on the 7th to see the ear doctor (the earliest appt we could get...which was good). If it is still bugging her big time on Monday will take her to the pediatrician and make sure there isn't anything else to do before the 7th. She has been whine and stuff but was just associating that with her age. :-) But now wonder. The nurse was surprised that she had an infection since she is on amoxicilian (last day) for the sinus infection. I told her well when she was a baby it never worked when she had an ear infection. So now I guess it is a wait for a week and see what will happen. Tomorrow night I plan to clean this house like a crazy and keep windows open for fresh air alot lately and hopefully all this yucky stuff will go away!!! :-)

Have a wonderful weekend!!!

Soccer

Well here is a soccer video of N at practice. He did really well until half way through...which is good for how crappy he must have been feeling. The boy in the red jacket and red hat is a friend from preschool. M couldn't figure out why he kept going to sit next to this boy. Finally figured it out when he took his hat off and I could see from where I was sitting. :-)

Sickness

Well we are fighting sickness around here some more. N has the ear infection plus his eyes were so goopy all weekend. It was gross! Anyways, took him yesterday and he has some new viral thing that includes pink eye, fever (for 3-5 days...haven't seen that part yet), cough (just a little so far) and a scratchy voice. Then his ear infection hasn't gotten any better for the past 4 days so we switched antibiotics. Now hopefully we will not be going back for 10 days! E is doing fine...her cough is almost gone. So guessing the sinus infection is gone. Luckily she is on the antibiotics and hopefully won't catch the pink eye. S's throat is a little scratchy but think just need to keep rested and will be fine. M is hopefully not going to catch anything b/c this weekend is his weekend away with the guys to play and have fun.

The kids got new clothes for Nana J yesterday and they love them. E is such a girl...she loves trying on clothes and stuff. Her waist is so skinny and such a bony butt that alot of things that fit length wise we are having a hard time with the waist. So when she gets new clothes we always have to try them on now. Even at the store if we have time I will have her try things on. It's so different since I never had N ever try anything on at the store. Atleast she loves doing it. I think we will head to Kohl's today and exchange the skort that won't stay on her waist and exchange the boxers that are a tadbit too big for N. He is now a "big" boy. For pjs he is wearing boxers and white undershirts. It's so different and hard to remember that he is growing up. Can't even believe that he goes to Kindergarten next year!

Here's a fun picture that I took of them playing in the box that the clothes came in. :-)

Ear Problems!

Well okay I thought we would get away with no ear problems from N. But no such luck. He got the first ear infection during spring break in Tahoe. (double actually). Well we are now thinking (dr agrees) that maybe it didn't "leave" all the way. B/c starting last night he was complaining and I took him in first thing this morning. Sure enough it is bad again. We are on strong stuff again and have an appt for 10 days to check it again. (Make sure it goes all the way away!). Then we have decided to add a allergy medicine in b/c he has the dark circles under his eyes again badly which means allergy problems. The singular isn't cutting it by iteself but the singular helps keep the asthma away. So will take that in the morning plus the clariton at night. Hopefully after a couple of days he will be looking "normal" again!!!

Okay time for naps for everyone since mommy and N didn't get much sleep last night. And E is whiny as can be today!! Her cough is atleast getting a little better...went and got her the antibotics yesterday (held off for a week to see if we really needed it).

Have a great weekend!!!

Race for the Cure

The place I am working for, Archiver's, has started up a team to do the 5K team walk. I am excited! It should be lots of fun. Since the majority of our customers are women we thought this would be an awesome way to show some support. Plus most of us know someone (family or not) that has been affected by breast cancer. I have sent out some emails asking for donations (which I sometimes feel weird about, but this is for a good cause...one that I support). But some of you I don't have emails for so thought I would post the link here. So if you want to donate anything just click on the link below.

