What a busy time of year this is! Since my last update Dave and I celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary. It didn't hit me until I realized the big #10 is only a year away. Our time together is sailing by.
Two weekends ago we took the kids to the Pumpkin Festival in Half Moon Bay. I'm still mad at myself for not charging my camera battery the night before like I told myself to. The camera died on the drive over. It was probably better that way because we were so busy with keeping us all together and making sure the kids didn't break anything. After ditching the stroller at Marci's car and getting some food in the kids we had a good time. It was super crowded, hence the need to bail on the stroller. We saw some cool stuff, bought a Christmas present for the kids, and I spent some b-day $$ on cool wood jewelry. There is a huge pumpkin patch with hay maze that we were going to stop at on the way home, but the kids were all asleep by the time we passed it. Next year Dave and I will probably go to the Festival alone since it would be even harder with 4 kids. The plan is to spend the entire weekend by ourselves since it is the weekend of our 10th anniversary.
October is slipping away from me when I have so much to do this month. I am in charge of our church Halloween party this Saturday night and I'm starting to get nervous that everything won't be ready. Ever since we found out that baby #4 was on the way I have been on a mission to purge and simplify our home. Plans for a garage sale quickly formed as I started getting rid of a lot of stuff. So I picked the worst time ever, last weekend, to finally do the garage sale. It has sucked up a lot of the month sorting and getting ready.
The kids had mixed emotions about selling our stuff. Once me and Gramma Evie started sorting and pricing everything last Friday night Jessie wanted to go through all her toys and donate some things. She brought out a broken necklace and 25 cent popper toys that she wanted to sell for $1 each. Then, during the sale the next morning Jessie took back a stuffed bunny we had put out just as a little girl was looking at it to buy. Dave bought a rocking chair and ottoman at a garage sale a year ago that we don't have room for. It has been sitting in storage for months so we put it out to sell. Our funny J-bird got attached to it while we sat through a few slow times during the sale. She almost cried when she came back outside and found that I had sold it. I have to admit, for a split second I wished it didn't sell so she could keep rocking in it.
Logan was almost traumatized too. We put out our big, clunky octagon dining table to sell. Logan came out after Dave wheeled the table to the front lawn and pointed his finger back to our house saying, "Bring my table back!" Then after we explained we were selling it to buy a new table he said, "You NO sell our table!" So funny. That was his phrase of the day. Logan got his wish though. The table didn't sell, but I couldn't stand the thought of Dave dragging that beast back into the house. We left it out by the street. Hopefully someone will give it a new home.
Then there's silly Toby. Dave and I were basically running crazy from 7 AM to 10 AM. Unfortunately the kids had to fend for themselves in the house unless they wanted to come hang out with us. Toby did NOT want to come outside so Dave let him play RoboTech on the PlayStation. In the process he created a monster- Toby the video game freak. When Dave went in to turn it off after over an hour Toby would not stop asking to play more. The only thing that got him out to visit the daylight was a pair of headphones from a CD player that didn't sell. Toby climbed up on that octagon table and grooved to some tunes on Daddy's "music player"- as he calls it.
Even though Toby wasn't around for the garage sale it must have made an impression. The next day in church he blurts out at the end of Primary, "We had a garage sale yesterday!!" :) Lol! Our kids are funny!
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Monday, October 01, 2007
30! No way!
20 minutes ago I entered the world on my Grandpa's birthday at 01:23 AM- in 1977. That math is correct. I turned 30 years old...... 20 minutes ago. I don't feel any older, but dang it if 30 doesn't SOUND old. I remember one specific conversation Dave and I had in his white mustang shortly after getting engaged. We talked about having our kids early and close together, so that we would be done by the time we were 30. Well, the 9 years since that conversation has flown by, and now I am 30 and pregnant with our 4th (and last) child. Crazy. 
The rest of my b-day was, unfortunately, disappointing. Dave had the day off but had to go into the office in the middle of the day. That kinda shot our plans to go out to lunch/shopping just the two of us because he got home way after lunch and the boys were tired. Instead I worked on church stuff while the boys (and Dave!) took a nap. Blah. I was trying really hard not to be a grump because the day just didn't go as planned. We went to the parents for family night/b-day party. Thanks everyone for the $moola$ and goodies. The new furniture I'm going to buy thanks you too. We left early, jammied the kids, and Aunt Denise watched them while Dave took me shopping. All in all, the day turned out okay...................but it still sucks to know I'm 30!
