Mack Attack

Today started a little crazy. I had to be in KC by 9 for my second interview with Sanofi Aventis. It went really well but I was glad to get hojme this afternoon and play with the kids outside because it is 55 degrees! 2moro it is suppose to be 65! And then it is suppose to snow on Monday! The weather in Kansas is bizzare to say the least! Oh well, at least its not tornado season! Is that looking on the bright side?? Well you can see from the pics I tok this afternoon, we have more monsters at the house. Our house is the neighborhood hangout but considering my kids are the youngest, I'm happy with that! I need to keep the older boys in ear shot! Can you believe the oldest in these pics is 11 and he has already been through sex ed at school! My babysitter calls mack, mack attack because he attacks with big slobbery kisses!!

Another Day with the Monsters

Yesterday was a long day. Finally around dinner, Jeff could tell I was exhausted from the kids and he said do you wanna get a babysitter and go out! He knows me well. We called a young girl from 2 doors down and she came right over. He took me to a great restaurant called Ten in Lawrence. It is nice over priced italian but they have a great wine deal on Wedesdays. $15 bottle of italian wine and it was one of the beter wines I've tried in a while. It was very smooth. This restaurant has window seating and sits up high on Mass St. for those of you that don't know Lawrence but know UNCC, Mass St. is like Franklin St. It is so fun to watch the people walking by. When the college students started gathering at the bar, we knew it was time for the old people to go home! After a bottle of wine and a nice meal the kids were in bed and I didn't have to do dinner dishes!

Noelle got dressed all by herself this morning in her pretty easter dress from last year! I'm not sure what she is planing for the day, but she is ready with her shoes on to go somewhere! Maybe I should follow her lead and get dressed up and see where the day takes us! Maybe we can start a new trend of housewives dressing up to do laundry and vacuum! Lucy use to put on her best dresses and clean the apartment for Ricky! And it is a lot more fun than sweat pants! There is a new perfume that I have been wanting. Maybe we can get dressed up and go have lunch in Kansas City at the mall! Every girl on this site shoud try this perfume it is my new favorite. It is called Be Delicious by DKNY and it comes in a green bottle that is shaped like an apple. Dan, I don't think it would smell good on you but maybe you can get it for Jeannie!

Wild Ones Day 7 Take Two

OK this was so cute I couldn't wait till tomorrow to put it on my blog! I banned the kids to my room so that I could talk on the phone to manager of Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceuticals (I'm interviewing!) anyway they came down wearing jeff's Ts and his socks!!! They really keep me laughing! I won't mention what the room looked like!

Monster for Sale

Does anybody need a 6 month old lab? I think he finally did it yesterday! He was outside and got into our neighbors trash and through it all over their front yard and our back yard! Jeff was nice enough to help me clean it up but after we were done he said can I place an ad in the paper now! I probably shouldn't put monster for sale in the paper! "Sweet lab puppy free to loving home." That he will destroy! Oh yea, I should probably leave that out too! I think cleaning up our neighbors trash was more information than I wanted to know about them!! All in a day of fun around our house!

Wild Ones Day 6

Well I didn't take any new pictures yesterday but I don't want to skip a day on my blog so I am going to post some oldies but goodies.

This is a typical morning in our house. Derek is on the phone, Mack is on the couch and Noelle is being a complete angel! Yes that is a cast she has on her leg. Mack broke her leg accidently of course! She was such a trooper. She had the cast on for 5 weeks. At first she could not decide between pink and purple so they gave her both! She was so upset when they had to take it off! Now they have washable cast that you can put them right in the bathtub. It wasn't that bad having her in the cast. It didn't slow her down at all! She was still dancing to fergie the whole time!

I just think the other picture should be on a McDonald's ad somewhere!

Derek is learning how to read and write in kindergarten and I had such a proud and upset moment all wrapped into one this past weekend. We were out to eat with my in-laws and Derek is writing on a to-go menu. He wrote his first sentence "My mom is fat." I was so proud and so mad all in the same breathe. Jeff recovered for him quickly saving he spelt it wrong he meant PHAT! But Derek later told me he meant when I was pregnant with Noelle. Smooth recovery! Parenting is so fun!

Wild Things Day 5

Noelle loves Fergie! She knows every word and she even has the dance moves down! She loves to watch the videos on youtube. This is her singing Big Girls Don't Cry. But my favorite is when she sings Fergalicious and she sings "make the boys go loco!" Grandma Mimi could not believe she knew the words to a Maroon 5 song too! Our kids listen to our music. It is either that or us listening to Barney! Obvious choice!