Thank you to those that have already donated!!!

http://race.komenboise.org/goto/SaraD

Busy Time

Okay as my mom pointed out I haven't updated this in awhile. :-) I can't even remember everything that happened last week other then getting ready for my McCall scrapbooking trip and work. I know that it seemed like I didn't have alot of time last week but who knows what it was all about. :-)

This last weekend S went on a scrapbooking retreat with a bunch of other ladies. It was fun. I got a little over half way done with M's air force album. I wish I would have gotten further but oh well...at least it is part way done. I stayed up until 2am each night and got up at 8am. I was exhausted by the time I got home on Sunday. Luckily I got home in time for lunch and then nap on Sunday. :-) Came home to E sick with a worse cough. Plus M had bought the kids (mainly N) a new computer game that he loves. It's star wars legos (everything is made out of legos). He loves it...wants to play it all the time. :-) It's a good motivator for good behavior and listening.

This week we joining the YMCA near us. We love it so far!!! We took the kids up Tuesday night to go swimming. They have a little kiddie pool that only goes up to 1.5 feet. It has two small slides and a couple other "toys" in there. Plus there is a lifeguard on duty all the time. Then there is a huge water slide in another pool that goes into a 3.5 feet water. But they allow any child to go on as long as they have a parent with them. E loved it!!! She wanted to keep going down it with us. She would laugh and scream all the way down. :-) N didn't want to do it until the very end and then he loved it. N had fun in the kiddie pool and the little slides there. He found a friend to play with (just some boy that had the same shorts as him). Matt saw that the diving board was open so he went over and did some diving and had fun. We plan on going swimming at least once a week with the kids. Plus during the summer there will be swimming lessons and they will be at the same time and in the morning so we don't have to take the night time away from things.

My sister and I are going to do a fitness goal together too. Haven't worked it all out but plan on something like 3x a week for 45 minutes. Not sure what the reward will be yet if we beat each other. :-) So M and I talked last night and our plan is going on Mondays and Fridays to work out. Then Friday nights after we work out we can all going swimming. Then I will go during the week during the day. We are paying for the childcare part of the membership (it was so cheap) so that we can do this. The play area is cool too. Oh and there is a rock wall that at certain times kids can go on it with parents. My bet is that E will do it before N. :-)

So now this weekend we will be hanging out around here. Finally getting N to his first soccer "practice" and S working Saturday night. So should be laid back and hopefully the sun will come back out. :-) I am a little tired of the cold, wind and rain.

Have a great weekend!

Happy Easter!

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Easter! We are just hanging out at home all day and relaxing. We got up this morning and had french toast (w/powder sugar for the kids). Then we had a jelly bean hunt in the house. This is from when S was a little kid. Her daddy use to hide jelly beans for her and her sister and it was fun to find them all. There would always be a few that weren't found until a couple months later. :-) We only hid about 20 total. N ate all his within an hour of finding them. E still has some left. We didn't say much about the easter bunny...mainly about what easter is about. So they were a tadbit surprised to find things in their baskets this morning.

Yesterday they had a lot of fun at the church easter egg hunt. E and two other little girls got a little section to themselves. E loved all the eggs and had fun finding them all. She got enough points to "buy" a stuff basket with two little animals in it. N had fun too but his was a mad rush for everything. He went with the 5-7 yrs old. I guess he was mainly worried about his friend. He only got 4 eggs and his friends mom tried to give him a few by putting some on the ground and telling him they were there. He ended up keeping one and giving one to his friend (sharing). He is such a loving person and loves to share with his friends. We are so glad of this!

We were to head home and get lunch and then have N get ready for his soccer "practice". PAKS (Parents and Kids in Soccer). He was so excited. We didn't make it. S was having chest pains during the egg hunt at church. They got worse so off we went to the ER. Short story...no heart problems or anything else "major". But could only narrow it to two things - chest inflammation or an esophagus problem. Gave me meds for the later of the two. The pain has mainly gone away but I am worn out...even with a 4 hr nap a little while ago. Will most likely follow up with dr later this week.

So today we let N dress up in his soccer stuff (after nap when the rain had stopped). He loved playing in the backyard with daddy showing him "moves". I think he is really going to love soccer. He loves the running part alot too...so that is good. :-) E even had fun out there playing with her little soccer ball. The only thing was she was kicking with the outside of her foot...trying to teach her to kick with her inside. :-)

Well off to make an easy fun dinner. Love to family & friends!

