Aren't You Thankful....

Well aren't you? We were....are, you know at Thanksgiving and all....because that's when we were thankful for these things, enjoy......

M had his first school performance, he memorized his line,

"In 1492, the Pilgrims sailed on the Mayflower,

it was a hard journey; it took 66 days"

Something like that...HE DID SO WELL!!!

This is him coming in (and his teacher)

OK so we took tons of pictures and this was the only one of him smiling (go figure, newspaper article would probably read, "Proud Parent Unable to Make Child Smile-Concern For Sad Child"). Quite honestly I'm glad we got one good one! His class then had a little party AKA sugar fest.

Notice the plate laden with sweets, "Thank you school system for 'feeding' my child!"

Effects of the sugar are setting in

This is what the family does, while we watch (HELPLESSLY she screamed) from the side lines, (Because non of us wants to be that mom, that says, "No honey you can't have another cookie, please don't eat that third peace of pumpkin pie, put down the chocolate, your dentist is going to kill me, if I've told you once I've told you a thousand time-sugar won't make anything better!" Boy I sound like my mother).

I guess having sugar isn't a bad thing, because this picture was taken before the sugar attack. What is cool about this picture (not that my baby isn't) is the astronaut in the background. This is Tom the Turkey and our family had to decorate it....yes I said family, we all helped put this baby together. Go team Durkovich!

These next photo's were taken because one child in M's class was allowed to take pictures with his mothers camera, so as the song goes, do as I'm doing, my children had to have their turn-here is the ride home-remember they've both had sugar, sooo I'm not responsible right....I'm ahh.....awe crap!

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The next part to our Thanksgiving time of year was my Pre School, OH by the way I teach Pre School... HE, HE...sorry I've never blogged about it. But anyway we had a family night, and my kids put on the first Thanksgiving skit, it was so dang cute, before I show you the pictures of the way cute costumes I made for the way cute kids, here is the food we had:

Turkey Cupcake

Turkey Cheese Ball

We also had homemade -drop to your knees, want to pass out it's so dang good-hot chocolate. Sorry no picture, I was on the floor passed out.

We crafted little turkeys, so cute!

And played pin the tail on the Turkey

Some of the boys AKA all of the boys didn't understand the concept of NOT peeking, so the one yellow is from my sweet girl, I knew I like girls! By the way did anyone notice the theme of Turkeys or was that just me?

Without further adieu.....drum roll please, the costumes.

I had the parents of the children reading their lines. The kids had to act out using hand gestures.

Dang cute, if I do say so myself....and I do say so!

and.........................action!

It was a great night, I'm glad that I have that memory stored in the old memory bank-Honestly if I didn't get this down soon, I would forget everything....Deleted from the memory bank, just like a school test-study, study, study, test...forget!

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Now for our family Thanksgiving,

It was pretty special we got to have Matt's parents here, and boy was the food good! We were stuffed for hours after!

And no trip from them would be complete without a trip to the Stock Yards, here are the boys.

Who can forget the classic "sit on a canon" pose?

Thank you for walking down memory lane with us, come back for another installment of our past. Until then Happy Thanksgiving!

Birthday's

Every mother plans, and plans the perfect day for their little ones....Birthday plans may include.....a pay by the hour clown, bounce-houses, or even a sweet ride on a baby elephant (your parties don't include this, well my friends maybe you should think about changing your circle of friends-j/k)! Any ways, BIG plans, BIG ideas people. Well, everything is perfect until a silly little mother forgets to post about the alleged birthday person....on their day....TRIBUTE TO YOU MY LOOOOOVE (Dumb and Dumber limo crash), so without further adue, because we have some serious blogging to make up, I give you my children's birthday's (yes it's plural, and yes I'm doing them both today almost three months after the fact, someone shut me up so that we can get to the purpose of this post already.....................................

C's big day

(turning one year older and wiser, ask him he'll tell you he's smart)

It's tradition to do a sign, everything this year had to do with cars.

Please C curb that enthusiasm, we wouldn't want the kids getting scared

Lighting McQueen-you should have seen the picture on the pan, amazing, I put this together in about 15min.

Blowing out the candles

His gifts, he loved the motorcycle, he also got:

a light bright (yes they still make them)

A movie (Monster's vs Aliens)

And some noise making keys (he loves driving.....pretend)

All in all he had a great day, he requested Macaroni and cheese for dinner with hot dogs; he was in Heaven!

On a side note, here is what G thought of all that cake (red frosting highly recommended, no really I mean it, I want everyone and their dog to try giving your little baby red frosting, it dyes things in places you didn't think would dye, that's all I'm going to say)

Classic.....no, no PRICELESS!

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M's big day

(He repeated over and over again, " I'm six now, and I go to kindergarten!" all while looking like he's thinking "you complete moron, what do I look like I'm 5? I don't think so, no one calls me 5 and gets away with it".......)

