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 :)

Our Funny Call Family Reunion 2009

Halloween Anticipation

Halloween is going to be so funny this year! I am really excited. Jaxson has decided that he is going to be a "ghost with a bone through his head" funny! Dave and I both tried for the last two months to convince him to be something (anything) else but he's very determined, so I can't wait to see his costume on him. . . it's going to be hilarious! Eva is going to be Snow White. Poor Eva- my mom has tons of costumes in her play room so I told her she had to pick one of them to be this year- or she could wear one of last years dance costumes (because she has like 20). I couldn't rationalize spending MORE money on costumes. Poor picked on EVA. She'll get over it lol :) So anyway she picked Snow White because my mom has matching red sparkly shoes so that's super fun. haha she's silly. Promptly after picking her costume she let me know that this year I need to dress up ( I haven't for a few years) and that I GET to be the wicked step mother from Snow White. funny. So yes I will be dressd as the wicked step mother from Snow White ("the ugly one with the apple" according to Eva) Isn't that nice? I think so too. I'm excited I got a plastic Wart nose at the store-- Jax picked it out. It's very fitting. We've been sick for nearly 6 weeks now so I'm a little "witch-like" I suppose. Haha j/k, but I AM SO TIRED OF SICKNESS, Sick kids are the worst, well maybe just when you're the sick mommy. Moving on. . . I got off on a tangent there but anyways, Halloween will be awesome. Carter is going to be a firefighter (I found a stinking cute outfit at a garage sale this summer!) Dave is going to be a NERD. Literally. He's not gonna dress up so Jax and I got him some "coke bottle" glasses to accentuate it. So silly wilsons! Well I can't wait its gonna be fun and hopefully I'll get some pic's posted before Christmas, but no promises.

BUSY!

WE have been Crazy crazy busy and yet we are happy. Life is great, we are very blessed. Here are some more fun pics of our crazy life, oh and yes someday I will

be a good (better) blogger :)

WE are GREAT

WE are doing so great. I am so happy to say we have been very busy but more importantly very blessed. we've had a wonderful summer. we love you all and hope to update this more soon. :)

Random silliness

Today was a funny day. . . tons of rain and cloudy skies all morning, nice and sunny for an hour at lunch, then more rain and then nice and sunny for 2 hours around dinner. CRAZY! I am so ready to be done with all the rain and cold but at least we are getting an hour or two here and there if it must rain and be cold!

We are getting sod this weekend for our back yard and Dave is done with FINALS tomorrow around 10 am! I can't wait--- poor guy thinks he's gonna get a break because schools out but I have tons for him to do! I've been a single mom long enough haha.

The kids are almost done earning their FORT, which is probably as much for me as it is for the kids! I think I am more excited than they are because it means I just might get a break now and then. (HOORAY!) Not that I mind being the main jungle gym the majority of the time haha.j/k

Jax had lots of energy yesterday night before we went to my sister's choir concert so I dropped him off on a side street and drove beside him as he ran. I told him any time he felt like he wanted to be done he could get in the car. . . the boy is like the energizer bunny! He ran 9 city blocks! ---all without stopping and he probably would have kept going but the side street turened into a main street so I made him get in the car. I was amazed. Maybe I just need to take up running again and I'd have myself a partner.

Eva is silly she changes at least 11 times a day and that includes at least two different swimsuits/leotards each day. She's all girl and I love it!

Sharkey is funnier everyday. Last night at the concert my brother Nathan yelled "nice shoes!" to my sister Krista (because she was wearing converse low tops with her fancy choir robe) and she was getting ready for a solo and Carter yelled right after Nate. "nice shoes!" in just the same manner as nathan had. Krista about messed up her solo because she was laughing so hard. It was pretty funny. (oops, sorry Kris?!) What a silly boy! We sure have loved having him as part of our family.

Well That's the randomness of the week thus far. . . until next time. . .

oops

So I found that cute stick figure site and made our family and for some reason it only did the first four so I had to go back and post the "more Wilsons" hahah. Sorry Sharks! I guess I should have posted it to the sidebar or as a gadget or something. whatever. it's all good.

Stick Figure Family

Make your Stick Figure Family at FreeFlashToys.com

Stick Figure Family

Make your Stick Figure Family at FreeFlashToys.com

Sharkey the MIDGET

So we had an appointment for Sharks on tuesday (just a regular checkup) and apparently he's a midget. haha not literally but he's on the fifth percentile for height and weight for his age. When I said I wanted to keep my baby small forever I didn't mean for him to actually stop growing but whatever. :) he's healthy and happy and small. Dave started calling him "willow" Terrible huh? that's what I thought and so then he named off a bunch of other names of midgets in that show like Me-gosh and dinkelpump or something I can't remember them all, and he was like " do YOU prefer one of those?" What a tease! Anyways these pics are from the other day it was really cold and snowy so we played shaving cream on the table and carter played total shaving cream body butter! it was really fun and helped get out some of those antsy cabin fevers!

We ARE still alive!

