Christmas Eve Memories!

For Christmas Eve each year I love to go to my mom and dad and decorate cookies, watch a christmas movie and exchange gifts. We decided to all meet at 6 and have dinner. Dad preped and cooked and did an amazing job on the food.

It was so yummy....he made christmas cake, and ham and turkey, we had rolls, and I brought some sugar cookies and the stuff to decorate them. There was lots of other treats too like pumkin pie etc.

We have a cute video of Shailey laughing for those who don't know she is Brandon and Sabrina's baby girl she is about 1 and 1/2. She is such a sweet little girl. She loves everyone and, well they are just really lucky to have such a good little girl! I know there is alot of back ground noise but her laugh is just so cute.

Some of us got into our new christmas jammies and watch Fred Clause, other's decorated Sugar Cookies to leave for Santa. I think that everyone had a really great time. The party ended around 10 and then we (my family) headed to bennington to look at all of the christmas lights...then it was home to bed.....I am rude and forgot to take a pic of Jentz and JosLynn all tucked in their beds with visions of sugar plums dancing in their heads but I did get one of Andrew......

It Turned Out to Be a really great night. I love Christmas Eve for some reason it is my favorite day....there is still excitement, and you get to open a few presents, but you get to do all of the christmasy stuff that I love. One of the neatest things that my family does that we have a beautiful red box that gets passed around year to year. This is the fourth year we have been doing it. My husband recieved it this year and he was so touched. You see when someone goes through a trial and they pull through or when they have really set their mind to something and achieved that goal....or when they have been especially kind, well these are some of the many reasons they would recieve the box. My dad got it last year because of how hard he fought to not let the cancer take him from us....so this year my Josh got it for being so helpful to my parents. I am sorry if that makes me so proud.....but it does and it is true. Josh truely loves my parents and is more than willing to help them with anything that they need. I think in a world that make so many feel unappreciated for the little stuff it is so nice to get recognized for what we do for others. Josh said it was the best gift that he had ever got for Christmas, plus dad threw in a remote control car that Josh races with Drew's remote everyday and he things that is really awsome....because he really wanted one....I laughed and asked why it wasn't on his list.....but those are the kinds of things that I look forward to at Christmas time. I love to give presents and see the joy and happiness in their faces as they open their suprise. I tend to go over board especially with my own family......I guess it is just in my nature to give. I hope that everyone had a Merry Christmas. Oh and I almost forgot.....the best gift I got this year was this.......

This is a sucker tree. When I was a little girl there was a kind man that lived in Bennington named Ben Bunderson and he made sucker trees for everyone in Bennington. So he brought the trees with a sack of suckers, then the next year he brought a sack of suckers and for many years as long as I can remember until he got to old to do it he would bring a bag of suckers for our sucker tree. So my dad made me a sucker tree.... I was so excited, I couldn't believe it and this....THIS is the best Christmas present that I have ever gotten. Thanks dad....I love it and I love you!

What a Week!

So, "Christmas Time is my Favorite time".....I sing that most days and Josh of course rolls his eyes at me. Drew was a really big help decorating the christmas tree. I am sure you are thinking WOW that looks amazing.....well don't be fooled it doesn't stay the same.....each and every day atleast 300 times Drew finds a new way that the decorations should go. It now has candy canes on it also. When I told him he could put them on I was doing the dishes, when I came in to see.....he had 7 candy canes on one branch....I laughed so hard. He is such a funny kid. This is my new tree I got on clearance last year the day after christmas for 60.00. It is a 400.00 tree so I was really excited and I love it. Josh has been pretty verbal about how not having a "real" tree is ruining his life......I think he will get over it....I hope for my sanity! I will have to take more pics of it when the lights are on. I am glad that Drew does not try to trash the tree he just moves things around. He is really good about being careful with things or not touching things if I tell him they are a "decoration".

Our tradition is to decorate the tree on Friday after Thanksgiving and things were just to hectic so we ended up doing it on Monday night. We turn on Christmas music and it is just way fun. Jentz and JosLynn missed out this year and I feel bad about that, but hopefully they will be here next year.

So our next amazing adventure was "The Sickness" here are Josh and Drew getting some zzzzz's trying to fight off this evil bug called the Flu. I don't think they had the real flu because they weren't throwing up but they were aching and had sore throats and coughs. Pretty misreable. The Drew got pink eye and its gone now but, now I have pink eye.....in both eyes.....AMAZING! So they are better and I am on the mend trying to get well. Josh and Drew went to work and day care today and so I can get some rest....I hope that I can.

