Lunch with the girls

Yesterday was a great day! I went and had lunch with the "girls table". lol! Spent too much on them. Brought McDonald's!  Lauren didn't like what they were having for lunch so I took her something better. lol!  It was fun!

I love these girls!  Especially one in particular!  Didn't do too much the rest of the afternoon.  I upped my iron pills so I am feeling better with more energy.

We were suppose to go to the doctor today for check-ups but canceled.  Don't need no stinkin' appointments.  It is $50 for both of us to go.  So instead I cleaned house today and finished putting up my decorations. Feels good to be done.... and looks good! I will post pictures tomorrow.  I may put a few decorations on the tree in the den.  Cat doesn't seem to be bothering it in there.

It has been raining so hard today. Papa ran the errands this morning. He got side tracked when he ran into a friend, Jake Jacobs, and visited for awhile.  lol!

Guess I will run and watch a few episodes of The Office.  Hope you have a great day and don't get too wet!!!! xoxo

The month of November!!!!

wOw!!!!  Am I one of those bloggers that just ride off into the sunset??? Am I not catching the formidable years of my grandchildren growing up?  What is wrong with me???

Well.... i am blogging today sisters!!!!! I don't know how to go back several weeks so I won't.

Missed posting about my Riley girls birthday on the 18th of Novemeber! She turned 10 years old! Forever more in double digets!  I love my Riley. She is crazy funny with a huge heart!!!! Here is the blog from last year with more pics....http://mamssite.blogspot.com/2011/11/happy-birthday-riley-girl.html
Feel bad I wasn't blogging.  But I called her and she knows I love her.  I did miss her party.  Health issues.

I was going to not mention but since this is like a diary too....I better post.  I have had some problems.  Gaining weight being among them. I cannot really say I'm back on track....because I think my "track" was being lazy, not exercising, eating, and no self control.  Having a husband who likes to show his love by feeding is also bad.  He does most of the cooking.  But ..... now I am dishing up less and giving Toby what I don't eat.  That makes him happy.  I have made a menu of what we are eating breakfast, lunch and dinner.  Exercising every day. And putting it in my head that I can do all things through Christ.....because He gives me strength! I will never give up!  This week I have lost 3 pounds.  I am so inspired by my son and daughter!!!!  Heather has lost over 20 pounds and looks great! Ryan has lost almost 50 pounds!  I am so proud of them. Now it is our turn!  Health wise my blood pressure is up, my blood sugar is up, and my weight.   Time to bring it all down.... I need to get off my meds.  Without my job we make it but don't have a lot of wiggle room.  If we can get off some of our medication it will save us money. All got to do our part!

Almost done putting up Christmas decorations!  I tried putting up a tree and this is what I got!!!

Peek a boo

Tired from all his trouble.

Likes the exercise bike!

Carrying his mouse around!

On top of the door. Really?

We thought we would put up an old fake tree to see what he would do.  Well, he must have heard us talking about a cat tree and figured this was it. Wrong! I was so depressed when I realized I could not have a tree. That has never happened to me before...I have always had a tree.  Through every broke Christmas I have had, through every cat I had, through every toddler and child.  I have met my match with Kitkat.  He is a monster!  He really is. He is a hard one to train. He is so stubborn. We use the water bottle because he is not a fan of water.  I have trained him to stay off the TV tray. But we are still working on the dining room table. He is still scratching the chair. He is still chasing the dog. Pretty much doing whatever he wants to do.  What was I thinking?

Let's see.... what is going on with my family.  Joel got his deer this year! That is always exciting!  Maddie got glasses!  She got them yesterday and looks so cute! She can see now!  Karla's family took a mini vacation to the ocean. I love this picture of Dylan. They flew kites.

And Dylan got his drivers permit.  That family is busy.

Andrew is "dating" or "going steady" as we said in the old days.  Her name is Jael Johnson and she is a pretty and nice girl.

Their friend, Hannah took these pictures! She is really good!
Lauren is learning how to play the guitar. She is doing so well too!!!! I am proud of her!  Uncle Kevon is teaching her!  She is starting Basketball now and we will have a new sport to watch.

Lauren has been busy....here she is at her school....we went to see them sing for Veteran's Day.

We also went to Maddie's school and saw her sing!  Of course we had to look around the big red bow from the girl in front of her!!!! lol

Jordy and her boyfriend, Melvin. I don't know him very well because I don't see them much. He seems really sweet.

Tara's family has been busy with birthdays and sports!  Riley just finished soccer and her next sport will be baseball.  

I made a new friend....her name is Nell. She is Jael's mom and we tried to go out for a couple days a week to have coffee at Cuppa Bella in Kingston. It was nice. She is a good person and a good friend already! But... she moved back to Montana which makes me sad.  Only for a while. Jael is staying here with friends.

