Tuesday, August 31, 2010
First Day of School
YEAH!!! School has started. The kids' first day was on Monday. Cameron started 2nd grade and Terrilyn Kindergarten. This year we decided to put the kids in a Charter Montessori school, I am really excited to watch the year unfold. So far so good the kids are liking things. Terrilyn is in half day kinder(please hear the heavy sigh as I typed this, they have all day for an extra $300 a month CRAZY) the last 2 days that I have picked her up and she has been devastated and near tears. "Mom you didn't pack my lunch"(those that stay all day start eating their lunches as the others are leaving) or "Mom the teachers are so mean they wont let me stay" Breaks my heart but what do you do. Luckily I have found a couple of other moms to help carpool so I don't have to make so many trips to the school. It is about 13 miles from the house and with the half day kinder that's 3 trips in a day. Alexander is sad that he doesn't have school to go to, when we drop Terrilyn off he is ready to be left at school as well. More to come but I think somehow I might have volunteered myself for the PTO as treasurer.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Happy Birthday Terrilyn!!!!
Terrilyn's birthday isn't actually until tomorrow but with school starting and all we celebrated her birthday yesterday. She wanted to go to Chucky Cheese so there we went. For 8 months or so she has been talking about how when she turns 5 she is getting a pink Nintendo DS afterall that is when Cameron got his(now really he got it after his birthday Jeremy promised him that if he was good while he was in Alaska he could get one. I on the other hand felt like he was too young but only went for it because we were about to take a 12+ hour flight to England to see my parents for a month) The look on her face says it all. She was exstatic to get it and the games. Mom she loves the jewelry box and listens to it often. She wanted a princess cake but with out new tips I didnt want to try and conquer that so I talked her into a castle so we had a pink cake and pink frosting. ***some of these pictures not so good but LOVE the expressions on their faces still learning how to use the camera and that random boy next to Terrilyn was sharing the virtual ride with her***
Splash Park
On Saturday we were having the carpets cleaned downstairs and to leave the poor guy alone to work I took the boys to the splash park and was playing around with my camera(still learning).
It was really windy and after a while I had the boys take off their swim shirts so they weren't as cold look how white my poor babies are.
It was really windy and after a while I had the boys take off their swim shirts so they weren't as cold look how white my poor babies are.
Monday, August 23, 2010
Happy Birthday Cameron!!!!
Cameron turned 7 years old on Sunday. We did most of our celebrating with him on Saturday. I have had the kids' birthday presents for a while now and had them wrapped and in my closet ever since. Cameron has been bent out of shape because he only had 2 while Terrilyn has 4 (he had 2 huge boxes hiding out in the garage he didn't know about). He has been in need of a bigger bike and has been asking for a long time now for a Basketball hoop. Seeing as Jeremy got home late Friday night and was too tired to put anything together we blindfolded Cameron and brought in the huge boxes into the house while he sat on the couch. He got the basketball one right off but it took him a couple of rounds around the other box to figure it was a bike. He also received the much sought after Lego Harry Potter DS game.The rest of the morning was spent putting together things playing the DS and me frosting his cake(for those of you that don't know there is a series of books called The Diary of a Wimpy Kid), Cameron LOVES to read them and has planned on it for his cake for some time now, but no making fun of it, I need a new tip bag and had to resort to using Ziploc bags(old-school, not as much control) We went out for dinner to none other than McDonald's...yuck but the kids love it :-) then we went to the new Disney movie The Sorcerers Apprentice. Then we had cake on Sunday after we ate lunch/dinner. Overall I think he had a great weekend.
P.S. no that isn't some random girl we had over in the blue nightgown that would be Alexander.
P.S. no that isn't some random girl we had over in the blue nightgown that would be Alexander.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
CW's Wedding
The last week of July found us very busy and coming and going. Jeremy came back into town just in time for us to give talks in sacrament meeting, spent two days in the office and then he took the rest of the week of so that Seamus and I could fly out to Oklahoma to be at CW's wedding. For those of you that know me know that my family is everything and when I say family its not just the parentals and my sister it encompasses the aunts and uncles and cousins and grandparents. **warning long post but too awesome not to include it all***
Sorry but a bit of a history lesson~ CW has been my "buddy" since he was Seamus' age(note crying as I type this memories fondly flying by in my head). He never called me Mandi but "buddy" for quite a few years. Oh I have have loved that boy(well really a man now). Thanks to our moms hard work we spent a lot of time together growing up. Then I got married moved from Denver, he eventually moved to Oklahoma. When he and his sister joined the Church I drove out with my parents and Cameron(6 months old) for an awesome Easter in 2004. Then when he flew home from his mission Alexander(7 months old) and I flew out to see him. Oh how I had missed him and what a handsome young man. he came home so mature and the mission had been so good to him. How his testimony had just radiated out of him. So when it was time for him to get married I knew I couldn't miss it and I wanted to be there to support him in the temple knowing he had no immediate family that would be in there with him.
