1st Snow Day!!!

Britain was the only one brave enough to go outside

BRRR!!!

Aspen's 10th Birthday Photos

All Of Aspen's Wonderful Gifts

Her Oreo Ice Cream Cake

Birthday Dinner at Applebee's


Opening Presents

We Love Aspen So Much!!!
Happy 10th Birthday Baby!!!

Aspen's Favorite Things:

Colors: Light Blue, Lime Green
Food: Ramen Noodles
Best Friend: Abby Laycock
TV Show: ICarly
Sport: Basketball
Hobby: Singing
Thing To Wear: Jeans
Song: Nobody's Perfect (Miley Cyrus)
You Belong With Me (Taylor Swift)
What I Want To Be When I Grow Up: Famous Singer
Activity: Drama at School
Boys You Like At School: Jackson Rose
Things To Play With: Karaoke Machine
Collections: Webkinz (25)

My Mom's Annual Halloween Party

Mom, Ryan (as a girl), Me, Gary, Reynna, Aspen and Britain

Aspen Celebrates her 10th Birthday at School

Today Aspen celebrated her 10th birthday at school. We brought glazed donuts to share with her class. The birthday tradition in Mrs. Johnson's class is for the class to rock out on an air guitar and sing Happy Birthday. Here is a picture of Aspen rockin out! I can't believe my baby girl is going to be officially 10 on Sunday! Where does the time go!

Britain Playing Flag Football

Britain has the green pants on. I really need a camera with a better zoom. It was a different experience for Brit we will see if he wants to play next year it may be back to soccer two seasons a year. But it was fun to watch!

Hopefully bad things come in Three!!!

The so called closet in our basement

Pillows drying out from the flood

The flooded Wall

Going to the basement from our stairs

We started on Hardwood Floors on Friday September 25th and well they are still not done. I had to have it stained dark and it has proven to be a little harder to apply stain then we thought. Probably 80% looks good but in the front entry it is not looking so hot so we are still in the middle of what feels like a construction zone. Then yesterday I came home from church and heard a funny noise went in the basement and our window was leaking water. I hurried and turned off the water and called the greatest neighbor and friend Bill Richardson. He helped me scoop out the water in the window well and wet vac the water off the floor. We are hoping we caught it in time so we can just put a fan on the wall and carpet and not have to replace the pad for the second time this year!!! So the bedroom that flooded is where we have been sleeping because of the hardwood floors being done. So little to say I have a disaster. And to top it off our garage door opener broke and had to be repaired. So 1,2,3 things happening at least we have our health!!! Here are some pictures of my home, ENJOY and be glad your not me!

Britain Reads His First Book With No Help!

The Purple Pussycat

Jalapenos Baby

We grew jalapenos in our garden this year so we had plenty to spare. Ryan thinks it is so funny for the kids to eat hot things. Britain will usually try but Aspen usually won't go for it (smart girl). But for some reason they both decided to try jalapenos with Dad. Let's just say there was puking, running and lots of milk drank that day. But they both can laugh about now.

Off to Community College!!!

So on Monday September 14th I registered and paid in full for the CNA program at Aims Community College. Here are some of the supplies I needed and of course I couldn't resist all of the pink! I am really nervous and excited in that order!!! A friend of mine Cee Cee will be going with me so that will be a great comfort. I start on November 9th and end December 10th that includes 4 weeks of class time and 1 week of clinicals and then I will have to take the state test to get my certification. What a new chapter in my life, I just really hope I can balance my life while doing this. I still want to be able to work but most importantly be able to be a volunteer at school, be at home to take and pick up my kids from school and just to put it bluntly everything I do now with my kids. So I think I will try to get a night job when I am done with school just two to three day a week so my kids never really know I am gone! We will see how it goes but first things first SCHOOL AND PASS EXAM!

Labor Day Hike to Horsetooth Rock

Vegas Trip with My Mom & A Case of Mistaken Identity

One day I told my mom I would like to do a weekend getaway with her, just go for a road trip and spend some time alone with her. She said" I would love that how about we fly to Las Vegas". So she and her husband paid for my hotel and plane fare for my 38th birthday gift. Wow the power of suggestion! So off we went we stayed Saturday through Tuesday. We saw the highlights of Vegas, caught a show, laid by the pool, shopped til we dropped and just a tad of gambling ( I think I spent $5.oo but I won $18.00 on a Wizard of Oz penny game).

The funniest thing that happened was in the Las Vegas Airport. My mom and I were sitting down eating breakfast and these three girls kept looking at me and saying "that is really her, Oh my Gosh I am freaking out". Two of them walked past me and met up with the third one in the hall and they were looking at their camera saying "We got a picture of her"! They were so excited! I am assuming they thought I was Kate from Jon and Kate Plus 8. I have had several people say "You know you look like Kate from that T.V. show". Usually I am standing up when people have said this and they can tell I am not her. But I think because I never stood up or maybe they had too much to drink (It's Vegas) they really thought they saw Kate! So good I am glad I could make their day!

We had a great time and here are some of the pictures I took of our wonderful Mother Daughter trip!

We stayed at the Imperial Palace

Fire and Ice show at The Caesar's Forum

The Luxor

From the Excalibur to New York New York

Inside the New York New York

M&M Store

Vegas at Night

Bellagio Water Show

Inside the Paris

We went to see The Beatles "Love" Cirque Du Soleil

It is Fantastic!!!

The Volcano at The Mirage

The pirate show at Treasure Island

Not worth the wait especially when a girl behind you is so drunk

she passes out and drops her red drink and it splashes all over your new shoes!!!

The Venetian outside

The Venetian inside

The Conservatory inside the Bellagio

A man that is acting as a statue on the Vegas Strip

Homade Salsa

Yesterday I went over to my friend Kari's house to can salsa. Unfortunately my tomatoes in my garden didn't do too good so I had to buy tomatoes. But we had so much fun we started at 10:30 and ended at 3:10 and Kari was still having to boil hers when I left. I loved seeing the results after we were done. We even kept some out for fresh salsa and it is so good. So if you are in need of a recipe for salsa let me know. What a way to spend a day with kids in school all day!