Here is his sign....not so good picture of M though. His sign was all Indiana Jones.

M, got to have grandpa and grandma Monkey Beans here visiting. Grandpa's birthday was the day before.

Was there ever a question as to what his cake would be.... got this little beauty at Walmart for $6.00, that's better then spending $28.00 for the cake.

He got k'nex

Transformers

and a little Lego car

His favorite was the Transformers

His day was pretty awesome, he even enjoyed me coming to his school to do the mom thing and pass out cup cakes-Kindergarten kids are so stinkin cute. M picked hot dogs for dinner. My kids have pretty extravagent tastes, can you tell?

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OK I know that my birthday didn't come until after Halloween (I will post this soon), Thanksgiving (yeah this is also coming), and Christmas (OH that's gonna be a big one), but since I'm on the subject of Birthdays here is mine (that's right I'm totally caught up if you think about it in a twisted liquorish kind of a way...........did anyone here a niner in there?)

Any who, my birthday started out with breakfast made by Matt, and then gift after gift here they are (Matt's proof):

From C, when asked what he wanted to get me, he said a neckless, he did pretty good if I do say so myself, and I do say so myself (I picked it out).

From M, funny story, you might ask why strawberry newtons, well I'll tell you. He said he was going to bring me some home from school (he gets to eat lunch on Fridays, and they have these in his lunch room). When he got home that day he said, " Ooooh, mom I ate it!" So that he could still participate, we went to get these.

Thanks son!

From G, what's this you might ask..... a puzzle, these pieces are soooo tiny, don't they just make you want to speak in a little voice and say, "you are so cute!" No, that's just me, well please indulge the birthday girl and pretend.

Matt took pictures of everything else but his gifts, his gifts to me were:

Two cookbooks (in the mail)

and three 100 min hand made gift cards for back rubs, foot rubs, and whatever else I want-so if you come to church at he looks haggard, blame him-he gave me that right!

Then we went to the Olive Garden for lunch (benefit to having a birthday after Christmas, we totally used a gift certificate we got from my sister).

Again Matt's proof, and this next one's them singing to me.

They asked how old I was and my name, then they proceeded to announce to the whole restaurant my name and age (to bad I was unaware I could have thrown in my SS, and DL #).

We had lasagna for dinner and Jello Cake

Yes I made my own cake-but I wanted to, what's wrong with that? Matt did offer to make something, but I knew his rendition of this treat would not turn out quite the same....

So, the birthday's were great! Boy am I glad to celebrate another one that I could put off blogging about for another few months....he,he...good times.

Happy Birthday everyone!!

The Matter of a Week, & My Mom

Has anyone ever heard the phrase....things can change in the matter of a second..... Well in our case it is a week! More importantly it was M's week, here is what happened to him at school. Sure makes paying your taxes worth it.

The list of incidences that happened from head to toe:

Article: Head bandage

What: 1"x3" purple bulge (characteristic of a bruise, but not related to a bruise) behind his ear.

Why: Student hit him in the head with backpack.

Article: Mouth

What: Throw up at school

Why: He has allergies to various things, this just happened to be a new one, of low fat brownies (really I totally would have thrown it up too)

Article: Pellet size bruises on leg

Why: School

What: Hazards of playing on the school playground

Article: Leg bandage

Why: Swollen

What: Fell in PE and didn't tell anyone he had hurt his foot

He was sent home for 2 days for throwing up, we saw the head wound-and I immediately thougth....dun,dun,dun...concussion (because people throw up from these). We as parents wrote a letter to the teacher after finding out why he had the bruise, she found out it was in fact another student, as we were bandaging his head up (to prevent swelling more), we noticed his foot, and the various other bruises all over his legs-man this kid takes school seriously! Came to find out his throwing up was from the low fat brownie (grateful there was no concussion)-but still pretty crazy week.

On a happier note, here are some things I've been meaning to blog about. My amazing Mother has taken to quilting and here is what she threw together for the boys, and myself (and Matt).

M's bed:

Cowboy theme, here are the close up details, M loves cowboys, and the back is one of his favorite parts, it's at the bottom of the picture.

C's bed:

Amazing, she even designed the car's (I helped with the pattern's-I've only drawn the dang cars 10 billion times...I'm not lying, she could have done it though-she's good like that). Here are the close ups of lighting McQueen.

My quilt:

I was rewarded at Christmas with this, for my Christmas/birthday/the rest of my life gift; I helped pick the colors, and I found this pattern in a magazine and she pulled it off beautifully-I knew she could do it. And if it looks like a simple quilt, well let me show you all a close up.

People, none of these lines match up, can you see why I'm paying for life. I love you mom, thanks for keeping us all 'beautifully' warm.