Thanksgiving was fun! We went to my sister's home.  There were 11 of us and the food was so good...Lois is a good cook.  Brought some games and played Lauren, Andrew, with my brother, David, and his girls Jessica and Alyssa!  Spoons was really fun!  And we played Sorry. David actually won!  Good thing....he is such a poor loser! Redemption from when Karla and Kevon beat him Thanksgiving in 1987 or so.....

Heather got pictures taken.... I love this one of them laughing!  I miss my girl. 

 This is a copy of my..... me watching The Office.  I never saw it before.  Until this month.  I watch it on my computer on Netflix.  I am on Season 6 already. I love this show. There are some questionable things but it is mostly just funny!!!!

 Well....this is all I have time for.... I promised Lauren I would take her McDonalds to her at school. She doesn't like the beef teriyaki they are serving today.  Hope you have a great day.  xoxo

Happy 15th Birthday Jordy girl!

Yesterday was my oldest grand daughter's birthday! 1st grand daughter! My princess!!!!  I always called her that....and she still is!  I love her so much! She is amazingly beautiful, smart, and a super kind person. I know her parents are so proud o the young lady she is turning out to be!  I know her papa and I are! And now she is 15! She has grown up so fast....too fast. :(   I'm a day late posting this but wanted to show you our girl!!!!

Halloween, Happy birthday, helping move....good week!

It's been almost a week. I am not very good at keeping this up to date. It is suppose to be like my journal but I can't even keep it going.  I will try to remember the past week.  I do better if I go backwards.
Today was sinus day. Yuk. Woke up feeling awful with a headache and popping ears. It's got to be my sinus's. So I took Nyquil and it knocked me out for 5 hours. I loved it. I really did! I didn't want to wake up. But I knew it wouldn't be good for me tonight.
It is ALWAYS nice to wake up to kids in the house! This morning it was Dylan and Patrick!!!  I think they enjoyed their over-nighter. Dylan slept in the den and Pat slept in the toyroom. We switched the clocks back but I was so surprised they went to bed earlier than I thought they would. They went to the beach last night. It was dark and they said it was so peaceful down there. I really didn't see them much. They ate pizza in the toyroom last night but we did have breakfast together. lol!  Teenagers.  Nice that they love me. They really do.

Karla took this pic a couple months ago of Dylan and Patrick. They are friends and cousin who live on opposite sides of the state. They like to get together.

Yesterday was a busy day.  We started out with the move. I drove Lauren home and then went and got Jael (Andrew's friend). We went to get donuts and chocolate milk at Albertson's for the work crew. We went to Lois's and helped pack things on to the truck. It took 3 loads. But they got all the big stuff.  Helping them were: Lanny, Kevon, Don & Heather, all her boys, Karla and Dylan, Andrew, Jael, and me. Don really appreciated it.

It was fun!

Then I lost Jael.....she went with Andrew and Dylan rode with me. We picked up Papa and then we went to Tara's for Jordy's 15th birthday party!

 It was a nice party.  I was starving for pizza so it was goooooood!  So were the cupcakes.  Got to see Kevon, Don & Heather and boys, Jael, Andrew, Amanda, Joel & Karla and kids, of course Tara's family, Brad's parents, Jo's boyfriend, Jay & Kristen, and the neighbor boy, Zac.  Quite a crowd!!!!

Friday Lauren spent the night.  She woke up at 3 in the morning!!!! She was so excited to get her day going! She went with her bff and mom, Brit to Seattle. They went to the Hyatt (one of the nicest hotels in Seattle) and had a luxury day and night!!! Haven't sure how it went but I am sure it was great!!!!

In case any of you remember.....here is my buddy Makoa on Halloween! Little cowboy!

Here was Andrew in costume... he was Matty Mullins ....rock star. Here he is:

I think Andrew did pretty good.   And what was really cool was Matty Mullins text Andrew's and told him he liked his costume!!!!! Pretty cool for Andrew!

Thursday I went and had breakfast with Nell.  Where andrew works. It was a tad expensive!!!! Taste ok though! Then I got called to go work at the school!  First time I have been called to Wolfle in ages. I worked as a "preschool teacher assistant"! Surprise!!!! lol!  However, the majority of the kids were special needs. Cute kids.

Friday I did nothing but try to get over sinus headache.

Wednesday was Halloween....Gregory was the only one who came by. But it was so rainy and nasty out!!!! Nice Halloween storm....ruined a lot of kids trick or treating. Too bad.

I think I am pretty caught up. Only two days and all the election ads are over.  I am so happy to have it over. I will be happier if we don't have to continue on the road of the past four years. For sure!

Have a great week ahead! <3 p="p">