Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Christmas snapshots
Okay, so I've not only been a bad blogger lately, but I've been a bad picture taker. I didn't take any of the kids opening presents on Christmas morning, and very few of them at all that day. They woke up at 5 so I was out of it most of the day. I'm planning on still getting a picture of all of them by the tree, but just haven't gotten around to it yet.
However, we had a great Christmas. The kids got spoiled, and believe it or not, they still have one more Christmas to have. Their grandparents are coming in to town tomorrow, so maybe I'll take pictures of them opening those presents.
And one of my personal favorites....the old people sleeping on the couch....Eric and my Grandma.
However, we had a great Christmas. The kids got spoiled, and believe it or not, they still have one more Christmas to have. Their grandparents are coming in to town tomorrow, so maybe I'll take pictures of them opening those presents.
Anyways, here's some snapshots of Christmas day.
Christmas dinner, and no...I did not stay in my pajamas all day. I would never do that.
Kaleb hiding out in his room playing with his new toys because he didn't want anyone else to play and he especially didn't want Makenna to come and mess up his people.
Jakeb and Luke playing DON'T WAKE UP HULK! This was the year of games for Christmas. Everyone got at least one game. Luke got like 5.
Blake and his favorite toy....a Mega Rig Space Shuttle by Matchbox. You can build the shuttle a ton of different ways.
Christmas dinner, and no...I did not stay in my pajamas all day. I would never do that.
Kaleb hiding out in his room playing with his new toys because he didn't want anyone else to play and he especially didn't want Makenna to come and mess up his people.
Jakeb and Luke playing DON'T WAKE UP HULK! This was the year of games for Christmas. Everyone got at least one game. Luke got like 5.
Blake and his favorite toy....a Mega Rig Space Shuttle by Matchbox. You can build the shuttle a ton of different ways.
And one of my personal favorites....the old people sleeping on the couch....Eric and my Grandma.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Look who's walking now!
Just like Eric predicted a year ago, Makenna started walking right when we got back from the wedding. I mean, she would walk a couple steps here and there, but then fall and go back to her goofy crawl. Or she would walk along things holding on for dear life. Now she's Really walking. I' talking the night we got back from NC, she started. So,at almost 18 months she finally starts walking. Check her out. Even with her pants to long, she can move pretty fast.And I leave you with this picture of her trying so hard to be like her brothers. Check out her guns!
Kids dancing!
Check out their moves!
The Kids' Dances
And if you have time, check on the other dances too, they are awesome!
The Kids' Dances
And if you have time, check on the other dances too, they are awesome!
Thursday, December 18, 2008
The Wedding
We arrived on Thursday afternoon. The bed and breakfast was lovely. The shower in the bed and breakfast was phenomenal. It had 7 spigots shooting out everywhere. I told everyone about the wonderful shower. Sorry, didn't mean to get a little off subject there about the shower.
Anyways, on Friday there was a bridesmaid luncheon at a quaint little tea house. (Is that what it's called? a tea house?) It was nice to meet a lot of people who I have heard about for the past couple of years.
That night was the rehearsal of which Makenna did wonderfully. She sat in her little red wagon and waved as she came down aisle. I managed to hobble up the aisle without causing too much attention to my foot. And the boys were perfect.
The rehearsal dinner was back at the bed and breakfast where the catered food was fantastic. Some friends from cllege showed up so we introduced the game of ZOO to our husbands (to be). If only I could explain ZOO on my blog. It was basically a game that we played in college before Saturday hall meeting. Each person was a different animal that had a different hand movement and sound. It was basically a rhythm game with clapping and lots of noise. The boys were in complete shock, but played along with us. (I think they did it to amuse us.) Talk about a loud, but fun time. We were laughing so hard that we were crying.
Anyways, on Friday there was a bridesmaid luncheon at a quaint little tea house. (Is that what it's called? a tea house?) It was nice to meet a lot of people who I have heard about for the past couple of years.
That night was the rehearsal of which Makenna did wonderfully. She sat in her little red wagon and waved as she came down aisle. I managed to hobble up the aisle without causing too much attention to my foot. And the boys were perfect.
The rehearsal dinner was back at the bed and breakfast where the catered food was fantastic. Some friends from cllege showed up so we introduced the game of ZOO to our husbands (to be). If only I could explain ZOO on my blog. It was basically a game that we played in college before Saturday hall meeting. Each person was a different animal that had a different hand movement and sound. It was basically a rhythm game with clapping and lots of noise. The boys were in complete shock, but played along with us. (I think they did it to amuse us.) Talk about a loud, but fun time. We were laughing so hard that we were crying.
