camera

so i got a new camera before we went to disney and i love it! It is the cannon D40, to most of you that is not the newest and fanciest but for me it is GREAT! I love it and have gotten some great shots. The problem is i cannot get the pictures from the memory card to the computer. My computer is so old that i cant even get the software loaded on here. I really need to sit down and figure it out! Then i will post some of the great pic's.
Another thing that has been killing me is i have not been creative in a VERY long time. I really need to dig out the scrappin room and get something created. I havent even seen a lot of the newest supplies out there because i have been so far out of the loop. Not for long, i really need to get creative, i have had enough time off!
Tonight we went to a local production of The Sound of Music. It was so good, done VERY well. The singing was great and the acting, i was impressed. very fun! It is friday night and i am not working at the oriole...i love that also! I will not love it tomorrw though when i have no money.
Tomorrow our friends from columbus are coming here to hang out and watch the buckeye's, it is always fun with them!

An extra hour

in my day was exactly what i needed today! It actually gave me time to post! I am so behind on everything but i sort of feel like this weekend i may have made a dent.

First let me post about my sweet little Jesse.

this picture was taken a few weeks ago when she was four months, she just turned five months on the 30th. She is such a great baby. She eats all her veggies & fruit now and is getting so big, it makes me so sad but i do love it. She has the little rolls in her arms she is so thick, and those cheeks are the best. She smiles all the times and talks and coo's. I can never get enought of her talking and smiling. Each morning when i go into her room she is so happy and 'talking' so sweet. She is almost sitting up but not quite yet, when she is sitting in her seat lisa got her she looks like such a big girl. She is such a joy!

wyatt turned 4 in the beinging of the month, he is getting so big and seems so old to me now.

here he is with grandma on his birthday. He is all boy and CRAZY i cannot stress that enough. Then he turns so sweet (or he really just know how to play me) he will being as nutty as he can be and then just turn to me and grin his sweet grin and say 'mam, i love you' He is writing his name well now and learning so much each day in the blue room. His teachers are so great, wyatt learns so much in his crazy little way and they are so patient with him and truly do love him and his ways. I am so proud of him.

My big girl turned six this week...dang this really kills me.

Each day with her is adventure. She is a kindergartener and so smart, really amazes me. She has learned to read and listening to her read just is amazing to me. I look at her and think how can she be old enought to do all this. I get excellent reports from miss catililn each week and all her papers come back perfect. I can't ask for anything more from her in school!

This pic is from disney. She had a special day and went to the bippity boppity boutique, she was totally in her element there! She got her hair, nails and make up done and then got to go eat at cinderellas royal table. It was so fun.

I am just hoping to scrap it someday. This past friday on halloween i realized what a slacker i have been on scrapping. I have not even done halloween from 2 years ago! My mission this week is to get the scrappin room cleaned. I have big plans for it in the coming year!

I have told tood i am doing what i can to get this house a little closer to the way i lwant it to be. Tha means moving the scrapping/computer into the front room or 'tree room' as wel call it. Right now it is just basically a sitting room that the kids play in and then i have to move all the toys they drag in back to the nasement, as well as all the other junk and misc. stuff that gets put in there. I want to turn this room into the computer/scrappin room and then the scrappin room into a 'cubby' room. I want to make cubbies or cabinets for everyone to drop all their stuff into when they get home, again less maybe i will have to pick up and put into the right stuff. The kids are good about hanging up their stuff but if i didnt have to see it it would even be better. I cant wait to get started on this project. This all of course means i will have to keep working at the oriole, which bums me out but im going to work with jenny now so that is fun.

Tomorrow is Todd's 35th b-day!

happy birthday to him!

When i figure out how to upload all my pics from disny on here as a seperate page i will do so. There is so many and that will be a great post here someday!

Catching up

man... i just never have time to blog anymore, i need to make time! I wish i could blog from my phone, there has to be a way, i just need to figure it out.
I have not scrapped in so long, i need to make the time for that also. Right now my scrappin room is so buried in crap i need a weekend to just dig myself out of there. That is on my list of things to do. Amazingly i do have a master plan to get to that! I actually have plans to change the front room into my scrappin/office. I am so excited about it. My friend Hopie is helping me with all my home winter projects. This weekend Todd is finally going to hang the TV on the wall and then the winter projects will begin. I decided maybe if i attempt to make thins house a little better i may like it more. I figure im pretty much going to live here forever so i may as well make the best of it.
MY MOM GOT A JOB! yeah! that is the best news ever! I am so happy for her and for the whole job thing. She has been off work since last december so about 10 months so she was really freaking out. It is right down the street from my work so i am glad for that. I think it will be great for her so i am so happy about that.
Last night i went downtown for Katy's 21st birthday...i'm pld that is all i have to say about that.
Grace turns 6 on tuesday, so amazing she is 6. She is doing SO well in kindergarten, her teacher is great, so nice, sweet.
Wyatt is 4 and is a crazy little boy. He is in preschool and making it through each day, some days trouble some days none.
Jesse will be 5 months this week and is such a joy. She is eating everything and growing like a weed. She smiles and laughs and such a good baby.
i will scrap soon and post pictures... i promise.

