Conversation with Erin today....

Me: Hey Erin why did you just rip little pieces of toilet paper and put them all over the bathroom floor?

Erin: I didn't know....

Me: You didn't know what?

Erin: I didn't know you were watching me.

Another funny memory

Okay let me first apologize for how bad these pictures are. I don't know if it was the lighting, the camera, or the fact that I was laughing so hard! This was 2 years ago when Jordan was 14 years old. He told me they asked him to help out with the Christmas play at church little did I know that when he came out to do his part he would be wearing a cow costume with udders on the belly!! Oh my goodness the girls and I both about wet our pants laughing! The funniest part was when they got to his part he just said MOO in an annoyed voice. He he what a good sport he is huh? He told me he didn't know that is what they had up their sleeve for him either until he got there!

Caught in the act!

I'm not sure why we bought these girls two separate beds! Every night it is a struggle to keep them each in their own bed. I came around the corner and said I hope you are in your OWN bed. They of course said we are....NOT is what they should have said. This is how I caught them sleeping or hmm I wouldn't go straight to sleeping playing would probably be more appropriate in bed together. Erin actually had the audacity to smile for the picture! STINKER!

Advice day-subject for today MY HAIR

So lately I have been wearing my hair up in a clip almost every day as it is so heavy and long. It is getting close to time to cut it off and donate to Locks of Love. I had Erin take this picture of me its not the best (notice the big knot on one side you can tell I just took it out of the clip) Anyway if you were me how would you cut my hair? Links to hairstyles would be AWESOME!

YIKES!!

You may have heard the screaming the last couple days YES all the way in whatever state you are from our home in Washington. My girls have let out the most ear splitting screams in the past couple days b/c we seem to have a wasp nest IN our vent in the bathroom! Oh the horror .... my honey is working on it but it can't end soon enough!!!

DVR age

Sometimes I REALLY hate (and I don't like to use that word very often) the age of the DVR!!! My youngest has no idea what it means to sit and wait for the show to come back on for commercial break. I turned on the TV for her this morning Dora was in the middle of an episode. I thought okay here you watch this mommy needs to clean a little. She should be happy right...WRONG she started to cry b/c she wanted me to rewind it to the beginning. I couldn't do that b/c we turned it on right in the middle. Ugggh I hate to say this but if they only had any idea how lucky they were! Remember when we only had cartoons on Saturday morning? Man I'm getting old.....

Care for a pretzel?

I was going through some of my old files on my computer and ran across these pictures. I remember this day very clearly. We were watching Jordan's baseball game from the car b/c the mosquitoes were so bad this summer in Alaska. The girls were watching a movie and I gave them pretzel sticks. See how they find ways to entertain themselves?

Yipppeee!

BEFORE

AFTER



Okay let me remind you we are a military family that moves about every 3 years sometimes more. Curtains are often the bane of my existence! That being said I ordered these curtains (once again) after we moved to Washington. (I hate the measuring and searching to find ones we can afford in the right color and what not!)Anyway I had a very hard time finding these measurements. Finally decided on these because they were the right width. The height was a bit too long but I thought Oh well we will just hang them higher right? Well I tried to explain this to my husband and it some how got lost in translation. The first picture is what I have lived with for the past year! My curtains have hung on the floor for almost a year. I don't know what convinced my husband this time but I some how talked him into FINALLY raising them. Awww the small pleasures in life. Don't they look nice?

Girls got ahold of my camera!

No the date on the side is not correct. I couldn't find my camera. Finally got my hands on it. Here is what I found. Isn't it funny what they deam worthy of a photo op? I'm not going to point any fingers but hmmm who do we think took these pics?

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I lost my tooth

Erin was born with what many African American women have told me when they see her a smile with character. She has a space between her two front teeth. We have spoke to the dentists already and plan on working on it when she gets her adult teeth in. It has become so much a part of her smile though now I can't imagine her any other way. When one of her fellow classmates in her kindergarten class asked her about the space and pointed right to it my heart broke for her. She just smiled and said oh yeah I lost a tooth there it will come back in when I get bigger. (I am guessing she thinks this from big sister loosing her teeth?) Is it horrible that I think it is just precious though? As Christian would say that's a mother's love huh?

Hypothetical question.....

If you were randomly given $1,000 to spend on anything. What would you spend it on?

-go to McDonalds and say I want one of everything!

-buy some expensive jeans that fit and not care about the price tag?

