Entry for October 31, 2007

Sorry if you cant really see these. They look alot better in person but I just cant get a good shot of them. Brandons is a skull and Ben's is a monster trick or treatin. It took me forever to do these. The things you do for your kids huh. My hands kept hurting really bad and I cut myself a couple of times but all ended well.
We have been so super busy here. The kids and I have definately made the most of Halloween this year. We have been to alot of fun things. Last night I took Ben and Faith to the Jr High for their second annual trick or treat it was so neat. They did really neat themes in the hallways. We went to Oompa Loompa World, candy land, haunted island, nursery rhyme land, I dont even remember them all but they were neat. They had fun games set up. Brandon had his boyscouts trunk or treat party and he had a blast. They made him up as a mummy out of toilet paper he thought that was cool. Yesterday was Bens school party. I went and he got to pick a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch, got to make a jack o lantern, had cupcakes and went trick or treating through the school. It was lots of fun. Today is Brandon party and I will be attending his also. I love being able to do that. They had to dress up as school helpers and Brandon wanted to dress up as the principal. I spent my morning on line trying to figure out how to tie a tie. I was able to do it. Man I dont know what I would do without the internet.
Happy Halloween everyone. Be safe and have fun. Heather did you get those costumes done?

Entry for October 25, 2007

Here is Ben's preschool picture this year. Doesnt he look sweet.
Today the kids had early release and they dont have school tomorrow. We have lots of fun things planned to do over the next several days. My kids LOVE Halloween it is their favorite holiday so we try to make the most of it. They have lots of free things going on all over the city so we will take advantage. Tonight we are going to a Creepy halloween puppet show, tomorrow night trick or treating at Park College, then Saturday trunk or treating and to a magic show, Sunday a Halloween party, Monday trunk or treating again, Tuesday to the Jr High to trick or treat and play games and stuff, and then of coarse trick or treating on Halloween. Not that they need all that candy but they just have a super ball doing stuff. And I like it when it is FREE. So wish us luck. We will be busy.

Entry for October 23, 2007

Well last night was Ben's parent teacher conference. She says he is very sweet, helpful, pays attention, if others arent paying attention he tells them to. He is writing pretty well and is pretty much at where or above where he should be. So that is good. But then she says to me Ben is kind of a goofball sometimes. And I said ok. She says I will say something like does a train go on a train track and he will be like No! and she will say yes it does and he will be like No it doesnt and play that game for awhile. She says do you know he does this. I am like yea we are pretty sarcastic sometimes at home. And she was like well what do you do about this. I said I just tell him there is a time to act like that and a time not too. Of coarse Josh just laughed about this because Josh plays that "No its not game"with Ben all the time. Thats our Ben.

Entry for October 21, 2007

Here is Brandon 1st grade picture. He looks a little sarcastic in this one. He said the photographer was goofy. He looks so much bigger than the nervous little kindergarten picture from last year.
We have had a pretty busy last few days. Yesterday was super crazy. We had a birthday party at 1:00, Ben had fun but let me tell you I will not be going back to that house. It was so gross. I could not walk anywhere without sticking to the floor, they had made cupcakes, punch, and ordered pizza but I could not touch any of it. On the counter tops right in front of everyone they had cockroaches crawling around. The house was so dirty that it smelled of like month old trash. In the room they had set up for the kids they had taken piled up dishes obviously from their kitchen counter and set them in a dish drainer in this room the kids were playing in. The front door kept flying open and knocking people off the porch they finally got some duct tape and taped it shut and we had to keep taping and untaping if we wanted to go in or out. I had to excuse myself early. Oh and the womens husband kept finding excuses to get close to me and either rub my shoulder area, or my hip area. And everyone had a dip in there mouth, when they talked some of it either spilled out or spit dribbled out. It was so bad and I am not even sharing everything just because I cant. Then after that we went to moms for Max's party, then we went to the corn maze, then we went back to moms for Smore's. Keep in mind I had nothing to eat this entire time. I was so hungry I scarfed down to Smore's. So needless to say today is a rest day.

Entry for October 18, 2007

What a morning. I have not been doing very well at getting up in the morning much before 7:30 because for some reason I cant sleep at night. I sleep really good till about 1:30 or 2:00 and then I wake up till about 4:00, then I finally fall back to sleep and the alarm goes off at 5:00. So I lay there and go back to sleep sometime after that. I fly out of bed this morning realizing both kids have school. Go downstairs to make a cup of coffee pour some milk in my coffee and notice it looks like cottage cheese. Icky. So therefore I was without my coffee, not good. Then I realize we have nothing for breakfast. No bread for toast, no frozen waffles, no milk for cereal, no oatmeal, no fruit, nothing. So quickly I am yelling at the kids you wanna go to McDonalds. They are throwing their clothes on running to the car with shoes in hand. We fly to McDonalds of coarse there was a line. I order the largest coffee they have, some sausage biscuits and we fly back home. Ben was so nervous from the morning chaos he wanted to save his biscuit for lunch. We get home 3 minutes before the bus comes. Geezz. Jodi you need to start getting your butt up. Here is Faith and Brandon sharing some Dragon Tales time.

