For Kristine

My Little Trashy Babies

Kristine (my sister) has been insisting that I post something on this blog, so here are some pictures of my little white trash babies. Nick couldn't find any pajamas for Jaxton the other day and so he cut the sleaves off of some thermal underwear and made him a muscle man shirt. It cracks me up every time he wears them.

Oh and I am a red head now!

Hallie'sBaptism/ Hallie & Avery's Birthday Same Day Same Time

So we had a great weekend with all the family in town for Hallie's baptism. Despite some stumbling blocks during the baptism that we were able to overcome we had a great time. While the baptism was the best part of the weekend, the many bands that were created while playing Rockband 2 camein a close second. Kevin's cover of Physco Killer By Talking Heads really made all of our weekend along with Julie's skillful guitar playing. If only we had a video of it to put up on You Tube. America's Got Talent here we come, look out Osmond's. We look forward to the next competition. For those that did not attend I can email you a list of the songs so that you can start to practice. Back to the important stuff. Here are a few pictures that we thought that you would enjoy. Thanks to all of you that made Hallie's special day even better with your presence. Till the next time good bye and good night.

Thank You

The Bachelor

I have been reading a lot of blogs lately that have talked about how mad they are at the out come of the Bachelor, the T.V. show. I do have to admit that I watched the after the final roes and thought that it was some of the best T.V. out there. He picked one girl and asked her to marry him saying he would take care of her for the rest of there lives then six weeks later took the ring back and asked the other girl who he told to scram that he did love her and he wanted to have her back. I have to say that the girl that he dumped handled it pretty well. I thought that we would have some sort of crazy T.V. moment or something. The first girl how did you not know that something was going on. You were engaged to the guy, you would know that something was a miss. The second girl, are you so desperate that he dumped you and then you still wanted him so bad that you took him back after he did that to you. What is the world coming to. Desperate. I guess I cannot talk, Nicole dumped me a month before we were getting married and I still took her back. She begged for me to come back so I did. Just my thoughts. Your effeminate friend Nick

To The Four People Who Still Read This Blog

Because my other blog continues to grow in size and I would like to keep my personal life private, I have decided to make this blog private. I hate to do this because I know it makes it harder for you all to read it as it won't be updated on Google Reader, but I just don't really want to make my family life available for all of the readers of my other blog.

I will be making it private tomorrow, so please email me to get permission to view this blog. I still want all of my friends and family to be able to see the crazy antics that the kids (Hayden) are up to!

Dr. Jekyl/Mr. Hyde

Hayden has really outgrown the terrible two's in many ways. She is growing up. She is helpful (sometimes, if she is in the right mood) and sweet (again, sometimes, if she is in the right mood. She can go from sweet to not so much in about 0 seconds flat!

Here she is reading to me, watch out when Hallie messes with her though. The video is kind of long. If you are not a member of my family, I totally understand if you only watch the first part. Enjoy!

For The Aunties

So, I know this is way late, but my sister Katie will kill me if I don't put these pictures up. Halloween was really great this year. Most of the children loved it and we have way more candy then I know what to do with. We had about 15 trick-or-treaters. We usually get about 150 15 year old kids who are bussed into the neighborhood, not wearing a costume and do not say trick-or-treat. So, we didn't even give away all of the candy that the kids don't really like, let alone all of the candy that I bought.

Hallie was a princess. She did not enjoy the trick-or-treating at all. She just wanted to stay home and hand out the candy. She is a girl after my own heart. She just wants to be all grown up and at the ripe old age of 7 1/2, she really is much too mature for such silliness.


As you can see, she is still really into the posing.

Avery is also still very into the posing.

Avery was a pirate and she was a little trooper. She insisted on wearing her church shoes, but she never once complained that her feet hurt. She is already a big believer in beauty over pain.

Hayden was an adorable little witch, although you are just going to have to take my word for it. Unfortunately, when we went to take pictures pre tric-or-treating, the batteries of our camera were dead. By the time we were finally taking these pictures, she was not interested in doing anything except eating her candy.


Jaxton was the cutest little dinosaur ever! I bought his costume last year at an after Halloween clearance sale and I was so excited it still fit.


He definately knows what candy is and he LOVES it!

California Teachers Association

The California Teachers Association just donated $1 million to fight proposition 8, making them the largest donor to the no on prop 8 campaign. You can read the article here.

This makes me furious. The CTA is constantly claiming there is not enough money for schools, yet they have $1 million to donate to a cause that I do not believe in. Please contact your local CTA representative to let them know that this is not something you support. Here is the letter that I wrote to Michael Bustos, the CTA representative for Sacramento:

Dear Mr. Bustos,

I am appalled to hear that the CTA just donated $1 million to the No On Proposition 8 Campaign. In what way does this issue effect teachers? Why is the CTA sticking their nose in this matter? Does the CTA have so much money sitting around that it can just go around and donating to causes?

The CTA is constantly running commercials claiming that there is not enough money in the state budget for art and music classes. Why doesn't the CTA donate $1 million to that fund instead of fighting against the traditional family?

The CTA has forever lost my support.

Sincerely,

Nicole
Mother of 4

Look What Jaxton Can Do

Yes Peter Pan is definitely growing up. He has been walking for a few days now, but I have not been able to capture it on film because this is still his preferred mode of transportation.

The doctor told me to be worried if he wasn't walking by 15 months. So just a few days short of 15 months, he finally decided to go for it. He is quite impressed with himself. Every time he starts walking, he has 5 people jumping up and down and cheering him on. We have been trying to give him all of the encouragement we can and it has finally paid off!

He thinks it is hilarious that he can walk. He usually laughs while he is walking like, "wow, can you believe I can do this? This is so amazing!"