Fast Approaching

Hi all
   Christmas is so close now but I feel ready. At the beginning of the month I didnt even think I would complete it when items that were asked for were out of stock and Santa had already emailed the girls saying he was done with their gifts. But phew it all came together and they will be happy little ones on Christmas Morn.
   We made cute little mangers with baby jesus in them for His Birthday party. I will post pics later. I want them to make a few more so if anyone extra stops by there is one for them.
    We had such a quiet evening last night dh was working and the Boys went to Seattle to past out gifts to the needy. So the girls and I went to bowling pratcice then over to Blazin Pizza they r the best. Then we came home started a fire watched Christmas classics and just relaxed.
   Today I am waiting for a lady to come pick up a dress she won from me on an auction site. then I am off to take Timmy for a few things he needs. I really dont want to go out shopping but he needs too so I guess no choice it is awful windy out our Santa is blowing everywhere.lol. 
   Before Mikey left yesterday he set up our outside manger with a spotlight on it and everything. So cool.
Well by for now.

December 2012

     December is quickly coming to a close. Christmas cards have been mailed, presents wrapped, goodies r being finished up. So now I sit back and think of the past year and what challenges and blessings we have had.
    So I guess consider this my Christmas letter so to speak.
  We have come along way I feel this year. We finalized the house and it is now ours and the bank of course lol. We bought an RV and made a cross country trip that was great we seen family and friends. We traveled to many sites and made a very educational trip out of it as well.
   We have celebrated Lisas 24th birthday ,Marissas 11th and Katlins 8th. Marissa had her first birthday party for kids and she had a blast.  Lisa made her a beautiful cake.

   So everyone have Very Merry Christmas.

the past week

We started with Black friday shooping after a wonderful Thanksgiving. Lisa and I went to several stores but not as many as in years past. We found a fe items that we were looking for and then home by 9. So not to bad took a small nap and then decided our rv was going to become our wrapping central so to speak as the girls are getting older and are nosy with our closet. this works perfect they dont have any clue that is where we put the things.lol.
     We usually get our tree on  this day but since the Catholic High School is having a fundraiser on Sunday at Shumaker tree farm we will wait. So we go Sunday after Mass the whole family to pick out our tree the funny thing is it has of course to be the perfect tree. All I pick out my husband always says to tall wont fit and I havent sold him on the idea of cutting a whole in the ceiling. So any he picks I say are to small. So tree hunting takes forever and sometimes I just think the kids agree with me because they are tired of walking around the tree farm lol. So after quite a long long while I find one I like I insist it will fit so he agrees and the kids love it. Mikey cuts it down and then Lisa picks hers took maybe 5 minutes whatever. We get home and cut the bottom and put in a bucket of water for the night.
    Next day it is time to bring it in the house. We then discover it is too tall. Hmmm I recall someone telling me that but as usual I win and here we are with a tree that will need to be trimmed down. Have I mention that I hate to trim the tree once it is in the house. So here we sit with our trimmed tree in the playroom waited to be decorated I always wait a couple days to make sure that all the branches have dropped where they are going once warmed up.
    All decorations are down and hopeing to all be up by this weekend. We also have to do the walk n knock on saturday morning. So should be fun if it dont rain.
    Well as soon as the tree is decorated I will post a pic.
                            Merry Christmas everyone

Blade the movie

   So today I treated the kids to a movie. We had the theater to ourselves at first (by the end there was maybe 4 others.). The girls enjoyed the movie it was cute so I think we will go buy this movie. Blaze was cute 1 determined young lady who had learned a valuable lesson by the end.  give this movie 3 thumbs up which by the way the girls say is the highest it can get:)

  

Pizza day

The girls turned in their book reports today and did extra school work today. So I decided we would go get their book it Pizzas. I have always loved pizza hut and my oldest was on the book it program, it has been around for many years. This program is awesome if you homeschool and havent register you should. They give the kiddos a free personal pizza and a prize each time. They have to read so much a month which comes easy for mine. But tonight was busy at Pizza hut and they had to wait so long for the pizzas to be done they had snacked and by the time they got their pizzas they were full so I guess pizza for lunch tomorrow.
     Other than that today was a chilly day so it was a curl up by the fireplace kind of day. which is where I am sitting now with my  cup of tea.  Thinking about what i have to bake tomorrow as the pumpkin bread I made yesterday is already gone:).


                                              good night blogging land

first full week of November

We started off doing the normal school work added in some fun extras like art and baking. by the weekend the girls did league and then went to their first JBL tour it was five games over 10 lanes. they were the youngest there and it was very challenging for them. I chalked it up to also good experience. They did fine but 5 games at once and carring their balls back and forth across the bowling alley is not something they had ever done. So they were very tired but Carissa bowled her highest game ever and was excited but exhausted by the end. Most of the kids bowling this were 15-16 up to 21. So the girls did a good job holding their own. Then had an hour to get something to eat and rest a bit before they needed to go to their adult/junior league and bowl again. So they spent 7 hours bowling at the alley on Sunday.
   So we have decided to relax today. They are playing board games together and I will cook down the pumpkin with anyone who wants to help:)
                     Have a good week all

Fall news

As we enter November so much is going on. October ended with a bang the girls had a blast trick or treating they were all so cute in the costumes. There smiles said it all.


      Bowling for the girls is going awesome. they are selling candy bars so I think our family is going to be on a sugar high for a bit.

       Marissa started altar serving at church she is the first girl in the family to do this. I look at her and see a young lady opening up and not being so shy.



   Carissa has been reading more and doing much better at spelling. For AHG she started her journal with lots of prayers in it. She is interested in joining our children's choir. So we are waiting for an opening.

   Larissa just started bowling on league this fall and boy is she doing well with getting the ball down the center of the lane she has already earned herself 2 patches in just a little over a month.

   Tarissa jean is such a sweetie. She is counting money and adding and telling me how many different coins the dollar is worth. We are working on spelling and sounds of the alphabet. She is making things in scouts like dolls and has had fun doing that.

     As a family we went to make a difference day in the pouring rain planting trees we have been doing this project for the past 5 years. The girls love to go around and see how big "there trees" have gotten. As November moves along we have finished a discussion and unit on voting and the process at AHG they even made posters that were hung at the local library. They learned alot from the mayor who came to speak to their troop.
     Now we are moving on to Learning unit on the first Thanksgiving. The girls are going to get to make their first pumpkin pie from scratch and will help with cooking down the pumpkin we use. We need to decorate for Thanksgiving this week.
    The chicks are getting so big I now need to move them soon into the extra dog pen we have so they have more room.