Archive for December, 2008

McDonalds for FHE

Tonight for FHE we took the kids to McDonald’s. For Christmas their Great Gma Hill sent everyone an ornament and $1 bill. We thought what better way to spend it than go to McDonald’s and get a treat since all desserts are just $1 (at least the ice-cream is $1 + tax of course) We [...]

This BLOG not so great the past few weeks

My posts are not detailed or creative. I am falling behind with all the craziness of the holidays. I am posting just so I can say I did. In jan I promise they’ll be better. Until then you get what you get, sorry…

Christmas Day!

Our day started at 6:45am when the first child awoke. We let them go to the living room to see whast SANTA had brought to them.  By 7:30 we were all up and going. Daniel’s family is staying with a friend and came over that morning. They wanted us to wait to open up gifts [...]

Twas the night before Christmas…

Twas the night before Christmas and all through our house was bunches of people not as quiet as a mouse. Daniel’s family flew in from Idaho on Christmas Eve. They arrived to our house at 8pm to see the kids and have dinner. They brought the warm weather with them too- I was very excited [...]

It was!

It was..  a snow day that is! I got to sleep in and that was nice. My doorbell rang at 9:50am. It was Jack’s friend wanting to play! I thought “Is this kid for real?”  My kids aren’t aloud to go out and play until 10am on a normal, warm, sun shiny day. On a [...]

Will it be a SNOW DAY tomorrow?

…INTENSE SNOWFALL RATES TO IMPACT SOUTHEAST MI FRIDAY MORNING… .A STRONG UPPER LEVEL WAVE WILL QUICKLY TRACK THROUGH LOWER MICHIGAN ON FRIDAY…WITH THE ASSOCIATED SURFACE LOW TRACKING THROUGH NORTHERN OHIO. THIS SOUTHERN LOW TRACK WILL LOCK IN THE COLD AIR IN PLACE…SUPPORTING AN ALL SNOW EVENT FOR THE MAJORITY OF SOUTHEAST MICHIGAN. HEAVY SNOW WILL [...]

Zoey’s Christmas concert

This year  in school, Zoey had the opportunity to sign up to play a brass or string instrument, or sing in the choir. She thought it would be fun to play the violin.  Last night was their first concert for the year. She did great!  I decided that this would be a “FFF” activity. (forced [...]

Drew-1 month

Sickness Sickness all around

I took Zoey to the Dr today and she has an ear infection, a pretty bad one too. It’s so bad they want her to come back in 3 weeks to see if its cleared up, so Dec 31st, we’ll be back to the Dr’s office. Right now she is refusing to take the antibiotic, [...]

I am sick

I am sick. Head cold and new baby, Sleepless nights- not good!