Happy New Year!!

I'm ready for a new year! Although this year has been good, well except for my dad being in the hospital and Dons grandpa passing =( My kids are all healthy, Don and I are doing great, getting closer everyday. We bought another house, Don has gotten a few raises, life is good. We really love living in Odessa, it has made us so happy! I am of course mad at myself that its another new years and I have not lost my weight. This WILL be the last new years I say that. Next year when new years comes around I want my weight to be the last thing on my mind. I dont really make New years resolutions because I dont keep them lol, I mean who really does?

Christmas was good. The boys' grandma came over for the week (ex-mother in law). They had fun, I had fun, she had fun, it was fun. We made her famous bread and ate it, oh man its SOO good, so now I have the recipe and will be making it every year. The boys got lots of presents, I think Patricks favorite is his MP3 player and Parkers is his big Pokemon book or video game. I took all my Christmas stuff down the day after Christmas, I dont keep it up, why??

So in a nutshell, I'm looking forward to the New Year!! I hope everyone has a safe and wonderful 2008!!

Christmas Eve

What a weekend! We went over friday, the passs was clear. After we took the kids to my dad and joyces for the party, Tara and I went to the mall for some more shopping. THat was so fun! I finally got Dons gift. Saturday was Christmas at my dads. It was a lot of fun, the food was great, the company was fun and the gifts were good =) Don wasn't feeling good, plus he had to leave to go to work, so I missed him the rest of the weekend. Yesterday we took off and went and had lunch and opened gifts with Dewey and Karen, then picked up Kris so she could come spend a few days with us, the boys really wanted her to come over for Christmas and we said sure! So we took off and met Doug and shelly at McDonalds in North Bend for a quick gift opening and hellos then off to the pass. It was pretty good most of the time, really slushy but we made it. I started to get really car sick, it was a long drive. It took us like 5.5 hours to get home =() I'm so tired of driving! Tonight we are going to my moms for gifts and Amandas chicken fett alfredo, yum-o!!! Anyway, hope you all have a wonderfully blessed Christmas! Remember: Jesus is the reason for the season!!!

YAYAYAY!!

Ok, so Joshua is peeing on the toilet now!! I went to change his diaper this morning and I said "no more" he cried for about 25 minutes, then he stopped, he sat on the toilet a few times until he went and now he is going all the time. Now were working on #2 =() He is wearing the cutest Cars underware, it makes him look like such a big boy!!

I was SO mad about survivor! I so didnt want him to win, but I guess out of the 3, I would of picked him also. I really wanted Denise to win. Oh well such is life! Tomorrow night the finale of The Biggest Loser. I hope Jim wins!

Anyway, thats all for now!!

Lovin the shoppin

So we left last night to go to wenatchee and boy did it snow the whole time! We first went to the mall and I got my girl gift and some other presents. Hot Topic is a great place for Naruto stuff! So then we went to Old Navy while Ryan and Amanda went to the shoe store, then across the parking lot for Red Robin. Adam met us there and the food was SO yummy!! After that we went to my favorite store......Target!! Spent alot more money in there. The best find though is for Parker it is a keychain that has over 50 different burps on it, including the whole alphabet. Anyone that knows Parker knows what a great gift that is for him lololol!!! We ended up getting home at 11:45pm because of all the snow. Today I walked down to the post office and got the mail, I love this time of year because everyday I go and there is at least 3 Christmas cards in there and I love cards!! We are heading out again to go back to Ephrata because I have some major grocery shopping to do and pick up 4 more gifts and were done!! Don is taking the boys to see The Chipmunks! They are going to be so excited. I will have Jared with me, he is still not into tv, so he gets to hang with mommy! Anyway, thats about it for today!!