So history lesson over. CW was sweet enough to take time out of his busy wedding prep schedule to go out to dinner with my parents and grandma and I the night before the wedding. Boy it was good to see him and he was soooooooooo happy and excited about his beautiful bride Katherine. My mom described him as being very content. The next morning we left the house(mom, dad, Conner and I were staying with grandma Susie) with plenty of time to get to the temple, well here is where this becomes a long story. Grandma wasn't real familiar with how to get there and doesn't have a good map of Oklahoma City in the van and the rest of don't know it and we took a wrong turn that lead us to some more bad moves and we were on some toll road to Tulsa....way out of the way and now we found ourselves late. Many phone calls to Uncle Michael trying to get back. Meanwhile I am looking in my purse for my temple recommend that I realize is sitting on the desk(earlier in the week I had a thought to put it in my purse...why hadn't I listened?) I am near hysterical pannic and waiting for WWIII to happen between mom and grandma in the front seat or dad who is in the back (whom by the way was giving correct directions to begin with) All I could think about is how much effort I put into flying all the way out here to be with him at the temple and now it isn't going to happen. Grandma asked someone in the car to say a prayer(I had been praying my little heart out when i realized we were late) Call my Uncle back asking if they will wait was there another wedding that day, he called us back a short time later to say they would hold but not long. We finally talked grandma into turning around illegaly at one of the emergency cop openings in the cement wall. She sped her little heart out I think I heard her tell someone that at times she was going 90mph. What was strange was how all the tension and build up in the car melted away when mom and grandma start laughing and cackling with one another and joking around about her being grandma chihuahua. Grandma even at one point says "Hey Richie remember when you told us to turn and I didn't, I 'm sorry you were right I should have turned." We made it only 15-20 minutes after the ceremony was supposed to start. I rushed in so the temple president could call my bishop my mom practically threw Seamus at my uncle Carey to watch will we were inside. By the time I sat down inside the sealing room I was so overrun with emotion I couldn't make the tears stop. Come to find out Grandma was given the mothers chair to fill and my dad the fathers chair. It was a beautiful ceremony and what really moved me was how the sealer choked up (how many times has this sweet man heard and said those words and he almost couldn't say them). It was so bright hot and sunny outside but BEAUTIFUL. We had lunch at a tea house so delicious and quaint. While we were sitting around waiting for the groom and bride to show up we discovered that had we not been late CW's mission president and wife who had flown in from SLC that morning wouldn't have made it to the ceremony because their flight was late(CW and his father-in-law and bride reassured us all not to worry about holding it up) First off how cool is it that his mission president came to his wedding and that had we not been late he also would not have been there. The reception was beautiful. I loved Katherine's dress it was so very flattering. For the bridesmaids they were all in black and to tie them all in she had them where the cutest little headband that she had something similar in her hair that was white(I totally appreciate and understand between the extreme height differences and then a pregnant sister the bridesmaid thing worked perfect). But I would have to say by far my favorite part was the send off and probably the most creative send off that I have seen. They had train tickets to Oklahoma City and were catching the night train. Part of their center pieces were black lanterns. So when it was time to get them to the train they had a bunch of wooden train whistles and carrying the lanterns we walked them the few short blocks to the train station blowing away on the whistles and lighting the way with the lanterns. The train pulled up blew on his whistle and they boarded the train and then it blew its whistle some more and they pulled off into the night. It helped that the train station there in Normon is so cute and quaint also. It was so much fun. ***warning this time lots of pictures but that is also from learning how to use my new camera***
Thank you!! so much Grandma and Auntie Jana and Uncle Virgil for housing me and Seamus. I thoroughly enjoyed it and loved the late night visit Jana I really needed that. :-)
Sorry but a bit of a history lesson~ CW has been my "buddy" since he was Seamus' age(note crying as I type this memories fondly flying by in my head). He never called me Mandi but "buddy" for quite a few years. Oh I have have loved that boy(well really a man now). Thanks to our moms hard work we spent a lot of time together growing up. Then I got married moved from Denver, he eventually moved to Oklahoma. When he and his sister joined the Church I drove out with my parents and Cameron(6 months old) for an awesome Easter in 2004. Then when he flew home from his mission Alexander(7 months old) and I flew out to see him. Oh how I had missed him and what a handsome young man. he came home so mature and the mission had been so good to him. How his testimony had just radiated out of him. So when it was time for him to get married I knew I couldn't miss it and I wanted to be there to support him in the temple knowing he had no immediate family that would be in there with him.