Sleeping In and Fears

Yea the last two morning N has slept until 7am or 7:20a! I can not believe it! It has been so nice. Now to some of you that may seem weird but N does not sleep in!!! I do have to say that it is weird to get up that late and then later that morning look at the clock and it is already 9am and I haven't showered b/c I have been busy doing the morning "things" around the house. :-)

Now onto fears. I have had two skin tags for quite some time (since having kids) and never got them removed b/c of the fear they would hurt. But they have annoyed me every summer. Well I switched over to M's doctor ...who I really like. Anyways, I finally asked them to be removed. I was in there a total of about 15 minutes (just like he promised) and had them removed. It only stung like a small bee sting when the needle went in to numb it but other then that it was fine. One does itch now on and off and the other one just a tadbit irritated but it's fine. I do have to say I am so glad I finally did it!!! Now to remember that things aren't always scary to get done. :-)

Have a wonderful weekend! I work my first crop at my new job Saturday night and I am hoping I have wonderful people come to crop. :-)

Back Home from Lake Tahoe

Good morning! Well we made it home Tuesday night about 7:30pm. We had a fun time other then N getting a double ear infection. We arrived there around dinner time on Friday. The drive was great. The weather was nice and warm so we were able to stop at the park half way there and eat lunch and let the kids run around. Saturday we went up and played at the playground and went and looked around inside. Then came back a little later to play racquetball (N and M) and swim. E is just like Aunt L! She gets the purple lips and then shivers but does not want to get out! You ask her if she is cold and she will tell you no. :-) We relaxed during the afternoon. Then that evening M and S made dinner (forgot the cord for the fryer so ended up doing that on the stove....that was an experience itself!). After dinner we took the kids up to the arcade to play games. They loved it. Then we came back and N wanted to take a shower so bad b/c he had watched daddy in there. It was a shower that had a shower head on each side. So we got them in there and they loved it. E was okay about it all but N could have stayed in there forever!

Sunday morning we went and played again. Then went back and everyone got ready to go down into town. There were a bunch of little shops going out of business b/c the town had bought the land to build a convention center in the next couple of years. I found a nice vest for cheap! But didn't find anything for the kids or M. Ate lunch down there. Then home, went and rented skis for the kids and then down for naps. E refused to sleep so she and I stayed up. :-) Then we went down into Mendin (sp?) and ate dinner. During dinner N told me his ear hurt. I was thinking it was the pressure and told him I would give him some tylenol when we got back up the hill if it still hurt. Well it did. So gave him some and then we all sat down and watched Little Mermaid. At the end of that is when N lost it with the ear pain. So S and N were up most of the night...think a total of 4 hrs of sleep (not in a row). S called and found out about an urgent care down the hill. (We were staying at the top of the hill.) We went and got in 2nd (they opened at 8am). Found out he had a double ear infection...the other one was just starting. So got perscription for amoxicillan and numbing ear drops. Well pharmacies around there don't open until 9am. So had to wait 15 min to open then took 25 min to fill. ugh! By that time N was crying and screaming in the car. So I put the numbing drops right in. Well come to find out they sting at first. So N screamed most of the way back up the hill to the room. But he insisted that he wanted to go skiing still. And E really wanted to. So got N calmed down and asked again and yes he wanted to go. So dressed them and loaded up.

Now finding a place to ski for kids was an adventure in itself! Let's just say that the people at Heavenly didn't know what they were talking about. The first place was closed, the next place didn't have the magic carpet and the rope tow was for ski school...atleast that is what the signs said mainly. And no one told us at the top of the mountain was a magic carpet! (found that out later from D and C when we saw them at the room) So M put on regular boots and he just took them up and down the side next to the rope tow. N did it once but wanted to do it his way. :-) In the picture he is pushing M away. E loved it. She went down twice and guess she was saying Whooo Hooo. :-) Then since M and S had spent $ on a lift ticket b/c M was going to try to ski and S was told she needed one to do the kids hill with the kids and we couldn't return them. We went up the gondola. Loved it! It was very pretty. Then we were going to hang out at the top (sledding was up there) but N fell down the metal stairs and was crying so that was pretty much the end of that. But hey he had done pretty well with ear infections and lack of sleep. So we headed back down. That is where the pictures come from. N asleep and E looking out. We got back to the room and kids went straight to sleep. E slept for about an hour and N slept for about 3. Then dinner and relaxing around the place. It started snowing about an hour after we got back and didn't stop until the morning. It was pretty to watch and boy did it cover fast. Figures they get a ton of snow the night before we are to leave! We got out of there okay...ended up backing back down a hill that we couldn't get all the way up and going out a different way but we did it. The trip home was just fine and the kids did really well.

