He Said/She Said

I've always tried to write the funny things that my kids say down on paper. But I'm not good at remembering. Or else I lose the papers. It's a vicious cycle.
But my kids are HILARIOUS and I know that they will be grown and saying grown up things all too soon :(
So I decided to start a blog - He Said/She Said. Maybe if it's on the computer I'll be better about documenting their silliness? Here's hoping!

School Easter Parties

Colby's class had a gigantic egg hunt and Lacie's class had a ice cream sunday party. I was lucky enough to be there for both. I love my life! I have about a bazillion more pictures but these are just a couple of my faves.

Daddy Warbucks discovery!

If you follow me on Twitter than you've already heard my craziness on this discovery. I'm just so amazed that I can't let it go!

Did you know that the guy who played Daddy Warbucks in the original film ANNIE, is the same guy who played Ed Masry in Erin Brockovich (her boss)?

Did you know that? Cause I didn't! hahaha

Lacie was home sick from school today, we've had a stomach bug traipsing around the house since New Year's Day (grrr). So in an effort to keep her busy I put in Annie. We bought it for $3 on Black Friday and she had never seen it. It is always so surreal to me to sit and watch a movie with my child that I watched when I was their age. I see things differently as an adult and even more so as a parent. Bad language, scariness, all of that shows up in ways that I never noticed before. So when I noticed, for the first time EVER, that you could see a little bit of shadow on his otherwise shiny head I started to wonder something.

And then Lacie said, that looks like the guy on Jurassic Park 2. Cause we've seen that movie ALOT thanks to our resident dinosaur lover. So I decided to google it. Gotta love google! Imagine my surprise when I discovered that he was NOT the same guy we were thinking of but that he was the guy from Erin Brockovich! Craziness people!

I immediately proceeded to not only Twitter about my discovery but also to text everyone in my family to share the news. And now here I am blogging about it. My mom said she already knew, which doesn't really surprise me. Anybody else? I swear you really DO learn something new everyday!

Christmas Morning

Christmas with kids can kinda be stressful. I'm always worried if they'll actually LIKE what they get. Did we spend enough? Too much? And so on. They seemed happy with what they got so we'll just go with that. :) Here a couple pics of the kids and a video sharing what SANTA brought the kids. The last picture is just a cute one. Lacie got a Wii Sing It game, SO FUN! Colby isn't one to play but he loves to watch his sissy perform :)

Christmas with Papa & Nonna

We celebrated Christmas with my inlaws a week early this year. They were heading up north to visit with my BIL and his wife during the Christmas week. We had a yummy pizza dinner and they brought over presents for us and the kids. Including a drum set for the boy & a piano for the girl (pictures to come later). Here are a few pics of the night:

School Christmas Performances

Before school let out for Christmas Break, they had a few little performances. Lacie's class sang Jingle Bell Rock and Frosty the Snowman. She looked so cute (and BIG!) up their with all the other first graders! What do you think of her jingle bell earrings and reindeer antlers? :)

Colby's class sang All I Want For Christmas Is My 2 Front Teeth and a song about Christmas cards. They each had to decorate a poster board like the front of a greeting card. He didn't sing much but he looked darn cute!

Thank you Auntie!

Thank you for french braiding my hair Auntie! I love you! Love, Lacie

Decorating the tree...twice, and an early present!

Last Tuesday we got our Christmas tree. It was kind of a downer because we weren't really happy with any of the trees in the lot (that weren't $100, oy!). We were spoiled last year with the monstrosity of a tree that we were lucky enough to find for only $30. It's a tree, that's going to die in a few weeks time, we're cheap! So anyway, we got our tree home and as we were enjoying our pizza, before decorating, the doorbell rang. Surprise! It was the delivery man delivering my very early Christmas present - a new purple camera!!!! Eeep! I love it!!! Thanks baby!

I was so excited to get to try it out right away with pics of us decorating the tree! So this post is a wee bit more image heavy than it would otherwise have been! haha It's no SLR but it's gorgeous, sleek, and definitely an upgrade from my previous camera!

So here are a few pics of me just playing around with it. It doesn't hurt that my kids are gorgeous ;)




That first night with the tree we actually only put up a few decorations: the lights, our Hallmark ornaments from last year, and the star. It was late and a school night so we just did that with the promise to finish decorating the next night. The star was a big deal. For the past 3 or 4 years, Lacie has been the one to climb up on Daddy's shoulders to put the star on top. Well this year, for the first time EVER, Colby announced that he wanted to! Lacie wasn't too happy, but we let her have the job of plugging the star into the other lights :)

The next night, David was at work but my sister surprised us with a visit. It was fun having her here when we decorated the tree. Reminded me of our childhood :)

a partial view of the tree. ignore the mess. and i plan on adding bows to the tree so it's still not done ;)

Back to the Grind

It sure is hard getting back into the swing of things after a nice 4 day holiday break!

Rewind back to November 14th

November 14th was a big day for my kiddos and I.