The rest of my b-day was, unfortunately, disappointing. Dave had the day off but had to go into the office in the middle of the day. That kinda shot our plans to go out to lunch/shopping just the two of us because he got home way after lunch and the boys were tired. Instead I worked on church stuff while the boys (and Dave!) took a nap. Blah. I was trying really hard not to be a grump because the day just didn't go as planned. We went to the parents for family night/b-day party. Thanks everyone for the $moola$ and goodies. The new furniture I'm going to buy thanks you too. We left early, jammied the kids, and Aunt Denise watched them while Dave took me shopping. All in all, the day turned out okay...................but it still sucks to know I'm 30!
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
So I realized looking through the front page of this old blog that an entire month went by without a peep from me. Here's an update for the entire month of August/early September as I remember it from my camera.
Mom Bennett has been threatening to have a Bennett Band Night in their back yard for at least a year. We finally did it in August. Denise and new hubby Arnold, Dave and I and some family friends all got together for dinner, swimming and jammin' on the instruments until dark. We brought our keyboard, dusted off Tori's drum set and mostly listened to the guys play their guitars. The kids had a great night playing and swimming with Uncle Sam and friends.
The annual Bennett camping trip to Pinecrest was a little different this year. Mom and Dad Bennett were in Philadelphia that week and we missed them. We bought Gram's tent trailer so we could take it up for a long weekend while Uncle Mark and Aunt Lita were there. Denise & Arnold, Marci & Donovan, Dan & Lauren, Tori, and cousin Nicole came up too. Our kids LOVED having so many Aunts and Uncles there to play with.
Our Pinecrest Top Ten (in no particular order)
1. Jessie and Toby swinging in the hammock and playing frisbee with their new friends in the campsite next to us. Logan playing with trucks in the dirt
2. Uncle Arnold taking the kids on 'buffalo hunts' around Pinecrest
3. Good food and roasting smores EVERY NIGHT, YUM!
4. Jessie and Toby playing with Dan & Lauren's dog, Simon -taking him on walks
5. Naps in the hammock
6. Fishing on Uncle Mark's boat (even though we didn't catch anything except a beautiful sunset)
7. Playing a new game, Bohnanza, with all the big kids
8. Late night chats around the campfire while sipping Peppermint tea and watching the meteor shower
9. Taking showers at Lauren's cabin and watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie
10. Selling the tent trailer the day we got back! "dirt-camping" as the kids call it, is not a vacation with soon-to-be 4 young kids. We will rent a cabin and visit the dirt before doing that again any time soon.
Jessie's birthday was the end of August. She turned 7. I feel old.
Jessie still loves ponies and arts & crafts. She is such a good help to me around the house and with her little brothers. Reading, which she didn't enjoy last year, has gotten easier and now she likes reading bedtime stories to the family. She is so excited for her new baby sister coming in January. J loves telling jokes she hears at school or reads on the juice boxes. She's got a quick wit and knack for sarcasm- the little pickle. Math and Spelling are her strongest school subjects, but her favorite are recess (of course) and art. Her new thing is Barbie, which Dave and I said would not enter our home in multiples, yet they are here. They are better than those awful Bratz dolls which Jessie wanted, so we feel the compromise was worth it. She received a lot of clothes for school. Thank you family and friends! It's great having a child whose birthday comes right before the start of school.
J asked for a star birthday cake. You can see my attempt below. It turned out more like a flower or big sun. Pretty much a disaster but it tasted good. Let's just say I learned it is a lot harder than I thought to frost an odd-shaped cake and make it look good. It was also very last minute.
We went mini-golfing the day before J's birthday with both sides of the family. Jessie said she had a great birthday!
We got a 'courtesy call' from J's principal a couple days before school started to let us know they placed her in a 1/2 grade combo class for the year. I was not happy about it since she is in 2nd grade. Obviously, some of the other Mom's had the same fears I did because we had an impromptu class meeting with the teacher, principal and those parents who were there after the first day of school. After that meeting I feel better about how the year will play out. It is a compliment to Jessie that they picked her as being an independent worker, good listener and all-around good student for that class.
