The Professor

Well I took Triston to the eye Doctor and he had to get some glasses. We went to Wal-mart and he picked out a pair of glasses that look like Harry Potter glasses (of course they were the most expensive ones). The glasses are flex frames so he can bend them and it won't hurt them. He is very excited because he gets to be in the same cool club that his daddy is in. Here are a couple of pictures of him in his really cool glasses.

By the way the title of this post comes from a nickname that Triston's gym teacher called him last year, he was always the professor. She retired and Triston sure misses her.

All Done

Okay so I can finally get a good night's sleep because I will no longer have to be up all night reading. I finally finished the Twilight Saga and I have to say I really like how it ended. I have even talked my husband into going to the movie with me. I'm sure he is glad that I am done with the books because that has been all I have talked about for the last week. Now he knows what it feels like when all he does is talk about D&D. So now I am at a loss as to what to read, I will probably reread the Saga slower so that I can pick up on any little things I may have missed the first time through. I am planning on reading Midnight Sun tomorrow at work. If anyone is wondering where to get it, it is at www.stepheniemeyer.com I have to work tomorrow and that will give me something to do. Well that's all for now, I'm off to bed.

My Hero

Okay so the Marine Corps Birthday is on Monday and we had the ball on Thursday. I didn't go but Ian did, he was part of the Iwo Jima statue that they had for the ceremony...I told some people to take pictures of it but I don't know if I will get any...if I do I will post them. I did however get some of Ian in his dress blues...he is so handsome. I love they way he looks in his uniform it makes me so proud of him!!!!

New Moon

Okay so I'm on to New Moon and so far I'm pretty sad, I had to read with a box of Kleenex last night... I am cleaning house right now but I can't wait to be done so I can go back to reading!

Twilight

Okay so I got the book this afternoon and I am already on chapter 4 after like an hour of reading. At this rate I will be done by tomorrow night, as long as we aren't busy at work. So far I really like it.

3 posts in 1 day, boy am I bored

Okay I am pretty excited, because I ordered the book Twilight last night. I have heard wonderful reviews about it and had been looking for it in hardcover (because I prefer my books that way) but could never find it. Well I went to the authors website and to amazon from there. I got the book for tons cheaper than I had seen in paper back anywhere else. It's suppose to arrive on the 7th but I generally get things just a couple days after I order them. I will let you all know what I think once I read the book.

HALLOWEEN

So Halloween came around this year and we went trick-or-treating with my boss, his wife and there son. The kids had a blast, they were Superman (Keegan) and Capt. Jack Sparrow (Triston). Keegan's costume consisted of pajama's and a cape. Triston's costume was the real deal that came from the Disney Store, but we got it in February when it was on clearance so it only cost $12 total...what a steal!!! I put the mustache and goatee on Triston with eye-liner and when my nephew saw a picture of Triston dressed up he said "Mom he really has a mustache!"

Keegan was so funny this year. He was scared of all the decorations that people had up. There was one house that had the hand in the bowl thing that when you go to get the candy out the hand moves, well Keegan went up to this stuck his hand in to get the candy and then when it moved took off running. I don't think I've seen him run so fast. He never cried at anything he just ran away. We also painted pumpkins this year and I think I have a couple of artists in my house. I hope everyone had as much fun on Halloween as we did.

It's My Party And I'll Cry If I Want To!

Keegan's birthday party was pretty fun. He had a very cool cake that my boss designed for him. He got some pretty awesome presents, and in typical Keegan fashion, he threw a fit. We did his party at the park again this year which I happen to think is a great idea...it's free and the kids get to run off there energy. Since he is such a BIG fan of Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and of balloons, we got him some very cool Mickey Mouse Balloons (I think that was his favorite thing). It was a little windy though so we had to tie the balloons down and then half way threw the party we just ended up taking them inside. All in all it was a great day, but I'm glad it's over. Now we have to get ready for Triston's party and then Christmas...fun, fun. (Sorry about the pictures and the writing being off a little, for some reason blogger won't let me put them where I want them)

I have pictures to share

While we were back home my sister took some wonderful pictures of the kids. Well with the exception of Keegan who threw a fit the entire time. She did get some pretty funny ones of him doing so though!

My Baby is 3

Okay so for those of you who don't know Keegan turned 3 on Oct. 3rd. I can't believe how big he is getting. I was very sick over his birthday so we are having his party on Saturday. I will take pictures of it and put them on here, I promise. I was talking to Keegan today and I asked him how old he was and he said 3, I then asked him how old mommy was and he said 4, so then I got to daddy and he told me his daddy is 14. I'm a little puzzled by this one because I am older than Ian, but oh well. By the way according to Keegan Triston is also 4. I thought that was pretty cute.

Keegan when he was born.

