October already?

I just can't believe I posted in January and it is now October. What does one person do with all their time? Yep, that is the million dollar question. Things have been busy at our house all summer and fall.

Landon turned 5 in August. Wow, that was adjustment for me. He is in the 4k program at the school. He was only two days from the Kindergarten cut off and everyone I talked to told me that we wouldn't regret keeping him out of kindergarten until next year, so we will see. I am glad we didn't send him either as his half days right now are beating him up. I am not sure what the transition would have been to full day five days a week would have been like. He has made a new friend Ethan and that is all he talks about. :) So, with school he has been excited about being a Ninja for Halloween. All he does is play with the sword or banging on something as though it is the drums. Christmas could be interesting as I am not sure what to get him other than a kid's drum set as that is all he does. Landon lost his first tooth and the second bottom one is ready to fall out soon. We believe he swallowed the first one though cause we could not find it anywhere. He would not allow the tooth fairy to come into his room either, so the bowl had to sit on the kitchen counter. In the morning he was not interested in the "coins" that the tooth fairy left for him, but super excited to see a doughnut sitting there (which had been on the counter for 3 days prior). Does make for funny stories though when he tells everyone the tooth fairy brought him a doughnut. The dentist didn't find it too funny though. (GRIN)

As for Luke and I... well, we are all good. Celebrating our 8th wedding anniversary tomorrow. Fall is Luke's busy time at work so he has been working Saturday's this month and before you know it, he will be laid off. (UGH) So, take it with a grain of salt and keep plugging along is all we do. Work for me is the same. Pretty slow still, but it is a job. Nothing too exciting in my world. Just thankful for what we have and enjoy what is to come. There are many projects I would like to get at, but with projects you need money and with the winter nearing, we have to get fuel in the house so we can heat it up, so I guess all those projects will be on hold. Maybe that will allow me to get going scrap booking and make some headway on that stack of pictures. Oh, I think I am dreaming and wishing all at the same time. :)

New Year Already!!

Luke and Landon waiting outside for Santa to arrive via Fire truck.

Landon Bowling for the first time.


I am just in shock that we are sitting in the middle of January already. Christmas and the new year are here and gone. Scary! I haven't blogged in a very long time. Not sure I even know what has gone on. HA!

Christmas was very exciting this year. Landon couldn't get enough Rudolph and Santa talk all month of December. I was very excited to be able to take the Christmas CD out of the player in the car though. Goodness, Santa coming to Town was on automatic repeat every morning and every night. I think it is wore out. Landon would see an airplane up in the sky and with blinking red lights on them, he would scream "there is Rudolph". It was cute and fun until about the last week, since then I had to come up with reasons why he wasn't stopping yet and why he was still just flying around. Landon did very well with Santa, however he only asked for one item and that was a Lightning McQueen track with the cars to race on the track. Yep and of course that was after I was pretty much done shopping for him. So, nothing I had bought with anticipation that might be what he asked Santa for was what he wanted. UGH. So back to the store. So, needless to say, he got a little spoiled this year. It was fun though. He also got a portable drum thingy, so it is official I have gotten my stick candles back as they are no longer the "cool" drum sticks.



I also turned 30 the day after Christmas as well. Yep, that is about all I can say about that one. Not sure I like being 30, but I have no choice. It was a birthday party that I have never really had before and yeah, that is all I can say about it.


So the New Year has lead us off to many activities. Landon has been enrolled in Swimming Lessons at a swim school. Luke and I went this past Monday to watch him and we did get a chuckle out of it. He wears goggles and the whole bit. It was funny. He is very social that is for sure. He told me after his lesson that he didn't want to go back because they made him get is face in the water. So, this Monday will be interesting. We also signed him up for pre-K wrestling through the B-W Youth wrestling club. Might be a little young, but that is all he wants to do is wrestle and loves watching his cousin Joe wrestle. So we will give it a shot. It is an hour a week for him as I don't think we will put him in the tournament as I can't imagine he will do much. He is extremely excited and keeps asking if it is Thursday yet cause he has to wrestle. So, tomorrow night will be interesting.

That is about it with us. Luke is now laid off until hopefully only the early part of March, but that is me hating unemployment. I am sure he would like to be laid off until May or so. I am still at the County, but would like to find a different position within the County. So, that is a goal of mine for the year. We will see how far that gets me. Luke has made me a make-shift scraping set up in our basement so I am able to have all of my stuff out and more room to work down there. I even have a t.v. My Mom bought my sister-in-law and I the Cricut expression so I am anxious to get that all out and start scraping away. I also plan to get Landon's book all caught up by the time he turns 5. That means I only have until August. YIKES!! So we will see how far I get. :)

We are know going to start looking at our options for the 4-year old Kindergarden classes in Baldwin. Landon will be eligible for September to start. Depending on what our daycare provider decides to do with her business. They might move. :( We have decided to hold Landon until age 6 before he starts Kindergarten since he has such a late birthday. Man, where does the time go? Going to be 5 this year.