Since my kids make no money, they have lost cartoon and video game privileges. I don't know how many times i asked them to pick up there stuff and they didn't. They had fare warning and numerous chances. They'd whine about having to pick up. go grab one thing (in slow motion) and stop. I'm excited because i really can't stand video games and I'm a little tired of Sponge Bob (did i just say, don't like SB?) :O I didn't say how long and they didn't ask. I think it'll go till I see an attitude adjustment. Oh, did i say anything about the TUDE i got from a little miss someone?? Yeah, if looks could kill. Her and her NLA!!! (Nasty Little Attitude, just learned that one from my sis inlaw) shes gonna be F-U-N in 10 yrs :)
"Again - childhood cancer is the #1 killer disease of our children, more than from asthma, diabetes, cystic fibrosis, congenital anomalies, and pediatric AIDS combined. One in 300 children will be diagnosed with cancer before age 20. Each year 3,000 children die, and 35-40,000 are in treatment."
AJ's dad is on a mission. He lost his 14 y/o son to Childhood Cancer. (ok, Childhood and cancer should never be in the same sentence and definitely not right next to each other) if you would please go read what he has to say and sign his petition
I have waited on posting what this is until I received my money from them. This is just like Paypal but without the fees. Revolution money exchange will also give you 25$ for signing up and if someone signs up through you then you get 10$. So i tried it out.... I signed up (through Ashley) and then i signed Ben up through me. I got 25 for signing up and 10 for Ben going through me. Ben also got 25$ and I transferred his money to my RME account so i then had a total of 60$ sitting there for me. I could of had them mail me a check or direct deposit to my checking. I thought about it for a while. I opened up a different checking to use with my RME account and had them direct deposit it. We got the deposit in our account today and then transferred it into our regular checking.
You don't have to open a whole new checking, but it was something i had needed to do anyway. I like to have a spending checking account (that no bills come out of ) and we had to close our other one (long story). It's was my eBay play account, lol. So now i have a play account again.
I just found out today that joining the NMDP regisrty will be free for the two weeks surrounding Mothers Day (i actually didn't know it cost to join) You can join in person or sign up online. Which I did!!! I should get my swabs in less than a week. If you would like to join you can do it here.
Over the last month we have gotten gobs of compliments on how well they behave when we are out. In Las Vegas at breakfast one day we got at least 3 compliments on kailten, matthew and Abigail being so good. then the other day in dollar general a man said they were so well behaved in the store (and saying how his kids are not) then today at the Dr's office for Codys appt (sorethroat) I took all the kids in with me. At the end of the visit the MD said it has been a long time since he's been in a room with five children so behaved. :)
now i will say, my kids love to eat, love to shop and like the Dr's so it was something they enjoy doing. but they are not aloud to run buck free like wild banshee's.
So good going, kiddos. now if they'd just clean up after them selves.
This summer!! last week we saw two birds going into and out of our bbq. They were carrying all sorts of twigs, leaves and such. So today i opened up the bbq to see if they actually built it. AND THEY DID. Momma bird flew out when i opened it so i grabbed the camera real quick and took some pics. I hope she comes back. I didn't touch anything. I won't open it again.
See the eggs???
ETA- Momma bird came back. i went to move the BBQ out of the way and she flew out. I'm glad she had snuck back in.
i was going to the bathroom and Matthew came in to go to. so we are face to face talking as hes waiting for me to go and he goes to put his hand on the door jam and says.... Hey, someone tickled my hand, with a laugh in his tone. He rubbed his hand as to itch it and then looked out side the bathroom door to see if anyone was really there. So i asked, someone tickled your hand? and he said yes. we both kinda giggled. when he went to put his hand back there i noticed he did a quick glance to make sure no one was there.
He may be taking after Ben.
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Kaitlen asked me to go over where she was at. She was looking out the window. She says, you see that? I said, yes. She tells me, thats las Vegas, my mom lives there. So i say she does?..... yeah.
She was looking at the sun setting out our window. it was lighting up that area of sky. When you are in Vegas and away from the strip it lights up the sky in that area. She's really sad about my mom being gone.
