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Our weekend.. short and sweet!

 

 

Friday night Jack had basketball practice. He scrimmaged with some other kids, and the kids from the other team had two dad's who joined in.

 

 

I am all for dad's getting involved and helping out, showing the kids a few things. Uh, however when dad's get a liiiiittle toooo competitive with kids, its a little to much.

 

 

Now don't get me wrong if Jack was younger I would be mad, but because Jack is almost 13 I find dad's that get that serious about a pick up game with 12 and 13 year olds pretty funny.

 

I mean a couple of times there were fouls, and cheating... CHEATING!

 

A kid would call a dad out and say "you hit that out!" The dad would say "nah, I didn't lets keep going."

 

Anyway it was crazy, and great way to teach kids how to be a cheater.

 

yup, seems good.

 

 

Saturday, Jonny my husband/contractor decided to start construction on our kitchen. Where we once had a small bar...

 

it is now gone.

 

 

We are doing a bit of some changes to the kitchen. I am very excited about it, although at the moment things are a little messy, not done, and unorganized. This makes me a little bit crazy. But lets face it, it doesn't take much to make me crazy..

 

 

That's ok, I just keep moving things around, sweeping up, and gettin' excited about when it'll all come together! 

 

 

Sunday we decided that we would head out to Temecula with the kids and have lunch with Mom, Dad, Breanna, Yvonne, Jer, Alex, and my kindred spirit/neice Katelyn. Allen took Brian out to L.A. for a football camp, so we missed them..

 

 

As always we had a great time with everyone, talk, and laugh, talk, and laugh.

 

Good weekend!

..and now some pictures of my majestic creatures..

 Honey..

and Biggie..

HAPPY MONDAY!!

Our lost boy.. Metal mouth soon.. and B12

Ok, here we go!

 

 

 

Here's the latest:

My niece Breanna is in middle school and she joined her drama club.

Her first play of middle school? PETER PAN!!!

 

Breanna's role is one of the lost boys. Hop!

 

She has had a wonderful time preparing, and learning her lines. She really loves the whole process! She has had a lot of fun, but Thursday night was opening night, for the big production! She was VERY nervous, but happy. We bought tickets for Friday, so that Mom, Brian, Jacie, and I could volunteered to help with set up on Thursday. Mom and Brian helped out with the ticket booth, and Jacie and I headed to the "green room" to help with make up.

 

Oh my goodness!!

 

I can not tell you how crazy this was!!! Kids were running around with excitment, there was a teacher yelling at them to be quiet and sit down!! They were singing, and laughing and rehersing lines, throwing on costumes, and just being crazy.

  

The drama teacher in charge of the whole thing was 15 minutes late, and kept yelling at the kids to get it together, because they were 15 minutes behind!

 

When I was FINALLY told what my job was, it was by one of the drama teachers daughters, who was about 19 or so. She was there to help with the backstage make up. I was told how to apply the make up and when I was done with the first "fairy" I turn to her and say "like this?" and she said "um, thats fine, just send them to me when your done, and I will fix it.

 

Anyway, the teacher was very stressed and was exuding A LOT of energy, which I feel the kids were picking up on, because I myself was about to bust with craziness!!

 

The way the drama teacher was acting you would have thought that this was Broadway and their careers where counting on this performance!

Part of me wishes I would have given Breanna some crazy instructions on how to prepare and relax her "vocals." I should've had her walk around in circles chanting.. "loose lips sink ships"... or maybe made one up for her like "Lincolns, lions, love, lard!" 

 

Her drama teacher would have been very impressed by her dedication OR she would have thought that she was crazy, and booted her from the production... maybe it was a good thing I didn't have her do that.

 

When we were done, Jacie and I stepped out of the green room, took a deep breath of relaxation, and I heard Jacie say, "I want to be in a play when I get to middle school!"

 

 and I was like:

 

 

Thursday night was a bit crazy, but I am just so glad I was able to be a part of the whole thing with Breanna! She looked so cute, and when we saw her performance last night, she did every line perfectly and sang beautifully!!!

 

 

      In other news Jacks teeth are doin' what they are suppose to be doing and all of that nasty work that we had to do is working!! He sorta looks like this now..

 

Thankfully we don't have to do the mouth key anymore because the ol' dentist said all looks well, and Jackson should be gettin' his iron mouth soon!

 

 

Ok, moving on..

 

So, I hadn't been feelin' that great and things seem to be gettin' worse, so with Jonny's encouragment I went to the doctor to see what was up..

 

 

After two appointments and a blood test it was determined that I was B12 deficent! He said normal is 800-900 and I was at 190.  He was shocked and said I had to have B12 shots.

 

 

I guess B12 is pretty important and if you are lacking it, it can mess up your whole system... and let me tell ya, it has!

 

 

I couldn't figure out why I was SO extremely tired all of the time. I mean I coulda fell asleep at a red light, if I wasn't carefull!

 

 

I have terrible sore joints, my hair falls out, my feet, and legs cramp, and fall asleep, I forget EVERYTHING, some days it feels like I'm getting the flu, and I have to lay around, and the next day I'm fine. Headaches that make me sick to my stomach. Some days I walk to the kitchen and back and it feels like I ran a marathon my heart is racing and I have to catch my breath. The list goes on and on, and on!

