From Western Nevada College, for the Parents of Kelsey Denning....sign up now for DRIVERS EDUCATION!! Ahhhhh!! Sheer panic is how I feel. She is just nearing 15 though, I had a whole year to mentally prepare myself right? NO. Drivers Ed. starts just a few DAYS after she turns 15, because apparently they want to give her a permit in 6 months. WHAT?! How did we get here? Where did time go? I am not ready....I am in DENIAL!
Friday, May 27, 2011
Terrified...
That is the only word that describes this feeling. What could cause such terror you ask? This bright yellow postcard I received in the mail yesterday...
From Western Nevada College, for the Parents of Kelsey Denning....sign up now for DRIVERS EDUCATION!! Ahhhhh!! Sheer panic is how I feel. She is just nearing 15 though, I had a whole year to mentally prepare myself right? NO. Drivers Ed. starts just a few DAYS after she turns 15, because apparently they want to give her a permit in 6 months. WHAT?! How did we get here? Where did time go? I am not ready....I am in DENIAL!
From Western Nevada College, for the Parents of Kelsey Denning....sign up now for DRIVERS EDUCATION!! Ahhhhh!! Sheer panic is how I feel. She is just nearing 15 though, I had a whole year to mentally prepare myself right? NO. Drivers Ed. starts just a few DAYS after she turns 15, because apparently they want to give her a permit in 6 months. WHAT?! How did we get here? Where did time go? I am not ready....I am in DENIAL!
Monday, May 9, 2011
Mother's Day
I was surprised on Saturday morning with a delicious breakfast in bed by my kids and Matt. They decided since Matt had to work early on Sunday my day would be Saturday. I was thrilled that they all got up early and actually remembered this year. Chase was dying to tell me the secret gift they bought me he had only learned about 5 minutes prior too (he is the worst secret keeper). So let me introduce you to my new love....
A gourmet coffee/hot chocolate maker! I am in love with this thing. It is so fast and I really didn't believe the coffee maker could make a difference but let me tell you I was wrong! This is what I got to spend my morning looking into..
Mmmmmm. We spent the rest of the day getting sunburned at Chase's T-ball game before Matt was off to work for the weekend. Sunday was a quiet day, too cold to go outside. I'm tired of this weather but now I can have delicious hot cocoa in 30 seconds! Hope all you wonderful Mom's had a great Mother's Day!
A gourmet coffee/hot chocolate maker! I am in love with this thing. It is so fast and I really didn't believe the coffee maker could make a difference but let me tell you I was wrong! This is what I got to spend my morning looking into..
Mmmmmm. We spent the rest of the day getting sunburned at Chase's T-ball game before Matt was off to work for the weekend. Sunday was a quiet day, too cold to go outside. I'm tired of this weather but now I can have delicious hot cocoa in 30 seconds! Hope all you wonderful Mom's had a great Mother's Day!Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Are you my mother?
So many of you may remember that blessed event we had just a few weeks ago with the surprise of 6 kittens. Well since then we have lost one....the one I am referring to is their mother. She left one night last week and we haven't seen her since. The kittens were still solely feeding from mommy which made this so heart breaking. These poor babies were crying all night for Tink (mommy). It broke my heart to see them so scared and hungry. So when she didn't return in the morning I rushed out and got them some kitten food. I had to feed it to them at first and teach them how to drink water. Many of you may not know but you also have to stimulate them to go to the bathroom that young (the mom does this until she teaches them to go on their own), so I got to help with that as well...yup every few hours it was time to feed and bathe the kittens. Now they are all eating on their own and we are still working on using the litter box. We hadn't planned on naming them really since they were not going to belong to us. But all the little nicknames we had given them have now kind of turned into real names. So on with the introductions:
This is a female. She really was like the white sheep in a black liter. Her coloring is so cool she has just bits of grey in her paws and face and has a really cool striped tail. From the beginning she was most favorites. Her personality is completely different from all the rest. She is carefree and wild!! She is always running and has been the first to do everything and is much faster than the others. She is litter trained and very smart! From the beginning we joked and called her crank because she was so spazzy. We have since then called her CRACKER. A little better than crack? She is mothering to the others and even tries to bury the others poop, and has ventured to trying the doggy door already.
