Murder Mystery party

What a great activity! The was our Sunday school activity for the month, and I think everyone would give it a thumbs up. It was so much fun. Basically it was a human clue game set in the medieval time, and you had to come dressed in character. Each person was given a character with some background information about their character, and then you also had a few objectives that you had to carry out...and of course you had to figure out the killer!

Children's choir

These kids are stinkin' adorable even if almost half of them are mine. They did such a great job. I love the part when the guy in the front row shows Kaleb some candy and he gets all excited about it.

Creation Museum

We took the field trip to the Creation Museum. It was so cool. I actually was stroller free this time because my friend Lisa was kind enough to watch Makenna for me. And oh my word, it made the visit there so much better. I even was able to jump on the bouncy bridge.
I like the inside of the museum, but my favorite part is still walking the grounds. It was especially cool to see the baby donkey that was only a couple of days old.

Field Trip #1

This is the week of field trips. We somehow planned two field trips....one to the fire station and one to the Creation Museum. Today was the fire station. Our co-op went today. I think there was about 35 of us. The boys learned lots of cool stuff. So did their mama. For instance, did you know that a lot of fire stations have done away with the famous fire poles that they slide down because of ankle injuries?? (Blake asked one of the firemen about that. He was pretty disappointed to not see one.)

Not me Monday

I have definitely been such a good blogger lately and have not temporarily replace blogging with playing a video game this past week. I absolutely did not discover the kids' Star Wars Lego game for the Xbox 360. I have not become an addicted fiend of the game playing way too much and way too late. I would never start school almost 2 hours late one day just because I wanted to show the kids a new level on the game that I had discovered the night before. And I absolutely did not skip history class just so that we could play some more. What kind of mom would I be if I did any of this? I would never do any of this. I have not stayed up late at night playing this game because I highly do not approve of the xbox in the first place. I do not get giddy when I realize that we have unlocked another level or when we have enough coins to buy a new character. And I definitely do not get grumpy when one of the boys accidentally shoots my character. What kind of mom would I be? I mean seriously, that would be totally immature. I also did not try to wake Blake and Luke up on Monday night to help me with a level because I couldn't get past it. I also did not get slightly sad when I couldn't get them to wake up no matter how hard I tried.

I also did not let the laundry stockpile up again especially after I had just completed it all. It is not all over the floor in Jakeb and Kaleb's room because they keep taking their clothes off and throwing it on the floor. No way, I have complete control over my kids, and they obey every time I tell them to pick their clothes up.

OH, and contrary to popular beliefs, I did NOT turn 31 this week. I am only 29 years old. People only think that they threw me a surprise party for my 30th birthday last year. I was really only 28 back then, so that would make me only 29 now. I did not slightly mope around for my birthday. I also did not get very happy when my husband let me stop at UDF and get PUMPKIN PIE ICE CREAM. so YUMMY! I also did not make my husband eat at Penn Station twice in one day because that's where I wanted to go for dinner for my birthday dinner. That would be cruel. (In all reality, I didn't know that he had been there until after we arrived there and were ordering food, so it's truly not my fault.)

Oh, and have I mentioned how our basement does not have the worst smell ever after doing dished upstairs. There is positively not some sort of a break in a pipe or something causing the basement to smell like sewer or something just as rank as that. There is also not water seeping into our house when it rains outside causing Eric's carpet in his office to get all wet also causing another horrible smell in our basement. And he certainly did not get perturbed by the whole situation and did not just decide to cut out half of his carpet out instead of enduring the horrible smell and waiting for it to dry. Nope, he would never do that.

I also did not go scrapbooking all day on Saturday when Eric could have worked on the basement fixing these problems that we have. That would have been extremely selfish. I did not have a great time scrapbooking and hanging out with some scrap friends. And I positively did not NOT call my family all day to check on them. Really I called them every hour to make sure that they were fine. I also reminded Eric to make sure all the kids to take a shower or bath because if they didn't take a bath, it would never create craziness on Sunday morning.

Speaking of Sunday morning, someone did not mess with my alarm clock setting the volume on the radio so low that it must have gone off for 30 minutes before I realized it was going off We did not have to squeeze 6 showers/baths into an hour of time along with having breakfast and cleaning up some. Of course we weren't running so late that Makenna had to eat breakfast in nursery at church. That would never happen. I'm always on top of it all.

Oh, here's another Eric one. Eric is also not addicted to the Star Wars Legos game. He does not say he plays it just for me cause he knows that I enjoy it. Because he would never play all by himself either. He would never play it after I leave for church by himself. And he would also never give Makenna a controller to pretend that she was playing only to discover later that night that the rubber had been CHEWED off of the controller meaning that Makenna probably does NOT have rubber going through her digestive tract even as I type. She was also NOT sitting right next to him while all of this was happening which would not at all prove that he was completely enthralled in this game and not loving it as much as I do.

I also am not almost completely done with my kids Christmas gifts because I do not get so excited when I get to buy fun stuff for the kids. I also did not buy too much stuff or spend too much money.

As far as school goes, I did not forget to make Blake practice his piano everyday last week. And he would never be overjoyed at not practicing. And he did not remember and just not tell me either because that would show that he does not like piano and that he thinks I'm torturing him by taking piano lessons. Nope, not Blake. He LOVES piano lessons.

