This is my kids new favorite cartoon to watch. It's totally from the 80's. They love it and watch it on hulu.

Ten on Tuesday

1. Caleb started taking his first steps yesterday. Sadly I wasn't there to see it and when I got home he just wanted me to hold him. But He did it again today! He only take like two or three steps but we all get very excited!!! I tried to post a video but after waiting like 15 minutes for it to download I gave up. It was a horrible video anyways but I just wanted to document it.

2. Caleb likes to pull on the letter magnets off the fridge. Today I gave him a container and showed him how to put them in and he liked it. Kept him busy for about 15 minutes.

3. It's been a long known fact that we have too many toys in our house. I've wanted to rotate them for a long time but haven't done it. I took action today. Just a small action. I went through Caleb's baby toys and books and divided them in to three groups. I put two away and kept one out. It makes for a much neater shelf! But storage is limited too so finding a place to store the extra toys is challenging.

4. While I was putting the baby books in one of the closets I discovered that I have a lot of brown paper grocery bags. So the kids and I made some masks out of them.

Daniel, Brianna, and Matthew

Here's mine.

Caleb didn't have one so we just put a basket on his head.

5. Daniel convinced me to not put a pull up on him last night. He went to the bathroom before bed and when he does that he often wakes up dry in the morning. He was so sure that if he had to go pee he would wake up and go. I was awaken at about midnight by him. He was totally soaked. I just love taking off pee clothes in the middle of the night. There's no way I was going to change his sheets at that hour so I just let him sleep with me.

6. Danny worked on the set of a new HBO movie today. Pretty cool.

7. I've started helping coach on a softball team. Getting back into the game again. I'm wanting to start giving pitching lessons. Hoping to start making some money on the side that way.

8. I'm watching Super Troopers right now. It's one of Danny's favorite movies.

9. I've decided that I want to move to a place where I can live on a lake. But I would like to take my California weather, my church, my parents, my in laws, and Brianna's school. Maybe a few friends too.

10. My aunt Norma passed away on Sunday. She's my dad's sister and lived in Missouri. When I was growing up my family went to Kansas and Oklahoma every summer. (That's where my dad is from and all his side of the family lives.) My aunt Norma and Uncle Bill lived on Grand Lake in Grove, Oklahoma. I have so many memories of being on the lake there with my family. I haven't seen my aunt in many years. I wish I could of gone back for her funeral. My heart is really sad.

This Week

I couldn't find my camera for several days and missed a lot of photo opportunities. Of course I then found it in my purse. Ya know, I was a lot smarter before I had kids. They better use all the brain juice they've sucked from me for good.

Here's some shots of the kids and their cousins.

Chris all dressed up to fight the dragon.

Brianna holding the princess, king, cowboy for ransom.

I took pictures of all the kids sleeping. They are so peaceful!

Daniel

Matthew

This one of Brianna is my favorite because she fell asleep with her Bible next to her. She made me promise that we would look up Matthew 17:20 in the morning (her VBS Bible verse)

Beautiful Alyssa

Chris

Jesse

I took a couple of the kids with me to a swim party that Brianna was invited to. Daniel jumped into the water and as he did he turned around and knocked his chin on the ledge of the pool. Here's the gash he got. I was afraid that he would have to go get stitches. The bleeding stopped pretty quick and I tried to close it up with a band aid. He should be alright. Here's the picture Danny took to show Daniel.

I got a hair do make over yesterday. I think Alyssa's goal was to use every barrette we had.

All the kids at VBS.

Caleb is getting brave. Still not walking though.

Ten on Tuesday

Let's see how quick I can come up with ten things to type. It's now 11:05 pm. I need to get to bed so I need to make this quick. I guess I can count this as 1.

2. My brother's kids are staying with us this week. Two boys and one girl. So we now have seven kids at our house. Someone said I was insane and I think I am. I love my nephew and neice so much though that I'm willing to deal with the insanity.

3. 5 out of the 7 kids are in VBS this week. The theme is Big God. It's based on the men and women in the Hall of Faith in Hebrews. Jesse and Daniel didn't like it the first night but Bri, Alyssa, and Chris loved it! I went to pick them up the second night and Jesse had a huge smile on his face the whole time I was spying on him during their ending worship! He said he liked it tonight. That made me so happy. Daniel said that he still didn't do anything. I know that's not true because i spied on him and saw him doing a craft. He's my child that doesn't really like new things. He tends to have a hard time adjusting. He'll probably love it by Friday, then it'll end.

4. I've been asking each of the kids what they like best about VBS. I am so stoked that when they tell me what they did they always talk about the Bible story. They relate what ever they liked best to the story. So far they've told me all about Rahab, Jericho(Joshua), Moses, and David and Goliath. This is the first time attending VBS at Reality. I am very impressed and delighted at how the kids are talking about the Bible stories.

5. My heart is very sad. Little Daisy Love (six years old), who just finished her chemo treatment for cancer two months ago is now back in the hospital. She has another tumor the size of a grapefruit in her abdomen. She has the biopsy in the morning. Many are praying for the tumor to be benign or just plain not there anymore.

Having a daughter her age just adds to my heartache.

6. My son woke up at 5:40 this morning. I did not like it! I left him in his bed (which is in our room) and kept sshhhing him and telling him to lay down and go night night. He never went back to sleep but did lay back down and keep relatively quiet tille 6:30. Can you see now why I need to get to bed.

7. I have a confession to make. Today was the first beautiful sunny day in Ventura in a long time and I took the kids to Chuck E Cheese. I know, I know, it was a perfect pool or beach day. It's just that we already had it planned before we saw the beautiful sunshine. Oh well, I'm taking some of them to a pool party tomorrow. Hopefully the sun stays around.

8. My uncle and cousins are coming next week from Kansas. My uncle Vic is my dad's twin brother. For those that know my dad, yes there's two of him. His daughter, my cousin Ann Marie has two boys that I've never met and she's never met my kids. We are so excited!

9. I've been stressing out and debating for quit some time about getting a job. I have some new ideas that I'm excited about. I don't know how or if they will work out. I need to be more assertive in my pursuits. We'll see.

10. It is now 11:26 so it took me a little over 20 minutes to write this post. Good night!

Cow Appreciation Day @ Chick Fil A

We are quit a bunch! Here are our cow costumes for free food! Daniel wanted to be an alien cow, hence the green. Brianna, Daniel and I had a lot of fun making our costumes although it took more time then I probably should of spent on it. My goal was to make this a real "FREE" meal so I didn't buy anything to make the costumes. I just used what I could find at the house.

Look, Bri has cow slippers. Who knew that these hand me down slippers would come in handy.

Look at that hunky cow in the middle! He's hot!

The sign on Caleb's back. The cows would be so proud!

Family picture with the Chick Fil A cow.

Grandma and Bri doing crafts together.

Grandma found a cow hat to wear. She didn't want to dress up. She said she would rather pay for her food then dress up like a cow. We were happy to have her company!

My two cow boys

Matthew and grandma enjoying some good chicken.

I think grandma is trying to make Caleb laugh.

Caleb and his big sissy.

My alien cow loves me!

Daddy and daughter

I love my alien cow.