I went up to Midway today and while I was there I tried to take a few pics of my kids. First of all I need a better camera, second of all I wish my kids had been in nicer clothes and lastly I need HELP! Oh well at least a couple turned out kinda cute.

Disneyland

I went to my very good friend of 26 years, (wow I'm old) wedding on Friday. (Which I forgot to bring my camera to.) It was in San Diego, so since I was going that direction, I was bold and brave and daring, and decided to take the kids ALONE to Disneyland. It was really fun! The kids had a great time and are so incredible. They look out for each other so well and helped me out immensely.
I did have the help of a couple of my sister-in-laws and their husbands during the wedding, which I was so grateful, Thank you! And I talked another sister-in-law to come down for a day. We just proved we CAN do Disneyland alone! With no problems, in any way! He he he.................
......................except getting her son's leg caught in the bench and having to have the paramedics, security and everyone else take the bench apart to get it out. (Sorry Kim, it was so funny) And look at poor Seth's face, he was so brave!


Sometimes I think they would rather spend the entire day swimming than doing anything else.



One of the days, there was a helicopter filming the parks, so if you ever see footage of Disneyland from overhead, you may just see us. LOL!


Having so much time at the park, we decided to do all the stuff we had never done before! I had never been over to Toontown. I guess it's one of those places you forget about, and these guys belong in this place!

For some reason, they always seem to have the desire to line up like this.

I love having kids old enough to go on the rides alone!

Oh, and we never had to wait in lines! It was perfect!

So over all we had a great time! We were just missing one very important thing..........DAD!

Pictures from Josh!

Josh and the Hobbit translator!

A dust storm!

HILARIOUS!!

I just found the funniest blog! I have been looking at it all day! Very funny!

One more to go!

I now only have one more kid to go. Nate went to kindergarten today. Ethan and Emery went a week ago Monday. Will is so bored, but at least it is only 2 1/2 hours a day before Nate comes home, and then he will go to preschool next year.

For any of you that know Nate, you know that he DOESN'T move. He is so slow and I ALWAYS have to fight him to get dressed. Well this morning he was up at 7:00, dressed and eating breakfast before the other two were even awake! I doubt that will last very long, but for today it was nice.
I love walking with Will to pick him up in the afternoon. I love the fall and the cool crisp days. Soon fall will be over, and then winter, then before I know it Josh will be back. (if only it would go that quickly)

We're "All Okay, Jump Master"

So I think the storm may be over now, although it might be to soon to tell yet. My friend Burg says they come in 3's so to expect the plague next!

This morning I cut the carpet padding and laid it. Then I laid the carpet back down. The carpet isn't that bad. I was able to do a pretty good job. There are only a couple of small bumps (I never knew what people meant by a carpet stretcher, until I saw what it is supposed to do.) But wow what a job. It took me 3 days to get that floor dry. And I did this job all by myself!! (Except when my brother-in-law helped use the shop vac to suck up the water.)
So now that school is in, and my house isn't falling apart anymore, I have my family room back and Emery has her room back, maybe I can get the house clean and I can get back to normal.

By the way "All Okay, Jump Master" is something Josh always says to the kids to make sure they are all buckled in their seat belts.

@#%$&*

ROTTEN BAD LUCK!!!

So 2 days after we get all our stuff back from our fire, we get a FLOOD!! Not bad, just like the fire, bad enough to cause me some serious grief. Our sprinkler shut off valve(yes the beloved sprinkler system that I worked on all spring) wasn't shut off all the way and water leaked into Emery's room. Soaking the carpet! I don't think I could have anything more go wrong at this point. So this morning, my brother-in-law (yes the same one that keeps helping me) brought me a shop vac and a couple of fans. But what I didn't know is that you have to rip up the carpet and throw away the pad (it is stuck to the cement and so would never dry)! So that is what I have been doing all evening. And let me tell you, that is a dirty stinky job!