Halloween Pics here we come

Okay bear with me. Blogger has changed the way it puts pictures on the blog...so these are very RANDOM ON HERE. We had an eventful Halloween week with trick or treating at AOPI, our Halloween Daycare party, and trick or treating on Halloween. Enjoy!

Daddy the safety guy in the back ground with the famous trick or treaters. Our friend Don with Bubbi at the insurance office.

Musical Chairs in the infant room at Daycare. All tuckered out from a fun time at the Daycare party!

The real thing...Halloween 2008 Trick or Treaters - Bubbi the Train Conductor and Kenner the Hot Dog Salesman

A bee buzzed by them. It was only their friend Titus from down the street!

Our favorite friend Marilyn. The insurance office in SPrague is the place to go for trick or treating for both parents and kids:) Thanks Mitchells!

The Mummy game. Kenner...I think you look better as a hot dog salesman:) His trick or treat bag was PLUM FULL AT AOPI!

Kenner feeling through the slimy snakes (or cold spaghetti) to get a treat with Terri (who is the director of their daycare.)

Pumpkin Roll with Kenner's teacher Miss Lisa. He holds a higher power than Mommy in my house some days:)

Egg Roll. Kenner almost had it down with a broken egg...because when he first attempted it he went right through the egg. Glad it was hard boiled! The funniest part was that when it was Bubbi's turn...he just leaned on down and took a bite out of it. So funny!

Bobbing for apples at AOPi. He almost got one...they let him get it with his hands. Trick or treating door to door at the AOPi house. They sure got it down!

Intently opening up his first trick or treating sucker...yum!

Look at Bub...he continued to dive in for seconds at AOPI, daycare, and trick or treating around Sprague. It was so funny!

Hard day at work...huh Bub! Decorating cookies at AOPi

Random picture of Bubbi. He just helps himself now to a drink whenever he chooses. He just climbs right in and helps himself. The only problem is that he uses the bath toy cups (which have holes in the bottoms of them!)

Cheese ball Bubbi!

Another random pic of Kenner cheering on the Titan Vball team at Lincoln Christian with Jenna and Aunt Kris.

Taking a vote...does Chad (a guy from Hebron) look like Casey? This is the only guy (besides Daddy) that Bubbi has consistently gone to time after time ever since he was little. Isn't that funny? Thanks Chad!

Hot Dog! Get your Hot Dog! Kenner the hot dog salesman

Power of perspective

This morning and this weekend I was a bit sad with the thoughts that Casey will be missing 2 months of the boys saying funny things, learning new information, and just being here to hang out with.

As I was crying after he left, I thought I would check blogs. Again I was frustrated that there wasn't an updated page on everyone's blog...then I had to check mine and there hasn't been one for a long time!!! Hmmm (something to do this week).

The last blog I checked was my blog friend, Stephanie Vest. It is an amazing, but much more difficult situation than mine. She has a 13-16 week old baby girl and two boys that are 3-6. She is dying with cancer. Wow! I guess Casey leaving for 2 months is nothing. Pray for the comfort of Steph's family.

Have a great week everyone!

Happy Halloween!

Wow! What a great day today! Here are some pictures of the boys trick or treating at AOPi on Sunday. We also had a Halloween party at Day Care on Monday.



Today was a mini party at our house. I always have ideas, but never follow through with them... I am so glad that I did! I had a blast and I think others did too:) Sorry no pics...they will be coming!

Our Kitchen

Okay Blogger is wanting to put the pictures up backwards this am...serves me right for trying to do something at 6:00 am when I have a FULL day...ugh! Love Mondays!

Here is our accent lighting (aka rope lighting). Isn't it cool? Don't mind the tool mess:)
without the accent lighting!

pretend there is woodwork up and a backsplash and a new floor...DONE KITCHEN!

It is amazing how much counter space I have.

Are the things on top..too much?

the boys moved into their kitchen too! They got their ktichen back from being in the basement:)

washing dishes in a sink...OVER RATED!

I am so sorry I have been horrible at blogging lately. I FINALLY HAVE A KITCHEN SINK AND CUPBOARDS...so I have been unpacking our boxes (yes three years later), rearranging my house (I think this might be the last time of moving different pieces of furniture everywhere and they have a home now!), being a single mom, and having fun with my boys.



I must tell you that washing dishes in a sink, standing up is over rated and WAY EASY! I have been doing dishes in the bathtub for the last month. That does a number on your back.



I also want to announce that I have Friends:) I succesfully made my first batch of Amish Friendship bread. Our cook in AOPi use to make it all the time, but without a kitchen of my own (and if she was cooking...why bother) I wasn't able to ever make it. I got the starter kit from a teacher at school. The first batch went wrong...only because I forgot about it. I discovered it under a swarm of little gnats (yes gross I know!). This batch was YUMMY!!!! Thanks to my neighbor Pat (or should I call her the General Store of Sprague) and Marilyn for looking in their pantry's for instant vanilla pudding. The boys and I munched on it all night:) Now I have crumbs all over to prove it:(



Anyone want a starter kit? It is on day 2 today and if you are coming to the game on Saturday (Lincoln Christian Tourney) I can bring it to you! YUMMY!



