Envy Me!

You are all going to be so jealous it isn't even funny! This Saturday my loving husband and I are going away for the night! We are going to Dundee to Cabela's which was my idea this year strangely enough. The reason for the night away (we actually are leaving Sat. @ 9am) is because on Monday it is our 7th anniversary! (More on that later)

Normally we take a 2 night trip but with Halloween being on Friday night we obviously can't leave on Friday night unless it was really late and we have no place for the kids to stay that night anyway.

This week so far has been nice for me, I only had class Monday and Tuesday this week so that has been nice, I have been able to get things done around here. I am working on the laundry and cleaning the whole house.

Savannah has a bit of a cold, so she is pretty much down for the count this last couple days. I feel so bad for her because she is not feeling well, but I also have to admit that not having to chase after her all day isn't the worst thing in the world lol.

So that is pretty much how it is going, and now I am off to finish all the work around here that I hope to have done by tomorrow night!
Have a great Halloween and a great weekend!!!!

Our Week Was Nice

Wow I haven't actually written here for a whole week! I should have lots to say then right????

Let's see here, ok I know. Claud is back from working up north which is great because I missed him so much while he was away!
While he was gone the kids and I had a somewhat busier week than we normally do. I did a lot more just to pass the time! On Sunday we went to my parent's for dinner, that was kind of fun. Then on Monday, we went to get pumpkins right after school, they each picked their own and they loved it. Then after picking up our pumpkins it was raining so we went to my sisters for dinner and the kids got to play with their cousins which they love to do!
On Tuesday they got home from school and we carved pumpkins, well I should say I carved pumpkins because I don't let them use sharp objects! But the told me what they wanted and I did it. They helped to scoop the pumpkins out, then they talked to me to tell me what they wanted. So there we all were my 3 kids and 1 neighbor kid on the sidewalk cutting pumpkins and having a nice little bonding moment. Within a few minutes I look up and see that it is only Savannah and I outside, the kids all went in to play X-box. Oh well maybe next time we can all bond longer:)
On Wednesday I went to the school to get the kids and was met by my mother in law who wanted to take them all to town with her. So she said she would be back about 7:30pm. So I had the afternoon to myself. I just kind of hung out, I went and helped a family friend clean a little and then I went to try to sight in my gun...ha ha ha that didn't turn out well!
Thursday and Friday we all just kind of chilled out, Claud came home Friday about 4 or so, the kids were so happy to see him back...well 2 of them at least. CJ knew that Dad being home meant he wasn't going to get to sleep in Mom's bed anymore so he was kind of bummed lol.
Last night Claud and I were kid free so we hung out and watched a movie together and we were supposed to go hunting this morning and he did but I woke up not feeling very well so I am here at home wishing I was in the woods with him. I don't bow hunt but it is still fun to just sit and see what we see.
Well that sums up our week. I will try to write again soon, but for now I have to try to get something done in this house!

Transformation

It was a long week for me. I took on the task of painting my Dad's resturant on my own! This was something I have wanted to do for the last few years but never really was able to get to it for whatever reason. Well this year I took it on! I have to say it looks beautiful, there were also new lights and baseboard installed along with new outlet and switch covers, it is amazing the transformation that took place in there with some paint and lights!
I do have to say however that I will never take on a task that big by myself again. It was a lot of work and a lot of hours but in the end it was so worth it.
The bad part was it took a lot of my nights with Claud away, and that sucks more because he is working out of town this week, he is leaving in about four hours and I won't see him until Friday night sometime.
There are good things that come with Claud being out of town though, my house gets super clean because I don't go as many places when he is away, and the kids get on a better sleep schedule because I enjoy my quiet time. Of course the negative is my lonely bed and not having a second set of hands to help me with the kids.
Speaking of a second set of hands, my daughter is yelling for me from her room...guess there is no nap today, so I better end this for now!
Hope you all have a nice Sunday

Dillion Update!

Surgery went great....Dillion had a lot of work done, I feel like a failure as a parent....but we are going to do better from now on making sure he is brushing and taking care of those teeth like he is supposed to! All in all he ended up with the four top teeth out and 5 crowns.
He will be home from school tomorrow so that I can feed him all soft foods which I know he won't get at school, he really doesn't have any pain yet, it is 9:30 pm and we have been home about 2 hours, he is sleeping now after I gave him his tylenol.
Thank you for the thoughts and prayers, he did great and so did we! I will put up pics soon, but not tonight since he is sleeping soundly, and do you think I thought to bring the camera to the hospital? Of course not!
Well have a nice night!

We Are Still Here.....

I think I will use today to give you all a little update info on the whole family;

Monday is Dillion's surgery, I am still slightly nervous but I know he will be okay. He is excited about taking a long nap and getting his teeth fixed. Speaking of Dillion, Friday he was in a lot of trouble with me! He for some unknown reason decided to write on the outside of my van with a marker! I know it was Dillion for a couple of reasons, one it was his writing (5 year old writing) and the fact that the day before he had the marker outside. I however didn't notice it until Friday afternoon, and when I did I was flamed! Wish I would have taken pictures of it now. Luckily I did get it off. I really didn't want to drive around with random letters on my hood and numbers on the front quarter panel...I think he was making the van into a race car, not sure!

As far as the other two go, it is business as usual. CJ is doing much better with enjoying school this year, my thought on this is it is harder and that is why he is enjoying it more. I think he was bored in kindergarten and first grade to be honest.

And Savannah is almost 3 so yeah that pretty much sums it up. I have to admit this is really not my favorite age group, mainly because at least with my kids this is the clingy age. The age where I go no place in the house without her. It is also the age where kids get their own ideas and thoughts and they also say them out loud! This is not always a good thing.

