Some pictures

Life moves on. . .

Well, we had snow in December. I think we had about a foot of snow to be honest, it stuck around for a week. Cancelled Tiffanys last couple days of school, which was fine with her because she was home with pink eye any ways.

For christmas we made cookies and a BIG mess in my kitchen. I think I am still find remnants of dough and chocolate morsels.
We went to moms (teena's) house for christmas day and opened presents there. Than we went to see Bedtime Stories at the movie theatre, and than back to her house for dinner. IT was a really nice day.

Now it is January and things just keep getting busier. Trying to get the house back in shape after the holidays. Mike went out and bought a Bow Flex system to work out with. I have been using it too and very excited to see how the results will be. They say 6 week challenge so that is what I am doing.

2nd Place in her first science fair!

So Tiffany won 2nd place in her first science fair! We are so happy for her. Her teacher said she did great presenting it and that she sounded like a teacher up there. So glad to hear all this.

We found out that Play-Doh and Tire Slime are both good fire retardants even after setting for two weeks to dry. The tire slime stays wet, and the play-doh just stops it.

So there you go, those were the best things we found. And as for the Phos-Chek we got to play with, of course, that was the best retardant. But most of us dont have that stuff laying around the to test. We were very, very lucky to get to play with it. Thank you Mr. Matousek!

Halloween

Tiffany was a Dragon Fairy this year. The costume was really cute. We went to a friends house for trick-or-treating and a party. Had a great time :-)
Mike was Gothomist Prime (I dont have pictures, WAhhh), and I was a Mime Bride's Maid, LOL. I was suppose to be dead, . . . but the makeup didn't turn out right so I was a Mime, LOL.

Now that the year is almost over I am getting all excited for Thanksgiving and Christmas!!

Play-off's!

Tiffany's team, the Purple Sparklers, have made it into the playoffs!! We are so excited.

I guess it is time for me to take pictures of the girls playing! LOL

Wow, So much. . .

Well, today I realized the year is almost over, Tiffy's soccer is almost over, Everything is changing! I have even found myself realizing I Need a hobby!! So I am going to try and start scrapbooking. Which is a hobby I have tried to pick up before but to no avail. So everyone wish me luck. I want to try to get one set of christmas pictures done before christmas this year! And for anyone that knows me, that is ALOT! I do like 200 pictures a year for christmas, if not more. Tiffany got tested at Sylvan Center over the last weekend. I went to get the results this week and I was blown away by how she tested out. My little girl is in 3rd grade and reads at a 6th grade level. Her math skills blow, 2nd grade level, but I think this is due to her not listening in class. I will be working with her at home now with her math and hopefully by the beginning of the new year (Jan. 1st) I will have made some headway and it will be easier for her. So everyone keeps your fingers crossed for her. A friend of mine gave me an idea to help her learn and keep her mind growing quickly in the ways of math. Tiffany, and us, have started her 3rd grade science project. It is "Household Fire Retardants." It has been a real eye opener for us. Tiffany is learning all about the fire retardants that the firefighters use and the ones in the house. This project should be awesome once finished. I plan on video taping each thing we do. Than we will put them together to present on her portable DVD player.

Life in General

Well This year is just going by so far. It seems like the blink of an eye and October is half way done and over with. I am so glad to be able to spend holidays and special time with my family. Glad for being able to spend more time w/ my father and step-mom and brother this year than in years past. Means a lot to me. Being able to see my brother growing up is just. . . wow, is all I can say. Being able to see my little sissy (kassie) growing up and trying to hard to find her place in this crazy wacky work is awesome too. Luv you guys both so much.

As I am watching my daughter grow up and I see how her little mind is working and maturing and I watch how she sees things and tries to comprehend what is going on. I wonder how she will turn out. What she will decide to do w/ her life. She has so many things in life and she loves to do. And she tries so hard to please everyone, even though she is learning she cant please everyone all the time. This year has just been full of so many things.

Onto another topic.

We are going back to Disneyland this weekend!! We are all sooo excited!! I want to take a family picture there, actually a few family pictures, to use as our Christmas card this year. We have a few shows of Tif and I or Mike and Tif together that were just cute but I want a picture of the three of us. We had so much fun the last time we went we just could not wait to go back, that and we got season passes and want to get our monies worth.

Happy Halloween everyone!!