Santa Train

Today we went to Santa Train as a family. We had lots of fun! The kids loved seeing Santa and Mrs. Claus. They wrote letters to Santa and gave them to him. Chanse wants a bell, Sterling wants a truck, and Hero wants a a stroller and a Dollie!! We will see if Santa will bring that. The truck for Sterling was so random. I asked her what she wanted and she said a truck. I thought she was a girly girl. Maybe not. Hero is a girly girl through and through. Chanse came home and wanted to play trains all day! How fun!!

The Mine

At Chanse's school they have a mine and all the 4th graders get to tour the mine when they learn about Nevada history. One day a year they open it to the public. So we went for a tour of the mine. We had lots of fun. Chanse's favorite part was the shaking elevator. We then panned for gold. That night Omi and Opa came and we went to Claim Jumper to keep with the theme of the day. The kids loved it. They also had fun making puppets with Omi.

Halloween

We had lots of fun on Halloween. We had family come over to go Trick-or-Treating and meet up with some friends. Our neighborhood was so great for trick-or-treating. We had a blast. And best of all Ben got us a Mickey Pumpkin blowup decoration for the front yard. The kids and I also made a big big spider out of news paper and black trash bags. So fun. Thanks to everyone for making it such a fun Halloween. And Ben made a great Halloween dinner for us. Thanks!

On the morning of Halloween the Kids carved their pumpkins. We did Chanse's first and then went to carve Hero's I was taking her picture as she lifted the lid off. And when she did we saw the inside of her pumpkin was black. She was devastated. It was so sad. She basically took over Sterling's pumpkin. And I asked Ben to look for a pumpkin for Hero while he was out at the store. He could not find any. So He took Hero to two stores and no luck. He then bought her a big stuffed Santa. It is almost as big as her. So she was happy! But it was so sad. Just remember you can't get pumpkins on the day of Halloween.

We also went to a fun trick-or-treating thing called Henderson Havoc . We got to see Jack and Sally, pirates, fight stormtroopers, make princess crowns, and visit with princesses, talk to a magic mirror, and enter the world of Harry Potter and make magic wands. Hero only liked the princess part. But I thought the whole thing was great. Chanse and Sterling were scared of the stormtroopers. But they haven't stopped talking about it.

Potty Training

Sterling just went pee and poo poo in the potty for the first time. Yea!!

Hero

On the same day as the hair cut and the throwing up something funny happened that I forgot to write about. I was in the car with the girls on the way to pick up Chanse from school. Some teenager was on a motorcycle on our street in front of there house and he was blocking my lane. His mother was also out watching him. I slowed down trying to figure out what this kids was doing. And nothing was happening so I slowly started to go around him and he decided to zoom off right in my direction. So I stopped and the mom waves and mouthed sorry. Hero sitting in the back said "That lady waved at me. Everybody loves me!!!" I said "Yes they do!" And had a little chuckle to myself.

Sterling's First Haircut or Chanse the Barber

Last night I was opening the refrigerator to get the meat out to make dinner (I was holding Sterling} right when I reached for the meat Sterling threw up all over the place. I put her down and she continued to throw-up. And if you were wondering some got in the refrigerator. Can I just say Yuck. It was all over her and all over me and all over the kitchen. I took her upstairs to take a bath. We got everything clean. Hero wanted to take a bath too. I said after diner and I have to clean the tub first. I was still trying to start dinner and wondering where Ben was. I find out he had be at work late. I am finally starting dinner I get dinner done. I give everyone food and Sterling threw-up all over the kitchen again. I tried to get her to use a bowl but she kept running away Ben calls and says he wont be home until 7:00. Very not happy. I am still trying to eat dinner and there is puke everywhere. Ben gets home and ever thing gets cleaned up. Chanse finally starts his homework. He had to cut out sight words and some pictures and make sentences. While started cutting I ran upstairs to clean the bathtub. hero comes running up and yells "Chanse is cutting our hair!" I said "he better not be!" This is what I found.


