Today was our 8 year anniversary :) My hubby came home with a Mt Dew for me and told me 'Happy Anniversary!'. I laughed and told him he was a day early and would have to get me another one tomorrow. He was confused. Then he asked if I knew that our anniversary was today. I insisted that it wasn't. Went and looked at the calendar...and it is today. Opps! So right in front of him, I pulled out the anniversary card I had picked up this morning while he was asleep, signed it, and handed it to him. He was very impressed :)
Our real anniversary gift is a big one this year. Actually it was not an anniversary gift, I started calling it one to soothe Simon's guilty conscious/buyers remorse. Our TV died on Thursday night. It was very sad. Especially because we've had a sick child, who takes after her dad in that she wants to be right with the rest of the family while she is sick and miserable (personally, I like to wallow in my misery in solitude and hole up in my bedroom when sick), so Friday was pretty unbearable for us all while she laid on the couch sick, with no TV to watch. I repeatedly suggested that she go lay in my bed and watch TV, but nope. She had to be with the family and would only go upstairs if we ALL went upstairs to watch TV with her. So Saturday morning I declared that we needed a new TV and we needed it NOW. So Simon researched and went off to buy a TV. We won't talk about what he had to do to my van in order to get this TV inside it. The important thing is that he got it. But this thing is huge. Seriously huge. It is plasma instead of LED, so it was actually discounted. We had decided to get one that we really like. We don't really keep up with all the latest gadgets or anything. So we'll have this thing until it dies as well. But man. It is big. And totally sticks out like a sore thumb in our living room. We're just now getting around to slowly trying to get the house 'nice'. So yeah. This TV is the only really new, modern looking thing in there! We love it though :) Although...having this giant new TV...and no cable or satellite to watch on it...is proving a little hard (and disappointing for some of us, I think. Even the kids were briefly excited thinking the new TV meant that we would have channels again. Sorry kids! No such luck.). So really its an awesome anniversary gift that the whole family can enjoy.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
My nephews twin...
So I was taking Cheyanne for a walk over the weekend, when we ran into my nephew's twin! We were walking along minding our own business when I hear, "Hey! HEY!! Can I pet your dog!!?". I turned around to see a white headed little boy about 2 houses back yelling at me, while his mom tried to get him to stop. It made me smile. And of course I went back so that he could pet the dog. And then I got to hear all about the dog he wants to get from the pet store, but it bit him. And his mom says they can't have a dog because their house isn't big enough.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Crazy Hair Day!
Our oldest is at theater camp this week. Today was crazy hair day
So why not let her little brother get in on the fun?
Seemed like a good idea. Until we dropped big sis off at camp and walked into Walmart. and I realized he just looks like a wierdo whose crazy mom spray painted his head for no reason!
In case you're wondering, of course we ran into someone we know! And note to self...in the future, don't do bath night BEFORE crazy hair day! Now we need to wash hair two nights in a row, and that is not popular in this house!
Monday, July 22, 2013
Country Weekend
We had a busy week! We celebrated 4 years with our little man! He was very excited about his new "punching stuff"
Later in the week, we had to go to Grandma and Grandpaw's so Simon could get grain and hay for our cows. That's right. Our cows. We have cows. At Grandma and Grandpaw's of course...the HOA explicitly states that no animals of a farm nature can be in our yard. Darn! At any rate, it was a lot of hay:
God bless him though...Simon is still happy about the cows. Luckily my sister and her husband also wanted cows, so the cows are not solely ours and we have help with them!
Just some fun picture from the 'farm'
Just some fun picture from the 'farm'
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| You might be a hillbilly....if your kids and their cousins pile on to get pulled around the yard by a lawnmower |
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| Pretty flowers |
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| Homeschool science... |
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| We're all just relieved that Cheyanne survived the weekend and wasn't eaten by a certain moose! |
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| This 2 year old sure does think she's something while she drags the dog around! |
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
My first homeschool convention!
So its been a few months since we attended our first homeschool convention. I had A LOT of thoughts as I went through that weekend...here are a few...
1. Wow! Its nice to be in a hotel for 3 days! With no kids!!
2. That is some seriously long hair...and long skirts...everywhere!
3. Oh crap...apparently you are supposed to bring your kids to the convention?! Really??!
*You obviously don't have to bring your kids to the convention.
But a surprising number of people do. Check out #4 for something even more surprising.
4. These homeschool kids are really well behaved! Tons of them in every session, and they just
sit quietly, read, draw, etc...
5. If I bring my kids next year, they will not be that quiet.
6. I think I need a rolling cart thingy...
7. This exhibit hall makes me want to go sit in a corner and cry. I'm so overwhelmed! Its
a good thing Northpoint chooses curriculum for me.
8. We are a disgrace to the homeschool movement with our tiny little family of 5...
9. How silly...selling hair clips amidst all this curriculum.
10. I kind of wish I could pick more of my own curriculum...
11. Hmm...if those hairclips work for all these long skirted ladies with 10 kids...maybe I need one...
12. How hard could it be to find the booth selling the Barbie size Prairie clothes?
13. I am rocking this Flexi-8 hair clip!http://www.flexi8.com/
14. Seriously...where are these doll clothes? And why did I text my child a picture of the dress I
saw on the doll of a little girl during one of the sessions and ask if she wanted one? I can't
go home without it now!
