we had a good day today! got to hang out and all that. dh got in last night right as kung fu class was starting, so the kids loved that and I had help with the little ones. we took the kids to Jetters afterwards cause kids eat free from 5-8pm.
today C went to his friends house so they could practice as a band and the rest of us went to the city for a few stops. had to get a few things from Sams, some guitar strings for C and dh had to stop at Harbor Freight for some work related stuff. I wanted to go to Target, but dh forgot and I didnt say anything. kept me from spending more $
oh, I had to use my new baby carrier in Sams (S gets tired of carts very quickly!) and I got so many comments course it could just be the cute baby in the carrier one man came up as we were checking out saying "I just had to come see my little girlfriend before she left!" course its always hilarious when people come up to Sarina and want to engage with her cause she normally just STARES at them without cracking a smile!  once in a blue moon she'll smile and interact with someone, but usually its just a "what are you doing you kook" type of look 

tonight the kung fu academy celebrated Chinese New Year at our local chinese restaurant. it was fun! we filled up half the restaurant (which is saying a lot). they did a Lion Dance, hollered out "happy new year (in chinese)", had a raffle, gave out awards (all 3 of mine got one!) and of course we ate like piggies.  I have pics on the camera that I'll upload later.

oh, in awesome news, I GOT MY CAMERA!!!! I had to do it the hard way, but I got it!
while in the city, we stopped at Best Buy cause I wanted to get my hands on the camera (I remember playing with it before, but wanted to look at it again) only to find out they didnt have it in store. then after more looking, they're discontinuing that model! *wah!* they only had a small # for the whole district I could order and I didnt have the $ today and by the end of Feb (when our return is back) they'd very likely be gone and definitely off sale as they were today. so I left there empty handed. *pout*
then later i got to wondering if Walmart carried them OL. Voila! they do! so I applied for a walmart card at checkout and what do you know, it liked me! so it'll be here next week and I'll just pay it off when we get our return back!  I'm tickled!!

tomorrow after church we'll start getting ready for the super bowl party! well, maybe not party per say, but hang out. LOL!

nice people do exist

are these your camera pics?
Found Camera at NH's Basin

Sarina's two front side incisors came in finally! she's got little fangs (should I call her Bella or Alice?) pesky little things took their time on the last leg of that journey to get in! now we'll be waiting on the two top front middle teeth, the big uns!
she's been practicing her walking with us. she can walk beside us holding our hand now. so dang cute! and she's getting braver going between things. just a matter of time before she's eager to try more than one step here and there!
and she's slowly moving into the 18m stuff now. she can still wear 12m items fine and even the odd/end 6-9m thing, but her thighs/butt are really needing 18m pants and jeans. *giggle* poor girl, I hope she works some of that off when she starts walking

1-24-09

our date day was FAB! a whole 5+ hours of just dh and I (and Sarina) to hang out. we were going to eat at outback, but they didnt open til 3 (HOW can they do that on a saturday and still expect to make good money???) and it was only about 1, so we went to red lobster and pigged out! oh gosh, I was a walking bloat by the time we left!  it was GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD though! cost a pretty penny, but it'll likely be either the last time or the first of only two times we eat there this year.
we didnt see a movie cause he wasnt interested in what we found playing. no biggie.
we hit hobby lobby and I found some gorgeous material that I'm going to use to TRY to make a reversable mai tei for myself. wish me luck! I'll get a pic of the material tomorrow. I love it!
also found K some paint brushes she was wanting and they were half price, so 2.50 for a set of 20 nice brushes
then off to the mall (had to walk off some of that food!) and we putzed around a bit. I found some socks for S at gymbo and we got a couple of calendars for the boys (transformers and Fender guitars) since they were on clearance.

that was about it! time went quick! we had to wait about 20 minutes for our table anyway. OH, dh got me a mango daquiri (sp?) while we waited. that thing was AWESOME! and it didnt even give me a buzz. I think he told him to go mellow on it.  (normally I'm buzzing after something stupid like smelling liquor LOL)

but I feel so refreshed after today!! smiles and happy and all that good stuff! so it was worth it all the way around!

oh, while we were out, some stranger came up to the house and was banging on the door! they said he had a briefcase and a large binder. I have NO idea who it could have been except for insurance or book salesmen. they had everyone scared though!

tomorrow is church and dh is going to fix us lunch while we're gone. after that I'll take the girls grocery getting with me

right now I'm holding a sick baby.  Sarina started running a fever last night and all nite. she took a 3 hr nap yesterday afternoon. guess I should have known something was up.

so no church this morning. dh goes out of town this week to work for Honda.

