Make my day....or just scare me to death...

Jeff is home again!! He has been out of town since Monday afternoon...we knew he would be traveling alot with his new job, but he loves his job so it is well worth the travel...to prepare for this we got an alarm system at the house...the place is rigged like the US Mint...it has alarms all over the place...to many for me. Anyway, to make a long story short he goes...

Jeff leaves town
I watch the news after kids are tucked into bed
I hear about 2 escaped convicts...not like shoplifters...I am talking rapists..real sickos....so too speak
I get it in my head they are coming to MY house...I check all doors again and recheck alarm...
I think about bringing Beau inside but with all the rain his paws were muddy and it was late..
I go to bed only to be awakened by...YEP..the ALARM!!! It is 4:30 a.m. and those two men have made it into my house!! I jump up and get Ian...Jade is already with me...I slam the door..lock it...get the GUN...and I am ready to shot who ever comes through that door...the alarm is still telling me FAULT...FAULT...meaning someone has opened a door.
I am standing there waiting and I glance back at these two little faces looking me...with huge eyes!!
I then remember...call 911...I go to the phone and it rings...it is the alarm company...I answer and tell them my husband is gone....someone is in the house...they then tell me...ok...stop...it is your pump in the basement...your basement is flooding....a wave of RELIEF...I don't have to kill someone tonight....whew!
I head for the basement expecting the worse...it was fine..the pump was broken and needed to be started manually...
I thanked them...reset my alarm...and went back the bedroom...Ian and Jade were fasted asleep. I put the gun away..craweled under the covers and stayed away the rest of the night/morning.....Ian woke up and asked about the gun.. if I killed anyone...no not today....I answered back.
Thank goodness for the alarm system...I am getting a keypad put up in my room so I can see all the faults and were they take place...the chances of that happening again are so slim...we got a new pump put in by the way...and both of those guys are back behind bars...lucky for them they didn't come here...it could have gotten ugly!!!

Jade turns 6 months....

Jade...Jade...Jade..

We can't believe that she has only been with us for 6 months...not counting tummy time. She is full of life and smiles!! She wakes up with a huge smile EVERY morning...I think this has made getting Ian ready for school and out of the house by 7:35 a.m. much easier for me. She loves to be in the Baby Bjorn and watch people...she is always looking at people and studying them. She is quick...she grabs everything...I have to keep a close eye on her. She LOVES Ian...everytime she looks at him she laughs....her laugh is great! She also wears 12 month pants because of her length...she has to have the waist taken in on her pants, but 6 month pants are capri pants on her!!
She is loud!! She babbles often and it is loud..some think she is upset..no...she just likes to talk loud..she loves to stand up...I don't know if she will crawl. Ian bybassed the whole crawling thing and was walking at 9-10 months...I am thinking she will do the same...I hope not...but she has a mind of her own.
She has only been here for a short time ,but she has brought so much life/joy to this family...she is such a blessing!!!
HAPPY 6 MONTHS JADE!!!!
Oh, yea...and she is so darn cute...I forgot to add that....

A relaxing day at the lake...this past weekend we had my nephew Grant for the day...Jeff thought it would be fun to take the boys out to the lake for some fishing and looking around for deer...I thought it would be fun to ride along and enjoy the peace...Jade was at my parents house...I was so wrong

Jeff and the boys had other ideas...I was trying to enjoy the view...peaceful lake..etc..but Jeff had a supply of M80's and was blowing up everything in site...pumpkins, empty formula containers,etc. The boys loved it...I did get to see some deer run out of the woods because they were scared....we saved them for the hunters that day. Ian loves it here and claims he will build a house out here and just fish and hunt when he gets older....we dropped the bomb...you need to ask Jade...what...Jade...yea...it is hers also...no problem...they will just live together...

Homecoming week at Metmora....

This has been such a busy week..in fact...I am out the door in 20 minutes to do lunch duty at Ian's school...and than off to the parade..hope the rain STOPS.

Grandpa and the grand kids playing and watching Amanda run cross country...

Amanda after 3 miles stops by to give hugs to her cousins...she looks fine...but next time we will take before running..she was sweating...I mean "glowing"

Just seems like yesterday she was the freshmen attendant and now she is the senior attendant...how time just zips by us so quickly...

This is not her date for homecoming..they had the crowning ceremony last night...this is the same guy that she was with when they were freshman attendants..I need to dig that photo out and look at the changes in both of them...

The dance was getting ready to begin...I had to show these "kids" how was done back in the day...yep...I had to pull out a few moves...luckily I had just showered and put my ointment on so all the joints were loose..just kidding...I actually just went home after this..freshman year I stayed and danced the night away..I knew my night was only beginning...sweet Jade was waiting at home for me to dance the night away in her room. Amanda did assure me that she will be at all of Jade's events..you know because she will be 34 years old when Jade is 17!!!!! Amanda didn't get queen of the dance, but she got runner up. It was weird not seeing her "win" like always, but it was a good weird if that makes sense...the girl that won is a really sweet girl so it couldn't have worked out better and I had already told myself if Amanda didn't win I would give her the North Face jacket I got her for Christmas early as a runner up prize...it all works out...because I couldn't have kept that jacket until Christmas!!!

A close call...show and tell too much...

I will get to the close call thing at later in the blog.

