Wednesday, October 31, 2007

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

Well it's Halloween night and it has been a very fun filled day for everyone! We took the kids to McDonalds (one of their favourites) for lunch, then after a couple errands we went to Leisure World to go bowling! They had a great time!!! I only had my phone's camera to take pictures with so we'll see what they turn out like. I'm thinking they won't be very good. The bowling was a good distraction to the main event of the day......trick or treating! We got home just in time to get ready to go on the hunt for sweets with neighbor kids. My little ballerina, loved getting her hair pulled back like a 'real ballerina' and Em couldn't wait for me to paint a pawprint on her cheek. She is a cheerleader from High School Musical, her FAVOURITE movie right now, (it's driving me and Ty CRAZY) she's constently singing the songs from the movie. While I was trying to get the girls ready, Dagan was running around the house saying 'oooo ooooo oooo' at everyone! We went up to Serena and Alan's house so that we could all walk around together, 6 adults and 8 children. We all had a great time watching the kids, they were all so giddy! I think we ended up going to half a dozen houses, maybe, but the kids were quite happy to be done and go home to eat dinner and of course have sweets too. It surprises me how many bon fires and fireworkds there are on Halloween, since that is not a big thing to do at home. We've been listening to pops and bangs all evening. Even with several sweets and loud bangs outside, the kids are all sleeping really well, I guess we really wore them out today. I got all the halloween pictures in a slide show from today...I have some others from carving our pumpkins too but don't know if I will get those added today because it's almost midnight but I'll add them later, so check back! So, bye for now...

Thursday, October 25, 2007

I have a cold!

Something about having a cold absolutely drives me crazy!!! I hate the fuzzy head feeling and I can't breath right and my nose hurts from blowing it so much and my eyes and throat are itchy...and...and...well you get the picture! Poor Ty...I kept him up so much last night with my snoring...I felt so bad this morning because I had kept him awake and all he said was, 'Ah it's no big deal, one night in 11 years is not too bad!' ahh bless him :) He's such a sweet guy, I love him to pieces! Even feeling yuky yesterday, I still managed to get a birthday card done for Ty's Grammy in Kansas. She will celebrate her 89th birthday on Saturday (so that means the card will be a little late, but nothing new there). I truly hope that I am able to live that long and still have most of my faculties about me, well at least as many as I have now...that's not saying a lot sometimes ;)





I had a great breakfast this morning with a dear friend, I don't think we chatted about many earth shaking events but it was really great getting together just to chat about nothing. I'm loving being able to do that too. Ty and I go just about every Wednesday after we drop the kids at school and last week I got a chance to go to breakfast/coffee with two other friends on Friday too. I could definitely get used to this new found freedom...


Let's see what other exciting news do I have.....hmm....not much...well exciting for me I guess...my wonderful mammy is sending me 3 pairs of much needed blue jeans! YAY!!! Not sure when I will get them but I'm very excited about it anyway, doesn't take much I guess LOL And...I have just over a week before I get to spend the afternoon scrapbooking away at the Midlands Craft Club very first Saturday crop!!! Yippee Yahoo!!!!!!!!!! I am VERY excited about this. I really hope this new craft club has a good turn out on the 3rd, it would be great to a good group of ladies that enjoy getting together to crop.



Lastly I will share one more picture of our cutie Maisy...we got her a rubber chicken to play with at the shop yesterday and it squeaks just a little bit. It is already worth all €5 it cost me, I have laughed until I had tears streaming down my face at her playing with this silly chicken! She is rolling it around, chewing on it, throwing it up in the air, whipping her head around with it and just carrying it around the house. She is absolutely hysterical! It's not a great picture as I took it with my phone and she wouldn't exactly hold still long enough to pose! I was trying to get one of her holding it in her mouth but she was moving about too much!

With that...I better go for now...more later when hopefully I'm feeling a bit better. TTFN

Monday, October 22, 2007

Hello again

Well I'm not doing so good at posting regularly, seems to stay at only once a week....I guess that's better than not at all!
Once again this week was crazy! And....once again I'm not sure what I actually did...but I know it wasn't laundry and it wasn't cleaning the house! It looks like a bomb went off in it! Well maybe not that bad...a couple nights ago as we were getting kids ready for bed, I asked Dagan to put his clothes in the laundry bin and he said, I can't mammy it's too full! I had to laugh outloud at him.....hmmmm I guess I better do some washing :(
I did manage to get a little crafting done this week, but it was in the way of cards mostly. I did do one LO too and fixed another one that had been bugging me for ages! I did this LO in a class a couple years ago and just never finished it. I looked so plain, every time I looked at it in Em's book it stared back at me and I hated it. So I 'fixed' it. I wish I would have taken a before shot of it but I didn't think of it until after.





