It's the big 1-1!

Yesirree, we are celebrating Nathan today!!  11 years ago on this day our nature-lovin kid came to join us on this big round ball!  He was a week late, but as his life has shown, when he is ready for something, he.is.ready!  I was in labor for only a couple of hours at home and by the time we got to the hospital, i was ready to deliver and *POOF* out he came.  (yeah if only it was that painless!)  Nate was a late walker but when he decided he wanted to walk, he was walking around the house that day.  Potty training is a whole other story.  :)  He wasn't too keen on learning to ride his bike, but when he was ready for it, he was zippin on down the road that day!  That is just how Nate is.  You cannot cojole him into doing something before he is ready, but once he is ready, look out world!!!

So today we celebrate Nate.  Our 11 year old nature lovin, frog catchin, snake sneakin (snakes are NOT allowed in our house), picture taken kid!!

You have opened our eyes to the wonders of nature and now you are ready to capture those wonders with your new camera.  I can't wait to see the kind of pictures you will take!!

We love you buddy!  Happy birthday!

I <3 U!!!

Kids, you have an amazing daddy who has come a loooooong way!!!

Well-known tales have been told about a man who would wait until the day AFTER Valentines day to get  1/2 priced flowers for his wife.  Half-priced!  (and yes, this man in this tale is your father!!!)  Now, grant it, flowers are obscenely expensive on Valentine's Day, but i do believe that his initial decision to do this was not out of cheapness, but rather out of, "Oh, crap, i forgot that yesterday was Valentine's Day!"  Only after that realization did he hit the jackpot...year after year!  He could still get me flowers, but he could wait twenty-four hours and get them waaaaaay cheaper!!!  Cha-ching!!!  Yes, I realize that flowers die and that better things could be done w/that money, but let's face it, V-day is about the only day of the year that I get flowers so, it is not like the "flower buying" line in the budget is going to break the bank!  I will admit, I have given him a hard time about his cheapness =)  Apparently, that has paid off....

Not only did he send me flowers for valentine's day, he pre-ordered them.  That is right, i said PRE-ORDERED!!!!  So, my dear sons, if you want to win a woman's heart (when you are 31 years old), do not just send her flowers...pre-order those sent flowers to really, really  WOW  her!!!

Happy Valentine's Day dear family!!!
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I've been kicked out!!

Yes, tis true!  I have been kicked out...of my garage!  Ugh.  It is February people and now i have to park my truck outside.  O.U.T.S.I.D.E.  Why oh why oh why?  Because of the man of the house.  Yes, that is right, Doug has kicked me out and replaced me with his first love.  His 1966 (*i think*) ford mustang.  He has had this beautiful specimen of Americana since he was 15 years old.  Mind you, it still looks the same as it did then but it is his and he is  proud to have it!   So, I will be heading outside everyday a half an hour before i go anywhere to get the truck all nice and toasty warm so i don't freeze my butt off!

Have i mentioned that I hate winter?!?!?!   *SIGH*


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Celebrating Fahnta in a Super Bowl kinda way

February 6th was a huge day here in Thomasland!

Our Fahnta turned 10!!! Wow!   It is amazing to think she is 10 and that we have only known her for about a third of her life.  Cah-razy!!!   She has come a loooong way from her first few days/months in our home.   She has grown, physically, so much!!  It is amazing how she has shot up.  Education is such a huge challenge for her, but she is a hard, hard worker and that will get her far.  She is a silly girl who thoroughly enjoys her time w/friends, cousins, and her sisters.  She does like to tick the boys off !!  What little sister doesn't though??  Since Super Bowl sunday fell on her birthday this year, we chose to celebrate on Saturday so she could have all the bells and whistles!  She got to open all her gifts, pick her birthday dinner and eat Daddy's favorite cake.  Uncle Scooter, Aunt Stephie and Cali were able to make it to celebrate with us and that was just the icing on the cake! *smirk, smirk*  We love you Fahnta!

No easy transition here, so i am just diving right in to talking about Super Bowl Sunday.  We had a houseful of people and it was AWESOME!!!  We had more food than you could shake a stick at and we should be thoroughly ashamed of ourselves!  (pix below!)  We had Steeler's jerseys in every corner of the room.  And we had puppies (we didn't physically have puppies, they were brought along w/the cousins).  Can I say that they were adorable?!  And no poop!  They did not pee or poop in our house.  Thank the Lord!  Okay, enuf words, now on to the visual aids so you can fully appreciate how incredibly ashamed of ourselves we really should be!!  Sorry Steelers, maybe next time!!

A little FYI!  The final picture is one of whoopie pies!  Yes, whoopie pies!!  and YES...i ate many of them!!  I don't make them often therefore I don't eat them often.  So, when given the opportunity, i decided I would make up for the lost time!!! =)

I absolutely love the family I married into!