Every now and again I have to publish a we're still here post, seeing as how I' such a stellar blogger. haha. This year is flying by for me! I just finished all that tax stuff to wrap up 2008 for the office and we're half way through 2009 already! I feel like it should still be January! Sheesh. NOt only that. . . my babies aren't BABIES! they're huge! Jaxson's kindergarten teacher( is the most wonderful teacher in the whole world) told me last week that he's doing so good at reading and math and stuff and I was like oh good. . . yeah he's a smart kid, ( you know all the typical mother stuff to a nice teacher who tells everyone they're kid is great). . . and she grabbed me aside and was telling me that she didn't think I understood, he's reading at a level 26! Well then she said do you realize that for kids to pass 2nd grade and go into the 3rd grade they have to be reading at least a level 25?! Yikes! I had no Idea. He really is doing great! I guess I forget sometimes that he is ONLY 6 and ONLY in kindergarten, all I really remember about kindergarten is playing "house" and coloring so, yeah that really is good he's reading 130 page chapter books. funny the things you forget.

Eva's doing great too. She has one last dance competition before the spring recital, it's in two weeks right after her birthday and then she'll be done until june, she's loved dancing and her company is doing good they got 3rd at the last competition and won ribbons and ballet bags and matching water bottles and stuff it was cute she was pretty happy about it. It's good for her to be around girls sometimes seeing as how our house is all full of boys! She is soooo girly she thrives on the whole get pretty time and special attention!

Sharkey Carter is a doll. He's walking and talking and full of fun! He's funnier everyday. he keeps us all laughing. He's busy too but not the busy make you crazy can't keep up like his sweet brother, rather busy making us laugh and doing funny things even (especially) when he thinks no one is watching. For instance lately he's decided he loves hats, so the other day he put one of jaxson's hats on and pulled it over his face and was walking around bumping into walls and doorsa nd furniture and just laughing. Everytime the hat would fall off because he'd bumped into something and fallen down he'd just come over and ask me to put it back on and he'd promptly pull it back over his face and go walking into things laughing all the while! I wished my video was charged I tried to get it on film because we were all laughing and it was dead but as soon as he realized we were all watching him he got embarrassed and shy. it was darling what a sweet darling little family we have!

so that's an update on these silly wilsons for now :)

Dancing Queen!

Evy's FIRST (of many I'm sure) Dance recital was saturday night! it was darling. . . they were little diva's dancing to song like staying alive and YMCA etc. . . it was sooo fun! Daddy and the boys didn't get to go because they were sick with the flu so that was sad but mommy and mommer's and papa and Krista (my parents and sister) were there so that was really fun. IF I knew how to load up videos on here I would because it was way too funny! She loved it and Dave bought her a rose for after the recital and that was her favorite part of all I think. It made her feel sooo special. It's hard to be the only girl with all these very boyish boys around. She's pretty patient and plays boy games/toys alot. . . she gets mommy and carter to play dollys and ponies when Jax is at school though :) (Dave's a little nervous for Carter actually because lately his favorite thing to carry around are purses and those stacking rings which he wears as bracelets!) ahahaha One thing we did learn is that I am a terrible videotaper! For some reason I can't watch and tape at the same time. I brought home the video for dave and the boys were asleep so I plugged it in and he was so sick already that he couldn't watch it because he was naseous. oops.That's ok I've wanted him to be the video-er for a long time and now he probabaly will. . . hahah my evil plan is working! j/k

Yuck! Yuck! and Yuck!

So for some reason the "after" pictures posted before the "before" pictures so scroll down to see how disgusting everything looked before to truly appreciate these pictures of how they looked after being cleaned.

1.disgusting vent!

2.Dirty cold air return filled with old beer cans, sander belt, random other crap

3. the furnace blower filled with dirt grime garbage and newspapers fom 1958! That's right SICK!

4. Furnace Blower motor case! No wonder our heat bill is so expensive and our house still feels cold all the time!

5. This is the most horrifying of them all! This the furnace blower, yep it's dirty but 2 dead MICE! Are you kidding me?!?!?! How long have those been there?! I almost threw up all day just thinking about it! And that my friends is why everyone should have their ducts/ heaters cleaned.

My Aunt is a clean freak so she has this huge immaculate house and she has all sorts of allergies and stuff so she's up on all these cleaning things, anyways she convinced my grandpa ( who is the second cleanest house person I know, my aunt being the first) to have his ductwork cleaned. The Duct guy got all sorts of gross stuff out of Papa's house which is--- and always has been sooooo clean! I thought if they got that much crap out of their houses which are basically spotless and stuff we should probably have ours done just to be safe. So we had our duct work cleaned this last week and I've never been so disgusted in my life! All this time we thought our allergies had been worse since we movede back to Poky- just because of Poky. . . but now we know it was because our duct work/ furnace was horribly filthy! The pictures say it all, yet I'm somewhat hesitant to post them because of how gross they are. I swear our house is clean. . .(most of the time)I'd have had the duct work cleaned years ago if I'd known about it.