The Turkey Trot...

WE had fun at the Turkey Trot. The weather was perfect! It was pretty warm (50ish) and NOT raining!!! That is pretty perfect for Thanksgiving, I think. There was about 100 or so people that showed up.

Lesley and Derek, Me, Alyssa, Alexandra and McKenzie, and Richard all got there about 8:30 and we started the Trot about 9:00. I didn't time the walk (we did the 2k) but we walked a pretty good pace. Derek managed to get a piggyback for a little bit from Lesley and then later from Richard. Alexandra rode her unicycle. McKenzie pushed Lia in the stroller. Lesley and I took pictures! :)

I love this little train. Everybody was getting a little tired on the way back (it is all uphill!) so they made a little train and it seemed to give everybody a little more energy! :)

This photo was taken by McKenzie. We are a little tired from the long walk :) We were pretending to be sleeping. Lesley must have been snoring which is why I was laughing! :)

We are making salads, deviled eggs, and cookies. Mmmmmmm! :)

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Turkey Day!!!

WE are off to the Turkey Trot. Then home to bake and listen to Christmas music! (It is less than a month away!)

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!!

WooooHoooo!

It is only ONE MONTH until Christmas!!! Are you ready? You have to be now! It is coming sooooon. I am so excited! We are going to wait until after we get home from Disneyland before we put up our Christmas tree. I don't want to leave 4 cats in the house with a new tree.

I have to start packing and getting things ready for Disneyland. We leave one week from tomorrow! I can't believe it is almost here. We have been planning for so long, that it doesn't seem real yet.

Tomorrow is Turkey Day! We are going to do the Turkey Trot at EagleRidge in the morning. The girls and I have done it for the last 3 years I think. It is lots of fun. You can do a 2k walk (that's what we do!) or the 5k run (that's what McKenzie and Alexandra want to do this year!). It is free for kids 12 and under and is only $5 for adults and kids over 12. It is a fun time.

Look what I found when I was going through my important papers:

McKenzie wrote a letter to me. It says:

Your the best I have seen becuse, you are nice and kindandgood

I love you

How Cute is that! I love finding little letters and notes from my girls :)

Look what else I found the other day! It has been early release this week and Alexandra came home and since it was naptime in the livingroom for the daycare kids, she had to find something to do in her room. She made a hammock under the bunkbed and spent the afternoon reading! Such a cozy place to read. If they were bigger and stronger, I would totally read in a hamock!

Have a great Wednesday! It is kinda like Friday today!!

It is a Terrrrriiiffffiiiicccc Tuesday!

Everytime I try to remember how to spell Terrific... I think of the gander in Charlotte's Web.

T E double r double r I double f double I C C C.....or something like that :) Does is have two r's? Two f's? I never remember!

Alexandra goes to indoor soccer tonight. Her game is not until 7:30! That is pretty late. At least it is still only a half day tomorrow and then there is no school until next week! Which means.....tomorrow is daycare and then Thanksgiving Thursday!!!! The girls and I are going to do the Turkey Trot again at Eagleridge. We have so much fun doing it. It feels so good to get up and go for a brisk walk in the freezing cold air :) It makes you understand a little how those frozen turkeys feel :) As for the rest of the day....I am not sure yet... I am not going to stress or worry about that until Thursday! :)

Alexandra and McKenzie came with me to WECU last night to dump all of our change. Did you guess how much it was????

We turned this......

We had $234.5 in rolled coin

We had $73.74 in loose change

Into this...

$312.24!!!

This money will be divided 4 ways for us to spend on souveniers and other stuff. :)

We will be in Disneyland one week from Thursday!! We have spending money now. I just need to pack our suitcases (after I find them!) Shop for our snacks. And get on the plane! I am pretty sure there are other things to do, I am just not going to think about them now!

Have a great Tuesday!!

Another week...

Monday morning again.....another week closer to Christmas
another day closer to Thanksgiving
another day closer to Disneyland
another day closer to 2010
Crazy how time just flies by...

After my very fun weekend, Monday morning is hard! 4 out of 5 daycare kids have runny noses. I spend my day wiping one nose after another. They are all clear runny noses, but they still run. Days like this, I want a child free job :)

The girls and I are going to go to WECU to count all of our change for Disneyland! Any guesses how much we will have? The girls are very excited! (Me too!!)

Have a great Monday!

The weekend is over....

I check on the girls each night before bed. This is what I found when I checked on Alyssa! :)

Time to start a new week.

I had a super fun, very busy weekend! I had daycare Friday instead of working at the store. Friday night McKenzie and Alexandra and I went to Lesley's house for card making/scrapbooking. We mostly played with glitter :)


Making turkey's!

I went to work on Saturday. I delivered Darin's turkey's to him. He was very happy with them. Alyssa, McKenzie, Alexandra and even Richard helped to make them. They turned out pretty cute!

Beware of the Turkey Army!


Alexandra and McKenzie came to work with me so they could take the creative writing workshop. Jay came to pick them up to take them to lunch and tell Grandpa Jerry "Happy Birthday!" He took them home after lunch and they hung out with Alyssa until it was time for them to do Open Gym at Gym Star. They love it! It is so much fun for them.


While they were there, I went to dinner with Katie. We ate at the Hearth Fire. Really good food! Great time, good food, no kids, great company!


Today was another long, fabulous day! After church, we went grocery shopping. Then.....I brought the girls home, put away the perishables, and left! Mom and I went to lunch (Olive Garden) my food was yummy, hers....not as yummy. Then we went to Goodwill and looked at books and stuff. Next up was Joanne Fabric for Christmas gift ideas. Then we were off to Walmart for more ideas and last we made a stop at Michael's. Tons of fun! Tons of shopping! AND....we were only gone for 5 hours! We were going to see Blind Sided (?) at Sunset, but it was sold out. I guess we will have to reschedule that :)

Here is our Disneyland money we have been saving and rolling and wrapping and saving and saving! I brought it all out and we have been counting it. We are going to take it to WECU and put it through their counting machine. When we get the total, we are going to split it four ways and that will be spending money for the trip. I will help McKenzie and Alexandra split it out between each day so they don't run out. I told the girls that I would buy their main meals, but any snacks or souveniers they would have to buy with this money. (I will also be packing snacks because they are eaters!!!) It is less than two weeks away!

I had a great Sunday! and a great weekend!

Have a great week!!!

Sparkly and Twinkly

That is what you get when you use glitter on your cards.

That is what you get when your rotten sister tells your daughter to "put a little on your mommy's nose"

That is what you get when your rotten sister puts more on your face.

That is what you get when you put LOTS on your rotten sister's face.

Remember....when using glitter....a little goes a LONG way! :)