You can see why the kids love their uncle Dan! Jeannie and Dan don't have kids yet-baby on the way, but none yet! They are practicing with ours! I think Dan and Jeannie were happy to get back to their quiet lives yesterday!

I decided to try videos today. We will see if it works! I took thje videos with my cell, so not the best quality and there is too much light coming through the big windows but you get the idea! I'm glad you cant see all the fingerprints on the windows! I love the comments! Yes Havah I get up at 5!! Jeff is doing a new talk radio show and he leaves at 4:45Am and the kids usually wake up soon there after! I can't remember the last time I slept in. I am headed to Arizona for spring training and I am so excited I want to soak up the warm weather and sleep in! Have a great day and keep the comments coming!

Wild Things Day 4

Well the kids definately love there Aunt Jeannie and Uncle Dan! It is so exciting to have Grandma Mimi and Papa in town, too. Derek asked me this morning if Grandma Mimi had to take her containers home-referring to the cookies she brought with her. I reassured him she would take the containers but leave the cookies! Both kids stayed up as late as they could last night but ended up falling asleep on the couch-Noelle by 7:30 and Derek by 8:30. They are not late nite monsters that is for sure!

Jeannie is prego with their first monster and Noelle is so intrigued that there is a baby in her belly. Noelle is trying to convince us that there is a baby in her belly, too!

Wild Ones Day 3

Well Derek finally lost his first tooth! It was hanging by a thread and I would not pull it because I don't do well with blood, especially my baby's! His Papa from Iowa came last night and pulled it-no blood, no crying!! The tooth fairy brought him 4 quarters!

One of my best girlfriends, Natalie, is a year younger than me and still modeling! After 2 kids! It was so funny, she sent an email to me with a novel written and a picture that was title lily plays poker,or something like that! Anyway, I open the picture and it is a gorgeous picture of Natalie, not her baby Lily. So I sent her a reply, saying dumb as_ you sent a picture of yourself! She replyed back, dumb as_did you read the f---n email!! She so busted me for not reading the email because if I would have read the entire novel it said she was copying a picture from her latest modeling shoot with Wrangler! Sorry Nat! So thank you for actually reading my blog! Nat and I have been friends since 10th grade! I have a picture of us in Myrtle Beach laying out after her high school graduation and I swear she is prettier now at 33 than she was at 18! Me, I was way cuter at 19! I am so proud of her for continuing to follow her dreams!!

Wild Ones Day 2

Well who knows how long I can actually keep this blog going but it is day two-day one for you guys because I am sending the site address out to day. I had to make sure I could figure out how to do it every day! Derek had a buddy spend the night last night. We had snow again yesterday! A girl from the south should not move to the midwest the snow is starting to get to me. I don't like to go out in it. I finally ventured out last night to go to the gym and the Jeep slid all over the road! Now I understand the importance of 4 wheel drive-too bad I don't have it on the Jeep! So with the snow yesterday and Derek didn't have school because of parent-teacher conferences, he was bouncing off the walls! By the way he Derek got rave reviews from his teacher! We called Zimmer to come over and they built forts and entertained each other. Noelle felt left out but she snuggled on the couch with her daddy to watch American Idol! The boys slept in until 4:45AM! They were quickly sent to the basement to play! They are standing here now watching my every move because I have promised them chocolate chip pancakes when I am done! I hope you like the new blog. I know two people that will check it daily and that is my parents!

Wild Ones Day 1

I decided to start a blog because I have so much time on my hands and I love being online talking to my friends. This should make it easier than sending so many different pictures out to so many different people. I named the blog where the wild things are because what else do you name a blog? That is also Derek's favorite book and with 2 kids and a puppy lab I feel like I live with the wild ones! I will start with these pictures because they are some of my favorites! Derek had Savannah over for a play date and we had the whole spiderman family-I guess it was a good thing to save all the spiderman costumes he had outgrown! When we were in North Carolina over the holidays Derek went into a jewelry boutique with me and found a beautiful red headband and brought it over to me. I thought it was for his sister but he quickly told me Madison, a girl in his class, had a headband like it and he wanted to buy Savannah one! He had some Christmas money and he was willing to spend his own money on it! So sweet! Where were the boys like that when I was in Kindergarten, or college for that matter? Anyway, you can see how cute Savannah is, no wonder he is so into her! But seriously kindergarten?