Good News-the family is alive and well. We are safe back in Texas and except for a small rash on Goober we are healthy.
Bad News-my computer bit the dust.....Adam revived it but is still working on it to get it back to where it can be handled by a technology idiot such as myself.
Ill hopefully post this weekend and load up on pictures..if you are worried about all this free time I now have, please don't.....Goober's 1st grade spelling list is back and rearing its ugly head again :)
Sweet story to leave you with....this morning (2nd day back in school) Goober cried the whole way to school and walking down the hall to his classroom. Thinking that he was just uber tired I said "okay lets start this morning over". We got back in the car, came back home and ate some more breakfast :). Then we went back to school and he still cried as we approached his classroom. Finally he said, "mom, I just miss you everytime you leave" looking up at me with those big brown eyes. I realized that I spent two whole weeks with him and this being away for 7 hours a day wasn't sitting well with him. I told his teacher to call me whenever he wanted me and that seemed to calm him down....sweet boy.
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Sunday, January 1, 2012
Video Dump
These are some videos from our holiday vacation....we leave tomorrow to head back to Texas (not really looking forward to that drive) but ready to see Goob start Upward Basketball, ready to start clay with my students and DUH DUH DUH ready for Adam to start his LAST semester of classes...whoop whoop!!!
This first one is of Ribbit and Uncle Ronnie...she was so sweet on him the whole night
Next, is the kids, daddy and Captain pretending to be asleep so they could surprise Uncle Jason and Aunt Erika on Christmas mornining...
This one is of Ribbit making Papaw paint her toenails with chapstick ( i paint her toenails alot...doensn't last long).
And the last is Goober complimenting my sewing skills......NOT
This first one is of Ribbit and Uncle Ronnie...she was so sweet on him the whole night
Next, is the kids, daddy and Captain pretending to be asleep so they could surprise Uncle Jason and Aunt Erika on Christmas mornining...
This one is of Ribbit making Papaw paint her toenails with chapstick ( i paint her toenails alot...doensn't last long).
And the last is Goober complimenting my sewing skills......NOT
You might be a redneck if....
....you rock your 7 year old to sleep in a deer stand.
....you hear a shot from an adjoining field so you hand your 7 year old off to your uncle who is in the same deer stand with you.
....you fire at the biggest of the two deer you see, high five your uncle and 7 year old and take off to track deer blood
....you spend the next 30 minutes looking through the woods with tractors and flashlights with all of your male cousins, uncle, grandad, brother and 7 year old
....you don't worry when you realize that you didn't kill the deer for two reasons 1)its super fun to shoot a 12 gauge shotgun and 2)your uncle already shot two this week and is sending you home with lots of deer :)
Yep, we did it, Adam and I went hunting together again. Goob sat in the blind with me and my uncle and at first I was praying for both a deaf and blind deer to walk by. With all the noise that Goob made I knew we were scaring away anything within 5 miles. He said he was hungry, had to pee, was bored, kept asking how much longer. Then he sat in my lap and I rocked him to sleep-which wasn't the smartest move. He kept having those dreams that scare you and he kept kicking the side of the blind. So therefore I had a death grip on his legs and his head (his little head kept rolling forward as he would get deeper into sleep).
That all changed when the deer came out right at dusk, several of my cousins and family were in blinds all over my papas land and within 5 minutes there were several shots. Adam never got a shot, he saw lots of deer though, and he plans on "blowing ones head off next time".
After that my family, my uncles family, my aunts family and my grandparents all went to my uncles for chili, dessert, campfire, football and fireworks. Goob and Ribbit had lots of fun holding sparklers and Goob set off about 4 packets of bottle rockets. Uncle Chris bought him some very large fireworks and they ran out into Kinzie Lane ( yes my grandparents road is named after me....I say its because I am the favorite, the rest of the cousins argue its because I was first :)) and would shoot them off together. He had a blast with all those teenage boys and wasn't scared of anything. At one point I looked over at him and he was shuffling close to a can, bent low and holding his hands up ninja style. He had apparently lit a dud and was being " safe" as he reapproached it :).
We all ended up playing spades and hearts until midnight (laughing hysterically, scaring each other with masks, eating ramen noodles at 9)....which for my family is normal and the kids fell asleep in beds and on the couch. Needless to say we all slept in until 8:30 this morning and then took naps this afternoon as well. I treasure this time that my kiddos have to bond with my family up on Kinzie Lane. Its where I spent every summer, where tons of my childhood memories are from and where almost all of my family lives. You can get away with a lot out in the woods and we take full advantage of it. Plus, Goob and Ribbit are being loved on and taught things by some of the best people I know. (So far Goob has learned how to drive a golf-cart, use a chainsaw, skin a deer, hunt, enjoy the river, play hearts-kinda, pick blueberries and how to RV with the best of them from family....something we can't offer in the city :).
....you hear a shot from an adjoining field so you hand your 7 year old off to your uncle who is in the same deer stand with you.
....you fire at the biggest of the two deer you see, high five your uncle and 7 year old and take off to track deer blood
....you spend the next 30 minutes looking through the woods with tractors and flashlights with all of your male cousins, uncle, grandad, brother and 7 year old
....you don't worry when you realize that you didn't kill the deer for two reasons 1)its super fun to shoot a 12 gauge shotgun and 2)your uncle already shot two this week and is sending you home with lots of deer :)
Yep, we did it, Adam and I went hunting together again. Goob sat in the blind with me and my uncle and at first I was praying for both a deaf and blind deer to walk by. With all the noise that Goob made I knew we were scaring away anything within 5 miles. He said he was hungry, had to pee, was bored, kept asking how much longer. Then he sat in my lap and I rocked him to sleep-which wasn't the smartest move. He kept having those dreams that scare you and he kept kicking the side of the blind. So therefore I had a death grip on his legs and his head (his little head kept rolling forward as he would get deeper into sleep).
That all changed when the deer came out right at dusk, several of my cousins and family were in blinds all over my papas land and within 5 minutes there were several shots. Adam never got a shot, he saw lots of deer though, and he plans on "blowing ones head off next time".
After that my family, my uncles family, my aunts family and my grandparents all went to my uncles for chili, dessert, campfire, football and fireworks. Goob and Ribbit had lots of fun holding sparklers and Goob set off about 4 packets of bottle rockets. Uncle Chris bought him some very large fireworks and they ran out into Kinzie Lane ( yes my grandparents road is named after me....I say its because I am the favorite, the rest of the cousins argue its because I was first :)) and would shoot them off together. He had a blast with all those teenage boys and wasn't scared of anything. At one point I looked over at him and he was shuffling close to a can, bent low and holding his hands up ninja style. He had apparently lit a dud and was being " safe" as he reapproached it :).
We all ended up playing spades and hearts until midnight (laughing hysterically, scaring each other with masks, eating ramen noodles at 9)....which for my family is normal and the kids fell asleep in beds and on the couch. Needless to say we all slept in until 8:30 this morning and then took naps this afternoon as well. I treasure this time that my kiddos have to bond with my family up on Kinzie Lane. Its where I spent every summer, where tons of my childhood memories are from and where almost all of my family lives. You can get away with a lot out in the woods and we take full advantage of it. Plus, Goob and Ribbit are being loved on and taught things by some of the best people I know. (So far Goob has learned how to drive a golf-cart, use a chainsaw, skin a deer, hunt, enjoy the river, play hearts-kinda, pick blueberries and how to RV with the best of them from family....something we can't offer in the city :).
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