Inside my head...

I think it is rather funny, I have done multiple posts about Christmas but it has never felt like Christmas too me. :( Well, It does now. I am finally feeling like it. I was and am excited about Christmas coming but I just didnt feel that in the air. I am finally feeling it around me. YAY!!


Busy busy getting ready for the boutique. My sister in law and mom are so much more creative than I, that I am afraid her stuff is going to make mine look bad and not sell. I hope not and I think my stuff is cute just theirs is really really cute.


I learned a new cake trick last night, super easy, super cute and super fun.


I found a shopping buddy for Black Friday. I am stoked. I havent gone with someone in awhile. The last couple of years I went by myself. There wasn't that many things I wanted the last couple of years. But this year, I have a list!!


Excited about the Baby Shower I am hosting tonight. Ready for a night off. They are few and far between these days.


I need a new teapot. One for Jack, Blue or at least a little bit boyish. All these pink cutesy ones I have are too much for him.


When to go cut the Christmas Tree?? Hmmm...
I dont know...

I have a headache today, again....grrr


I may get to see a friend from high school this holiday. Someoone whom I have been trying to catch up with for 7 years...

COFFEE TIME!!!! Black and White Mocha..Yippeeee


Jeds Bday is Thurs. The kiddos are excited a Birthday and Thanksgiving. Woo Hoo... Jed is a wonderful hubby and so amazing.

All I want for Christmas:

is my two front teeth.


Ok, so besides the two front teeth. ;) My mom has been saving all of the toy catalogs for the kids to look at. Tessa has definitely shown Jack and Bella how to "want" something. LOL. Anyway I thought it was super cute when I picked them up the other day. Tessa had written out there Christmas list. One paper for each child, beyond that she cut out the coordinating coupons to go with the items they wanted. So adorable. I think this may be the year (finally) that we get woke up early Christmas morning. I can't wait. I have been dreaming of this Christmas day since we had kids. It is one of my favorite memories as a kid, waking mom and dad up early Christmas Morning.

Finally!!!!!

 

There really isn't more to say than FINALLY!!!! Tessa finally lost her tooth, she has lost every one of her teeth at school. Haven't had to deal with that at home yet. I am not complaining, seeing as it kinda groases me out. Now all she will want for Christmas is her top two teeth. Yay, Tessa!!!

Halloween pics below. LATE!!! Had a terrible time getting computer to upload all of these. We need a new computer so bad!!!

A very Nice Halloween

 

 

 

 

Halloween, although not really my favorite holiday, is seriously so much fun when you have little ones. I love watching there little legs run from door to door and the excitement in keeping up with the bigger kids. We had a very nice Halloween. We started our day with Soccer and of course the snack for soccer game was cupcakes. What else would snack be on Halloween day. :) From Soccer to home to make our "Scary Haunted Tree" and set out our carved pumpkins and a little housework. :( The kids played outside for most of the day and just chilled and then mommy pulled out the Halloween Buckets and it began. They "practiced" Trick or Treating me (for crackers and spider rings) several times. They got a few rounds of practice under their belts and were off and running. We got dressed into costume, had a yummy nacho dinner and then out for Trick or Treating with the best little Mad Scientist, Pocahontas and Pirate in town. One scare of the night, Jack is up there at the door doing his thing. He is on his way back and "Freddie Cougar" (sp??) is passing him and he looks up and does a double take and then stands there paralyzed and then comes tearing down the lawn in tears and screaming. The Wilburn Fear Factor kicked in, LOL. Poor little guy!! The best part about this years costumes were they didn't cost me a single dime. They were all made out of stuff I had on hand or got from my moms house. Bella was wearing an old costume but new to her and has been well worn. Who needs it next?? I hope you all enjoy the pictures. They are by far the cutest kids I have seen. LOL, I really do love them in costume, I just chuckle the whole time.

 

 

 

I cant wait.....

Only 76 Days till CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Even as an adult I find it difficult to sleep on Christmas Eve. Yuletide excitement is a potent caffeine, no matter your age. ~Carrie Latet


I am very excited, this will be my busiest Christmas Season yet. With a Christmas Boutique and my new AVON business plus working(hmm, I just realized this will be my first Christmas since I have started back to work.) added into all the normal crazy mayhem I try to make happen. whoo-hoo, I cant wait...

"Out of the mouths of Babes"...

Tessa Funnies:

They had a drummer come into class and visit and play drums for them.
"Mom, I wish I had that drummer boy Robby Millers phone # so I could call him and ask him to come play the drums for you and dad. He was so good. (sighs and lays head back)" That is when I realized it wasn't about the music but the boy. :)

Ay-yi-yi!!

Each week at school they write in a Journal daily and then bring it home the following week. They have to read it to us 3 xs for homework. This has already been graded by the teacher. In Tessas Journal she writes about her friend Remy and her Teacher Mrs Hickle. (Mrs Hickle is Remys Mom) She writes about how she likes her and so on, but the killer statement in that Journal is "I wonder if Remy is rich?" I just laughed and cringed knowing that Mrs Hickle has already seen this. OH WELL..

Jed and I were arguing about driving ability or inability(Jokingly). Tessa in the back seat chimes in, "Be Careful Daddy, Mommy can spank you" Jed: "No, she cant". Tessa: "Well, she can put you in time-out" Jed: "No, she can't". Tessa: "Well, she can take away something fun." Jed: "Yes, she can do that". LOL!!!