N is doing much better with the ear infection. Took him back in b/c early Tuesday morning there was a little blood. But dr found no blood inside the ear yesterday. But did find a big ball of hard wax in there and it was still infected pretty badly. So switch medicine and for the first morning N has said his ear doesn't hurt! Yea! It just threw us all for a loop b/c N has maybe had one ear infection when he was a baby and that is it! It's usually E that gets them with her tubes.

Hope everyone has a wonderful spring break! And L & A have fun in Japan!!!

Fighting Fashion

Well lately N has started to make decisions about what he wants to wear but he is stilling learning about short sleeves for warm and long sleeves for cold. :-) Anyways, this morning he went to get his socks and found this old tie. Came out with it and asked to wear it today. I told him no but if he really wanted to wear a tie he could for Easter. Well he didn't take the no for an answer. He put it on himself. :-) Of course he just looked too cute and asking please if he could wear it today that way. Well didn't really match. LOL So told him he could wear it in the car but couldn't wear it outside of the car. He remembered but after the 2nd stop this morning he didn't put it back on. :-) So got it out of his system.


Here is a layout I finished last night about us being married for 12 years now.
It was to meet a challenge of using only green and also one about something I am lucky about.





I did this layout two nights ago with N in his superman pjs the first time in TN. It turned out really good if I do say so myself. :-)

Bad Blogger

Sorry have not written in forever! Time seems to get away around here. And I can't blame it on working since I have barely worked in the last week. Trying to think of what's new around here.

N loved the monster truck show. Pics are still on M's phone so will need to have him download those. He is majorly into spiderman and superman as of right now. We got new tennis shoes since the weather was getting nice and mommy got tired of washing shoes all the time so left the old ones outside and the new ones are for school and such. We had to search for spiderman shoes that mommy and daddy didn't think were too gaudy. :-)

E is still going strong. :-) She has turned into a demander. She will say to M or S "hold this!". Uhhh no you can ask nicely or go put it away. :-) She still doesn't want to go potty on the big girl potty but hopefully that will change soon. Took her to speech therapist to be tested again to see if she is doing okay or maybe will need speech like Nathan did. We'll know the results about April 2nd.

S is loving working at the scrapbook store. It's lots of fun and time flies by. Will be working her first crop next weekend so that will be fun.

M has been busy with work and a tadbit stressed out. Is looking forward to having 5 days away.

We leave Friday morning to meet up with M's mom and stepdad, aunt and uncle. Should be fun but a long drive. We are going to try to get the kids skiing but we shall see. I am not too thrilled about how much a lift ticket costs - $72 per adult when we won't even ski for the whole day or anything. There are half day tickets but they are only afternoon. Plus I will need to see how long my shoulder can handle doing it. Right now I have it in a sling on and off (dr wanted it all the time for two weeks but yea right) and it's not bugging me too bad...just mostly by evening time. He thinks it's tendnities so hopefuly will just take some healing time. We shall see.

Well time to get some laundry moved around and start folding/packing clothes away. Have a wonderful weekend!