I hope that everyone is having a great holiday season. Christmas is my favorite. I save money all year round to spoil our kids and my hubby. I love you all and will post again soon.

I am a dirtbag!

So I am really good at this blog thing! Yeah right~! Well, updates.......Drew is in Preschool at the Snuggle Bunny Academy and he is in day care 2 days a week at Sherri's Daycare. He loves them both but it is hard to get him motivated in the mornings. He has a hard time understanding why he can't just go whenever he wants, instead of set days. His halloween party is tomorrow and he is going to be a spider again this year. Congrats to all the parents out there who have kids that want to dress up. He doesn't want to. I took him to look at costumes and everyone he said "It is cute, but I don't like to dress up mom. I already told you 3 times." He says that about everything....I already told you 3 times.

He also says "I didn't do it!" I was tell my sister today that last night I smelled smoke and went into his bedroom and he had been playing with two of my hair brushes and put them on his lamp and they were melting and smoking. I, of course, screamed and then said Drew why would you do that. And he got this weird face and said, "I didn't do it, maybe it was you or dad." I said uh, me and dad wouldn't try to melt my brushes. Why did you do that, and he said "because I did" then he said sorry, then he had 5000 questions about why the bulb was black and where was I taking his lamp and what was that smell. He then said, "why didn't you want me to start a fire mom," I said becuase then there would be a fire. He said, " Mommy da fire man says STOP DROP ROLL if there is a fire and it is going to burn you up." So, preschool is paying off, just kidding they are wonderful but he is such a smart kid. I have a strong suspision that he will also be a smart elic but that is good as long as he is respectful right. In our family we love to laugh and he keeps us rolling in it. His new thing is that he loves to ride his (imaginary) motorcycle and he makes me say red light green light. That doesn't ever get old! But I do it. He loves it when his brother and sister come over, he loves playing with kids. That is most of the reason I send him to the daycare is so that he can learn to share and play, and mostly play play play. Since I work at home it is hard to balance it all. I always feel bad when I am working with him here because he gets so bored. So it has been a great thing for me and him. We have both been sick this week and so that has been hard. We have been together like 2 peas in a crowded, sneezing, coughing, annoying pod since thursday with no breaks from each other except for tuesday when he went to school for 3 hours. 3 hours, it seems like a long time.......but it just flys by. You other mothers know what I am talkin about! Hello my name is Deidra and I am a TVaholic! That is right, I am addicted! I love tv and I can't get enough of it. I have been doing better, see I am writing on the blog, finding other things to do.........I just thought that I would get it out in the open.........And the most exciting news of my like is that I got a dishwasher today. I thought that I was getting one February 14th of 04 when I married Josh, ha ha, just kidding honey! We haven't had a dishwasher since we have been married and I am just getting sick of it. I don't want to cook, I just want a dishwasher. It became almost a swear word. DISHWASHER! So it was delivered today and I am just waiting for Josh to get home to help me get it going! I am pretty dang proud of my hubby, he works hard. I always sing him the song "he works hard for the money, so hard for it honey, he works hard for the money so you better treat him right." I know that it is her instead of him and it is about a prostitute, so it is not the same thing, but it makes him smile and at the end of the day.............that is all that really matters!

Dr. Timidy

Well our little man has cavitites.....I know, you are thinking "what kind of mother are you!" Well, not a whole lot I can do, wait I could brush his teeth! I am kidding I do brush his teeth........give me a break guys! Anyway so we had the initial visit where he got to ride in the chair and they looked at his teeth. We have taken Chris in the past and all Drew has been talking about is going to the dentist and getting one of those bags with the toothbrush and floss......so I tried to explain to him that they cost over $100.00 and he doesn't believe me. Since Josh and I started working for ourselves we X'd the dental insurance. OUT OF POCKET! So it was his turn to go to get a cavity filled. On the way to town he asked me, "mom, do you think the dentist knows what hims doing?" I naturally (well because I do) said yes I do believe that he knows what he is doing. "So mom, he is duna pix mine cabities?" Yes I told him and everything will be fine. Oh, I better back up to the part where I had to give him medicine an hour before, I took half of the popscicle out of an orange popscicle (cause the medicine was orange) and filled it up and then told him that the popscicle was melting and he better hurry and suck out the jiuce. So, I had a drink ready, and when he sucked that down the gaging and the screaming and the spitting began and I had him take a drink and he said, "mommy, dat was furcusting!" I am pretty worried about the next medication trickery that I will have to come up with. So he goes into the dentist and he did really good and when he was done he came out and said, "Mom Dr. Timidy is mine best friend!" For those of you who don't know his name is really Dr. Timothy, but we love how he says Timidy and he talks about him all the time. I am hoping that he won't have to spend a lot of quality time with Dr. Timidy $$$$$$$ but I am glad that he had a good experience and isn't scared. We are in the process of buying our 3rd investment home to flip. Life is busy and I complain a lot.........I know right, you are like "you, compalin, never!" Sorry friends that was a thing on the past. I complain, because I hurt! I hate it! The other cute thing that I wanted to share is that there is a phrase that Drew says all the time when he gets mad and doesn't want to do what we ask he yells, "Noooo, Neverrrrr!" It is a scream! He is too funny. He loves camping and outdoors. I am so greatful that he is happy and healthy! Love to all, Deidra