C got a new guitar friday. we traded both his other two to go towards this one. which we got $150 trade in and only had $90 invested in those.  he's so proud of it. tomorrow he'll be going to a friends house so their band can practice and he can show it off. its a Gibson SG

for the *faint* moment of the day: garrett put himself down for a nap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish a little girl would do the same. she's had two very short naps and is a crankbutt. her 4 top teeth are working in. it looks like the lateral incisors (? not the very front ones but the ones next to them) will be the first ones through. a vamp baby. LOL!

first night in the crib

last night was Sarina's first night in her crib!
she did really well for me. she woke about 2:30 which is normal for her and we sat in the living room to nurse then I put her down and she slept til 6. K brought her in to me then and we slept nursed for a while. I had to get up earlier cause g got up early (after 6 for some reason and didnt want to stay in bed). she slept til about 7:30 though! not bad! maybe now I wont keep a crick in my shoulder from sleeping with her. (I have one arm bent above her head and this week I've kept a kink in my shoulder blade. hurts!)

1-6 ~ 1-7

1/6/2009 11:03 AM   long time no update I guess! Its been a good week or two (forget how long its actually been since a real update got posted). Let's see, this past week my sis and her family came up to do our Christmas gifts finally. It was fun having them all here, always is! All the kids enjoyed their gifts (both sides) and I hear the big bag of homemade goodies I sent home has quickly disappeared! :D Canaan got the Bruce Lee book (his first book) and has been studying on that every day! I think that's the first thing besides a manga book that he's had open each day LOL! Katlyn got drawing items of Tinkerbell, which is perfect for her! Gavin got a lego knights game but he and Hunter have been using it solely as legos for now (they loooooooooooove legos!) Hunter got a Cars read along book/CD set and a bug set LOL! Its got a lot of fake bugs in it along with the book to talk about them, even a sticker set and small poster. We now have bug stickers all over the kids puter desk. ;) Garrett got a soft farm set, its so cute! He still calls all the animals cows, but he's learning! Sarina got a great assortment of books… and I'm thinking a toy as well. Dang if I cant remember now! Friday we let both C and K have a friend over for the night. K had her cousin Heather over and C had his friend Graham. All well behaved and only a couple of "turn the music down" episodes after bedtime. Good kids!   The kids went back to school yesterday (Monday) and it sure was lonely without them all here. Canaan once again asked if we could homeschool again and I said nope! Not cause I'd not love to have them home, but he doesn't listen to me well enough for schooling now and I'm not going to stress myself out over that. Plus he'd then start complaining that he missed his friends. Oh the agonies of teens! LOL! K and G were kinda glad to be going back, they both missed their friends, but I was still told I was missed when they got back and gavey told me he'd miss me this morning. *sniff* such a sweetie!   Dh put up a new coat rack for us yesterday! WOO! I've been waiting on that for years! No more coats hanging on the kitchen chairs now, I love it!!!   I finished the Twilight series in 9 days (maybe 10?). it was good, though honestly, I don't see what all the hype was/is about. :dunno: it was a good fun read, but I have read better and plenty that have left a better ending for me to close with. Eh, it was free, so no biggie.  I'm definitely just going to wait for the DVD to come out though.   Sarina's hair is turning into a mowhawk LOL! She's got a right thick tuft of hair at the top of her head now. Its easy to keep bows in that have the grippie stuff on them, but the back is very slow to be filling in. I've tried to spike it up, but no success so far LMBO!!!   Speaking of bows, I've made some! Just for crafting fun for my girls, but I did some korker style bows! :D they can get addicting to make and gosh, it can get expensive too! LOL!! I do have pics of my goodies to share. I've actually got a lot of pics to share, still need to resize them (as of this update).   Had to call ATT about our texting. I'm not getting all of my texts for some reason and we cant figure it out. Irritates me to no end as well! Hopefully it'll be worked out soon and I'll have my texts (all of them) again.   I'm enjoying my new crockpot like crazy! Though I need to get a lot more crockpot recipes to make stuff! Last night was pork chops with all the fixings. I'm thinking of meatballs tonight and sloppy joes tomorrow :hehe: .   It also looks like I'll be making the sashes for the kung fu class too! I'll get the specifics maybe this week. Cool!     1/7/2009 11:59 AM   I'm really liking my crockpots (have I said that yet? LOL). Yesterday was BBQ meatballs (all gone!) and today is spaghetti sauce (smells great!!)   I'm still trying to get my recycles to the center. All last week they were closed cause of NYE and they were full and wouldn't allow drop offs. Very irritating!

