We drove over to Seattle this weekend to celebrate our niece Charlotte's birthday this weekend. A princess birthday. Which explains the crowns. We've had a nice visit and are hoping to get back over the snowy pass as its had a couple feet of snow added to it the last 24 hours.
Just iPhone pics for now. More later!
We had a good Valentines day. Tim brought us girls roses. I had to attend a school board meeting and then we waited for our levy results. It passed!! We went over to the school superintendents house for champagne and that was my valentines day. Working hard for all these kiddos I love. Besides love shouldn't be celebrated on just one day each year!!
I saw on pinterest where you could twist a heart into hair and tried it on Nat. Not too bad for as much as she was squirming around.
I think that's about it. Benjamin's got an honor society ceremony tonight so maybe some pics to share later.
Tim is well again thank goodness after his pneumonia and then sinus infection I think this is the first time he's been well all year!
Hopefully your week is going along well too!
Benjamin turned 12 Friday. We celebrated the night before and then on his actual birthday. I made him a chocolate peanut butter cake. And I really have a hard time believing he's now actually 12 years old but he is as tall as I am now so I guess I'll just have to accept it. Happy Birthday Benjamin! We love you!
A few pics from the past week.I left last Thursday and went down to my Mom and Dad's house to have a girls weekend with my Aunt, Mom, and cousin. We shopped and hung out. It was a great weekend.
We're still waiting to see what happens with the Levy election a little less than a week from today. Maddie wore her shirt yesterday to remind people to vote.
We got a chance to see Amy, Riley and Parker while they were visiting last night and today. Maddie was happy to catch up with them.
Natalie's been fighting a cold and been home from school all week. She's at that in between where she's just not well enough to not be at school. Monday was my volunteer day in her class so instead of going in I worked on a valentine project at home for her class the last couple days.
PTO meeting was last night and Benjamin's been going to basketball practice a couple nights a week. He's got a game each week also. At his orthodontist appointment today they put in his bottom retainer and next appointment he'll get his braces off! Exciting stuff. Friday we'll celebrate Benjamin's 12th birthday, and just thinking about it is killing me. 12 freakin' years old. Ugh. It's going by way to fast. Now to go find a Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake recipe to make for him. Have a good week!
When we bought our new to us suburban it had seen some pretty heavy wear on the carpets in different places. One of the places was the back. Fast forward to my love of the pinterest site.
Someone posted if you mix hot water and ammonia together in a spray bottle and then place a clean towel over it and iron over the towel the stain comes up. I am here to tell you it really freakin' works. I may be a little high on fumes right now but for nearly all my carpets the stains are coming up!!! We even found you really didn't need the iron if your willing to scrub a bit. It needs to be equal parts hot water and ammonia. I love pinterest!!
Natalie started this picture today at school. She drew her family that was here at Christmas. Her teacher asked if all that family lived with her. She told her only at Christmas.
Now she claims I'm embarrassing her by posting it. Seriously.
I haven't left the house in days. Since Tuesday to be exact and it's now Sunday. I'm actually not feeling too terribly anxious about it and to be fair the kids haven't been out since then either other than to play in the snow. We tried to get the kids to go out for pizza Friday when we had a slight break in the weather but they didn't want to go so there you go. They're happy being home, so we'll roll with it.
I've been working on my blog book from 2008. I'm slightly behind on that and I really want to get it done. As I look back at the pictures and the stories I want to try to blog more get the stories down a little more this year. We'll see.
Tim had pneumonia last week. He's slowly getting over it. It came on pretty fast and hit him pretty hard. He got on some antibiotics and he's still coughing here and there and ran down. I will freely admit on here that I suck at caring for him. Tim being sick makes me feel like a single parent and I did not sign up for that and then I get bitter. It's awful but it's the god's honest truth, men being sick without something that is going to cause death makes me bitter.
And yes I get that pneumonia can cause death and that he didn't ask to get sick and some of it is that it's January and January's like the worst month on the calendar. Then I think the other part is that he was sick with some sort of non descriptive flu like thing a week ago. Sickness that was way too close together makes me bitter as well I guess. Anyway there you have it. I love Tim dearly and he obviously still loves me to put up with my crazy. It's my germaphobia too. When anyone in our house is sick I immediately go to how will I keep everyone else from getting whatever this is. People have bigger problems, this I know, so I'll move on.
I've got to get the kids in bed and ready for this week ahead. It's only a four day one and last week was a one day week with all our snow. It sounds crazy but I'm glad it's only a four day week this week. Short weeks make me happy. Even though we'll now be making up days in June I'm still happy for the break last week. We'll call it Winter Break the sequel.
Yes we still have snow. We got hit with the perfect storm early Wednesday. The weathermen said we'd get 4-8" and we laughed thinking they messed up again. Come to find out they nailed it. We got about 7" and then the freezing rain/hail hit yesterday all day long. Schools been cancelled and I've enjoyed the kids being home. They even cancelled work at Hanford and PNNL. It's been epic. I do love the snow.
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