Hero said Chanse cut her hair too. Thank goodness her hair was in a bun so he could only get to wispies. Chanse said the girls told him to cut their hair. This morning Chanse said he had to do it because Sterling's hair was in her eyes. Anyways I was really not happy. I started to cry and then I laughed and I made sure I got pictures and video. Chanse was in big trouble. It took Sterling 2 years to get hair and now we are starting all over again. SO SO SO NOT HAPPY!!!

Here is Sterling before the haircut:


Here is Sterling today:

Returned Lipstick

So I returned the lipstick to CVS but could not find another shade that I liked so I got some mascara instead. Which made me save more I saved $1.10 more because the mascara was on sale for $5.00 but the original cost was more then the lipstick but the sale price was the same. This is great!! Hurray!!

The Results of my CVS Trip

So at CVS today I bought $25.04 worth of items before tax. I spent $6.54 after tax. And I got $4.00 extra bucks. So exciting the two problems with my visit today was the add said the nail polish started at $0.99. It was buy one get one free and I had a $1.00 off coupon so I should have been able to get two nail polishes for free but the cheapest was $2.99 and it was still buy one get one free and Hero so wanted the bright pink nail polish (which she wants me to put on her toes right now as I am typing) so I had to buy it. So I ended up spending $1.99 (I used the $1.00 off coupon) more then I was planning so I didn't have enough cash so I had to use my card. Stink I wanted to do it all cash oh well. My second problem is I don't like the color of the lipstick I picked out so I will have to return it to get another shade. I also found $21.00 and turned it in. I hope the rightful owner of the money comes back and gets it. All and all I think I did pretty good. Now next week I will try to double my bucks again with out spending very much money. I hope I will spend less then this week. I did spend less this time then last time and came home with double the bucks. Maybe next time I will try to go alone! It might work out better.

CVS Game

So I have heard a lot about how you can get stuff for like free and really cheep at CVS. But you go in that store and you look at the prices and it seems like it would never work. Well I finally decided to try it. On Saturday I went to CVS and I got some toothpaste, Natural Instinct hair color, and 2 boxes of Fiber One cereal. The total should have been $18.00 plus some change (I can't remember exactly right now). I used some coupons and split up my purchases to take advantage of the extra care bucks and I ended up saving $11.00 and I left with $2 of extra care bucks and a coupon for spend $15 and get $5 off your next purchase. So today I am going to try to double my extra care bucks with out spending a lot. I would like to spend like $3 or less and leave with $4 extra care bucks. I hope I can do it! I will let you know the results after I go! Wish me luck. I really hope the CVS game works for me.

Last Day of Church

Chanse asked me "When is the last day of church?" I said "never, we always go to church." He said "But I really want it to be the last day." I asked "Why?" He said "Because on the last day we get to see Jesus."


Today Ben stayed home sick from church. I asked the kids if they wanted to go to Nursery and Primary. Hero was the only one who said yes. SO I decided I would just take the girls and then go do my calling. Chanse wanted to go with me and stay with me. He has been throwing fits about going to his class so I didn't want to deal with it so I wanted him to stay home. We finally got him bribed to stay home with daddy. He was going to watch the third Harry Potter movie with Dragons. He has not seen that one yet. I don't really want the girls to see it yet but Chanse will probably like it. So then right when we were about to leave he changed his mind. So we can't even bribe him to stay home from church. He is a good boy. He went to class as happy as can be. Hero and Sterling went happy as could be too.

Bad Imaginations and Hard Boiled Eggs

Later in the day yesterday Chanse came up to me and told me he remembered his what his bad imagination was last night. He said "There was a candy machine and it got stuck by red lightning and then the candy disappeared." I just started to laugh and then tried to hold it in. It was so funny. That is why he had to come wake me up in the middle of the night. LOL!!!!

Then yesterday Chanse asked for a hard boiled egg. I told him he could get one from the bowl in the refrigerator. So he got one and then a few minutes later Chanse comes running to me and he says "Hero got an egg and there is something wrong." Hero said "I cracked it and it was all melted." Hero got her egg from the carton not the bowl. Silly girl so her egg was all melted. She then got one from the bowl and they all had hard boiled eggs.