Tuesday, December 23, 2008   Its been a fun week. I do miss having the kids home and really enjoy most days when they're off school.  The Cmas play on Sunday was so good. I got pics of the boys in their costumes and the adult play made me cry! It was about a family who had lost a son and was asked to take in an orphaned boy.  My mom (who played the part of the mother) even was crying.   Dh had to work all weekend, we got to see him for a few hours each night, but man its been a long time since we got some time together. We did manage to get in some *ahem* time in Sunday though. He's in Chattanooga this week and will have to go back after Christmas as well. (hi Rachel!) he comes in tonight, not sure if he has to work tomorrow though. They were going to have him come in tomorrow (Christmas Eve) and he said NO, he was coming in tonight! FIL is also supposed to be in either tonight or tomorrow. We'll see when he gets here. I think he'll be staying til the new year.   Sarina has stood by herself a few times! No more than a few seconds and she doesn't realize when she does it. She'll be playing with a toy and then just let go with both hands to examine it farther. ;) cute! She's also not been sleeping too well this week. I don't think its her teeth, there aren't any moving up on the bottom, and though her top 4 teeth are showing through the gums, they're not at or near enough the gum line to be breaking through. Not sure what's up with her sleeping this week. This morning about 5 she was up and wanting to get into stuff on the headboard though. LOL!   I'll be taking the kids to my moms in just a bit. They're staying the night with them tonight (except for Sarina) so dh and I will get some quiet time and he may do some shopping I guess. I'm working on doing a bunch of baking! I'm making 3 loaves of PB bread (thanks JennT!) and a bunch of different cookies. I'll be giving them as gifts to my brother, BIL (step dads son) and my sis. And though I love the kids being here, I'll be glad when they're there so I can get this stuff done. Though I really hope Sarina lets me get the stuff done. LOL! Also need to make sure the house is cleaned up for when FIL and dh come home. The kids have been working on it this morning for me, but I'll need to go over it.   Naomi, I was able to read your post in my email notifies and TY so much :hug: I really, really miss being able to pop in and talk to you all. I miss being able to keep up with you all and I know all these babies and bellies will be getting so very big by the time I get back on. *sniff* I'll have a lot to catch up on for sure!! And I wish I had your peppermint bark recipe cause I'd like to add that in the mix of what I'm making! :lol:   I think I have more pics to post, this is kind of becoming a pic journal for now. :lol:   12-25-08 Once again I'm awake before most of the kids. The only exception is Gavin who has sat in here playing on the puter, happily waiting to hear movement from our bedroom so he can come in and start giggling over what's under the tree. LOL! The tree is loaded up, I love seeing it like that (it's amazing how much stuff I can accumulate by finding it through the year and putting it back!) We already know that Sarina likes her new stroller/walker because she was playing with it last night after it was put together. ;) daddy said she crawled up to it saying "Nah-nah nah nah" (which is her new sound and sooooooooooo cute since that's also what Garrett calls her and one of our nicknames for her :D )   10:22 AM Well its long after the gifts are opened and all the trash is picked up and everyone is playing with their new goodies. Gavin and hunter are still enjoying transformers, Canaan is back to playing on guitar hero, Katlyn is decked out in her tinkerbell stuff, Garrett is doing his normal drumming on everything though he did enjoy beating with his new black and decker 'tools', and Sarina is really in need of a nap after all the excitement. Her head is falling over my arm as I type. LOL! They all got new pjs, even daddy and I, last night at moms so we all look festive for pics :D We're still waiting for my dad to get here. I figure it'll be about lunch time when he shows up. The kids are excited for him to get here, they love seeing papa, but knowing he's bringing more gifts of course makes it even more exciting. LOL! The kids are asking if we can go to Chinese today, they were open last year for Christmas but I don't know about this year. Guess we'll see