Keegan at 3

I got a job, yay!

okay so a couple of weeks ago I had been looking for a job and not having any luck. I was just getting ready to fill out an application for McDonald's when Ian said he needed to go get his haircut. I of course decided to go with him so I could get out of the house (he was not happy about this). I told him that while he was getting his haircut I would walk around the MCX or marine corps exchange for all you non military folks. We walked in the front door (which was strange cause we usually go in the side) and I saw a sign that the Sempertoons store was now open upstairs. I took Keegan with me and Ian and Triston went and got there haircut. The owners (the artist and his wife) were in the Sempertoons store and we got to chatting. After about fifteen minutes of talking I asked if they were hiring and they said yes. I didn't even have to fill out an application they hired me on the spot. I am working part-time, 8 hrs a day 4 days every two weeks and I LOVE IT. My bosses are super cool and it's a really fun atmosphere to work in. Plus I have the opportunity to advance if they can open more stores on other bases which is what they are trying to do. They have a website http://www.sempertoons.com/ go there and check it out. Everything is customizable. I will have some pictures of some of the things he is doing for my kids on here when I get them. If you see something on there that you like just let me know and I can get it ordered for ya.

KITTENS, KITTENS, KITTENS

Okay so I haven't posted in quite awhile so since I have the boys in bed I figured why not now.

Ian has barracks duty tonight which I so don't understand, they have enough guy's that live in the barracks to cover a months worth of duty, but no they make the married guy's that live in housing or even off base do it too. UGH!!! So I have been alone with the kiddos all day and it has been extremely HOT so we stayed in our p.j's and watched T.V. most of the day. I also did some spelling/vocabulary with Triston. He now knows how to spell 10 words that he didn't know at the beginning of the week. I was trying to do a review with him while I was giving the boy's a bath and he said "Mom, I don't need to do homework in the bathtub!!" I guess he's right since they aren't even doing the words in class yet, I just want him to be a little ahead instead of behind.

On another note we have been swarmed with kittens, (poor hubby) literaly. The first one was when I was out walking one night about 2 1/2 weeks ago with my neighbor, her dog scared a cat away across the main street by our house. We saw a kitten there but figured that we should leave it alone because the momma would probably come back. Well I went home and told Ian about it and about 30 minutes later the two of us went over to where they were. It was still light enough to see so we looked around for a bit and then we heard the tiniest little mew. The kitten was still alone and right by a gas building hiding in some bushes. With a little coaxing we got the kitten to come out from the bushes. She looked like she was 5-6 weeks old and she was really close to the road so we decided to keep her. We brought her home and she has been a wonderful addition to our family. When we first brought her home we thought she was a he (we are still not 100% sure on this one) so her name is Aslan.

So that takes care of kitten number 1...

About a week later on a Wednesday, I got up and was getting the kids ready to take Triston to school. Our two older cats (Koda and Bear) were by the back door looking out the window. I figured there was a stray cat out side because there almost always is, but I looked out there anyway. Up on top of our retaining wall right next to a box was 2 kittens that didn't look much older than Aslan. I figured that I would just keep going on about my day and that the mom would come back to them. Well by noon there had been no sight of mom and it was getting VERY HOT and I was pretty sure they were hungry. My next door neighbors were in there back yard so I enlisted them to help. What I thought was 2 kittens was actually 4. We got them, and brought them inside only to discover that they were COVERED in ticks, like hundreds of little deer ticks. So my neighbors being as nice as they are helped me give them all baths in flea & tick shampoo, in my downstairs bathroom sink. In a room that is 5ft x 5ft we had 4 adults and 4 kittens, oh what a sight.

So now I had 4 kittens that I needed to figure out what to do with. I called shelters and since it's kitten season everywhere was full. When my hubby got home he couldn't breathe, so my neighbor's up the street kept them over night and I had to have them gone the next day. Well I took them in to the humane society and one of the first thing's out of the woman's mouth was that they were going to be euthanized. So I took them back home with me. My neighbor's agreed to keep them for a week so that I could find homes or no kill shelters for them. One of my other neighbor's heard about this and she decided to take 2 of them. I put the other 2 on craigslist and hoped that somebody would be interested. I got three e-mails the next morning but they never followed through. so I put another posting up and got an e-mail back from a lady that was very interested, she came out to see them (4 days later) but decided to adopt one from a shelter. Then I posted another post in a last hope and got a response from a lady that lived up in D.C. but didn't have a car. We made arrangement's to go up there on Saturday and she adopted both of them. I am very glad that they all found good homes, but I could go for quite awhile without seeing another kitten (except Aslan of course).

Well that's all I'm going to write about now because I think this is long enough....

