Braxton turned 5. I was going to have a big party for him but we got so busy. Time was going by so fast I had to take a breath and just have it. I decided to just invite the Fab 5 and their kids. (and a couple other kids from next door). After everyone arrived we then realized. Holy crap the fab 5 have a lot of kids. We have been doing all of these activities together but we never realized how many we actually had until they were all bouncing off of the walls in my living room. We have always been outside. It was a great night we played musical mats and they danced. We sat at kitchen table and shot the shit until after 10pm. I was very happy with just the Fab 5. It worked out well. For those of you who have lots of brother and sisters and do not spend time with them shame shame shame. I am so blessed to now have such a great group of close friends.

I should not lump these pictures together. These were taken on two different days. Two really fun days. The top photo with 5 crazy ladies with wigs on are use on our Halloween camping outing. Lacie hosted the October outing. We all has camp sites for the weekend and we gathered at her camper during the day. We had light parades, played bingo, they had hay rides and a haunted house and crafts and trick or treat. What an awesome weekend. We have already all booked for next year!

The second picture. We all had to have matching shirts. I hosted this event. We all went to Gram Leons. We went to the Tanger Outlet mall in Washington and then we went out for the night. I will post more about this later i need to gather my photos. It was a wonderful weekend. Gram loved the shirts!

Me & MJ. Anything that we can buy that makes us match she loves. She was so excited that we both had big hot glasses.

This is my friend Angie I am so glad we have remained friends. I am going to start posting 10 things about my closest friends.

1. 3 Kids the same age as mine.
2. Loves to do shots.
3. Dances like a crazy person
4. Has 2 awesome sisters
5. Wonderful parents
6. Loves to see you in pain when she waxes your lip and eyebrows
7. I gave her lessons on how you can have sex in the shower. (Vacation 2006)
8. Silly
9. Committed to our friendship
10. Loves my say the word I hate. "Whatever"

This is Devin & Casey. They are so cute. They have recently started dating. I think Devin is a bit scared of her. He is really shy. About 3 months ago I would have said the casey was shy. Now I would have to say not. Her life has really been changing since her previous boyfriend. (Erik who is like a brother to my husband.)So yes we are one big happy family. Yeah! o.k.

PJ & I told Devin we would take some pictures of him. So PJ takes the camera to video. He is FIRED! First he takes a buch of pictures of the ground and of some feet. Then as Devin straps in the bull jumps and PJ is freaked out. Now Devin is the one sitting on the bull and he seems not to care the the Bull is attempting to jump out of the gate with out it open. PJ still tapes saying some really bad words. (The kids can not watch the video or even send it by phone. I would live in fear of getting a telephone call from a parent about the language.) So he tapes and it was a really good ride for Devin. When he is done he was so excited to have it on tape. Well yeah it sounded good you could hear everyone yellig. But watch the video and see PJ got do excited watching he forgot to point the camera at Devin he just tapes the bulls feet. He is no longer aloud to tape any thing important. FIRED!

This is Casey after her shower. Yep she showers. She left her computer here the other day . So I uploaded her pictures. Casey and Devin went to Morgantown to shop. Devin liked Victoria Secret. HA Ha I could not help but to tell all of you that. If you know Devin you are probably on the floor laughing.

Devin has become a part of the family. He loves to ride bulls and my kids love to go and watch. We tell the little ones that Devin is having a private rodeo party for them. They love it! Anyone want to go to our private bull session. Give me a ring.

Why is dies it seem that one minute you have no friends then you have tons. Several years back it seemed that my family was everything and really the only thing going on for me. Then I began to realize that I had no real friends. I had friends but not real ones. That really are there for you. Now today I can stand back and say wow I have more then I could ever wish for. With my parents being divorced and my brother's passing and my sister living so far away. I am glad I have them. I will not name them because I would hate to forget someone. But I can be sure they know who they are. It seems that we keep adding to our friend family. But recently we have been attracting a younger generation. I am not sure why. We do not let them do anything that they could not do on their own. They just hang out and visit. My kids have became very fond of a few like Casey, Devin and Eric. (I will not get into detail about them in this post but I will later). We had a picnic recently and most of our friends came. It was quite a stretch in ages. Some of our closest friends are 17-21. And then some are in their 30's. So my question is should you be concerned of the ages of your friends. Should you befriend younger adults? Are we really good role models for anyone? Surely right?

ICV Football

I love ICV. It is a really great program. If you compare it to our local program it is top of the line. I say this because we do not have one local. We travel 30 minutes each way to take our kids to football. Since I was already going I signed MJ up for cheerleading. She loves it. It is Brandins senior year and he has been playing there for 5 years. Next year I am not sure that I will drive that far just for cheerleading. Brandin will play football for the school district. I would rather him play one more year at ICV. I car pool for practice but I have really enjoyed driving this year. I have really enjoyed talking with one other mom there. Viki. She cracks me up and she has a really nice daughter Cameron in 10 grade. Conner is on Brandin's team. I have invited her to my blog and I hope she visits.