At the breakfast table today I told Jed that we should skip buying him anymore contacts and just get surgery done on his eyes. This prompted a series of questions from Tessa about eyes and surgery that apparently we didn't answer to her satisfaction. Her little brain was percolating all day with questions about surgery and eyes. After dinner she followed up on her early line of questions as she was still trying to wrap her head around how a person could fix their eyes. Jed explained that in order to see well your eyes need to focus, and that his didn't focus right. Since this explanation wasn't helpful at all Jed tried an analogy. He reminded her that when she uses binoculars she has to turn the knob to make things not blurry, and that eyes work the same way. So Tessa said "Maybe we just need to turn your eyes" and proceeded to pull Jed's eyelids apart so she could get a good look at them. Next she explained "It looks like your eyes are upside down because the small little part is at the bottom and the big round part is at the top." Jed asked how she knew this meant the eyes were upside down. She replied "They should be like a pair of girls panties with the small part in front and the big part in the back". She went on to explain that since Daddy's eyes had the big round part at the top (front) and the narrow small part on the bottom (back) they were definitely upside down. I told her that was quite the analogy.. and we just laughed about how there little heads work. Now you all know how your eyes relate to little girls panties at least in Tessas mind.

Bella funnies:

Jed and I are in mid-conversation and Bella sitting beside Daddy and repetitively trying to interrupt and get his attention. "Daddy, Daddy, Daddy DADDY!!!" (We have her tuned out!) She then reaches up with both hands grabs his face in her hands and turns his head to look at her and says "For Heavens Sake Daddy I need to talk to you"!! LOL, that stopped us. We never say that and have no clue whom does.


Bella has a seriously "stinky feet" problem. So, I washed her feet which didn't really help. The next day someone at school had brought in there Guinea Pigs, which apparently reminded her of her stinky feet. Seeing as later at the office that day she told Jed that her feet stunk like Guinea Pigs.


No new pics these days...Too Busy to take any. BAD MOMMY!!!

Wow, What a Weekend

I awoke Sunday Morning to make a cake and brownies and then to church, from church to a Birthday Party, from Bday Party to Anniversary Party, from Anniversary Party to saying goodbye to family to CRASH. That was one busy Sunday. Today (Monday) is a bit calmer. Chuck E Cheese and to a BBQ for a bit.

I made a Tank Cake for Isaacs 10th Birthday. It turned out super cute, so I thought I would share pics. I even colored the inside of the cake like a green tank. I just thought I would share. He LOVED it. The moment he saw it he exclaimed "It is an A183 Abrams" Awesome. Or something like that, yeah that was what I intended...


On a side note: I realized I never posted first day of school pics. So here is the first couple of weeks of school. They are both loving it and have already seen improvements on the things Bella is learning and can do. SO exciting.

'Twas the Night Before School

Twas the night before school starts
The kids are in bed,
Not a peep, as they sleep like the dead.
The lunches are packed, backpacks wait by the door
New school clothes are laid out on the floor.

We are excited and ready for a brand new school year.





In other news: WOW, what a weekend. A birthday party, an anniversary, yard work, house work, several bike rides, and a catapult. (The only thing left is still my dirty car, aah oh well there is always the drive thru.)

Jed took me to the movies and dinner on Saturday for our 11th anniversary. I know this may sound lame and sappy (it was fun though) but we talked about where we had come from and where we thought we would be at at this time in our lives. Never happens like you think.:) We also told each other all the silly little things that we remembered and didn't remember about our Wedding Day and then tried to come up with one big stand out memory for each year of marriage we had. We made it to about the 4th or 5th year. Then we got to Gmas to pick up the kids and that ended that conversation. I dont know that we could have made it that much further. I may have to try and blog that for kicks. Anyway, we had a wonderful time and I can totally say just like all those other "Delilah Call Ins" I love him more today than the day I married him. We have grown so much and are great together, I LOVE YOU BABE!!

Sunday we had a Birthday Party for Jackson. He is 2 years old on the 17th. I made the most adorable little Monster trucks One Red and One Blue both with flames. It was a fun day, the cousins came over and we opened presents and played. They mostly wrestled. The cousins are all older and Uncle Jed gets carried away from time to time. But little Jack thought it was the best and that he was just as big as they were. Jackson got a new car and a tool set and best of all the next step up Booster Seat. No more hitting his head on the roof of the car everytime we load up. Whoo-Hoo!! Thanks Grandma!!! During Cake and Singing time, Jack sang to himself with us the whole time and then when he blew out his candle, he was so completely surprised and a bit scared. What happened!! I do not know how to describe the look on his face when the candle went out. It cracked us up. Jack and his "Fear Factor". Yet he is rough and tough and tumble all "cave" boy. Love him to pieces. Happy Birthday Jackson.









Last but not least "A Catapult"?? you ask! Well, you see Jed found out that we have a Zucchini Festival in Redding. This festival of sorts includes: A Biggest Zuke Prize, Zucchini Car Races, and A Zuccipult Contest to name a few. Jed quite intrigued tells Tessa we are going to enter that contest and build us a catapult. So he got the rules and using only scraps and supplies around the house he built a catapult. LOL, I love this about my hubby he is so funny he just throws something together on a whim. SO far in our test launches, the furthest launch has been just over two houses away. For those who are interested, the Zucchini Festival is this Saturday 10-4 @ Anderson River Park. We have alot to do on this Sat. Tessas first Soccer game @ 12:30 (GO RAMS!!), Registration for Zuccipult is @ 10 and Fantasy Football for Jed, but really does that one matter. J/K!!! Should be a fun day. Also, if anyone is interested there is a Soccer Parade - Opening Ceremony thing on Friday Night. The teams march it sounds like alot of fun. Dont know what/if there is cost for this but if you are interested I will find out in the next day or two!!


This one is for Auntie, Tessas new Haircut. I think I will take it just a touch shorter next time. :)