My 7th, 8th U2 Concert? I don't know, lost track??

This one was really special for me, I brought Spencer to his VERY first U2 concert!!! I do believe it was as magical for him as it was for MEEEE, Ivan came, (what a trooper) It's not Prince after all! Let me not forget Patty, one of my oldest and dearest and bestest friends and avid U2 fan!!!!!

Whoops, I doubled the rainbow and forgot my boy!!!

What a 13 days it has been...

Ky first, he's never sick but heck, when your going to do it mine as well do it big! He started with the aches, pain and fever.... moved to Swine Flu in full force. Played in his Homecoming game feeling like hell on earth. Spent the weekend down for the count and stayed home Monday from school for the first time in probably 4 years I'm guessing. Chest Xray showed Pneumonia right lower lobe. Spirits crushed because the last 3 weeks of football have been nothing short of disastrous and now this:( Hmm, Jaden and Jona started with the Swine on a Saturday night. Jaden stayed home the entire next week from school. Jona fiercely fought her Swine Flu with temps of 104.3, WOWZIE! She made it back to school for a Wed and Thur run but then caught a cold and couldn't breath, swallow or stop her eyes from draining. Jaden still down. By Friday night after the football game Jona is in bed and then awakened with BIG ear pain.... Gotta be ear infection and I'm wondering if it will ever end. That was day Ummmm10. By Sunday all is faring pretty well it seems. Spencer's lungs still pretty junky but news that we made the playoffs has sparked some new life in the team! Sunday night, Olyvia goes to bed and re-awakens with stomach cramping and tears:( Nope, guess maybe I won't live!!! Monday night I go to bed at 6:30 p.m. FIGHTING with all the determination I can muster up.... I will not get this bug... So here we are Tuesday. It's 1 day short of 2 entire weeks! We have RUN from the Swine, caught and released Colds and 1 ear infection. Evaded the stomach flu for one more trip, kept pneumonia at bay and kept momma and daddy well!!! I think we are done now for the REST of this season!!!!

What a week it was!

So in 4 days time we had 5 soccer games, 1 football game, (a small concussion) 1 resident admitted and discharged from the hospital. An airport run for Vegas relatives, torrential down pours, about 16 meals made and served, 16 loads of laundry done including bedding. A trip to church, the movies, the Art Prize, the bar and a huge bon' fire. Then got everyone back to school again on Monday morning before going back to the airport to drop Vegas back off:) That was a busy BUSY week!!!!!!

FHE vs Ottawa

It's cold outside!

It's freezing and I actually put the heat on last night for just a few hours to take the chill out of the air! This is what is right around the corner..... YIKES! Guess I better finish the summer/winter switch that is all over the basement floor!!!!!

OH MY GOSH!!! I figured out how to do IT! Here's 3 of his 4 TD's!!

about 1 1/2 minutes in... ky's TD!

Most Hilarious!

Up and Running!

School has successfully been up and running for 2 weeks. With 10 practices and approx 4-5 games a week I do still have my head attached. (for the time being that is:)

Caledonia didn't see it coming!

With fond memories, goodbye summer 09

I love my Jaden

Went on a bike ride with my Jaden this afternoon! He wanted to stop and walk in the Cemetery so I said Ok. While I bent down to tie my shoe he walked away.... When I looked up he was blowing each individual grave marker a kiss and saying "Jesus peace." I was so touched!!!!! He read their names out loud and wanted to know how old each person was that passed. He asked if his grandma Young was there? I told him as an angel she could be there, but that she was buried in California. Then he read Ps139 that was on one of the markers and declared it was now his favorite verse because of "what it means about me." I almost had to cry it was so precious. Then he asked if we could sit down for just a minute. After we sat for a bit, we got back on our bikes for home. He said "Mom, I want you to know that I love that place!" I asked him to explain what he like so much about the Cemetery? His answer, "I love that no one is shouting at anyone, it is peace there mom and you can hear the birds singing too." Then he made sure to add, "next time we are on a bike ride, I want to make sure we stop there and pray for everyone who died." "I want them to know that I love them there." OK, so that time I did cry:) I love my Jaden!

Jona

Today Jona took her full chore chart off of the refrigerator and tucked it inside her toy stove. I asked her "what are you doing, why did you put that there?" She very simply and without thought said "I'm saving it for my grandchildren, so that I can show them how much work I did when I was a child!" "Then they can give their own kids these kinds of chores too..." I love that girl, she cracks me up, she warms my heart and she even breaks my heart sometimes!!!!
I love you baby doll!

One of the funniest darn things in my life!!!

So Ivan wakes up from the night shift... he's been awake for about 30 seconds when Jona tells him "sit down, we have a surprise!!!!!!!"

My camera is back! I'll be posting soon:)

Finally!

I waited 6 long weeks for my SCUBA picture:) It was worth the wait, I love it!!!!

:(

I miss my blog.... I miss posting and I miss reading comments and I miss everything about it! However, if I don't have a camera to download pictures, it's just not that much fun to post:( Gotta have pictures to go with stories!

My girl makes me laugh!

Jona asked me about the middle finger today? "Mom, why is it so bad to hold up this finger all by itself?" I tried my best to say people do that when they are really really mad and they can't find words to use. OR they are in a car and the other person can't hear them. BUT these people are very naughty b/c it't just not nice.
What the heck am I supposed to say. So I said "it's like when someone says a really really bad naughty ugly word. It's very bad and that's what the finger kind of means to?" She listened intently and said Drum roll please....

