Parent Teacher Conference

Hello everyone! I know its been awhile, but I havent had much to say. Hunter and Parker are out of school this week for the Parent Teacher Conferences. We met with Hunters teacher today. Hunter is doing really well in school. She said he is very polite, good to others, and just all around a good kid. That wasnt a suprise for us, we know he is all that. He is also doing well academically. We just need to get his reading up. They have been doing assesment tests and he is a few months behind in his reading, but hes come along way since school started. We are so proud of him!!

Below I finally posted a pic from Halloween. I finally figured out how! Whoo Hoo!

Tomorrow we leave for Spokane, and Im so excited. Again, I have packed our days full of visiting with friends and family. I tried not to do it this time, but there is just no way around it. I want to see everyone when I come to town. Well, I hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving and I will update everyone with our fun time in Spokane when we get back.

Halloween Picture I promised!

Its been awhile....

Its been awhile since I last blogged. So, Halloween. It was a fun day. Parker got to wear his costume to pre-school and they had a costume parade around the neighborhood, he thought that was pretty cool. My friend Niki came and visited us this day, so she got to join in the Halloween festivites. We had chili and cornbread for dinner and then we got the boys ready to go trick-or treating. Parker was a lion.....with a very big ROAAAAR that he had been practicing for weeks and Hunter was the red Power Ranger. Kris took the them trick-or-treating while Niki and I stayed at home to hand out candy. Kris took the boys around out Loop and then he drove them over to the new housing development by Hunters school and they were getting full size candy bars over there. They scored!! They had a blast! I will post pics in a few days.

Last Thursday I left for the Scrapbook Convention over in Seattle. I had been counting down the days to get away and scrap. I met my friends Cindy and Shayle in Ellensberg and we followed each other to Seattle. It was so good to see them again! I took a class that was a 10x20 Canval wall hanging. It is soo cute. I cant wait to get some pictures on it and hang it up. I also made a few themed albums, so Im going to try and get them completed. I tend to make those things in class and never use them. But Im going to really try this year to put them to use, all they need is pictures! I was sad to see the 2 days in scrappin land end, but I will go again next year. I think next year I might sign up to be a volunteer, instead of taking so many classes. See if I can get some free stuff out of it!! So after I left the convention I went to Aunt Rochelles house and spent some time with her. We went to the mall and did some shopping and had lunch at PF Changs (Im so excited that the Tri-cites is getting one! The lettuce wraps are so yummy). While there I also went and vistited my old neighbors. They just had a baby so I wanted to visit them. My boys still talk about the "neighbors" all the time. Then this morning Aunt Rochelle took Erin and I to breakfast at a cafe in Maltby before I would head home. It only took me 3 hours to get home, but when driving by yourself it sure feels like forever. Im totally drained from the long week and weekend. I cant wait to go to bed tonight. Until next time....

Belay Certified! Whoo hoo!

Ok, so today was our appointment at the gym to get Belay certified. There was really nothing to it, other that to know how to put on the harness and how to work the rope. We had alot of fun doing it too. We are all going to be sooo sore tomorrow though. I was really suprised by Hunter though. Once he got the confidence in us that we werent going to let him fall, he climed as high as he could. The walls werent set up for kids though, they had long reaches and he struggled with that. Had it been a little easier for him I think he would have gone to the top. Parker on the other hand has been the one alll week asking if it was Friday yet because he wanted to go Climb Rocking (too cute). I think he was hungry because it was close to dinner so he did alot of whining and crying. He didnt care for it to much, but he wants to go again. So we will see. The next time we go to Spokane we want to go to Wild Walls there, I think they will have more kid friendly routes and what not. This might be a new favorite family activity, and its a workout all in one!
Tomorrow is Hunters last soccer game for the Fall season. He will start again in the Spring with the same team. He has improved so much this year, we are really proud of him :) Next basketball will start. That is something that he has wanted to do for awhile, so I finally signed him up. It will be his first time playing. Hes has been practicing making baskets at the gym and I have to say he is pretty good. (maybe Im prejudice??)
Parker is really excited to school next week. He will get to wear his costume on Wednesday and they are going to have a parade. He is counting down his days to show off his Lion costume and his BIG lion ROAAAAR.
This next week I think will be a busy one. My friend Niki is planning on coming to visit us (I hope) and then I leave for Seattle on Thursday for the scrapbook convention with my friends Cindy and Shayle. Im going to stay an extra day after the convention is over and spend some time with my Aunt Rochelle and family. I will update everyone when I get back!

