Tongue tied

Keagan is tongue tied. He has a little piece of skin that won't let him stick his tongue out all of the way. These are the best pictures I could get of him, he wasn't really cooperating. But as you can somewhat see he can't stick his tongue out all of the way. He was born this way and it has never caused any problems, until lately. We went to the dentist a few weeks ago and it is starting to pull his gums away from his teeth so he needs the little piece of skin snipped and it will be "normal". He goes in next month to have this procedure done, it will only take a few minutes, they numb it and then clip.

I felt bad a week or so ago he had a sore throat and I was going to give him some of the throat spray - I told him to stick out his tongue and say ahhhh while I sprayed it. He said mom, I can't, remember I'm tongue tied. I don't know why that struck me as funny, but it gave me the giggles.

I can't wait until next month to get him an icecream cone to lick! :)

Crazy weather~ November 6th, 2009

Last week we had some crazy weather! I saw a flash of lightning, then a heard a huge clap of thunder and then hail! It hailed so much that it looked like it snowed! It was really fun to watch! And listen to, it was loud! It happened @1:20 in the afternoon. I only know this because I was suppose to be at the school at 1:35 and I waited for it to stop before I left, I was a few minutes late.

Our backyard

The front yard

Our road!

Am I crazy?!!

Here are a few of the kids in their Halloween costumes, I love the "chick magnet" costume! (far right)

Aurora was soo excited to be included, too!

Melissa & Brooklyn had a Halloween party at our house and there were 22+ or - a couple of teenagers here! + Keagan had a couple of friends, Aurora & her friend Regan, too, and a couple of my friends to keep me company and sane! :) Wow! All had a good time, we had homemade root beer (always a hit!), homemade choc. chip cookies and then some other goodies. It surprised me that they didn't really eat that much, just those two things.

Mostly they just hung out and visited. We did have the air hockey table out, karaoke, wii, and the doughnut on a string game.

One of the funnier things we did is Melissa & Ray showed them the bomb shelter and when they all got down there I turned off the lights (the switch is in in the kitchen) and listened to them scream and then quickly turned the lights back on.

~Here are the lovely hosts~

Porter

Keagan felt left out, so I let him invite a couple of friends, too. It mostly helped him to not be the annoying little brother - he then had someone to play with. The little kids had a lot of fun w/ the doughnut on the string game.

I think everyone had a good time, I think next time we'll have less kids, though. It was a little crowded!

Pumpkin Patch

My silly kids! I don't know where they got their love for cats, but it is their favorite thing about going to the pumpkin patch, holding and petting the babies. No we're not getting another cat! Remember they grow up! One is enough!

No fair, Melissa! You have both of them.

We ran into the Martins when we were there. (Great minds think a like!)

She is soooo strong! :)

Now some scrapbook pages of the pumpkin patch:

Isn't he adorable! (of course I'm a little biased!)

Hot!

For those of you who know us very well, we LOVE to tease our kids!!!! We love to tease them about being hot and making kissy noises in front of them to get the desired response of the rolling of the eyes and gagging noises! When I saw this scrapbook page from smilebox, I knew I had to use it! I keep putting as my background on the computer, but Melissa keeps changing it. :)

smilebox- calendar 2010

I'm done early! Crazy tradition we started 10+ years ago. Every year I say I'm going to start early, but never have. This year I actually sent my pictures off and I'm ordering calendars. This is a first. Usually I make the scrapbook page and then get them color copied, make copies of the calendars and then Ray & I go to Office depot and comb bind them. Well last year they charged us for comb binding them! This year there was a special going for calendars if I was done before November 10th that made them less than $9 a piece! So I played w/ smilebox again and made my scrapbook pages and used them for my pages. I haven't received my calendars, yet, but they are in the mail and should be here next week.

Here are a few of my scrapbook pages that didn't make the cut for the calendar.

As you can see a lot of them are the same pictures just in different pages, it is soo hard to choose! I'll share the ones I chose after Christmas. I love smilebox.com! Its the only way I scrapbook anymore.

This is what we do for excitement?!

Now that it is getting colder we have been having fires in the wood stove. Nothing is better! I love almost everything about having a fire, the smell of a fire going, the warmth, the gathering of the family, the lower power bills... until it gets a little too toasty and I have to vacuum from all the little wood chips.

It is really cold downstairs and due to my ..uhm frugal nature, I don't want to turn the heater on downstairs, so we gather in the living room and get a little silly and creative.. Here is Keagan being silly w/ his pajama pants. Not sure what he is doing,but as usual he was making us laugh!

So lately I have been spending less time on the computer (the computer is downstairs, too) and more time ready, see having a fire going has all kinds of advantages!