Kira Is Growing Up

Kira had a special visit last night! A magical creature named the tooth fairy stopped in for a moment to trade her first baby tooth for some money. She was so excited that she couldn't sleep. Around 2:30 am she came in and woke me up and said that she didn't feel well and that the tooth fairy still hadn't taken her tooth. She was quite distraught. Well I had completely forgotten that the tooth fairy was supposed to come so I hugged her for a few minutes and assured her that the tooth fairy wouldn't forget to come and that she needed to be asleep before she would come. She trudged off to bed only slightly less disappointed.

We all fell back to sleep until 5:10 am when I heard an excited squeal from the bottom of my bed, I looked up to see a toothless grin spread from ear to ear on Kira's face. She skipped around the bed and said, "Mom the tooth fairy left two dollars, can I turn on the light?"

"Oh, how exciting! But no you can't turn on the light, I'm still sleeping." I said.

"But mom," Kira continued. "What if it's 2 ten dollars?"

"Well that would be a Christmas miracle wouldn't it." I retorted. "Trust me it's only 2 one dollar bills, the tooth fairy couldn't afford to give every one 20 bucks for their teeth."

I tried uselessly for the next several minutes to get her to go back to bed to no avail. She eventually ended up on the couch playing her Nintendo for an hour. Then she climbed into bed with me around 6 or so and went back to sleep. Hurray!

This is a picture of Kira doing her own hair for the first time. She also picked out her own outfit. It's so sad, my baby Kira is growing up right before my eyes!

Ambition

It has been a month of low ambition at my house. It's not that I didn't have a lot to do, like clean my house bathe my children, help kira with school projects and plenty of primary activities. But after the last 4 crazy filled months in my life I had a winter low and all I really accomplished was reading 10 books since January first. Some were good, some were great, and one or two weren't even worth mentioning.
But other than books taking me away to a nice little imaginary world where everyone's problems are solved in under 500 pages I did get a few things done. I planned and ran a Mom's and Son's game night with our PTA that included delightful games such as; Butt charades, spew and rubber chicken, among others. It turned out to be really fun in the end!
Now I have to help plan a Daddy Daughter night. We were going to have a dance for them with games while they danced so if anyone has any ideas please let me know!

A month in the life of the Anderson's

I am working through the Holiday season so I don't know how often I will be able to blog (weep, weep) so I thought I'd take a minute and do one post for the month.

Ode to Christmas Shopping

I think Christmas shopping so very stressful
trying to find something to make everyone blissful
It gives me a headache, it takes lots of time,
and everyone's response, "oh, it's just fine."
So this year I'm ready to throw in the towel
and give in to my mood that I admit's rather foul.
My kids will get coal, my husband an old jeep,
And me, well I think I'll just go to sleep!

Really I love Christmas and I love finding unique things that people love. I just wasn't feeling well today.

I would like to invite everyone to write a little something about Christmas and help try to change my opinion. Hopefully I will have a minute to post a more cheerful message next week!

Merry Stinkin' Christmas!

High School Tag
My mom tagged me so here goes…
1. DID YOU DATE SOMEONE FROM YOUR SCHOOL? Several someones, there was Jake Wing (yuck), Jason Allred, Doug Parson, Kevin Anderson and some other guys that were already out of high school.
2. WHAT KIND OF CAR DID YOU DRIVE? I was the proud owner of a p.o.s. red 1985 chevy cavalier.
3. DID YOU PASS YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE TEST YOUR FIRST TRY? No, I took the easiest test they offered and failed. Then next test I got was the hardest and didn’t miss any. Go figure.
4. WERE YOU A PARTY ANIMAL? Um, if I’m being honest I was kinda wild in high school.
5. WERE YOU CONSIDERED A FLIRT? I am not really sure, I know I flirted but I really don’t know how I was perceived as far as flirting went.
6. WERE YOU IN BAND, ORCHESTRA, OR CHOIR? No the musical fairy passed me by when I was born so I was the musical outcast of the family.

