Halloween

Oops, just realized I forgot to post our Halloween pictures, see I told you we have been busy with life!

Our crew went as the Toy story Gang, Alex was Woody, Aidan was Buzz, and Andrew was Trex!

Been a while, time for an update!

We have been very busy lately, have had Thanksgiving, school functions, karate tournaments, 2 rounds of sickness, a week out of town, and then regular, everyday life thrown in as well.

Let's see, Alex went on his first hunting trip to Texas with my dad and a few other family members. He was gone all Thanksgiving week. I went to Mississippi with the other 2 and Edward's Mom and sister to see some of Edward's family. We were hit by a very bad stomach bug. Alex had a karate tournament and placed 3rd for Chanbara(sword fighting), 4th for self defense. He is very proud of his trophy. Alex also had to get a tooth capped b/c he had a cavity that grew from within and it broke his tooth, sucks we didn't know it was there :( Alex also is sick again, suspected flu but who knows! Aidan is doing well-enjoying school, singing Jingle Bells. Andrew is also doing well, talking lots, enjoying Mom's Day Out, and into everything. They all got to go see Santa which was a success, no crying! Andrew got a big boy haircut, so sad, but he is still a cute little boy!

Have taken really cute pictures of the kids for the Christmas card but it looks like I have very little time to sit down and actually make it, so family members, you may receive a facebook card :) I heard on the radio that it is kind of tacky, but that is all the time I have!

A few pictures
Aidan signing Jingle bells for a city function

Pictures I was going to use for the christmas card




Andrew's haircut, and yes I do believe I will grow it back out. I love the long look for him and I think Edward prefers it as well




As for me, I stay rather busy and have gotten into couponing. It is so much fun! I love seeing how much money I save(tons) and being able to help out family members with the free things I get. Edwards thinks I am a bit neurotic though :) Edward has now switched to working days, I am loving that. No more sleeping the day away on his off days, we can actually get more accomplished, he can take the kids to school(we are rotating days), pick them up, and be a lot more helpful in general. It is very nice. Of course on the days he works he is gone by 430 am and home by 7pm and in bed not too long after, but can help put kids to bed and I think we are both enjoying that. No more worries for me about people breaking in, and trust me, I am neurotic about that too!


Oh, the kids got their new bunk beds, aren't they fabulous!


Edward is on his 2 week vacation right now, which we are all enjoying! Kids are out of school for 2 weeks at the end of this week and I think we all need a break. Alex needs a little time to get better! He has been hit with too many bugs this season. We will be going to Dallas on the 19th-23rd to have Christmas with family and then we will be back home to have Christmas here.

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School has started!

Aidan and Alex both started school last Thursday, the 26th. They both seem to be enjoying it. Alex is in Mrs. Neal's class and from what everyone tells me, she isn't a nice teacher at all. I don't know but so far he has had no issues with her and says she is nice. I am hoping it stays that way and he has a good first year.




Aidan also started school at Lincoln Center. He is Mrs. Anderson's class, which is the 3 yr old class for special needs kids. I have only met 3 of the other children in the class(the boys) and they seem really sweet. I am not sure what issues the other children have but honestly I think my worries about him being around other children with problems worse than him(like autism)and him picking up bad behaviors have been eased. Not saying he still won't pick anything up but I think it is going to be ok!


Andrew starts Temple's Weekday program next Tuesday and will go Tues/Thurs from 930-230. I met his teacher the other day and she seems really nice, as did the other children.

Andrew's 2 yr pictures

Had a little time over the weekend and it was nice and overcast so I decided to do Andrew's pictures, only a month early.

Happy 3rd Birthday Aidan!

Today is your 3rd birthday and it has turned out to me a mighty fine day. You got to have a Toy Story party at Chuck E Cheese, which was awesome. You got some awesome presents-Toy Story PJs, Woody doll, Buzz doll, remote control car, giant 18 wheeler, books, Lincoln logs, and a ton more stuff.

Today I actually got you to say "3 yrs old" I don't think you have a clue what it means but you did say it several times!






From left to right-my nephew Maddox, Aidan, my nephew Mitchell





We also got him a new bike and it is a hit!

