10 Things I Love About Tate...

I have a favorite 7 and3/4 year old boy named Tate... He is such a sweetie and here are 10 things I love about him:

1. Tate is so full of energy it is hard to be lazy when he is around.
2. He has the sweetest, most tender heart.
3. Tate has a great sense of humor and loves to tell jokes, sometimes they aren't funny but the way he tells them makes them funny.
4. I love the way that Tate is up for learning about anything and everything. He is so inquisitive.
5. I haven't met another kid with such a great imagination.
6. Tate is an open book. He doesn't hide his feelings and I LOVE that about him.
   
7. Tate has a real open mind and heart about God. I didn't have that at his age and he is so in tune with it all. Sometimes I am jealous that he seems to really get it at this age. It took me a while.
8. Tate ALWAYS wakes up in a good mood, again, jealous.. wish I could always wake up happy.
   
9. Tate loves to argue, debate I should say. Usually this drives me crazy but I think it is a good quality to question things.
10. Mostly I am happy that he is my son. Icouldn'thave asked for a better one!

Love you Tate!

Last Weekend

I have been so busy I haven't posted about the fun weekend we had. My friend Annette had her annual Halloween Party. It was so fun. She had AMAZING food and fun crafts for the kids. After that her neighborhood meets at the park and trick or treats. The kids had such a good time. I miss my work friends and don't get to see them as often as I would like... such is the life of a stay home mom.
This weekend was also my niece Madalyn's birthday...she is already 2. I can't believe it. She had so much fun at her party. She got a cute doll house, clothes and a girly t-ball set. We love you Mady.

Tagged!!!!!!!

Thanks Bree! Bree Tagged me to find the 4th picture in the 4th folder on my computer.. Well, it is a little blurry but cute nonetheless. This was in 2006 on our vacation in Virginia. It was taken at Ricks aunt Joyce and Uncle Chucks home. It is one of the most beautiful homes/properties I have seen. Acres of green and big trees. We are told that some of the Civil War activity took place down the street. Kalvyn and Tate loved the horses and the wolf in the bottom corner was Tates buddy the whole time. He was literally out wrestling with it in the grass. I was afraid he would come in with his face bitten off. We will have to go back soon.
Now I tag Sara and Susie! Come on Susie, you have to do this one...

10 Things I Love About Kalvyn

I sure do love Kalvyn..She really brightens up my day. Here are my top 10 reasons why:
1. She is extremely considerate of other peoples feelings.
2. Kalvyn loves her family, both of them.
3. She sure is fun to shop with, actually she is my favorite person to shop with.
4. She has a good sense of humor and loves to make us laugh.
5. She doesn't care if I still call her cookie dough or sugar cookie.
6. She hasn't gotten all boy crazy on us yet, like most of her friends.
7. I think she is the most responsible 12 year old I have ever met.
8. Kalvyn has a good heart, she is always thinking of others.
9. I love it when she cooks with me. She is just fun to be around.
10. Mostly I love that she is in my life. I can't imagine her not being in it.

Ps. Her favorite colors are pink and aqua ( she made me say this).

Bad Mom

Today I am a bad mom. I was preoccupied Mopping the kitchen floor. It was disaster from the weekend. I look over and Blake has emptied the desk drawer. He is saying ouch, ouch, ouch. I go over and he has a nickel in his mouth,you know, just the right size to block a wind pipe, he is holding a tac and poking himself with it over and over and also has an ink pen in one hand. I swear I only had my back turned for 2 minutes.... He thinks he is pretty funny!

Cousins

This week Ricks brother Chad and his wife Misty went to China for a week.They will be moving in June for his job and they went on their "preview" trip. We had the honor of helping with the kids this week. It is surely no easy task taking on 4 extra kids! They were great though. Everybody pitched in and helped with cooking, cleaning up dinner and helping each other. The only complaint is that most of these kids DO NOT pick up after themselves. I swear, if everyone just put things back where they got them from, life would be easy. Rick took the kids to Tate's soccer game Saturday.(I stayed home with sick baby,see prior entry). Later that night we went driving around looking at all the Halloween decorations in the neighborhood. Sunday we went to the later service at church( God Bless all my friends who get 4-5 kids ready for 8am church??) and then went to Chapparal Park for fishing, skating, selling lemonade and relaxing. It was a lot of fun to see the kids play together even though they are getting older. C.J. is now 15, Jordyn is almost 13, Madison is 8,and Luke is 5.

Rick and I decided that we probably couldn't do 7 kids. HAHA!

Sick Baby..

Poor Blake was feeling under the weather today. He has had a few fevers in his short life but he has never really thrown up....until today. It was nonstop from about 7:30am- about 9pm. He slept on and off all day. When he wasn't sleeping he was laying on me. This happened to be the weekend we had 4 additional children at our house and his being sick sure didn't make things easier.
Since I was the one holding him all day, I changed clothes 6, yes 6 times today. I also took 2 showers. I also managed to throw dinner together for Ricks aunt Linda who had surgery yesterday. I think I am ready to go to bed now!
We are enjoying having our nieces and nephews here though. The kids are having a blast, and haven't killed each other, yet.