Camp Sherman

A few weeks ago Samantha and I went to Camp Sherman with her brownie troop. Let me just say it was soo much fun! There is no other set of moms I would want to do this with. Hiking, archery, songs, canoeing, and so much more. I am so blessed to get to do these things with my littles . I wouldn't trade these memories for anything !Here are a whole bunch of pictures of adventures. Oh and the beautiful necklace I am wearing is handmade by Samantha ! Am I a lucky mom or what !

Sam and Syd ....well being Sam and Syd! These two have way to much fun together!

Sammy and Leanne

No surprise here! Thats my girl!

Leanne,Sam,Sydney,Jessica,Lizzie,Jordan,Delany and Kate

Silly girls

Serving up breakfast

bunk time !

Archery

Bulls eye baby !

My sweet girl

The three musketeers

The whole gang

Sam was in heaven climbing all the rocks. Made my heart smile to watch her . This girl is a monkey!

Go Sam !!

Canoeing! Our butts were so wet !

The girls had to clean the house before we left. So funny they started singing "It's a hard knock life" as they mopped the floor

Oh Oh lay lay Oh lay lay tiki tonga.........

Wild Animal Park

We took our wild bunch to the Wild Animal Park . I love hanging out with my little guys they are so fun. We rode the tram and hiked all through the park. It was neat to see how excited the kids were to see there favorite animals.

Tay loved all the animals.

Sam loves Giraffes.

Jake loves the cheetahs.

My favorite guys !

State Cup 2011

Beautiful Lancaster in January. This year Taylor's team played in the State Cup. The girls did a great job and won the first 4 games they played and made it to the final 16 teams. They were defeated in a hard fought game in the sweet 16. I am so proud of them ! Scotty was able to get time off and get us a motorhome for the Lancaster games. It was so much fun to have him there and to be able to stay at the fields with our friends the Keefe's. It was freezing but still great.Way to go CFC!!! I can not wait for next year .

So cold!!!and windy too!

Sammy girl

It was just to far to walk to the bathroom. These two are quite a team!

Her little hands tucked in her shirt to stay warm. CRAZY cold!!

Tough Tay crushing the Celtics!

Of course the geckos came with us.

SOOOO fun to sleep here !

Field to field transportation.

Jordan and Jake staying warm between games. Jordan is so sweet to the little guys!

Games in our jammies. This is the way to travel for soccer for sure. Just wake up and the field is right outside the door.

Love these girls !

Geckos

After all that happened with Richard (the lizard) We decided to get Sammy a gecko for Christmas. It was the only thing she wanted! So we started looking to see what our options were. She decided she liked the crested geckos the best. We found a girl on craigslist that was selling baby geckos and we were so excited. Hoping if we got the gecko young it would like to be held, and well loved. So Scott and I headed to Garden Grove to get our new pet. Of course it looked like some crack house and I was afraid we were going to die. I am not joking it was the dirtiest grossest house I have ever been in. Trash and stuff everywhere, the floor all ripped up and the smell AAGGGHH! They were in the back bedroom and as we walked back I was having flashes of law and order and CSI running through my head. Thank God Scott did not let me go alone ! Well we went for 1 and came home with 3. I know I never wanted to go back there again. Sammy was so excited Christmas morning! After all presents were opened Scotty came out and told her he cut his hand as he opened it there was her gecko. She screamed and hugged him . Taylor hid in the corner and cried. She hates lizards. Scott then came out with the other 2 and said they needed friends. Taylor just cried and buried her head in a pillow. She has now adjusted and will even hold them. Sammy loves them and not even to death yet. So here are our newest members of our crazy family! This is jumper.

Sammy made a lizard circus one day and taught them how to walk a tight rope. Yep they made it across. And no lizards were hurt in the performance. She was so proud of herself and her pets !

This is jumper crossing the rope. He made it across !

