Weekend Update

Not much of anything to blog about. But the spider pictures need to be moving along. I sprayed for the spider. I haven't seen it since. I'm not sure if it's dead, relocated or just staying in feeling blue because of the rain. I hope it's long gone.

Not much else is happening here. We went out just to get out of the house today. Then watched Hotel for Dogs. It's great for older kids than mine and younger parents than us. It wasn't bad but not for us.

Charly has this terrible mop on top. It usually looks cute in a pony tail or piggy tails, but she keeps pulling them out. I'm thinking it might be time for a hair cut.

One of many messes Owen has made. This one is about half the large can of Ovaltine. He was building a sand castle and then a snowman. He was punished and gets no coco juice for an entire week. :(

On a better note. Owen's drawings are improving. This one is a school bus! He loves them for some reason and is thrilled when we talk about going to school and riding the yellow bus.

This would be one of our taking turns problems. Owen just couldn't wait any longer so Charly got mad and got off. I'm guessing that was his plan.

Baby jail for offending the local "no whining" and "leave mommy's makeup alone" ordinances.

I can't stop cringing... Ick!!!

Okay, so this icky, disgusting, make me wanna gag, squeal and run spider is living on the back side of our house. Where he goes during the day - I don't know. But we know where he likes to have dinner every night. We snapped these shots of him/her poised for hunting. While we were observing it jumped to catch a moth!!! Augh!!! How do you get rid of it with out physical contact? It must die. I don't know for sure but I think it is a brown recluse. If it is then it is poisonous. I feel nauseated and my skin is crawling. :( I'm going to spray tomorrow. What would you do?

s

Charly's 1 Year Checkup

Charly went in for her 1 year checkup the other week. She is doing great! Growing and moving just like she should. She is now in the 97-98% for her height and 97% for her weight. She is measuring like Owen did. I guess she is going to be tall too. :) Looks like we might have some volleyball players on our hands. :) Here are some of her birthday pictures...

Oxy Clean took all the pink icing out. I love that stuff! :)

The Cousin Pics

Every Spring we try to get the kids together for a group picture. This year we were lucky to have Heidi and her family visit from Idaho so we could keep the tradition.

2006
(Talyor, Mya and Owen)

2007
Marilee is the new addition.
By far the most difficult of all the years. As soon as we got to the mall the kids were crying, running spontaneous fevers and not wanting to leave mommy. Picture People rescheduled us for an hour later so we could calm down the kids. Lesson learned, we need more time and outside if possible.

2008
Charly was this years new addition to the family.

2009
I love this one. It's my favorite of all the pictures.
This year we used Clarissa Cooper.

2009

2009

Lovey Cousins 2009
These guys are family too.

Coupon Book

If you were wanting more info on the coupon book..... The coupon book is a simple 3 ring binder with baseball card holder pages. It's easy to insert the coupons and so easy to view. Each page is designated to a particular category. Page dividers would be helpful so I'm going to add those next. It's amazing how many more coupons I use just because I can see them.

Our Week

This past week has been a pleasant one. We have enjoyed our time together and I feel like we actually accomplished stuff.

Grocery shopping - done! And I used my handy dandy coupon book. It so much easier to find coupons and, yes, I can see that I am able to use more of my coupons. The only down side is that people stop me a lot to talk about the book, that slows things down.

We've spent lots of time playing. Charly's new favorite is climbing in and out of baskets. She loves it when Owen pushes her in it. I can actually remember being small enough to fit in a basket. We also used to play in the cardboard diaper boxes. Anyone remember those?

Monday night we enjoyed Chuck E Cheese! We love that place. We were there for a party but stayed late to keep playing games. Garett and Owen had a blast playing games together.

Go Owey Go!

Chary had her 1 year check up. I'll detail that in another post.

And on Monday Charly got her very first black eye. She fell and hit the fire place. She didn't spend much time crying about it so I think it looks worse than it is. :)

Oddly, I've never in all my life called Poison Control, but I did twice this week. Once because Owen ate 3 Alavert. And the other time because Charly drank shampoo. Fun stuff.

I keep opening my blog page hoping that it has already been updated some how by magic. What to blog about?