Makenna's Lyrical group song:
http://www.imeem.com/artists/angel_taylor/music/0xFVh1LB/angel-taylor-maple-tree/
Makenna's Solo song:
http://www.imeem.com/people/ZM25GJD/playlist/lmJM2P1K/tamis-playlist-2-music-playlist/
Alanna's duo song:
http://www.imeem.com/artists/group_1_crew/album/-GiItADe/ordinary-dreamers-album/
I don't have all their songs yet, but let me know what you think of these!
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
Belated Halloween Cat Post
Our Yard is Fenced!
Finally! After 5 years and 8 months of living in our house, the backyard is fenced!! It was a lot of work but Brad did an awesome job with help from Richard. It is one of those things that we had always talked about doing, but never got around to doing it until now. And, wow, what a difference it makes for the dogs!
The effect it has had on the dogs...
Friday, November 13, 2009
Man, there's got to be something to blog about...Hmm...
Well, the girls and I enjoyed a nice 2 and a half days off this week. It was parent/teacher conferences this week. We learned that Alanna is a "delight" to have in class and Makenna is a "peach!"
Brad and I finished raking and picking up the wet, rotting, yucky leaves today (oh, yeah, and
Brad did most of the work)!
Hopefully, this weekend I will post some pictures of the fence that Brad built around our backyard.
Have a great weekend everyone! Brad and I are off to a date night with our friends!
Well, the girls and I enjoyed a nice 2 and a half days off this week. It was parent/teacher conferences this week. We learned that Alanna is a "delight" to have in class and Makenna is a "peach!"
Brad and I finished raking and picking up the wet, rotting, yucky leaves today (oh, yeah, and
Brad did most of the work)!
Hopefully, this weekend I will post some pictures of the fence that Brad built around our backyard.
Have a great weekend everyone! Brad and I are off to a date night with our friends!
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Just Over One Year of Blogging
Well, its been just over one year of blogging for me; 97 blogs to date. I know I don't always update as often as I think I will, but I try. I figured I might as well post while I have a little time between housework and going to Alanna's classroom to help with math. Besides, Makenna told me last night I really need to change my background since it is no longer Halloween. So I thought I would go through and try to post 5 of my favorite pics from the last year. I will choose 5 because that is the number of photos you can upload to blogger at one time and it takes quite awhile. Who knows, maybe if I get ambitious I will do another post with some more of my top fave pictures.
Wow, that was a lot harder than I thought. It's really tough to pick just 5 pictures. I guess maybe I will have to post some more pics when I have time; unless, of course by then I have something more exciting to blog about!
Monday, November 2, 2009
Halloween 2009: Mystery Dinner Party Part 3
The girls...




The toilet paper game...

I passed around a roll of toilet paper and told the kids to take as much of it as they thought they would need to play the game. Nobody even asked me what the game was until after they had passed the toilet paper around. Notice the amount of toilet paper Makenna has wrapped around her neck. For each piece of toilet paper they took they had to tell one thing about themselves. Some of them had a lot to be said, and others, like Alanna only had to say 3 things. This was a great icebreaker for the beginning of the party.
I passed around a roll of toilet paper and told the kids to take as much of it as they thought they would need to play the game. Nobody even asked me what the game was until after they had passed the toilet paper around. Notice the amount of toilet paper Makenna has wrapped around her neck. For each piece of toilet paper they took they had to tell one thing about themselves. Some of them had a lot to be said, and others, like Alanna only had to say 3 things. This was a great icebreaker for the beginning of the party.
So the party turned out to be quite a success! I even had a mom tell me that her daughter had so much fun and that it was the best party of her WHOLE life.
It was a great Halloween, it was fun having it on a Saturday with beautiful weather. We took the girls trick or treating after the party and then finished up the night with drinks from Starbucks and a game of Rock Band.
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Halloween 2009: Mystery Dinner Party Part 2
The menu...all of the food, utensils, and drinks were renamed on the dinner menu with Halloween names. This way the kids had no idea what they were ordering.

The kids filled out their own orders 4 menu items at a time. It was a 3 course meal, and by the end they had ordered all 12 items off the menu.
The kids filled out their own orders 4 menu items at a time. It was a 3 course meal, and by the end they had ordered all 12 items off the menu.
Spaghetti sauce- bat's blood.
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