Going Green

Now and then Allie's school has Fun Fridays where they deviate from the dress code and have a theme for the kids to play along with. This week each grade was assigned a color to wear, and the kindergartners wore green! She paused for a quick pic!

Tonight as she was playing the Wii, she was playing a horse racing game. She was in last place, and she looked at me and said, "you know mom, it says in the scriptures that the last shall be first and the first shall be last. You know what that makes me in this game...the WINNER!" Love those literal minds....A few days ago at gymnastics, Mary walked in with a ponytail in her hair. My friend, Amy looked at her and said, "I like your ponytail Moo moo" She promptly turned her head around to look at her bottom and said, "I'm not a pony!"

Elmo

My friend Amy gave us a buzz earlier in the week, to see if Mary and I wanted to join her and Campbell (A.K.A Camel by Mary) for a Date with Elmo last night. The kids were a bit unsure at first, but by the end of the show, they warmed up to the characters who were VERY close! Here are some pics.

Hodge podge posting

This weekend has been a very lazy one...shew. Here are some pics from the week. On Monday we went to the Lion's Den as it was a school holiday for Allie. Little Lion and she do not get to play as often, but we've done a great job this year of getting together on her days off since he's not in school until next year. They had a great time together...not to mention the other two! Mary promptly found a Cind-a-lella dress and chased Little pumpkin around the house. I snapped a great pic of them as we were about to leave. It has come to be expected that they will leave with gumballs in their mouths! Also , there is a video of G crawling at the end. He's almost a full time crawler now, but with the slick floor is a better slider!

A rare pic of the girls smiling at the same time

Yes....his face is blue from the hair dye the night before at Awana's! Maybe it has exfoliated by now!
WHAT IS SO FUNNY???? I just loved this face after G finished his bottle this am.

His new favorite thing...the coffee table..his drum.

This morning I took G the Giant to his 9 month check up. He was 31 1/2 inches (100%) tall and only 1.5 inches away from what Allie was at 2!!! He weighed 22 pounds (75%). I won't even mention his head...but my sweet boy has a larger than avg head. I walked him over to my neighbor's house yesterday to take a few pics. Oh and Jason the hula hooper won the funniest home video poll. He was a good sport...actually I never heard from him, so that could go either way.

Happy Valen-nine!

Garrett turned 9 months old yesterday. This week has been the week of the chocolate everything! I'll be putting it all away very shortly. The kids have had fun with their Valentine parties at school, so here are a few pics....or alot actually.

As far as G is concerned....he had a great time at Emmy's last week. I wish I had pics of him, but I haven't had time to pester them about pictures. They said they had a great time. Just in that week he started pulling up on everything and even moving along furniture. He's still scooching, but if you take his shirt off he'll crawl because he doesn't like his belly on the floor. I need to film him with his shirt off because it is quite funny! He's gotten 2 more teeth, but I don't know how much he's grown...seems like alot to me.



I gave him cheerios yesterday! For some reason we always start cheerios at 9 months. He was a big fan!
NOT a big fan of the sheep yesterday...bad sheep.

Just a good tooth pic, but you can't see the top ones yet.

Standing tall.

Heart from head to toe.

M and Mary....This little one is so funny. She was trying so hard to get Mary to pose. She even told her to put her hand down.

These are all mixed up...lazy posting syndrome. Allie and her friend M from school going through their loot.

Always a poser.

One of the boys.

"Camel" made Mary moo a heart and gave it to her. We got a hug and a smile out of that one. She told me this morning he was her "Balentine"
Big smile:)

25 things about me.

Katie tagged me to write 25 random things about me...and so I don't even know how you come up with 25 things, but here goes in random order.

1. The last thing I should be doing right now is blogging, but it's one of my favorite addictions.

2. I don't like my feet AT ALL, but the hubs things his are "nice". Who thinks they have nice feet anyways?

3. I have scary elevator dreams when I get stressed out. After having babies, I would consistently dream that I was falling in an elevator and about to hit the bottom. For that reason, I'm not crazy about being in an elevator.

