Happy Thanks-Mas

Okay everyone... I realize it has been awhile... I'm sorry!

This past weekend we celebrated Thanksmas on the Hoyer side. We have been doing this for the past few years now and it really seems to work out slick. On Thursday we celebrate Thanksgiving and then on Friday we shop until we DROP!!! Then on Saturday evening we celebrate Christmas. This years Thanksmas was super fun and always awesome to see everyone.

I had a very special surprise on Friday night. Michelle, Amy, June, Claudia, Anthony, and my mom had been planning a surprise birthday party for me since I guess September. I believe Michelle said they were tossing around the idea on the beach back in July... Well let me tell you.. THEY GOT ME!!! As you know I turned 30 on November 10th and therefore had NO IDEA this was about to happen. Us girls had gone shopping all day and we were all getting tired of each other (okay... I was seriously tired of them) :) I know Michelle and Amy.. I was a B#@!!#@... Come to find out they were PURPOSELY trying to annoy me and irritate me... hmmm.... Well I only needed 1 more store and Michelle said we couldn't because Cory needed her home to help with the boys... that did it... I just needed to scootch away. My last words when I got out at my house were, "I just need a break from you three." I'm shameful now!!! Well I got home and Anthony kept saying, "Are you jumping in the shower before Geno's tonight." Ummm NO it is a pizza joint with my family. I'm going as a scrud that stinks, hair kind of pulled back, and no deodorant on. Who cares, right??? Then Claudia called and asked if we were going out that night and I said that we weren't because I had been up since 2:50 am. and I was so tired.

I called over to my folks to make sure pizza was on for 6:30 and Krisitin (Amy's sister) answered and said they were at Geno's. I told Anthony to get in the car because I had the time wrong. So he now has to hold me off for a half an hour. He first took about a 15 minute shower and then said he could hear a leak in the van tire. I had the kids in the van at 6:00 by the way! I said that was fine I would put them in the car... To make a long story short we roll into Geno's at 6:30 and walk in and it is packed. There is a room off to the side and my brother tells me that they are in there. I open the doors and there are 30 of my friends and family screaming, "Happy Birthday!" It was such a fun night. There were babysitters lined up already and just really fun night it was!

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone that was involoved.

Middle-Aged Mama!

I'm am so excited to be 30.... Let me tell you why! I had a huge debate after the election about the candidates. I do feel that if people do not want to share who they are supporting fine... BUT if you offer your opinion... I'll be doing the same. When I got to school one day a para-educator was talking about how Obama was NOT going to do a good job, ya da, ya da, ya day. To make a long story short I defended my Obama man (the NOW President elect) and her response was, "You're to young to know better." GULP GULP!!!! Sooooo..... to make my long story short, when I think of 30 I think of 'grown-up' and damn it I better not hear that again because NOW I'M 30!!!!

Anthony and I celebrated last Saturday night. We went out for dinner and then went to the casino. They built a new one in Clinton and this was the second time we have been. I won 84.00 (WOOT WOOT), and Anthony made a donation to the casino. It was a fun night though. We hit a bar in Clinton for a drink and then came back to Preston for a drink also. We had never been up to the 'local bar' so it was fun to see peoples faces. Most probably didn't even know who we were. :) Fun times!

Monday was my actual birthday and some teachers had a surprise party for me at school. My principal came to me on Friday looking for 'advice' on a previous student of mine. He asked if I would come to this 'really important' meeting. THERE WAS NO MEETING!!! There were pictures up of my 'dyed hair' experience a couple years ago, KISS pictures, and some of Anthony and I. What a fun day!

The kids are all great! It was Hudson's turn to bring snack this past Thursday. He brings it about every 20 days. I forgot it... That KILLS ME!!! I felt terrible! He is great though. We watched a little girl at our house today. She is about 18 months and Hudson had a lot of fun with her. He's a strong leader.

Hootie Boy (Hayden) continues to be full of life :) God I love him!!!! He has had a rough couple weeks a preschool. Nothing major... just not resting at nap time, running with the trucks... Did you know the 3 year old is the new 2? SCARY!!!

Abby Dabby Doo is great. She cut her top two teeth this week. She naps most of the weekend away because she doesn't always sleep real sound at daycare. She's great though.

I do have some sad, sad, news... Elmo (AKA the Hermit Crab) died Thursday night. Elmo had been in our lives for almost 2 years. For the love of GOD NO MORE HERMIT CRABS!!! We're going to do fish.

Love to all!!!

E

AND THE WINNERS ARE..... KISS!!!

Well... Well... Well.... what a fun week/weekend it has been. Again, the week flew by with 50 bazillion things going on. On Thursday night we finally witnessed what parent-teacher conferences felt like. It was weird being on the receiving end, and I asked questions that I as the teacher would have been getting irritated by :) Let me just say that Mr. Hudson Felkey has the BEST kindergarten teacher around. She has shaped our son to love anything and everything there is to love about school. Hudson is doing very well and will be starting on a read naturally program because he is reading so well. Preston does Guided Reading and Hudson is flying through it. We were/are very, very proud of him. OF COURSE who knows Anthony and I well are laughing right now (we know you are). Anthony asked what TAG/TEP standed for and I explained to him that it was the smart kids that got to leave for lunch once a week earlier than all of us. Anthony said, "Oh yeah... we always made of them." I explained it was because we were just jealous!!! ;) For all you smart kids that got to leave class to go to lunch early... sorry for making fun of you! Hudson also had his first overnight sleepover with his friend Keaton. Keaton and Hudson started at WeeCare around the same time and have been best of buds. However, Keaton lives in the East Central School District and goes to Miles. Keaton's mom and I make a point for the boys to get together often. Hudson had a blast spending the night with Keaton. It was nice to snuggle up Hayden and Abby for the evening.

So this brings me to Saturday... Anthony, Claudia, Kevin, and I thought it was time to GO OUT! We hadn't been out since the babies were born, so we did. Oh did we!!! We shipped the boys to Grandpa's house (my mom had to work) for their own special slumber party.

We went as the group KISS. It was a blast! We went to a place called Mooney Hollow (sp). It was just FUN! We were absolutely the H-I-T!!! I so badly wanted to rock out... and I think towards the end of the night (had we had the chance) we would have. It was great!!! We ended up winning first place which meant 100.00!!! We promised the boys if we won anything we would take them to Chucky Cheese today :) Everyone is a winner at our house! I hope you enjoy the pictures. I believe we were not recognizable!

On Sunday we got up, got the boys, and kept our promise to them. Little did they know we already were headed to Davenport to get Abby's 9 month (more like 10 month) pictures taken. They turned out cute!

Okay... off to bed. Enjoy the pictures. :)

Abby's on the Move

Hello Everyone!
Here are a few pictures of Abby on the move :) She's on the go... go... go....