Next we have another female. In the beginning we were calling her wolf (before we knew her gender), because she was always crying for mommy if you held her or she couldn't see her mom. She definitely is the biggest whiner. She had the hardest time losing Mommy and refused to eat for 2 days! On the flip side she is the first to climb on your lap and has the LOUDEST purr. So cute! She has two brown spots, one on her face and one on her back so we chose to call her CHARLIE.
Next is yet another female, this one from the beginning was my favorite. I love her coloring. She is a dark grey but all underneath she is white and has white paws. She looks just like a reversed skunk. She is always the number 2 in crime and is right behind Cracker in whatever she is doing. She is the best orphan and is always climbing in the box to be alone. We call her SKINK. Not sure why, it just kind of fits.
This is a male, one of only 2 in the litter. This poor guy had a rough start I think. You can't really tell so much now but when he was born he had the hugest head! I mean really big. He also has a stunted tail. Matt said he looked like he had downs syndrome. Sadly when the kids play with them, he is always picked last. So from the Downs comment we just started calling him CORKEY(remember that show Life goes on). Sad I know but it stuck.
This is a female? I can't see it's tail so I think this is the female. This is a twin. I know you may think I'm crazy but I am convinced that cats can have twins. Seriously unless you see these two tails you cannot tell them apart. This one looked the most like Tink so we decided to call her BELLE (get it? Tink-belle). She is sooo cute. She loves to cuddle and is always first to climb on you and just snuggle. Don't believe me about the twins check it out:
This is the male twin (again now I'm not sure). The only way to tell these two apart seriously is to look at their tail. The male has a much shorter tail. In the beginning the kids were calling him "stub man". He was the only one we were sure was a male. We have since called him KODA. He is the most playful and is always wrestling with someone whether they want to or not.
Here they are together. Aren't they cute? They are always together, and if you separate them they cry for the other one. So I guess the answer to the question...
Yes, I am your mother. It will be hard to say goodbye when the time comes, but I am attached to all of them now, I don't think I could keep just one. Any takers?
This is a female. She really was like the white sheep in a black liter. Her coloring is so cool she has just bits of grey in her paws and face and has a really cool striped tail. From the beginning she was most favorites. Her personality is completely different from all the rest. She is carefree and wild!! She is always running and has been the first to do everything and is much faster than the others. She is litter trained and very smart! From the beginning we joked and called her crank because she was so spazzy. We have since then called her CRACKER. A little better than crack? She is mothering to the others and even tries to bury the others poop, and has ventured to trying the doggy door already.Next we have another female. In the beginning we were calling her wolf (before we knew her gender), because she was always crying for mommy if you held her or she couldn't see her mom. She definitely is the biggest whiner. She had the hardest time losing Mommy and refused to eat for 2 days! On the flip side she is the first to climb on your lap and has the LOUDEST purr. So cute! She has two brown spots, one on her face and one on her back so we chose to call her CHARLIE.
