I love you Edward!

TWLIGHT...So I braved the crowds with some friends to see this movie on opening night or would that be considered morning...since I didn't get home until 2:30 a.m. Anyway I have read the first book and half of the second...I know I am behind but I am having a hard time getting through the second book with Jacob. Anyway, the movie was so stinking good! When it started I was a bit disappointed because I didn't think Edward was nearly as cute as I had made him up to be in my mind after reading the book but about 30 minutes into the movie I was in love...sorry Ryan...I think I might become a vampire! :-) Go see it if you haven't!

Alterations

This has got to be the funniest story that has happened to me in a long time...today I took Riley and Paige to get a couple of pairs of pants altered. They both seem to be growing bigger, just not taller, crazy bond genes :-) Anyway after they tried them on and the seamstress marked them, Riley calls me into the dressing room....a little freaked out, he wore the pants he was getting altered there? Hysterical...he had nothing to wear home. He had to streak out to the car from the place. So he is just chillin in his undies on the way home and there were a couple of kids on bikes from the school so I asked Riley if he wanted me to roll down the window so he could say whats up to his friends and he was so embarrassed...he said, "you are so dumb, just go". I was laughing so hard I could not contain myself....sorry Riley. In a few years, when I reveal this funny story to a girlfriend it will be much funnier :-) I dropped him off at home because I had to take Paige to tennis and I purposely pulled barely into the driveway so he had to streak across the driveway. Ryan was in the garage working on his dirt bike and was like, "what was that?" When I told him we were hysterically laughing....it was so funny. Riley I am glad you have such a laid back personality and you laugh at funny situations like this.

New Jeans $25
Alterations $10

Riley streaking across the parking lot PRICELESS

School Pictures 2008-09

BTW...I could not scan the pictures in at Walgreens because they are professional pictures so I had a friend take a picture of the picture...they actually turned out pretty good, thanks Judy.

Okay - The highly awaited 2008-2009 school picture. Riley could have cared less about taking a picture. Paige had her outfit picked out the night before and made me curl her entire head of hair (took close to an hour) but when I got the picture you could barely even tell...whatever. Hayley almost didn't even go to school because she was so scared. She had no idea what to expect and so her anxiety got the best of her. She had a total melt down before school but it apparently went fine the picture turned out cute.

Riley-9 years old.

Paige-7.10 years old.

Hayley-a month shy of 6.

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Note from Riley

So this morning I was doing my every morning activities, laundry, picking up breakfast, making beds (remaking them after the kids did them), blah blah blah...you get the idea, I am sure no different from every other mother out there....I go to Riley's room to put away some laundry and there is a pile of clean folded laundry and a pile of shirts that needed to be hung up with a note written in blue crayon saying, "can you do it thanks". I was home by myself, Sadie was napping and I was hysterically laughing. The laundry was from the day before and I remember asking him to take it to his room and put it way. I am a chronic not writer, I leave love notes in lunches, honey do notes for Ryan, lists of chores for the kids and notes all over the house to remind me of things....wonder where he got this idea?

Family Pictures

Every year we take family pictures and then pick one for our Christmas card...so I am going to leave you all in suspense on which one we choose but here are some of the better pictures from the over 300 we took...and yes in case anyone with less than 4 kids was wondering it is a nightmare to get everyone ready, happy, to the location on time and smiling. The kids actually did great this year...we walked all around the grounds of this place to get these different shots and they all handled it great! Well worth the time and effort...a picture is priceless.

Directly behind this rock was about a 5 foot drop directly into a waterfall plus we had to hike up a hill with all those bushes you see in the front..the picture turned out cute but I was a little worried if anyone would be taking a dip.

Funny face Sader Love this pic...the photographer photo shopped her buggies, but I didn't know how to do it for the blog.

Riley-9 years old

Paige 7 years 9 months old

Too old to admit to!

Hayley two weeks shy of 6.

bye, bye..

Sadie 9 months

She is going to love this picture in abuot 10 years.

She is so smiley, I love this age!

Wow...where has the time gone. I am so sad my baby is already nine months old. She is totally picky about food now, she pretty much is over the baby food stage and only wants to eat food she can pick up herself of if you give her a spoon with baby food on it she will feed or self or at least try to...I think I clean more of it up off the high chair and the floor than anything. She is weighing in these days at 18.1 a far cry from the 5.5 she used to be :-(. She is 28.5 inches tall and stinking cute. She is starting to do the transfer...from the couch to a toy or from the table to a chair. If I walk out of the room she will super crawl to find me and she is baby talking up a strom. I took the girls to see High School Muscial 3 on Saturday and the attendant came and told me to take her out in the hallway because she was being baby talking too loud. The girls were mortified, I thought it was pretty funny. She finally has a few teeth...about a month ago she broke her front top two and last week she got one bottom one and then today I noticed the other one poking through...she has been totally fussy but she is a trooper!