Finally!

My computer is fixed and the cox guy fixed my internet connection so I'm back and finally ready to share my 8's.



8 Shows I watch



Iron Chef

The Office

The Hills

CSI Miami

Scrubs

Without a Trace

My House is Worth What

House Hunters



8 Favorite Restaurants



Famous Dave's BBQ

Ted's

Outback Steakhouse

Pei Wei

Bill and Ruth's

Popeye's Chicken

Chick-Fil-A

Speedy's



8 Things that happened today



The kids let me sleep in late.

Planned our anniversary trip to Padre.

Canceled the trip to Padre and decided on Hot Springs Ark.

Jonathan came home for lunch.

Canceled the trip to Hot Springs and decided on Taos New Mexico.

The cox guy fixed my internet and phone.

Decided ten hours of driving for a day and a half of skiing wasn't worth it, back to not having a plan.

I fixed Outback's Mac a roo and cheese and the kids said it was better than Outback!



8 Things I look forward to



Watching the kids grow up.

Our anniversary weekend together (whatever we decide to do).

Taking the kids to Honduras with us next year.

Remodeling our bathroom (hopefully sooner than later).

William and Rachel coming home to visit in February.

Spring time

Family pictures

Summer break for the kids

8 Things I wish for

A long and healthy life for my family

Christian spouses for my kids

An extra half bath off our small living room

No more laundry

Just one more baby

Longer summers

Shorter winters

A great 2009

Christmas Musical

Jack and Jennah had their Christmas musical last night. It was great. Jack really seemed to enjoy it and Jennah loved every minute of it. Jack agreed to be in it only if he didn't have to have a solo or speaking part. I was very proud of him for taking on this challenge. I love


watching the kids perform it is a memory of them I will cherish forever. Their innocence is priceless and hearing them sing songs about our God just makes my heart so happy and I can't control my tears. With me working some Jonathan has taken them to most of their practices and in the process Jennah some how lost the solo she was suppose to have that she has been practiced for over a month for. I told her if she wanted me to I would talk to them about it but she didn't mind she had a cheer leading part that she loved so that made up for it. Thank you to Grandma Janet, Papa Joe, and Nana for coming and sharing this event with the kids. I know it meant so much to them to share their hard work with you guys.

Rechargeable Batteries

I have to confess, I am not an organized person. If it weren't for Jonathan's organizational skills and our busy schedules I wouldn't ever plan things out. With three kids and our busy lives I have to be somewhat organized. One thing I still really fail at is keeping new batteries around all the time. About half of our kids toys go unused because of the lack of batteries. About four times a year though I am super mom. I find all our rechargeable batteries and get them all charged up and let the kids loose with them. I did this about a week ago and boy have they had a great week. It's like their birthdays all over again. Jack pretty much keeps a screw driver with him finding old toys and replacing the batteries. He has trained Jennah and she is a pro now too. Joel is still in the training stage but in no time I'm sure he'll be replacing batteries also. Good times!

Holiday Stresses

I promised myself this holiday season I was going to enjoy every minute and not stress about the small things. For the most part I thought I was doing well with the holiday stresses until Lita decided to share a story on her blog about how stressed she is during this season. I wanted to make her feel better so I commented to let her know she wasn't alone. In the process of writing I found myself sharing two stories on her blog and thinking to myself another one I could share. That's when I realized I'm not doing such a great job at not getting stressed out.

Let me share all three dingy things I did in a span of 24 hours. Sunday evening I had to work and Jonathan was taking the kids to church; we said our goodbyes and got in separate cars and left, but instead of going to work I followed Jonathan and the kids all the way to the church. I don't know what I was thinking. I guess I wasn't. I was just driving. Then yesterday morning I thought I had volunteered to stay with Jack's class while his teacher had a meeting, I do this about twice a month and Grandma Janet keeps Joel for me. I called and left her a message to remind her of our plans for the afternoon only to check my calendar a minute later and find the date I am helping is next Monday. So I quickly called and left another message telling her I am crazy and I would see her next Monday. This last one is the scary one, yesterday evening Jennah had a birthday party to go to and Jonathan had plans to visit his Grandpa in the hospital. He was planning on taking Jack and Joel with him and I would take Jennah. Joel cried to go to the birthday party so I let him go with me. On the way we had some music on and I remembered I had left my flat iron on in the bathroom. I called Jonathan quickly to ask him to unplug it so Joel wouldn't get burned. He quickly said, "okay but do I have Joel?" It wasn't until he said that that I remembered he was in the back seat with me! I can't believe I did this! It is worrying me.

I know we have been extra busy lately (double booked four out of five evenings this week with things to do) and I'm sure that is why I'm doing these crazy things. I just thought it was funny that I was trying to make Lita feel better and am now worried about myself. So today I'm going to take it easy and try to regain my sanity. Happy Tuesday!

1st Attempt

So our first attempt at getting a Christmas card photo failed. I am too cheap to have them professionally taken. Although at this point I am seriously considering it. We'll try again later.

We finally got the piano on Friday. Jennah, Joel, and Jonathan have been enjoying it so far. We had the music to the solo Jennah has and Jonathan played it while Jennah sang. She thought that was pretty neat.