A day to blog about

not that anything abnormally spectacular happened, but I just happen to find it bloggable so here we are...



so to start off the day was the dance between mother and son to the tune of "to go to school or to not go to school". It started actually last night with Cole complaining of a woozy head and some other symptom and I told Cole that he needed to go to bed or I did not want to hear tomorrow morning about not being able to go to school. He actually went to bed and fell asleep and with his recent record of staying awake an hour after bed time this was notable. So I did have a heads up this morning when he kind of crawled into the living room with similar symptoms as the night before. He felt slightly warm, maybe (we dont' have a reliable thermometer), but I determined it wasn't a fever at the time and gave him the no playing while not in school speech. Well a few minutes pass and I start really looking at him and his eyes are starting to look glassy and he's not holding his head up to well. So I decide he needs to stay home. Five minutes after his bell rings at school we start to get in the van to take Laura to school and he's freaking out because he wanted to go to school. Somewhere in all of that he remembered he had a pokemon battle to be present for. I still thought he was feverish. The rest of the story is he seemed mostly fine the rest of the day. I heard coughing a few minutes ago, I'm sure there'll be some kind of mambo in the morning.

For the record I do think he may be coming down with something, but today it was certainly not full blown.


Moving on....
We get back home from taking Laura to school and I decide that Cole seriously needs his hair cut. He's so not in the mood for this and we tussle and negotiate and we get that kind of hair cut. Tussled and negotiated.
and later that day..

the kids had a dentist appt. and with Cole not feverish if there ever was one, we all pile up in the van with everything but the kitchen sink except the keys. So we hang out in the backyard for a couple of hours waiting for Brandon to get home. We played freeze tag, charades, eye spy, treasure hunt, ran and timed sprints and just enjoyed each other. Cole mentioned how much he enjoyed the afternoon. I spent a good amount of time in an adirondack chair Michael made and I really think those types of chairs should be called lazy chairs because it's a marathon to get out of them so you just as soon stay in them. While I was sitting there Laura crawled on top of me and said that she wanted to be comfortable. That she wanted to be on something soft and that I was really, really soft. I'm taking it as a compliment. Hannah nana played around most of the afternoon. She's so easy going. She didn't start to get cranky in the least until about five minutes before Brandon got home. At one point she went to the door and wanted to go in. She was probably wondering why it was the opposite of most other times where she wants to go out and can't. She likes to play in the little house Michael made for the kids cause she can just get her eyes above the little window and she likes to tiptoe up and yell at us to look at her.



And finally.....

as Laura's getting dressed after bath she finds her gown that I laid out for her that she pitched three fits and cow for last night and we couldn't find it. She said oh here's the gown, how did it get here and I said I put it there for you to wear and she said awww Mom you're the best, you're the best! Can you ask for much more than that? Kids are great!


Below are pics from the afternoon, we happened to have the camera in the van. Maybe we'll lock the keys in the house tomorrow too.....oh wait it's supposed to rain, that would probably make for not as pleasurable memories :).





tried to get a pic all together and we got pieces of good ones

















sitting pretty




















she was saying something but it turned our good, I tried to count her freckles :) she thought that was funny


















hannah has an obsession with belly buttons this picture is of her telling my belly button hi

















do you think this would make a good album cover? The new carpenters...minus the sad stuff


























I've got business to take care of
































places to go people to see

































just an ole' softy
shootin' the breeze

Tidbits

I don't have much to say, but here are tidbits of the kids.....

I told Cole to go read a book and come back to tell me what it was about. He not being big on reading, goes and writes a book and then comes to tell me what it's about..... I hope this means that through his writings and subseqent earnings..we will have a luxurious elderly care facility.

Laura likes to read scriptures to us before we read them as a family. She says a bunch of nonsense and we ask what that meant and we get more nonsense,(all gospel related) but she's pretty sincere about the whole thing, so we give her her time.

Hannah wants to hear itsy bitsy spider all the time and will come to me with her two fore fingers pressed together indicating that she wants to hear the song....AGAIN!

They're sweet wonderful kids....I never think otherwise :). more later.

Long Time No Blog

So I never said I would be perfect at this. To recap our lives the past month or so. We had a great Christmas. Visited with family mostly at our house which isn't typical and was nice for a change. A couple days after Christmas I realized I hadn't driven anywhere and that's definitely not par for the season.

