Spell Bowl

Peep has worked hard 2 mornings a week for over a month at her spell bowl words. A couple of nights ago p was testing her on them and one word was cerebellum.

P wanted her to come and show it to me. I told him it was too last for theatrics.

He said " This is worth it!"

She had spelled it... sarahbellum!

tag number 2

Okay, here is for the second one...
I am suppose to tell you all how old I am... not going to happen! I have a birthday coming up and I am going to be older than I feel. that is certain!
Favorite food: m&m's
Favorite object that you own: ipod and speakers!
Favorite color: PINK
Favorite animal: Elephant
Favorite store: Tough... I spend most of my time at wal-mart, but I would prefer being somewhere like Marshalls, H&M, Gymboree, Williams-Sanoma, Pottery Barn Kids, Home Goods, Borders, you get the idea!
Best Friend: Is this a trick question, it is my honey... right?!
Celebrity Crush: Is this another trick question??
First job: Serving coffee in some little cafe in a small town on the west end of the united states!
Bad Habit: Oh, damn it, I can't think of one!
College Degree: I am a dentist's wife and soon to be a periodontist's wife... that better count for something!!!!!
Place that you have been recently: the kitchen and it still needs about 30 min. of work!
Place you want to visit: Italy would be a blast, but disney comes in as a close second.
What you're doing right now: I am blogging trying to ignore the kitchen dishes and changing another diaper! What a life huh?! I do love it though... don't let me kid you.

Okay, for those that love pictures and no writing... like me! sorry! I have gone on and on and it is time to be done...
I tag... who ever actually made it to the bottom of this list!

Tagged!

Tagged!!! what is that? Just kidding, I was actually thrilled to get tagged twice. I still am one of those "new" bloggers that look forward to those kinds of things.
so...
Quirks???...
I know I have some... it's just sharing the best ones.

1. I LOVE matlock! so, when they changed the time from 1 pm to 8 am I was so upset. I emailed them and all. I then started recording it every morning. (from 8 to 9am is a very hectic time of the day for me!) Anyway, it is awesome. I now can watch it whenever I want. I am MAD if I forget to record it. I have started setting my phone alarm to ring at 8 so I won't miss it!

2. I think I am with kk on this... I have to have my bed made ... even if it is 3 in the afternoon and I haven't had time to do it until then.

3. I am not much of a tv watcher (except matlock, of course!), but I LOVE music. Many days you can catch me jammin' to something or other cleaning the kitchen and dancing around! (is that considered a quirk?)

4. I just went into p and said: "honey, what are some of my quirks?" He said: "honey, I know where this is headed, what are some of my quirks... lets here it, what are some things you'd like me to work on?"
SO, I guess that is one of my quirks. :)

5. I have a highly sensitive nose!!! now this is truly a quirk!

I think this is hitting my quirk thinking abililties.
I hope you all didn't get too bored by this little activity.
I tag... carolyn, linda and holly!

buttermilk pie

So... here it is... buttermilk pie

Recipe as follows:

Beat together:

4 eggs

2 C. buttermilk

1/2 C. melted butter

2 T. lemon juice

2 T. vanilla

add:

3 C. sugar

1 1/2 C. flour

1 tsp. baking powder

3/4 tsp. soda

Pour into 2 deep dish crusts. Bake at 400 for 10 min.; 325 for 50 min.

Top with fresh (or frozen) berries sweetened with a little sugar

and whipping or whipped cream.

YUM!!!

Friday celebrates on saturday!

Friday turned a year older on Saturday!!! We celebrated all weekend long!
Of course he LOVED that!!!
Cosmic keep away was the best present,
Madden 09 was a close second.

Friends came over to help celebrate with a little buttermilk pie. YUM!

family pics

family pictures yesterday! It was a beautiful day! you can imagine how "fun" it was!

These are some of the girls and myself. It actually was kinda fun to take these.

Pumpkins and costumes!

Well, how about peeps face... she is smiling and grimacing at what she is doing... all at the same time!

Here is the only picture I got of our nerd! He looked so good. Believable!

The Vampire...very scary!

Isn't Harry Potter CUTE! I love him!

The "butherfly"

Our cute little elephant


too hard to choose!

The warmest Halloween since we arrived. I remember the first year was soooo cold! It felt like Las Vegas!

P's New Shoes

We went on a date and P ended up getting these in about 5 min. He is so happy about his purchase. Usually he spends about 1 hour walking in them, running, jumping... you get the idea... but they were closing and I said "get the shoes and lets go!" So, tonight as I am spending much time blogging... that's what new bloggers do right?... he said, take a picture of my shoes for your blog.

Now don't they look great!

Trip to Louisville, Kentucky

Hotel: $100

Wyandotte Cave: $36

Slugger Museum: $25

A little over-nighter with me and all my kids: Priceless!!

No pictures from Wyandotte Caves... you will have to check it out on line. I took a few pictures and went to look at them and my camera promptly told me that I didn't have any flash card!! I was so mad. It was just beautiful. Rolling hills and tons and tons of trees. They were all turning! It was great and I have no picture of it. So, I trucked all 5 of them to the back of a Walmart and picked up a new flash card. you can't do a little trip with your kids and not have the pictures to prove it!

Why do kids just love hotel rooms!

Of course the best part about a hotel is the swimming pool.

The next day the rain was just coming down!! Just the small walk into the museum was enough to get us pretty wet!

At the end of the tour they give each person a little slugger bat.

That is all I need is 5 kids, 4 bats, and a car ride home!

This is a picture taken by peep. There are actually 5 just like this. She can't just take one... there has to be plenty, but they LOVED the bridges.

Over all it was a great time. I need to do it more often. I look forward to the day when we aren't going to CiCi's pizza for dinner, but a place a little nicer and a bit healthier... is there such a place?

dinner at sam's club

wow! first of all you can imagine we were a bit desperate to have gone to Sam's club for pizza! Into our scrumptious dinner P looked at me and said... "how many people have counted our kids?" I said back... " I don't know I never make eye contact or try to notice when I am out with all of them!"
So, I had a chat with Carolyn and we both agree... you have to ignore those around you when you are out with them all.
That's it for now!
n

preschool walk for leaves

a little preschool walk to pick up leaves and boy did we do just that!
you don't really look at the blogs for all the writing? right?!
I just want to see the pictures.
hj kept crouching down because bug was crouching down to be by her.

Sunday walk

We went to a great little place for a walk. The kids enjoyed it. Look at the very end of the path. There are trees covering for 200 yards or so.
We fed the fish here. I kept a good eye on the kids. I wasn't about to jump in after them!!! Here is little nut. She has a blue sucker in her mouth and she is happy about that!

party for scooter

Here are some of the crew. We had 14 kids that day. Then add a few neighbors and my own kids are you get 21! Amazing. I guess little nut was asleep most of the time, so you can call it good with 20. P didn't get home from work until well into the party so I had a friend come and help me out. I can't believe I didn't get a picture of her and me together!

This is the blowing out ot the candles. You can't really tell, but the cake is orange and has orange frosting. He has his vampire teeth in to boot. I think there was a bit of "spraying" on the cake. No one minded too much!