-get your husband that new electronic whatsit that he has been dying for?

-the options are endless here now your turn to give me what you would do......

Horatio DEAD

Please tell this is true! I really wanted to watch this show CSI Miami but I just cannot stand the actor David Caruso. He is the absolute worst over actor I have ever seen! He is like finger nails on a chalk board!!

Can you tell he annoys me?

I just read that he might have died in the season finale of last year. If this is true I can finally watch this show! Yippee!

http://tvfilter.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DB9D137CC0F754C9!26491.entry

Friday's Fave Five

I am going to share five of my favorite things that happened this week:

1. I was super thrilled to find these two journals for my daughter of all the places can you believe I found them at Hot Topic online? Crazy huh? Both my girls adore Pokemon. They are both VERY into rainbows lately so this Pikachu one was a must. Erin sings this silly Jigglypuff song to herself all the time and so I knew I had to ge that one for her as well. (Jigglypuff is the first pink character for those of you that don't know) If these little journals weren't perfect enough find to add to their Christmas presents I also found a code for $10 off my total which made them only $1.98 each!! (you know I love a good deal!)

2. I got to watch my Jordan play a home game of football this week. It is very nerve racking for the moms watching their babies out there getting pounded into. I was so super excited when I saw he almost scored! I was so happy I turned around with a goofy grin and said to Christian this is exciting huh? He gave me the smile like yeah all right you need to calm down a little ;).

3. I am doing a book study with the book Mean Girls All Grown Up by Hayley DiMarco and let me tell you the great quote for this week from the book:

Vegence is his taking what is God's doesn't sit so well, so beware when you decide that you can take revenge for yourself. And besides, his vengence is better for changing peopel from mean to good than ours could ever be.

4. You know I am STILL working on trying to loose that excess weight I put on in Alaska. These Weight Watchers ice cream cups have been wonderful treat for me! Its great b/c I don't have to guess on how much b/c its all ready in a small little serving and look on the box only 2 points each for Chocolate Chip Cookie dough ice cream! AND its really yummy too!

5. The fact that my handsome wonderful husband came back from helping hurricane victims to help his wife in the crazy chaos of the Meyer house and all the directions I feel I am pulled with three kids and my own online schooling! I love and soooo appreciate him!

Giveaway

I am so hoping to win this giveaway for my daughter for Christmas this year!

http://chefdruck.blogspot.com/2008/09/karito-kids-doll-giveaway.html

Its for a Karito kids doll!

Regan and her many many MANY questions

Regan is at this stage right now where she asks about a 100 questions a day or more. They usually are things I have no idea the answer to or just well let me just give you some examples of just one car ride with her

Hey mom-

Why do we laugh when someone touches our armpits or feet?

I say well I guess b/c our nerves are very sensitive there.

What do nerves look like anyway? Do they look like nerd candy cause that would be kinda cool. (happy giggle)
What color are nerves?

I'm not sure Regan.

That's probably a better dad question right?

Right

What kind of questions can I ask you? I got one..Mom if you had to do a job and daddy was the one to be our home carrier what would it be?

A librarian

You would DO THAT just for the MONEY?

I'm not even sure what you mean by that and what you want me to say here.

Just answer the question mom!

Okay do you see my point here. These conversations are not even making sense any more! Is it horrible that I tell her listen mommy just needs to concentrate on her driving right now. Can we talk about this later?

Maggie the play mate

Maggie has been in our family since about 3 months before Erin was born. So Erin and her were babies together. They have a pretty tight bond definitely more like siblings. They play together VERY well! Poor Maggie puts up with a lot from Erin. If she gets too tired of it though she'll give Erin a run for her money chasing her around the yard! They both think this is great fun. I can hear Erin laughing and I swear I hear a bit of doggie laughing from Maggie too!

Thursday night Family dinner night for football

Thursday nights Jordan's football team has this really nice event called Family dinner with the team. Its such a nice event. The parents all commit to helping with one night of the dinner in either funding or actually cooking and it works out. We all eat and then after the meal we stay for awards and coach's comments about the week. After all this takes place is the time for parents to ask questions of the coaches and what not. Well all this being said I have to tell you about our last Thursday dinner. I was walking by one of the coaches and he asked me if Jordan was enjoying the season and if I had any questions. I assured him that Jordan was having a great time and I didn't have any questions. Regan then pipes up and says I have a question. (mental head slap here OH NO, she is at that age where you have no idea what is going to come out of her mouth or maybe it is just a personality trait anyway) The coach or let me say the HEAD coach then leans down and says what's your question sweetheart? Regan says I want to know why my brother didn't play in the last game. (great this is really going to help him get play time! ) He then smiles and says well here's the thing Jordan is pretty new to us and he is still learning about all our plays and how it all works. But don't you worry I promise you will get to see your brother play this season.

