It's hard to believe how quickly time is flying by...

Sometimes it feels so slow like please hurry up. And other times its just like OMG... I can't believe that we have already blown threw all this.

So lets see... we have kids that have been sick and got better. Parents who are now getting sick. We had a chopped full couple days, I personally am relieved its done. So much prepartion that for the most part was fun but to clumped together. In the past three days, I have had my first meeting with Megan's troop since we seperated from the kindergarteners. It was mainly still run by Meg's leader who works for council now, but it was much calmer than having 20 girls in a room. We did our swaps for ingathering, which turned out SOOOOO cute. When I get my computer fixed (doesn't want to upload my photos) I will upload some pics. Then saturday we had ingathering and it was fun, but after all the prep and then being the hot sun was again happy that it was finished. Meg didn't get to do her swaps this year because we had to leave early. She had Father/Daughter Dance w/ Daddy at her school @ 4 pm. Again, have some cute pictures, will share when I can. They had a good time and it was a good memory for Megan. Then today we had our cub scout Blue & Gold Banquet where our boys earned their ranks. My oldest Ry has now finished cub scouts and is moving on to Boy Scouts. I am very proud of him as well as Eth for working hard to finish their requirements. I think a good time was had by all.

Tommorrow I have a field trip with my Diva and the rest of the week is fairly uneventful.. YAH!!!!

More lost teeth and such...

Things here are about the same. We are all done with soccer till probably the fall. I am actually happy that scouts and school will be the only thing occupying the kids time for a while. Speaking of Scouts Ryan is crossing over (moving up) to Boy Scouts in March. This sunday he will be presented with his rank at our Pack Blue & Gold. And then in 2 weekends after that he will go over the Ceremony and officially be welcomed into his new Troop. I think he is a bit nervous, but I think that is understandable. Luckily many of the boys from his den are coming with him. Ethan is earning his Bear rank this sunday. Because most of the moms who have run this pack for the past 2 yrs are moving onto Boy Scouts we are loosing a lot of our support system, so there is a possiblity that Ethan will be joining a new pack (he has friends there so he is very happy). With Megan's scouting her leader actually is working for council now so I am stepping up to do Megan's troop w/ her help. She is working on bridging to be a Brownie in May. First meeting for me is friday night with the girls. Outside of that Ryan is going into middle school next year and we are applying for a special school, a Marine Oceanographic Academy Prep School. We are praying that he makes it in as he is very excited about it. They only 25 students out of the district for each grade. So we have recomendations coming together and such. Ethan and Megan will stay put at the school they are at. Oh!!! And speaking of Ryan he has lost 3 teeth in the past 2 weeks... Crazy... I keep teasing him that he is a snaggle puss! ;)

Other than that not much else to report.

Healing Arms, Lost Teeth, Cookie Sales, ect.

Its been a little while since I checked in. First of all my girl has lost 2 teeth on the bottom, she looks a little snaggle tooth ish now. LOL! She also started selling cookies, she has worked a cookie booth and walked the neighborhood. We have also got some orders from friends and family (THANK YOU), so she is doing pretty good with her sales. Then we have Ryan who we went to the Orthopaedics yesterday and he is now allowed to take the brace off and in just over a week he is allowed to return to PE at school. Huge steps. He has decided to bypass soccer in the spring, I think he is being a nervous nelson since the dr assured him he would be ok. But its his choice. Ohhhh and he got student of the month. They a passage from the nominee and she said that he was a boy scout and she sees in his daily school life. That he is respectful to others and always willing to help. Talk about melt my heart. Not much up with Ethan other than his stubborness. LOL!!! He fell off his bike last weekend and we thought maybe we had another broken bone on our hands, but we got the swelling to come down and we think he just bruised the heck out of himself.

We are a cast free family again...

We are a cast free family again after 2 months and 3 casts. YAH!!! Today we took Ryan to the Orthopaedic Surgeon and he is very happy with how his bone is healing. He told me his break was a really bad one, so to see it healing like this was great. He is now in a brace for at least 3 weeks, but the wonderful thing about the brace is he will be able to use his hand more and we can take it off and he can be clean. I will post a picture a little later, but just wanted to share our good news. Lord knows the good news has been on the low side, so we will take it where we can get it!!

A very nice holiday...

Well I must say it was a very nice holiday inspite of the fact that I am ready to fall over. I have been sick for about a week, with me trying to keep up with all the holiday stuff, cooking and family coming in it finally caught up with me today. I went to take a nap after the kids opened their gifts and woke up almost 4 hours later. YIKS! Anyway, we have really enjoyed all the family. My lil sister came in on monday. and my Dad, Dan, came in on sunday and we were able to spend monday & tuesday with him, which was really nice. My sister and my Dad came to the Cub Scout Meeting and were guest speakers to help teach the boys about Engineering. It was pretty cool watching them ask questions. Then on Tuesday night late Penny came and she was here till this afternoon. We also had my Stepdad, Dennis and his girlfriend Candi come for dinner last night. Its been a whirlwind, but wouldn't trade it for anything. We are very blessed with our family. This coming week we are planning to head over and visit with my Dad, stepmom, sister, nephews and some friends. So we will probably have a small celebration with them too.

So my stepdad came over Christmas Eve and he had all the gifts out, each kid had one gift. So he had them open their gifts at once. They open it up and Ryan got a half gone roll of toilet paper, Ethan got a partially used toothpaste, and Megan got a bar of soap. So the kids were like what the heck and Dennis and his girlfriend kept razzing the kids. So then they just started passing our gifts to us and were being super sports about the whole thing. So the next thing Pappy (Dennis) says is oh you know I think I might have left another bag outside and he came in with their gifts. They were sooo suprised. And truly we all got a good giggle out of it. So thats our Christmas funny!

On a side note, this is the 2nd Christmas without my mom and this was such a special time of the year with her. It was something that we really got into and I truly do miss the spirit within her for this holiday. She is always close to our hearts.

Lil Man has new glasses!!!

Last week we took Ethan in for an Eye Exam because he is still having headaches. So, the results are that he needs glasses. He is borderline by the dr was more than willing to try them and see if they help with his headaches that we have literally been battling for 2 yrs. So we got the glasses in today. Now to teach the boy how to care for the glasses and keep his lens clean.

Drum Club and property update

Ry made the drum club YAH! He forgot to tell me, but he made the drum club. I am very excited for him. The music teacher is even willing to work with the broken arm, which I think is GREAT! Ryan is also getting along well with the cast and enjoying the freedom to take showers without the worry of getting it wet.

Regarding the property. Apparently, one of the people involved in the transaction of the property was trying to pull a fast one, thankfully Rob's friend caught on and basically told him he would be in deep trouble if he messed up the deal. So the closing is set for next week!! I think we are going to go camp on the land over New Years. YAH!! So looks like we will start getting things ready to be there for June sometime. Scary and exciting all at once. I am looking forward to being closer to my Dad, sister, & nephews though.

Well off to get caught up on the house and such. We are having the Girl Scouts holiday party here saturday and sunday we have soccer and the holiday party for the Cub Scouts (not here).