later on. I just know I'm not spending all my day cooking… and anyway all I really have is pizza to make. ;) Oh, FIL is going to take me grocery shopping for my Christmas present! Woo!!! I've got my coupons ready and waiting and I'm going to stock up! :boogie: Dh is watching john wayne movies (bleh) he and FIL have been doing that all morning. Hope we won't be stuck watching westerns all day, kwim? :-p   Oh, I got a 3 bowl crock pot, really nice! I need to stick something in it after Sarina lets me get up. ;) I also got a Bissell Little Green Clean machine, MUCH needed! (and I asked for it). Can't wait to start cleaning up my couch and stuff, they are so nasty! And my best present was my new winter coat! Ooooooooooo, it's so pretty! Got it for $60 too which was $100 off the tag! :D   Mom and papaw gave all the adults cash, so I have some $ to go play with now! There's a diaper bag at Wal-Mart I've been eyeballing, so I may go pick that up tomorrow along with checking out the after Christmas stuff, FUN!   My SIL, Tori (dh's sister) brought Katlyn and I the Twilight books to start reading. I've heard so much about them so hopefully I'll enjoy them. I've also been reading some manga, Fairy Tail and Canaan is ALL into Naruto now. He's up to manga #23 I think it is. He's waiting for the next ones to come back in to the library.   Off to find something to fix. People are getting hungry!   12/28/2008 11:19 AM   We've had a good breakfast today to start off Robert's birthday. I fixed bacon, eggs, pancakes (with cinnamon), biscuits and gravy. Yum!! FIL is also going to be leaving today later on. He and Robert are working on a shelf installation in his semi right now.   Oh, for Christmas, my dad got dh and I a $100 and dh told me to take it and buy myself something! So I have $ to play with! I actually went shopping last night and bought myself 3 new pair of shoes, a 3 pk of earrings, a big pack of turquoise and black bracelets and an adorable brown LS shirt with white polka dots (scoop neck/empire waist) and a pair of "suck 'em in" undies (those gut squishing things that make you look slimmer :lol: ). I spent about $65! *eek!!* Not something I'm used to, but it was all stuff I wanted, especially the shoes. I usually get my shoes from the thrift store or yard sales and mine are all about looking like they came from the thrift store. :cute: I told Katlyn she had to keep her hands off LMBO! I then went OL and bought a new diaper bag from Wal-Mart that's not sold in stores. Its black with white polka dots :D I'll get a pic when it comes in! my Kechi bag is looking rough about now and I need another to switch to.   12/28/2008 9:37 PM   Forgot to post that my first PP "af" has shown, though I attribute it 100% to getting the Mirena put in. its very light, just a pantyliner is needed. Guess I'll see if I get another one in about a month from now. I sure hope not! LOL! I'm used to not having anything til a month after I quit nursing. :P and we're still going strong here, my little nursling piggy. I tell you, this girl has some HUGE thighs on her! LMBO!! I think she has 2 lbs of extra baggage right there :lol: I'll have to get a good back side pic to share :hehe: a far cry from the little chicken legs she used to sport.   OH another great thing! The past two nights she's slept ALL night!!! Two nights of 8+ hours of sleep!!!! WOAH!!! Awesome!!! Course she doesn't knock out til about midnight, but that's about normal for me anyway, so its fine. LOL!   Dh and FIL will be leaving out in the morning. Not sure yet if dh gets to come home for NYE or not either. No biggie I guess if not, at least its not Christmas! We always just veg at home anyway and no change of plans this year.   I'm looking forward to using my new crock pot with the small bowl to make my cheesy salsa dip for NYE, or maybe the cocktail sausages? Hmmmmm……….. decisions!   Katlyn went to Dana's tonight and tomorrow Canaan will have a friend over.   Garrett got big boy undies for Christmas. He loves wearing them during the day (they have dinos on them). Its sure nice not to have to buy a lot of diapers and pull ups! He still wears his P/Us, but only when we go out, a diaper when he goes to bed at night, but lately he's been dry when he gets up in the morning too. Undies are a good thing!   Speaking of diapers, Sarina got a big box of them plus a big box of wipes from papa Jim! Woo! We're set for about 2 months because I also have a box that I'd bought just last week!