4. I wish I were more organized, but realize I will be a work in progress. The hubs just asked 2 days ago when Beth Ann was coming to help me again as the snacks were falling out of the cabinet on top of me. I am finally going to make it to her house this spring break so that we can find some hidden talent I have to help her.

5. Someone from Rochester runs across my mind every day. They were some of the dearest friends I've ever known and I miss bunches. Victoria, I'm praying for you every day until that baby gets here on Monday. Can't wait to hear what you are having.

6. I don't miss the snow there, although I do prefer cold weather to hot.

7. I liked being a pharmacist, but I get enough practice having 3 snotty kids of my own, 5 neices (1 on the way), and 2 nephews. I do love each of them so much and am thankful that we have family trips for the cousins to get together.

8. I don't know how moms work all day and get the laundry done, the meals cooked, and the groceries bought. My mom is one of my biggest heroes...she did it all.

9. My dad is also a hero who has worked 12 hour days for years and years and years. He purchased 21 years of college with all those hours, so I hope by now he is spending it on himself. He's fishing more which makes me happy.

10. I think my memaw and granddad are the sweetest most genuine people who ever walked the earth. I don't think I've heard them utter a bad thing about anyone.

11. I love my friends. Every stage of life I've traveled through I've met GREAT people and FUNNY people too. I love FUNNY people!

12. I wish I were more thoughtful...or that i acted on my thoughts more when thinking about other people.

13. I love God and am thankful that He saved me.

14. I'm only on 14??? Seriously this is really hard...you should try it.

15. I can type faster than Hubs, but he is better than me at alot of things. He really is one of the smartest people I've known. I can out whit him though on occasion!!! He is also a very entertaining writer, although he would never admit it. I would ask him to be a guest writer on my blog, but he thinks he is above "blogging". He secretly has a blog, but he calls it his "website". It's where he and all his fantasy football peeps have been hanging out for years "blogging" even though they don't call it that.

16. I wish I loved to read as much as other folks. I do like to, but I get distracted by all these kids who live with me. I just listed to the Shack on the way to CO. If you haven't read it, it is excellent. It makes you think...which I may need to do more of.

17. I have awesome in-laws.

18. Faber's sister Mando has emailed me several times a week for at least the 8 years I've been married. Is that the craziest thing?? Good emailers are hard to find...I wish I were better at it.

19. I didn't get the fashion gene...I now buy things and leave the tag on so Em can approve yeah or neh and if not approved, I can return them.

20. Em is more of a sister than I ever imagined she would be. I really couldn't stand her growing up, but I love her to pieces now. I hope I'm as good of an aunt as she is...I'm going to try REALLY hard.

21. Am I done yet?

22. I was proud of myself skiing this year. Seriously! I am such a fraidy cat when it comes to moving fast in any form, but I think I tucked it a few times actually.

23. I wish I were just a little shorter. I feel awkward in pictures with my "shorter" friends. I feel like a giraffe. Sometimes when em and I are trying on clothes, if it's is too tight, we just say..."oh well...too short". That is a nice thing because many times it is too short and too tight!

24. I used to be a runner. Runners are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. I want to be a runner again...I really have no good excuse except that it hurts for a few weeks! Maybe I'll try the mill....one more time.

25. My kids make me laugh and cry. We are in the crazy, someone always needs something phase. I can see the light though way down there at the end of the tunnel...until we reach the teenager tunnel. Then I don't know if there will be a light at all. Ok...sheww that took up way more time, but it was kindof fun. You should try it.

Awesome..

Awesome..the one word to describe both videos below. I will probably be in big trouble for the second video (sorry Jason from one outlaw to another). It just made me laugh so hard that I couldn't leave it out. I so dumbly turned the camera when I was recording, but you'll get the drift. The first one is just a great illustration of what a responsible parent I am. Allie was REALLY into finding "jumps". She wanted to go through every tree she saw, and of course I wanted to film at least one. Hubs said, "There's a good one, head on down there and film it Mer." Usually Allie is a controlled skiier (seriously), but she decided to turn off her pizza (stopping wedge) and turn on her french fries (skis down the mountaing) toward this jump, and well you'll see how it all went down. I've placed a poll to the right if you'd like to vote for your favorite.