Out with the old...

(here it is, my new fridge)

In with the new Refrigerator! Yay! I finally got one. It came on Thursday. They even came earlier than the time window they gave me which made me even more happy.

I find myself looking in it just cause its so pretty. At least compared to my old one. It was a little tricky to get everything in. Even though this one is bigger than our old one I didn't know where the best places were for everything. I'm sure in a little while everything will have a certain spot.

I also often find myself forgetting that I now have water and ice that I can eat and drink. Like the other day I was talking on the phone thinking to myself how thirsty I was. Then I remembered that I had nice filtered water that I could drink and that made me happy. I even put crushed ice in it. Yay! Happy day.

When to say enough?

After our weekly outing to Costco (yes I said weekly. Its so sad) We came home and put everything away. I hadn't seen Little C in a while and started searching. I went into his bedroom only to find him sitting patiently on the top bunk with his arms folded... waiting.....

What and Who was he waiting for?
When I entered the room he said pointing to the T.V., "Mom wace ON!" (which means race car, which means Cars) He had already watched it twice today. He is obsessed. I reluctantly turned the movie on and left him to it.

He will sit there there the whole time and not move. If it were on replay or whatever I would probably never see him.

We went shoe shopping for him the other day because his shoes broke. While there I learned 2 things. First I had been cramming his feet into a size 6 when he is apparently an 8. Second that you should never show a 2 year old a shoe with his favorite character on it if you don't intend to buy it or until you check if they have his size!

We walked in and I foolishly said,"Look. McQueen." Little C looked and it was all over. Every other shoe I tried to get onto his foot was met with tears and screams for "MyQueen". They only had them in 7 and a half and up. I thought that he needed a 7 at the most. Then once the lady told me that he needed 8's I was relieved. So now he has light up McQueen shoes and never wants to where anything else.

Needless to say I will probably be throwing him a Cars themed party for his Birthday.

A Year of FHE

Done!

I just recently participated in a FHE Group. It was a lot of work but will be well worth it. There were 7 of us so we just divided up the year, made a calendar of topics and went to work.

We each made 7 FHE lessons. They all had to have a story, coloring page, activity and needed to be printed on card stock, colored and laminated. We set a deadline and tried to stick to it as much as we could. It's hard when you are working with so many different people though. But I have gotten almost all of mine from everyone and all mine are finished and given out. Now I can work on the list of unfinished/new crafts.

I am glad that I participated in the group and I am glad that it worked out. Now I have a year of lessons all prepared, I would like to get one more though, but this time I think that I will be doing this.... Club FHE. Then I can rotate lessons and they (the kids) will never know. I heard about this group from a friend and just read the web site and now I am in love. I will be ordering the year kit all at once although I do like how if you do it every month they send them with that box that is labeled and everything. Would be much more organized. I guess I will have to make those myself.... Add it to the list!

Yard work

Today I mowed the lawn! ... I KNOW! Its the first time since we have the new grass. It was getting so long and Big J never has time to mow so I decided today was the day.

It started when I just wanted to go pick up Cheyenne's "presents" but it was hard to pick them up when the grass is about a foot tall. So I thought that if I try and keep it short it will be much easier to pick it all up.

So when I got the mower out I tried to start it like 5 times and couldn't get it going. (I tried moving the choke and all that but it was hard to figure out which way to move it and then if I was to leave it like that or what) I knew that I had to admit defeat and call in the "Big Guns". I was not thrilled with having to call Him but there was no other way. I knew that he was first going to make fun of me and then going to say, "I can't believe you don't know how.". And I also didn't really want to admit that I was going to do it because once I do it then he is going to make me do it all the time. I don't know maybe I should just do it once a week but I don't want to. (but does anyone, really?)

After getting the mower going I mowed half the yard and realized that I wasn't holding down the lever to make it "drive". Here I was actually pushing the thing when I could have just been steering. Needless to say that the second half of it went much faster.