12-23 ~ 12-28

Tuesday, December 23, 2008   Its been a fun week. I do miss having the kids home and really enjoy most days when they're off school.  The Cmas play on Sunday was so good. I got pics of the boys in their costumes and the adult play made me cry! It was about a family who had lost a son and was asked to take in an orphaned boy.  My mom (who played the part of the mother) even was crying.   Dh had to work all weekend, we got to see him for a few hours each night, but man its been a long time since we got some time together. We did manage to get in some *ahem* time in Sunday though. He's in Chattanooga this week and will have to go back after Christmas as well. (hi Rachel!) he comes in tonight, not sure if he has to work tomorrow though. They were going to have him come in tomorrow (Christmas Eve) and he said NO, he was coming in tonight! FIL is also supposed to be in either tonight or tomorrow. We'll see when he gets here. I think he'll be staying til the new year.   Sarina has stood by herself a few times! No more than a few seconds and she doesn't realize when she does it. She'll be playing with a toy and then just let go with both hands to examine it farther. ;) cute! She's also not been sleeping too well this week. I don't think its her teeth, there aren't any moving up on the bottom, and though her top 4 teeth are showing through the gums, they're not at or near enough the gum line to be breaking through. Not sure what's up with her sleeping this week. This morning about 5 she was up and wanting to get into stuff on the headboard though. LOL!   I'll be taking the kids to my moms in just a bit. They're staying the night with them tonight (except for Sarina) so dh and I will get some quiet time and he may do some shopping I guess. I'm working on doing a bunch of baking! I'm making 3 loaves of PB bread (thanks JennT!) and a bunch of different cookies. I'll be giving them as gifts to my brother, BIL (step dads son) and my sis. And though I love the kids being here, I'll be glad when they're there so I can get this stuff done. Though I really hope Sarina lets me get the stuff done. LOL! Also need to make sure the house is cleaned up for when FIL and dh come home. The kids have been working on it this morning for me, but I'll need to go over it.   Naomi, I was able to read your post in my email notifies and TY so much :hug: I really, really miss being able to pop in and talk to you all. I miss being able to keep up with you all and I know all these babies and bellies will be getting so very big by the time I get back on. *sniff* I'll have a lot to catch up on for sure!! And I wish I had your peppermint bark recipe cause I'd like to add that in the mix of what I'm making! :lol:   I think I have more pics to post, this is kind of becoming a pic journal for now. :lol:   12-25-08 Once again I'm awake before most of the kids. The only exception is Gavin who has sat in here playing on the puter, happily waiting to hear movement from our bedroom so he can come in and start giggling over what's under the tree. LOL! The tree is loaded up, I love seeing it like that (it's amazing how much stuff I can accumulate by finding it through the year and putting it back!) We already know that Sarina likes her new stroller/walker because she was playing with it last night after it was put together. ;) daddy said she crawled up to it saying "Nah-nah nah nah" (which is her new sound and sooooooooooo cute since that's also what Garrett calls her and one of our nicknames for her :D )   10:22 AM Well its long after the gifts are opened and all the trash is picked up and everyone is playing with their new goodies. Gavin and hunter are still enjoying transformers, Canaan is back to playing on guitar hero, Katlyn is decked out in her tinkerbell stuff, Garrett is doing his normal drumming on everything though he did enjoy beating with his new black and decker 'tools', and Sarina is really in need of a nap after all the excitement. Her head is falling over my arm as I type. LOL! They all got new pjs, even daddy and I, last night at moms so we all look festive for pics :D We're still waiting for my dad to get here. I figure it'll be about lunch time when he shows up. The kids are excited for him to get here, they love seeing papa, but knowing he's bringing more gifts of course makes it even more exciting. LOL! The kids are asking if we can go to Chinese today, they were open last year for Christmas but I don't know about this year. Guess