Alex singing Twinkle Twinkle

After Andrew started singing, Alex decided he would as well.

Andrew singing Twinkle Twinkle

He just began to sing in the last few days. It's a little hard to hear him since the other 2 are being very loud!

Vacation Bible School Program video

Alex and my neices had their bible school program at Temple Baptist Church on Sunday and it was very cute. Alex hid behind the boy beside him so you can rarely see him but you can see my neice as she loves to perform!

My carbon copy!

I love how Andrew takes after me, finally got a child of mine that you can look and tell we are related!
A picture of my sister and I, I do believe I am the one on the right, but I could be wrong!


And Andrew:

Silly Andrew

Andrew is so different from both of the other 2 boys. He is happy like Alex was as a baby/toddler but he is also extremely active. His physical skills are better than many of Aidan's!

He decided he wanted to wear Alex's boxer shorts, so he put them on all by himself.


Playing with Mr Potato Head

The Turtle

We found a turtle a few days back and took it home to play.

"oh my God"

This is Aidan's newest phrase. I know it isn't PC or anything, but I can't help but love it! And as you notice, his little brother picked it up too.

Garden-May 28, 2010

I took new pictures today.
Squash-was growing really well but I pulled out a few of the plants to give it all more room to grow and think that may not have been a good idea. They don't seem to be producing near as much now and not looking as pretty. We will see in a few weeks. There are 2 cucumber plants in with the squash plants and I think they may be taking over as they are doing really well, so that could be the problem, who knows!


Bell Pepper plants-I've been thinking about pruning a few of these out as well to make more room but am afraid to mess up a good thing. We have tons of bell peppers growing, although I'm afraid they may be too heavy for the plants so need to figure something out soon, as to whether I want to get some kind of support for them and even what the best thing would be to get:


Pumpkin plants--These just sprouted up. I am hoping that we have some nice, good sized pumpkins in time for Fall/Halloween:


Watermelon/cucumber--This is the biggest bed we have and it has been taken over very quickly! The watermelon vines are everywhere and I do believe they will be all over the yard soon enough :) I have about 1/2 cucumber plants and 1/2 watermelon plants in here. The watermelon plants have a few flowers on them already, hoping we get some good sized melons out of the plants before the growing season is over.


Tomato plants-we have a ton of tomatoes on the plants, 1 just started turning red, can't wait for the rest to finish ripening!
The topsy Turvy fell one day-it just wasn't strong enough to hold all that dirt/water where we had it hanging so it is gone. We still have the other upside down one but it doesn't seem to grow near as well as the ones we have in planters. It isn't near as leafy or have any offshoots like the other 2 do.

Here is the biggest tomato plant:

And the smaller one--I think we need to get a support for this one but I'm afraid we would damage the roots. This one hasn't grown near as tall as the other, wonder if it is b/c it is in a smaller bucket or what.


So that's the majority of our garden. One section of flowers died--I think I overwatered them, who knows. The other flowers are doing fairy well. I did decide to prune the lilies and that was apparantly not a good idea b/c now they have no flowers on them and haven't for over a month.

I now have a better idea of what we will do next year to have a better setup. I think we are definitely sticking with the watermelon and cucumber, going to still do the bell pepper plants but will do less of them-maybe 6-7 plants total, and 4-5 squash plants total. Edward wants me to do some carrots so I will look into that. I would really like to plant a few plant trees--mainly apple and pear but I don't have the patience to wait several years for them to produce, plus I am hoping to not live here in 5 yrs!

Alex's preschool graduation

Alex had his last day of preschool week before last and they had a little ceremony where all of the kids sang a few songs for all of the parents. Alex sang along with a few but then decided to pout-I think b/c the boy next to him was pouting so he copied him.

Alex and his teacher, Mrs Barron, and the teacher's aide, Mrs Franklin:

At the preschool program:

My neice, Madelyne, she is in the pink shirt:

Aidan's burn

Last week I had the washing machine moved so that we could gather all of the socks that had fallen behind there. I had forgotten the dryer was running and Aidan leaned up against the backside of it and ended up with a 2nd degree burn on his arm. It looked awful but is healing rather nicely now. Not sure if it will scar but the pediatrician seems to think it will.