Jumper

freckles

And last but not least Gary ! Not sure if they are boys or girls yet but I am sure with our luck there is a mix of both. I will let you know if we get eggs.

The whole gang.

Happy Anniversary Babe!

On February 5th Scotty and I celebrated 11 years of marriage. Yay us ! It is crazy to think that it all started 17 years ago with a kiss after a superbowl party . Actually it goes even further back to junior high, but since he thought I was a dork back then we will skip to the part where he actually wanted to hang out with me. So thank you to his friend who bet him I would never go out with him ! Scotty won that bet ! Man I love this guy! I am so glad he is my husband , best friend and the father of our beautiful kids. I am truly blessed! He knows me like no one else and loves me anyway! He laughs when he comes home to find me singing (way off key and making up my own lyrics ) and crazy dancing with the kids . He is patient when I am not and wise when I am impulsive. We are a great balance to each other! I could go on and on but I guess I will save that for him . So babe thanks for choosing me to be your wife ! I love you more today than when we started !

ipod drama

This post is crazy long but I want this memory documented. Believe it or not this really did happen to us !
For Christmas this year we decided the little girls were old enough for ipods. I thought I would just go to Target and buy a nano and be done. No things never are that easy for me. They changed the nanos this year so they are really small and don't play video ,and so the quest to find last years model began!
I found them on ebay for a good price so I got one for each of them . ( Sam wanted lizards and not an ipod but I knew there would be fighting if only Tay got one . Lizard post to follow.) So I bought them , and 2 days letter ebay sent a note saying we might not get them the vendor was pulled. AAAGGGHHH !!! So we wait and sure enough they came. I literally jumped up and down and thanked the mail man profusely because I was so excited. This was going to be the best Christmas ever!
Well as most of you know things do not ever go that easy for me. So Christmas Eve we removed them from the cases and of course they were fake. So frustrating ! All the stores were closed and no big gift for Tay. Scott had gotten Sam the lizards so she was covered but poor Tay just got promises of an ipod . She took it fine and I was thankful she is so sweet.
I went on Apple's web site to get her a refurbished nano but they were out. So we gave her the choice to wait or get the new one. She chose to wait......a week later still nothing, wait ,wait, wait! Then a refurbished i touch for the same price as the nano comes up. We decide to get that! So I buy it and she is ecstatic! But no conformation email comes so I call apple and they have no record of my purchase and of course they are now out of them. AAGGHHH! Tay again is ever patient.
Another 2 weeks go buy and still nothing available. So Scott and I decide to buy her a new one. Way more than we wanted to spend but this was getting out of control . We started out spending $71.50 then $149 now we were up to $229 . So I bought her the new one had it engraved for free and finally we could be done! An hour later Scott calls to tell me they have a refurbished ones again. Of course they do ! I call apple and they have already engraved and prepared it to be shipped. I explained my whole drama and the guy said he would let me return it this one time. All I have to do is ship it back after we get it. So I purchase the other one as well. I have now bought 4 ipods and have nothing to give my daughter .
Yesterday the i touch's came and Taylor is so excited! I have been fighting with the vendors on ebay for the last month but they have finally agreed to a full refund. All I have to do is return the fakes. Sounds easy but they gave me the address in Chinese. Iprinted it out and took it to the post office and the lady said it had to be printed on the shipping envelope. I told her I can't write Chinese and she told me to find a Chinese person and bring them with me. REALLY ??? Oh yes that was her answer. Thankfully I do know a Chinese person (thanks Alice) and she translated for me. We started off spending $143.00 and ended at $521.00 I can't wait for all the refunds to come in !!What a disaster. I will never buy anything on ebay again !
Hope you all had a Merry Christmas and more luck shopping than we did !

Cali our new Kitty

We have a new member of the family. Cali is a little kitten that came to live with us in October. She was rescued by a friend of ours when she was just a few days old. She nursed her back to health and now she thriving here with us. We love her to pieces !