we'll see later on. I just know I'm not spending all my day cooking… and anyway all I really have is pizza to make. ;) Oh, FIL is going to take me grocery shopping for my Christmas present! Woo!!! I've got my coupons ready and waiting and I'm going to stock up! :boogie: Dh is watching john wayne movies (bleh) he and FIL have been doing that all morning. Hope we won't be stuck watching westerns all day, kwim? :-p   Oh, I got a 3 bowl crock pot, really nice! I need to stick something in it after Sarina lets me get up. ;) I also got a Bissell Little Green Clean machine, MUCH needed! (and I asked for it). Can't wait to start cleaning up my couch and stuff, they are so nasty! And my best present was my new winter coat! Ooooooooooo, it's so pretty! Got it for $60 too which was $100 off the tag! :D   Mom and papaw gave all the adults cash, so I have some $ to go play with now! There's a diaper bag at Wal-Mart I've been eyeballing, so I may go pick that up tomorrow along with checking out the after Christmas stuff, FUN!   My SIL, Tori (dh's sister) brought Katlyn and I the Twilight books to start reading. I've heard so much about them so hopefully I'll enjoy them. I've also been reading some manga, Fairy Tail and Canaan is ALL into Naruto now. He's up to manga #23 I think it is. He's waiting for the next ones to come back in to the library.   Off to find something to fix. People are getting hungry!   12/28/2008 11:19 AM   We've had a good breakfast today to start off Robert's birthday. I fixed bacon, eggs, pancakes (with cinnamon), biscuits and gravy. Yum!! FIL is also going to be leaving today later on. He and Robert are working on a shelf installation in his semi right now.   Oh, for Christmas, my dad got dh and I a $100 and dh told me to take it and buy myself something! So I have $ to play with! I actually went shopping last night and bought myself 3 new pair of shoes, a 3 pk of earrings, a big pack of turquoise and black bracelets and an adorable brown LS shirt with white polka dots (scoop neck/empire waist) and a pair of "suck 'em in" undies (those gut squishing things that make you look slimmer :lol: ). I spent about $65! *eek!!* Not something I'm used to, but it was all stuff I wanted, especially the shoes. I usually get my shoes from the thrift store or yard sales and mine are all about looking like they came from the thrift store. :cute: I told Katlyn she had to keep her hands off LMBO! I then went OL and bought a new diaper bag from Wal-Mart that's not sold in stores. Its black with white polka dots :D I'll get a pic when it comes in! my Kechi bag is looking rough about now and I need another to switch to.   12/28/2008 9:37 PM   Forgot to post that my first PP "af" has shown, though I attribute it 100% to getting the Mirena put in. its very light, just a pantyliner is needed. Guess I'll see if I get another one in about a month from now. I sure hope not! LOL! I'm used to not having anything til a month after I quit nursing. :P and we're still going strong here, my little nursling piggy. I tell you, this girl has some HUGE thighs on her! LMBO!! I think she has 2 lbs of extra baggage right there :lol: I'll have to get a good back side pic to share :hehe: a far cry from the little chicken legs she used to sport.   OH another great thing! The past two nights she's slept ALL night!!! Two nights of 8+ hours of sleep!!!! WOAH!!! Awesome!!! Course she doesn't knock out til about midnight, but that's about normal for me anyway, so its fine. LOL!   Dh and FIL will be leaving out in the morning. Not sure yet if dh gets to come home for NYE or not either. No biggie I guess if not, at least its not Christmas! We always just veg at home anyway and no change of plans this year.   I'm looking forward to using my new crock pot with the small bowl to make my cheesy salsa dip for NYE, or maybe the cocktail sausages? Hmmmmm……….. decisions!   Katlyn went to Dana's tonight and tomorrow Canaan will have a friend over.   Garrett got big boy undies for Christmas. He loves wearing them during the day (they have dinos on them). Its sure nice not to have to buy a lot of diapers and pull ups! He still wears his P/Us, but only when we go out, a diaper when he goes to bed at night, but lately he's been dry when he gets up in the morning too. Undies are a good thing!   Speaking of diapers, Sarina got a big box of them plus a big box of wipes from papa Jim! Woo! We're set for about 2 months because I also have a box that I'd bought just last week!