By then I was on a roll and kept going, I cleaned the patio off too. Ours seems to get so dirty. Mostly because the do has a hole that she digs right next to it and then it blows all over. Soon I will fill it and the grass will grow over it. Until then, children, don't fall in the hole.

Now that its all done it feels so nice and fun out there. The kids are out there right now. (they are never out there)

All you need is a Jeep

I guess if you want your garage cleaned/organized all you need to do is get your husband a Jeep. That's all it took for my husband to clean ours.

He recently got this Jeep from his father when he passed and ever since he has been what I call "Jeeping". He is a member of 2 online Jeep forums and has taken the Jeep out a few times. The first time he went on a real "run" he broke something called a Sway Bar. I told him that he can't buy any Jeep parts until I has a new Refrigerator in my kitchen. (We have needed on since forever and he keeps putting it off. I can't live any longer without water and ice!) Needless to say, if you know Big J then you know that he has not been listening.

This guy above put a huge dent in the back and ripped out his tail light. This rock dented or scratched just about every jeep that went by it.

Last Saturday he drug us all up to Gorman for some Jeep party. The kids and I stayed for a couple hours and watched "Crazy" people put a lot of dents and scratches into their jeeps. When Big J got home around 11 or so he told me that he had flooded the jeep. He got stuck in a big puddle of muddy water and it all came inside.

(I told him to stay out of the mud)
I guess he got some water in his transmission and now he has to "work" on his jeep to fix it.

So yesterday he cleaned the garage. It would have been great if I could say that he cleaned it out for me to be able to park in there again. But no. only for his broken jeep to sit until it is fixed.

What did you do with your fog day?

We just had 2 fog delay days in a row. The first was Tuesday, I woke up and looked out the window and said hmm... pretty foggy but no foggier than other days. But I decided to check the website anyway.

After about 10 minutes of tying to get the page to load I gave up and got the kids up and ready to go. Needless to say they came back from the bus stop and said that it was a fog day. I was so mad that I had woke them up. If their lame website would have worked I would have been sleeping! Even though I watch a little girl on Tuesdays and she was coming even if it were a fog day or not. But I could have probably gotten another 45 minutes. Anyway, all I did that day was sit around on the computer. The kids just watched movies.

Wednesday we had another fog day. I was able to check the site and didn't wake the kids up and went back to bed. But then I talked myself into getting back up and getting everyone ready and going to the Gym. I should have just slept in.

So this morning I was really excited to sleep in. Because I didn't have anything else to do today, because, if it were a fog day I wouldn't need to work in the school. So I woke up to come and check the website, took a look outside and my heart and my dreams of going back to school were crushed. Not a bit of fog outside. I can see all the way down the street! Boo.... This was the one fog delay day I was looking forward to.

January Enrichment: What's For Dinner MOM?

Last night went very well.

It was called What's for Dinner Mom? We had the ladies sign up in advance to bring dish that they liked from the Ward cookbook that we made last year. Since most of us have one, we thought it would be a good way to "taste test" recipes that we might not normally cook if we couldn't try before hand. For those that didn't have one we are emailing all the recipes that were featured last night to those who wanted them. All the dishes were labeled and we had little recipe type cards at each place so that they could write the name of the dishes that they liked best.

For the game we played a candy bar game. Each seat had a place card with either a Snickers, Almond Joy, Kit Kat, Milky Way, Mr. Goodbar or Crunch Bar. When they came in they chose their favorite candy bar out of those 6 choices and sat in a seat with the same place card. Then after we were done eating we all had to share a story or something about us that went with our candy bar. For example Snickers people had to tell a funny story about themselves. Milky Way people had to tell of a dream or goal. Kit Kat people had to tell of things that they like to do in their spare time. Almond Joy people told of what brought them joy. Crunch bars were accidents, either car of physical. And Mr. Goodbar were stories of a Date they went on, either an awesome date or a horrible date.

All the ladies said that they had fun. If only we had taken some pictures.