randomocities

yes, she could have used a tissue before this shot, she is getting over her week long illness. It was sad. Sunday night Sam threw up all over the couch and me (yeah! for the slipcovers on the couch), he has been lethargic and lying around for now three days. He did get up yesterday because we had to go to Walmart, and he wanted to go on a bike ride. THe kids are home for a SNOW day, but now it is raining so no fun to play in really. I deleted my previous job post because it may have been a bit bitter and perhaps offensive to some. Here is an attempt at a better recap, Chris started looking for jobs last year, went on multiple interviews, we decided on Tupelo MS, they have great schools with orchestra & piano lessons, and so much more (google the Pierce St school, it is all art based you will want to move there too) nice sized town...but they were never recruiting...a guy was set to retire but now is not and they cannot afford to hire anyone else b/c they added a fam practice to the pain clinic unless we want $3 a year which I live on now and it is a bit tight. So now Chris has an interview in Hattiesburg MS in FEb and if that doesn't work out we will be going to Springfield MO I think. enough of that nonsense. Here is Maggie, she is three months old today. Isn't she cute!!

Nolan got a haircut...not really noticeable but it was kind of wispy and trailer trash in the back.

after bath, I tried to change it the right way but no luck!

our busy weekend

We had a fun visit this past weekend with Granny Las Vegas...she comes every year for the farm show. The girls are excited to dress up a baby girl instead of Sam & Nolan, well actually I think it is Chris that is happy about that.

There is Sam taking a picture with his "camera" of the kids being clowns!

Finally enough snow to play in!

Sammy "Lewis Mc Queen BUZZ" Painter. pay no attention to the basement steps that on a whim thought lets try to paint them red, but we did not finish yet.

We bought a ton of apples at the farm show pretty cheap, Jakob helped make applesauce and fruit leather.

Maggie in her "ninja" outfit according to the girls

Maggie's blessing day

Cow "girl/boy" Sam, he took Emma's pink hat because he thought he should have one

Nolan escaping to the horses

SO HAPPY! Sam LOVES horses and was upset that he could not "hop on one".

Emma milking the cow

sweet baby maggie, she is so sick now with a bad cough. so sad

job

so many peeps have been inquiring about the job status for Chris, he doesn't have one yet. so we will need some more of those prayers and hope we can sell our house too. so mom and dad, can me and my SIX kids move back in ???

resolutions

Today is my little baby brother Peter's 30th birthday!!! Hope you have a happy day.
Well it was a "resolution" to be better at the birthday thing, perhaps with a card and something a bit more significant than a shout out on the blog, but that did not happen because before his birthday I missed my other little brother Ben's birthday on the 7th he hit 34 ! And my neice Alexis, cannot believe you are 18. I remember the day you were born, I was a cool senior in highschool, I came home and saw a note on the dry erase board that your mom was in labor to which I was immediately surprised because you weren't quite due. we went up to the hospital and waited and then you came out with your little white hat and big huge eyes weighing a mere 5 lbs. too cute!! and now you are graduating from high school this year.

Here are some of my other resolutions, many of which have already been broken...

not to wear my hair up in a ponytail or knot EVERY day

getting dressed, the items I call "lounge wear", well they are really just pajamas, and yet I still have no problem going out in them.

taking a shower before 2 pm

after hearing Sam saying " go you freaking turtle", or "move moron"...I need to watch my road rage a bit as well as language

getting some math tutoring for myself because I find fifth grade math almost impossible, and third grade even a bit challenging at times.

coming up with something oh so clever in come back to the ever increasing comments and questions about MY choice to have SO many kids! and not caring what they say in the first place.

finding a way to decrease the laundry that I am responsible for doing.

going to bed at a decent hour so I can be nice and cheerful in the morning for my kids so they can start the day off nicely. but at night when everyone is asleep, except of course for Magnolia Claire...I just want to sit and be "alone".

finish reading this ridiculous Twilight series, I CANNOT believe I got sucked into them, but yes I did. I may have been the last person that read them...my BFF Carol said she read them and liked them. REALLY CAROL?? you too?? So she brought over the first one and I read it in a day, so I went over and got books 2 & 3. I read the second the next day. It took my 4 days to read number 3 b/c Chris was getting tired of me doing nothing but reading. I LOVE to read, and so I will not do anything else. That's why lately I've been sticking to magazines. So now I need number 4 so I can be done with this and find out what is going to happen with Bella, and Edward, and Jacob. Does anyone have a copy?

stop getting so many clothes for Maggie, the girls are jealous of her wardrobe, she takes all the closet space and we don't even go anywhere!

and stop wasting so much time on this computer.

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Chris took the three big kids to see the hershey Kiss raise for New Years Eve, They stayed out in the frigid cold and still had a great time. Last night they went back out into the cold for fireworks in the backyard. They are crazy!! We are busy getting our house ready to put it up for sale the end of the month, so that is stressful...having it clean all the time is worrisome.