So history lesson over. CW was sweet enough to take time out of his busy wedding prep schedule to go out to dinner with my parents and grandma and I the night before the wedding. Boy it was good to see him and he was soooooooooo happy and excited about his beautiful bride Katherine. My mom described him as being very content. The next morning we left the house(mom, dad, Conner and I were staying with grandma Susie) with plenty of time to get to the temple, well here is where this becomes a long story. Grandma wasn't real familiar with how to get there and doesn't have a good map of Oklahoma City in the van and the rest of don't know it and we took a wrong turn that lead us to some more bad moves and we were on some toll road to Tulsa....way out of the way and now we found ourselves late. Many phone calls to Uncle Michael trying to get back. Meanwhile I am looking in my purse for my temple recommend that I realize is sitting on the desk(earlier in the week I had a thought to put it in my purse...why hadn't I listened?) I am near hysterical pannic and waiting for WWIII to happen between mom and grandma in the front seat or dad who is in the back (whom by the way was giving correct directions to begin with) All I could think about is how much effort I put into flying all the way out here to be with him at the temple and now it isn't going to happen. Grandma asked someone in the car to say a prayer(I had been praying my little heart out when i realized we were late) Call my Uncle back asking if they will wait was there another wedding that day, he called us back a short time later to say they would hold but not long. We finally talked grandma into turning around illegaly at one of the emergency cop openings in the cement wall. She sped her little heart out I think I heard her tell someone that at times she was going 90mph. What was strange was how all the tension and build up in the car melted away when mom and grandma start laughing and cackling with one another and joking around about her being grandma chihuahua. Grandma even at one point says "Hey Richie remember when you told us to turn and I didn't, I 'm sorry you were right I should have turned." We made it only 15-20 minutes after the ceremony was supposed to start. I rushed in so the temple president could call my bishop my mom practically threw Seamus at my uncle Carey to watch will we were inside. By the time I sat down inside the sealing room I was so overrun with emotion I couldn't make the tears stop. Come to find out Grandma was given the mothers chair to fill and my dad the fathers chair. It was a beautiful ceremony and what really moved me was how the sealer choked up (how many times has this sweet man heard and said those words and he almost couldn't say them). It was so bright hot and sunny outside but BEAUTIFUL. We had lunch at a tea house so delicious and quaint. While we were sitting around waiting for the groom and bride to show up we discovered that had we not been late CW's mission president and wife who had flown in from SLC that morning wouldn't have made it to the ceremony because their flight was late(CW and his father-in-law and bride reassured us all not to worry about holding it up) First off how cool is it that his mission president came to his wedding and that had we not been late he also would not have been there. The reception was beautiful. I loved Katherine's dress it was so very flattering. For the bridesmaids they were all in black and to tie them all in she had them where the cutest little headband that she had something similar in her hair that was white(I totally appreciate and understand between the extreme height differences and then a pregnant sister the bridesmaid thing worked perfect). But I would have to say by far my favorite part was the send off and probably the most creative send off that I have seen. They had train tickets to Oklahoma City and were catching the night train. Part of their center pieces were black lanterns. So when it was time to get them to the train they had a bunch of wooden train whistles and carrying the lanterns we walked them the few short blocks to the train station blowing away on the whistles and lighting the way with the lanterns. The train pulled up blew on his whistle and they boarded the train and then it blew its whistle some more and they pulled off into the night. It helped that the train station there in Normon is so cute and quaint also. It was so much fun. ***warning this time lots of pictures but that is also from learning how to use my new camera***
Thank you!! so much Grandma and Auntie Jana and Uncle Virgil for housing me and Seamus. I thoroughly enjoyed it and loved the late night visit Jana I really needed that. :-)
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