Happy Spider Day!

We cannot celebrate Halloween at schools any more so Erin's 1st grade class decided instead to celebrate Spider Day. Leading up to today her class learned all about spiders in their Science class so this was also a fun way to end this section of learning. They made these adorable spider hats (yes us moms got the pleasure of blowing them all up). Then they made some fun snacks with Ritz crackers icing and pretzels to make their own spider looking snack. I always love and appreciate the opportunity I have to help in my kids classes. I left right before lunch Erin was not happy to see me leave. I told her mommy has to go home because I am very hungry she got puppy dog eyes and told me she would share her lunch with me. It almost worked....almost.

I also need to add the tshirt was a gift from Grandma Meyer. Erin loved it as the question mark so appropriately had a spider on it!

Fun in the mud

Thought I would share with you where our family has been most Monday and Friday evenings. Watching Jordan play in the mud! Let me tell you I am not sure I have ever cleaned dirtier clothes than after his games!

If you look at the players he is #29 with the white Under Armor shirt on. (those Under Armor shirts are the best things to get for your kids if they play sports! They wick the moisture off them keeping them dry and warm!)

These pictures are from a home game that they beat the other team 7-0 and Jordan got in a lot of good plays. They had him playing defense which is not where he usually is. I was a little nervous as he was going against some of these REALLY big boys but discovered what the coach was thinking when I saw him in action he is small and fast so he is hard to catch!

Hi Regan!

Just a heads up to friends and family who blog. Regan reads all of these blogs every day and if she could figure out how to comment she would. So just keep this in mind while blogging she loves them and reads them every single day!

Corn Maze

We have never done the Corn Maze before with our kids and decided this year to give it a go. Regan was really pumped and excited. Erin decided she would pair up with daddy and Regan went with me. I decided to let Regan be in charge of the map. Yeah I know...

We seemed to keep going round and round and at one time I swear we ended back up at the start but Miss Regan was very determined. It reminded me a bit of the Harry Potter movie when they were stuck in the Labyrinth of shrubs. If only I could get someone to come in and help us out. I was starting to get really hungry as this was very close to our dinner time and it was starting to get dark.



We find a look out and we can see nothing but corn in front of us. Oh boy! Let me tell if I heard it once I heard it hundred times. "I think if we just cut through the corn we will make it right here." NO we are NOT cutting through the corn!




Thankfully after what seemed like an eternity and was beginning to creep me out as I started to remember what other this movie made me think of "Children of the Corn" we made it out and got to go home to some nice warm dinner I made for everyone while daddy rinsed off everyone's muddy boots.

You may have noticed Jordan wasn't with us. He is now a Senior in high school and is so busy with his own activities we feel lucky when he is able to do things with us now a days. Awww he's growing up :(

Happy Fall Y'all!

Picking the perfect Pumpkin

We went to the pumpkin patch this week to pick our pumpkins. We are a little late in the season this year to get this done but the awesome thing about this is that our two pumpkins together were marked down to less than $2!

The girls have very different techniques in picking our their pumpkin. Regan walked around stood there and ah ha found the perfect one right away. Erin on the other hand ran from aisle to aisle saying awww look at this one it's so cute I think I will name this one Plumpy. I would say is that the one you want? Noooo I don't think say awww look at this one I am going to name this one Stumpy because he was such a nice stem. Is this the one you want Erin? Noooo I need to keep looking. Then she spotted a bunch of tiny pumpkins. MOMMY mommmy mommy look at the baby pumpkins! I want one of these! So we have a baby pumpkin for Erin this year. It's so hard to choose isn't it?

They are going to drive me to the Parent Pick up Line!

I recently read a post on someone's blog about what a nightmare parent pick up line can be at school. It made me glad that my girls ride the bus. Let me tell you that lately it has been a down right nightmare! You all know it rains A LOT here so most of the winter months I drive the girls down to our bus stop. We live at the end of a very narrow one way street so narrow there is no place for a bus to turn around the bus picks them up at the end of the road. Yes thats right, right on the highway. Imagine us being picked up on W (this may be something only a few can relate too ;)

Anyway since the road is so narrow last year I parked in this guy's over abundance of a driveway waiting with the girls for the bus well this year he decided no more of that and said it was his property and he didn't want us parking there any more. So that is fine we parked on the other side of the road which happens to be a business that sells windows. This guy came out and asked us not to park there either as apparently the 10 minutes we park there it is hindering his business. Whatever! So we end up parking right on the road and yep cars just have to go around us. They have learned to deal with it the 10 minutes it takes for the bus to get there.

