Oink Oink

In other news, Ethan has H1N1. We're hoping it doesn't get into his lungs and he gets pneumonia. He had pneumonia last winter and it is not fun. It's been REALLY fun having him home all this week but he and Ev can't stop pestering each other. Like every second of the day. But on the upside I subscribe to the Pinching Your Pennies emails and I was able to get 2 pairs of glasses with the lens' for about $50. If you buy glasses you'll know that's a screaming deal. And I just ordered all our Christmas cards for FREE. Here's the link. The promo code is freebies4mom-1109. Check it out.

Role Reversal...

Well, this having a dog is going just okay. Before we got the dog, Bucky and the kids were all about making promises about helping out. Yeah, Bucky's dad was right, it all usually ends up on one person. That person is me. I know, WAH WAH WAH. But, dude, c'mon. Yesterday Evie (4 1/2) had 3 accidents, Ethan was sick and I'm supposed to train the dog not to jump up on the BAR and scavenge for food. She also has taken up barking ALL the time when she goes outside. We have neighbors who have 3 big dogs and I don't know if she's just trying to protect or what, but it's getting annoying. Any advice?

In good news, Shelley's only have two accidents in the house EVER and they were solid poops. That's better than my daughter who's nearly five and can't seem to make it to the bathroom. What up???

A Day in the Life of Us...

Evie was a little mad that she didn't have a picture on the blog of she and Shelley. That's
a bit of pure joy right there. She and Ethan both love her so much that they get mad if she
follows me around the house. We spent the morning hanging out and then I decided to get
ambitious and bag all the leaves that I raked the other day. As you can tell by the pictures, it sucked. I used the entire package of 18 bags.

Ev took this picture of E while he was doing his homework, I thought it turned out really well.

And this last one was a picture I found in E's school folder. Notice, the bit in the corner, "Not a planit." Yeah, that's Plooto. How funny is that?!

World-Shelley, Shelley-World

How could you not love these pictures??? Shelley is a Sheltie. The people said mini sheltie but the guy at Petco thought she looked like a regular sheltie. Either way, she's a great dog. Although I never thought I was a pet lover, I think that I could be. It's hard to say, but she's already wormed herself into our lives (in a good way, not literally like she has worms.)

She doesn't really bark and she seems smart. Which are two of the things that I hate most about dogs, when they bark and when they seem dumb. Brutal, I know, but I didn't grow up around pets. Fish and a sad parakeet, that's it. That' s all the training I had.

But Bucky (aka Bleeding Heart as he will now be known as) and the kids (Said Spawn of Bleeding Heart 1 and 2) have wanted a pet for like 2 years, and I kept putting them off saying, " Oh sorry guys we live in this apartment that doesn't allow pets." Slyly grinning when they turned around. Perfect excuse, right? Well, we no longer live in an apartment and they wouldn't let me forget it.

So, after a long rant, we have a dog. A nice dog. A dog that I'm not afraid of. I got bit by our neighbors dog when I was babysitting one time. It was really tramatic at the time and I guess I never really recovered. Until now. I don't know. She's pretty sweet. In a totally tubular way. Even now, she's laying on my foot under the table. How cute is that?

D-O-G

We got a dog. Will post pictures soon. Gulp.

The Most Non-Spooky Halloween Ever...

The title says it all! We were not spooky and that's okay with me. We patrolled our old neighborhood and caught up with old friends, it was great. My friend Christy was awesome and had a stopoff for soup and rolls and some hand-dipped chocolate treats. They were stellar and then just down the road was my friend Kelly's Spook Alley. It was super fun. Sorry, that my post is lacking in details AND humor, but this daylight savings hour is kicking my booty. The weather, for once, was excellent. I was used to having to put a snowsuit under my costume growing up in AK, but it was just gorgeous here! Here are the pictures from aforementioned festivities...

Evie had her preschool Halloween party the day before Halloween and some of the costumes were cracking me up, like the bumblebee for instance. The big one. I felt so bad, we walked around Ogden High School and the teachers handed out candy that we brought in. So all the kids were getting sweaty and tired in their costumes because we were walking up and down stairs, but this bumblebee girl kept saying, "I'm hot, this is heavy." And you know what her mom said? " Quit being such a woosey. Suck it up. You are being such a baby." Now there's a good parent, no sympathy or anything for the girl that is wearing a 100 lb. costume. Gotta love the ghetto-ness of it all.

A Preview...

So, I had this big elaborate idea for Halloween this year, complete with all things breakfast. Bucky - Bacon, Anna-Fried Egg, Ev-Carton of milk, and Ethan- Toast. I was excited and prepared. But then word came back from a certain young man that he would rather be a football player.

Dang. I really love Halloween and love to do my ideas. Most of the time I center the ideas around something that the kids want to be. But not this year, it was all me. So, I sat the kids down and had a heart to heart with them about what THEY wanted to be. Evie decided she wanted to be a mouse and Ethan wanted to borrow a costume from one of his cousins (Storm Trooper). OK. So Evie and I worked on her costume today. I love the glittery foam sheets, they make the ears look cool.