love

happy 5th anniversary mr. blanchard.

cant wait for our date tonight

(wink, wink)

i love you oh so very much!!!!!!!

christmas eve '09

chocolate is all eaten from the advent calenders, turkey is smoked, ferret is bought, im ready for the party tonight, and santa later on tonight.

christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat....

smoke a turkey all day long..................check.
deliver gifts to our adopted christmas family............check.
talk to santa on the phone with the 3 little ones.......check.
shower...............not so check.
make an awesome dinner...................check.
clean the crap outta the house................check.
bathe all 4 munchkins.............check.
vacuum the pine needles 500 times.............check.
watch anderson for a few hours...............check.
successfully put all kids to bed (including mary)......check.
get ready to wrap the last of the christmas presents at 10pm at night, i use up the last of the wrapping paper wrapping 2 gifts, still have 8 to go. scotts at work. faaaarrrrrt! i really need more hours in the day. merry christmas to all.

11:30 at night

and i just cant seem to sleep.

i guess im a little anxious about the funeral in the morning.

sooo 2 funny things that happened today that ide like to share with you...

#1. today while singing christmas carols (which i sing all year long, not just the week before christmas) my sweet 2yr old mary exclaims "no mommy, youre silly, im not mary christmas im mayyy lizabefff baaaanchard" man-o-man is she cute. that may be the single reason i dont lose it when she purposely pees in her pullup tonight, for the 3rd reason to get out of her room at bedtime.

#2. at my aunt pats christmas party tonight, jax refused to take off his not 1 but 2 necklaces. at home i really dont care about him playing with or wearing gender bias stuff. but today at the party ill admit i was a little embarrassed. oh well.

good night

baking...

baking 2 french baguettes and a bowl full of artichoke dip for a christmas party tonight. once the baguettes are cooled completely ill slice them thinly and diagonally. so fun to make, especially with my little helper in the kitchen. tomorrow morning we have a funeral :( my uncle bob lost his short battle with als (Lou Gehrig disease). last night we made a boatload of drop shortbread cookies. i think we need to make more, the kids gobbled up so many. on sunday sara is coming over so we can wrap presents for a family that we adopted for the holiday. so here we go, were off to a busy weekend. i hope yours is nice!

just incase

you forgot how cute we are, heres a reminder. ok fine i need to updaye my camera with more shots. adn youll need to bare with me while im figuring out this whole photoshop thing...

went shopping this morning with my dad. christmas shopping for the kiddos. theyre about all done now. just 1 more gift. a flyboat form the wonderpets tv show (ya know, winnie, tuck and ming-ming?) thats the only thing that sweet mary wants. well good luck for scott. hes the one whose gotta go out and find it amongst all the crazy shoppers this time of year...

bliggity blah!

nothin new to report since i went hunting yesterday. froze my nose off in the deer blind, had a few deer in the scope, didnt take a shot... i need to work on controlling my breathing and slowing down my heart rate. better luck next time i guess. i still had lotsa fun chattin it up with amanda. thanks again!

not tomorrow but next friday...

im going hunting. this is my first time really hunting out in the woods holding a gun. ive been out in the woods with the guys while they were actively hunting. but this will my first real time. im super exited to day the least.

hit and run

so today after picking leah up from school i got rear ended. it really was barely a bump. i was in the turn around lane on woodward getting ready to cross all lanes of traffic heading to woodward heights. my car was completely still when i heard a honk behind me then felt a bump. i was on the phone with my mom and exclaimed "holy crap! i just got rear ended." i ended the call. looking in my rear-view i saw a smallish gold car maybe a foreign model or kinda like a focus. looked new. and a car behind him. waiting until traffic was clear on woodward (a blue truck to pass by in the far right lane.) then i pulled behind, proceeding to pull into the nearest parking space right off woodward thinking the gold car would pull behind me. nope he kept on driving. he actually turned right onto woodward heights. the same route i drive home. so as i caught up to him on woodward heights i flashed my lights at him and put on my right blinker. by now i was irritated that he didnt pull over behind me on woodward. well he did pull over this time. leah wroth his licence plate # on her homework assignment. i got out of the car, walked to the back looking for any bumps on my yukon. didnt see anything. so i walked up to his car. this is when i turned into a cop. i didnt look much like one though. my hair messy in a pony, blue sweat pants and a brown zip up hoodie. (hey at least i brushed my teeth. lol) approaching the gold car i immediately looked for his hands. ya never know... i was thinking of a super sweet kung-fu move if he was a crazy gang banger with a gun. not so much. he was a grey, balding man in his 50's, with a sweater vest. so the first thing i say is "you know you hit me back there, are you okay?" and if course he responds with "no i didnt." needless to say that really pissed me off. "yeah you bumped into me in the turn around lane on woodward." he then said "i wasent even in the turn around lane." "yes you were." i rebuttaled "ive had my eye on you since you hit me." he then said that he heard the car behind him honk but he never hit me. hmm, thats weird if he wasent behind me in the turn around lane then how did he hear the car behind him toot his horn. so i pulled out my ticket book and gave him a ticket for being a liar. ok fine i didnt. but i really would have if i had a ticket book. and i still should have given him a good dose of kung-fu, eryn style. moral of the story, please dont lie to me mr. gold car. just ask if i am ok.