7. WERE YOU A NERD? Absolutely! I had plenty of people confirm my suspicions. Being a nerd never bothered me though.
8. WERE YOU ON ANY VARSITY TEAMS? No, the sports talent fairy passed me by as well.
9. DID YOU EVER GET SUSPENDED/EXPELLED? Yes, I was suspended my senior year for three days and banished to my Grandparents house in Orangeville to wait out my sentence. I had sluffed 25 too many times in one quarter. I was also almost kicked out of school in January of my senior year but by some miracle I was allowed to do a home bound program and continue my education at home and allowed to graduate so that I would never have to look back and deal with high school again. (thanks mom for helping me get past that part of my life)
10. CAN YOU STILL SING THE FIGHT SONG? No I didn’t attend enough assemblies or games to learn it.
11. WHO WERE YOUR FAVORITE TEACHERS? Mr. Taylor, Coach Gressman, Mrs. Carrillo, Mr. Thompson.
12. WHERE DID YOU SIT FOR LUNCH? My friends and I always left campus and went to Wendy’s or to Gas-n-Go. Most of the time we didn’t eat though.
13. WHAT IS YOUR SCHOOL'S FULL NAME? ---
14. WHAT IS YOUR SCHOOL'S MASCOT AND COLORS? Dinos Blue, White
15. DID YOU GO TO HOMECOMING AND WITH WHO? No, missed that dance every year.
16. IF YOU COULD GO BACK AND DO IT AGAIN WOULD YOU? HELL, NO!
17. WHAT DO YOU REMEMBER MOST ABOUT GRADUATION? That I walked across the stage the rest is pretty fuzzy.
18. WHERE DID YOU GO SENIOR SKIP DAY? I stayed at home in bed.
19. WERE YOU IN ANY CLUBS? no
20. HAVE YOU GAINED SOME WEIGHT SINCE THEN? When I graduated I weighed 85lbs I now weigh a lot more. I am tipping the scales at 117
21. WHO WAS YOUR PROM DATE? My junior year I went with Jason Allred and my senior year I went with Adam Bakelar
22. ARE YOU PLANNING ON GOING TO YOUR 10 YEAR REUNION? I accidentally missed my ten year reunion I wrote down the wrong date. But I had every intention of going. I don’t know if I would have actually had the guts to go or not there are a few people that I would be afraid of running into and not knowing what to say to them.
23. DID YOU HAVE A JOB IN HIGH SCHOOL? Yes I worked at the old Milky Way until it closed between my jr and sr year and then I worked at Mont Harmon as an office aide for half the year until I was home bound and then the superintendent wouldn’t let me keep working.
TAG..... RaeLynn, Mindy, Autumn and LaRae

2nd Tag

6th Picture in my 6th folder

Rock Collecting

In September Izzy woke up one morning and wanted to go outside and find some rocks to add to her collection. I thought it might be fun to take her somewhere new to collect rocks so we headed to the hills with Derek and grandma. We brought ziploc bags for collecting our finds in, while we were there we discovered cactus growing everywhere. The first cactus that we came to I stopped all the kids and pointed it out and told them all that we needed to watch out for the poky cactus because it would hurt them if they stepped on it. That was all it took, every cactus we came across the 3 kids crowded around the dusty green plants and Izzy would tell the two babies to stay away and the babies would point and say "poky, poky!" Although Izzy found lots of rocks for her collection the expedition turned out to be more of a cactus hunt for the other two. It was a great day!

Is this cat real?

Emma has found a new friend down at my mom's house, it's the neighbors male kitten and it loves Emma. Anytime she is at my mom's she stands on the porch and yells "white baby!" as loud as she can and the cat comes running as fast as it can. Here is a video of their favorite past time together, keep in mind when you watch it that they have sat like this for hours. Enjoy!

oops! the video was to big to load--so look at the pictures instead. she sits and bounces the kitten for a half hour at a time. It never loses it's patience.

Kira's Halloween Poems

Witches brooming through the sky
Ghostes saying boo all halloween
Goblins scaring everyone
It must be Hall-o-ween!


trick-or-treat
smell my feet
if you don't I don't care
I'll pull down your underwear

Kira got tagged by Kerstina and I also got tagged so here goes "8 things"

8 things...

8 T.V. shows: (Kira)Spongebob, Kim Possible, Hannah Montana, Halloween Town, iCarly, Fairly Odd Parents, and Avatar.
(Heidi)Law and Order :), House, Phych, Jon Stewart, Avatar, HGTV, and that's about it, I really don't watch very many shows. Although I do have to admit that Fairly Odd Parents makes me laugh! (Don't tell my kids)
8 Things I did yesterday: (Kira)Woke up, had a bath, went to church, came to grandma kelley's, had diarrhea, picked pumpkins at Mary's, went to grandma Jensen's and played, & had diarrhea again.
(Heidi)Awakened to 3 children screaming fighting and coughing, bathed 3 kids, dressed 3 kids, fed 3 kids, went late to church with 3 kids, took 3 kids out to Mary's to pick pumpkins, came home with 4 pumpkins, took 3 kids to my grandma's house, dragged 3 kids out of grandma's screaming, went to bed alone (j/k Kevin was there too, but there were 0 kids).
8 things I'm looking forward too: (Kira)Halloween so I can be a Japanese girl with a fan and parasol, the fan has a birds on flowers; my birthday, Christmas, my birthday, Izzy's birthday, my birthday, Emma's birthday, and MY BIRTHDAY!
(Heidi)Twilight, the next Mercy Thompson novel, the next Pink Carnation book, my next favorite book, Halloween to be over, 8 uninterupted hours of sleep, the next season of "Psych", Christmas
8 things I wish for: (Kira)Puppy grow up, Peek-a-boo's, Japanese dress, little teensy weensy TV back pack, collection of pop bottles, ipod, watch, tons of root beer just for me.
(Heidi)hmm, I think I have nearly everything I could wish for; a great husband, kids, family, friends, house, a cat, and a yard to with dirt to play in. I'm happy!

8 people to tag- I think I'm the last to get this tag finished so I'll tag, Baylor, Hannah, Ellee & Haven, Brody, Coy, Marshall & Madison, Makala & Brayden, Morgan & Carson, and Ethan, Levi, Devin and Adam and anyone else I missed.