Kindergarten Registration

Well Thursday after school was Kindergarten registration for N. He was so excited. It was nice and easy since I didn't have to fill out any paperwork since he was already in the system for preschool. It was also nice b/c we were the first ones there with his friend from preschool. By the time we left there were lines for each station. You went to the first station and that was the paperwork and got a t-shirt. Also, got a calendar for next school year. Then onto the library station where he got his name tag. He wrote his name on the other side but it was too small to read. :-) He also got a to pick a book to take home. He chose a Dinosaur book. Then the next station was getting his picture taken. Of course he had to have his cheesy grin. :-) Then on to the numbers station. He knew all his numbers from 0-9 like they had laid out randomly. Next was a bunch of pictures. He had to name them and then they asked questions like which two rhymed (out of 3) and which didn't belong (beginning sound and a rhyming one). He did really well except for he didn't understand the question which didn't belong. :-) He knew which two went together. Next station was the alphabet. Had to match and then tell what a letter was that was held up randomly. He knew it all...even the Q! Then the next station we got to skip b/c we had already done paperwork, but I did tell the secretary that he could ride the bus next year...he has been bugging me about that. :-) Next was into the classroom and meeting the teacher. I had not meet her but Nathan knew her b/c she has subbed in the preschool classroom. So now he is all set. I was glad to hear that this teacher doesn't like worksheets so she does not do very many of them. It's alot of hands on. Which will be very good for N. It's funny how I wanted him to have morning kindergarten and that is exactly what he gets b/c at Pierce Park there are not enough kids to do two different classes. So it will be nice to have him back in morning...he is so much better in the morning I think. He is just a morning person. :-)

Ohhh and on another note! N can now buckle himself in!!! I knew he could do but he refused...I had tried a bunch of different tactics. Finally yesterday I told him he could get a new matchbox car if he would start doing it. Plus the rule was that he had to do it all the time now...no more mommy/daddy buckling him in. He has done great at it! I am glad...it now saves me some time of having to go buckle him in after buckling E in too. Now to get potty training done. :-)

Have a great weekend!

Fun Day!

Well it has been a fast week around here. S worked Tues and Thurs evenings. Then Friday got to go scrapbooking at the store with a bunch of other people she hasn't seen in awhile. Had a blast! Only got 2 layouts done but hey two is better then none. :-) Will post pictures tomorrow or maybe later tonight. Then worked Saturday fromm 9:30a-4:00p. The day went fast! It was fun to work. Love working there.

Today we had a fun family day! We all got up and had waffles...need to work on the batter recipe. Then everyone was tired so we lounged around for about an hour. Then everyone went back down for naps. Slept until about noon and got up. We all got dressed and headed out. We went and got sandwiches and soup then on to the park at Micron. This was fun b/c no one else was out there and the kids had a blast. Then decided to go to the zoo. Love having a zoo pass! We got there about 3:30 and stayed until the zoo closed at 5:00. The kids had fun and so did we. We then came home. The kids are messing around on the computer with daddy and I am swapping out cards for a card swap I hosted.

Plus M and I just purchase a surprise for N. I told M that I had seen that Monster Jam (monster trucks) was coming to Nampa next weekend. So we looked and tickets were cheap. So it will be a guys night out for M and N. We aren't going to tell N either. Just that daddy is taking him out for a guys night out on Friday. Then they will go. N will love it! He has been into the monster trucks he has. One of them is one that will actually be there...so should be lots of fun. I will have to look and see if cameras are allowed so they can take some pictures.

Well time to get some things done. Hope everyone had a great weekend!

Snow Day

Well this morning was snowy and pretty. So N asked if we could go outside and build a snowman. I said we could try but didn't think it would work. :-) So we bundled up and went outside. N loved it. E just wanted to be held most of the time. She is now sick this morning...she has gotten sick a couple of times now. :-(

Here is a picture of them all bundled up.

Quilt

Finally got the bed put together and everything last night. Plus cleaned up my side of the closet...boy did it need it. :-) It looks so good!! Doesn't it look great!!! Thanks mom for the bed skirt too. I will be working on the window curtains next week.

Excitement...