OK you guys i made a poll and put the answers i could think of. So if you live in an area that gets tornado's please answer the poll. what i want to know is are we like over paranoid and take cover when others may not have taken cover?? I am really missing our Earthquake's. I would take an Earthquake over this tornado stuff any day. Im pretty sure its a go with what you know thing because i've heard people here say oh no they would take a tornado over an earthquake any time. even people who have never been in a quake they are just that afraid of them. Now from what i can remember i have only taken cover 3 times for Earthquakes. the others were fast enough you didn't need to duck and cover. I could probably guess and say that i have felt around 30 earthquacks in my life while in Cali. It take like a 4.0 for you to stop and say, Hay!! we had a quake. I'll come back and update what the 3 duck and covers measured. for fun go see the latest earthquakes. it shows the last hour, last day and last week ok, the hector mine quake, we got in the door jam it was a 7.1 and cody was almost a month old. The northridge quake, we got under the table and i thought it would never end. it was a 6.7. The landers quake was a 7.3. Thomas was 6 months old. me Tina and thomas got under the table. really scary. THose were the 3 quakes i remember taking cover in. Here is another big one, Whittier Narrows 5.9, but i didnt take cover. I was in 7th grade brushing my teeth getting ready for school and it started. Mom was still in bed. Im not sure what tina was doing. Now Ben probably has his own story on that one because he lived in Whittier. ok, thats my earthquake story. oh, earth quakes either jolt or roll. jolts are quick and done with, rollers last and just keep going. thats when alot of damage happens. ok, now go vote, lol
Kaitlen running to first. They havent told the girls that you can run through 1st as long as you turn right so they all slow down to stop on first.
Kaitlen running to 3rd
these are kaitlen running home. In T-ball everyone gets to bat so when you get to the last batter you normally have 3 on bases and every one gets to run in like it was a grand slam which gives the catcher practice in tagging out. Here The catcher and Kaitlen seem a little unsure. as they both step on the plate, LOL. It was a very cute game to watch. Abbie with a Mike-n-Ike pepsi face mess and matthew showing off his mike-n-ikes.
When I went to bed I had gotten an email that we were on tornado watch. That was at 2am. Just after 4am the storm wakes both Ben and I and I hurry to my emails and we were under Tornado warning so I get the kids up and in the bathroom untill Ben can get more info off the news about what areas are by any rotation. After about 15 minutes we realize its all just north of us and we should be ok. so the kids and i went back to bed and ben stayed up until 5am. He took the kids to school at 9 because we were still under warning. Well the buses were running late too. Just dropping kids off. Codys school was open but thomas' school was closed due to no power. So he is home today. I went online to read about the storm and read a 15 y/o girl had died.. Teenager Killed In Storms A 15-year-old girl was killed early this morning when severe weather moved through western Benton County. Police said the girl was asleep in her bedroom on Lake Francis Drive in Siloam Springs when a tree fell on the house. A 10-year-old boy was also in the room, but he was not severely hurt. Authorities have not released the names of the children
Yesterday at Cody's baseball game the wind was blowing hard and storm clouds all around and I'm looking at kaitlen and her face lights up and starts yelling A Cross, A Cross. So i turn around and there is a break in the clouds that was light and two vapor trails made a cross.
Tina and I went out dancing at the Cowboy Boogie. Ben came up to me and asked me to dance.( tall, dark, handsome, straight teeth, beautiful eyes, great smile and lips, confident) I of course said yes. We did the two step, the Cowboy cha cha and some swing dancing. (ok, those that know Ben are you saying.. What? Ben? lol) We talked and talked and yep i kissed those lips. (don't worry i didn't dog out Tina, we both got him on the dance floor dancing with him, lol)Well 2 am rolled around. *last call for alcohol* (i was the DD, designated driver (not designated drunk) ) So when the Boogie closed what did we do? Got in the truck with a complete stranger that we knew was a Deputy LASD and had a gun, somewhere. and went and ate Denny's. Scram slam for me and Tina with syrup and ranch, YUMMMMM.
Here is Ben giving me his number, then me before Tina and i went out that night. Yep red wranglers :)
That was Friday and Me, Ben and Thomas went out to Don Jose's on Tuesday night. Ben's RDO and went out dancing that friday after Ben got off work. That was it, we spent everyday together.
I ordered Sheilas flowers today. That was hard. Ben and I picked them out late last night. When they asked what would you like it to say? How to you say it all in a tiny space?We love you Sheila.
I went to change some of my myspace people around and when i clicked into it this is what i see, side by side. Brandon, Alex and Sheila all have up the same picture.
