I am almost ready!

YEAH!!! Check out my little ticker! Only 1, yes read that again ONE day left til I am on my cruise!!!( okay 2days, to marrow we leave for LA, but I will be on vaycay!) I have a ton of things to do today, Costco,finding a sub for my primary class( any volunteers?) cleaning, start PACKING! and keeping the house relatively clean, my awesome mother in law is coming tonight to take care of my little ones (even though she has read my blog about how "wonderful" William has been this last couple of weeks... I LOVE YOU MARY!) She still has offered to come with out any physical coercion. Did I mention I love my mother in law?
Everyone keeps asking if I will be okay leaving my kids, and every time I have answer most defiantly YES! Well I guess I am having second thoughts, I know they are in good hands and Mary will probably take better care then I would, but Reagan is getting her first tooth in on the top, and she is soooooo close to walking. I just don't want to miss that first. I am a little nervous to hear about all the things William will figure out while Im gone, and Alex always has such great stories about what happens at school. But on the other hand... I think I can manage while Im sitting on a white sand beach sipping a Margarita! It is only a week Right? Okay I talked myself into it I am still going!

Early Halloween

Today was our Early Halloween, We carved pumpkins,Alex had a little too much fun playing in the goo, and William didn't want to put his hand in the pumpkin, and the pumpkin is missing half an eye, but I think he turned out pretty cute!



Dressing up was an interesting experience, Alex wanted to be a mummy...Easy enough, just hope she doesn't have to go potty!! Not a fan a wrapping! (Due to me being a mean mom and forbidding any extra liquids we didn't have this problem)
Reagan found the drawer a fun experience while mommy was busy trying to paint faces.

For spiderman I had the cutest face paint I was going to do...






but Will was not happy about his face turning red, I think I should have waited to show the finished product!

So we washed him off and he was happy to go get some candy...
Reagn fell asleep before it even started but that made my job a little easier! Over all it was a Happy Halloween!

Playing in the Pans

I had to share these cute photos! Reagan was playing in the pans making quite the ruckus! I know Mom will get a kick out of it cause she has pictures of us doing the same thing when we were kids, I guess entertainment doesnt change much after 2o-odd years!

Picking a Pumpkin

This weekend we wanted to go pick pumpkins with the kids. So we drove out to the local pumpkin patch/hayride/corn maze to find that they were closed on Sunday, I was a little disappointed and was afraid the kids would be really upset by this. I noticed William and Reagan were both sleeping soundly, Alex was the only on awake and she really wanted to find a pumpkin. So instead of all the hyped up stuff we found a local farmer just down the road and asked if we could pick a pumpkin, they were more then happy to let us, and even supplyed a huge pair of clippers to clip it from the stem.

Bob stayed in the car with the kids and took a little snooze with them, while Alex and I searched for the perfect pumpkin. It was fun, and I enjoyed the one on one time with Alex. She was excited to find the biggest one and even carried it most of the way back to the car. Maybe next weekend we will try again on a Saturday!

The Geen Smoothie that wasn't...

I have been very health conscious lately, I have joined a gym that I have actually been going to. I have been trying to cut back on my sweets, and eating healthier food. Well I struggle with breakfast food, "Breakfast is the most important meal of the day" Well I usually skip it and jump to lunch. I don't like eating waffles and pancakes cause they just sit on my stomach all day. Oatmeal is gross, and I am not a big cereal fan. I could eat bacon and eggs but that blows the healthy part. So I have been looking for something I might enjoy in the morning to get me going. I was playing on the Internet and came across an interesting topic of the "GREEN SMOOTHIE" I read the article and it hyped up raw foods and how good they are, how if you eat these Green Smoothies you have energy and mind control. ( okay not really but it was going in that direction) The trick with the Green Smoothie is that there is no recipe, you just add the ingredients that you like trying to stay close to the 60-40 fruit to veggie ratio. Well I went to fix me my DP for the morning and I thought "Hey I have all this fruit and veggies in the fridge I think I will give it a try." So I pulled out the blender and all the stuff and started throwing in an apple, a few grapes, an orange,and some strawberry yogurt, so far so good, it is pretty color of pink with flecks of red. Now I had to force myself to throw the veggies in, a handful of salad, there goes the color to a sickly green tinge, and a stalk of celery, Well I didn't have spinach, any really green stuff so i though Hey Carrots are good and WOW that changed my sickly green smoothly to bright orange! OOPS! I add a little honey to sweeten and a little water to thin out this concoction and pour it out.....