The last couple weeks the city has decided to do construction on our road. So if the congestion problem wasn't bad enough we have now added huge construction equipment and holes they have dug that would swallow a grown man! Today I was sitting there as usual waiting for the bus it was raining so hard you could hardly hear the radio. One of the construction workers asks me if we can move the van. I said um we are waiting for the bus. I explain why I can't park any where else. He says can the kids just wait outside while you move? Okay yeah right you crazy man. Let's just have the kids get drenched to the bone and stand here right next to this mammoth sized construction truck you are operating that is actually tearing up the asphalt on this road. What exactly about this sentence sounds like something a mother would agree to? I told him I DON'T THINK SO. 5 seconds later the bus pulled up and all was happy again.

I am telling you this is all about to drive me to the parent pick up line though!

The opposite Sex

Jordan came in and told Christian and I he had a project he needed to do for his church youth group. First he asked me What do you think I should know about women?

I said hmmm how about if a woman asks you if I look fat in this the answer is ALWAYS no!

He says okay - I look over his shoulder and he writes women love flattery. I say HEY that is not what I said! He said yeah it is.....ugh!

Then he asks Christian the same question What do you think I should know about women?

Christian says Even if you are right always let her win and let her be right its just easier.
I look over Jordan's shoulder and he writes this word for word!

I look up and say I don't think I am happy with the men in my life today! Christian says I don't blame you I wouldn't be either.

MEN!

Note I found

I hate this!

Wow this is the worst day!!

I hate silent bus

Me too

It's boring

Why can't we get jet packs and fly home?

Because we don't have any and that was a stupid question

Well it would be nice

Homecoming 2009

Jordan went to his first Homecoming dance this weekend. Doesn't he look snazzy in his new suit? His date Arielle looks awful pretty in her dress too! They just make the cutest couple. Awww puppy love ;).

Happy Birthday Regan!

Regan is 10 years old today. I know all moms say this but seriously where does the time go? I so remember the day she was born. When they placed this gorgeous chubby cheeked little bundle of sweetness on my chest she was so beautiful I actually asked them if they were sure she was really mine! When Gramps came later that day to see her his eyes teared up and he said well she is just so sweet I think I will call her Baby Sugars! Although Regan doesn't always like the 'baby' portion of that name so much any more it still fits her as she is just a sweet girl!

I love you Regan, Happy Birthday!

Fun birthday party activities

We all had to make our own wand from pretzel stick dipped in chocolate and then add sprinkles to decorate.















We also made festive shrinky dinks to decorate this tree. This was a much bigger success than I expected. These kids totally dug those things!















But most important of all one happy birthday girl!

Dear Tooth Fairy

We had some 6 year old drama going on over at our house the other morning. Erin realized she took her tooth out to admire it after she had placed it under her pillow and lost it before she got it back under her pillow. She woke up and ran into to tell me all about it in HYSTERICS!

I calmed her down by letting her know that the Tooth Fairy is a very understanding lady and that I am sure this is not the first time this has ever happened for her. I told her we would write her a note explaining what happened. She worked really hard on this letter to the Tooth Fairy.

No worries she left Erin not one but two quarters under her pillow. I think she understood and appreciated the effort ;)

Harry Potter festivities

Here is our house all decorated and ready for the Harry Potter festivities! Do you like our candy store or should I say the place the kids ODed on sugar?

Is there anything sweeter?

Mud Pie anyone?

The girls decided that it was the perfect day for a mud pie. They both thoroughly enjoyed the fresh rain and plentiful mud we had around our house. Let me tell you that I worked on laundry and bathes for the rest of the evening. I hope they have good memories from their day in the mud ;)