bald jerk!

dollhouse findings on etsy

c.j. loves playing with her fisher price dollhouse that ama and papa got her last year for christmas. it included a family of 4, table, 2 chairs, 2 highchairs and 2 potted plants. for christmas we will be getting her more furniture to match. lately she has been using her brothers building blocks as furniture, and littlest pet shop animals as family pets. i would just love to get her these.

#1 mini 1\12 shabby pink baking table

#2 mini serving tray with sweet treats

#3 baby grand piano and bench

#4 armoire

#5 cutest ever tiny yo-yo quilt

p.s. #5 is really #1, #2 is #4 and so on. i copied them backwards. oops.

a new pet for x-mas?

leah has been begging for her own pet.
she really wants a hamster for christmas.
growing up i had hamsters, as did scott.
they were so much fun for me ,
i had all the tubes and balls and exercise wheels,
all the gear.
im just afraid the little girls will be too rough
and get bitten,
or accidentally let it out of the cage
to be prey for jager.

scott and i have been thinking maybe a ferret.
i really dont know much about them
besides being stinky,
and hiding treasures around the house.
i have learned that they can be litter box trained,
and roam the house freely and are very playful.

we have a cage in the garage that the guinea pigs (long story) once lived in.
we have also found some pretty enticing deals on craigslist.
so we wouldnt really need to spend a lot on stuff.

please let me know what you think.
do you have a ferret?
know someone who does?
how are they with kids and a dog?
does the sex of the ferret determine its temperament?
should we buy a baby as apposed to an adult?
any advise would be much appreciated.
thank you.

p. i. to the E!

made my first pumpkin pie from scratch.

cant wait for it to cool so i can dig my chompers in.

i wont be making pumpkin pie for thanksgiving, ill be making an apple pie or 2.

so i figured id make 1 today.

alphabet art

a few christmas gift ideas i have up my sleeve. my step-dads side of the family, i really dont see all that often. i have never even seen my step brother, step sister, or step cousins childrens bedrooms. nor do i really know enough about their personalities to pick out the perfect toys. these prints are absolutely adorable and im sure will go with their bedroom decor. i have picked out letters from lindsays alphabet series. g for gabby, c for camerin, and the t's for tommy and trina. lindsay is running an awesome sale on her prints until today! so get a jump on it. @ www.lindsayart.etsy.com

its about time...

i havent blogged in over 2 months. whew, so much has happened. i guess ive been a bit too preoccupied with- well im not really sure. but from now on i will try to update with all of my everyday silly stuff that goes on around here.

sooo, on with our familys most recent news. scott shot his first deer! as a promise to my dad scott vowed to hunt with him this fall and bring leah along. my dad cant shoot a rifle this year due to having his chest cracked open and all. so they drove up north saturday, ready for opening season to open at dawn the following morning. so they geared up in their camo, guns, and orange hats, climbed up the tree blind on the land that my dad and his friend own and hunt on.

9am scott sees a doe, gets a clear shot straight to the chest and goes for it. BOOM! as it was told to me, the deer sprung up on her hind legs, gave out a ghastly grunting moan, and flopped to the ground. leah was ecstatic. coolest thing she had ever seen. i was sure she was going to be super freaked. nope not her, she wanted to see the brains. she cant wait to hunt herself when shes 12.

the next morning, my dads friend greg shot a deer. apparently he shot her through the back thigh and out the front shoulder. needless to say she didnt flop on the ground like scotts doe. she ran off leaving the slightest trail of blood. leah the bloodhound tracked the trail while everyone walked behind her. when my dad told me this, i kinda thought that really they all tracked together, but no. as scott even said later, leah was absolutely amazing and tracked the deer up and down ridges until she found the kill. she rocks.

so here we are with a freezer full of venison. i cant wait to cook some up!

congrats leah and scott, im so glad you had a fun and safe weekend.

so heres a video of the kid dragging the doe out of the woods.