OH MY GOSH IT IS DISGUSTING!!!!
not even able to choke it down! So it is back to DP in the morning and I will continue my search for a healthy breakfast.

Don't worry i didn't wast all that good food, I couldn't bring myself to drink it but i couldn't throw it away either, I found a fan. William loved the stuff!

A Positive Change...

I read this post today and it just hit me "I could have written this" It put all my thoughts into writing! I wanted it on my blog so I could read it whenever I need to. The names have changed to make it personal to me, and I have add a few thoughts of my own. Thank You Jenni for a great post and the changes it has inspired in me.

Lately I have been thinking a lot about how to be a positive and grateful person. I think I often focus on the negative and dwell on my problems instead of focusing on the so many wonderful and positive things in my life. I want to be a more positive person because I really think happiness is just deciding to be happy. You make the decision to love your life. You make the decision to think you have the greatest kids, the best husband, the best life and when you think all these things they actually become true. Because most of the time they are but you just don't appreciate or realize it. I feel like I have been told this my whole life but it is finally hitting me. I think it all started back when I was growing up. I grew up very fortunate. I have two amazing parents who really love each other, love us kids and were very hands on parents. I have great brothers and a great sister, we always had our needs and most of our wants met and I honestly have not had many trials in my life. I had the kind of parents who came to sporting events, we had family dinner every night, we went on family vacations and we were very close and still are. Sometimes I felt guilty being so fortunate when many of my friends were not so lucky. They would always comment on how lucky I was and it made me feel bad that I was so lucky. I felt like I didn't deserve the "perfect" life I had. So I began subconsciously to almost make up problems or create problems thinking it would make them and myself feel better. I would also focus on the bad things in my family (because even great families have their problems) so when all my friends talked about their problems I would have things to talk about too. I am sure it didn't help them at all and all it did for me was teach me how to focus on the negative. At this point I don't think there is any reason for my negativity I just think it is habit. It trained me to dwell on the bad things in my life and I feel it still effects my attitude to this day. When Bob comes home from work I tell him all the bad things that happened during the day. I tell him about the time William got into trouble instead of the other 85% of the time he was being a sweetie. When I have a cold it is all I complain about and focus on when I should be grateful it is just a cold when there are so many other worse health problems I could be dealing with. No matter how well things are I will find something wrong. Even when things are not going well or I am having a hard time with something I am sure I make them harder by dwelling on them or just not focusing on what is going well. It is easy right now to focus on the uncertain future with the economy the way it is and the election coming up but what good does that do. I am ready for a change. All of that is the old Wendy because now I have decided to start being more positive, to focus on the good and find humor in all things. There is nothing wrong with being happy. Sometimes I think our culture tells us we are bragging, or not being honest with ourselves but that is really unfair. I think by not appreciating your blessings in life you are being ungrateful.
I think I may also start a weekly gratitude post...
I am greatful for a sweet, healthy, smart son!

Montana Scrapped!

We went to Mt this summer for a family vacation. I finally got the last of the pictures scrapbooked! This trip was so fun and we took a ton of pictures, it has turned into a book! 10pages!

A Day at the Zoo

Ok for those who know me, they know this is one of my favorite things to do. Unfortunately I have abused the privilege with Bob, so it is a rare occasion that Bob will come with us. This was one of them, Yeah!

Terrible 2's Continue!

WARNING MARY DO NOT READ
I took my sister in laws advise and decided to take a picture of all the naughty things William can do in a day * scratch that * in a one hour period!
We start with getting into the matches, luckily he doesn't know how to light them (yet)

Then we moved into Alex's room where he drew on his siter's head and face.

Then the kitchen he climbed on a chair and ate the top off the brownies, not all of them just the crust off the top!!!?!

then the couch he turned into a trampoline ( why he can't use the perfectly good one in the back yard I DON"T KNOW!)
Then climbed the shelves that are not very stable to begin with,
Here is where blogger told me i couldn't show anymore pics so I will just finish the story....Back to the kitchen to play in the water, and then after he dumped the entire bag of cheetoes out on the pantry floor I gave up my camera and went back to clean up! While doing this I found somewhere along the way I missed it when he emptied out Reagan's clothes from her drawers making her once clean room look like a bomb had hit. I will take all the sympathy anyone can give me, cause I need it!!!
UPDATE: while typing this Will climbed up on my lap and fell asleep! AAAA It almost makes it worth it!