I thought that was super sweet of the coach to be so nice about it. I whispered as we were walking past I swear I didn't put her up to that. He just smiled and nodded. I'm still not sure if it was a nod of I understand or YEAH right you didn't set her up. [sigh]

Its a beautiful day in the neighborhood!

We are having such beautiful weather right now. We have been spending quite a bit of time playing outdoors!

Lesson in how to be cool

I got a lesson tonight in how to be macho cool from my husband. Monday nights Jordan plays JV football. Tonight was a home game. We all went (they won 32 to 6). After the game we needed to tell Jordan we were going to run up to Taco Bell and come back and pick him up. He was coming off the field and walking to the locker room making no attempt that he was going to acknowledge we were right next to him. So what would you do? .......

I hollared JORDAN and did the come here sign with my fingers. He rolled his eyes and came over and got his message.

I say to Christian geeez you would think I embarrassed him or something. He said well you did you yelled like a GIRL! I said well I am a GIRL! What would you have done. He said I would have done it all cool and macho and looked him in the eye and just given him the nod one time and he would have come over to the car.

I pondered this for a moment and said hmmmm I just don't think I could pull that off. I am just way too cute and femine for that ;)

Locks of Love

I decided earlier this year that I was going to grow my hair out for Locks of Love. Sounds like a great idea huh? Well I am getting tired of literally almost watching my hair grow. GROW long enough already!! I look at ladies in the grocery store with cute trendy cuts so enviously. I keep thinking just a little bit longer (literally) I am seriously considering now getting one of those SUPER short cuts that I have always been too chicken to try just to get this over and done with already. That way I could be killing two birds with one stone. Trying out one of those super short cuts I always see look so cute on other ladies AND giving my hair to this organization I have said I always wanted to do once in my life. But I'm SCARED........what if I would look awful with super short hair eeeeek!

Advice day MOLES are our subject today

I seem to have a very annoying mole in of all places my flower garden my dad just landscaped for me! I'm so irritated!!

Look what this mole has done to my beautiful flowers!!

How do I get rid of him?

He's finally HOME!

The day after my parents flew out from their visit Christian was sent out to help out with hurricane relief. He has been gone now for 2 weeks. Why this always happens when we have so much stuff going on I will never know. But don't worry the Lord was watching over me and my children and I was able to get them all settled into school and myself as well with my online classes. We are starting to get in the groove of things. Christian called me earlier this week and was unsure when he was going to be making it back as the hurricanes just kept seeming to come in. Well I was overjoyed when he called me last night to let me know they decided to send him home today. And he's here today actually surprising the girls by picking them up from the bus stop. Yipppeee skippy!

I'm so glad somebody thought of this!

I just discovered these at my grocery store. They are called The Great White popsicles. How fun is this?

Get great taste with a bite of surprise! All pops are white, but there are three exciting tastes: orange, cherry and a mystery flavor. Can you guess the secret flavor?

Now no need to worry about stains all over my kids clothes and they still get to have a yummy treat and a mystery flavor to boot!

I miss my little Jordan

Now that my son is 16 years old {I'm still trying to wrap my mind around that one} and bigger than I am I sometimes catch myself staring at him wondering where the time has gone. That old saying Life happens when your busy making other plans. Apparently life was going on as I was busy with who knows what...

Anyway I was reading my sister's quotes about funny things her kids have said over the years and it made me think of some of the funny things Jordan has said when he was little. Here are some of the ones I remember. Family-friends please feel free to share any you have...

Jordan sitting at the dinner table at 6 years old very quite and says all of sudden"You know what trying to figure out what you want to be when you grow up is hard. I can't decide either I want to be a magician or a game show contestant. I just can't decide."

When he was about two and obsessed with the movie Winnie the Pooh I saw him running across the yard stop all of sudden and do the infamous Pooh pose and tap his finger to his head and say Think Think Think where did you put that toy?