Here are a few photos of Ian and Jade this week..they were getting ready to go to school...Jade only for the ride...it was only 7:15 a.m!! Yep...both dressed and I was also..in fact, a neighbor stopped and asked how does a stay at home mom with 2 kids look so good in the morning...you know makeup and dressed for the day at 7:00 a.m....is there any other way to look?? She must remember when I was a sleepaholic...you know 6 hours or more.


Ian grew his own pumpkins this summer...he planted, watered, and watched them all summer long...only one day he was being lazy and Beau(our Swiss Mountain Dog) got into the pumpkins...yep...a Swiss Mountain Dog can fit a BIG pumpkin in his mouth and run around the yard...we should have know because he likes to carry not 1..not 2..not 3...but 4 tennis balls in his mouth.

This is Jade just hanging out in her crib...she likes to play and sing to herself..and poop in her pants while in there..I got a nice surprise after I took this photo..she is happy with poopypants.

Lastly...tomorrow is show and tell at school. Ian has been thinking..thinking...thinking on what to bring and tell about...he wanted it to be something everyone would like to see, hear, and remember...oh my...that goodness he changed his mind..well...I knew I should have been worried when he told me he had decided aganist this..I wouldn't have let it occur..but this was his plan..(Poor Jeff..does he have any secrets??...No) here goes...

Ian wanted to take a pair of his dads underwear to school(clean) and tell about the time he dad was violently ill with food poisoning and he crapped his pants..not only did he do that he also threw his underwear in the yard because he was too sick to wrap them up in a plastic bag for the garbage and I was asleep...it was the middle of the night..I was tending to Jeff the following morning and I looked out the window at the fresh winter snow only to see our 2 German Shephards walking around this ?? I didn't know what it was..until Jeff told me..I went outside put them in a bag and tossed them...Ian loves us to tell and retell the story...Jeff not so much..I had food poisoning on one of our first dates so I can't really make that much fun of him...my story is worse...but I will NEVER tell...there it is..Ian's first show and tell story that never happened..he is taking some bugs instead...I asked him tonight why that would be so great and why take the underwear...he told me...I just don't understand good stories...OK.

Jade...

No photos this time...just wanted to let those that have been emailing me that Jade is doing great on this new formula...our wallets hurts, but her tummy is better..much better!!
Everyone always asks me about her...she just turned 5 months yesterday and she is amazing...she is so FUN!! Yea..I haven't slept in months...5 to be exact, but I can't take how cute she is or how much she loves to smile. How do you get mad when someone is crying at 12:00 am, 2:00 am, 3:38 am and 5:37am...you can't when all she does is look up and give you that gummy smile.
She really can work a room...I need to post photos of her at cross country meets...she screams and moves her arms and legs wildly when Amanda runs by us...I carry her in a carrier on my chest...Grant is running also this year, but she has a bond with Amanda..I LOVE IT!!!!
Ian is loving school and getting so big...my little man isn't a baby anymore. He still loves bugs...ugh!! I so thought we were over this...NO...he has his entire class interested in bugs now...
Jeff is home from his trip...3 weeks in London, Peterbrough, and Dubai...he came all tanned and rested...complaining of a cold....the strong survive...that is my new motto...
NOBODY cares if you sleep or not...sleep is for the weak...

One more thing...can anyone that reads his blog tell me why people put personal messages to their spouses on facebook...am I missing something...am I suppose to be telling Jeff how great he is, to call me, or even what to get me for Christmas?? I must be getting old...I just use the phone, text, email to personal account, or hey...WE TALK!!!!! Help me out here!!!!

Finally....finally...finally....

Finally....Jeff is home after 3 weeks away, the kids are getting over being sick, I am able to post some photos on my blog, I am getting into a routine of getting up and out of the house by 7:35 a.m....yep that is right....and finally Jade is sleeping through the night...wait...not she isn't...that brat!! She is so hungry at night that she wakes up every 2-3 hours...ugh!! I can't feed her more because of her stomach problems..she only throws it up and at the cost of this new special formula( $70.00 for 14oz. powder)..I refuse to waste money..I mean food. You did read that correctly...about the price...we are going on about $300.00 a week..she is more than our grocery bill...but you gotta love her...she is too cute!!!

Here are some photos from a day at the cemetery...weird...maybe...Ian loves them. My grandmother used to take me to this one all them time..she passed in January while I was in England and I wasn't able to attend the funeral..which is not what I had even expected, but being pregnant I couldn't just fly back and forth. I finally decided to go see her tombstone next to my grandpas...






This was one of the cool tombstones that Ian loved...even one of them has a story and I knew so many of them from my grandma and grandpa....

Warning...Don't drink Coke...that is what this should say!! I used to freak out because this boy died from drinking too much Coke while his parents were out to dinner...they usually never had soda at home, but his mom got it for a party they wer having the following night. The real story is...diabetic and couldn't take in the sugar so he want into a coma and died after drinking lots of bottles...but what a way to make a kid not want to drink Coke ever again!! I have told this one to him before so he was happy to finally see the tombstone...even had his photo.


This is my grandparents tombstone...my brother is next to them, but I wasn't going to post all the photos...it would have taken forever...we had a great time. Ian kept walking around wondering about the great grandpa he never met and about the uncle he never met...he asked soooo many questions...it was one of those days I will always remember or at least I will know that I am blogging. Who needs Wii or Xbox when you have a cemetery.