catching up on updates! 12-15 ~ 12-19

Monday, December 15, 2008   Well, Garrett succeeded in dumping the rest of Sarina's antibiotic down the kitchen sink. I thought they were child proof lids?! I guess I need a Garrett proof lid instead. :P she was down to the last couple of doses so hopefully it's ok.   Things have been fine here. Doing all the regular stuff, nothing out of the ordinary. Sarina turned 8 months today! Wow oh wow! Gotta get pics taken before I forget (again). The kids got out of school early today cause of a winter storm advisory in effect. Ice and snow and all that stuff supposed to be moving in the area through the night. We'll see if they have school tomorrow. Gavin's music thing is tomorrow night so really, I hope it comes to nothing. They'll be out of school on Friday as it is, so they can do without a day off right now. LOL!   Robert is working in town this week! Well, he gets to be home each night that is. Only the 2nd week he's gotten to do that since he went back to work in October!  Sheesh. Thinking I'll fix spaghetti or sloppy joes tonight… yeah, maybe sloppy joes!   We finally watched Dark Knight last night! Good movie! Dark and grim, but still good. I've been playing Super Paper Mario this week LOL! Got myself hooked I did!   I got offered the job of sewing the sashes for the kung fu academy. J I thought that was cool and it's a super easy thing to do. I've got to check on prices of fabrics and see how much it'd run for me to do it compared to them ordering them so we can figure out a price to charge. Gotta be cheaper for me to do them though, ordering them was $16 each and I made the kids 3 sashes for like $3 total!   Sarina is getting much faster at crawling now. Plus she's working on figuring out the doors on the cabinets that she can get to. Fun! :laughing: She has done another time or two of standing on her own for a few seconds, but she gets a real worried look on her face when she's not holding onto something while she's standing. :lol: As far as how big she is, she didn't grow much this past month. She's still 21.5 lbs, but she's now 29" tall. Still wearing 12m stuff, size 3 shoes.   Garrett only wears pull ups while we're out of the house anymore. He does a great job going potty. I'm tempted to let him wear undies out (and he has one time on a very short trip) but he still tends to go in them if we cant get to a potty on time. And this kid has to go what seems every 5 minutes! His bladder must be the size of a teaspoon! :lol:   I set up the PNP in the bedroom for Sarina. She finally outgrew the cradle. She's sleeping great in it too. I was worried about the transition for her, but she's done really well. The first week she had to sleep in the swing cause of her congestion, but since then its been in the PNP. She sleeps til about 4am and then up to nurse and down again til 7 or 8 when she comes in bed with me for a nursing.   The band concert went really well this past Friday. So proud to see Katlyn up there, it reminded me of when I was in band. Brought back a ton of memories! :D I hope she keeps it up!   Gavin gets to wear his pj's to school this Friday for their last day. :lol: he's so excited about that.   Ooo, I've got a little crawly bug-girl on my leg and now standing at my chair. Guess I better tend to her. ;)     12/16/2008   Well the kids are out of school today. There's a layer of ice on everything around here. Gavin's school program was tonight, now I wonder what they'll do about that. They've been working on it for a couple of months now. ?? The kids of course are super happy to be off school today. Canaan's already played his video game and Katlyn is on hers now. :lol: I think Gavin and Hunter may still be sleeping cause they're not in here on the computer drawing Batman/hulk/etc. Garrett is in between sleep and awake. I sent him back to bed about 30 minutes ago. Fussing and carrying on. Sarina is still snoozing. She's in my bed all snuggled up.   I wonder how much we can NOT get done today? LOL!     A sleeping baby in my lap right now, but I'm excited cause I got bows today!! All kinds since my Pretties order and my Gymbo order both came in! Gymbo had free ship and bows on sale last week, so I got 5 different pairs of bows for $14. :D Now we have new colors and even whispies that K and I can wear. Woo!   I need to get dinner started. Sleeping baby makes that hard though. She's not taken a good nap today so I hate to move her. :-P I did get her 8m pics taken today. Used the gorgeous dress Naomi got for her. Its soooooooooooo … GIRLY!!! :princess: it fluffs out like a tutu. Adorable!!   I finally finished up my Christmas cards today too. My printer jammed on me last week doing pics and it freaked it out. It wouldn't print anything from the puter, only wanted to copy things. Had to unplug it so it'd reset itself.   