We Are ALIVE

Yes it's been a while and yes it's been crazy! January is tax season for me which means lots of projects, bills, reports and of course taxes and tax forms. yuck. It's almost over and hopefully I'll have done it right but at least it will be over!

Jaxson is reading on a first grade level and knows over 100 sight words. . . which is really awesome because at the first of school he had like ten. He loves school and is doing great!

Eva is spoiled rotten!!! She was able to sweet talk her daddy into getting her a purebred baby chihuahua (spell?) while I was Skiing with my Brother and Sister for two days in Montana. Yikes! I was very unhappy about the whole ordeal. . . but they'd already bonded and named the wretched animal so what could I do. . .I mean really? Yeah so we have a hideous little furry eared rat dog which eva loves and named Princess Sophia. The dog has a darling disposition though is basically house trained and really grows on you. I think she's darling now but I was sure disgusted the first time I saw it! UGH! just what we needed an animal. Dave, bless his heart knew that I would be upset so he's been really great about cleaning up and dealing with the dog so I don;t have to. I'm just glad she's tiny. She weighs just about one pound (soaking wet):) and supposedly she'll only grow a bit more so that's good.

Carter is doing good. . .getting so grown up all the time. . .he's simply adorable too! What a little sweetheart. On friday I took the kids to get pictures taken in their matching clothes they got from my mom for Christmas and Poor baby Sharkey was so sad and I couldn't figure out why-- he never cries-- then dave was like what did he do to his hand? And I looked at it and it was horribly blistered from a burn! Ouchie! Yep he had reached for the iron when we were getting the kids ready and I grabbed it away and thought I had saved him because he didn't cry or anything. . . but by the time we got to the pictures it was all swollen awful. . . it made my stomach sick for him. I was so sad and felt awful. . . so needless to say we only got the one picture we took first of him screaming and left right away to get him some tylenol and ice. It looks awful still. . . the blister was huge and he popped it somehow so now it's all black and oozey looking. sick. poor poor sweet baby! I'll have to get a picture of his little hand it's just terrible looking. But he hasn't acted like it's even bothered him. . . except at pictures, and mostly he just didn't want to be put in front of the camera.

funny kids

these kids are so silly! we decorated for christmas the other day and had just a blast. It was great. THe kids are so into the whole santa thing right now they are just loving it (and so are we in return) in this picture Carter was really ready for bed but I couldn't let him go without getting at least one pic so yes, we tortured him- we made him wear a stocking for a hat and held him for a picture. oops mommy's mean. Oh well it's history in the making :)The funny thing is that that hat he's wearing is the same hat he was in for the pictures last year. it's amazing the difference a year can make!Last year his whole body fit in it just fine and this year only his head. (they grow too fast!)

bah hum bug!

today was one of those days when somethings in the air making all the kids and everything CRAZY! I sooooo wanted to throw something or someone threw a wall! But alas it is nearly over and finals are next week so then dave will be around and I won't have to be a widow/single mom any more and hopefully I'll be able to run away somewhere ( at least for a night and just be a person by myself for a while!)
I hate days like this where I lose my cool at the kids, somedays I wonder WHY WHY WHY???? it's not that hard just do it please, stop hitting/hurting/teasing etc. It is so funny how it all builds up and lack of sleep never helps. Someday I will sleep through the night again and that might really be fun. . .don't really remember that. . . as far as I'm concerned sleep's over-rated and apparently I'm doing ok thus far. . .or am I? Maybe that's part of the problem. :) I know a huge part of my problem is that our house is still not finished and I am in it 24/7 and can't do a thing about it because I either don't have the $ or the know how to do it myself. I can't wait for Dave to be done with school and to NEVER EVER EVER have to live in a fixer-upper, unfinished house again. I never thought I could hate something that I actually love and am thankful for. . . but I really hate "projects" these days. I think alot of my pentup frustration is that Dave is gone from 7:30am until 10 or 11 pm and I am hereall day with the kids alone. . . and it's freezing outside so we stay inside alot and we are quickly outgrowing the "finished" portion of our house. I can't wait to get the basement less scary so we can play down there!
What a lovely rant session?!?! sheesh kind of a complainer . . . I guess I would probably vent all these things to dave usually but he can't listen to all this right now he's got to stay focused and it's just a bad day anyway everythig is typically fine, we are very blessed!

Yikes!

Yikes is right am I a bad blogger or what?!?! Yeah so lots has happened in the last six months and its been great. Sharkey's one and walking, jax is in kindergarten and eva is growing out the bangs I never wanted to cut in the first place as well as loving Farrell and dance class. Dave is one semester closer to dental school and I am six months farther behind in life. ahaha hopefully not really although somedays I wonder.

Evy's 3!

my mom made this adorable doll/princess cake and Eva loved it thought it was soooo beautiful!She thought it was sooo beautiful in fact we couldn't eat it. we ate the cupcakes that were all around the base. funny.( we did end up eating it the next day which was traumatic.) She got some makeup and hair accessories as well as a baby and PINK stroller. (everything was pink of course :)She had a fun day and got to waer the birthday dress she picked out herself so that was a special treat.

T-Ball and Trophies

Jax played his second season of t-ball this spring and it was really fun this year. He had a great coach and good buddies in his team. The team had their pizza party/ awards ceremony at Outer limits fun zone and Jax got the most home run award and a neat trophy with the teams pictures. The other kids all had tons of fun and we had lots of left over pizza because they were so busy playing!

a Two-wheeler and a dancing queen

Jax learned to ride a two wheeler in April and he was mighty proud of himself! (we've walked/rode everywhere and have already replaced three flat tires! our neighborhood apparently has large amounts of goatheads - but daddy got OOZE filled intertubes now so we should be good:)) He learned to ride with Dave's help in all of five minutes. It was really cute to see how proud Dave was of him! He fell and skinned his knee pretty good but he didn't even cry he just got back on and kept going. All the time he was learning Eva was prancing around in her tinkerbell swimming suit from Mommers and talking on her "cell" phone That very next day we took him to ISU campus and he was going down hills and taking jumps and racing us on our rollerblades! He's a tough kid to beat.

Jax's Big #5

Jax turned five in Feb. and I thought I had posted some pictures and stuff but I guess I didn't save it or something so here's some fun pics of his awesome first ever birthday party with friends! We went to the fun zone called OUTER limits and hasd pizza, the kids played for hours in the "fun-maze" (indoor play arena) and then ate cake and icecream and won tons of tickets in the arcade. It was lots of fun and some of our cousins and friends came too!