My little man and grievous

Yeah, I think I figured it out..still can't do it from one of the most advanced phones out there right now (stupid!!) but at least I can do it through YouTube itself!! ;) Love the way Kyle talks throughout this one.

Bummer on that...

Well though my new iPhone (switched it in on my droid when we switched over to AT&T...) is the absolute shizz-knizz it can't upload videos to blogger..at least as far as I can tell...so have to just stick to pictures..hope u can see Dalins cool Lego creation...a cool Ninja ice dragon that he and I built for Christmas.

Some funny Christmas morning pics...

Some star wars Christmas eve pjs,glasses that are straws so u can see what u are drinking...who could live without a pair of those...and a general grievous...cute video to come later if I can fugue out how to post it!! :)

A Cool Do...

What do you think?? At least I liked how it turned out. Who knows why she's sideways..she wasn't when I took the pic!! ;)

SCORE!!!!

A good friend of mine (pictured here with one of her 5 kids) got some free tickets for Disney on Ice,and the original people she had invited to join with her couldn't go, so hey Destinee and I will gladly play the part of the "next best thing"  to get to see free Disney on Ice....was an absolute blast!! :)

It's a Whole Family of Supers!!

Well at least three in this picture...we kept up our awesomeness that is matching costumes for the family, but well somebody had to take the picture here and Chris ,for the first year sadly was not with us on our traditional trick or treat on Main Street...he had lots of studying to do and he also had a very sore shoulder all put up in a sling and everything, but well that's a whole different story!! 

New Updates to Come Soon!!

I promise I have some updates since Halloween..will get on that as soon as my daughter stops procrastinating about a research paper that she has due tomorrow when it's 10 pm at night!! ;)

A Halloween Field Trip

Even took a day off of work to enjoy a day worth my littlest man when his preschool went on a field trip to a local pumpkin patch and farm...what a fun day..he even volunteered to help the farmer and got dressed up as a beekeeper as you can see in his picture!! :)

Procrastination at its best!!

Well so it begins...the night before freak out or actually in this case, the very un-Destinee like cool and collected "No problem, I can get this together" school project. The assignment that of course she has known about for weeks and if I had known, the exact same one I would have been nagging her about was to create a pet rock...yes school projects at their best....well so I come home from some training I had to take for school and see her with my Slice machine (similar to Cricut (of which I have too) just smaller) cutting out some letters..of which almost brought a fake tear to my eye that she thought to use it,so I think "Hey,maybe Ill just leave it to her to do this project all on her own and it will look tremendous" (okay that's a little strong..I would settle for good) but alas when the dry erase markers come out to start writing with, the "I can't let my kid take THAT to school" came out and I stepped in. Now some of you moms out there (the very few that even read my blog) might think creatively "assisting" your kids with school assignments is bad but oh well I work at the same place my kids go to school and I couldn't bear the looks of shame or whispered conversations in the teachers lounge about "The mother that let her child turn in the "We'll be talking about that project for years..and not favorably-project in." Are you laughing yet...I hope so cause don't care nearly that much...however do want my kid to get a good grade...so pipe cleaners, yarn, and googly eyes start flying and though its a small pic here is the finished project!! See if you can click on it and enlarge it so you can read the middle part...hey, at least her teacher would laugh!!

George Lucas would be proud!!

Well as I was posting them, I raealized that my title might not have been the best as only one of the pics I posted had anything to do with Star Wars but almost everything Kyle does or thinks about includes it so why not!! Some cute masterpieces hr created at preschool...the middle ( read:best looking!) pumpkin on this pic is his ;)  Oh and in case you can't read it the person picture was an assignment for him to imagine himself being something or someone else....all the other kids have things like: "I'm a mermaid princess" or "famous racecar driver" but not my little Jedi...he is imagining he is Obi Won Kenobi in Lego Star Wars!!

Herr's Mill

Lest I bombard you readers with TOO much awesomeness, this will be the last collage for tonight...on to next weekend, right!! I have figured out that I am a HUGE fan of B&W photos, and should have changed more of these but oh well..beautiul either way!!