My anal list keeping self put together a list of all the kids heights to age 13. :blush: weights too if I had them. I had all this space in the notebook, had to do something with it! LOL!!   I tried to logon to BOLU from my phone today, but it kept kicking off cause the page was too large, even with no images/avatars/sigs in place and just 5 posts per page. Figures. The net provider said we're looking at mid-January at his latest guess right now. I sure hope it doesn't go back any farther, I need me some net!!!!!!!!!!!! (in my own house on my computer!)   I cant believe that Christmas is so close! The kids get out Friday for break. I still have a lot of wrapping to do. We've not put up outside lights this year because dh hasn't been here to do them. At least the tree is up. Barely standing though it is! Thomas, our tomcat, has repeatedly climbed the thing, Sarina gets it nude across the bottom and Garrett beats on all the ornaments like they're drums. Poor tree! My angel has fell off once and seems to always be leaning now. :lol:   Poor Gavin picked up a bug yesterday and he was up w/ an upset tummy last night. Today he's had the squirts. He keeps messing slightly on his drawers because he tries to fart! I told him he better not fart again unless he's on the pot!!       12-17-08   School was back on today! The kids were sad cause the county next to us was out but really there wasn't a reason to be. Friday is the last day anyway and they're more than counting down to that!   Gavin's concert is tomorrow night now. They moved the time up a bit as well. Not sure if dh will be able to make it now or not cause of that. :-P guess I'll record it for him on my camera JIC.   FIL is to be in next week to stay for the weekend at least, maybe til the first of the year. We'll find out more about that next week.   Garrett is driving me bonkers being a drummer on everything in the house! Seriously, this kid finds two stick-like objects and they become drumsticks and anything in sight becomes his drums. *bang bang bang bang* is what he'd do all day long if I let him. :crazy: He's been wearing his underwear with his pants today and most of this week. He prefers to have his "Uh-wear" on when he gets up now too, which is a big bonus. :D not that he doesn't forget (once today) sometimes while wearing pants, but he's doing great!   My neighbor sent a pan of homemade cinnamon rolls over last night! OMG, those are a serious weakness to me! :lol: they are sooooooooooooooooooooooo good! I was good and only ate 3 (there are 8 in a pan :blush: ) and refused the rest (*ahem* didn't hide the rest from the kids) and let them finish them off. So now they're gone! Whew!   Going for my Mirena tomorrow! I'm kinda excited about it. I've been cramping off and on this week, but I think its just my body doing its "trying to drop an egg but not really doing it" thing cause my face was totally broke out last week. They'll do a pg test before they put it in anyway. As always I'll be on pins and needles waiting for that. :lol:   Hmmm… wonder how long this update will get before I get to post it….     Well the mirena is in now and I go back in about 3 weeks for a recheck to make sure its in place right. It cramped awful, especially on my left side when it was put in. I took some Aleve and was feeling better about an hour later. I was even a bit queasy from it. Go figure. I did get the doc and nurse to laughing though. When he was inserting it, it cramped and I did a few "ow! Ow! Ow!" and he said I was making him feel bad cause its not supposed to be very painful. I said "well I guess its cause my stuff hasn't seen any action in a long time to make it hurt." The nurse almost spit she started laughing and the doc was soon after. (me too of course) and nurse says "that was just funny how you said that" and doc went along too with "yeah, your poor hubby!" and I had to explain  my comment as meaning 'no periods/cramps' kind of action. :lol: I was only out $80 for it ($50 copay cause my doc is a specialist by my ins, $30 for the mirena) so not bad for being covered the next 5 years. :D   Stopped by a couple of thrift stores afterwards and found Gavin a white button down shirt for tonight (yay!) and a few leggings and shirts/sweaters for S. found a Bratz scrapbook for K too. I'm going to find out if her friend Dana likes to scrap or else I'll just give it to k.     12-19-08   The musical went great last night! It was so cute seeing the kids perform. I got it all on video thanks to mom. Gavin said at first he was nervous, but then excited. :D he was so proud of himself, as were we!   Found that dh is going out of town again this coming week to Chattanooga. He'll be back on Wednesday. :-p He did get his bonus already, a week earlier than usual. Wow!   Gotta get in town, and hopefully post this!

Great vacation! I'll miss the kids when they go back to school