Jeffs First School Dance

Jeff went to his first school dance last November. It was a girls choice and Keylee came and trashed his bedroom to ask him. They went in a large group of about 30 friends. This is a picture of Jeff and Keylee and Thomas (Jeffs friend) and his date. They had a great time!!

Happy 16th Jeff!!!

Well if finally happened, I'm OLD!!! I now have a 16 year old child. On December
23, 2009, Jeff turned 16. He doesn't have his licence yet, but that will come this June. At first, I wasn't sure about the "driving" thing, but as our life gets more crazy, another driver would be great!! Jeff is a great kid and has had a good Sophomore year at Syracuse High School. He played indoor Soccer all winter and right now is trying out for the high school soccer team. If he makes it-great! If not he will run track (I know the track coach is hoping he doesn't make the soccer team!) Its been a hard decision, he loves soccer, but he has recently has so much success in running track. Happy 16th Birthday Jeff!!!

Dare Graduation

Rachael graduated from the "Dare" program last November (I think) and what made it so cool was her "Uncle"/cousin, Dan Gardner was the dare officer. She was so excited to have him in her school and to brag that he was family. We were proud of her and know that she learned some valuable lessons from this "Dare" program. She also recently had her 7th grade orientation. WOW!!! She will be starting 7th grade in the fall. The "Dare" program will be a huge help as she starts jr. high!! Thanks Office Gardner!!

Keep going down...

FYI...I was really good and I did a few posts today. So if you want to read them, keep scrolling down. I think I deserve some kind of a reward for catching up on my blog posts today. Like maybe a DQ Blizzard, YES!!!!

Kids say...

Today I was at Walmart buying a couple of things. Brooklyn was in the back of the shopping cart playing with something. She then noticed I had put a bag of Cheeto's in the cart and she grabbed them and said, "This is the best day ever mom!" Who knew Cheeto's could make a regular day, the best day ever!! Brooklyn says so many cute things, I need to be better about writing them down. She is so cute!

Jeff's First School Dance

Jeff got asked to the "Sadie's" dance the other day. His first dance. Its hard to believe this time has come. Well, his friend Keeley asked me if she could ask Jeff to the dance and I told her yes, because its just a month away from his 16 birthday. Being a good mom, I cleaned his room so when she came over, it was actually clean! But the clean room was very temporary. She put about 4 inches of shredded paper all over the floor, desk, closet and bed. Streamers from the ceiling and balloons all over. Whats funny is Jeffs friends kept handing him cubes of butter all day. Then in the room was a poster, "Now that I've got us buttered up, I thought I'd POP the question, will you go to sadies with me". He the had to open about 20 things of popcorn to find letters and spell her name. Very cute! Now Jeff is trying to come up with a way to answer her back. Lots of fun! He's going in a big group with friends. Just another milestone in Jeffs life. He's going to have a great time!

Halloween 2009

Who can believe its Halloween again!! Time is flying right by! We had a great Halloween this year! The little girls enjoyed trick-or-treating. Sami was a speed demon running from house to house. Brooklyn however was more concerned with saying "thank-you" about 20 times after getting candy from a house. No joke, people i my moms ward were talking about a little girl who was just yelling "thankyou, thankyou, thankyou...". I think it was the cutest thing ever! Sami was an Angel, Brooklyn was tinkerbell, Rachael was a gypsi and I was a witch. You might be asking yourself, "Who's the big Gorilla?" I'll give you one guess (that's all you'll need!) Yes, it is Serge. He was the big hit for the night. All the trick-or-treaters loved the costume, even the kids!! And, yes, you are right again. That is Serge in the Gorilla suit teasing our dog!! She did not like the costume and she was going crazy!! It was actually pretty funny. So Serge was successful in scaring our daughters (ALL of them!) and our dog! I love Halloween and we had a great night!! We had homemade chili and soups, bread, pumpkin spice cake(yum-thanks Shelly), popcorn balls, caramel apples, sugar cookies!! Wow, it was great! Makes me hungry just thinking about it! Happy Halloween!