The Bunny Robber

Kate had to write a newspaper article for a class assignment. This is what she came up with....

In Little Elm on Saturday afternoon several Egg hunts were scheduled all over town. The only problem was there were no eggs. Police Officers were searching all morning and all night for the egg snatcher. Who ever did it left several clues. The first clue was tiny, cute paw prints. The second clue was carrot crumbs. And finally the third clue was light brown, furry hair. The police had found the thief. It could be no one else other then the Easter Bunny!!!

**sigh**

Braeden is officially the same height as me. I have been holding on to the few inches that made me taller then him, until yesterday. We were walking along side by side when Cary said, "I think Braeden is taller then you." Of course, I disagreed. How can he be taller then me already? He's not even 12 yet and it doesn't seem that long ago that I was holding him in my arms.
So, today I pulled out the measuring tape. We are both 5' 5 1/2". I use to be 5' 6"........I want to know where my other half inch went.

Holes in his pants, holes in his pants...looking like a fool with the holes in his pants

I love my Joshua. He is one of the funniest kids I know. He is sensitive, creative, cuddly, and he adores me.....

BUT this is what he does to his pants. Any and all pants. I don't know how he manages, but he does.

I would like to think I am a proactive mom in trying to prevent this from happening. I patch his pants from the inside to reinforce them from the very beginnings of a hole. I have even patched them when they are new, just because I know how harsh he is on them. This morning as I was getting his clothes for him to get dressed he had absolutely no pants without any holes in them. I thought for sure there had to be just one, but no. I pulled pants after pants out of his drawer with no such luck. I could not send him to school looking like a rag-a-muffin. So, I went to the attic and starting digging through Braeden's old clothes to see if there was anything worth wearing. Down in the bottom of one bucket I found a pair of jeans. Size 12...too big and he still looked like an urchin, but it was way better then any of his other pants he had to wear. Poor kid....I guess we are going shopping this weekend.

Where does he come up with this stuff?

As I was getting Joshua out of the shower tonight he was shivering. I asked him why he was so cold. He told me that he turned the shower on freezing cold for about 30 seconds. I asked him why he did that. His response, "It builds character."

What's been goin' on..

I have been consumed the last few weeks with getting ready for our Youth Pioneer trek so the blog has been somewhat neglected. The trek is over now and I am finally back to "normal life". It took me a few days to recover, but here I am. I have had several things I wanted to blog about so I decided to make one mass post. So here it goes.....

We have done several school projects. One on the great state of Texas, one on how Taco Bell hot sauce can clean pennies, and one (not pictured) on static shock. So glad to have all these done.


Kate has a million animals. I am not exaggerating. One day I found this up in her room. She lined a few of them up to play school. Notice the black stallion at the front of "the class". That's Black Beauty. She was the teacher.

I was invited to an Oscar party a few weeks back. Heather always out does her self. It was a lot of fun, but the Oscars were way to long. We even walked the red carpet.

We have had several Den Meetings in the last few weeks. From baking cookies, to learning about tools, to going over the Bobcat trail....loads of fun! (wink, wink) I still need to post a pic of me in my very stylish Scout shirt. :)

Last but not least....my garage. This is how it looks today. When I got home from the trek on Saturday the tents, sleeping bags, tarps, dutch ovens, and myself were covered in mud. So our garage has become the clean up/drying area for all this stuff. The trek was hard....very hard, but I would do it all over again. I saved the amazing details for my "real journal". I may post on it more later...but this is all you get for now.

It's almost that time again!

Movie Trailers - Movies Blog

Bedtime Stories

We have a nightly ritual of bedtime stories. We read all kinds of books from Skippy Jon Jones to Judy Moody to Artemis Fowl. Last night was a real snoozer. Joshua brought home a book from the school library called "Architecture Explained...The worlds greatest buildings explored and explained." We have been reading the Percy Jackson series so that is what I fully expected to read last night. Joshua insisted on reading the architecture book. This is a sampling of what we read....

"The individual dwelling house has been endlessly interpreted by architects throughout history. The flexibility of the form provided architects with opportunities for experiment and investigation, generating ideas that may later emerge as seminal influences on subsequent trends."

