BASEMENT!

Our Basement is so SCARY! totally unfinished and full of spiders and other buglike invaders, I've never liked it ( and the kids are afraid to go down there). Well we have been cleaning it tons and working really hard to save some money so that we could attempt to de-gross it, and finally it is happening! It is all framed now and our good friend redid the plumbing and electrical! I am soooo excited to have a "pretty/clean" Laundry room ( I might actually Iron for once lol). Well last night I finished the insulation in the soon to be family/play room last night and now Dave just has to do the Drywall and we're ready for Carpet! Hooray hooray. Well I took some before and afters and will post them when I get them on this computer but it's a pretty striking contrast! to those who hasven't seen it--- it's very funny itt has very thick cement walls through out it and a series of "alice in wonderland doors" ( each door you walk through is about 6 inches shorter than the one before. It's kindof looks like it was made for a hobbit. Alas soon it will all be clean and done, what a very happy thing!

TAXES! TAXES! TAXES!

January is TAX season for me at the Office. I am responsible to file all the annual state and Federal, business/ payroll reports, Property taxes, as well as the W-2's and W-9's and 1099's (forms). Needless to say there is a lot of paperwork, filing, numbercrunching and just overall headache involved in January! Well I am very human and tend to procrastinate everything until later in the month because I dread it. ( If I start the fifteenth I can usually finish by 31st due date) Anyways, now that everyone is asleep, I have GREAT news. I'm Finished! Hooray, Hooray, Hooray! I'm super Psyched to be done and sooo early. I think this is the smoothest January has every gone and it's extra nice because now the last three days wont be the usual Nightmare and I may avoid my annual migraine. What a happy thought!

Christmas Eve-Eve

It;s Christmas eve-eve and the kids couldn't be more excited! Everyday the anticipation grows and grows! I can't wait! Tonight we took our sweet old neighbor Farrell to dinner at Applebee's, He's such a good neighbor! We love him. I'm glad we have been blessed to live by him. I hope in some small way we've been able to bless his life as much as he's blessed ours.

ALMOST CHRISTMAS!

I can't wait for Christmas this year! We have been so blessed and the kids are really beginning to be able to comprehend and enjoy the true meaning of it all. They are so sweet and everyday we are trying to do an act of service and then report on it at bedtime. It's cute. They are really trying to think harder about others and about Jesus. Their little prayers are my very favorite. I love these sweet little babies and am so glad they are ours!

Happy Birthday Carter!

Happy baby sharkey carter is growing up! It makes cry when I talk about my baby being so big. His birthday was complete with A "die-saur" Cake a CAT hat and dump truck and lots of imaginext dinosaurs. What a funny kid. We are so happy he's ours!

SHARKEY'S 2!

Thanksgiving was fun and a little stressful. We Went up to the cabin in Island Park, but it was our year to spend the holiday with Dave's family, so we spent most of our time at ther cabin which was really fun. I learned to play 'ticket-to-ride' and even won once! The thing that made the weekend insane (for me at least) was that we left Jax and Eva with Grandma and Grampa Wilson while Dave,Sharkey and I went to my parents cabin to unload the truck. Well. . . master Jaxson told Grandma that he had "seen' Jurassic Park 3 the movie before- of course meaning he had 'seen the cover' at my parents house. Well, Gramma being the nice thing that she is let them watch it. Yep MY 6 yr old and 4yr old! Crazy! So she felt really bad when they were all curled up in her lap in tears because they were scared. So needless to say that night no one slept much. I sang primary songs pretty much all night long to my trembling sleepy little dino-phobic babies. It was sooooo sad. They would fall asleep for about 15 minutes or so and the wake up screaming about scary dinosaurs. Bless her little heart. It was so fun and I was really happy the next day ( which was the actual thanksgiving day) :( k, maybe not so happy. I was a wreck, exhausted short tempered and soooooo very greatfull to go home that night and cut the trip short.

The absolute highlight of the trip was our little fishing excursion to Macks Inn. They were catching fish on every cast! It was great Eva even caught some and touched the a worm. Carter played in the snow and screamed and ran everytime we showed him a fish ( he must get that from me). It was funny. We had a really great time.

Halloween!

fun fun fun! We had such fun! I love halloween I was a witch and my sister did my makeup and gave me a wart and I looked really scary! Jaxson was "a Ghost with a Bone through his head" that was his idea from the beginning and I was skeptical (but it turned out great!). Eva was the Beautiful Snow White (of course) and Carter was our trusty Fireman ( so cute!). What a funny day. It was really fun. THere ware pics with our fun sister in law Jen carving Pumpkins and some with the kids at Farrells too. They Love him so much!

BLAHHH

That is how I feel Today. Lots to do and no motivation. Six kids running rampant, cold weather so nobody wants to stay outside very long and lots of housework and year end office stuff to do. Where's my magic wand? Sometimes I wish I could wiggle my nose like on bewitched and be one with it all :)