Tuesday's Thoughts

Well, here are some of Carol's thoughts today.

First thought, I probably shouldn't write this while I am so tired and fighting off a cold.

Second thought, Oh well, here goes.

Third thought, I think my Christmas tree looks awesome. Which makes me think of Turner and how excited he is about our Christmas tree. He asked if he could invite his friends over to look at his Christmas tree and have a party. I asked him what he wanted everyone to do at his party. He said, "Look at my tree and have everyone say how pretty it is and drink hot chocolate." Sounds, like a good party to me. I think we'll do this after Thanksgiving and play some Christmas music. Maybe I'll be super mom and come up with a cool craft for them to do or make them sing Christmas Carol's or something. Probably not, I'll just have everyone come over. Give their kids lots of hot chocolate and send them home to their parents.

Next thought, that last thought was very long.

Fifth thought, I love that Matthew looks at the Christmas tree, points at it, and waits for me to say "Christmas Tree"enthusiasticly and then smiles!

Sixth thought, I am so surprised that Matthew has been so good about not touching the Christmas tree! (However, I am surprised that Matthew goes after my Christmas tablecloth and pulls it off at least once a day. Which is why I can not put a centerpiece on my kitchen table.)

Last thought, I've never put my Christmas tree up before Thanksgiving, but I could get used to this. I'm really glad my children are excited about Christmas. Since I seem to be on a Christmas theme, I will end my thoughts here and not add anymore.

Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night! Oh, and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone as well!

First Day Of Preschool

Here's Turner waving goodbye on his first day of preschool! I thought it was about time that I posted this since, school has been going on for about a month and a half now. Turner loves school and especially his teachers! His school was even in a parade for Glen Allen Day! (Pictures soon to follow)

Last squirt of the summer!

Well, our family has a traditional joke- we try to get whoever is in the backyard close to the kitchen window and then squirt them. We have gotten pretty tricky with this. However, RO knew what I was up to last time and turned the hose on me. My kitchen ceiling now has a water stain on it, but every time I look at it I think "we have a fun family!"
Now with the cold weather approaching it looks like our family trick will have to wait a season or two. Hello! Snow! Goodbye! Swimming Pools and squirt guns!

Happy Birthday Ginny!

Happy Birthday to my best friend Ginny Milton!

Here are some of my favorite memories and thoughts about Ginny:

-throwing cookies at the ceiling (after missing RO's head)
-our beach trip(all you can eat shrimp!)
-many fun girl's night outs
-temple trips
-rescueing a little lost boy on the side of the road
-playing phase 10
-Deputy Settle Night
-Ginny demonstrating how to use a shot gun
-all Milton parties
-Eating at Hoochie Momma's
-Kidnapping Ginny for her birthday last year
-visiting with Ginny in the hospital after having Matthew
-throwing a baby shower with Ginny
-living across the street from my best friend b/c every day is an adventure
-all the great talks that we have
-learning from the pro ( I'm so glad she has two boys older than mine)

Ginny, I hope you have a great birthday! I can't tell you how happy I am that I brought you that roast beef dinner-we've been friends ever since. Thanks for being one of the best friends I'll ever have! Cheers- I'm bringing you your bottle of vodka!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For everyone reading this don't forget to give her a call or stop by her blog to wish Ginny a Happy Birthday!

P.S. I am having problems uploading the pictures that I took, Ro and I are figuring it out. So, the pictures should be up soon! I didn't want this post to be late!

To my ABBA lovin' friend!

I would like to say how upset I am that Kim beat me to it! I have been waiting for her birthday to do an "I Love Kimberly" post and surprise her. Now I will just look lame after that Awesome "Everyone needs a Carol"post.
However, Thank you so much Kim! That made my whole day and I made Ro read it twice!

What's really funny is that for the past two days the boys and I have been listening and dancing to ABBA, and I have been thinking of my favorite college roomate and friend. (Turner loves the song Mama Mia and has wanted me to play it over and over and dance with him)
So, here's my shout out to the person who made me love ABBA and some of my favortie memories with her!
-going to Ricks dances
-Kim setting the alarm clock ahead of time so we would be on time stake conference
-Kim putting up with me hitting the snooze button for an hour, before I decided not to go to class anyway
-Kim setting the alarm clock ahead 4 hours so that when I thought I was waking up at 5:00 in the morning to work on a project it was actually 1:00 in the morning-and I when I finished my project I thought I would go for a run and was so amazed at all the stars that were in the Idaho sky at 7:00 in the morning!(However when I woke everyone up at 8:00a.m. b/c I was afraid they would be late for class their plan might have backfired!)
-We have a lot of clock memories!
-sand dunes
-cleaning the apt. listening to ABBA, No Doubt, Weezer and many more of our favorites
-Certain people putting my bra and underwear in the freezer(and yes they do freeze solid)
-my birthday when they dressed me up so I was the more beautiful than I had ever been and surprised me with friends at Millhollow for ice-cream
-all the icecream birthday cakes we made that year
-cooking with kim
-making packages and decorating letters for our long distance lovers
-getting ready for Ricks dances-70's, 80's and late 90's clothes- we looked good in all three decades!
-last finding a life-long friend who will always listen and laugh with me
This post is for my friend who knows the difference between wet sand and dry sand!
Love you Kim!

R.O. aka Hercules

On Saturday, Ro was pulling out his bow and looking at it before hunting season begins(yes, my husband hunts, I thought it was funny when he told me too -I actually thought he was joking when he said "I'm going turkey hunting this weekend" I laughed really hard and then realized he was serious-I always thought you just bought turkeys in stores-I didn't know there were wild turkeys)
Anyway, so RO was checking out his bow and pulling it back to make sure everything was working right and Turner looked and said, "Look, Mommy it's Hercules!'' I couldn't figure out what he was talking about at first. So I asked him"What looks like Hurcules?'' and he said "Daddy!" RO couldn't have been prouder. I just thought I 'd document the first and probably only time Turner will think that his Dad looks like Hercules. (Sorry we don't have a picture for this post, I almost downloaded a picture of Hercules-but we all know how my technology skills are-)

By the way, last week Turner told me that I looked like Cinderella. So, either we are watching way too many Disney movies or Turner really wants something.

First Wrestling Match

I just wanted to document Turner and Matthew's first wrestling match. Both boys had a blast, Turner was extremely gentle to Matthew and even let him win. We will see if that happens in the future-I'm afraid with two boys that wrestling matches may not always end in gigles and letting the younger brother win.

STUCK IN A BOX!

After church one Sunday Turner thought it would be fun to climb in a box. I thought he looked cute so I took his picture.
Then Turner asked his mommy if she could climb in the box, and then the mommy got stuck. R.O. thought this was very funny and decided I should have my picture taken too! Here I am stuck in a box.

I want to go back to the beach!

We went to the Outer Banks this summer with our friends James and Libby and their two boys. They had a blast digging in the sand together and making castles and smashing them.


Here is Matthew eating fistfuls of sand. The harder we tried to stop him from eating it the more he shoved in. I have never seen anyone get so excited about eating sand!
This is our awsome treasure map, designed by James! It's Captain Hook's treasure map. Turner and Jamie had so much fun following the map and digging for buried treasure, that was the highlight of our trip along with being only 5 minutes away from Sonic so I could drink as many cherry-limeades as I wanted!(I'm surprised we didn't take a picture of that!)
Digging for pirate treasure...they found gold rings,a telescope, a hook, a pirate bandanna, and a treasure chest with money inside.


Our last day at the beach! It was an awsome family vacation! Can't wait until next year!