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz........I miss Percy Jackson!

Drumroll please

I know all of you out there in blogger land have been dying with anticipation to see what my new favorite place is, so without further ado it's...

I have only 3 things to say about this place:

1. Cool atmosphere

2. Interesting people

3. Delicious tacos

ps. Thank you to Emily for being the only one who played my little game!! :)

Take a Guess

Do you know where this is?

Maybe this one will help you out.....

Cary took us to this place on Saturday. It just might be one of my new favorites.

No recess....again

I had a conversation with Joshua this morning that went something like this:


Joshua: Mom, what degrees is it suppose to be today?
Me: I think it is suppose to be in the 40's
Joshua: Yes!! We will be able to go outside today for recess.
Me: Um, probably not. It is suppose to rain off and on all day.
Joshua: We never get to go outside for recess. It is always to cold or something. Yesterday when we finally did get to go outside they took the soccer ball away from us. They want all the kids in America to be fat.
Me: ha ha ha!

Joshua cracks me up. He is always so funny without even trying. I know he was deadly serious when he said "they want all the kids in America to be fat" but it made me laugh. I say let the poor kids have recess. What's wrong with being a little bit cold or wet. They will survive!

14 years and 1 day

That's how long Cary and I have been married. We celebrated our 14th wedding anniversary yesterday. Wow...that's a long time. Cary is so thoughtful and is always trying to surprise me in different ways. Earlier this week we were watching Bobby Flay's Throwdown(actually I was watching it, he was suffering threw it). I said to him that I would love to eat some of Bobby's food. So, yesterday he did some research and bought all the ingredients for a dinner and dessert originally created by Chef Flay. He then came home and made me dinner and the most sinful brownies ever. Cary always makes me feel special and beautiful and I am so lucky to have him. I love him more today then the day we were married.

This is what our sweet little Kate made for us......

Snowmaggedan

Holy Snowfall!! It started snowing yesterday early, early morning and didn't stop until after we went to bed last night. Cary said he had heard that our area hasn't had this much snow since 1840something. I think we got something like 10 inches. The kids are in heaven.

This picture is from this morning...I took this picture in the same spot I took the one I posted yesterday. The picture/photographer doesn't do this scene justice. The trees are absolutely gorgeous!


These next few pictures are from yesterday. As soon as the kids got home they were headed outside to have some fun.




This is what our snowman, Herbert looked like this morning after a night of snow. Poor guy!
The rest of the pictures are from our fun today. We had a snowball fight, attempted sledding on cookie sheets and cardboard boxes, tried to build a snow fort, but mostly are enjoying the beauty before it all melts.

Global Warming....whatever!!

This is what we woke up to this morning. Global Warming is a bunch of bologna. We have lived in the Dallas area for the last 12 years and I think this winter we have had more snow fall then we have ever had. At any rate it's more then I care for...my toes are ready to break out my socks and shoes and she the warm sunshine. The snow is beautiful, but it is to darn cold. The kids on the other hand are super excited and hope that it stays around long enough for them to get home to play in it.

It's my Birthday.....again

How come this day comes quicker and quicker each and every year? Remember when you were a kid and it seemed like forever until your next birthday? Those were the days. I really don't mind the birthday part. I love being spoiled for the day and my family is really good at that. It's the aging that I hate.....34. UGH! Cary asked me what I wanted for my birthday this year. I told him Botox. He thought it was funny, but I wasn't joking. Ok..maybe I was a little. But ask me in a few years and I might be totally up for it.

Cream Cheese Banana Bread

This may be the best banana bread I have ever had.

3/4c. butter, softened
1 8oz. pkg. cream cheese, softened
2c. sugar
2 eggs
3c. flour
1/2t. baking powder
1/2t. baking soda
1/2t. salt
3 ripe bananas
1c. chopped pecans, toasted (optional)
1/2t. vanilla

Beat butter and cream cheese until creamy. Add sugar, beat until fluffy. Add eggs. Combine flour and next 3 ing. just until blended. Stir in mashed bananas, pecans, and vanilla. Spoon batter into 2 greased and floured 8x4in. loaf pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour; shielding with foil last 15 minutes.