It's NICE to be important, but It's more important to be NICE!: November 2009

Happy 16th Jakers!

My little "but not so little" bro is 16! My mom wanted to throw him a surprise party so she enlisted my help as usual. Don't get me wrong, I love throwing parties. (It is the only way my house gets really really clean.)

As he entered he didn't do a great job at pretending he didn't know. Later he told me one of his friends told him about the party - Teenagers!

Highlights of the party:

Eating Pizza
Singing Happy Birthday with a bunch of teenagers
Watching them "cuddle" and "flirt" with each other
Playing the UNWRAP game to find a Coldstone gift card at the end
Watching the boys wrestle for the Coldstone gift card

Happy Birthday Jake!

Fall is in the Air

The Arrington Grandkids

Grandma Julie took the cousins to pick pumpkins at the pumpkin patch. After 2 wagons full and a lot of running around everyone got their perfect pumpkin.

Fall just isn't Fall without Football!

It's a witch hunt! For family night we went to Gardner Village to see the witches. We went on a witch scavenger hunt. The kids had a blast searching for the silly witches...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Unfortunately I have been very sick for this Halloween week. Despite the sickness for family night we attended a night out at the local park. My kids had fun pumpkin bowling, listening to stories in the cometary, getting their fortunes told by sixth graders and watching the fire department drop pumpkins from the top of their ladder. Marshall insisted they were the pumpkins that were stolen from our front porch - yes the ones Grandma Julie got for us at the pumpkin patch. We had to explain that fire men probably wouldn't steal from the neighborhood. I was in charge of Hilary's and Marshall's parties at school and from bed Tuesday morning I had to call for help. This is not something I normally do. No, I don't think I had the swine flu but something along that line.

I did make it to Calli's parade and class party where I got to experience a little of how she is at school. As you can see she is right up there with her teacher while she is reading the class a story. This is her friend that always asks me if Calli can play, No wonder they are friends. Andrew had fun doing all the activities but after 3 hours we were both spent.

Back to School

Marshall 5th Grade

Hilary 6th Grade

Calli 1st Grade

Andrew and I will have a lot of time to spend together while the kids are at school. I can't wait! This year our schools went to traditional. I am so excited to have more time off in the summer when we can play outside in the sun.