Halloween Fun

Okay so it's been a while since I updated my blog. Also, I am getting grossed out looking at the mouse picture that I have. So I need to add something different. But here's a picture of my big picture window. No, I'm not really an artist as you can tell but the kids love having things all decorated for the Holidays! It's fun! The kids make the Holidays so much funner! It doesn't take much to get them all excited about the Holidays.

Someone wasn't payin' attention in the meeting........

YES!!!! SUCCESS!!! I DEFEATED THEM!!! Or maybe this one wasn't paying any attention to the big mouse meeting on how to stay AWAY from those traps!! Or maybe he had a huge peanut butter craving and just couldn't help it! But whatever the case is, I got him or should I say her? It looked either well fed or pregnant! Yeah! Finally success!

Happy Birthday Calli!!

Okay, so this is way late! My baby Calli AnnMarie was born September 11th, 1998. She turned 10 years old! Where did the time go??



Here are some other fun pictures of her. The pictures only go up to a certain age cuz I need to get caught up with my pictures! I know, I'm a bad mom!! :)



Here is the Birthday Girl today!!




Here are 10 things about Calli!

#1 She was born on Sept. 11th- 3 years before the tragic plane crashes! I never did want to have her on that day. It just felt like a yucky day for some reason!

#2 She was born C-section because she was breech-naughty baby!

#3 She was know for having a Mona Lisa smile - look at the picture above with her as a baby at the table and you will see what I mean.

#4 She loves soccer and is very very good at it!!

#5 She helps mom out a lot with chores or babysitting

#6 She is s sister of 2 brothers, one older and one younger and 2 sisters, one older and one younger

#7 She is a trooper when it comes to stitches and ER. Earlier this month she put her hand through a window and got 42 stitches right up the inside her arm. I blogged that one too!:)

#8 She is so loveable and sensitive

#9 She is not they girly-girly type. She likes to play rough and tough and get dirty.

#10 She always makes us laugh with jokes, or other silly things she does.

Happy Birthday my little Calli Wally!!! I love you so much and I'm so glad you are in my family!!!

Mother-Daughter Reunion!

Okay,This is kinda silly but I am so excited about this!! I have this doll named Holly Hobby. I have had her since I was a little girl! She was my very best friend. (I know, pretty pathetic!) As you can tell in the picture below, Holly Hobby was known to always have a side view shot of her. I had always wanted to see what her face looked like. I thought maybe she was just an ugly girl and never wanted to show her face. It was such a mystery to me!


So one day I got a Holly Hobby doll as a gift. This one was so cool because it actually showed her face!!! She wasn't ugly! She was beautiful to me! I thought only special kids got to have the Holly Hobby with a face! I felt so honored to have her! So she immediately became my very best friend. I told her all my problems. I even cried with her as you can tell by the stains on her face. She was very well loved!!


So the other day, I was at DI (thrift store). I was just rummaging around the stuffed animal shelves and guess what I stumbled upon?? I was so shocked to see it!! It was a miniture Holly Hobby! She looked the same as mine! I was so excited to see her! Of course I had to reunite her with her "mother"!


Okay, so there you have it! Mother and daughter reunited at last!

Mouse Traps!!

I have a problem here! Can anyone help me out here? Okay, I love where I live, sorta. I love the fact that my back yard has a lot of trees and I feel like -somewhat - I am in the boonies! But there are bad things about living in the "boonies". MICE!!!! Yeah, Yeah, I have mice! Last year, I think I caught 10 of them in those nifty old mouse traps! It was an exciting and disgusting thing to do! Whenever I would check to see if I caught a mouse, I would slowly creep up on the mouse trap having mixed emotions on wanting a mouse caught but then hesitating on seeing the gruesome way he died! I usually wait until the kids get home so they can dispose of the smashed little mousy body. They seem to enjoy that for some reason! So I reset it with peanut butter on it and wait for the next victim. It is sooooo stinking gross to me but I have to do it!!! So that was last year.......This year I think the little mice had a big meeting and warned them all of the dangerous mouse traps that I put around the house and to STAY AWAY FROM PEANUT BUTTER! Or maybe the mice now are just so sick of peanut butter that they have developed an allergic reaction to it! Whatever the case is, my traps are sitting there mouseless. I've even checked the traps to see if they even work! SNAP! They work alright! It scares me every time! I know there are other options out there to catch mice. I thought the old mouse trap that actually kills them instantly would be a better choice. Randy's son Michael had set up his very own mouse trap. You know, the typical prop a box up with a pencil with a long string tied around it and then you wait patiently until the mouse is under the propped up box and you pull the string and "Bam" you caught the mouse. Well, Michael did it. I thought it was funny and it would never work. But hey, he doesn't have to work that day and he's got plenty of time on his hands so I thought what the heck, it will give him something to do. Okay, so in no time, he caught the mouse!!!!! I guess they didn't warn them about that one in mouse school!! Okay so besides buying a cat, what other options work good for you guys? Or should I just forget the whole mice trapping and tell them they won the war and just start charging them rent? AHHHHHH! What do I do? I wouldn't mind them so much if they didn't poop all over the place!! Thanks for listening!!! :)

The Girls

On 2 Saturday's ago the boys went on a campout and us girls hung out! It was fun! The boys need to do it more often!! Or better yet, we just need to go out more often! I love my girls so much!! They are so much fun!!!

Our New Addition!!!!

Here's a picture of our newest addition to our family!! She is loved and taken well care of.......as you can tell!!! Poor little thing! Her name is Lexee and she is a very good doggy.