Thursday, October 29, 2009

4 times is the trick ..... Right??

Kambria's favorite thing to do, when mom allows, is to stand in the fridge and pull stuff out ... now that i am looking, I think I better move the eggs up a row or we may be in trouble!! And I have since cleaned out my fridge, It sure was messy :0)


Oh my oh me ..... Yesterday afternoon Kambria felt extremely hot to me, took her temp and it was just 100.7, high but not high enough to get worried. First thing I did, check her butt to check for sores (cellulits in the making), nothing .. Thank you ... give her medicine all is well. Kambria slept like crap and was so warm all night. This morning she wakes up, Rosy Rosy cheeks, just wants to cuddle and be held. I take her temp and it is 101.4, give her some motrin, go in and change her diaper and what you ask .......... a flippin sore on her butt. She got this over night!!!! Call the Dr, go into the office at 945 and sure enough she has that same Cellulitis crap on her butt ... again ... for the 4th flippin time! Everything else is perfect, lungs sound good, heart is good, ears are good, throat is good, just her silly butt! So she is back on antibiotics for 14 days this time and a higher dose. Plus we get to put an antibiotic cream on her armpits, up the nose, on the girly area 2 times a day. I pray and hope that this clears it up for good, I just hate seeing my kids sick and not feeling well.


Other then that fun stuff, things are good. Jake is busy at work and going to school 2 times a week at night, so twice a week we don't see him :( , but in the long run it will be worth it. Jake works so hard for our family, I sure love him. More to come on our Halloween Night adventures.

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Halloween Treats

I found this fun recipe Idea and today we made them. Rolling out the tootsie rolls for the legs is a bit time consuming, but it was a fun little activity!!



Our 6 little cookies. I didn't have patience to make more then 6 bodies.

Here are the bodies before the cookie is on it.




unwrapping the candy.





Sunday, October 25, 2009

Halloween Birthday Party

On Friday night we went over to Grandma and Papa Cutrights house for a trunk or treat. It was a lot of fun. Marshall loved it and got lots of candy. Last night Paige celebrated her 8th birthday and it was a Halloween dress up.

Marshall went as Bumblebee the Transformer ...

Kambria went as a Bumblebee ..she really didn't want her picture taken
Yep, not very happy!!!


And I went as an overy tired Nurse .. Jake did my hair, I had black under my eyes, I had a piece of bloody bandage on my shoe and my good ole scrubs from my CNA days .. and I had some medical equipment to care for Jake!!

Jake was an accident victim. His poor black and blue eyes, bloody bandage around the head .... safety pined his nipple back on, and his poor stomach ....
bad shape

ouch!!!
His bones are broken in the arm ....

He should be at the hospital!


So this is so hilarious to me. Jake went with BJ to pick up the pizza. He walked in first, and everyone turned and looked all gross at him and kinda scooted away, then the rest came in dressed as Hulk, Pirate and white trash .... then they realized what was going on ... they really thought he was hurt LOL. Jake said he was going to run in and yell SOMEONE CALL 411!! But he didn't.

Our Summer Projects

I must say that we accomplished a lot this summer. We had 4 things we really wanted to do, but figured we would not have the time nor money to get them all done. We started with the easiest and ended with the hardest and got them all mostly completed. Jake is such a hard worker, he did the most, I just watched the kids while he worked, but did help some. First is the deck coming off our back door. It was just an 8 X8 square, we wanted to make it longer so the BBQ could fit up, and the stairs to be longer so you could sit on them and watch the kids play. I couldn't find a picture of before to compare, so I made one LOL.




BEFORE:

AFTER


Second, we have wanted forever, including our old house to have an awning over our patio. Jake went to work. Last Year he poured the footing and this year in ONE day the awning went up. We just started staining it, and still need to finish that part.





Third ... The side of our home had wood chips, I HATE wood chips. So we moved all the wood chips to the flower bed, we had to dig up the dirt, to remove the black tarp underneath. Take apart the falling over swingset, level the dirt, remove the one million rocks and we laid sod!! It looks so nice. Next year Jake will run a sprinkler line to that area and we will put the swing set back up.
BEFORE:
AFTER:


The 4th and final project would be a shed. This home of ours doesn't have a whole lot of storage space. We have storage under the stairs, and in the garage and we have been using one of the closets in the bedroom downstairs. So Jake, BJ and Ryan poured some cement behind our RV parking. Jake constructed the Shed with 2 X 4s and plywood and this weekend we have started to put up the siding. It looks so nice. The cement was not 100% straight, so the shed does have a slant to it, but it works!! It has freed up a lot of space.


