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Flooding

The snow we received the other day melted and then it rained, poured, and then rained some more!

I saw my first ever Emergency Alert on t.v. and our city park is flooded.  Neighboring counties had it much worse, but it's been educational for the boys.  They had to get out of the car with me to look at the water in the park.

(picture taken 01/20/2012)

Fifth Disease

Carson was super itchy and stayed home from school on Wednesday.  Thursday I got a call around 10:30 from the school stating he was complaining of a rash and itchiness.  The school secretary told me that Fifth Disease is going around the school.  Apparently, it starts with a low grade fever/cold like symptoms and then works into a rash.  Carson had zero cold symptoms and no fever.  His rash is very itchy and he is quite dramatic about it.  We have tried Benadryl in pill form, Calamine lotion, Benadryl cream, oatmeal baths, etc. and nothing completely relieves the itching.  It has to run it's course so we are hoping it clears up soon!  The first picture makes it look worse than it was, he just had calamine lotion all over his body.  Also, look at his hair!  It's getting pretty long!  I kind of can't wait to see how blonde it turns this summer!

A Snowy Sunday

This morning, we woke up to this...

The boys had to go outside and play!

Carson's snowman...

Adam's snowman...

Even I wrote in the snow...

It melted, but it's started snowing again.  I think the boys are hoping to play again tomorrow!  I'm good with it snowing on the weekend (tomorrow is a Holiday). 

Let it snow!  Let it snow!  Let it snow!



2011~Blogged and Printed

I just received my 2011 blog book!  I print out my entries each year to keep as a journal of our daily life and outings.  I'm happy to report that 2011 marks three years of blogging and three years of printed memories!

Cute story

Last night we were flipping through channels on t.v. and ended up on a show called Infestation.  Talk about giving you the heebie jeebies!  There was a family who had a brown recluse spider infestation, a family with a squirrel infestation, and a family with a brown dog tick infestation. 

Adam came downstairs at some point to sit and watch t.v. with us and mentioned during a commercial break that the show was creepy.  Anyway, the family with the brown ticks had exterminators come out several times, but these ticks stay in the walls so the pesticide didn't work.  It came to the point that they had to leave the house, with nothing because they could spread ticks elsewhere.  Special exterminators had to come in to use a certain pesticide that you have to be licensed to use.

The family came back to their house and there were dead ticks literally covering the ground.  The pesticide that had been used melted their family pictures and ruined home video.  It was actually quite devastating.  I looked over and Adam had his hands up near his eyes, like he was in complete shock.  Then I noticed he was rubbing his eyes.  My sweet, sensitive (usually sarcastic) boy was crying!  I asked "Adam, is this show making you sad?" and he answered "Yes" while giggling.  I think he was giggling because he was embarrassed.  We didn't make him feel embarrassed about it though.  

  It was so cute and so sweet.  I gave him a hug and he ended up sitting next to me for the rest of the evening. 

Carson came down a few minutes later when another show had started and Adam said "The last show made me cry!"

Twenty twelve

2012...so far...

We received a few late Christmas gifts and the boys fell in love with this table top foosball table!  Of course, Larry and I had to try it out and he beat me!

I took a super cute picture of Adam sleeping the other night and have to document it here.  I'm sure he will hate me later in life!  Ha!

I still receive sweet love notes from Larry! 

Larry and I have made a pact that the first three months of this year will be a "miser period."  This means no spending, no going out to eat, etc.  I have a much harder time with this because I'm the one who purchases gifts (baby showers, Birthdays, etc.) and because Valentine's Day is in there too!  I will try to stick to the no eating out, etc.  We did go to Costco to stock up on stuff.  Oh my...Costco on a Saturday is not the best idea ever!  We survived though!  We got a ton of breakfast items, lunch items, and healthy stuff. 

Larry and I have also set some realistic goals regarding paying off debt and eating healthy/losing weight.  We have a reward in place if we both hit our goal, so I sure hope we are successful.  I'm feeling excited that we can hit them!  I had to purchase a sports bra though so I can workout comfortably.  We went to Sport Authority to get ourselves set up and try things on.  I went in the fitting room to try bras on, I wasn't going to come out to show Larry so I had him come in with me.  It was so funny!  I had to jump around and make sure the bra worked.  Larry didn't understand until I put on my regular bra, jumped up and down, and showed him how much it was not supporting me.  We were laughing so hard.  I'm sure anyone outside of the fitting room thought we were crazy.  We received a gift card to Sport Authority for Christmas so I got a new bra, workout capri pants, a workout shirt, Adidas socks, a gym bag, and a stocking cap!  Spoiled!  Larry got a stocking cap, tackle box (to create a "save a dive" kit), and a knee brace.

Lastly, I took this picture of our cat the other day.  He was being so cute.  The other day we woke up and he was sick.  I thought it was the end.  He was so lethargic, not eating, etc.  He is improving.  I'm wondering if he had the stomach flu or something.  It's funny because I wouldn't call myself attached to the cat (His name is Romo, but we just always call him Kitty), but I was in tears about how sick he was.  He is hopefully on the mend now!



Happy New Year!

Last night we went over to Mike and Cassie's for New Years Eve and had a lot of fun.  I will admit, I wasn't really feeling it on our way there.  We stopped and ate at Taco Bell, supposedly our last "bad" food, stopped for beer, and then headed to their house.

Cassie had tons of party favors.  Everyone was wearing tiaras or hats.  She showed me a mask and said everyone had been afraid to wear it, so I took it!

They had karaoke and the girls danced to all of the music!  It was fun!  I caught some funny pictures of Larry singing.

We took some other random pictures...

There were probably 20 people there and we got pictures of us together and each one of us with Steve Mance.  Literally zero pictures of anyone else!  So funny!

At midnight we watched the ball drop and Larry and I kissed several times and hugged. 

Our first picture of 2012, which is my favorite!



Christmas break...continued...

I took some time off for Christmas break mainly so we could stay around the house and be lazy.  I ended up with 12 days off with the holiday weekends.  Oh, how nice it's been!

I was napping, when Adam came and cuddled with me for a bit!  I treasure those moments because I know they won't last forever!  When he started to get squirmy, I grabbed my camera and took a picture!

I've read so much during my time off!  I finished Jaycee Dugard's book and read the Nicholas Sparks book in a day!

I took the boys shopping to spend their Christmas money.  Of course, the stores were sold out of the specific Lego set Carson wanted, but we eventually found some sets he liked.  He came home and put them together for hours.  Adam purchased some video games.

Copper knocked the Christmas tree over which prompted me to clean up and put away Christmas!

We went and visted my Grandma Merrily at her apartment in a retirement village.  The pictures are a bit blurry, but you get the idea. 

Me, Grandma Merrily, and my Mom.

Adam, Carson, Grandma Merrily, my Mom, and me in the mirror!

Crazy boys with Grandmas

The boys and I watched The Goonies.  We ate lunch, all three of us on the same love seat, under a blanket, cuddling, and watching the movie.