Roller Skating

Last night was so much fun!! Our 4H club got to go to Roller King for Family Skate Night. It was packed! I didn't realize roller skating was still so big. Brought back lots of memories, anyone remember all those skate nights?? I am not the best skater but I still do it. " ) So we all sit on the sidelines on watch all the adults that go out there and skate and laugh our butts off when they fall right??? Yep well I was one of those adults that fell, HARD!! I actually bounced! No joke bounced. I was laughing so hard at the same time trying not to cry! I got up and got off the rink and promptly removed my skates and was in so much pain. Yep not as young as I used to be!! If you're wondering my hand is all bruised up and I think I pinched a nerve in my back or rather my butt area! Seriously I would do it again, it's a lot of fun to go out and skate with the kids! So on to my kids...Wyatt is a little speed demon, well at least in his world he is! He crouches down really low and just pumps his arms, it is so cute!! Maddy is a speed demon! She loves it!! We had a little over half our club show up, which is awesome!! Shawn even go out there and skated with Wy and Remington. The group pic of the girls is Maddy, Baylee, Georgia and Meagan. Maddy and Baylee are being speed demons and Wyatt and Kade (thanks Kade for skating with Wy!) are doing the crouch. So if you haven't been roller skating lately SUCK it up and go with your kids it's fun and they love seeing skate, even if you bounce!!

Just Stuff

Well yet again I am not very timely with my blog. A little is better then nothing right?? Well let's see what has been going on...I am back to working more at Green Tangerines, not teaching right now but working as back up for the floor and data entry for our on-line store. Very cool that we will have the on-line store, as soon as it launches I will let everyone know so you can check it out. I am extremely grateful that I was able to get more hours from them! I am still working for the Niello Company, and am very very grateful for that as well!! Shawn did get furloughed for 2 days out of the month. As much as that sucks it gives him some extra time to do stuff with the kids or around the house like build a pig pen, which he hasn't yet! I know you are asking Pig Pen?? Well Maddy is going to raise a pig for Fair this year. We are really excited! This is her first year being able to do an animal. Her swine group went to Chico Swine Day on 2/7 and it was really cool! What made it such a cool day was our cousin Ashley goes to Chico and is active in this department. She was actually working that day at the event and was able to hang around and give us some pointers and offered to help Maddy out. That totally made Maddy's day. She loves Ashley and thinks it's the coolest that her big cousin can help her with this. I think we get our little piggy, all 70 pounds of it, towards the end of March. When we get her, yep her, I will post pics.

The kids and I were able to go to High School Musical on Ice at Arco thanks to my Mother-in-law. She got us tickets through Thunder Valley Casino. It was so much fun. Two years ago we went for Maddy's birthday so we knew what it was going to be like. This one was a little different because they threw in HSM 3 Senior Year stuff into it. We loved it! Yes I am the freaky mom who loves HSM-all 3 of them!! I have a crush on Troy! " ) The night we went one of Maddy's friends were there and we got to see them, they had front row seats so we got to go down and take pics near the ice. That was cool.

On February 18th Gabby turned 12! Holy cow she is old!! I can't believe she is almost a "teenager". For her birthday Maddy had a sleep over and Nick had a sleep over with Wyatt. Wyatt was so excited to have just Nick stay, no stinking girls!! They played the Wii and jumped on the trampoline until Dad took them on a quad ride and to shoot guns. They loved it. I didn't get a picture of this but it was so cool. They were shooting at clays on the ground and Nick shot one right in the center with a .22 and didn't shatter it. So he now has a souvenir from the day.

Tomorrow night our 4H club is going to Roller King to have a family skate night. It is always so much fun!! And this weekend I will be working on the school's yearbook, so for those of you who read this and are from PG please send in pics if you have any. I can always use more since I also do a video yearbook slide show for the year. Well until next time, hopefully sooner then later " ) have a great one and be happy, life's way to short to sweat the small stuff!!!

Happenings...

I have some very proud mommy and daddy news... Maddy made Principal's List. We are so totally proud of her! This is the first time she was able to qualify for it (you start in 4th grade) not only was she the only one in her class but she was only 1 of 4 other students to get it. That really made us proud. Our school is small about 170ish kids but that is amazing to me. So again we are really proud of her!!

We also had my cousin's wedding on 11/23, it was wonderful! I had the honor of taking the pics! Yep she was crazy to ask me! I always swore I would never shoot a wedding, well now I can say did that " ) We are so happy for them! It was a great time and a beautiful ceremony! Oh the food was way yummy too!!

Hope everyone's Turkey day was great and filled with yummy foods. Ours was! Shawn and Wyatt went Pig hunting over Thanksgiving and didn't even see a pig but they got to fish. I swear my son was born in the wrong time...he lives and breathes hunting and fishing, I think even more then his dad does!!! Right now it's duck season and every morning he gets up and says can I go duck hunting today??? He gets so made when I tell him no he has to go to school. Keep in mind he doesn't even shoot! He just flat loves it!!

Well this one is a short and sweet one! Hope everyone has a great time!!

