To my Grandmas and Grandpas!

SNOW!!!!!

NOOOOOOOOOOO. My nightmare come true! Snow! Now I have to try and put on a happy face for the kids. ewwwww. Well, at least they are happy.

Blazers V.S. Philadelphia

We got some FREE tickets to another Blazers game. So, we got a sitter and had a great time. The Blazers lost, but it was still fun. I have decided that from now on though, I am going to have to take ear plugs. I end up having migraines by the end of every game I have been to. Fortunately, I only got a small headache this time. It was so worth it! We have been lucky enough to land FREE Blazer tickets several times this year and Winterhawk Hockey tickets twice. I love the word FREE!

Air Museum

These pictures were taken Monday December 21, 2009. It cost $14.00 / person. Lauren paid for us to go. It was so cool. "Thumper" stood in front of a heat-sensitive camera and we got some funny pics of all of us in front of it. We also took pics of all of us on the tiny airplanes. It was fun. We saw a lot of amazing stuff. It was a great place for an outing.

POWER WHEELS! LOVE 'EM!

Christmas!

It was a pretty great day. The kids had fun and so did we. Watching them have so much fun was the best part. Then, I took a nap and Thumper gave me the BEST Christmas present EVER. He watched the kids, washed the dog, and cleaned the house! What a great guy! I woke up and made dinner and he even put that away. I had a great Christmas and the kids are still having fun. "Monkey" actually took a short nap because he fell asleep at dinner. :) We wore them out.
They have had fun playing on the Power wheels that their grandparents got them and "Angelica" loves the Princes jewelry she got from Pam. It came with fake earings and she has been telling us that she wants her ears pierced. They made her day because she got to wear earings, finally. They also got stuff from their "Old grandparents" That is what "Angelica" calls her Great grandparents. :) They loved it all! Thank everyone that contributed to the kids WONDERFUL Christmas. We love and miss you. We hope everyone had a Merry Christmas.

Christmas Eve

We made sugar cookies & "Angelica" made Gingerbread cookies for Santa! "Monkey" ate his Gingerbread cookies though. We all had a lot of fun.

Baby is Here.....

Aunt Billie, Finally, popped. LOL. On December 22, 2009 she had baby Jaxon Avery Kaine Kartchner at 7:10p.m. 21 inches long and 8 lbs. 1 oz. He is so sweet! I just loved being one of the first ones to see him be brought into the world. It was an amazing experience that I will NEVER forget. I already love that little baby boy so much. I took TONS of picture. "Monkey" and "Angelica" got a kick out of him, too.

Friends!

I am so thankful to have great friends! My friend, Lauren, came to visit. We had a lot of fun just relaxing mostly. She was only here from Sunday morning to last night, but we had a good time. Sunday, we just went back to our house and got her settled in. She is always busy and doesn't have time to watch movies, so she watched 2 of them with us. She treated us to the Air Museum on Monday. It was so cool. I took some funny pics of us there. I will post them in another blog. We got a baby sitter and went bowling that night with Austin and Kayla. Doug came too for about 30 mins or so. He thought Lauren was hot. :) She is taken though.
Anyway, I felt bad because my Aunt went into the hospital yesterday morning and I spent the whole day in the hospital with her. I left Joe to tend to Lauren. LOL It is a good thing I trust them. I had him take her to dinner because she wanted to eat out and I wasn't there to take her. But, after Auntie had her baby, we went to Portland, drove around and then took her to meet up with her dad. That is where we said good-bye. Oh, and I sat on her lap to drive her from the door to her dad's truck. Of course, "Thumper" had to get a picture. Can't wait to see her again in May!

Christmas Party Video

I have a few more, but I think I am only going to post the one this time.

SANTA CLAUSE!!!!!

"Thumper" had school last night, but the kids and I went to "Angelica's" Christmas paarty. We got to see Santa Clause! The kids were excited and a little nervous at the same time. I think they were the last one to sit on Santa's lap. Their choice, not mine. "Angelica" sat there patiently waiting for all the other kids to get there turn and when it was her turn, she went really slow. We all had a lot of fun. The preschoolers, also, put on a show for us parents.

Sleep reading!

This is so adorable. I told "Angelica" that she could read books in bed until she fell asleep. She fell asleep on the fisrt page of Billy Goats Gruff in the Looney Tunes book Grandmommy & Grandpa sent her. So precious.......When she's asleep. :)

My baby's first haircut.

This is a huge day! I went somewhere the other day and a couple of people said my GIRL was cute. I told one lady it was a boy and she said she saw his hair from the back and thought it was a girl. I decided it was time for a hair cut. I have been catching a lot of crap for it. I just didn't want to cut those curls off yet. :(

Can you guess what this is????

I walked out of the bathroom to grab the towel out of my bedroom and then this happened! EWWWWWW!

"Monkey" Talking

Now, I try to get him to talk to some of you on the phone, but that never goes anywhere. So, I now have a video to prove he can talk. This was taken today when we went to pay all of our bills.

Headstands

My son has started to do this!When I put him in his crib last night, he was doing this. When I woke up this morning to go get him out of bed, he was doing this. It is so comical that I took several pictures.

Christmas gifts!

We got these WAY early because 1) Power Wheels is in popular demand and 2) We found such a good deal that was on craigslist. Yes, they are used. But they are in GREAT shape for what I paid for them. Guess how much it cost for these 2!

Now I totally fit my blog description.....

The Dr. is putting me on "crazy pills". Prozac. Fun! Now "Thumper" and I can be crazy together. lol. anyway, I my have a thyroid problem. the Dr. said that I may have a hormonal imbalace that is causing my depression. So, she is starting me out on Prozac. I am to go back in 6 weeks for a checkup. Also, I had lab work done to run all these tests and make double-sure I am not prego. She said if there isn't anything wrong with my lab work, I won't get a call back. I also got the H1N1 shot and a tetnus shot, because I don't remember the last time I had one, but I knew I was probably due. My arm hurts so bad. "Thumper" kept rolling over and bumping me, which led to me being awake now at almost 3 in the morning. No fun. "Angelica" slapped my arm earlier and when I said "Ow!" she remembered I got a shot, so she hugged me and said, "Sorry, Mommy" It was so sweet. Well, I should really try to go back to sleep. If my hubby keeps bumping me, I may have to A) push him onto the floor or B) take the couch. Probably, B. I love "Thumper" too much to be mean to him in his sleep. Poor guy!

Missing the company....

What do you do when you are so use to calling someone to hang out and they move to another state? I think that maybe since it is their fault that I can no longer do that, that they should maybe pay my way to go see them there. Isn't that the BEST idea EVER?? I thought it was.

My sister is sleeping....

So, I will just replace her momentarily!

Beaver & Ducks....

OK. So, yesterday was the civil war. I could care less for either the Beavers or the ducks. I don't really follow college football, actually. "Thumper" does, but he didn't care about the teams either. Our friends, however, were all excited for the game. They didn't have T.V. so we let them watch it here. They had a yellow and green blanket, a green hat, amber had green eye shadow on one eye and yellow on the other, and hunter's face was painted green and yellow. My son even was decorated. LOL

Black Friday

Instead of being out among all those CRAZY people that do black Friday shopping, I decided that we were going to stay home and put up our christmas stuff. We now have everything done except the outside of the house. We are going to do that next week.