Starting to recover

We had a pretty crazy weekend. Friday Cody spent the night with a friend, Bray & I went to Carter's preschool graduation & then over the the Letterman's house. Bray spent the night with Trevor.

Saturday, we went to the pool with Neviah, Cody & Ashley. Then I stopped by Uncle Phil's house to see his new ride & help him out with the bluetooth phone. Then a cook out with Aunt Teri's crew.

Sunday, had lunch with Ashley & Neviah before they headed home. Then we went to mom's for a cook out with her crew. Which included the grandparents, Richie, Sarah & Theoden. Bray took this picture of us & I said, "Bray you cut my head off." To which They replied, "ouch."

Then the boys & I went to see Night at the Museum 2.

Monday I managed to clean my carpets upstairs & clean a sofa & love seat that mom gave me. Then 9ish hours of shopping with my new friend Amy. ALL of which were super late nights.

I think I am going to be recovered by tomorrow. I hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend.

Easter's Over

Easter is over and I have realized that I did not take very good photos. I missed about half of the family members that were at Easter lunch! And with all of the scrapbooking that I have been doing, I should have been better about my picture taking.

Friday night we had dinner at Grandma's house. The Westons, Westons and Greens were in town. Kim & Shelley are sisters but I think my mom could be one of their sisters too. Not only was I confused but Brayden kept asking me which one was his grandma. Then Kim's little grand daughter called my mom grandma too. And to confuse people more they all had on similar sweaters, crazy.

This picture turned out a little blurry but this was the best one of the 3 of us.

We colored eggs Saturday night at mom's. We also decorated Easter cookies ast home Saturday afternoon. Cody had a friend spend the night and he helped us. He was also at "Family Dinner" Friday. Uncle Phil got a picture of him so he might show up on the family calendar. He also thought that Hawaiian Haystack was Korean food. I informed him that, if he did not notice, no one else in our family is Korean so we do not eat Korean food.

Between Deviled eggs and decorating eggs, I boiled 4 dozen eggs and only broke 2. It was A LOT of eggs!

Cody's 14!!!

This is Cody & me 14 years ago. He is about a month old in this picture. His birthday was Sunday. So Saturday he had 7 friends over. We had dinner at the house then they went to a game place to play video games. They had a good time.

This is one of his friends Josh.

This boy Austin spent the night. He goes to our church.

Cody with his cake, Zane & Gavin - Gavin has been his best friend since 2nd grade. Sunday after church we went to a Japanese Steak house for Cody. We all love those places. And it went without incident this time.

We also saw Monsters Vs. Aliens. Another movie that I liked but a lot of my friends did not. I must be easily amused. Oh, I am easily amused. And I guess I never have that high of expectations for movies.

There were so many movies that came out around Christmas that I missed some that I wanted to see, so I am glad that they are starting to come out on DVD. And so far I have 3 free Red Box rentals!!

Happy St. Patty's Day

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Happy 2009!!!

Happy New Year everyone. The boys are back to school and "vacation" is over. And as expected I did not manage to get anyother treats or crafts done except for the marshmellows. I did manage to take them to Silver Dollar City after Christmas one day when it was 60 degrees out. Everyone else must have had the same idea because it was PACKED that day.

I also managed to get the boy to do their thank you cards - so if you sent us a gift, you should be getting your thank you soon.

I have no resolutions by the way.

For New Year's Eve, we went to downtown Springfield to do First Night. Several businesses open for you to do various activites. It is family oriented and there are a lot of music performances but also several other activities. We actually ran out of time & did not have enough time to do all that we wanted.

We started by taking the shuttle from the car to the first location. 1/4 of the shuttle was taken up by singers & people playing music such as this man here! We decided after that we could walk every where else.

We started at the YMCA and did the rock climbing wall. Or at least the boys did the wall. Neither one of them made it to the top.

At first Brayden did not want to go to the YMCA because he thought that we were going to me singing the song. Then even after we got there, he asked if we were still going to see YMCA. He knows more about the Village People then the organization.

We had our faces painted. We had to wait in line forever for that. There was only one lady & she was super detail oriented. Brayden's is a dragon.

We went to 1984, which is an arcade. We had fun but WOW have video games changed.

We stopped by the Discovery Center but we did not have a lot of time to go there, we just stopped in to see what it was like, we will have to go back another day. It looked fun. Our final stop before the New Year was ice skating. At the entrance was this monkey. The owner had a service animal sign next to the monkey. She looked fine & when Brayden asked what the monkey did, she said it is a service monkey!?

We watched fireworks & drank some sparkling cider to ring in the New Year. It was fun!

Merry Christmas

I'm stealing this idea from my cousin. Merry Christmas & this is your Christmas card.

I have no update on the Blue Screen of Death - still getting it at home & not at the computer repair place & still do not know what's causing it.

Thanksgiving Pictures

Here are some pictures from our Thanksgiving this year. We had 23 people, including all of the kids.

This is my mom with my 2 Grandpas. Her dad & Marvin's dad.


This is our group at the table.


The kids sat at the bar, expect Neviah, she sat next to her mom at the table.

Mom instructed everyone to take a picture of the couple sitting accross from you. This is my grandpa & Esther.

This was the couple sitting across from Marvin - empty seats (not the walker). Matt & Eric were not there yet. They both came late.

Grandpa & Grandma

Uncle Phil - Aunt Evelyn did not make it.

Mom & Marvin. She did a really good job with Thanksgiving dinner. We had a nice time. The weather was great & we had TONS of food.

Sam & Teri. They left right after dinner to head to his family's in Arkansas.

Ashley & Neviah. They left right after dinner too to go back home to Oklahoma.

Eugene & Sarah or Richie is his real name.

Me & J

Uncle Rick & Aunt Mona came from Oregon.

Matt made it just as we all had started.

Eric made it too.

Cards

I have recently started a small card group at my house. We play the last Wednesday of every month. This is our 3rd time playing. We decided (or I decided) to make it a dress up time. So here is our group. One - did not dress up...

So here are the non-party poopers.

We meet from 12-3 PM. That way we do not take away from "family" time. We bring food & we are done by the time school lets out - as we all have kids in school. It has worked out really well so far.

V Day

The Suiter and I celebrated Valentine's Day the weekend before. I know for many people, Valentine's Day has become too commercialized. I agree, but it does not take away from the day for me. I still like Valentine's Day.

So we spent Sunday celebrating by getting a couple's massage. The idea started with the Suiter wanting to get me a pedi & mani. Well I went online and saw that this spa did couple's massages. The Suiter was NOT happy about this idea. He had never had a massage and never really wanted one.

Needless to say, he really enjoyed it. He thought the time went by WAY too fast. Did is mention that he enjoyed it? He really did. As much grief that I got over the idea, I then got thank over the idea. So many people thought that it was such a great idea, that he started taking credit for it. Which I was ok with I found it very funny & ironic!