Entry for October 17, 2007

What a soggy messy day. Ben was really upset today because we were suppose to go to the pumpkin patch. But about 8:30 his school called and cancelled it due to the weather. He was so mad. I am like would you rather get soaking wet and he was like YES. Anyways we came home after taking Brandon to school and turned up some Matchbox 20 really loud and danced around the house. That changed his mood really quickly. Then him and Faith played with some K'nex and I cleaned out a closet. I am really doing good with the organizing. I am trying really hard to just do what I planned to do for that day, and either not get sidetracked or not let myself get overwhelmed. It is working great. Yesterday I cleaned the closet to the basement and today I cleaned the closet in the (office) room. We really wanted Taco Bell today but we get there and they had a transformer blow so no Taco Bell. We had to settle for Sonic. I really wanted Taco Bell. Oh well maybe next time.

Entry for October 16, 2007

Man what a night. My trash man is going to love me this week. We rented Fantastic Four this weekend. So I go to look for the movie last night and I can't find it ANYWHERE. I look in the refrigerator, I looked in the hamper, under the rugs, in all of the other movie cases (and we have alot), in the dryer, outside in the yard, I finally broke down and thought maybe Faith threw it away so I go outside and dump all of the plastic bags and go through those, about 2 hours later I think hmmmm, I wonder if ,and I look under this part on our entertainment center that rolls out and sure enough there it is. Why couldnt I have thought that before I wadded through all the trash. GROSS!! So I finally get to sit down about 9:15 after a very crazy hectic day and then Josh calls. We were up until after 11:00 doing his term paper and then I finally was able to go to bed at 1am just for the alarm to go off at 5. Hopefully today will be better.

Entry for October 12, 2007

Ben has been so helpful lately. He asks me and Josh almost everyday if he is The Good Kid. So funny. He has just been super ready to help with anything he can. We were eating dinner the other night and he cleared away everyone's plates. I was still eating mine but he was so excited I let him take it anyways. Then yesterday he went up in the toy room and cleaned it and was like mommy close your eyes I have a surprise for you. Then him and Faith were in his room playing and he said Faith lets clean up the room when we are done so mommy wont have too. Last night after we got home from swimming lessons, he comes up to me and takes off my shoes and socks and starts rubbing my feet. For a little kid he gives awesome foot rubs.
Today we went and hung out at the mall. I was very disappointed. They are now taking all of the toys that they had in the middle out and putting in all of those riding toys that cost money. They want 75c per ride and the merry go round they now want $2 dollars per kid. What is that? Some person is a very greedy person. If he charged less he would end up making more. Not one kid rode a ride while I was there and every mom was upset just like me. So I guess we wont be going out to the mall "just to play"anymore. I did have a good shopping trip though I was able to get a certain niece a very nice Christmas present for a super good deal. And I was also able to get me a couple of shirts for 50 percent off. I need to go to the mall NOT to shop more often. Maybe then I will find better deals.

Entry for October 08, 2007

Smores anyone?
We had a super fun weekend. We have had a few of those lately. Saturday we went and hung out at Penguin Park and then when we got back the kids went to the neighbors for several hours. I was able to clean out my van with only one child. Josh made us a yummy chicken on the grill. Then we invited the girls over to have smores with Brandon and Ben. They had a blast. It was so messy. Then Sunday we went to Chucky Cheese's and then the neighbor girls came over and played with Brandon and Ben during the game. Then we went to moms and had pizza and apple pie for Jessica's birthday. She turns the big 29 today. Oh my gosh.
Happy Birthday Jessica!!!!!!!

Entry for October 06, 2007

This is Faith this morning at like 6:45. I was upstairs and I came down and she had gotten to the bag of popcorn and was laying on the floor feeding it to her and Shelby.

Entry for October 03, 2007

Another bad habit I taught my daughter. She is so cute, she walks around the house jabbering and she even pauses, like she is actually talking and listening to someone on the phone. And I just sit back and listen to her. She will grin at me like she knows she is being cute. She also rolls her eyes at me. I wouldn't have any idea where she got that from!!! Another of her favorites is music she will stop and start dancing to any kind of music, even if it is just a commercial on tv, she even tries to snap her fingers to the beat. She also likes to sing with me. I will sing something like Rock-ABye baby and she will actually join me in singing, or she will put her hand over my mouth and she will continue singing. Just a few things I wanted to share about my little Faith.