Next is yet another female, this one from the beginning was my favorite. I love her coloring. She is a dark grey but all underneath she is white and has white paws. She looks just like a reversed skunk. She is always the number 2 in crime and is right behind Cracker in whatever she is doing. She is the best orphan and is always climbing in the box to be alone. We call her SKINK. Not sure why, it just kind of fits.This is a male, one of only 2 in the litter. This poor guy had a rough start I think. You can't really tell so much now but when he was born he had the hugest head! I mean really big. He also has a stunted tail. Matt said he looked like he had downs syndrome. Sadly when the kids play with them, he is always picked last. So from the Downs comment we just started calling him CORKEY(remember that show Life goes on). Sad I know but it stuck.This is a female? I can't see it's tail so I think this is the female. This is a twin. I know you may think I'm crazy but I am convinced that cats can have twins. Seriously unless you see these two tails you cannot tell them apart. This one looked the most like Tink so we decided to call her BELLE (get it? Tink-belle). She is sooo cute. She loves to cuddle and is always first to climb on you and just snuggle. Don't believe me about the twins check it out:This is the male twin (again now I'm not sure). The only way to tell these two apart seriously is to look at their tail. The male has a much shorter tail. In the beginning the kids were calling him "stub man". He was the only one we were sure was a male. We have since called him KODA. He is the most playful and is always wrestling with someone whether they want to or not.Here they are together. Aren't they cute? They are always together, and if you separate them they cry for the other one. So I guess the answer to the question...Yes, I am your mother. It will be hard to say goodbye when the time comes, but I am attached to all of them now, I don't think I could keep just one. Any takers?Our Teacher's better than yours!
Chase really has got to have one of the best Teacher's ever this year, and so because it's Teacher appreciation week we wanted to make her something special. I just used a craft box and we embellished it and decorated it with her name. Chase was so excited to give her this gift.
I filled the inside with all kinds of cute stuff Teacher's always need like: paper clips, magnets, thumbtacks, and hand sanitizer. We also made room for some dove chocolates which are her favorite.
I went in early on Monday and decorated her door and had all the kids write her a little thank you and sign their name on a hand print. I felt bad that she was one of only 2 Teacher's that got their door decorated but I guess that's what happens when your the best!!
Oh and by the way I do know how to spell Teacher's somehow the ' fell off and I noticed it got chalked in by someone later in the day. Probably a Teacher who thought what a dumb Mom, she forgot the apostrophe!
I filled the inside with all kinds of cute stuff Teacher's always need like: paper clips, magnets, thumbtacks, and hand sanitizer. We also made room for some dove chocolates which are her favorite. 
I went in early on Monday and decorated her door and had all the kids write her a little thank you and sign their name on a hand print. I felt bad that she was one of only 2 Teacher's that got their door decorated but I guess that's what happens when your the best!!
Oh and by the way I do know how to spell Teacher's somehow the ' fell off and I noticed it got chalked in by someone later in the day. Probably a Teacher who thought what a dumb Mom, she forgot the apostrophe!Spring Break Fun
Last week the kids were out of school for spring break. Although we didn't leave town, we had fun just hanging around town. I decided since the kids got the week off I deserved to have the week off from cleaning the house (in hindsight probably not the best idea I've had). We went out to lunch, did alot of shopping, Kelsey and I had a girls night out and went to the movies, but probably the most fun they had was going to Daddy's work and bowling. Sadi really had fun this time because she got to bowl all by herself. She was so giggly...oh and she only knocked her teeth once with the bowling ball..ahhh!
Kelsey though she had this game in the bag...however Chase did a number on her the first game and spanked her!
By the second game Chase was a little too confident. I'm pretty sure he is yelling "oh yeah" in this picture...notice the ball has not even made contact with the remaining pins at this point.
Sadi made sure to take her time and we only had to have them come rescue the ball once because it rolled so slow it stopped. Notice the form (you can take a guess from here how she smacked her teeth).
She patiently waited after each ball, hands on hips and would then yell after...uhhhh only one!
It was a nice relaxing break, but now we are back into the full swing of school and work...did I mention how dumb it was to not clean for a whole week? Yuck!
Kelsey though she had this game in the bag...however Chase did a number on her the first game and spanked her!
By the second game Chase was a little too confident. I'm pretty sure he is yelling "oh yeah" in this picture...notice the ball has not even made contact with the remaining pins at this point.
Sadi made sure to take her time and we only had to have them come rescue the ball once because it rolled so slow it stopped. Notice the form (you can take a guess from here how she smacked her teeth).
She patiently waited after each ball, hands on hips and would then yell after...uhhhh only one!
It was a nice relaxing break, but now we are back into the full swing of school and work...did I mention how dumb it was to not clean for a whole week? Yuck!
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