"Oh, it's ok then for me to use it all by itself as long as I"m really really mad at somebody. It's like when dad yelled that word after sitting on the table and breaking it? If I was big and yelled SHIT instead I'm going to hold up my finger all by itself..... OK mom?"

OH MY LORD>>>>> I laughed so hard there was no point in continuing the conversation any further:)

I love my girl!

How come I can't type in color anymore?

Ivan and I went to a Brazilian masquerade ball last Saturday! He won first place for best male costume... I'm taking credit for picking out the mask:)
I wanted the daily quote that you have on yours Shalimar... How come I can't figure this stuff out? I don't want this creepy Einstein thing?

I had a moment...

Today Spencer and I started packing for Island School! Out of absolutely nowhere tears just started flowing. First I got a little sick to my stomach and then tears a rolling:( I know he will have a fantastic time and I will live through the event without tarnish! It just hit me at once that my baby is leaving really soon:)

A most Productive day! Almost:)

Woke up rather late... have no idea how it got that way??? Loaded up the dishwasher, no emptied it first. Switched the laundry and started a new load. Vacuumed the downstairs, cleaned some windows, did some dusting, made some lunch and hmmmm. Oh yeah, then Olyvia and I had such an awesome time together. We went to the barn to play Laura Ingalls. We raked and raked and scooped and scooped! We cleaned out the entire thing together. Fed watered and collected eggs and then we had a great idea. She and I are going to make money at the farmer's market this summer. We are going to sell the barn manure from the neighbor and from our barn as "Farm fresh garden fertilizer." We'll bag it in the smaller size trash bags. The kind that are bio degradable. SP?? There are so many earthy kind of folks that use the Ada and GR farmer's market. Lots of them garden. There's even a huge plot of land that I used to pass near Fountain somewhere that allowed city peeps to garden. They would eat this stuff up. "Well, not literally." Then we will also be selling our Cage free chicken eggs. We will make some "green" signs that simply state.... 1 Dozen eggs, $1.50 plus your own egg carton to trade in. That way, we're teaching people to recycle. We don't have to buy them and we'll just keep trading them off. Oh, I'm so clever! Now we can't WAIT for spring and summer to get here! The money we make will be minimal, Olyvia thought she'd get rich! However, we'll probably cut even with all the feed they eat and might even be able to have family lunch once a week:)

Jaden is so funny!

Jaden woke up first this morning and I found him on the computer. I asked him "have you had breakfast yet?" He replied "yup, I had cookies:)" Jaden, you can't have cookies for breakfast! He replied "why not, they sure do taste great and I love um!" hahaha

Once again last night Jona was refusing to go to bed and crying and crying unless someone laid with her. She's done this for months now. She falls asleep in a matter of minutes, but wants someone in the room. It doesn't matter that Jaden is right next door sleeping... she wants someone in the room. I told her "stop whining, use your words, what is it that you are afraid of?" Of course she whines more, starts tearing up, can't put words to it. "I'm scared of this, scared of that, I have this, I need that!" Finally I said "JONA, use your words and tell me what you are afraid of and why you need someone in here to fall asleep?" Jona sits up, looks at me and states "Mom, I can't sleep alone, I don't want to sleep alone and for the rest of my life until I die and go to Heaven I do not want to fall asleep alone in my room!" I was stumped as to how to reply. She used words, she shared her feelings, she was clear about her distress, soooo, you guessed it! I laid my darn head down and watched her fall asleep!

CAN YOU SAY SUCKER????????

and this one...

I love these pictures!

Wii Olympics

Ivan left my blog open on his way to work... does that mean he wants an update?

What do you call a house full of competitive male athletes who live in a house that Santa delivered a Wii to? I don't know what you call them either but they sure are funny! Jaden held the high score bowling today for several hours. That was until his older brother found out. It took him about 45 minutes but her finally broken Jaden's record. Highscore is 245... Jaden had it at 230 for awhile:) I finally broke 200. I'm at 201!!

It's 4:11pm

Happy New Year's to you all!!!!! Ivan is jumping out of his skin at this point he is soooooo ready to go dance!! After 3 days of txting and 4 hours of back and forth phone calls, I think we 99.99999% sure we finally have a destination!!! I'll post pictures in the future... can't do it anymore with my broken camera! Borrowed mommies for Christmas Pics:) Hang in there Shalimar, puppies take work!!!! Don't you have a tree out back that you can tie her to with a really long rope so she can run around?

Christmas funnies!

How come the button disappeared to let me change txt color? Over all Christmas was a great success.... just long and kind of loud! Jaden takes the cake for funniest comment of the entire day. Ivan didn't know anything about the Wii so he handed out gifts kind of in the wrong order. Olyvia opened the remotes to the Wii first and freaked out and got all excited. Jaden looked at her kind of puzzled, shrugged his shoulders and said "to bad we don't have a Wii Olyvia, can't use those!" I laughed so hard, we all did! Bye for now!

Absolutely Hilarious!

Jaden's turn to help me bake tonight! While reading off ingred and adding them to bowl I said outloud 2 and 3/4ths flour! He quickly said "OK, I got it!" He then opened up the drawer and started counting out forks.. hmmm?? I asked, what are you doing babe? He replied, counting out the forks.. you said 2 and then 3 forks!!! I laughed so hard that he even started laughing and I don't think he new why?

Left over's from my birthday! Wanna bite?

Olyvia is gorgeous in this picture and I have no idea why? She is folded up in Nanna's old lady moveable bed:)

ONe More!

That's a lot of snow!!

My big boy playing in the snow:)