Strasburg Railroad

Can't stand how awesome of a weekend it makes for when all we do is travel around in search of sites worthy of a family photo shoot..and boy did we find them..we traveled to Dutch Country this morning, i.e. Lancaster County, PA and happened across Strasburg Railroad..now most things cost and we didn't want to do lots of that today, so we kind of wandered around on our own in search of sites that we could make our own..and subsequently after some awesome shots on the tracks, we were discovered and "kicked" off by the Railroad Hitler..she wasn't pleasant at all, but hey minus one picture I had in mind that didn't happen, we had already gotten all our shots, so blahblah!! ;)

Meade High National Anthem

So, the kiddos school's choir department and unbeknownst to us, six or so other schools were asked to sing the National Anthem at the local high school football game. Here's your test...Where's Destinee?? (Where's Waldo in the female form!! :) It was a great sound and Destinee enjoyed it.

Little Butternut...

Just cuteness all around!! Read down for full explanation of all these gorgeous pics!!

Dalin's Shot...

Rare moments of Dalin sitting still, and looking very photogenic..what do you think??

Destinee's Photo Shoot

All I can say is WOW for Chris and hey myself too, on that one of Chris and her!! The left hand one was taken unbeknownst to Destinee, and I LOVE it..just natural and unposed pictorial perfection!! ;) More to come ...

Covered Bridge Tour

So, I recently decided that one of my living room walls was too bare and lacking something..in so many other homes I've seen, there are large walls of family pictures..mostly from birth to now..and though my collection of baby pics for some of my kids are definitely lacking (i.e read this..almost nonexistent)...what better time to start than the present!! So we headed out to Frederick, MD, about an hour and a half away in search of some of these 1800's covered bridges, and alas we found two of them. One of them was I guess on someone else's property behind a gate and everything..so we'll never know what that one looked like..but the two we found sure did produce some BEAUTIMOUS pics...this is a picture collage that the photo sharing site, Picasa created...pretty awesome!! ;) What do you think, which is your favorite??

Beat that Tom Selleck!!

So usually the officers of the AF have funny little things that they are allowed to change from their normal regulation way of looking...such as: Flat top February, Mustache March (this year it became "stache" tember), No Hair November,etc.  Well this year the enlisted (working folk) decided to join in for the fun, and for once Chris decided to join in and here are the results.  Best Mustache for the entire flight...about 42 guys!! The best part is that Kyle LOVES it, and begs Chris to keep it everyday...Chris is undecided!! ;) What do u think??

Natures Beauty

A storybook style spider web...how often do you see these versus the kind that you're peeling off your face after you've run into it while on a bike or something!! :)

Updates to Follow!!

Well, title says it all...as soon as I get my booty in gear after work and hook up Chris's camera to the computer then we will have some more comings and goings for everyone (all two or three of you!!) to see!! ;)

Can u believe it/Start of a birthday weekend

Blake Shelton on Ft. Meade for free two days before Destinee's bday!! Woo-Hoo!! ;)

An American Girl lunch for the American Girl

Here in Tysons Corner for an impromptu birthday shopping trip!!

Umm....what? (gross alert)

Conversation had with Kyle  in car:

Kyle: (who recently was sick) "Why are Destinee's and Dalins throwup green and mine is white?"

Dad: Umm...idk Kyle

Last Summer Fun!!

Well since my post a few times ago about me getting my job again at my kids school, there have definitely been some major stresses with childcare, and mostly the finances to support them...well I figured today that I would try and forget (or at least delay) about them today and let the kids play for a little bit at the fabulous parks right in our neighborhood (besides our HOA charges us for them each month, might as well use them!!) and they had a blast....

A Dream come true...

