Silly GIrls

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A new obsession

Has anyone else played at picnik.com? I am becoming a little obsessed. (And thank goodness for Grandma. Chase's hair is MUCH better, don't you think?)

Are You Kidding Me???

When Chase came home from school yesterday he had a chunk of hair cut off his bangs. It looked so awful I chopped the rest of his bangs off too (do you call them bangs on a boy?). We were laughing so hard. I told him he looked like a little girl with a bad haircut...not even a boy with one. Then we spiked his hair up in an attempt to draw attention away from the unsightly bang area. Hopefully Grandma can get him into her schedule this afternoon to cut it for real. But the poor kid went to school looking like this today!

Its a good thing we love our dogs so much...

About a week and a half ago we put up our Christmas tree. We have always had a real tree, but this year Beau's sister decided to buy a new tree from the Festival of Trees (a charitable event here in Elko where companies donate beautifully decorated trees and the community has a silent auction for them) so she gave us their old fake tree. It is a very pretty one and we had fun putting it together and decorating it. I am amazed that you really can't tell the difference.

Anyway, it was all decorated and a few days later both of the dogs crawled under it. The whole thing snapped and fell over. Ornaments and lights were all over the floor and tangled up. I was in the middle of all my finals projects and Beau was working nights so it lay there for about three days. Finally, yesterday, we found the problem, bought a replacement part (I was amazed they had them for sale) and completely redecorated the tree.

The pictures above are some of our favorite ornaments. When Megan was a baby we started a tradition of buying each of the kids a new ornament every year. They are generally matching if not the very same. If they don't already have the year we find a creative way of putting it on the ornament. I love the cloth ornaments...I usually use DMC floss to put the year on those. Our tree is getting awfully crowded now, but we love it. Then as the kids move out they will take their years and years worth of ornaments with them.

Does anyone else do something like that?

A Little Surprise

I am one that always hooks the whole camera up to the computer to download pictures instead of inserting the memory card. For whatever reason the computer never downloaded the 4 pictures that were saved to the camera memory. It only downloaded those from the memory card. Today I took out the memory card and hooked the camera to the computer and found pictures I didn't know I had from last year in Arkansas. It was so fun to find them. I don't remember ever even seeing them!

Those were the days...

I happen to be a mom that is very thankful my kids are a little older and more self-sufficient...but this is my all-time favorite picture. Doesn't it make you want pinch their chubby cheeks and cuddle up with them!! Love it!

Wrestling According to Chase

Tonight was Chase's first night of wrestling practice. This mom is not sure why anyone (let alone her sweet boy) would want to participate in something so barbaric...but this is what Chase had to say abou the evening:

Mom: Was it as much fun as you thought it was going to be?

Chase: YES! And a lot more painful.

8's Tag

Rules:
1- Post the rules.
2- Answer the 6 "8" items.
3- Let each person know that they have been tagged.

8 Favorite T.V. Shows(in no particular order):
1- Survivor (I'm obsessed)
2- Dateline NBC
3- The View
4- Desperate Housewives (Please don't judge)
5- The Amazing Race
6- American Idol
7- Oprah (Duh!)
8- What Not to Wear


8 Things I did yesterday:
1- Took myself to the doctor (don't ask)
2- Took Megan to the doctor (strep)
3- Tutored at the college
4- Practiced my speech (mostly at the doctor)
5- Went grocery shopping with the whole family (I don't recommend it.)
6- Went to my EDU 250 class
7- Took kids to school and picked them up again
8- Registered Chase for wrestling (he is so excited!)

8 Favorite Restaurants:
1- Machis
2- Sizzler (mostly because I haven't been to one in years)
3- Subway
4- Manuel's El Burrito
5- P.F. Changs
6- Taco Bell (I'm easy to please)
7- Muley's
8- Garcias

8 things I am looking forward to:
1- Christmas
2- Finishing this semester with all my brain cells still in tact
3- Beau's work party
4- Getting the results of the huge Praxis test I took a few weeks ago
5- Buying a new house
6- Taking my kids to Disneyland
7- The Survivor finale
8- Seeing the kids' faces on Christmas!

8 things on my wish list:
1-Two sisters (Megan and Brooke) and a brother (Chase) who get along all of the time instead of every once in a while
2- A house we can finally call our own again
3- Mary Poppins cleaning magic...the good old finger snapper
4- To be debt-free!
5- I really hope Chase loves wrestling
6- A good children's theater program in our tiny town...Megan loves theater
7- That when we move yet again (probably to a town about 10 minutes away) for the last time ever, that the kids will all adjust quickly and find friends and love yet another new school.
8- World peace, the end of worldwide hunger and for people to respect the beliefs and values of others and just get along already!

8 people I tag:
1- Jana
2- Annette
3- Kareen
4- Misty
5- Dyana
6- Melanie
7- Jenny
8- Gini

How SAD is this???

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