anyone know how?

i cannot blog from my iphone! if i could i would blog so much more...

went to disney...it rocked!
everyone is in school!
work is so fun!
mym baby is HUGE!
i will post pics soon!

finally...

i am bloggin. it is amazing, i just read a bunch of blogs so i figured i would update mine.

so...it has been three months...

grace started kindergarten yesterday...so sweet so cool to watch her become a school age kid but yet breaks my heart. i took pics but they are not ready to post yet. she is going to kindergarten where i work so it is so awesome! there are only 10 kids in her class and miss catilyn is just so nice, young cute happy all the things you want for a kindergarten teacher. I was nervous for her even though it wasnt much of a change from her summer 'kids club' routine but it ended up being a big change anyway! The room was transformed in one week into a AwEsomE kindergarten room and she has transitioned so well into her new role in the kids club all day tonow kindergarten and kids club. Waking up early is her biggest complaint but i can relate to that. i am so proud of her!

wyatt is a BLUE room boy now! he officially started pre-K last monday. this is going to be a HugE challenge for him as he is only three...will be four in a month. All of the kids in his class are four turning five now he is a year behind him due to a paper work mistake. They wanted to move him along though from pre-school ciriculum to pre-K since he had already completed all the work from the red room. The montessori education has been so good for him and although this year is going to be very tough for him i really think he is going to do all this work just as well. He is so smart it just does not come out until he is working on his own in the classroom.

jesse is three months old....WOW of course i can say it has flown by but it just amazes me that she is three months old. At night i still just sit and hold her cause i want her to stay small ( probably why i never blog) i can just look at her and i am so content. She is in the green room and does well...really all she does is eat, sleep and play a little. They take amazing care of her and she does go outside and on plenty of walks! I am grateful she is right there at work with me i could have it no other way!

some summer highlights that it is now over..

• Jesse on May 30th of course
• Maternity Leave!
• Zoo trips
• Grace had 2 trips to Cedar Point...just last week with A.Kathie and Katy she rode all the roller coasters....freaks me out!
• pool trips...we made a few!
• road trips to columbus to visit our friends
• Hopie donated a trampoline to us and we LoVE it!
• Cooking out on sunday evenings...hopie comes overrunning three 5k's so far and actully running on a regular basis.
• work
• promotions
• no broken bones

The fall is so busy coming up! We leave for a week long Clark W. Griswold family vacation to Wally World (disney world) the kids are so excited so i am excited to just see them and how amazing it will be for them. This will be the happiest time of there whole little lives...that will be cool. Wyatt just keeps telling me he can't wait to meet the real woody and buzz. I have LOTS to do to prepare for that trip.

All the birthdays begin...cooler weather...i am not a winter fan so the fall is not a favorite of mine either because i know what is coming around the corner.

he sleeps with the disney tour book...tell me he's not excited.

fyi...dont you just love obama?

S{crap} Room

i stole that s{CRAP} room from Kim L. blog...that is how i feel about my scrappin room right now. It looks like a bomb went off in there, so today i am cleaning it, so i am putting it of by posting to the blog instead. I am going to get things accomplished in here today though.

Brooke & I are having a garage sale in a few weeks and i am selling a TON of scrappin stuff. Stuff i KNOW i wont ever use so i need to clean this junk out!

Besides putting off cleaning... I have been just sitting around looking at Jesse. I have gone out and about some but that is what my day consists of mostly. She is getting chubby already her little arms have rolls on them and she has a bunch of chins now. Her cord fell off last week so we gave her a bath last night, she actually didnt scream she just sat there looking at all of us! She made the big jump to size 1 diapers from newborn, those were getting a little snug. All of these little milestones just break my heart cause she is getting bigger.

here she is after the tub...so sweet.

Since Kristin doesnt live near me and she cannot take pictures of my kids I had to have someone else do it. Jim came over when Jesse was one week and got some great shots of the kids

he will come to you if you want which was a HUGE bonus for me! the thought of taking all three of them somehwere to have pictures taken...ugh!

i am going to go and clean something now.

so sleepy...

i just cant stop holding her. that is all i do all day.