Well the last couple of days have been fun to say the least. :-) Monday early evening the kids and I were outside in front. I was trimming a tree and the kids were playing. M got home so started to clean up. Went to get the broom and found water sitting underneath the water heater. Looked and sure enough a leak at the bottom of it. So figured out how to turn off the gas...then didn't know what to do. M finally came out and I tried calling my dad. No answer. :-( So called the heating and cooling guy that has worked on our heater before. He told us how to turn off the water and gave us a quote. Then we hooked up a house and started draining. Cleaned up the extra water and stuck towels down to catch the water still dripping. So now only COLD water. Started dinner and started calling for quotes. Figured out that lowe's and home depot were the cheapest by about $50-75. Well Home depot never called back. Lowe's figured out everyone was gone from that dept (6:30pm) and that they would be back at 6am. So we decided to wait until morning to see if Lowe's could come out and do it. Finally someone came into Lowe's at 7am in the morning and was told someone would call me back. By this time I was not happy. Talked to M and we decided to just go with the heating and cooling guy we have dealt with before. So called him. He could come out that afternoon. (Just so you know it took Lowe's until 11:30am to have someone call me back.) The guy came out and fixed it all by 4:30pm. Yea!!! Guess we were lucky in the fact that we got 16 yrs out of the old one and that the leak was too bad. This time we had him install a drip pan to the bottom just in case it does decide to leak it will leak out onto the garage floor instead of the wood partical board that the heater and water heater are on.

Well it is wonderful to have a new water heater. This one we don't have to turn up past the "normal" notch b/c it is hot enough for me and my baths!

Okay time to go take N to one school (not the normal Weds school) to get classroom pictures taken and then take him to his "normal" school for Weds. Then home to hopefully clean up some.

Oh and hopefully tomorrow I will have new pictures of the quilt my mom made for us! Love it! I picked out the material at Thanksgiving and it is done already! Thanks mom!!!

Thoughts for Today

Ok here are some thoughts...

First has anyone ever washed a diaper before???? Well it has been done. Went thru the wash and the dryer. Thought N had left a Kleenex in his pocket...uhhh NO!!! So had to redo a whole wash! Luckily it was only a wet diaper.

Second...does anyone ever feel caught up when they have kids??? I just feel like there is so much that I need to do and not enough time. Oh well, maybe one of these days.

Third...are we the only parents that think PLEASE let him sleep in until atleast 6:30am??? Or think oh my gosh he slept until 6:30am!!! I know most parents love that their kids sleep until 8am...we so wish!! We have a plan that when he is a teenager and wants to sleep until noon we are going to go in at 6:30am and wake him up. :-) Now watch he won't ever be one of those people that sleep in!

Fourth...where did she learn the whining??? All of sudden E seems to think whining will get her anything. It is driving us nuts!

Fifth...why does N seem to think that he can't hear me when I tell him something or when he asks me something and I answer...I have to answer like 3+ times before he seems to hear! I thought ok do we need to go to the ENT for another hearing test??? But no...I asked his teachers and watched him with M...N only does this with me!! ugh!

Sixth...how many times do you think it will take from being banned from the new furniture that N will learn not to run and jump on it???

Seventh...never say to a 4 year old that he can put it on his birthday wish list when his birthday is still 4 months away!!! Every day I now hear about how he wants this bulldozer for his birthday and when is it. Doesn't matter how many times a day I saw that it is 4 months or 120 days away or even show him on the calendar!

Eighth...can not believe how obsessed N can get with things! Especially when they are new! M finally found a fun little helicopter to fly in the house (RC) and cheap. Now all N wants to do is fly it...today he keeps asking when daddy will be home b/c M told him they would fly it when he got home...no way am I even going to try it!!! :-)

Ninth...it so different going shopping with E by herself compared to N and E together!!! N is such a leader and gets E to do things that she would never do with just me!!! I so missed having school for N today when I needed to run errands! Since E isn't really napping anymore I have found that errands are so much nicer when N is at school...so mornings are now to get things done around the house and then afternoons errands if need be.

Ok I think those are all the thoughts of today. LOL

N is getting older!

I just finished signing up N for soccer!! We actually are doing a "easy" soccer for spring. Then if he likes that he will do the "regular" soccer in the fall. This spring he will be doing PAKS. This is where he goes with an adult (most likely daddy) and plays around with the ball and learns about soccer with other kids his age and other parents. This will only be on Saturdays for an hour or so. It is all of April and May. Then if he likes it in the fall he can do the "regular" soccer which means two practice nights a week and a game on Saturday. He is old enough to do this for the spring but we want to make sure it is really what he wants to do and enjoy before putting him into that many nights a week. Now to find something for E to do! She loves dance but still haven't found something that is during the time frame that works for us. Will keep looking though.