Kooky Kids

Nina was doing "madlibs" and needed an adverb. She asked Alyssa what an adverb is. Her response?

"The girl quietly killed herself and her mother quickly put her body in the dumpster."

What sort of demented children do I have? LOL

I still love my job...

and it's a good thing I always have my camera on me to get random pics of myself at the Covey Center... LOL


Oh and that's Josh, my redneck friend from work. He really cracks me up :)

OUCH!!!

Can you believe that I had my first sun exposure of the summer during the last weekend of August? I need to get a life outside of work... LOL


We went to the pool on Saturday and the whole family got burned. OUCH!!!

First Day of School :)

School started a bit early this year, but we were very ready :)

First off is the Black children's tradition "model shot" LOL
(Caleb can never keep a straight model face)

And look at these adorable baby snails the kids found...
they were so freakin' cute.

Wow! I have a lot of catching up to do!

But instead I'm just going to start now. LOL I've been so overwhelmed with everything that facebook and The American Homemaker have been getting all my attention and this blog has suffered. Now it feels like a neglected scrapbook, but instead of going back and blogging about the last few months, we'll just start with now :) It's my blog, I can do what I want... he he he

The Cleggs were really awesome and invited us to family home evening with them last week. We went swimming at his sister's house. The kids had a blast.

Family Home Evening

We've been slackers at FHE lately, but tonight we had an actual official family home evening :) Nina gave a great lesson on repentance, we had super yummy breakfast rolls and we were supposed to play the game Sorry! but we couldn't find the pieces, just the game board... LOL So we played Skipbo instead.

Stupid House

Hhhmmmm.... I wonder why I'm so dependent on these little pink allergy pills... and why I feel like crap.... and why I don't sleep restfully

Could it be the freakin' black mold under all of the carpet in the room just off my bedroom!!! I'm allergic to mold and we all know it's not good for anyone. I cut this piece of carpet out, but I'm gonna rip all the rest out by myself if my landlord doesn't do something soon. I told him about the leak and the wet carpet back in November and still nothing!

Wicked

Wicked was amazing!!! We had great seats and loved every minute of it. We ate delicious Italian food for dinner at a nice restaurant, enjoyed the show and had ice cream cookie sandwiches afterward. It was a fabulous date!

It's tonight!!!

Ken and I are going to see Wicked tonight in Salt Lake! I'm so excited :) I've never seen it PLUS it's been two years since I've been to a Broadway-style play, so I'm double excited! We're going out to a nice Italian dinner first and then up to the Capitol Theater! Hopefully the snow stops before tonight. I mean seriously... am I mistaken and it really isn't April?

And... I added myself as a new administrator on this blog... LOL So I should be posting a whole lot more now that I don't have to log in and out and blah blah every time I want to post here. Yes I'm really busy and time is precious :)

Max

This is the newest member of our family. His name is Max. He's a lhasa apso/cairn terrier mix. He's really well-behaved and is very happy to be with us. We got him at the animal shelter and he has a sad cough, but he's on medicine, so hopefully it clears up soon. He'll be going home with Ken when he leaves in a week and a half and I think he'll really miss me and the kids. I'm so not a dog fan, but he's not bad since he doesn't shed, jump on me or lick me :)

He LOVES, LOVES, LOVES car rides!

Caleb and Alyssa... the stars :)

Wow!!! What a week! Our bathroom broke on Wednesday (fun!) and wasn't fixed until Saturday afternoon. We spent the night at my mom's house on Thursday and Friday nights. I had to take two days off of work this week, so I'm gonna be broke come pay day :(

We also had the final dress rehearsals and performances of our play this week :)

Alyssa was a princess and Caleb was the king. It was super adorable, but I'm really glad it's over! Directing a cast that big was insane!

We did a girl's night out after the play for any moms that wanted to go. We ate at Chilis and had a lot of fun.

Ken will be here in a week. I haven't seen him in two months, so I'm pretty excited!

Wow I Never Post Here Anymore :(

But I do post on my other blog every day, so I'm not too big of a slacker.

Last week Alyssa cleaned my whole kitchen without being asked, so I took her out for a treat that night after dinner. I told her to choose what she wanted from the store. I told her she could have ice cream, a doughnut, a pop, a candy bar, basically whatever she wanted. And her dessert of choice? Two fried drumsticks! What a crazy girl!

And this week has been crazy... today was a pig-tail, bright lipstick,

and black nail polish day...


Don't know what that means exactly, but I had to make myself cute so I wasn't depressed!

And this was dinner... LOL



Yeah you can tell it's been one of those weeks when I actually scheduled this dinner on the menu days ago! Glad I was thinkin' ahead :)

Confidential - Behavior Notice (Caleb)

Yes I have seen the dreaded "Behavior Notice" in my inbox before. Usually Caleb is fighting or throwing snowballs.... you know, being a boy... this is a new one. And as mad as I should be I couldn't stop laughing. Who invented boys, seriously?

Violation: Disruptive behavior


Description: Caleb urinated on the field out back of the school, during recess. This was reported by his peers. Caleb admits to doing this. He will be providing service for the school during his lunch recess.

Happy Late Valentine's Day!!!

Good Grades.... again

Alyssa and Caleb each got a 4.0 on their report cards. Nina got a 3.92. Not too shabby! We celebrated with a trip to Chili's :)


We did Valograms at our school on Thursday. I got a flower for each of my kids. Then they wandered around the hall after play practice and picked up random dropped flowers (it was bring your teacher a flower day). They ended up with enough to make this little arrangement which Nina HAD to take a picture of to put on her blog... where in the world did she learn that from???

Although I'm not sure what flower arranging has to do with stories for girls which is what her blog is all about :) Silly girl!

Alyssa's Week!

It was Alyssa's birthday on Tuesday, the 3rd. I'm a slacker at blogging here, but finally I'm posting her birthday pictures! She loves nutcrackers (but hates the ballet...lol) so she usually gets a nutcracker every year. This year we got her two. Since she's obsessed with rats, how could we not get her the rat king nutcracker? She also got a penguin mp3 player speaker thing, a Harry Potter fairy tale book (I forget the name), a penguin knick-knack, some fairy figurines, money and I'm sure I'm forgetting something :)





She got to eat all her meals on the birthday plate. We've had the birthday plate tradition for years.

















I took her flowers at school that day. She felt very cool carrying around her flowers at play practice and all the kids sang happy birthday to her.




Nina and Caleb decorated her birthday cupcakes while Alyssa and I ran to the store that evening. They turned out cute!


That was the good part of her week... on Thursday she had a dentist appointment. They knocked her out and did a root canal, six fillings, x-rays and sealants. It was so sad. She was so out of it when she came to. I felt very bad for her.

Her birthday party is on Wednesday night.
She's having a "spa party".
Fun, Fun!