American Idol

We love to watch American Idol as a family and went with the kids and my mom to the concert. Totally fun! We are nerds-we just love it!!! It's fun to watch them during the season grow and progress and then to see them in concert-my kids think they are bigger celebrities than anyone else because they watch them every week on tv! :) We are sorta sheltered! We went to the concert, stayed for autographs after the show-pretty unsuccessful-so I gathered some teenagers from our neighborhood AND my mom-no other adults wanted to come-and took Alyssa and Shay back for autographs the next night. We got there before the show ended-had a great spot in line-and had a blast. Casey missed out even though he doesn't think he did---totally fun!

We were David Cook fans before....love him...but after this picture with Shay we LOVE him!!! He seriously was so down to earth-sweet-aware-hard to explain but his pace was just different! I am sure it was chaos for all of these American Idols to sign autographs and have people screaming at them but David Cook was such a neat cool guy!!!

Sawyer's Hands

Ok-I think I am addicted to this blog thing...I think my kids are funny and my life is good and it's fun to share! Tonight Casey gave Sawyer some gloves he has for taxidermy and we heard him in the bathroom laughing hysterically at himself-he never does that. Then he said, "Who wants to see my hands?" When we went in the bathroom this is what we saw. What a goof!

You're Gonna Miss This....

I was driving the other day and heard this song on the radio...the message of it hit me so hard. That song was totally for me!!! I am a stresser/planner NOT a take it a day at a time and smell the roses kind of girl. I listened to the words and thought of high school-good times! I cried at graduation...just wasn't ready to move on-too much fun. Then college-FUN! I know it was crazy with room mates but the memories are fun(Christie...hot dog fried rice!? Gag!!!) Then being a nanny-dating-total confusion-then I married Casey. Our first apartment was so tiny-I loved it and loved being with him but we wanted more-a house, kids, etc. Looking back that little apartment was awesome and we really were happy. Now I am surrounded by 4 kids plus lots of other kids always :) and it feels so hectic BUT they are growing so fast. As much as I miss those other times in my life I am for sure gonna miss this-my kids being little and wanting my help and love and attention. I already miss them being babies-who doesn't love a newborn??? But time is flying. I guess the thing I realized is how much we sometimes want to fast forward life because it's stressful or whatever BUT it will always be stressful and life is good today. I am so grateful for my hubby and kids and the life we are living and I know I am gonna miss this!!!! SO I am trying to slow down and focus on us-not put my kids on the back burner for everyone else. I know it's silly but my goal for November and December is to focus 100% on being a mom and on MY family-I am sure I will take a meal or babysit for someone during that time but only after I've taken care of us. So weird that has to be a goal...I am a nerd! Like Trace says in the song...THESE ARE SOME GOOD TIMES!!!!

You Broke Our Family!!!

SO....Jaycee is pretty ticked off at her dad. Tonight he had to go to Home Depot to get some epoxy. Why did he need epoxy???? For the antelope that is dead in our garage of course! I live such a great life! :) The life of being married to someone who loves taxidermy! Jaycee and Sawyer wanted to go with him. As they were leaving Home Depot Jaycee said, "Dad-you are rude. You broke our family." He said this was totally out of the blue-no idea what he did. He brought them home and ran some dvds back to Redbox and she went into Shay's room and told her, "Dad ruined our family!" then she told me the same thing as I was brushing her teeth. He just walked back in the door and she said it again. Shaylee thinks she's saying that because he didn't take me and Alyssa and Shaylee with him to Home Depot but we have no idea what her problem is. She is such a fireball...she keeps us laughing. It would be so nice to know what she's thinking sometimes! She can be so random. When I picked her up from preschool last week her teacher told me she was "lively" today---what a nice lady! That totally made me laugh!

Shay's Latest Disaster!!!

She looks happy, huh???? About every other week I get a call from the sweet office ladies at the elementary school telling me Shaylee is hurt. Poor kid really finds disaster so easily! Last time they called I tried to blow them off and the vice principal got on the phone and asked me if she needed to bring her to me-Shay had told me that she cut her shoulder at recess and she was crying-the vice principal clarified it was actually a gash. Oopsie! I got in the car and was a good mom and brought her home. Today they called my cell when I was at the tire shop getting the tires rotated and having one fixed because it kept going flat. My phone rang when all 4 tires were off of the car-she had tripped over a boy at recess and skinned both of her knees. She had to finish out the day and they were so sweet--I told the receptionist at the school I need to make them cookies because they are always so good to her. They totally know her! I made sure they knew I have another child at the school and they don't know her...that should mean something, right? Poor girl! I know skinned knees hurt-I skinned mine a couple of years ago and was surprised and how bad that stings. She will be back to normal in no time! :) Thank heavens for sweet office ladies at elementary schools-I'm afraid I'm just not that patient!!!

His Name Is Alex!

Today is Sawyer's show & tell day for preschool. He is supposed to bring something that begins with an A so we talked about all of his choices-his antelope, his alligator, etc. He brought out his stuffed animal elephant. I looked at him funny and without having to ask for an explanation he said, "Mom-his name is Alex!" and smiled. So cute!!! That was pretty quick to name his elephant that begins with an e a name that starts with A so he could take him! Cute boy!

School pictures....so cute!!!

We got the girls school pictures back today-they turned out so cute!!! Alyssa looks so old and Shaylee (like always) looks like she's having a great time...she loves to have her picture taken! I always get anxiety about this day-how do you tell your kid their picture isn't so good and they need to do retakes???? So far we've done great-never had to do retakes. The bummer thing is Alyssa got her braces on right after pictures so she of course looks different-oh well. I sure love these girls!