Happenings

We've been super busy and are looking forward to Christmas break! Blurb was having a sale so I made our 2008 album! I can't wait to get it; it was 83 pages! So much fun to see Cooper as a baby!
So here are a few pics of what's going on around here!



Basketball games....lots of them!



The kids have been playing "ship" in Kellyns bath tub.



We got and decorated our tree. We also attempted a family pic for Christmas cards.....it turned out okay, not the amazing picture of all of us I had envisioned.



I've been trying to get a little exercise in to loose some unwanted lbs!



And she is going so fast until she just collapses.....hope everyone is having a good holiday season! Christmas is just around the corner!

Blurb!

So I am in the process of turning my blog into books! I started with 2007. I am using blurb, and I love it. I think blogging might be the best thing I do for our family. I'm going to do it by years, so here is to starting 2008....it's full of blogs so it'll take a while. I mentioned to a friend I have often thought about stopping the blog, but I got my book and now I don't ever want to stop! This is blog is going to provide us with great family yearbooks!

Busy busy busy

So it's that time of year for basketball! Our week has looked like this.....Monday night Jeremy had Coopers practice, Tuesday night JV game, tonight team dinner, tomorrow first varsity game at Tonkawa, Friday night second varsity game at Frontier, Saturday am Cooper's game, followed by Senior breakfast.....oh I'm shooting a ballet for 2 days in there somewhere. I'm worn out just reading this, but I wouldn't have it any other way!



My kids love these boys!



Kellyn loves ice cream cake roll!

Thanksgiving

Well I did a horrible job of taking any pictures of Thanksgiving, it went by seriously fast, like I blinked and it was over. So we managed a quick trip to Texas to visit the inlaws for lunch and then headed back to my parents house in time for some left overs and decorating Gingerbread houses. Which is fun with little kids....don't believe me, see for yourself. (I managed to remember to snap a few pics!)

The last one is my finished house, it turned out pretty good. I should've taken a pic of all the ones, there were some good ones this year! I hope everyone else had a great Thanksgiving....here's to a great basketball season! Cause it's starting again!

30!

Jeremy joined the 30's decade last week. (Yes, if you're keeping track, I am older then him.) Since our schedule is so crazy busy right now with basketball gearing up, we just had a little "surprise" party at home. Cooper always likes to jump out and say "surprise, happy birthday!" So I gave him a reason to. We decorated the house and turned the lights out and waited about 15 minutes in the dark. The kids were so excited and couldn't wait for him to come home. I made manicotti for dinner because it's one of his favorites, and I don't make it a lot. For the cake we did a spice cake/white cake, it was delicious. (The next day the poor cake ended up on the floor courtesy of Maddie.) So happy birthday to Jeremy, I hope his day was great!

(Kellyn snuck some cake, she is getting very good at getting whatever she wants to eat....)

Double header

So I had to drive back from the play Friday night because Cooper had his first basketball game at 9:00 Saturday morning! It works better for me to drive back late and my parents were coming, so I left Maddie with them, since she was already asleep on the drive to their house from the Civic Center.

Jeremy's dreams have come true and Cooper started basketball. After having to deal with some scheduling issues we started up last week with our first practice and game! I feel like I never realize how busy we are starting now until I look at a calendar. (or maybe until I try to add more things to our schedule)It's a pretty controlled game, no fast breaks, and the kids have to stay on their dots until the ball is shot, so it's 2 slow 15 minute quarters. At least the clock keeps running. Jeremy and I are co-coaching, but really he is just doing it. Those parents don't know how lucky they are.....

 

 

Of course our day wouldn't be complete without following up the first basketball game with our last soccer game of the season at 10:30! So the boys have improved some, I think mostly they learned we changed directions at half time. But I think everyone had fun. I found a place online to get some little inexpensive medals since it was most of their first time to play a sport. I think they liked their medals. It was so incredibly windy on Saturday, but they scored a couple of goals against the wind, so I was proud of them!



So next weeks double header will consist of basketball game at 9:00 and Senior breakfast start at 10:30, so we will be rushing home to cook for the boys, but it's a smaller group this time, so a little easier. Oh and I'm not pregnant so that makes everything easier!

Mary Poppins

In quite the contrast to my super loud and rocking Thursday evening, Friday night turned into a night out with the girls. We have season tickets to the Broadway shows at the Civic Center. I love musicals, I saw 13 when I spent the summer in NYC. I think they are so fun, it's nice cause it isn't something you do all the time. (Unless you're a semi permanent resident of NYC) So Jeremy wasn't going to come to Mary Poppins (I haven't the slightest idea why!) so for my date I invited my dear friend Brittany. I know she doesn't get away from her girls much, so the original plan was for Kellyn and I to come to OKC Friday afternoon, eat dinner, Kellyn was hanging out with Aunt Colby for the night, and then I'd pick her up and drive back to Newkirk. But when my Grandma's stand in date, my cousin Charlie decided to bail, we thought Maddie would love it. (Which ended up beautiful cause I got to see Ryan Seacrest Aerosmith out of that.) Then after the concert Daniel decided he was out, so that's when I called Brittany on Friday morning and talked her into to bringing Molly. Those girls were too cute....see for yourself!

My Dad spoiled them like a good Granddad should and bought them these Mary Poppins dolls. They held them through the whole show, they clapped, oohed, and awed. They did really good until the technical difficulty pause in the 2nd act, which was past 10, so I'm proud of them. (Molly calls my parents grandma and granddad, so cute!) I guess their mom and I are forcing them to be best friends, which is okay. Every girl needs a life long friend!

And I was just happy to have the massive chocolate cake from Iron Star BBQ before hand, if you haven't had it from Cheever's or there, you're totally missing out. So amazingly good...obviously I'm starving and I need to be eating that.....and 1 piece is enough for a crowd. In my next post I'll feature why I had to drive back to Newkirk after the late show....I got home at 1:30 am!