(From left to right starting at the top:1 Niki and her mom, 2 the announcement and our bouquet, 3 her guest book (what a great idea! i believe she had three of these to sign), 4 part of the Dinner Club reunited, 5 Niki and Jeff; 6 Shelley,me, Makenna, and Tracy; 7 Jakeb kissing Makenna after the wedding,8 the cake, 9 the kids after the wedding)
Saturday was the wedding day. Niki and I got our hair and makeup done and were off to the church to get ready for pictures. I get there,and realize that I forgot my jewelry in Niki's car back at her house. AHHHHH! Then I go to put Makenna's tights on only to discover that they weren't a pair of pantyhose with cute little ruffles on the butt, but they were just little ruffled underwears!! My little girl didn't have any tights. Could I possibly do anything else to mess up Niki's wedding?
(From left to right starting at the top: 1 Shelley and I after the ceremony with the sparklers. Instead of bird seed, they did these. 2 Niki and Jeff at the reception. 3 some college friends, 4. Niki and the groomsmen, 5. the ceremony, 6. tired Makenna, 7. string quartet, 8 Kaleb, 9. Niki and Tracy)
So anyways, let's move on to the prettiest wedding that I have ever seen. Niki was a breathtaking bride,and the whole ceremony was beautiful. Too bad Makenna wasn't there to enjoy it. She absolutely refused to come down the aisle in her wagon. I guess the people scared her too much. Oh well!
Niki had a string quartet at the wedding and at the reception. Oh my word! It was such a nice addition to an already perfect wedding. The reception was equally as beautiful, and just look at how pretty Niki looks in her cape over her dress. She looks like a princess! I kept saying she looke like Belle.
It was such a great trip. Jeff is a great guy, and I am thrilled for both of them.
PS. Thanks Shelley for posting the pictures on Facebook so I could post them on my blog. I was horrible and only took one - the one of Niki and her mom
Look what I have
Anyone want to guess who did this?? I'm getting way too much abuse around here. Here's what it looks like today. Lovely, huh?
an innocent letter
Dear ___________________I'm sorry for disobeying you. I should obey you. One ofthe 10 comandments say, Thou shalt not commit other adultery.
The above letter was written by Luke because he disobeyed a gentleman in our church. When I read it, I about choked when i got to the adultery part. I asked Luke, "Why did you write that part?" He responded with, "Well, Mom, I'm supposed to obey ADULTS, so I figured that's what ADULTery meant." Needless to say, I about peed in my pants. I went on to explain that that is not exactly what that word meant although that was very good word association.
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Going outta town tomorrow
Going to my best friend's wedding where I'll be the maitron of honor hobbling down the aisle right in front of the beautiful bride!! I can't wait to see Niki get married. Pray for us all...oh, and pray that Makenna's black eye (that Jakeb gave her) goes away. (She's the flower girl)
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
And now for the the story.....updated
you've all been waiting for......... How did Marshan break her foot?
Well it all started with our arrival home from Michigan. We brought all of our stuff inside. It was awesome because Eric parked in the front of the house which made it really easy to bring it in and all. No stairs or anything....so nope, I didn't break my foot then.
After being home for no more than about 15 minutes, I remembered that I had promised Kaleb a toy for his b-day. His grandparents had given him $25, and I had already pre-bought a toy to give him from them, so I needed to go downstairs and get it. Eric told me that I didn't need to get it because our kids had plenty of toys, and Kaleb didn't need another toy. He said our kids were becoming spoiled brats because they always get everything that they want. We already weren't getting along that day, so I got mad and said some things that I didn't really mean (so much for being a submissive wife, huh?). This caused him to lose his temper and pick up the nearest object to him, which just happened to be my beloved one year picture of Makenna, and threw it at me.
I ducked and grabbed the nearest object to me which just happened to be his xbox (You see, it's been upstairs for about a month now.) and hurled it at him. All the kids watched in horror as their parents were positively going insane. He miraculously caught his Xbox in mid air, but unfortunately tripped over the luggage that we had just brought in to the house. And down he went....Xbox and all crashing to the ground breaking his xbox into a million little pieces all over the floor. Whoo! The man was livid now. At this point the kids are screaming and crying because we're both so angry and for their poor friend, the x-box. Of course, Eric wasn't going to let me get by with throwing his precious baby at him and ruining it. He came running toward me and tried to grab me, but I ducked out of the way cause shoot, I'm six years younger than him and much quicker.
I then decided that it was time.....it was time to do my Karate Kid kick....you all know the one...the one when Daniel-san lifted up his arms and his one leg and did the amazing kick and knocked his opponent out.....Well, that was my goal, to do the amazing kick and knock Eric out. So up went my arms, and up went my leg...and with my perfect coordination I did it only I kicked him right where it hurt because well, frankly, I couldn't get my leg up quite as high as Daniel-san.