Gym Membership

Ok so yesterday Kris went and looked at some gyms because he wanted to get a membership. He came home and told me about them so we could decided on the best deal. He told me about one called Life Quest and how the kids would have a blast there. So we decided to look at the gym last night and we signed up. Im a little nervous about it and Im not all that motivated to go by myself. So tomorrow I have an appointment with a personal trainer and its a program called Active Trax. Basically they ask me about my goals and plug it into a computer and each day that I go in they will have a print out for me telling me what equipment to use and how many reps to do and they can motify it if my goals change. It will be nice since I dont really know how to work out. I have in the past but got bored because I did the same thing over and over. So this should keep it intereseting. Wish me luck. As far as the kids go, Hunter was old enough to have a membership too, so he has access to the teen room which has fitness type video games (like dance dance revolution). He can also go use the basketball court and soccer field while we work out. Parker is too young to do that stuff so we will have to pay for the daycare room for him. But they had lots of fun stuff for him to do. They are looking forward to going to the gym. So hopefully this will teach them to have a healthy life style and hopefully we will keep it up too. Oh they also have a rock wall for climbing. Kris and I would have to get Belay certified before we can use it, but I think it looks like fun. So we might try that out too. I will let you all know how my training thing goes tomorrow. Like I said Im a little nervous.

Weekends over :(

Well the exciting news for this week.....my new neice Addison Claire was born on 10/10/07. I cant wait to meet her. When I told the boys they have a new cousin...Hunters response was why do we have so many cousins? My response to him was "dont you like your cousins?". He agreed and decided it wasnt such a bad thing.
This weekend went by fast. Kris left on Friday for his fishing trip. He doesnt have cell service so he havent heard from him. But Parker decided that he doesnt want to eat any fish because its discusting. I have to say I agree with him. But Hunter loves to eat the fish his dad catches, so they can have it all! The boys and I had a nice and quiet weekend. I took Hunter to his soccer game on Saturday morning, and I have to say that since they added a 2nd practice during the week, the team has improved quite a bit. Go Sabers!! Then the boys and I came home, cleaned the house a bit and I did some crafting. I didnt complete any new pages, but I organized all my pictures and finished a few pages that needed journalling. So now they are ready to be put in the boys books. So I feel somewhat accomplished! So now that Im more organized with my scrappin stuff, I might decided to whip out some pages at night. We'll see.

Back from Spokane

This weekend we went to Spokanae again. Our house there is having someplumbing issues so we wanted to go check it out to see what we are in for. It turns out its not just an easy fix,we have to have the city come and shut of the water to our house and then fix the problem real quick, but the leak isnt so bad right now so we are gonna wait to do it. Then it was also our friend Niki's 30th birthday, so we suprised her at her birthday dinner. We were glad that we didnt miss it. So, while in Spokane we took the boys to Greenbluff and they each picked out a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch and they did some of the fun kid stuff there. Then we went back to my moms house and she also has a mini pumpkin patch in her garden so the boys picked out 2 more pumpkins, so now each of us have a pumpkin to carve in a few weeks.
The boys are counting down the days until Halloween. I took them shopping last week for their costumes. Parker in going to be a Lion and Hunter is going to be the red Power Ranger. I figured this will be the last year that I have any say in Parkers costume so I picked the Lion. Its cute! I will post pics after Halloween. Well Kris has decided to go Steelhead fishing this next weekend instead of his annual Elk Camp. So he will be gone 5 days starting Friday, which is much shorter than his usual 11 day Elk Camp. That will be nice, and it also worked out so he will be home to stay with the boys while I go to the Scrapbook Convention in Seattle again. I am counting down the days for that!!! Well I am looking forward to my next weekend at home, I plan to get some scrappin done and maybe a few christmas presents.