And let me add Sterling did not go to bed last night until 10:00 then she woke up at least two times. What a stinker. I need sleep. She ended up in our bed at 4 am ish. So I was kicked the rest of the night and woke-up with a baby doll under my back. OUCH!! Does she ever sleep? And she constantly says she is hungry. She is a bottomless pit. She eats and eats and eats. It is incredible.

Middle of the Night Awakening

In the middle of the night Chanse came into my room and woke me up. HE said "I had a bad imagination." I tried to comfort him and I told if thought of nice things while he was going to sleep then he would imagine nice things. He said "You can't control your imaginations!" Well this morning he couldn't remember what he imagined about and then he said the rest of the night it was good imaginations. I think it is so cute how he called his dream imaginations. He is a silly boy. Sterling woke up too when I was trying to get Chanse back to sleep. What fun what fun!

Hero

So yesterday we were trying to figure out what to do for lunch. Hero said "I want salad with salad dressing." I said "we don't have salad." Hero said "That's OK I can just have salad dressing!" I said "I don't think so." SO then she had baby carrots and dressing. I had been trying not to put the two together because she would eat them without dressing. But she really wanted dressing and she really liked them together. She also really likes Mayo and has tried several times to get me to give her just Mayo. She always has to have it on her sandwiches. What a silly girl.

Newest Headbands

Karate

Chanse at Karate. He is so funny he had a substitute teacher and he freaked out. He would not do anything in karate that day he just sat and watched the whole time. Then this video was taken the next class when his teacher came back.

Sterling

So the other day I was asking Sterling to name different colors. I pointed to green and said "What color is this?" Sterling said "Chanse's!" Chanse's favorite color is green. Then I pointed to purple and Asked what color is this. Sterling said "Hero's" Hero's favorite colors are purple and pink. It was so cute!

Then today he wanted a banana and they way she said banana was so cute!

First Day of Kindergarten

The first day of Kindergarten did not go so well. I tried to drop Chanse off in his class and he was kick and screaming and crying. I put him down in his seat and put his backpack on his chair and he grabbed his backpack and ran out of the room screaming and ran almost all the way to the playground. I then ran after him and tried again. I also had to give him his name tag and I put it on his shirt and he ripped it off and crumpled it and threw it down. The teacher said try to get out fast. I tried but I could only go one step and he was grabbing my leg. I also had the girls with me in the double stroller so I had to get them out too. Finally the teacher just had to hold Chanse back screaming and crying while I ran out. When I came to get him he was totally happy. Then on the second day we were late to school and we had to go through the office and Chanse was having a fit because he wanted his teacher and we were going the wrong way. I got him to his class room and he was happy as could be. Then yesterday his teacher told me he has been teaching them new songs. Today Chanse told me he had to stand up in the class and count to 20. He did it and got a prize of a pencil and smiley face eraser. Oh and on the second day of school he came home with a picture his teacher tool of the kids on there first day of school and he was smiling and looked happy. This is what I got of Chanse before school on the first day!

This is the picture he came home with the on the second day of school. I don't have a scanner so I had to take a picture of the picture sorry it didn't come out so well.

Ballet/Tap and Karate!!

First I have to let you know our sink was fixed the very next day! But we couldn't use it for 24 hours.

This week Hero had her last Ballet/Tap class for the session so took some video and pictures!

Chanse had Karate Graduation today! He got a white belt!! So fun!! (Chanse refuses to wear his Karate outfit!!)

Crash!!

We were finishing linner you know the meal that is lunch and dinner and I heard a crashing noise by coming from the kitchen sink. Some dishes had just been put into the sink so I thought they fell over in the sink. A few minutes later I got up to rinse off my plate and put it into the sink and this is what I saw..........

Yea it wasn't dishes falling over like a pan that we thought. The whole sink came crashing down. How did that happen??? I hope it gets fixed quickly!!!