Mermaids and Sickness

Gemma has requested that her friends Hallie and Sydney come over for Princess Ariel School. What might Princess Ariel School consist of you ask. Well dressing up like mermaids of course. Watching The Little Mermaid, and coloring pictures of the Princess Ariel. All Gemma's idea. I'll admit that Ariel was also my favorite princess. I can still belt out the look at this stuff isn't it neat wouldn't you think my collections complete song from memory. And when they replayed the movie in the theatres back in 1997 I made my boyfriend/husband take me to see it. I think Princess Ariel school sounds like so much fun. I might even have to get one of those fabulous Little Mermaid cakes that turns your poop magical colors. Oh I can hardly wait. We are so having this mermaid party when we are all done with this darn sickness. Emily hasn't been feeling well. Tanner is waking up with crusty eyes. My eyes feel like they are going to pop out of my head, and my teeth feel like they are being smashed with a hammer. I finally made Rob go see a doctor because he hadn't slept in like 4 nights and his constant coughing and throat clearing was driving me bonkers. The doctor thought he might have bronchitis and put him on 3 different meds. I'm not complaining though because last year at this time I was pregnant and knee deep in throw up, and for me there is nothing worse than throw up. Wouldn't I love. Love to explore that world outside our house. Someday we'll be. Healthy and free. Back to ourselves.

I got tagged by Staci. Because I haven't posted in a long time. You have to answer these questions with one word answers. It's pretty fun.

1. Where is your phone? purse
2. Where is your significant other? Matage
3 .Your hair color? brown
4. Your Mother? kayaker
5. Your Father? alone
6. Your favorite thing? children
7. Your dream last night? scary
8. Your dream/goal? happiness
9. The room you're in? kitchen
10. Your hobby? creating
11. Your fear? death
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? working
13. Where were you last night? dinner
14. What you're not? daring
15. One of your wish-list items? flooring
16. Where you grew up? Mesa
17. The last thing you ate? tamale
18. What are you wearing? purple
19. Your TV? gift
20. Your pet? never
21. Your computer? slow
22. Your mood? thoughtful
23. Missing someone? husband
24. Your car? transformers
25. Something you're not wearing? socks
26. Favorite store? Target
27. Your Summer? boring
28. Love someone? Rob
29. Your favorite color? brown
30. When was the last time you laughed? Saturday
31. Last time you cried? weeks
32.Something you crave? pretzelsncheese
33. Why you blog? connection

I tag Cheryl, and whoever else wants to do this. I promise to post more often now that the month of December is over.

The thought process of a 3 year old...

"I'm thinkin' maybe I shouldn't have cut my little sisters hair..."

"I know, I'll glue it back on and nobody will notice"

"Hum...I wonder what I could use for glue"

"hey, I bet toothpaste would work...it's sticky"

"yep, Good as new, mom will never notice"

Gemma Stays

These kids crack me up. I love this picture of Gemma because even though she is a girl and may seem so sweet and innocent she is also my sneakiest and conniving child. Yesterday Tanner and Gemma woke up before Mason did and they started playing with some of Mason's toys. When Mason woke up he was very upset because he found that Gemma had broken one of his toys. Now I must say that Mason has been a very good big brother and he is so patient with Tanner and Gemma, but sometimes they push him past his limits. So I have all three kids standing around me and Mason who is crying says mom we have to get rid of Gemma. I want a new baby. A new baby girl. Then Tanner gets this sadder then saddest face and starts to cry tears and says I don't want to get rid of Gemma. SO SWEET! I say Tanner it's ok we are not going to get rid of Gemma. She is staying here. Then Gemma gets upset and says I DON'T WANT TO STAY HERE!! All right lets have a family vote. Does Gemma stay or go. Sorry Gemma. You are stuck with us forever!

8 Years

Happy 8 year anniversary!! I often wonder how I got so lucky. I have the greatest husband that there ever was. He is so patient and kind and loving to me. We have had a lot to deal with since day one and I am so grateful that he has been there for me every step of the way. We have been kind of bummed the past couple of days. About a month ago Rob had a really big order of about 200 pictures that he had to have shipped to a clients house in California. He stayed up late and worked really hard to get it all done. He shipped the pictures 3 weeks ago and they arrived safe and they looked great. The pictures have been hanging on the wall so beautifully arranged. Mind ye this is California so the pictures are stuck to the wall with something called earthquake putty. We hope the pictures come down easily. Rob got a call Friday night saying that some of the pictures are starting to ripple and that he needs to come right away with all his equipment and fix the pictures. All 200 pictures need to be taken apart and put back together and it all has to be done before this Wednesday. I have never seen my husband be so overwhelmed. He rented a cargo van and loaded up all his stuff and arrived safely in California last night. He will be working very hard all day today and tomorrow and will hopefully be home to us by Tuesday. He was able to take his brother Matt with him which we are very grateful for. Thank you Thank you Amy for letting Matt come. You can have whatever picture you want. Rob was so sad to be missing our anniversary and Mason & Tanner's first day of school:( I'm ok with it. We were just going to go out to dinner last night since our anniversary is on Sunday, but now he says we are going on a cruise because he feels so bad for not being here. CRUISE DINNER CRUISE DINNER. Hmmm which one do I want? No really. We'll see. I would probably rather just fix up the house a little bit, and save the cruise for our 10 year. Anyways Rob did say that he wished he could go over to California to see this house. We hear it is crazy big, and in one of Oprah's neighborhoods. Take lots of pictures. I love you Rob!!!!!!! Thanks for being such a hard worker and for providing for our family. Speaking of anniversaries and picture framing . . . . . . . .

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My sweet Mason turned 7 in July. I'm just now getting to it. You have probably already seen pictures of the festivities on other family blogs. They are much faster then me. Let's take a stroll down memory lane. I love this kid so much. He has brought me so much joy. Love ya Mase.

Mason Worth
8lbs 6oz
First grandkid on both sides.
Spoiled rotten

1st Birthday

2nd Birthday

3rd Birthday

4th Birthday

5th Birthday

6th Birthday

Gotta show the cake!

7th Birthday

And the rest of these pictures are just because they make me smile!

Our 4th of July

We decided to take a last minute family vacation, and we had a lot of fun. We flew over to San Diego on Wednesday night. Then we spent Thursday at Legoland and flew back home that night. When we woke up the next morning we drove up to the ranch and spent a couple of days up in the mountains. We are glad that we were able to spend some time together as a family. We haven't been able to do much of that since opening up the store. Here's the pics.

Money well spent.

Didn't want nothin to do with the princess.

We left the kids with this guy so Rob and I could ride the roller coaster.

Mason used to love Star Wars. He's moved on to Pokemon.

Mason hopped right up and posed for the camera.

We got so wet on this ride. Tanner and Gemma were both crying at the end.
The girl helped us off and said did you have fun? Does it look like we had fun? Duh.

I think this was the only ride we could all sit together.

Our 65$ lunch and they ran out of toys for the kids meal. They told Rob uh you can
have an apple or banana since we ran out of toys. Ya the kids loved that.

Family pic. at the deer farm.

She was not very happy about this.

So sweet!

Mason taking the little kids on a ride.

We really aren't the farming type.

Tanner really didn't enjoy feeding the dear.

He liked this much better. Thanks Grandpa!

Grandma playing with the kids on the cinder pit.

Rob still thinking about paying 65$ for grilled cheese sandwiches. Oh well. Like I said we had
a lot of fun, and it's always a plus when nobody throws up all over themselves.