I can't believe we got all of this done. We have a few more projects we would like to do, but many more years to complete them. This winter we are going to turn under the stairs into a play space, like at our old home. One day we would like to put a door going outside to a small deck with hot tub in our room!! And one year we would love to level the backyard, that will be a huge Project, so that will be down the road in a few years! We love our home, and we love the changes we have been able to make. Its been a fun summer. Jake loves making improvements and building things and he does such a wonderful job at it.

Tuesday, October 20, 2009

10 months

I really can't believe that Kam is already 10 months old! Wow time goes way to fast. I think this is the most fun age ever! She has so much personality to her.

Here are a few things that she is liking at 10 months:

Loves to stand up!

Can hold on and walk around the furniture.

If there is a dishtowel on the oven, Kambria will pull it off, not even worth hanging one anymore!!

Loves table food. Favorites are grilled cheese, any kind of beans, chicken and still likes her baby food and formula.

Loves Loves Loves her blanket. If she can see it, she wants it.

Is very naughty about going to bed, she wants to be with everyone else. She will stand up and throw her binky and just yell ma,ma,ma,ma,ma until I go in again. Once asleep she does really well. She is sleeping 830pm to about 730am. Once in a while wakes up cause she can't find her binky or needs changed, but sleeping through the night mostly.

Loves to laugh, marshall can make her laugh over nothing.

Loves peek a boo

likes to dance to the music

She has stood up on her own without falling several times now. She is starting to get her balance down really good. She understands that she is trying to stand on her own and wants to soo bad.

There are so many things that I love about Kambria. At night time when I lay her down she lays down and then puts her legs in the air and throws them back down, it makes her bounce, she then laughs EVERY SINGLE time. I love that she loves Jake. She will hear his voice and say"Da Da" and look all over. Usually its on the phone LOL. If the door knocks, she is crawling so fast to see who it is. She is very social, but very shy!! We love having Kambria in our family, and can't believe in 2 months she will be 1!! I am very excited to get rid of formula :0)





Loves to stand to the couch



Her hair is getting crazy. To long to sit normal, to short to get into a pony.

Loves her little piano that Marshall has passed down.


Loves the bath. Tries to climb out of this seat to get her toys. Loves to splash in the water. HATES to have her hair washed. She is a maniac when i wash her hair.


Friday, October 16, 2009

Engh Gardens

Jake is on call this week, so he has been working nights! Boring for us ... so yesterday the kids and I went with my Mom, Grandma and Ary's kids to Engh's Gardens. They have a cute LITTLE maze set up, and decorations for Halloween. Marshall cried about 75% of the time. The pirates and skulls scared him. And at one point he thought he lost me. But it was still fun!!! I forgot my camera so these are all taken with my cell phone!

We started off at Grandma's house and made some fun Halloween treats! These little guys are basically fudge and in them are little marshmellows and cut up recess peanut butter cups. Then the eyes are a type of frosting. They are very rich, but really good. We then had a yummy dinner of Chicken Fried Steak and Mashed potatoes and then off to the maze we went.



Here he is very hesitent near a pirate!

Some of the pumpkins had warts, pretty gross.


Marshall in the Pirate ship. They had spooky music playing and he was so flippin scared of this thing.


I finally got him to sit for a quick second by the pirate.


Kambria enjoyed herself, not scared at all .... but she was in mom's arms the whole time!






In the maze




Me and Kam at the entrance to the maze. Sorry it is pretty blury.




Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Pumpkin Painting

Marshall has been wanting to paint a pumpking for a while now. Today I took him and Cilla to the store to pick one out! Then they started painting. Aunt Jen painted a pumpkin and on it she wrote something to the effect of "eat the children" so Marshall told Grandma when he painted his he was going to write "eat Jen" and he sure didn't forget. Here are a few pictures.

The Home Depot Aprons sure come in handy for times like these!!

He was so serious about this pumpkin



Kambria enjoyed watching also



Here is for Jen .....

HAPPY HALLOWEEN ... It sure is getting closer.