Kindergarten Picture!

We received Matthew's Kindergarten Pictures on Wednesday. I think they turned out really well if I do say so myself! I volunteered that day, so that helped. The photographer let me see the digital pic before he accepted it, so if it had turned out badly it would have been my own fault! I can't believe he is almost six, where did the time go? Hope you are all having a great weekend!

Family Togetherness

Here are some pics from our Thanksgiving family gathering at my mother-in-law's. It wasn't as bad as I expected, but it is still not as comfy cozy as it would be had we spent it with my family. I so hate being half way across the country, but never more than at this time of year. To my family: I love you and miss you and wish I could have spent the holiday with you. To my husband's family: Loved seeing the girls and brother/sister-in-law, wish mil could learn to chill out and enjoy her family. Geez, guess I lost the holiday spirit, huh?

Jasmine (why does she look scared?)

Jasmine and Matthew
Lexi
Matthew and Daddy

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to each and everyone of you! May your day be blessed with laughter, love and family togetherness. I am thankful for so much this year, and am spending the day with my family counting those blessings. How about you? How are you spending the day? God bless.

Waste of Space Monday

(Insert Logo here...blogger is such a bitch that it should be my first WOSM!)

This is my first attempt at Waste of Space Monday, brought to us by the Queen of People Haters, Tammy. I have been sitting on this one for a while, thinking, hmmm maybe other people won't find it as distasteful as I do. But, no, I still think Bill Maher was totally out of line with this.
So soon after Steve Irwin's death this is just disgusting to me. He was a great conservationist, a great humanitarian and didn't deserve this slam. I feel for his wife and family and Bill Maher ought to be ashamed of himself...and definately owes them an apology.

Did you play? Let Tammy (and me) know so we can read up on more Wastes of Space.

Sunday Six~Thanksgiving!

Welcome to Sunday Six, brought to us by the fabulous Kelly. This week is all about Thanksgiving, and answers were provided by my little Pilgrim Matthew (age 5 yrs 10 mo).

1. Do you like to eat turkey?
~~Yeah.

2. Why do we celebrate Thanksgiving?
~~Cuz if we feel like it, then we feel like it.

3. What other foods do you eat at Thanksgiving?
~~Like, chicken, mashed potatoes and turkey.

4. Which would you rather be, a pilgrim or an Indian? Why?
~~Um a pilgrim...cuz I want to.

5. Where do you celebrate Thanksgiving?
~~Um, at school, and I'll tell you what we made. We made Indian corn and Indian hats.

6. Do you have a special tradition for Thanksgiving, if so, what is it?
~~Yes. Well, I forgot. Oh, I'll tell you what it is...an Indian hat.

Bring on the Tooth Fairy!

At 9:30pm tonight, Matthew lost his first tooth!! He has been wiggling it for 2 days now, and finally it was laying sideways in his little mouth, so I did what any good mom would do: I yanked that sucker! And no, it didn't hurt him! Ahhh...my little boy is growing up too quick!

Sunday Six-Veteran's Day!

Welcome to Sunday Six, brought to us by the lovely Kelly. This week we are honoring our Veteran's, so Kelly thought it appropriate to question our little darlings about our wonderful service men and women. Matthew, age 5 years 10 months, unfortunately didn't know very much about Veteran's, so after the questions we had a nice little talk!

1. What is a veteran?
~~A veteran is, um, uh, I forgot.

2. Why do we honor or celebrate Veteran's Day?
~~Because you always do, thank you.

3. How do we honor or celebrate Veteran's Day?
~~Like you have to use a lot of stuff to celebrate it.

4. Does your town have a parade or ceremony in honor of Veteran's Day?
~~Uh, yes.

5. What is sacrifice?
~~Sacrifice is that you help someone.

6. Do you know any veterans? If so, who?
~~Like, um, like um, my Dad. (No, he's not)

Priceless Picture of our Heroes:

The caption is a little hard to read, so here it is: Air Force Chief Master Sgt. John Gebhardt, of the 332nd Expedentiary Medical Group at Balad, Iraq, cradles a young girl as the sleep in the hospital. The girl's entire family was executed by insurgents; the killers shot her in the head as well. The girl received treatment at the U.S. military hospital in Balad, but cries and moans often. According to nurses at the facility, Gebhardt is the only one who can calm down the girl so he has spent the last several nights holding her while they both sleep in a chair.
God bless the soldiers.

Backtracking!

These are a little old, but blogger has been so non-cooperative lately that I haven't been able to post them! These are from the week before Halloween, at the pumpkin patch obviously. We all had a great time and got some wonderful pumpkins to carve! You can see the final product in my last post!

Halloween 2006

The cousins...Matthew, Jasmine, Alexsandra all

met at my MIL's for pics and trick or treating!

Matthew and Jasmine

Our Ninja
Ready to go!
The back of Henry's pumpkin
Jamie's pumpkin
The front of Henry's pumpkin
Two of our pumpkins

Matthew's pumpkin...done by dad
Henry's pumpkin

That is our Halloween in pictures. Matthew had a great time with his cousins....although Lexi didn't trick or treat with us, she had called it a night when we got there! We have gone through a couple of hiding spots for the candy already, he just seems to find it no matter what! I have been trying to upload these pics to blogger since 11/1, but received no cooperation! So there you have it, hope you had a great Halloween.

Sunday Six~We are Family

Once again, it is time for Sunday Six, brought to us by the talented Kelly. This week she is asking our little ones all about family...and while you are checking out blogs, check out her post about her beautiful Jenelle learning to pull herself into a stand, proving that she is going to fight her condition with every ounce of strength she has! WTG Jenelle! Answers are once again provided by Matthew, age 5 years 9 months. Let me, and Kelly, know if you played.

1. What is a family?
~~A family is like, they just stay together forever!

2. How big is your family?
~~Umm, too big

3. Who is the leader of your family?
~~Umm, my dad. (Given dirty look by mom and then answers...)
Umm, and my mom (then hugs me to suck up, that's better!)

4. Who is the youngest in the family?
~~Daddy, wait erase that. It's Mommy! (Me: Are you sure?) Yep.
(Me: What about you aren't you the youngest?) Oh yeah, me Matthew.

5. What do you do as a family?
~~Umm, sometimes when it's summer vacation we hang out at the beach,
because family stays together a long time as long as the Earth doesn't blow
up!!

6. What do you love most about your family?
~~Umm, I love both of my family. My Mom and My Dad. I love both of
you guys. And Grandma Joan and Grandpa Kelly, I love both of them.

Side question to self: Why must my child speak of blowing up planets
just about every week?? Odd boy.