15. People are so friendly! Every meal we eat in the hotel restaurant is so...nice! Even when
the food takes awhile, the other people in the restaurant are so easy to talk to.
16. Ahh the connections...that we would talk to an exhibitor while waiting for dinner, whose kids
are involved in CYT in Texas!
17. Why do the sessions I want to go to start at 8 in the morning?
18. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that 'homeschooling with little ones in the mix' suggests that
I need to engage the younger kids during school time and not try to put them in another room
to watch TV...I think I will still try to get them to watch TV during school time. I guess it will
take me ending up with a peanut butter sandwich in the VCR (like the speaker) to convince me.
19. Seriously. Over 300 vendors. And where did I find the prairie doll clothes? The last row! I
walked this whole hall. And they are in the last row. But ohhh...look! They have bows and
arrows!!
20. Who plans the session schedule? I think I could do a better job. And don't get me started on the
room assignments.
21. I'm tired.
22. Turns out that the only thing that gives you baby fever more then a True Woman convention...
a homeschool convention! Go figure.
23. At least my husband didn't bring a Ron Paul sign.
24. Oh look...the guy with the Ron Paul sign is going to sit right next to us.
25. Eating dinner at the hotel restaurant...a totally different vibe now that the homeschoolers are
gone. Its kind of depressing.
26. Wow. This hotel was FULL of kids while we were here. And yet, we never had any problem
with noise until our last night, when all the homeschoolers were gone. Interesting.
27. Oh yes. I will be that crazy person who calls and asks for security at 3:30 a.m. to get the noisy
drunks to quiet down.
28. Homeschoolers are awesome.
1. Wow! Its nice to be in a hotel for 3 days! With no kids!!
2. That is some seriously long hair...and long skirts...everywhere!
3. Oh crap...apparently you are supposed to bring your kids to the convention?! Really??!
*You obviously don't have to bring your kids to the convention.
But a surprising number of people do. Check out #4 for something even more surprising.
4. These homeschool kids are really well behaved! Tons of them in every session, and they just
sit quietly, read, draw, etc...
5. If I bring my kids next year, they will not be that quiet.
6. I think I need a rolling cart thingy...
7. This exhibit hall makes me want to go sit in a corner and cry. I'm so overwhelmed! Its
a good thing Northpoint chooses curriculum for me.
8. We are a disgrace to the homeschool movement with our tiny little family of 5...
9. How silly...selling hair clips amidst all this curriculum.
10. I kind of wish I could pick more of my own curriculum...
11. Hmm...if those hairclips work for all these long skirted ladies with 10 kids...maybe I need one...
12. How hard could it be to find the booth selling the Barbie size Prairie clothes?
13. I am rocking this Flexi-8 hair clip!http://www.flexi8.com/
14. Seriously...where are these doll clothes? And why did I text my child a picture of the dress I
saw on the doll of a little girl during one of the sessions and ask if she wanted one? I can't
go home without it now!
15. People are so friendly! Every meal we eat in the hotel restaurant is so...nice! Even when
the food takes awhile, the other people in the restaurant are so easy to talk to.
16. Ahh the connections...that we would talk to an exhibitor while waiting for dinner, whose kids
are involved in CYT in Texas!
17. Why do the sessions I want to go to start at 8 in the morning?
18. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised that 'homeschooling with little ones in the mix' suggests that
I need to engage the younger kids during school time and not try to put them in another room
to watch TV...I think I will still try to get them to watch TV during school time. I guess it will
take me ending up with a peanut butter sandwich in the VCR (like the speaker) to convince me.
19. Seriously. Over 300 vendors. And where did I find the prairie doll clothes? The last row! I
walked this whole hall. And they are in the last row. But ohhh...look! They have bows and
arrows!!
20. Who plans the session schedule? I think I could do a better job. And don't get me started on the
room assignments.
21. I'm tired.
22. Turns out that the only thing that gives you baby fever more then a True Woman convention...
a homeschool convention! Go figure.
23. At least my husband didn't bring a Ron Paul sign.
24. Oh look...the guy with the Ron Paul sign is going to sit right next to us.
25. Eating dinner at the hotel restaurant...a totally different vibe now that the homeschoolers are
gone. Its kind of depressing.
26. Wow. This hotel was FULL of kids while we were here. And yet, we never had any problem
with noise until our last night, when all the homeschoolers were gone. Interesting.
27. Oh yes. I will be that crazy person who calls and asks for security at 3:30 a.m. to get the noisy
drunks to quiet down.
28. Homeschoolers are awesome.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
So...we got this puppy...her name is Cheyanne. And she is super cute, luckily ;)
Especially after this....
In all seriousness though, she is a good puppy. We've had her like a week and half and its going pretty well. It would go better if she would stop peeing and pooping on the floor, but you know...she has finally figured out the whole walking on a leash thing, and she hasn't knocked any kids down or anything, and this morning I actually never heard her howl once! So she's adjusting to our schedule and sleeping past 6:15, so thats very good.
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| Doc McStuffins...our first serious puppy related casualty. She's gonna have a hard time fixing up all those toys with only one hand! |
In all seriousness though, she is a good puppy. We've had her like a week and half and its going pretty well. It would go better if she would stop peeing and pooping on the floor, but you know...she has finally figured out the whole walking on a leash thing, and she hasn't knocked any kids down or anything, and this morning I actually never heard her howl once! So she's adjusting to our schedule and sleeping past 6:15, so thats very good.
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