Family Fun

Family night + Ashlen sitting on the potty chair = chaos, but yummy banana bread for desert.

Lauren is no longer a "brace face"

Before and After photos of Laurens braces.  Isn't her smile beautiful?  

Conversation between two 9 yr. old boys

Ok, I wasn't really eavesdropping on my son Peyten and his friend, they just happened to be sitting in the back seat of my car while I was driving them so I got the whole conversation and boy was it a hoot.  What they can come up with.  This is what it went like, not exact word for word, but darn close.

Peyten: your dad is hairy

Peytens friend: I know, it's gross

P:why is he so hairy?

PF: cause he's so old, he has gray hair in places,  like under his arm, I think black hair is the best under your arm

P: yea, I want dark hair when I grow up, my sister has a unibrow

PF: weird, I would hate that, hey Peyten your eyebrows are blonde, you can't even see them.

P: I know, my eyelashes are too long, but my mom said I better not cut them with the scissors or she'll cry, but she won't, she'll just yell at me. 

PF: your sister really has a unibrow

P: yea, and her back is really hairy too, she was born that way, my grandpa's hairy, my mom says it's his fault.

PF: I feel sorry for her.  Did you know my brother use to eat dog food, he's a dork

P: Maybe that's why he has long hair, do you think?

PF: No, don't be stupid.  Do you think your mom will take us to get icecream?

P: Maybe, she has been kind of nice today, but she did yell at my brother for messing up the clean clothes, she is not a good laundry person, my dad  always takes like forever looking for clean socks in the morning.

PF:What?

P: Never mind...mom, can we get icecream?

They are funny boys.  It Ashlen who has a unibrow, I have shaved it a few times cause it is so bad.

Well, lets get on with it...

Well, it's  over and I had a rough night last night, being worried and stressed about Obama, but I realize I just need to make more of an effort to keep conservative values around me and my family as much as I can.  Brent reminded me that always after a democratic president won office, the car business did well.  I guess I will focus on the positive.

Ashlen is yelling at me from the bathroom guess she wants out of the tub.

Todays the big day

Well, we should know soon enough our fate.  Nothing I can do about it now so I am going to enjoy a fun day with my kids while they are off of school.  We are going to start by cleaning up the house, fun for me, then move on to something else.  Haircuts, shopping, lunch out, and a movie perhaps.  Austen already went Golfing with Brent early this morning.

Two nights ago my neighbor Kim and her husband invited me over to watch a scary movie.  I love scary movies but don't watch them often due to the fact that I get too scared.  Anyway, the movie was "Strangers".  Anyone ever seen it? Supposedly it was so scary they didn't release it into the movie theaters.  I put the kids to bed and then walked over to the neighbors house to settle in for a good scare.  I brought my own blanket so I could cover my eyes whenever I needed to.  Well, let me tell you, it was scary, SCARY!!!!  I spent most of the time under the blanket and was shaking by the time I walked myself home.  I woke up Brent and told him I was scared and he said,"SHHH, go to sleep".  The next morning Lauren and Austen came running in my room to ask me all kinds of questions about the movie, "was it really scary, were you scared, what happened, could we watch it, did people die?"  (I don't let my kids watch scary movies, do as I say, not as I do, I know i'm lame).  Peyten then came running into my room, plopped on my bed and looked like he was going to ask the same questions all over again, but instead asked, "did you have any popcorn?"  I love Peyten, he's my favorite!!!!!

HALLOWEEN

The kids all had a great time for halloween.  Ashlen wouldn'twear her bee costume, she said it was hurting her, so she opted for Cinderella thanks to my neighbor having an extra costume.

Saturday football

Another successful football day.  Both boys teams won.  Peytens team is undefeated and Austens team has only lost one game.  Only one more week of play until playoffs begin.