Monday, December 31, 2007

thought for the day....

I can't guarantee I'll have a thought for tomorrow...

at work this weekend....

I was in the dining hall helping a senior lady with dementia sit down at a table for breakfast. She looked around at the other couple of senior ladies asleep in their chairs and to the one next to her she said sweetly "Hello, Mother"....I wish I could have stayed longer and watched what happened...

It was sweet that in her mind this morning, she was going to have breakfast with her Mother.

Daddy's baby

pill bug head....


he was walking around with it on his head....bumping into me...




then he flipped it up...and then posed for this picture..

Saturday, December 29, 2007

Thank you, Katie....

WOW...I opened my present but didn't get to look at it...(I don't remember why and lost it all in aobut 3 minutes) so I didn't get to see it...Well I just found it up by Jake's room ( I must have left it up there while giving him his present...It is so cute...you did such a great job and all pictures from here...THank Thanks Thanks Thanks.....

Do you know someone named Betty...?

I know 2 wonderful ladies named Betty! I was wondering if everyone named Betty was nice...?

This morning at work I met a Betty, who was just the nicest beautiful(est) person I have ever met! I hope someday I can be like her...

Her name was actually Elizabeth...I wonder what Liza would think if I started calling her Betty..?Because Betty's are the nicest....!

You know it is a good present when....


it comes with a warning....


apology accepted...

Our life just wasn't quite complete...


without 8 screamin flingin monkeys....holding $10 bills...The kids love them...Thanks for everything...

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Busy...

Luke and Seth...


Luke loves Power Rangers...


See the caveman in the right corner...he will become very important in future play...I know it! Thanks, Grandpa man and Grandpa girl...

She's hoping it is Dragon related...

Christmas afternoon...

So what do you do as you wait for a game to load on the computer....


Carson...

The babies clothes usually fit Joe...


it always makes us laugh!

Jake has been good!

Christmas Day around 2 am....

Cat sitting....

Dad resting....

Pug resting....

Babies sleeping...

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Saturday, December 22, 2007

Isn't there a children's book about everything?

or close to it? I thought there couldn't be a children's book about a squirrel that eats pumpkin could there?

So I googled "Squirrel pumpkin children book" and this is what popped up..

A red flag goes up....



when the twins shut a door...whether it is my bedroom door or bathroom door...I know that they are planning something...


Yesterday, Luke shut the bathroom door..My first thought was "hmmm, I guess he wants some privacy"....but soon I heard "PSSSSSS" ...but not the usual PSSSSS....but with more of an aerosol sound...

I asked him what he was doing and he said he was cleaning the toilet...."wow, that's great!?" Too bad it was with hairspray!..... but he wants to work ....that is what counts....right?!



hmmm...he did want to clean after eating the magic apple...

Squirrels eat.....




lettuce

sweet potato (okay, this is actually a prairie dog)

peanut butter

pizza....why not pumpkin?

To scare away the carolers.....


This is what you see right now as you walk up to our house...yikes...It is funny how I become desensitized about such things..(don't sweat the small stuff, right?)

We have received several plates of wonderful cookies and I can imagine what people think....Halloween is over, people!!!

I have to say..."I did the dishes, who's going to throw the pumpkins away"...?

Too bad the squirrels don't eat pumpkin, they would have been gone along time ago...we have lots of squirrels!

The holidays are just not the same...


without a little Twisted Sister

(do I have to say I am kidding...should I say I am kidding?) I don't know if I am kidding...

Friday, December 21, 2007

This week has turned into crazy relative week...





back to square one again..will it ever end?

Car Cookies...



I forgot to bring in some cookies from the car....but have realized how wonderful it is to have them there....I think I may gain 5 pounds...

Seth update....


new cast..notice him precariously sitting on a swivel chair ....what is a mom to do?..

OH Yah! Our bigger trash can....



has arrived....

I think he needs a name...any ideas?

random toy picture...



The vacuum wasn't working very well so I decided to take it apart and this is what was in there...

I'd like to know who else has been vacuuming...

an apple a day....



could take you down....to the poor house...

I went to the store on the way to work to get some snacks...I work 12 hour shifts, so I needed to get some things...I bought this apple...and some crackers...water....I couldn't believe how much it cost and looked at the receipt and the apple cost $1.85!

Dad before haircut...



Here is Dad's "before picture" before his haircut....see family photo below for "after"

Thursday, December 20, 2007

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

before the broken arm


pug on a rug

I didn't put him on it...he did it himself...right smack in the middle

It cracks me up....


everytime the kids try to eat the Baker's unsweetened chocolate...it looks good though...
I just found some on the floor...
I have to admit in the past I have tried to eat it...

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

round faces


Pug knows how to celebrate....


Seth broke his arm yesterday....


ouch!

He fell off a cart at the store right on his wrist....he's doing good...

Friday, December 14, 2007

Things that bug me....


When the person in front of you at the drive-thru takes their "sweet time" putting their receipt carefully in their wallet from the ATM.....(my husband does this) without pulling up a little...
or passes out their food while still at the drive-thru window...

While vacuuming.....

Where's Jack?