When I had an art teacher tell me at school that he refused to participate in art class at 7 years of age we had a heart to heart about it. I asked him why wouldn't he participate. He said "Mom I just don't see the point to it...how exactly is drawing a picture going to help me later in life?"

Awarded

Discursively Happy blog sent me this award:


Here are the rules: I have to answer the following questions with one word answers and one word only! Then I must pass it on to seven others! The questions are as follows:
1. Where is your cell phone? Pocket
2. Where is your significant other? Texas
3. Your hair color? Brown
4. Your mother? Wonderful
5. Your father? Morphandikle
6. Your favorite thing? family
7. Your dream last night? Tense
8. Your dream/goal? security
9. The room you're in? bedroom
10. Your hobby? crafting
11. Your fear? abandonment
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? happy
13. Where were you last night? church
14. What you're not? bored
15. One of your wish-list items? degree
16. Where you grew up? Missouri
17. The last thing you did? phone
18. What are you wearing? shorts
19. Your TV? dusty
20. Your pet? Maggie
21. Your computer? On
22. Your mood? content
23. Missing someone? sigh
24. Your car? Van
25. Something you're not wearing? socks
26. Favorite store? Gymboree
27. Your summer? busy
28.Love someone? YEP
29. Your favorite color? Burgandy
30. When is the last time you laughed? morning
31. Last time you cried? fortnight

My seven I am nominating

1. The Five Little Lambs
2. The Little Window Shop
3. Honey Mommy
4. Chefdruk Musings
5. The Bonnot Family
6. Musings of a House Wife
7. Stamping Sunshine

Look I did it myself!

Regan came in this morning and said look mom I did my hair all by myself. Well I am all for letting my kids be independant and learn how to do things on their own. But I just couldn't let Regan go to school like this today. She was a bit over accessorized!

Plus check out how she put this headband on ;) We had a discussion about the right way to wear a headband and decided...

She could do with just the pony tails I redid them for her b/c she was had missed two big chunks of hair on the back and they were not all that tight anyway. But pretty good effort don't you think! Its tough work learning how to be so girly!

Back off I got a man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEFE3B0Rje0

This is soooo funny! My favorite part is the duct tape that proclaims to the world back off I got a man!

Bathroom humor

I know this is a bit like the pot calling the kettle black but I am so tired of the bathroom humor around my house right now! Regan and Erin have both discovered they can make themselves burp and think this is the most hysterical thing. The problem is once they start they can't seem to stop and sometimes we have upset bellys from the excessive burping. {insert eye rolling and mommy sigh here} This is not even close to how funny they think it is just to hear the word fart. I can't even say the word toilet without the two of them cackling. OH my I will be so glad when this stage passes!

Seattle

My baby is in school now!

After I left Erin's school from dropping her off today. Yes I followed the bus to her school to make sure she made there

okay her first day. Hey her teacher actually suggested it! Anyway I stopped at the grocery store and saw a couple mommies putting their toddlers in their carts and I realized that chapter in my life is over. Sigh...my baby started Kindergarten today. Erin was beyond excited. She put on the dress she picked out and looked adorable if I do say so myself! She played tag with the other kids at the bus stop and reminded everyone that TODAY she was getting on the big girl bus too! I was relieved and surprised at how well she did. When I walked her to her class she knew right where to go and even remembered where her teacher said to put her lunch box every day when she came in! Now here I am in a house so quiet it feels odd. Even Maggie seems to know something is off. I guess its time for me to start my new chapter and begin MY school work....

School days

Some random shots of the girls at their orientation and getting off the bus.

Look I'm a winner!

I entered a blog contest (I figured since we are always the one giving away items I should get a chance to win one ;) at Tiny Tot Boutique for this dress by Icky clothes. Guess what? I won! So this cute little dress will be on its way to our new niece Grace with her Grandparents when they come to visit later this month. Thanks Icky and Tiny Tots!

One of the reasons I am so electronics illiterate

This is one of the reasons I am so electronics illiterate. Why bother learning when you have a husband and son that will take care of all of it for you? (look at the muscles Jordan is getting in his arms from all the weight lifting in football!)

Erin's blankie

Here is Erin's blankie she got from her teacher at school. She was pretending to take a nap with it on the steps and Regan took a picture of her. Goof balls!

**by the way do you love her Handy Manny pjs she has on? She saw these in the boys section at the store and said HANDY MANNY! So we got them for her b/c we thought that was pretty cute. She is not exactly what I would call a girly girl!