Road Trip

Okay so I'm in Nebraska and I am actually nearing the end of my trip here. I don't know why I haven't posted about this yet but now is as good a time as any. Our trip out here wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be. We only seriously thought about tying Triston to the roof of the car once ( we would have put goggles and a helmet on him) which is saying a lot. He didn't stop talking, for four days the kid didn't stop talking. I got a D.V.D. player for the car right before the trip and I didn't let them see any of their movies for three months before we left. It worked pretty well at keeping the kids entertained but Triston complained about it a lot... it was to light, it was to dark, he couldn't hear it. We had a bunch of other things for them to do as well. Keegan was great in the car, when we got out however he was two. He threw temper tantrums, he ran away from me, basically he was a brat. Triston was just the opposite, he was a brat in the car but but he was very good when we got out. It took us four days to get to Nebraska but we didn't really hurry and we took a detour to my sisters house in MO. I have more to post with some more pictures but I will have to do it when I can use my own computer.

Here are two candid pics from our trip....


We got mid roll while he was rolling his eyes.


I don't remember what he was looking at, but it's
a great face.

For my love

Okay so I just read a post on my sister-in-laws blog and she put down a bunch of things that she loves about her hubby, so I am borrowing the idea. We have been married for four years and I thought it would be nice to say some of the things that I love about him...

I love the nickname he has for me.
I love how even though he has black hair he still has blond moments.
I love how he can make me smile even when I'm having a terrible day.
I love how ticklish he is.
I love that I can beat him in Tetris.
I love the look I get when he finds out I used his razor.
I love how he carries me up to bed when I'm really tired.
I love that he reads to me at night.
I love that he doesn't gripe when I ask him to help me clean.
I love the way that he always lets me get my food first.
I love the way he rubs his feet together at night.
I love how proud I am of him.
I love the excited sound in my kids voices when daddy comes home.
I love that we dance in the living room.
I love the little inside jokes we have.
I love how he tries to let me sleep in.
I love the way he takes care of me when I'm sick.
I love the way he always tells me how beautiful I am.
I love the way he comes up behind me and wraps his arms around me.
I love that he always tells me he loves me when we get off the phone.
I love that he puts up with me.
I love it when he draws me a bath.
I love the way he pouts when he's mad.
I love the relationship he has with my mom.
I love the way he looks in his uniform.
I love how nervous he was when Keegan was born.
I love his smile.
I love his dimples.
I love how proud he is of Triston wrestling.
I love that when we are watching t.v. he rubs my feet.
I love how short he is.
I love the way we can just hang out at home.
I love that we can be stupid together.
I love that we miss each other when were apart.
I love how he sounds Australian when he is trying to do his British accent.
But mostly, I love the way he loves me!

Our little wrestler

Okay I know wrestling season has been over for quite a while but I also know that most of you didn't get to see Triston's wrestling pictures. He loved wrestling but he struggled so much, the poor guy didn't win one match. He never let it get him down though and he had great teammates that never made him feel bad about not winning. He actually got complemented by another team's coach for being such a good sport. He went out there and tried his best and was only pinned a few times all season. He went all three minutes in most of his matches and was only beat by points. He was also almost always the littlest kid out there. After the season was over he got a very cool trophy and five ribbons. He was also the only one in his weight class (about 20 kids) to get the sportsmanship medal. We are so proud of him and can't wait till wrestling season starts this fall.


Triston in his singlet (the BULLDOG'S)


Practicing with Daddy


Doing a sprawl (he worked so hard on these)


His wrestling picture


His sportsmanship medal.

He's such a goof

I have been trying for a very long time to get a good picture of Keegan. He almost always has a dirty face. When his face is clean and I try to take a picture of him he looks away. He likes to look at the pictures on the camera so I told him if he wanted to look he needed to let me take his picture first. This is what I got.


The camera's over here, Keegan.


He's just like his dad.


He's being crabby.


This is his tongue.


Finally a good picture!

UN-HAPPY 4th of JULY

For the fourth of July we went to Lunga park to watch fireworks. They have tons of cool things for the kiddos to do, those big inflatable slides, a water maze, a rock wall, not to mention the playground that they have. They also have a live band and all sorts of food. We went last year and had a blast.

We got there around 4 and Ian saw one of his co-workers so we chatted with him for a bit while we were waiting for our neighbors to get there. Once they arrived we found a nice spot on the hill laid out our blankets and watched the kids play on the playground. Lindsay and I went for a little walk and let the guy's watch the kids. Once we got back to the blankets Ian took Keegan for a walk and the rest of us ate.

As we were sitting there we noticed off to the left of us that it was getting pretty dark and then we saw some lightening and a little bit later heard some thunder. We just sat there watching it hoping it would go around us....no such luck. We looked over the lake and about 100 yards from us you could see the rain and then before we knew it, it was POURING down on us. We threw our stuff in the bag (Ian was back with Keegan) grabbed the blankets and took off toward our cars. Triston was holding on to his sandwich for dear life.