See I have brused his teeth since he was just little!

August 2008

Well the new month has started. Only like 19 days until school starts. CRAZY! Drew will be starting Pre-School and he is pretty excited. I am really hoping that he will go and like it. He gets so nervous around other kids and especially when there are alot of people, he gets scared. We were looking through some pictures tonight and we came accross this one. Christmas of 2006. He was 1 and 1/2. I remember that I was telling him that he was going to get presents and these are the faces that he pulled............

AND

He is just so cute. I know that it was along time ago, but it is always fun to look back.

I found out this week that I have fibromyalgia. I was pretty upset at first because for the last 5 months I have been trying to get off of all Rx meds and use herbal vitamins and now I have another prescription. I hurt all of the time and am tired all of the time. It was a really sad reality for me to face at age 27............I am getting old........not appreciated! Anyway everyone hang in there, because I know that we all have our own trials.

Love, Deidra

Our Summer Adventures

These are a few of the fun things that we have done this summer................

So I was really scared, my heart was beating, I am sure that Josh was scared since he was on there with him, but everyone lived and Drew had a blast. Most of my days start out with Drew staring at me until I opn my eyes and then he says mom it is time to wake up.........how bout I dribe my 4 widder!

Other summer fun included Fishing With Uncle Curt & then later with Dallas, Miranda, Baylee & Morgon...........

Just sittin in my cool chair waiting on a bite~


Me, Dallas, Miranda and Morgon!

I caught a fish!!!!!! Okay Dad helped....just a little bit though!

We we have another campout this weekend................With my brother's and sister and mom and dad. I am excited and hope that we all have a good time. I will let you know..........

Our Little Dirt Ball

Hi there, It has been a really long time since I put up a post. We have been really busy with all of the fun things that summer time has to offer. Camping! I say it with an exclamation point because.......well.......it needs one! I think that BC (before children) I really did love camping. I feel like I am getting old and everything is just a hassel. Josh thinks that it is AWSOME! I'm all "whatev". So we have been doing a lot of camping. This is Drew on his "motorbikecycle" his words.........I know, so cute! Anyway he takes it everywhere and is trying really hard to learn how to peddle. We went camping over to the lake this weekend with the Baker heathens and that was really fun. The funny part for me was that everyone noticed the my child is like the energizer bunny on steroids drinking a rock star and never taking a break. For those of you that didn't understand that.........he never stops running! They are all, "Hey Deidra did you know that your kid never stops running?" Did I know that, are you serious............Duh! Drew loved everyminute of the beach and Josh and I really loved seeing all of the family and visiting. I miss them so much and wish that I could see them more. There were some campers that made me crazy..........they were having a party at their camp............listening to 2Pac (the rapper). NIGHTMARE! So we got our kids some little 4-wheelers. I know you are thinking........do you want them to die........the answer is no. We are hoping that they will be careful. Drew is still way little for his and so me or Josh have to ride on the back with him because he can't reach the brakes and he can just barely push the throttle............so this is the conversation....."Mommy, you know how you telled me dat I tan't ride my 4widder by mineself until I learn to drived it." me....."Yes", Drew "well I learned how to dribe it and so you tan't ride on my 4widder anymore." I was all "what", I explained to him that just because he rode it once doesn't mean that he knows how to "dribe" it. He rolled his little naughty eyes and walked off. So I guess the 4widder will just be one more andventure for me to write to you all about. I love you and think of you often. Hope to hear from you on my comments! Love Deidra