SCHOOL GIRL!

Punka announced about 4 weeks ago that she no longer wanted to be home schooled. Hottie and I were open to it being a stepping stone, so that was okay with us. The challenge was finding a spot for her to start back at the beginning of January with only 5 days before schools were breaking for the Christmas holidays! We did it though and she loves her teacher, the class, the school. She has resource classes each day and homework every night. This is real school and there's no foolin' around in 2nd grade. She even had homework this weekend and was most upset about it on Friday. We made it through though! I'm very happy that she is excited about school again. Not so happy about making sure her uniforms are clean for Monday. Which reminds me...they're dirty.

Gotta go.

Over the edge in the laundry room at 10:42 on a Sunday night. Suds, suds, suds.

German Pirate Pants and dresses too!

Guaps and Grams went to Germany during the holidays and brought lederhosen back for Goldilocks and dirndls for the girls. We went to the park to take a few pictures and they had a blast! Goldilocks really digs his "german pirate pants" so don't be surprised if you see him wearing them some random day! Thanks Guaps and Grams!



Oh, the life. To run around the park with out a care in the world!

Can you tell I'm trying to update the blog in one night! I need another snack!

Over the edge and not stepping on the scale for a few days!

It's a blizzard!

This was the morning we left! FUN! FUN! FUN!

Gigi was not sure about the snow.

Goldilocks "licking the snowflakes!"

This is something Punka has wanted to do for a while!

Here we are! Our first family snow!

Looking at these pictures make me want hot chocolate...hmmm.
Over the edge with marshmallows!

Welcome 2009!

We had plans to be home for the new year. Obviously from the way this e-mail is beginning, you can tell that didn't happen!

We were in the plane, taxi-ing, taking off, Goldilocks saying,"put your hands up everybody!", all wheels off the ground...all wheels back on the ground, plane sliding, braking, turning and stopping. What happened you ask? We were wondering the same thing. The pilot announce the de-icing controls were malfunctioning so we were going to have it checked out. Yeah...good thing since it was snowing and had been all day! We were all deboarded and they took the plane to fix it and test the system. Then, we all got back on the plane for the flight. Did I mention we were flying with 3 children 2 booster seats, 1 infant car seat, 1 diaper bag, 2 backpacks and dinner in a plastic bag? And we were in the very last seats of the plane!!! Joy, Joy, Joy! Nevertheless, we made it safely to Atlanta...and promptly missed out connecting flight. Did I mention we had 2 servings of formula and 2 diapers? Joy, again. Lucky for us my parents were in Atlanta for the Tech/LSU game (sad story) so they meet us bright and early with backup, ate breakfast with us and sent us on our way. Nothing exciting happened from that point on other than not finding our luggage for about an hour. however, we spent New Years eve in a hotel. So, we celebrated the next morning! 2009 pancakes and all.


Happy New Year! I pray your year is filled with more blessings and lots of laughter!
I'm over the edge and looking for chocolate...I know I hid some somewhere.