Cole turned SEVEN!!!! I am amazed at how quickly time flies. I still remember him as my little baby, so sweet. Sweet still just not so little.

So what's happening now... I'm doing aerobics twice a week at church with our fabuloso instructor Marquesas, she kicks our rears, mine needs it. I'm trying to keep up with the blog :) and trying to find ways for our family to eat healthier, you know how things go, but I won't give up yet! I'm working at Target as a sunglasses vendor and I enjoy getting out of the house and LOVE going to Target....drooling along the way...they have great stuff!

Cole and Laura have started gymnastics again and for the most part enjoy it. Laura was excited about being out on the big floor but now realizes that the little room was more fun and less work. She's hanging in there though. Cole doesn't like his Saturday morning cartoons interrupted for gym but when he gets there he likes it. We got the little Gator up and running and the kids love it. Laura and Hannah especially.

Hannah and I have been going to baby storytime at the library and she likes the shakers and to watch the other kids do the actions to the songs, much like Cole and Laura used to. We are a family of watchers, okay not Brandon.

Brandon's working hard and sticking with a jam packed schedule as usual. He plays racquetball ever so often and sneaks in Halo occasionally, but mainly works and takes care of us.

It's more than noteworthy that the Prophet of the Church Gordon B. Hinckley passed away on Sunday. He was a great leader and will be missed beyond measure.

More to come........maybe even before next year.

Tis the season

to be busy! There's shopping, parties, decorating, blogging :)....

Last weekend, we had the first of at least a couple of parties for Cole's birthday. He invited three people, one boy and two girls from school. We're appreciating the short guest list while it lasts. He and Brandon planned it which made for a more simple but great party. It was nice for me to not have to do it all and I think they had fun together putting it together. Brandon is so good about that kind of stuff.

We went to the temple today with our friends the Ricks and that was nice, it was busy there, we saw Sheri Dew and Elder Russell's wife in the parking lot (that's the extent of my lds celebrity sightings). We went to Brandon's work party tonight.


I tried putting up our outdoor Christmas lights on Thursday while Daddy G. visited and babysat the kids for me...Brandon was out of town and I was hoping to surprise him. He was surprised by the mess and no lights..not exactly but he'll have some tweeking to do to say the least.

Well I'm sure there's something else more exciting I should have blogged about, but it's later and that's what's in the brain. Aren't you glad you spent your time reading this?

I hope the season settles down for us all so we can enjoy instead of just endure it.
Jennifer

Fun?

This blog will probably be one more thing I don't get accomplished, but reading others it seemed like fun and a good way to keep others up to date. Supposedly a good way to archive too...?? Not sure how much I trust the internet to archive for me but since other methods aren't being too effective I'll try this. Maybe I'll print out what I write. I suppose the fact that others will be waiting with baited breath to hear about our lives will keep me on it, but hopefully not making up large tales to make us look cooler than we are. So I'll dive in and tell you what was eventful about today.



Laura asked Cole, what are you going to be when you grow up? Cole started to say a scientist then midway through was frustrated and said I want to be a lot of things when I grow up. Laura not really paying attention to his answer said I'm going to be whatever you're going to be. :)....

Then she said no I'm going to be a mermaid (Little Mermaid has found it's way into our lives with a big splash!). Of course Cole says you can't be a mermaid and Laura says yes I can and the debate ensued. It is so fun to watch the kids be kind and play together, there seem to be more of those moments than the less fun ones lately.



We put up our Christmas tree and the kids were super excited. We were talking about Santa coming and Laura said we wouldn't be able to light a fire in the stove so that Santa could come down and wouldn't Santa be so surprised to see our pretty tree. Cole has discovered the "truth" about Santa. He said a few months ago Santa couldn't be real because reindeer can't fly and he wouldn't be able to fit all the presents in the sleigh. We didn't perpetuate the "myth" and I'm sort of wishing we had. He's pretty excited about helping being Santa and he's really good about not revealing the "facts of life" to Laura. Hannah was asleep while we put up the tree so I can't wait to see her expression in the morning.



I don't think I'm supposed to say this much in one blog. I'm still learning the ropes. Hope everyone is well and is as excited about Christmas as I am!!!!

Jennifer