What is up…..

with me? I can't ever think about anything to blog about. Maybe that is the problem, I am trying to think about it instead of just letting it happen. Let's see maybe I can find some fun pictures to post.

Who wouldn't want this playa running around their house?

 

Have I told everyone my sister Bethany is having twins???? Here we are celebrating her 37th birthday last week.

 

What a good big brother Nee Nee (Brandon) is, Jonah LOVES when the boys get home from school.

Maybe I can get my brain in gear again….

Random Friday

I have not been doing a very good job at blogging lately, so I thought I would recap what is going on this week.

Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. day and Jacob’s comment is one that I want to remember.  That morning we listened to part of MLK Jr.’s speech and once it was over he said.  “If it weren’t for MLK then Laila (his darling latino friend) and I wouldn’t even be able to be friends, she wouldn’t even be able to get a job.”  Made me laugh, but I guess he understands the point a little bit, even though she is Latino.

We stared an impromptu minor laundry room remodel.  This was brought on last Friday when my washing machine quit working.  Hey as long as we have to move the washer out, we might as well tile the floor and paint, which then led to me taking out the cupboards and pounding away at the soffit above them.  This then led me to leave and go to a movie and let Bryan deal with the problem.  We discovered the builders had built a nice sturdy soffit  completely out of wood, and for what reason????  So anyways we are trying to get the room put back together tomorrow so I can start doing the 20 loads of laundry that are piled up.

Here is a darling shot, i think, of the joy of having boys.  We discovered a butter knife that Jonah had thrown down the heater vent (hardwood build in vent) and the boys are all trying to figure out how the best way to get it out will be.

So there you have it, my life this week in a nutshell.  Oh and also dealing with the emotions that run wild this time of year for me.

Ironing, a lost trait

Last Friday my iron blew up.  I was trying to be a good wife/mom and get the boys clothes ironed for Sunday.  I was thinking ahead and getting it done before Sunday morning.  I also had some shirts of mine that needed to be ironed.  Well I got Jacob’s clothes done and then my iron made this loud pouf of steam, started leaking out brown stuff and got cold. 

O.K. I  know not a lot of people iron, but I do not want to pay to have all of Bryan’s shirts, some of my clothes and  Brandon and Jacob’s church clothes ironed.  To those of you who are saying that you never iron, my question to you is this,  what do you do with your wrinkled clothes?  I am not the best laundry person in the world so clothes can sit in the dryer or a basket for some time.  Even then though I have shirts that I don’t put in the dryer and so they are always wrinkled once they are dried.

It seems like I am always buying a new iron.  They break so often.   Is there a magic iron out there that will last more than a few years, or am I just destined to having to buy a new iron often?  I don’t mind ironing, when I remember to do it, but I do not like having to go and buy a new iron!

Geography Bee

Last year at this time it was the spelling bee, this year the geography bee.   Brandon won his class bee and so today was the school bee.  We went over some sample questions this week and all I could say to him was, GOOD LUCK!  I couldn’t pronounce some of the countries let alone tell where they were located.  He did very well at the school bee and came in 3rd place!  I am very proud of him.  I think I knew the answer to 2 or 3 questions out of all the lots of questions that were asked.  Random rivers seemed to be the favorite topic of questions, how would anyone ever learn all of the rivers in the world?  Anyways I think he did great and am proud of him.  He asked me this morning that if he ended up in the top 7 would I take him for ice cream, so looks like he and I have a date for tonight!

As always, Brandon always looks a bit goofy in pictures.  Good thing everyone knows how good looking he is in real life!

Thoughts for the New Year

This year I hope to:

Spend less
Eat less
Love more
Laugh more
Slow down life
Enjoy each and every day
Stay healthy (and my family also)
Think of others more
Go to more movies
Eat at really good restaurants
Do at least one home project a month
Continue not to complain about the weather
Maybe start not complaining in general!

and most importantly I WILL make it to Mexico this year.

Another Christmas to Remember

Once we were all home safely from our little Arizona vacation, I could finally relax and enjoy Christmas.  Christmas Eve was spent cooking and finishing off all the last minute things that I ALWAYS leave until the last minute.  I know, maybe one year I will learn.  Christmas Eve we had my family over for our traditional Christmas Eve dinner of crab in shells, ham, funeral potatoes and spinach salad.

Kids table

and the adult table.

My brother Nate sponsors an Iraqi family and so we had them for dinner as well.  Slight change in the menu for them since they don’t eat pork!  They don’t speak much English, but we loved having them.  It made it just a bit more special.

Musical number with Chris’ whole family.  He wrote a song and parts for each of his wife and children to take part.  It was very cool.

Gifts all around as the cousins exchanged dollar gifts and got presents from Baapa and Grandma.

Christmas Day was an exciting one filled with sports clothing, balls, trains, sleds, boots and guitar hero which Santa gave us used!  Since when does Santa give used gifts that don’t work right????

Jonah was so tired because the boys had woken him up.  He spent most of the morning sitting on Daddy’s lap and trying to decide if he was awake enough to enjoy it.  Once all of his trains were open, he was on cloud nine and played with them for the entire day.  Another Christmas has come and gone, and I swear this one was the fastest ever!

Jacob’s list

I just found a Christmas list that Jacob made at school.  

A DS

a new scooter

a rip stick

money

Ipod Touch

toy limo

for willer

a new pocet nife

I hope he isn’t terribly disappointed, he wouldn’t ever make me a list!