I promise pictures of my kitchen soon...but don't know when. Seeing that it is 11:00 pm I better get to bed. I never sleep when my bed warmer is gone:(



Have a great week...it is WEDNESDAY TOMORROW!!! YIPPEE!!!

Who needs Disneyland when you have the Roca Berry Farm!

Our fun time at the pumpkin patch with our cousin Rylan and our Aunt Annie...check out his blog for more pics LAST SATURDAY. I will add more commentary later...off to get my boys:)

The boys walking through the huge pumpkin patch. Like a Mother Duck and her three little ducklings.

Look at all those pumpkins...but no standing up Bubbi

Need Magazines or fun wrapping?

I can hardly believe that Kenner is doing fundraising...but he is. They are doing a fundraiser at his new school for toys and other necessities for the school. I really don't expect any of you to do buy anything, but in case you haven't renewed a magazine and it is on our list...you can do it through here. I checked out the prices and they are very comparable to the rates you get when you need to subscribe. Really really no pressure...but if you need to renew you could help my children's preschool. They sell very similar things to our Elementary School's fundraiser and the holiday wrapping package with the snowmen is an AWESOME package and for 20.00 you get a lot.

Really enough selling. Here is what you do if you want to buy something or renew your subscription:

Go to www.prestigefundraisers.com and the organization number is 503164
His name is Kenner Svitak

Thanks!

Also if you are in to buying things to support a good cause - Breast Cancer. Go to my Pampered Chef website to look at the Help Whip Cancer products. A $1.00 is donated for every product sold. There are some great products on there. If you live around the Lincoln/Hebron area, you can email me and I will put them all on one order and I will pay for the shipping. Thanks!

Kitchen and 911 (456938)

First of all 911 is a funny story not scary:) Kenner is learning about fire safety at school this week. We were on the way home from an evening my friend Heather and Kenner and Patton's best friend (so Kenner claimed on the way home) Lane and Kenner said, "Bubbi if you get hurt or there is a fire you call 91238462392, okay?" I just caught the last bit of the conversation before I busted a gut. So we preceeded to call Aunt Becca and Grandpa Pat to spread the news about the new 911 phone number. I just love that he is learning all new things, including a naughty word....which he has gotten the soap dispenser to his mouth! It worked and he didn't say it anymore. I didn't know what to do. Another journey started with motherhood:)

Now for our long awaited pics of the kitchen!
Here are the two helpers being shooed out of the kitchen...we don't need that much help, but thanks for asking boys! Before - the uppers

Ahh! Mommie got a break (I did offer it to Daddy...since he is the one doing all the work around here, but I think he liked getting Mrs. Opinion out of the house for a night!) THANKS CASEY! I went with my mom (no that isn't a typo), Becca and Mike. Unfortunately we lost...but I love Husker football!
Now for pictures this morning. It is 7:02 and the boys are still sleeping I have a meeting at 7:45 and I am still blogging...addiction!!!

First trial run of the concrete countertop. Too red...but cool!
The real thing with just the first buffing done last night.
This is the color with of course more shine and buffing to go on it...doesn't it look cool?

Have a great Friday. Pray for my friend Shawndra Turner, it looks like she is in the hospital.

Pumpkin patch tomorrow with cousin Rylan...here we come!

Cupboards

Our cupboards are installed. I am too lazy to take a pic of them and then put them on the blog...sorry. This is definitely my lazy week...went to bed at 8:00 last night CRAZY I know! '

Thanks to Aunt Becca and Uncle Mike for coming out tonight and watching the boys so that I could go wash the rocks that will go in our cement countertops (yes cement...575 pounds!) Yikes! I hope our floors withstand them. I hope to get pictures of our kitchen this weekend. In the meantime...good night!

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With going back to work, starting a new reading program (essentially no time for speech services), having no kitchen for a month, watching your son get sick and healed, and just life - I decided to live with this new motto. I realize that storm can mean different things to different people. For me at this moment, it is just life and living.

I love my husband and boys, my work, my hobbies, my family (extended near and far) BUT these last two weeks I have desired to take a time machine back to life when it was just me and only me. I have desired to be my own, to be on my own schedule, to get my to-do list done completely...then when letting Kenner and Patton receive the first prize at the Festival last weekend, watching them play games with Daddy, going for walks, helping Casey in the kitchen...I realized - My life wouldn't be the same without them. With the worries and stress, come the GREATEST JOYS like hearing a little brother say, "Ni Ni Nenna, wo you" and the big brother say, "I wove you too Bubb."

I guess my to-do list can get eternally longer and my stresses will remain the same. The thing that will constantly change is the timing of when God will decide to bless me with the next joy moment!
Good night and hopefully those Huskers pull an UPSET against the Tigers tomorrow! Go Huskers!