Kinda dark but maybe you can see Destinee standing with another little girl....well a cutout that is, of Kalani, the 2011 American Girl of the Year...now if anyone is not acquainted with American Girl,they are a doll company that specializes in period historical and everyday girls that are supposed to look like the girls that purchase them...the part that I like about them the most is that the company (through the dolls) teach wonderful lessons to girls about being true to themselves,how to have manners,etc...Unfortunately for Destinee,who has loved them for quite some time,the dolls are $100 and for us that's pretty steep so she has two actually...from Michaels...but they look just as pretty I think and we can do more things to accessorize them at $20 a piece, instead of $100...but anyway they until a few months ago have only had A.G. stores to visit as close as NY,but recently one in the Tysons Corner,VA mall opened and so we made the trek today to just kinda "window shop" and enjoy a dealve into some Destinee time!! :)

Well...I'm in!!

For better (lovin what I do and lookin forward to going to work every morning) or worse (not liking it and not making enough to even cover child care)...I got my job back that I had last year at my kids school minus the boring lunch duty part...instead I'm full time as the special ed aid..I guess it's silly that I'm so excited just to be able to eat lunch with someone else now on a regular schedule...whoowhoo!! :)

A Newest Creation!!

Made this diaper cake for a good friend of mine...usually I'm afraid I won't do a good job of something all by myself and so I ask for help from Chris..but this time I decided to put on my "big girl pants" and try it and I love it if I do say so myself!! However it was Destinee's idea to put the flowers in the  middle container that is used to anchor the diapers...mauve the creative gene is starting to develop at last in her!! :)

My Little Hottie Patottie!!

So we got this little ensemble yesterday at kohls for $8...
Ralph Lauren vest and Osh Kosh shorts....the second picture with him in the middle of a laugh is me telling him the Sunbeams in his primary class (he's the only little boy that comes on a regular basis) were gonna think he was so cute that they might all try to "maa" (our word for kiss) him and he thought that was funny!! ;)

Can u imagine!!??

I was afraid my car might spontaneously combust with a temperature reading like that!!

Try again!!

Here's the picture of the two right next to each other...

Baby Fives and Daddy Fives

Anyone who is even remotely an outdoorsy type person will have heard of vibram five fingers and the benefits of "barefoot" walking...well they make them in kid sizes as well as adult and we just so happened to find some in both Dalin and Kyle sizes...these happen to be the smallest size they make...in Kyle's size!! He was ecstatic to have the awesome "gorilla toe shoes" like Daddy does.

A Recent Creation!!

Saw this on a friends sewing and craft blog that is an envy to me for sure...but this is my interpretation of her lovely "library skirt"...do the steps of cloth make more sense now I hope...they're the binding edge of books...some laying down, slanted, and up and down just like in a typical bookcase (at least mine!!) And the selvedge edge of each fabric that of course usually is thrown away becomes the title of the books!! I thought it turned out cute!! :)

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Maybe No Good Will Come...But??

Well, since I know this blog is sometimes the quickest way that my mom can "get the info" on my family...(and anybody else who cares too I guess!!) ;) I got my Parapro test scores (the teaching assistant test I posted about earlier,wish I knew how to do one of those linky things to refer back to that post, but alas computer and technologically illiterate!!) back and as far as Chris and I can interpret the scores, I got the highest score possible,even though I missed three of 90 questions (not bad odds though,right!!??) as there were some questions that did not count for scoring...so anyway, did really well, celebrate and feel great that I prepared well and did well, but now what?? I was pretty much told at the end of this last school year that I would be in the bottom of the pecking order to be in line for a TA job because of other teachers from other schools having first pick to move there if their particular job was "excessed" from another school. So what a bummer to know that maybe I did well for no one to recognize,but even if I can have back the job I had this past year,I would be elated as I truly loved almost every minute of it!! ;)

Chris says,"Does it get any better!!??"

As anyone who knows Chris knows, he believes (sometimes I actually believe he thinks this) God gave Adam and Eve cheesecake as a peace offering to having being kicked out of the lovely Garden of Eden, and so imagine his delight at seeing a "drive-thru" cheesecake place appropriately named "Cheesecake Heaven!!" We had just had dinner so we didn't get any but definetely picture worthy!! ;)

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Crafts at the Daycare!!

No I'm not running a daycare (officially) but with my extra little tagalog for two weeks makes it seem like it. A very"authentic"looking indian headdress on dalin!! :) Then some Korean Paper lanterns.

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