 

Apparently its caused because my body doesn't absorb B12 even if its the things I eat. Usually vegetarians have the problem and I am definately NOT a vegetarian. 

 

 

When I looked it up, I found out that its pretty serious if untreated and it cause all kinds of things, like dementia, damage to the neverous system, nerve damage, and hallucinations.. if I start talking to Brad Pitt, and starting fights with people, then that may be a problem.

 

 

 

Anyway I had one shot, then yesterday I had another shot. When I asked the nurse about how long before I start feeling better, she said about two months. UGH!

 

 

I am not very patient, and thats not what I was expecting. However, I am glad that we figured out my issue, and I am on my way to healthier me!

 

 

So if your having any issues like that, make sure you check your B12 level.. its pretty important!

 

 

Ok, so that's about it for now, I will leave you with a joke I heard one of Breanna's friends say before the play last night...

Why did Cap't Hook cross the road??

 

To get to the second hand store!!

Happy Saturday everyone!!

Braces, The Best Red Head, Projects, and Spelling Bees..

Things have been busy here, just runnin' here and there.

Jack has started his braces process.

Boy oh boy is that a process, take him to another place to have a complete xray of his entire skull. Go back into the dentist to get spacers put it.. which apparently are NOT comfortable at all! Then back to the dentist a week later, to get some midevil lookin' metal device in the back of his mouth that apparently widens.. or spaces.. or something or rather. Oh yeah and they hand me a long plastic thing with a wire sticking out of the end of it, and say "Ok, Mom this is the key, you have to stick it in the wire thingy and and turn it so it will move everything in its proper place." .... "UH WHAT!?"

 

Wait just a minute, we are payin' big bucks for YOU to straighten this kids teeth and you want me to do what?!

I thought we had to do it for a week, but when I took him back in, they said "oh its lookin' good, just 2 and 1/2 more weeks, and you'll be done doing that." Ugh!

Lets see, what else.

Brian turned 17 on the 2nd .. Superbowl Sunday!! He wanted to have it at our house so we obliged, and watched the game, had all his favorite foods, and celebrated the best red head ever!!!

 

Because he picked out one of Lola's puppies, and they were ready to be weaned, Yvonne and Jer brought the puppies, and surprised Brian with his little boy, who he named "Tebow!!"

 

He was pretty happy!

We also got a delivery with our little baby, "Biggie!!"

 

Yes, his name is "Biggie." I named Dolly after my very favorite singer Dolly Parton. So Jonny thought with country being my favorite, we should have a little hip hop flair, and named him "Biggie Smalls".. Because this is one of the rappers we can agree on, and because the puppy has eyes that resemble him... I agreed to it.

I don't care what his name is I'm just so happy with him, he is a little cuddle bug, and is so darn cute!!!!!!!!

Ok, then we had TWO kids who had science fairs due on the same day. I tell ya, I understand that it is very educational, but it is a pain in this Mama's rear!!!!

So what is a Mom to do with TWO kids with the same project? They are doing the same experiment and helping each other of course!! So we did and all was well. Of course even though they both had the same project, only Jacie was asked to the school fair. I suspect it was because she beautified it up though. lol

Anyway I am glad that its over with, and I don't have to worry about that... Oh except the day after Jacie turned her project in, she comes home to tell me she has to work on a diarama project! ugh!

Jackson started winter league basketball, and we are happy about that, cause that is a lotta fun to watch. His first game was Saturday, fun, fun!!

Jackson was also in the school spelling be and out of 11 7th graders and 6 of 8th the graders, Jack came in 4th place, and was invited to the district spelling bee!!

Now let me tell ya I felt so bad for each of the kids up on stage! I thought that they were all going to either pass out, wet themselves, or just get up and RUN outta that place! The poor things were all terrified! And each child that was eliminated had such a sad look on their face, I wanted to just cry for them!!!

There were kids from 4th grade to 8th grade, and let me tell ya, some of the words they gave those kids, I am almost postive they were making up!! "Sara your word is uh, losposingthgosngy."

 

Ok, I exagerate again, but really they were crazy!! I mean, one kid would get a word like hero, and the next kid would get losposingthgosngy! Again my made up word, but honestly I could not even tell you the words they used, cause I'd never ever heard of em!

Jacks first word was "Mosque" and he got it right! He made it to the second round, the next word he got was "belladonna" and he forgot one of the n's and he was eliminated. I think Jack was the only one that didn't tear up. I am pretty sure he was a little relieved he didn't have to stand up there with everyone staring at him! lol... Anyway we were proud he made it that far, and it was a lot of fun to see. If they judged on biggest fans, he woulda won, cause the whole gang was there!!

Aunt Louise was there as well. She was down for 2 and 1/2 weeks visiting from Alaska, and as always when staying with Mom and Dad she had plenty to do, cause those two are always on the run! She and I also took a morning to go yard selling, and we both really enjoy that! Let me tell ya, I found some pretty good deals!!

So thats pretty much whats been goin' on here, alls well with this house hold!

Happy Monday!!... or at least try any way.