Mom Bennett has been threatening to have a Bennett Band Night in their back yard for at least a year. We finally did it in August. Denise and new hubby Arnold, Dave and I and some family friends all got together for dinner, swimming and jammin' on the instruments until dark. We brought our keyboard, dusted off Tori's drum set and mostly listened to the guys play their guitars. The kids had a great night playing and swimming with Uncle Sam and friends.
The annual Bennett camping trip to Pinecrest was a little different this year. Mom and Dad Bennett were in Philadelphia that week and we missed them. We bought Gram's tent trailer so we could take it up for a long weekend while Uncle Mark and Aunt Lita were there. Denise & Arnold, Marci & Donovan, Dan & Lauren, Tori, and cousin Nicole came up too. Our kids LOVED having so many Aunts and Uncles there to play with.
Our Pinecrest Top Ten (in no particular order)
1. Jessie and Toby swinging in the hammock and playing frisbee with their new friends in the campsite next to us. Logan playing with trucks in the dirt
2. Uncle Arnold taking the kids on 'buffalo hunts' around Pinecrest
3. Good food and roasting smores EVERY NIGHT, YUM!
4. Jessie and Toby playing with Dan & Lauren's dog, Simon -taking him on walks
5. Naps in the hammock
6. Fishing on Uncle Mark's boat (even though we didn't catch anything except a beautiful sunset)
7. Playing a new game, Bohnanza, with all the big kids
8. Late night chats around the campfire while sipping Peppermint tea and watching the meteor shower
9. Taking showers at Lauren's cabin and watching Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie
10. Selling the tent trailer the day we got back! "dirt-camping" as the kids call it, is not a vacation with soon-to-be 4 young kids. We will rent a cabin and visit the dirt before doing that again any time soon.
Jessie's birthday was the end of August. She turned 7. I feel old.
Jessie still loves ponies and arts & crafts. She is such a good help to me around the house and with her little brothers. Reading, which she didn't enjoy last year, has gotten easier and now she likes reading bedtime stories to the family. She is so excited for her new baby sister coming in January. J loves telling jokes she hears at school or reads on the juice boxes. She's got a quick wit and knack for sarcasm- the little pickle. Math and Spelling are her strongest school subjects, but her favorite are recess (of course) and art. Her new thing is Barbie, which Dave and I said would not enter our home in multiples, yet they are here. They are better than those awful Bratz dolls which Jessie wanted, so we feel the compromise was worth it. She received a lot of clothes for school. Thank you family and friends! It's great having a child whose birthday comes right before the start of school.J asked for a star birthday cake. You can see my attempt below. It turned out more like a flower or big sun. Pretty much a disaster but it tasted good. Let's just say I learned it is a lot harder than I thought to frost an odd-shaped cake and make it look good. It was also very last minute.
We went mini-golfing the day before J's birthday with both sides of the family. Jessie said she had a great birthday!
We got a 'courtesy call' from J's principal a couple days before school started to let us know they placed her in a 1/2 grade combo class for the year. I was not happy about it since she is in 2nd grade. Obviously, some of the other Mom's had the same fears I did because we had an impromptu class meeting with the teacher, principal and those parents who were there after the first day of school. After that meeting I feel better about how the year will play out. It is a compliment to Jessie that they picked her as being an independent worker, good listener and all-around good student for that class.
Saturday, August 25, 2007
whoa here she comes!!
So I can't put it off any longer. It's time to make an announcement. We are having a GIRL in January!
I'm sitting here watching Monk, surfing the web and getting pummeled by the bean in my tummy- reminding me that I haven't told everyone yet. We just had our ultrasound on Monday and the Doc confirmed Dave and my feelings that this one's a girl. A shy girl at that- first her hand was covering down there, then the cord was wrapped through her legs. Finally the doc confirmed a "girl part" he said. I wasn't as convinced as with Jessie's ultrasound, but I didn't see a third leg either so we're going with the girl. I had a vivid dream about nursing a little fair-haired, fair-skinned girl about 2 months before we got pregnant. Maybe it was this little one preparing us for her arrival. I'm starting to get excited and the shock of having four has almost worn off.
I'm sitting here watching Monk, surfing the web and getting pummeled by the bean in my tummy- reminding me that I haven't told everyone yet. We just had our ultrasound on Monday and the Doc confirmed Dave and my feelings that this one's a girl. A shy girl at that- first her hand was covering down there, then the cord was wrapped through her legs. Finally the doc confirmed a "girl part" he said. I wasn't as convinced as with Jessie's ultrasound, but I didn't see a third leg either so we're going with the girl. I had a vivid dream about nursing a little fair-haired, fair-skinned girl about 2 months before we got pregnant. Maybe it was this little one preparing us for her arrival. I'm starting to get excited and the shock of having four has almost worn off.