Of course, Eric doubled over in pain, but not before he gave me a huge shove pushing me down our basement steps resulting in me landing unnaturally and breaking my foot. So, see..it's all Eric's fault. All because I wanted to get a toy out of the basement for Kaleb. So since I was already down there...I hobbled over to the where the toy was, grabbed it, crawled up the stairs, and handed it to Kaleb. I won. Eric lost! Ha!
So what if I have a broken foot? So what if my kids are permanently scarred for life? So what if Eric will never have kids again? (Get it...cause I kicked him right where it hurt?) It's all good because not only did I get the win by getting the toy for Kaleb, I also won by ruining the X-box! I killed two birds with one stone! Who-heeee!!
And just so you know....Eric and I apologized to each other, so all is well. No needs to worry. We're fine. He took me to he ER which is obviously where the picture is taken.
I broke my fifth metatarsal in two spots, and then the next day he took me to the doctor's office with all the kids. That was fun...all seven of us smooshed into one room. We felt like sardines! So they gave me an air cast/boot to wear for a couple of weeks. I go back in two weeks to make sure my foot isn't falling apart. (How comforting, huh? That's what the doctor told me.)
Well it all started with our arrival home from Michigan. We brought all of our stuff inside. It was awesome because Eric parked in the front of the house which made it really easy to bring it in and all. No stairs or anything....so nope, I didn't break my foot then.
After being home for no more than about 15 minutes, I remembered that I had promised Kaleb a toy for his b-day. His grandparents had given him $25, and I had already pre-bought a toy to give him from them, so I needed to go downstairs and get it. Eric told me that I didn't need to get it because our kids had plenty of toys, and Kaleb didn't need another toy. He said our kids were becoming spoiled brats because they always get everything that they want. We already weren't getting along that day, so I got mad and said some things that I didn't really mean (so much for being a submissive wife, huh?). This caused him to lose his temper and pick up the nearest object to him, which just happened to be my beloved one year picture of Makenna, and threw it at me.
I ducked and grabbed the nearest object to me which just happened to be his xbox (You see, it's been upstairs for about a month now.) and hurled it at him. All the kids watched in horror as their parents were positively going insane. He miraculously caught his Xbox in mid air, but unfortunately tripped over the luggage that we had just brought in to the house. And down he went....Xbox and all crashing to the ground breaking his xbox into a million little pieces all over the floor. Whoo! The man was livid now. At this point the kids are screaming and crying because we're both so angry and for their poor friend, the x-box. Of course, Eric wasn't going to let me get by with throwing his precious baby at him and ruining it. He came running toward me and tried to grab me, but I ducked out of the way cause shoot, I'm six years younger than him and much quicker.
I then decided that it was time.....it was time to do my Karate Kid kick....you all know the one...the one when Daniel-san lifted up his arms and his one leg and did the amazing kick and knocked his opponent out.....Well, that was my goal, to do the amazing kick and knock Eric out. So up went my arms, and up went my leg...and with my perfect coordination I did it only I kicked him right where it hurt because well, frankly, I couldn't get my leg up quite as high as Daniel-san.
Of course, Eric doubled over in pain, but not before he gave me a huge shove pushing me down our basement steps resulting in me landing unnaturally and breaking my foot. So, see..it's all Eric's fault. All because I wanted to get a toy out of the basement for Kaleb. So since I was already down there...I hobbled over to the where the toy was, grabbed it, crawled up the stairs, and handed it to Kaleb. I won. Eric lost! Ha!
So what if I have a broken foot? So what if my kids are permanently scarred for life? So what if Eric will never have kids again? (Get it...cause I kicked him right where it hurt?) It's all good because not only did I get the win by getting the toy for Kaleb, I also won by ruining the X-box! I killed two birds with one stone! Who-heeee!!
And just so you know....Eric and I apologized to each other, so all is well. No needs to worry. We're fine. He took me to he ER which is obviously where the picture is taken.
I broke my fifth metatarsal in two spots, and then the next day he took me to the doctor's office with all the kids. That was fun...all seven of us smooshed into one room. We felt like sardines! So they gave me an air cast/boot to wear for a couple of weeks. I go back in two weeks to make sure my foot isn't falling apart. (How comforting, huh? That's what the doctor told me.)
I got my air cast right after this picture was taken.
UPDATED: For all you dorks out there, this entire story is made up except for me being home for about 15 minutes, me going to get a toy for Kaleb, me falling down the stairs, and me breaking my foot. That's it...simple as that. I just thought that I would spruce it up....you know....make a good story out of it....see how long it took for the rumor to get around. And just for the record... I can't ever recall a time when Eric or I threw anything at each in anger.