Now also, let me tell you that I did not find my daughter already being a tomboy by playing with cars the other day. I did not video tape her on my kitchen floor. The kitchen floor is not as dirty as it seems. And I was completely not completely embarrassed to post this video of my filthy floor, but found Makenna just too cute to Not Not post it. I'm also not going to make an excuse for my floor being that dirty!

Oh, and by the way....my daughter is still NOT crawling at the ripe age of almost 17 months. No way! She's too advanced for that. She's actually running laps around our house and doing somersaults in the living room. I just didn't post that yet. I have not given up hope of her ever walking. In fact, I have not resigned myself to her crawling her funny crawl even at the age of five. Who knows. .... it might just look cute then.
You know, I'm sure that there are NOT other things that I could add to my list here, but my memory is definitely not failing me at the moment.

a huge accomplishment

I'm sure that you're expecting me to type up something completely fascinating about one of my kids, but unfortunately for you guys, I'm not. I'm simply typing this post to let all of you know that the laundry hamper that has been in my room for a month. ....you know the one...the one from all my Not Me Monday posts??? Well, it was removed this past week. I was completely caught up on my laundry for a day. Who-hee!!!!
I figured that deserved a post all in itself.

Political thoughts from a little guy

In Jakeb Alma's words upon discussing how God is powerful and can do anything He wants to do including destroying the world and starting the world over.

"If McCain wins he will make everything back to good. And Obama makes everything turn to bad"

Not quite sure how the two go together, but hey....."from the mouth of babes!" If it's clear to a FIVE year old, why can't the rest of America see it? Go VOTE today!!!!

Not me Monday

I promise that I am not sitting here at the keyboard frantically trying to think of something to type. Hmmm....let's see, what did I not do this past week.

I positively do not still have a basket of clean laundry sitting in the middle of the room in my bedroom still. It's definitely not become a permanent fixture in my bedroom. I am definitely not thinking about getting a red laundry hamper just so it will match a little better instead of the lime green color that it is.
I also did not stop breathing for a full 5 minutes when my husband kept doing THIS to my little baby. Eric did NOT have the people next to us also holding their breaths too praying that our sweet little daughter would not fly right out of the swing. He also did NOT do this repeatedly. Oh, and Makenna did not squeal with complete delight and smile over and over when he did it.


I also did not start to stress out when I was making Chicken noodle casserole tonight because I had no Cream of anything soup in my house. I most certainly did not make up my own chicken noodle recipe with what I had in the house, and I would never get slightly over pleased when 6 out of 7 people in my family liked my very own homemade recipe. Talk about a shocker!

I also did not make a chore chart system for my kids with a rewards store just so that I could get out of doing some chores. That would be downright wrong to bribe the children to clean!

Oh, and you should believe me when I tell you that I would never let my children use their closet rod as a jungle gym. I would never let them hang from the bar and climb up the wall just so they could preform for the camera, so that I could make a video and post it on my blog. I would never do that. It could be dangerous. They could fall. Shoot, the bar could fall.
OOoooooo, I have a "Not me" for my husband. My husband is not finally getting around to sanding the wall in our living room where a window used to be. This is not the same wall that he told me it would only take three days to fix. Oh, and when he said that....it was not August of 2007! Did I mention that I have not had curtains hanging up in my living room for the past year even though there was no window there...just the drywall where a window used to be. I also did not purposefully take down the curtains just so my husband would be reminded every day that he needed to do finish this task. I also did not roll my eyes when I came home on Saturday to find a FORT in my living room. Now I wonder how long we'll have this fort in our living room.

Believe it or not, Luke did not somehow accidentally jumped over something, and he easily stopped himself before crashing into the living room window breaking one of the smaller windows. This would not be the seventh window that has been broken since we lived here. And I'm serious when I say that I have never broke one. Only the kids have broken them.

I really am not an awful person, and when I tell you what I'm about to tell you...well, just know that I'm not as evil as I sound. I have not been purposefully NOT feeding the fish that we are watching for our friends. I am NOT purposefully hoping that they will die so that I can flush them down toilet or do whatever it is that one does do with fish when they pass on. The reason that I am not doing this is NOT because our friends never actually came back and left again. They also did NOT say that we have basically inherited their fish as pets and are just getting the privilege of keeping them FOREVER! Seriously, I love those fish. I want to keep them. I would never do anything to them. (Anyone not want some fish?)

And well, that's it for the Not Me, Mondays. I guess I could go on and tell you how immaculate my house is because I would never for one second let it get messy. There is never any dust in my house, and my kitchen floor is always sparkling clean because I scrub it on my hands and knees every single day. And we all know that there is no way that the dirty laundry baskets in every one's room are NOT overflowing again. I stay completely on top of the laundry every day.

Bad hair days II

It must run in the family. I think someone else needs a haircut too, huh? He's still pretty cute. I can't believe how thick his hair has gotten.

This is Makenna at church on Sunday morning. Yes, I said at church. She decided that her pigtails were not very cool. Well, when her pigtails were fixed in to a simple ponytail, she decided that the ponytail wasn't very cool either. That was when we gave up and let her have the bad hair.

Somebody got a haircut

I didn't want to cut her hair. I wanted it to all grow out, but it kept falling in her eyes. Not to mention the fact that she now refuses to leave a barrette in her hair, so I simply had no choice. It had to be cut. So, on the spur of the moment, I decided to cut it. It definitely shows off her stylin' mullet a lot more. I think she's pretty cute...mullet and all.

BeforeDuring (Doesn't this picture just crack you up. Luke took it for me. Every time I see it I laugh.)
And after