I had a couple birthday cards to do also, one for a little friend of Em's and one for a friend of ours (can you spot the little goof-up???)

Tuesday, October 16, 2007

Why is it going to school=being ill???

I don't get it, why is it as soon as school starts all children get ill in one way or another. Our kids have always always been so healthy. We never had an ear infection or any kind of '-itis' or anything more than a simple cold since birth.....until school happened! Now already this year, in less than two months of school, we've already had head lice in Emma that we have treated 5 times and we are still not sure that we got it all, throat infections in Austyn and Dagan, a stomach ache for Emma and some type of stomach bug or intestinal parasite in Dagan and now Dagan has a pretty bad cough and of course the three of them have the perpetual runny nose that I think every student has for the duration of their school years! Does this ever end? It could be worse...they have not had to miss very much from school so hopefully that continues and even through all of this, they have all managed to stay in pretty good spirits most of the time!

I had a scrapbook class again last night, I am really enjoying having the classes since I've started back after my summer break. I have such a good group of ladies that so faithfully take my classes and put up with my scattered brain...I wonder if any of them would believe that I actually did have a brain that could think straight once-upon-a-time...probably not! I have a couple crops that I will be attending in the near future so I will have more things to post up here soon...speaking of which, I have a page that I am trying to get going so I'm gonna be done for now...more later!

Sunday, October 14, 2007

Another week has past

Well I've been working to get this site up and running and hopefully I will be a little more diligent at updating it with new posts and pictures.

Let's see...what's been happening this week...funny how at the end of the week I've no idea what I've done but I know I was gone all the time! The kids had school all week and for the first time in weeks we had NO birthday parties to put on or attend! That helped our Saturday out a lot! We did get the kids' Halloween costumes so we are set for that and didn't even wait til the last minute..yippeeeee (you'll have to wait til then to see them tho...No sneak peeks ;)

The girls also started ballet this week and they were very excited about it! Austyn has been so anxious about taking ballet but there just wasn't anyone teaching it. Then, I talked to Aishling, their dance teacher from last year. She asked me if either of the girls were going to continue this year. I was hesitant at first because they didn't' seem to enjoy the hip-hop class last year but then, much to Austyn's excitement, she told me she had a ballet teacher this year...bad news, she wasn't going to start until after Christmas. Well Austyn was over the moon about starting 'soon' in ballet! We went ahead and started her in another class until the ballet started, since Emma was taking gymnastics on Saturdays. She was enjoying her time in the class very much (all 3 that she took) and then Ashling told us that the class was actually going to start early...again Austyn was thrilled!!! Well ballet started on Saturday and Austyn was SO EXCITED about it. Emma hadn't decided if she wanted to take the class or not but wanted to try it out first. (Poor Dagan just gets hang out with mommy while we taxi the girls around). When I collected the girls...Emma had made up her mind...so now we have two little ballerina-to-be's in the house. I'll take a picture of them and post it, maybe before next weeks class.

After Ty was finished with work and all the kids were collected from their various classes we all worked out in the garden. We got the trampoline down for the winter...kids are always a little sad when we take it down but then they were REALLY excited when we first put it up in the spring. We had beautiful weather so we all enjoyed it. They helped us take down the trampoline while they were riding their bikes around!

Well that is about all the ramblings I can do for now...nothing too much exciting was going on this week...I'll update more later. I have a Scrapbook class on Monday evening so I should have a few more things to add to my crafty slide show....Have a blessed week ahead. Bye for now!

Friday, October 12, 2007

Thursday, October 11, 2007

Hello...Welcome to my new blog site

I decided that it was time to change blog sites...I wanted a site that was a little easier to post to and set up slide shows and such...so what do you think?



So much has been going on lately and I'm affraid it isn't going to be slowing down anytime soon so hopefully I will actually have time to keep this thing updated...we'll see!



Check back soon for new pics of Austyn and Dagan's birthdays!!!



See you soon...kel