Family is priceless!!

Mass ice sledding!

The second snow day in a row...all were forced outside to sled!

Unfortunately, since i am so stinking cheap and only have the freebie wordpress site, I can't upload my video of the kids.    But I can direct you to photobucket where it is uploaded.  So, if you are still with me on here, enjoy this video of the kiddos!!!

The blog it is a changin....

My original purpose of this blog was to be like a scrapbook of sorts for my kids.  Unfortunately, my head now spins with random and purposeless (is that even a word) thoughts that I feel I should share.  It happens when I am  in the shower (see example below), when i am driving my truck, when something stupid happens and i have some sort of remark for it.  It is driving me nuts!  Sooooooooooooo, in an effort to keep myself from going crazy, I am going to just post whatever the heck I want to on here.  I mean, c'mon, it is my blog, right?!?!  Doug and Corey both want me to make it public...I think Corey thinks he will become something like a rock star and Doug just thinks I am a flake and sees no reason why he should keep this little gem of a wife, with her wonderful thoughts, to himself!  So, I am considering that.  Like I said here, I get a lot of material from the peeps i live with!  Apparently, I get a lot of material from inside my head as well.

WARNING!  The following excerpt came from my within my head while i was showering!

So, while I was shaving my legs in the shower this morning a memory was jogged in my head.  I was taken back to my freshman year of high school, a looooong time ago, when a few friends and i decided that we would rebel against the status quo and NOT shave our legs.  I know, crazy right?!?!  It was winter time and we just didn't feel like doing it anymore.  We were "burn our bras" kinda gals!  Here's the kicker.  I went to a Catholic high school that required us to wear uniforms.  Those uniforms consisted of a white shirt, a weskit or sweater, and a skirt!  Yes, a skirt.  So, when one doesn't shave one's legs when one wears a skirt, others see the result of one's rebellion!  So, after a week or so I couldn't take it anymore.  One of my friend, on the other hand, outwitted, outlasted, and outplayed me!  WOW, her legs were nasty and were a topic of conversation for many, many other freshman!  It was almost like a freak show.  Students got up close to look at them, although you really didn't need to be that close after a couple of weeks, and people touched them just to feel what they were like after she let her hair grow out for that long.  I honestly don't remember how this ended, other than she eventually shaved her legs.  We didn't have a big ceremony or anything for the shaving, but i wish we would have.  We could have posted it on YouTube and let everyone see her with her sickle.  Wait!  Who am i kidding?  We didn't have YouTube back then!!!  *sigh*  I am sure we would have had thousands of hits though!

So, that is a perfect example of a pointless thought that enters my head and i feel i could write about.  There are many, many others (what i think of snow days, i really want a catchy blog title, my broken dishwasher, etc.) but I will just leave it at this one today.   Maybe tomorrow I will go back to my original purpose of the blog...then again, maybe not!
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my 2 best friends

I am out.of.control.  2 blog posts in one day.  Cah-razy!!

I think you will all understand once i fill you in on who my best friends are, but I think you need some background.  Since last Wednesday I have been hangin at home with at least one of my peeps.  Wait...back up one more day though...it all started last Tuesday...a wintry mix kinda Tuesday.  Yes, widespread panic occurred again, like it did here, when we had some weather issues.  Our kids had a two hour delay.  It gets better.  On Wednesday they had the day off.  I encouraged the kids to play outside with their friends for quite a while.  As a result of my superb parenting skills, little Miss Jaida came down with a fever and a cough.  I wish I had a sound recording of her when she coughed or sneezed.  It is unbelievable.  You would never know that the sound you just heard came from her little body.  She sounds like an 80 year old man who was a chain smoker for 70 of his 80 years.  Seriously. she.does.  So, for the next 2 days, Jaida and I got to hang at home together.  Great mother-daughter time, but she was out of it, borderline hallucinating cuz her fevers don't mess around.  They kick her in the butt!!!  So, while she hung out on the couch in and out of consciousness, I cleaned the house, did laundry and all that jazz.  On Friday, Mags comes home and heads directly to the couch.  She did not pass go nor did she collect 200 bucks!  That is where she stayed until Sunday.  We all went to church together and went to the Y together because we attempted to be overachievers in the parenting department since i screwed up royally with Jaida a few days before!  Well...can you say backfire?!!  Mags has been parked on the couch all day today...yet another day of sickness in our home.

So, allow me to introduce to you my 2 best friends.  Drumroll please......



Yes, yes, yes.  I have been in constant communication with these little beauties with the hope of preventing the sharing of germs!  Besides wanting to prevent the sharing of germs...i would really like to get to the mall.  Man, i have been wanting a new purse!!!!!






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