Is thankful for many things but family ranks up there right under God.

15 years of diapers are done!

Sarina is potty trained now and I'm super glad about the loss of diapers! we have the pack thats left and I put them on her at night, though she's not had a wet diaper in a couple weeks. she wakes at night and comes to the potty if she has to go. 
she had poop going issues this last week and it got her in trouble (since I knew she could do it, she just hem-hawed around til she went on herself) but today she was back on the potty to do her business for me.  she got a sticker for that! (plus a lot of clapping, cheering and all that good stuff)

and so I can have it in here, I took her measures this week and this girl amazes me with her growing  she is now 38" and 34.4 lbs. C is the only sib who was bigger than her at this age, and that is just barely and mostly cause he weighed more (38 lbs). amazing. yep! she keeps this up and she's on track to be taller than katlyn at full height (K is already 5'7" at 13). I just KNEW all the kids would be taller than me! dang! 

dh is out of town the rest of the week, which is good cause we REALLY need the money it'll bring in!! ugh, its been a very slow month, even had to ask my dad for some $ to get C birthday gifts. I hate that. but dad of course thought it was no big deal and sent him some $. C spent wisely too, I'm very proud of him.

I'm off track on my WL. I've gained 1.1 lbs dang it. ugh. not being able to get to the gym on a regular basis throws me off. I'm awful about working out at home.  no excuse for it, I'm just awful about it. LOL

Garrett's had a whole month of septemer of good school days! the teachers always tell me how awesome he's been and he gets excited too cause he gets an icy pop when he gets home.  bribery? maybe, but it works and its cheap LOL

I redeemed some mypoints for a lowe's gift card $50! I may save it to go towards the kitchen, which we want to start around Christmas, dont know yet. there's so many little things we want to do to the bathrooms still.  we'll see, at least I have it to play with! 
still no sink in the kids bath. with dh out of town, that threw it off. oh well. they have a shower/tub and toilet, so that's enough for now. i'm working on spackling the walls this week and getting the primer on and hopefully the walls painted. that way when dh gets back in, we can put the newly cut mirror back up and be ready for the sink!
can I say I love tile floors in there??? YES! water on the floor? no problem now! 

and I will get those pics off the camera. i will, i will, i will! things arent finished though, so its all still work in progress stuff. but you can see where its come from to where its going at least!

I want to put one of these up in their bath at some point. there's no window in there and its so dark. this would at least brighten it up during the day.

ok, gotta change out of my tinkerbell pj pants so I can go get Garrett. I have two free zaxbys kidsmeal coupons and I want to use them today!

Looking forward to my net working right again. Sometime. :p

Playing hookie today by spending it with the hubby and (most of) the kids.

Finally! A great day for garrett at school! :)

Making banana bread muffins since my net is almost nonexistant

Getting ready to watch The Expendables with my hubby. :)

Hanging out at the park til time to get C for the ortho

 so I know I'm not a posting diva these days. this is the first time I've been at the puter today and the kids will be home soon and I still dont have anything out for dinner. :P

garretts had a bad school week. I mentioned in stacy's journal that monday they called me to come pick him up. he was wreaking havoc and had only been there about an hour! throwing shoes, running out of the classroom and down the hall, trying to pull the fire alarm, etc. what a mess. they've never called to have him taken home. yesterday was better, he got 2 of 4 stars, but today he got 1 of 4. :P they're hoping he's just readjusting to being back in school and it'll all kick in soon. I do too. he's not out of reason here at home, so I guess he saves a lot of it for them.  he looks forward to going to school though, doesnt complain at all. 

monday was just a BAD day. C went in late casue of an upset tummy, K wanted to stay home, but she'd been recovering all weekend so I sent her on. Gav's nurse called from school cause he was nauseous, then the call about Garrett. argh!
the good part was my mom came to clean my house that day.  so at least my house was clean! LOL!

I did get the kids entry area walls done today. waiting to make sure the paint is dry before snapping a pic.

havent been able to go to the gym like I want since school started.  been hard to get there at all really. I've been a few times, but never for as long as I need. ugh.

some other awesome news I got yesterday is that my younger sister is pg!!! this is awesome cause they've been trying for 5 years and have gone through several fertility treatments. this cycle though she was waiting to start her meds cause she just felt like she was going to start af. well, the test popped up immediately when she tested! her EDD is the beginning of April! Sarina gets a birthday buddy!!

sarina has done really well with her pottying this week (after a horrible monday, of course LOL) she's even gone there herself today and called me when she was done (to my surprise). still waiting for that poop on the potty, but hey, we're saving diapers no matter.

Just got the wonderfully awesome, blessedly fantastic news that I'm going to be an aunt again!!!! Congrats Kimmy, Jeff and Courtney!!

Prepping for gavins Mario bday party :)

Holding at 158 this morning. Nice to see the Wii scale go down. Now if my little person would thin up. :)

Off to do stuff with hubby and the 2 youngest.

Waiting for a cub scout meeting to start :)

WOOT! Got my autographed book from Heather Webber today!!!

Great first day of school! H has gav's 3rd gr teacher, Gav has his fav teacher, and the big kids didnt complain (much).

She made it to 130 before having an accident. Not bad :)

the kids took forever to go to sleep last night. the boys at least, K was knocked out quick as usual. they were up easy this morning though, jabbering like chickens 
they did wake Garrett up, but no biggie. he'll be getting up with them next week. it'll be a new schedule again for us!

hey, did I mention I now have a housekeeper??!! ok, its just my mom, but its what she does for part time work.  I officially hired her (though she said she'd do it for nothing) and she'll come once or twice a month to help set my house in order!  she does an awesome job, dont know how she does it, but I want it more often.  too bad that gene didnt rub off on me huh? 

Sarina is going diaper free for now. I'm out of diapers and she tends to remember to potty if she's in the flesh. LOL no accidents so far, but I'm not expecting it to stay that way. 

Sitting at the 8th grade open house

Wow

Can't believe the kids start school in two days. The summer went by fast, but it was a good one. My babies are growing up so fast it brings tears to my eyes. We're super proud of all six of them too! We've been truly blessed with some wonderful kids. Thank you Jesus!