Playing Catch-up

Here is my "I am Thankful ..." catch-up list.

Nov 23: For a mom who will help me cook and a dad and husband to work on my car.

Nov 22: For being home

Nov 21: For having fun with my kids

Nov 20: For going to bed at 830 in a king size bed at a comfy hotel.

Nov 19: For making a new friend...too bad she lives in Atlanta.

Nov 18: For Vacation with no alarms

Nov 17: For a Dad who loves to do things with my kids.

Nov 16: Carpet and the guys at Hinesville Carpet that got my carpet in quickly so I could get back to preparing for TDay with friend.

Nov 15: For a husband that works all day then comes home to work some more.

Thankful

Nov 14: For the nice lady in the parking lot who walked across the parking lot to bring me my coupon book that I left at the store. I love nice people!!!

Nov 13: That we got a ton done downstairs and we are almost ready for carpet.

Nov 12: My daddy is here!

Waiting

They fell asleep last night waiting for Grandpa Keith to arrive.

Firetrucks

Gabe explained to me the other day that he wanted to be a fire fighter not a policeman anymore because firefighters have cooler trucks. Indeed they do! Here are a few pictures from his class trip. They all had such a great time and I am just in love with his teachers. Thank you Lord for people who have the patience and kindness to tenderly (or not so tenderly when needed) guide small children.

Thanks and Praise

Nov 11: Grateful for all my friends in the military and their spouses/families who make it worth defending freedom.

Anthony: For dad. they are even in their Army shirts today :-)

Nov 10: Just grateful.

Nov 9: I am glad I get to stay home and attend field trips. The look on Gabe's face made my day.

Gabe: For firetrucks, gotta admit, they are pretty cool.

Singing At School

So, in order to get people to come to the worthless PTSO meetings at our school, they have the classes perform. I am convinced that they would have no participation any other way. Any whoo....here is Anthony singing the Color Farm for school. He was an orange duck.

Basics

Nov 8: I am thankful for a hot shower and a little heater. That is what I hated most when deployed luke warm shower and a cold bath trailer.

Daily Thanks

Nov 7: Thankful that all it takes to make my kid super happy is 2 TBS of cocoa powder in the waffle mix (no extra sugar or anything).

Nov 6: Thankful that we have a regular sitter who loves our kids and whom our kids love. It is great to see/hear them all playing and laughing.

Nov 5: Thankful that this year, Gabe found that he really liked soccer.

Anthony and Gabe: That they got to watch transformers

Nov 4: Thankful that we cancelled plans for running around so I could just sleep and get rid of my cold.

Anthony: Thankful for being compared to David in 'David and Goliath' by his coach. He was the smallest on his team, but still played without fear. This is the lesson I want him to learn in life.

Doubly Thankful

I am trying not to use the generic kids and family.

Nov 2:

I am thankful that I teach 2nd/3rd graders at church...they remind me to enjoy this time when my kids are small. One day they will roll their eyes and smart off. And even though I know they will still need and want my love, it will be much more strained than it is today.

Anthony: for music class

Gabe: for recess

(yep, sorta sums each kid up pretty well)

Nov 3

I am thankful that I only have to take the kids to the dentist every 6 months. No one was bad, but 3 at once is certainly a challenge. We have all agreed that we are thankful for this.

Singing at Church

Kids' Video

Here is a clip of the ids singing at church a couple of weeks ago.

All I Want for Christmas

yep, that is Anthony's theme song this year. Both front teeth are gone and he has a couple more on the bottom that are loose.

Gabe's School Party

Gabe's school party was so much fun. Each class does different costumes made of paper. Gabe's class was Dalmatians and sang 'who let the dogs out'. another was ice cream cones, another Indians, another candy corns. Those teachers are awesome and so creative. My hat is off to the two teacher's who have the patience to keep 22 little bodies in order.






To top it off, they sang the Mosquito Burrito song. The video is not great. I think I will not really use my D90 for that much...it tends to skip.

Home of the Brave

The boys are singing the national anthem in front of the TV for game 7 of the World Series.

Thankfulness

Many of my friends will post on Facebook what they are thankful for for the next 30 Days. I will try to post here what the kids and I are thankful for. One blog I follow talked about a tree with leaves for fall. I like that and may try to pull that together for tomorrow.

Today I am thankful for a husband that cooks. I came home to perfectly cooked salmon after a long day of running around. Secondly, I am thankful for a baby that will eat salmon and capers like it is going out of style.

Anthony: was thankful for Transformers

Gabe: me too

William: was thankful for cheese sticks...he actually said thank you unprompted. in our house, it's the little things.

Trick or Treat

Smell my feet
Give me something good to eat
If you don't
I don't care
I'll show you my underwear

Love Hate Relationships

I love fall. I love Halloween. But I hate all the junkie candy and stupid little toys that find their way into the house. Really really really hate. I used to think the candy was the worst, but I solved that problem (thanks to a friend's suggestion). We go and buy a small toy or movie and the night of Halloween we trade all but 10 pieces for the toy. The rest is recycled and sent off with other kids. The little toys are another story. Must hide them in the trash...will do right after this post.

The best part (at least in GA) is that the weather is amazing and there are a ton of festivals and other such things.

On Saturday, we went to the Bamboo Coastal Garden where is was a glorious day. We looked at pumpkins, sat in a helo and a fire truck, and got our faces painted. All and all, quite successful. And all for only $4.







On Sunday, we had a carnival at church where the kids had a blast playing games and bouncing in the bounce houses and trick or treating. They are adorable this year...Anthony and Gabe are knights and William is their pet dragon. Gonna try to get his little roar on tape, try!!!

Randomness

These are a few I have snapped in the last month randomly.

A Date

We had a date. Great casual restaurant (Sunbury Crab Co in Midway) and the chance to take some pics on the river at sunset. Here are my best two.

Seafood Festival

Two words that go together perfectly. I love both of them. And it was only 3 minutes from our house. Wow...doesn't get any better. We took the kids, ate some shrimp and rode the rides. William slept through most of it in the Ergo. I just had to laugh a little at all the parents pushing strollers while holding kids, it is much easier to just baby (well, toddler now) wear.

Anthony took this one of William

They did not really want to ride the ferris wheel. But after, they both agreed that it was their FAVORITE ride. Hopefully Gabe will be tall enough to do a few other rides on his own next year.

Clams

Our family loves clams. Gabe won't try a fruit, and can pick a finely diced onion out of a hamburger, but he will wolf down clams like there is no tomorrow. Anthony is the same. William is getting there. Mostly he wants to use the clam shell to scoop up the base we steam the clams in, but at 18m...I'll take that as a win. So Rob stopped at our local 'little blue shack' and got some clams for all of us to enjoy. And boy did we. He got 5 dzn and it fed us all well. This is the moment that living on the ocean seems like the best thing ever.

The pile of dead bodies ;-)