It started in the morning. Colby was to go on his first elementary school field trip which also meant his first time riding that big yellow school bus! This made mommy very nervous but I was lucky enough to be chosen as a chaperone! Unfortunately I accidentally deleted the uber cute picture I took of he and I on the bus :( *insert tear here* but here are a few of the other cute pics that didn't get deleted. :) The class visited a local farm and learned about all the different animals the farm had. There was a llama, a yak (!!!!), lil ponies, piggies, chickens, bunnies, turkeys (only those weren't so little!), and lots more. He had a blast and it was lots of fun for me to be able to witness it all!

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That night was the CARRIE UNDERWOOD CONCERT!!!! Or as my daughter calls her "Connie Underwear" :) So she and I got ready for our date night, she wore her heels :) We met up with my step mom and baby sister (1 of em) there. They had seats on the floor (crazy good!) but our seats were pretty darn good for what we paid if I do say so myself! And spoiled Lacie got Grandma to go buy her a tshirt! We were in the aisle seats though so I had to get up and down a bajillion times so that the people in the middle of the row could go and get beer :/ The concert was AMAZING though! Ugh she is such an amazing performer! I loved every minute of it. Lacie did too, well every minute that she was awake! She fell asleep about half way through poor thing! She woke up just as the confetti fell after the last song. :) As soon as it quieted down she said "This was the best night EVER!" I just love my lil music lovin' concert buddy! Here's to many more with you baby girl!

Home Improvements

For awhile now I have not been able to dedicate much time to the back rooms of our house and it's been driving me crazy! I do the kitchen everynight, vacuum the living room & dining room constantly, and have the kids pick up their toys everynight, but other than that, the other rooms have been getting neglected or just half-assedly cleaned, haha I made up that word! So this weekend I was determined to get more done! And we did! I'm so proud of how much we accomplished. And I say we because my husband did SO Much to help! He cleaned (SCRUBBED!) both bathrooms, unloaded the dishwasher, and mopped the kitchen floor. And he also hung a curtain rod and some sheers in our bedroom :) They do wonders for breaking up all the WHITE-ness and motivate me to get other stuff hung up in there too!

While he was doing all of that, I was tackling the kids' stuff. We have a closet in our hallway that is full of their art supplies, coloring books, puzzles, and all of our games. I wish I had a before photo. It was a DISASTER!!! But it is all nice and organized now, we'll see how long that lasts! I'd really like to get some baskets to put each lil category in. I think that would make it look even cleaner in there!



I also tackled their bedrooms. When we first moved in they had separate rooms. I assumed that after 4 years of sharing a room they would want to be separated! So we decorated a BOY room and a GIRL room! I should've known better! They were always begging to sleep together and were just not sleeping well at night. SO finally we made the decision to put them back in the same room. They sleep in Lacie's room now so I put all their clothes in there too and put ALL the toys in Colby's room - now the playroom. They love it! And are both sleeping MUCH better at night which means Daddy & I are too! I need to get a lil cube or somethign to put the tv on - it has to be that width otherwise those cubbies won't fit on that wall. And they have to stay on that wall because the only other available space is going to soon be occupied by........a DRUM SET!!!! (more on that later) Oh and just so you know I have NO intentions of RE-painting these rooms. I have a feeling that as soon as I did that they would change their minds! Because of their ages I'm guessing that the days of WANTING to share a room with their sibling (especially of the opposite sex) are numbered ( :( ) and so we're just letting them be for now!

I forgot to add that my kids were SOOOO grateful for all the work their mommy did for them :) Colby came out of no where and gave me the BIGGEST hug around my neck and said "Thank you Mommy for making our new playroom!" Totally worth it people!

My lil Student of the Month!

At the beginning of this week Lacie's teacher sent a letter home. Remember getting those envelopes that said "To the Parents of...." and you weren't supposed to open them, only your parents? Yah they always made me nervous even though I never really had reason to be haha Lacie was worried too :( And then the letter said that she was getting the Student of the Month award but that it was to be kept a surprise. So I had to totally make something up to appease Lacie's fears that she was getting in trouble LOL It was so fun going to the school cafeteria, my husband and Poppie & Mammie were there as well. Her eyes just lit up when she saw each of us and you could tell she was piecing it all together. They went class by class, called each kids name and she was just about the tiniest one up there hehe. When it was all done she was just a lil chatter box :)
Mommy - "Were you surprised?"
Lacie "No I figured it out in my head!"

We are so proud of you baby girl! I can't wait till the bumper stickers come in! hehehe

I Heart Pumpkins

I think it might be a sickness. I've been to THREE pumpkin patches this month, and almost everytime I go to the grocery store I pick up more! I can't help it :)

At the beginning of October, the kids and I took an impromptu trip to the beach with my parents and lil sister - which I still have yet to blog about! One of the things we did on that trip was visit the Avila Barn. I seriously thought I had died and gone to heaven! Except for the stinky animal smell haha. There were SOOOOOOO many gorgeous pumpkins! I even had pumpkin ice cream! Oh heaven I tell you!

Last week I chaperoned my lil sis' field trip to Murray Family Farms and brought the kids along with me. It was warm but fun and again - we got pumpkins!!!!!

Then last weekend I took the kids to Banducci Farms Pumpkin Patch with the sole intent on getting gorgeous fall photos of my monsters. They were fairly cooperative and I'm excited to add these to our family calendar gifts.

I need to add a picture here of ALLLLL the pumpkins I have. I think there are like 10 of em total! I'll do that in a bit :)