Been a loooong time..

It has been a long time since I last posted I see. Not sure why I haven't, guess I just got busy with life.

I will try and remember some of the things that have happened since I last posted.

December- This was our first Christmas without Larry, Ted's dad. It was bitter sweet. While glad to be celebrating the birth of Jesus we remember the people that we have lost. We all seem to be doing well these days though even if we do have moments of tears or giggles about him.

January- Cole seemed to have his "lightbulb moment" with reading and writing this month. He has taken off on both and is doing so well. His teacher and I had a conversation around November about his progress and she was a bit worried about how far behind he seemed to be. He's a young kindergartener and that plays into his progress but as of right now, he is up where he should be and doing great.

February- Pretty much more of the same.

March- My birthday was on the 1st of March and it was spent up in Ferndale with my whole family. Mom, Camille, and I spent the afternoon at Bellis Fair Mall where Mom tried her darndest to buy me proper shoes instead of my usual footwear, flip-flops. I tried to tell her that if she really wanted to get me something that I would like then she should look in the purse section. She declined over and over again. Needless to say, I love my new purse.

We did have a major family loss this month. Ted's grandpa Otto Fischer passed away. He was 2 months shy of his 98th birthday. He was such a sweet man and he will be greatly missed.

April- That's what month we are in now and so far we have had a very weird weather month. It started snowing here on the 18th and was still snowing today which is the 20th. Three days of snow in late April, where are we? Colorado? Alaska?

Camille was picked by her teacher to participate in the Monroe Young Authors all day camp held at the one of the middle schools this month. She sadly has decided not to do it which is unfortunate because she really is a great writer and has such a terrific imagination. She didn't want to do it because she was afraid that she wouldn't know anyone there. Another oppurtunity lost to my poor shy girl.

Something wonderful and unexpected happened this month and that was that we have a new family member. On April 13th a lady that I had contacted off of Craigslist drove from Tacoma to our house with her almost one year old lab and gave him to us! His name is CJ and he is the most terrific dog ever.

He turned one today and we sang to him and gave him a huge bone for a present. He loved it and attempted to carry it around the garage in his mouth but it was so large he just about tipped over. We are so happy to have him, he has us all wrapped around his furry little paw.

Guess that's pretty much the latest and greatest news from us, nothing too exciting but it's all I got.

Waiting for the Great Pumpkin to appear!

Tonight was the night of pumpkin carving! We all got our grungy clothes on and started cutting. Ted cut the tops off of all them for us and we dug in. I of course was repulsed by the feel of the pumpkin guts so I opted for some blue colored rubber gloves while everyone else got icky. The kids did great in the beginning of scraping them out but soon ran out of patience and stamina. Ted helped Cole work on his pumpkin while I set Camille up with her pumpkin outline. Cole decided on a funny bat for his while Camille wanted a Halloween cat. We had no design for the cat so I free-handed one on a paper towel for her so that she could outline it to cut out.

By the time we got to cutting them out, a Charlie Brown Halloween special had come on t.v. and the kids were entranced by it. Ted and I finished up with their pumpkins and then worked on ours. There was far less complaining about being sticky and arms hurting once they were watching the show.

It was getting late and Ted and I finally finished up with our pumpkins. Ted chose a witch with a bubbling cauldron while I went with a cat, pumpkin, and spider sitting in a window.

We all gathered around as Ted lit all the candles in our masterpieces and we "oohed" and "awwwwed" over them. They all turned out great as you can see.

Clean up, clean up, everybody lend a hand was not Cole's motto once the carving was over though. Camille pitched in with Ted separating the seeds from the goo so that we could roast them and Cole's job was to clean up the mess he had made on the floor while carving. He did not like this idea and decided to have a meltdown. He finally did it and we called it a night.

All in all, our time was fun, our pumpkins look great, and we are less than 24 hours away from Trick or Treating time!

We'll see how this blog thing goes....

Hello to anyone that is viewing our new family blog, welcome!

A friend of mine has one of these and I thought that it would be a neat idea to possibly start so that we can keep friends and family that don't live near up to date on all things "House".

I hope you come by and check up on what is new with us every once in awhile and leave a comment if you like.