Sunday Lunch

Every Sunday our kids enjoy having pancakes for lunch. (Sorry Nicole we didn't do it sooner & your family got stuck with crappy cereal- we owe you breakfast!)
Anyway, here's how K.B enjoys them.

Pancakes with ketchup.

One Minute Left...

Last night my boys were playing so nicely. Every few minutes we kept hearing Ja-Ja say, "we have 1 minute left". They finally called us to have us see what they were playing. Ja-Ja & Combi had created "centers" for the 3 of them to play. Apparently, my teaching has rubbed off on them.

The Reading Center

The Dance Center (music provided by the "Jam Pack Jam" car)

The Car Center

The Ball Center

They rotated every 2 minutes. Ja-Ja kept time on his alarm clock.
It was awesome! No fighting over toys, no wrestling. Everyone got a turn & everyone got along. Just when I thought they would be the death of me, they come up with this & give me some hope!
(Sorry for the bad pics!)

Twilight Fans!

I know there's plenty of you out there that saw it already so I'm dying to know what you thought of it. I'm not seeing it until Tue.

So how many stars would you give it?

To Gym Or Not to Gym

So it's before 7am & I'm already back from the gym & showered. For those of you that know me, you're probably in shock right now since I'm never coherent before 10am.
I started going back to the gym last week just on a trial basis & I'm not sure if I want to keep this up.
Many moons ago, I was what you may call a "Gym Nazi". I went 2 hrs a day-5 days a week. When I moved to AZ I stopped going & then proceeded to gain some serious weight. After that I vowed I would NEVER step foot in a gym again. NEVA, NEVA, NEVA! Oh, people have tried but time after time I have refused (sorry Zhateal). I figured if I ever went back, I would have to commit for life.
Unfortunately, the days of eating chocolate for breakfast are catching up with me. People said this day would come but I didn't believe it. No more eating what I want when I want. So sad...
Alas, I have returned to the place that I swore I would never go.
Like the song says,
"Should I stay or should I go now?
If I stay it will be trouble &
if I go it will be double"

Crazy Kay-Bee

I went to check on Kay-Bee tonight, before I went to bed

& this is where I found him; under the bed.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

FROM OUR SPOOKY HOME TO YOURS!!!

Combi, Ja-Ja, Kay-Bee

Furniture Frenzy!

It all started a couple of months ago when Culligula moved some chairs out of our study, sitting room , whatever you wanna call it! (any advice on what to call it?) Anyway, we decided to sell the chairs on KSL & that's where it all started.

Once the chairs were gone he posted our green sectional just for kicks. An hour later it was sold & we were without furniture. Luckily Culligula likes furniture, so the next day he spent his lunch break at the furniture store purchasing a new sectional.

We then sold our green couch that was in our study (sounds uncomfortable) & had to replace it. Well we didn't want to spend money for a couch in that room so we replaced it with our couch upstairs, which meant we would need all new furniture upstairs as well as a new floor. Did I mention we also ended up selling our book shelves & tables in the study & replacing them? Brother!

After 2 days of ripping out carpet & putting in new floor (thanks Ryan!) we got our new furniture & here are the results. We really love it! It's a little grown up but we're trying to evolve into that next stage of not having babies running around.

I wish I had pictures of what it used to look like.

This is our new entry. There used to be nothing there. We're learning to accessorize.

This was definitely a little nuts. We ended up replacing every piece of furniture in 3 living areas. If I had to do it all over again... well, we probably would've tried to recycle some items. That didn't occur to us until it was too late & when everyone kept telling us we should have just repainted our tables & bookcases instead of replacing them. Thanks a lot people!