Claud is fine, he has been working which is a very good thing! He has also been out bowhunting but not nearly as much or as often as he would like. In fact as I type this he is in the woods, so I will say that as of right now he hasn't gotten anything but that may change in the next hour or two!

As for me, I am busy with school and kids and still trying to fit all of it into my day. I am trying to figure a way to keep the housework up, hang with the kids, spend time with Claud and do my homework. I am hoping it will get easier as I figure out how to budget my time. Oh and I took my new gun out yesterday to practice and shot it for the first time. It was ok, I have never shot without a scope but if you look at the group I shot it would have been a dead deer, so that was calming. Now all I need is for season to start in a month and a deer to come in at 50 yards or so and I am set! LOL

Well I hope you all had a great weekend. I will be trying to get on here tomorrow night and post an update on Dillion!

Pretty in Pink

Last night I got my birthday present from my husband, you see a few months back we were in Jays Sporting Goods and I saw a gun that I really liked, I really liked the stock and forearm I should say, anyway it was only offered in a 22...and I need a shotgun for hunting with. Well he and his Dad were in Dunhams and found a 20 gauge shotgun with this design and so it is now in my possession! I know there are many conflicts on if someone using a pink gun is a real hunter or not so let me clarify...I am sure this gun will kill a deer the same as one with a different stock, I am also sure that I LOVE hunting I simply want to reflect my personality while doing it and I like pink.

This not my gun...but it is the same pattern as my gun...I will post pics of me with my new gun and my new hair (which is red now) later on but for now this will have to do.

So all in all it turned out to be a pretty great birthday with an added suprise that I would have never guessed would really happen!

Oh boy Oh boy...

Happy Birthday to me...happy birthday to me....happy birthday deaaarrrr meeeeeee....happy birthday to me!
I am 27 now for those that care to know! And although it sucks to get older I love my birthdays because I was raised believing that they were my special days and everyone had to be nice to me and now I even have Claud convinced lol!

Oh I almost forgot....the funniest thing!!!

So yesterday Savannah and I went to pick up the boys from school, and there was another little boy there that was about Savannah's age....he looked at her and said "you have pretty eyes..."
Wow, they really start young nowadays don't they? The other mom and I just laughed she said she had never heard him talk like that before! I thought it was pretty cute...and accurate, I think I am going to have my hands full later on!

My Week

I have spent my first offical week as a full time mom and student. This has made me decide my house is not going to fair well for the next 3-4 years! I am willing to admit publicly that the laundry is piled in the back room, and there is a sinkfull + of dishes that haven't gotten done this week. Of course this week I had to take the boys to the Dr. too, each on different days of course, and I don't know about anyone else but when I leave my house during the day, by the time I get back all my ambition is gone! So this weekend, I suppose I will be trying like hell to play catch up with the dishes and laundry. I have plans most of the weekend too which doesn't really help a lot! I am going out with a friend tonight who I haven't spent much time with lately, and on Sunday we are due at my parents for my birthday dinner, plus we have a party at my in laws on Sunday for something else. Truly I can't remember the last weekend we had just to ourselves that didn't have plans to go here or there and do this or that!
Back to me taking the kids to the Dr. this week, the first appt. was for Dillion...he only has a couple things going on that I wanted to talk to the Dr. about. One was the skin tags that the poor kid has, I found out they are called moluscum (sp) and they come and go on their own so no big deal. I did talk to them about something I have been avoiding for a long time, his activity level. I have put it off because of many things; one being I don't want him labeled adhd, and two I don't want people to think I am a lazy parent. But I bit the bullet and talked about it with the Dr. the reason I decided to was that I believe that I have add...not that I want to diagnose myself but I am fairly sure, and I know how difficult it can make things for me. If this is something Dillion is dealing with I don't want him to just fight with it all the way through his school years like I did and eventually give up and drop out...I really just want the best for them! I was told that it would be something to talk with his teacher about and then go from there with it, this is the way that they diagnos this with kids. And maybe it is just a definace problem in which case, that is our problem and we need to work on fixing it. I felt better after talking to them, even though I left there crying because I felt embarrassed to even bring it up.
The next appt. was CJ, I found out that he is on the low end of the scale for his height and weight which I already knew, he is only in the 10th percentile. I did talk to them about his "accident" issue, he is still having them at night every night and sometimes during the day, not to mention he just goes a whole lot in general. So they ran a urine screen and said it looked normal but I will still need to take him in for bloodwork to check for sure, they are checking to be sure it isn't diabetes, and then we will go from there on it. One thing they mentioned trying was a bed alarm, so if it isn't something medical this will be the next step to try to help him.
The Dr. I switched them all to has a wonderful office, the staff is very nice, and they really make you feel at ease talking with them these are all quailties I have been looking for in a Dr. for the kids for a long time and I think I finally found it!
So that is my week in a nutshell and now I am off to finish my coffee and think about cleaning or some other domestic duty I should probably be doing!
Have a great weekend!

School Update

This week has been so different from normal for me, I feel like I am on the go all the time...of course that could be because I am! I have been up at 6 every morning, and I know right now there are people reading this going...."welcome to my world" and that is fine, but 6 a.m. is not in my world dang it! But I feel very proud of myself that I have been up and on time every morning and excited to go and learn something new. Tomorrow is my last day for the week, but also the day when I have more running to do, since I have to go to get my tabs after school.
I am going to be picking up my Comp 1 book soon and reading the things we were assigned, although I do have all weekend to get them read, I am so not a put it off person so far with this school stuff, which I think is going to drive my husband nuts. I think he is starting to miss me. Last night I was working on my work for the class I have tomorrow, and he was like "can you tell her to not assign so much it is taking away my time!" I have no idea what any of my family will do when I have a job!
Anyway, other than one instructor that I am not sure how I really feel about yet, school seems to be going good for me.
I hope you all have a great week!