Now being that it is July and it is pretty hot out that rain was FREEZING. We decided that we weren't going to make it to the car so we took shelter under one of the tents. It just so happens that this was the military police tent and standing about 3 feet from us was the biggest German Shepard I've ever seen. Ian got to talking to the dogs handler and found out that the dog is not very friendly and will bite people just for being close to him (note to self: don't do anything stupid on this base). Needless to say I started moving my kids away from the dog and Ian stayed and talked to the guy. He found out that the dog weighed 126 lbs (see I told you he was big) and that they usually work for about ten years. Ian asked what happens to the dogs once they retire and the handler said that they use to euthanize them but now they will let the handlers have first choice to adopt them. If the handler doesn't want to adopt them they will be open for adoption to the military and then to the general public. I thought that was pretty interesting (see you can learn stuff by reading my blog).

The rain didn't seem to be getting any lighter and we were all wet and cold so Ian went and got the car (he can be such a gentleman). We got the kids into the car turned the heat on and went home. Triston was very concerned that daddy couldn't see anything, but most of all he was worried that he wasn't going to get anything else to eat. He was sitting in his car seat clutching onto his very soggy sandwich. We got home, got into dry pj's, ate supper and watched the thunderstorm instead of watching fireworks. The kids were pretty bummed but I recorded the macy's 4th of July show and they watched it this morning.

I'm just glad that the power didn't go out ;-)

Fruit Loops on the floor

Wow it's been pretty busy around here lately. We've had some really crazy weather. When I went to pick up Triston on one of his last days of kindergarten, the school got put on lock-down because of tornado warnings. We had a tornado touch down 3 miles south of us. Then the next night we had a really amazing lightening storm. Ian and I sat out in our backyard and watched it until Triston called us in because he was scared.

Ian has been home for the past week on leave and we actually haven't drove each other crazy yet. We spent two days spring cleaning and I was surprised to find fruit loops on my floor in some very odd places. I think Keegan hides them in his cheeks and then takes them out to put in a hiding place for later. I also think he forgets about this which would explain the fruit loops in odd places. Some of his favorite places are under couches, under his dresser, inside a toy, and (my favorite) in a shoe. I'm amazed we don't have ants.

Today we are going to The Smithsonian for the first time. I'm excited to go but the Museum of American History (the one I really wanted to see) is closed until fall. We are going to the Natural History Museum and the Air and Space Museum. I hope the kids like it. I will let you know how it goes....

Camping

The boy's chasing the geese!


Keegan in the canoe


The big boys from the canoe


Keegan getting ready to roast his graham cracker.

We went camping for one night with our neighbor's and there son. It was so much fun, the kids had a blast. We rented a canoe and took turns taking all the kiddos out on the lake. When the big boy's went out they came back with a beach ball and a goose feather. The big boys also went on a hike in the woods and found some walking sticks.


We roasted hot dogs for supper and had smores for dessert. This was the first time my kids had smores and they LOVED them. The big boys roasted there own marshmallows although they didn't really get close enough to even start to turn there marshmallows brown. Keegan saw all this and decided he wanted to roast something so he got a hold of a graham cracker, stuck it on the stick and tried to roast it. The kids also saw a bunch of geese and gosling's which they all decided to chase. We came home covered in dirt and exhausted but we had fun. We are planning to go again this summer at a different place. I will let everyone know how it turns out.

My first blog

Okay so apparently I'm a little late in discovering this blog thing but I figure what the heck sometimes I have something to say. Actually I have a lot to say most of the time but that's a lot of typing and I have been sitting here for a while already trying to get this thing set up.

May has been a busy month, first we had tons of black outs. We were losing power every weekend and it stayed out for a LONG time. We actually got put up in a hotel because they couldn't fix the problem and we had to go for three days with no hot water, a/c, no microwave, no dryer, and pretty much everything else one needs to get by this day in age. We had lights sometimes but they were very low, so it was like having candlelight. It was so bad that school got canceled, and believe me it's no fun having a six year old and a two year old home when you have no power and it's between 85 and 90 degree's outside.

Next was mother's day and my hubby did pretty good, well not really, he did good for our anniversary but that was in March. I don't think he actually did anything for mother's day. After that it was my birthday and Triston was so excited. He kept counting down the day's until "we could eat cake." See he could care less whose birthday it is so long as he gets to eat cake. He did make me some very nice things at school for mother's day and my birthday though.

Over Memorial weekend we went camping with our neighbors but I'll write more about that when I have my pictures to post on here with it.

Anyways that's all I have to say right now so until next time....