Friday

Well it has been snowing since 7:45 this morning. I really wish it would stop because were suppose to be going Christmas shopping with Ryan and Amanda in Wenatchee tonight! This week has been a good week for the most part. Yesterday was a bit stressful, the two little ones just seemed to be in rare form, but today is a good day. Joshua had school yesterday, he is talking so much! He is really into Diego and Dora right now, its all we watch. Patrick is still doing wonderful in school, he is so happy to be back in 2nd grade where he doesn't have to stress about school work. The teachers at that school are amazing. Don has been working alot, he has Christmas day off, but then works 10 straight days in a row, mostly 10 hour days too, good money I just keep saying =) Not much has been going on this week. Have a good Friday!

Better times

This week has been better. Yesterday went to Ephrata to get diapers and milk, when I went to put it in the back of my van I found a new pack of diapers that I never took in the house. I hate it when I do that lol! Visited with Mom and Amanda for a couple hours before heading home. It snowed good last night, its so cold to, I'm so over the cold weather. We did get our tree up, yay for us! Then Parker was practicing his bells for us and played us Christmas songs, he is so darn cute. I am happy to report that Patrick LOVES being back in 2nd grade, he says he likes going to school again. That made me so darn happy. Isnt it crazy how we always worry when we really dont need to? His teacher said he is the perfect fit for the class, his work is already improving. I'm so thankful for his 3rd grade teacher Mrs Todd for helping us with this!! Well gotta get my day going, just wanted to post some pictures!!

Long time

OK, I know its been a whole week since I've updated, and I'm sorry! Its been a long emotional week and I wasn't wanting to write about anything, so now I do! I've been going back and forth with Patricks teacher, conferences, phone calls, we decided the best thing for Patrick is to put him back in 2nd grade =( I think I had the hardest time with this, I cried and cried. But I knew that its the best for him. He was struggling so badly with each subject and it wasn't fair to Patrick. He didn't want to go to school, he tried to call home everyday, he loves school, just not the work. Today was his first day of 2nd grade and he liked it. He said he got 100 on his spelling test. He is so much calmer, confident and less stressed. So it was so worth it. We got a progress report for Parker and he is doing so good. His teacher went to school with Don, he actually took her to the prom because her boyfriend broke up with her. What a sweetie. He likes all his classmates and teacher, also you get 2nds at lunch lol!!

Don had a very long week at work, so he took Thursday off with his already scheduled Friday off. I love when he is home. We got some shopping done, bought a couple christmas gifts, were doing the rest this friday. Then on Friday we went to the Odessa Christmas party. It was SOO much fun! We danced and danced and visited with people and had a good time. Ryan and Amanda went also, they had fun and I loved them being there. Don of course got called into work that night, so he had to leave at 2am to go to work, so no sleepy for him. He was SO tired, so when he got home on saturday he went right to bed. He had to work at 3am again sunday morning. He is such a hard worker. We were going to put our tree up tonight, but he isnt off work yet =( So it will have to be tomorrow night.

The boys sang at the community center for Christmas, well Patrick sang and Parker played the bells. The looked so darn cute! I have pictures I just have not downloaded them yet.

This week the boys (youngest 3) have stressed me out so badly. Jared is back to not liking sleep, Patrick is just like me, enough said and Joshua is really talking, enough said. So its been a very long long long week! I'm glad its the start of a new week. Well thats it for now, hopefully it wont be another week before I update again!!

No more snow

It rained like crazy yesterday and melted everything, yay!! Patricks mouth is feeling better, thank goodness! Thank you to those who prayed for him. Jared was sick the last few days and now its onto Joshua. The cold hit him fast at about 6:50 last night and by 7pm he was out. He is doing a little better today, but I think we'll both lay down for a nap today. I hate having broken sleep, its hard for me to function, it seems like thats all I get. Patrick had a birthday party yesterday for a girl in his class. He had fun. They both love their school so much! Friday Don had off so we got the rest of our stuff done that we wanted to. He put up our lights outside while I did the inside, so now we just need to do the tree. Saturday we baked cookies, oohhh it smelt so good in here! Andrew stayed the night then Sunday we took him home and I ordered my christmas pictures, then it started snowing like crazy, so we came home! Not much going on today, have to go down and get the box from Dons dad at the PO, and just keep wiping noses =) Have a good monday!