Birthdays

I have really been ignoring the ol' blog lately. I know, I know, I say that alot. In the past few weeks we have had 2 birthdays at our house. Si turned 12 (I know, 12! How can I have a 12 year old!!) on the 29th of October. My birthday was on Monday and I turned 31. Wow, how did that happen??

We had a really low key party for Si the Sunday after his birthday. He picked out a yellow cake with chocolate frosting and Neopolatin ice cream. He had been wanting a hoody for several months so we got him one and a Star Wars baseball cap. Grandma Jan got him an electronic Sudoku game.

My birthday was a really hectic day, but it turned out good. I was gonna make myself a lemon pudding cake that I made several years ago, but didn't get a chance to. Instead Rob surprised me with a cookies and cream cake from the store. I'm not normally a fan of store bought cake, but this one was pretty good. The kids liked it and they all fought over the oreo's on top!

So there's our Oct/Nov birthdays. No more in the immediate family until Jakes in Feb.

It was too cute

Saturday Rob's grandparents came to town to visit and take us to lunch. They made it to the restaurant before us and were sitting on a bench, waiting for us and visiting with another couple across from them. All 4 kids converged on them for hugs and kisses. There wasn't enough room for Jake to squeeze in, so he turned around and saw the other couple sitting there and went right up to them to get hugs from that other set of grandparents. They were a little startled at first, but rolled with it. After he gave out his hugs he started talking with them, asking their names. I think they enjoyed the hugs and attention from a cute 3 year old!

Look, Mom! No training wheels!

Yep, last week Rob took the training wheels off of Max's bike! He was so excited when Rob asked him if he wanted them off.

Man tagged!

My cousin Marti tagged me!

What's your husbands name? Robert C

How long have you guys been married? 9 years

How long did you date? Umm, not long :) We met in February and were married July 24th

How old is he? 39

Who eats more sweets? DEFINITELY me!

Who said I Love You first? I honestly don't remember. Probably Rob.

Who is taller? Rob

Who is the better singer? I don't think I've ever heard him sing? Wow! How has that not happened??

Who is smarter? Rob

Who does the laundry? I do

Who pays the bills? I do.

Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? I do

Who mows the lawn? Rob supervises Si.

Who cooks dinner? I do 5 1/2 nights out of 7. He does Saturday by himself and we usually bbq on Sunday and we split the work.

Who drives? Rob, I hate driving.

Who is the first to say they are wrong? I say that ones a tie.

Who kissed who first? Rob kissed me first.

Who asked who out first? Well, he didn't really ask me out on my first date. We met through mutual friends and they set it up. It wasn't really a blind date, we had met each other once before our first date, but didn't really know each other.

Who wears the pants? Tie

Hmmm, I tag Amanda, Jayme, and Angie

TAGGED! 8 Favorites

8 Tag I was tagged by my cousin Amanda and my friend Melanie here are my answers

8 TV Shows:
Army Wives, Ghost Whisperer, Medium, The Cleaner, Heroes, Lost, The Unit, My Name is Earl

8 Restaurants:
I honestly don't know if I can come up with 8!
Olive Garden, Wingers, Mi Ranchito, Chili's, Texas Roadhouse or Ruby River (although Rob's bbq rivals anything at a steak house!) Thats all I can think of!


8 Things I Did Yesterday
I don't know if I can remember that far back! LOL
I did some laundry, washed the dishes, went to work, came home from work, played on the computer, walked the kids to school, walked to pick up Max from Kindy, played phone tag with our internet/cable/phone provider

8 Things I'm Looking Forward To:
Si's birthday, Halloween, having the day off from work on Halloween to take the kids trick or treating, Thanksgiving, Christmas, having Jake be completely potty trained (we're working on it!), my birthday,

8 Things on my Wish List:
a new camera, Photoshope Adobe Elements 6, all Christmas presents to be bought, all Christmas presents to be wrapped up, a family vacation next summer, a new bed for Rob and I, not to get a year older, hmmm can't think of anything else

I tag anyone who wants to do this!

Raptor Romp!

I've been bad at updating on here. I've been meaning to do a post about the Raptor Romp for at least a week. I've finally got a minute and the pictures put on the computer, so I'll try and put together a post.

October 9th was our Elementary school's annual PTA fundraiser carnival. It's always lots of fun. I took the night off of work, so our whole family was there and then Grandma Jan and Grandpa Dave were able to be there, too. Grandma Jan had to work that night, but was able to take her lunch hour during that time, so she was there for Jordyn and Max's dances. I'm actually really thankful she was there, because when I got to the school and started to take pictures I realized that my batteries were dead! That hardly ever happens to me because I usually keep an extra set in my camera case, but those were dead too!

The Kindergartner's did a dance to a dinosaur song that was really cute. Jordyn dance was 50's style with hula hoops. For the life of me I can't remember what song Jordyn's grade danced too! That's what happens when you wait a week or more to write things down!! Oh, and after all the grades were done with their individual dances everyone met back on the field and did the chicken dance together. It was pandemonium!

Here are some pictures

What I woke up to this morning...

Jake's sweet voice saying wake up Mom & Dad, it's morning!! He's such a sweetie! He's so happy in the morning.