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving was good and relaxing. We spent it in Michigan at Eric's parents house. Before we left though, I had the boys write five things each that they were thankful for and then we put them on leaves, cut them out and put them on our fall tree the basement.
Blake: going to Michigan, our toys, George came over, planets, Jesus died on the cross
Luke: there was no fire in our house, Bible, family, cousins, Jesus died on the cross for our sins
Jakeb: house, church, bones, God, co-op
Kaleb: mommy and daddy, school, brothers and sister, health, birthday
Our trip was fun too. My sister in law straightened my hair. I LOVED it. Check it out!
Let's see what else did we do while we were there in Michigan. We played some family games after the kids went to bed. We also watched movies, played the Wii 
(on loan from a great brother-iin-law), and just had a nice relaxing time. We also took the kids sledding for the first time 
and then to warm up after they got back, they were able to get in the jacuzzi for some bath time fun. Kaleb was not too impressed with tub, but Makenna was dying to get in. Check out this picture. 
My mother in law and I did some heavy duty shopping on Friday. Fortunately we didn't have to go out early. We simply went out about noon and got everything that we wanted. We did spend about 45 minutes in line at Kohl's though. That was a long line!! It wrapped around the entire store. Sheer Craziness!! But so worth it.
Blake: going to Michigan, our toys, George came over, planets, Jesus died on the cross
Luke: there was no fire in our house, Bible, family, cousins, Jesus died on the cross for our sins
Jakeb: house, church, bones, God, co-op
Kaleb: mommy and daddy, school, brothers and sister, health, birthday
Our trip was fun too. My sister in law straightened my hair. I LOVED it. Check it out!
Let's see what else did we do while we were there in Michigan. We played some family games after the kids went to bed. We also watched movies, played the Wii 
(on loan from a great brother-iin-law), and just had a nice relaxing time. We also took the kids sledding for the first time 
and then to warm up after they got back, they were able to get in the jacuzzi for some bath time fun. Kaleb was not too impressed with tub, but Makenna was dying to get in. Check out this picture. 
My mother in law and I did some heavy duty shopping on Friday. Fortunately we didn't have to go out early. We simply went out about noon and got everything that we wanted. We did spend about 45 minutes in line at Kohl's though. That was a long line!! It wrapped around the entire store. Sheer Craziness!! But so worth it.
On Sunday we went to see Eric's old pastor who was filling in as an interim pastor about 1 hour away. Afterwards we were introduced to the BEST PIZZA EVER at some podunk small town restaraunt. And that, my friends, pretty much wraps up our trip to Michigan.
Kaleb's b-day
Thanksgiving day was Kaleb's birthday this year, and since weren't going to be home, we did a little celebrating early. We took a quick trip to Chuck E. Cheese, and then met up with Daddy and George at Lone Star for dinner.
They surprised him at Lone Star by bringing him out a big brownie ice cream sundae. He was a little overwhelmed by all the attention and almost started crying. He even tried to refuse to eat any of it, and then we started dividing it up, and he realized that he did want it. About five minutes after they came and sang to him, he realized that he forgot to say thank you, and made sure he told the waitress thank you when she came back.
Afterwards, we went home to get some presents for the little guy. He knew what one of them was because he found it a couple of months ago in the basement, and believe me, he didn't forget about it. He's been asking for quite often since then. If you asked him what he wanted for his birthday he would respond with, "All the Geotrax!" And well, that's what he got. He got the airport, the barn, and a little train.
We also celebrated at Grandma and T-Rex's house too that evening. Grandma Alma made a fun cake. She makes the coolest cakes. Then he had a couple of presents to open from them and one from Grandma Hintson.
They surprised him at Lone Star by bringing him out a big brownie ice cream sundae. He was a little overwhelmed by all the attention and almost started crying. He even tried to refuse to eat any of it, and then we started dividing it up, and he realized that he did want it. About five minutes after they came and sang to him, he realized that he forgot to say thank you, and made sure he told the waitress thank you when she came back.
Afterwards, we went home to get some presents for the little guy. He knew what one of them was because he found it a couple of months ago in the basement, and believe me, he didn't forget about it. He's been asking for quite often since then. If you asked him what he wanted for his birthday he would respond with, "All the Geotrax!" And well, that's what he got. He got the airport, the barn, and a little train.
We also celebrated at Grandma and T-Rex's house too that evening. Grandma Alma made a fun cake. She makes the coolest cakes. Then he had a couple of presents to open from them and one from Grandma Hintson.
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
I"m coming back....
really. We have a lot of stuff going on. We had a birthday, went out of town, and then I decided to go and break my foot on top of it all. (more about all of that later.) So once I get all the picture uploaded and all....well, I'll have a good post for everyone.
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