Trying to Motivate the Monsters

OK I need some help from my friends and family! The weather is getting better-and we are going to spring training this weekend so hopefully when we get back, spring will be here. It has been a long winter and I have enjoyed baking and eating cookies!! So now it is time to lose the winter blas and pounds I have packed on! Why is it so hard to motivate when u get older??? I have tried the gym-boring! So I use to run so maybe I'll try that again! Heather, if your reading this give me some tips! My friend heather ran the rock-and-roll 1/2 marathon for the first time a few years ago!! And Michele and Kelly use to drag me running! I need you guys!! So today I am starting. Derek and I are jogging to his school and Noelle is taking her bike! It was so much easier to go for a jog before I had kids!! Wish me luck! I'll take my phone and maybe we'll get some funny pictures of getting mom back into shape for summer!!!!

Most Important Monster

Our kids talk non-stop! Jeff says that is a sign of intelligence! Well it's making me crazy and I'm loosing my mind! This morning Mack is squeaking his toy and the kids are loud so I am going to make this quick so I can retreat to the peace of a shower! For those of you that know teddy, you can see his is still around and buckled in safely! That is my new car they are squeezed into! When Jeff got his new radio show in KC he had to give his company car back to the drug co. He wanted a small commuter car so I twisted his arm into the Acura because they had a great deal on it and it was so cute! He hated it so that worked out for me! I got the new car and stuck him with the Jeep! I know, the Jeep is not a small commuter car!! I think after driving a small car he changed his mind about wanting one!

Sweet Monster

Derek is the sweetest thing! Last night he asked for something from Jeff and I just caught the tail end of their conversation but Jeff told him we didn't have the money for it and then he joked with him that we may need to borrow some money out of his piggy bank. He does a great job saving his money but last night he was willing to share! Jeff and I were going to the KU game and Derek gave us a card before we left, it was really just a piece of paper folded with staples around it. He told us not to open it until we got to the game. He had put a dollar in the paper so we could have fun at the game! The gme was a lot of fun. It was packed because it was senior night. Before 1/2 time a ku player trough the ball straight in the air and it looked like it was just thrown up in desparation or frustration but another KU player came out of nowhere and dunked it. The croud went wild and they played a clip from Tommy Boy "That...was...AWESOME" http://youtube.com/watch?v=9mEOOGmCDbA

They had a unicyclist for half time. She through one bowl on top of her head, then 2 bowls, then 3 then 4, then finally 5! So she had 15 bowls stacked on her head by the end. She balanced the bowls on her leg until she kicked her leg and tossed the bowls on top of her head. We had seen her years ago at a basketball game but it was still amazing!

Baby Mack

Just a side note, look how cute he was when we got him!

Baby #3

Well, Mack survived the wekend and Jeff didin't put an ad in the paper for him! He really is getting better everday! Look how sweet he is lying her under Noelle's chair just hoping she will drop something! And when I tld him to get out of the dining room, this is the look I got! "Who me?" He is close to 7 months old now. Does anyone know how old he will be when he reaches his full size. His mom is a beautiful brown lab that weighed 60 lbs but his dad is a horse! A very sweet yellow lab that weighed 100 lbs! He definately got his personality an his brains from his dad-so I 'm hopin he got his size from his mom! He is a smart dog. When we went to the breeders house, they were raising him inside and already crate training him and working on sit. Derek told him to sit and he plopped his little butt down-it was the cutest thing ever. Quickly after we brought him home he learned shake and lay down! Not so good at roll over or stay but he is trying!

Monsters Can Go Fly a Kite

The cold front is literally blowing in! We are trying to soak up as much warm weather as we can! I woke up at 6 this morning and cleaned the house because I did not want to miss a minute of this beautiful day! It was warm when I let mack oout first thing today! We had to go fly kites in our neighbors yard because we have 13 trees in our yard and it was impossible to dodge them all! For those of you that have never seen our house, you can see our behind Noelle. And for those that know the story of the biggest monster getting sidewalks, you can see those beind Noelle, too! They came in very handy today-especially when a car came tearing down the road, I was glad the kids were on the sidewalk! (I fought the city pretty hard to get sidewalks put in, I think they gave them to me to get me to go away! I showed up at all of their meetings untill the city commissioners said uncle!) OK, I'm going back outside to finish enjoying this great day! I hope you guys are having a great weekend whereever you are from Florida to Minnesota.

Spring Dreaming

It's Saturday and the sun is out and I can see blue skies! Noelle finished her bath and wanted to put her new easter dress on today! I know the bonnet is over the top, definately litttle house on the prarie! But she picked out the dress by herself and I think it was the bonnet that made the sell! They had much cuter dresses with matching litle baby doll dresses instead of bonnets and I really tried to talk her into that but she wanted the hat!! You can see Mack definately has the life! Isn't he a beautiful dog! Gotta go enjoy this beautiful day before the snow comes back tomorow night! We are headed to the dog park! And next week we go to Pheonix and hopefully when we get home, it will be spring! Oh, Laura before I forget, can you put a link to our blog on yours because Jeannie mentioned that would be nice so she could toggle back and forth. I bet Mimi and her sisters would like that too! I don't know how to, do you?