Monday, July 23, 2007
Miserable
We had a busy weekend. Dave went to his second to last soccer game of the season on Friday night. J slept over at Gramma Viv's house that night, so it was just me and the boys at home. Mom came over to eat dinner with us and then I did her hair. She brought the movie Robots for the boys to watch and they freaked out. I don't know why but hey had an instant aversion to the movie. We watched it while they played in the other room. Logan warmed up to the movie but Toby kept coming in to watch and then he would leave a few minutes later. Obviously, the robots bugged him.
Saturday was our usual trip to the Farmer's Market in the morning. We dropped off all the food at home and went straight back out to run errands. I drove so that Dave could finish the new Harry Potter book before he went back to work on Tuesday. We went to Aaron Brothers for frames and IKEA to look at furniture for Dave's office. Dave and I couldn't resist a cheap hotdog on the way out since we were starving. J got an ice cream cone and the boys ate gummy rats. yuck. I love IKEA! So many great ideas and inspiration there. Here are a few favorites and on my wish list for our home.
After a quick snooze at home we got up and went to Joey and Gayle's for dinner. We didn't realize it would just be the guys watching the fight. They had 3 huge platters of meat, potato chips/dip and soda. Not exactly our idea of dinner. We ate and stayed for awhile then came home. I had been feeling a little strange since early afternoon, but I started feeling very weird as soon as we got home. To make a long, painful, itchy story short- I woke up at 2 AM Sunday morning with hives from the soles of my feet to the top of my head. I was doubled, covered and smothered in hives of every shape and size until Wednesday. Even my hands, feet, ears and lips were so swollen that I looked like I had a strange disease. I could barely walk until Tuesday when the swelling and hives went down on my feet. It was awful! I figured out on Monday that it was the kettle corn from the Farmer's Market which I ate on Saturday that caused the reaction. I ate a few pieces Monday morning when I gave the kids some and broke out again a few hours later. Thank goodness Grandma and Grandpa Bennett took J and TJ on Sunday and Dave was home Monday and Tuesday. Otherwise, I wouldn't have made it alone with the kids. I jokingly referred to myself as the polka-dot princess when Jessie was looking at all my bumps. She thought that was pretty funny and called me that most of the week.
The week was pretty much a waste as far as my to-do list and I'm so glad that is over.
Saturday was our usual trip to the Farmer's Market in the morning. We dropped off all the food at home and went straight back out to run errands. I drove so that Dave could finish the new Harry Potter book before he went back to work on Tuesday. We went to Aaron Brothers for frames and IKEA to look at furniture for Dave's office. Dave and I couldn't resist a cheap hotdog on the way out since we were starving. J got an ice cream cone and the boys ate gummy rats. yuck. I love IKEA! So many great ideas and inspiration there. Here are a few favorites and on my wish list for our home.
After a quick snooze at home we got up and went to Joey and Gayle's for dinner. We didn't realize it would just be the guys watching the fight. They had 3 huge platters of meat, potato chips/dip and soda. Not exactly our idea of dinner. We ate and stayed for awhile then came home. I had been feeling a little strange since early afternoon, but I started feeling very weird as soon as we got home. To make a long, painful, itchy story short- I woke up at 2 AM Sunday morning with hives from the soles of my feet to the top of my head. I was doubled, covered and smothered in hives of every shape and size until Wednesday. Even my hands, feet, ears and lips were so swollen that I looked like I had a strange disease. I could barely walk until Tuesday when the swelling and hives went down on my feet. It was awful! I figured out on Monday that it was the kettle corn from the Farmer's Market which I ate on Saturday that caused the reaction. I ate a few pieces Monday morning when I gave the kids some and broke out again a few hours later. Thank goodness Grandma and Grandpa Bennett took J and TJ on Sunday and Dave was home Monday and Tuesday. Otherwise, I wouldn't have made it alone with the kids. I jokingly referred to myself as the polka-dot princess when Jessie was looking at all my bumps. She thought that was pretty funny and called me that most of the week.
The week was pretty much a waste as far as my to-do list and I'm so glad that is over.
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