TWILIGHT

So went to see Twilight last night... it was really good if you read the book. I don't know how much I would've liked it if I didn't know the back story on the characters. The picture is from left to right Rebecca, Andrea, Valerie, Dawn, Deanna, Alison, Jessica, Sarah, Me, and Wendy. All but 4 our the teachers from the kids school. I will post more pics later, Rebecca took tons so we could scrap them. And there is a great story behind it all... We got our tickets when they first were available but we did something more...we paid to have a birthday party there. Basically you pay a little more and you have to have at least 8 people. We did this for Maddy's party and it was great. You get in 45 minutes before the movie and you get a little popcorn tray with a drink. Well that almost started a riot!! We got there at 6:30ish and the movie started at 7:30. There was a huge long line to get in and the first probably 10 people had been waiting 3 hours to see the movie, yes you read right they had been waiting in line for 3 hours. Needless to say they were not happy with us when we came strolling up and walked right in. We told the staff they had to be our body guards cuz we were going to get stuff thrown at us. Nothing happened but it made for a great story!!! The really funny thing was when everyone got to come in it was like Christmas morning, they were running everywhere and lots and lots of giggles! Throughout the whole show there were lots of giggles. Just really showed how young the crowd was. We weren't the only ones to dress for the night, there were lots of homemade shirts and ones that were purchased. It was crazy. I have never seen anything like the fans for Twilight, and yep I am one of them " ) Stephanie Meyer even did a cameo, just like Stephen King and M. Night Shyamalan, didn't speak but you saw her. So when I get more pics from Rebecca I will post them.

Since we read last...

Hi all! I know I am really not doing this as often as I should but "it's all good" So what has been going on in the past month, the better question is what haven't we been doing!!! I think things are finally slowing down a bit for me and my family. Well at least for a week or so " ) Since last time we had Maddy's 9th party, we went to see High School Musical 3 and it was AWESOME!! Ok yep you guessed it I am a total fan!! Not gonna lie. I love musicals and this is a really great one! After the movie I took Maddy, Wyatt and Lidia to a Pumpkin Patch in Citrus Heights. It's a cute little one with lots of things to do. We spent the entire afternoon there, I was tired!! When we got home the kids begged me to paint their pumpkins. So I thought ok we will do that instead of carving them, I was all for that! Yep that didn't happen! After they painted them they wanted to carve them! It was fun and totally worth the faces they made as they pulled out the "guts" of the pumpkin. And of course we made pumpkin seeds, way to yummy! Then it was Halloween. Every year we go to my sister's house in Folsom, it's a little hard to trick or treat in rice fields. Anyhoot the kids always get a ton of candy, it's crazy. My sister was dressed up as Wonder Woman, it was great! Lidia and Quintin (Lidia's brother) go with us to. On to November... the long awaited birth of HARLEE, wasn't very easy for mom but all is well and she is beautiful!! So on that note I would like to say HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my cousin Josh (23) (who is getting married on Sunday, it's about damn time, love you!), my niece Carrie (7), my niece Georgia (9) and my mother in law Marie (I am so not saying her age). For 4H we had our big fundraiser breakfast, which I was in charge of. I get to brag it turned out awesome, we made a lot of money for the club! I couldn't have pulled it off with out a lot of help from the parents in our club who not only donated items but their time and the kids who served the meals. I was very proud of our club that day!! SO next year if you are in the area you should stop by, it's yummy food!! And you get huge portions!! It's always held on the opening day of Pheasant Season. The kids also had Family Art Night at their school, it was funded by our GATE program and ran by our Art teacher, Erin. She also happens to be our babysitter, that is if we ever went any where. She does lots for the school and she is only 19. We just love her to death! She also helped me out with our 4H breakfast. The pic with Maddy and Erin at the breakfast also has Miss Preslie in it. She is such a cutie! So that is the catch up for the month. I am really excited tomorrow night is TWILIGHT!! I am sure I will have pics from that " ) there is a big ol group that is going. Til next time... Have a great one!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY and More

On October 11th it was Shawn's 37th Birthday, damn he is old. I am only kidding!! On October 18th it was Maddy's 9th Birthday! Ok now I feel old!! We have, I guess you can kinda call it a tradition, for any special occasion we always go to Thunder Valley for Dinner. I know what you are thinking, it's not to gamble! Honestly, it's the DESSERT bar at the buffet. That is the most important part of dinner!

On Maddy's actual Birthday we hung out at home. My Mom and Dad and one of Maddy's best friends, Lidia came over. We had Tacos (Maddy's pick) and Stuffed Quail ( Shawn's pick). Shawn's parents were there too! Maddy got Guitar Hero for her Birthday and holy cow is it a ton of FUN!! The kids also rode their quads.

Yesterday we went to Bishop's Pumpkin Patch with the school, K - 2nd grade gets to go. We had a lot of fun! And of course I had to get CRINKLE COOKIES YUMMY!!! Yep they are already gone too!!

It was also my Grandma's Birthday. She turned 84. I have always been blessed having my Grams around. She cooks the best Portuguese Soup EVER and her Onions holy yummy!! I can't share the recipes cuz they are "in the family" but trust me they are awesome!!

Here are the rest of the Birthdays... Holly (we aren't saying how old, she is older then me! ok only by 2 months but still!); Tiffany (she gets married in a month!!!); and Aaron (he shares the day with Maddy). SO Happy Birthday to you!!!