Christmas

So here is our Christmas tree.  Don't go all crazy about all the presents most of those belong to James' mom, dad, and three sisters that will come over for the rest of present opening.  They bring them over the night befor so it cam look all perty!

Here is James holding the kids back so that they all come out togeather.  (I love his camo jammie pants!!)

Santa did good.  He got the lil' boys new noisy booms.  GO SANTA!

Tyler is trying to figure out how he is going to play his wii game.  HUMM...

Elizabeth is getting to be such a good reader.  She had to read the whole front of her wii game.Connor and Cody have fallen inlove with trians this year.  So their big gift from Mom and Dad was a train set.  It is safe to say they LOVED IT!  LOL!

Tyler and Elizabeth finally figured out we now have our own Wii to play games on.  Mom and Dad ROCK this year, if we say so ourselfs!

I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!

Today is your birthday.nananna

..It's my birthday too yeah!

Okay so it is not my birthday.   6 months and 4 days to go...  Anywho it is my moms birthday today.  She is getting old.  Aren't we all?  I called her for her big day.  Not a big deal you say?  Well really it is.  I haven't talked to my mom for a little over three years.  Crazy you say.  Why yes, yes it is.  Why did we not talk?  Probably something stupid was said but hey that happens.

I am not sure how long this will last.  I am not sure how this will all go.  Here is to a new year and hoping it goes better for our relationship.

What I learned today.

I learned I am not going to play catch up with this blog. LOL!! So I will start fresh with December. Just wanted my friends in weird places to know that no you probably wont see fair pictures, or Halloween pictures unless I do a funky flash back post. That might be fun.......

Going Private....maybe

I see that a few of you are from places I can not justify. New Jersey? Really? Leave a comment tell me who you are. London WOW!! Now I am world wide. That my friend is scary. LOL! Denver might make sense. I visit a blog that I know is written there. I expect to be check up on. There are a couple from Cali I think I can explain away but feel free to let me know who you are. So this is the warning....if people I can't explain keep visiting I will most likely make this blog private. Really a simple comment would be nice. Thanks!!

First Day of school

Tyler is in 3rd grade this year. He is in Mrs. Burger's class. She teaches a 3/4 split Quest class. Quest is our district gifted program. Yes we are proud!

Elizabeth is in 1st grade this year. Her teacher is Miss Mitterholzer. She is so smart. She has new reading glasses for this year. It took he forever to pick out her outfit. She LOVES cloths!!

And the green grass grow all around!

In August we hydro seeded our back yard. After taking out trees and the play house we leaved it, and brought in ALOT of dirt. Then we hired someone to hydro seed it.

Before

After (these pictures are taken in late September)

AHHHHH Grass!!! My kids are SO happy.

The ants go marching one by one...

hurrah hurrah!!

SOOOO.....this so does not show how BIG the swarm of ants was. I didn't get a picture until James had already went bug spray crazy.t the back door and saw a LONG line of ants walking across the deck we followed them to the bathroom wall. The wall had turned to mush. FUN!

The good news(I know really) is we had already planned to replace this wall and had almost everything already bought. Bad news was that now we also had to get an exterminator $$$$ :( .

The window is out. Doesn't he look happy?

Dad is here to laugh at us and help. We had a great view from the potty.

So here is the finished product. It took way longer than we thought. James learned more than he wanted to about plumbing and I have never been so grateful for my shower!!