Family

Create your own family sticker graphic at pYzam.com

You need to take the time to watch this. I really enjoyed it. But while you are look for the man who falls down, the man in the leather shorts and hat & the black and white dress....

http://vimeo.com/1211060?pg=embed&sec=1211060

I have had alot of strange things happen to me. But this is one to laugh about. My computer has not been working right for awhile now at work. So I took it to get fixed. I saved everything on to a memory stick. Yes I did it. Those little stick things are amazing. They hold so much stuff. So I did some work at my house on wednesday night. After I was done I put an envelope on the table to be mailed and I think I put my keys there too. But on Thursday I was off. Friday I went to the post office and then I realized I did not have my keys to get into the office. Yes I go the office and I spend all day by myself. I am there for support in case one of the guys come in. They usually come in very early in the morning before I get there. I drop Braxton off at Pre K and then head to work. Then I leave work in just enough time to pick him up. Lets get back on track....So I came home from the post office and looked everywhere for the keys. I called PJ and he said he would just leave the door open for me at work so I could get in. So I went to work with out them. When I got home I cleaned and still did not find them. Then I thought.....OMG> did I mail them to the main office with the paperwork?. After I looked and looked and racked my brain "Could I really have mailed these keys 4 keys,pink ring and a memory stick". Really, Surely, Absolutely I would have noticed if the mail was heavy. So after a long night of searching I email the main secretary and told her just maybe I mailed you my keys. (What is it when you have lost something you go crazy until you find it. Even if it is something stupid.) So the keys were still missing and I did tell you the computer at work was at the shop. Well I had just told them to go ahead and erase everything and we can start over because I have a memory stick. I am so proud of this stupid stick!. So I am sick at this point and Saturday no keys, Sunday morning we are reading the paper and McKayla & Braxton are playing barbies. (That is another story HEADLINE: Yes, My son loves Barbies.) Out comes Ken in his Cool black hummer and following is Sharpay in her Cool Fabo Hot Pink V. Bug with the coolest keys hanging out of the back window! Yes ladies my keys. I did the JIG in my living room. I think I failed to mention that my 4 keys are colorful. Tie Died , Paridise, Zebra....MCKayla was in love with my keys but now for McKaylas sake she says I do not know how they got there. I think the doll Sharpay got up on Wednesday night to get a drink and looked at the table and said/ " I am going to go to work tomorrow and type some logs and while I am there I will use the other keys to get some parts from the garage and raffle them at my tea party."......O.K. They just magically made their way to Mckaylas room. .... Ok Ok Ok I can not tell a lie. When I was done with my work I tip toed to MCKaylas room and was playing with her toys . Pretending to drive Sharpays Car and left my keys there. .................I must go now. I have to subject myself to more humiliation and email the other Secretary and tell her I found the keys!. I LOVE MY KIDS >>>I LOVE MY KIDS>>> I LOVE MY KIDS>>>>>>

Pete is our puppy. I got him for a family pet. My husband got him for a hunting machine. PJ has big plans for this dog. He says OH YES he is a smart dog. BlahBlah BLah. Well I want to ship him out. If he has one more accident in the house I think I might scream. He is so cute when he is sleeping but when he is awake YIKES!

We started the dances at the fire hall again. They have not had them since I was 14. The kids love it. The crowd grows every month. We are up to 30. This month since school is in I am sure there will be more. Yes this Video is horriable. But it is my first and it was so dark. But that is my son second from the right. He loves to dance. (to show of for the girls anyway). I thought I knew the Macara... but not this one. They love to do it this way.

My friend Lacie emailed me this and I have been laughing for an hour over it!
If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!! When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill BOTH ways yadda, yadda, yadda And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia! And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet. If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!! There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there! There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!

We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister! We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE! When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed! Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no on screen menu and no remote control! You had to us e a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards! And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go build a fringing fire. imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980! Regards, The over 30 Crowd

This is MJ's 2nd year cheering. She loves it. She seems so small compared to the other girls. But they are all the same age.

My favorite cheer is

Totally For Sure

I just got a manicure

The sun. I swear

Is bleaching out my gourgous hair

24 to 34 I don't even know the score

Win Win, Fight Fight

G! I hope I look alright.

HE!HE! Ha!Ha! I Love it

ICV Football

Go # 2!

Football season is here. They have a web site now and post pictures. I am sharing them with you.

Brandin has been playing football since 3rd grade. I was so scared back then. The tackle even at that age.

Brandin loves to hunt. He has decided to stay home because of hunting season instead of going to Disney. He loves to get up before the sun and go. He traps, bow hunts, gun hunts anything he can....

We went to the Sarris Candy Ice Cream Parlor. Gram Big Cheese only lives a few minutes away from it. It is a hugh candy store and an old fashion parlor. Brandin & CJ wanted their own banana splits but we talked them into sharing. Well as you can see from this picture they are both glad they shared. Brandin looks like he is going to puke.....I can say Echo's husband Chris did order his own and he could not finish it. He tried and tried.

This picture just cracks me up. This is Bethany and Rayne saying " I'm hot & your not". Rayne just loves the girls.

When Echo's kids where here in July the kids loved to sit on the steps at Grams and they loved Kennywood.

When I sleep my hair gets messed up. But Brandin's hair just gets out of control. It takes on a life of its own

Brandin went to the beach to camp with his BFF. CJ & his family go every year. Brandin and CJ did not hang out so much last year. I am very glad things have worked out and they have gotten close again.