TRAUMA!!!

Kyler turned 7 today. I can't believe the time is going so fast! It's unbelievable! I thought, just for this occasion I would post one of my favorite pictures of Kyler. It's with my best friend Debbie. He was about 2. It's so cute!!

And here's a more recent one from about a week ago, on Kyler's 1st grade field trip. He's so big!!

Crazy 8's

Crazy 8's!
I have been tagged!

8 T.V. shows I love to watch:
1. Pushing Daisies
2. Ace of Cakes
3. What Not to Wear
4. Salon Take-over
5. John and Kate plus 8
6. Eli Stone
7. 10 Years Younger
8. Cash Cab

8 Favorite Restaurants:
1. Red Lobster
2. Olive Garden
3. Wendy's
4. Sunrise Cafe
5. Chili's
6. Steak and Shake
7. Cracker Barrell
8. Cheesecake Factory

8 Things that happened yesterday:
1. Babysat a cutie!
2. Had fun with my nephew.
3. Went to the store with 5 children (2 babies, and 6, 7, 8 year olds. Insane, huh?)
4. Watched Speed Racer
5. Played with my kids
6. Went for a walk
7. Planned my singing time
8. Went to the Hoosier Road Elementary Carnival...and had a BLAST!

8 things I am looking forward to:
1. HALLOWEEN
2. Time out for Women
3. Christmas
4. talking to my Debbie!!
5. my anniversary (it's been almost 9 years . .. CRAZY!!!)
6. Fall Break!!
7. Owning my own home
8. Getting a Sewing Machine

8 things I love about fall:
1. beautiful leaves
2. Fantastic open the windows weather
3. I get to break out my light jackets
4. I love fall fashion
5. Cold, I love Cold
6. HALLOWEEN!!
7. My children's birthdays...2 anyway
8. hot chocolate

8 things on my wish list:
1. A Sewing Machine!!!
2. paying off all debt!!
3. buying a house
4. Going to TX for Christmas
5. The new Toyota Sienna
6. My bus kids to have just one good day (the middle school)
7. Having more me time. I don't get much these days.
8. Getting off my last blood pressure medication.

8 people I am tagging
1. Mark and Tara
2. Stephanie
3. Sarah and Mark
4. Lianne Ambs
5. I don't know enough people that blog apparently
6. n/a
7. n/a
8. n/a

The Crazy Bus Driver

Usually in the mornings when I get to the elementary school a few minutes early, I do a staring contest. It keeps the kids quiet and we have a little fun. Well, every Friday if the week has been good, we have "free-seating Friday". All of the kids get to sit in whatever seat they'd like, whereas I have assigned seating all of week. Usually on those days, I tend to play music on the radio. I used to play radio disney, but now I take my iPod and I've loaded some fun kids tunes on it.

Well, today on the way to school the kids were asking me to do the staring contest. I said, "nope, stay in your seats...today we are going to dance." They looked at me like I was nuts! I played the Cha-Cha Slide. (It's the song that was on the Mcdonalds commercials with the adorable boy who dances to it while dunking his chicken nuggets) It randomly tells you to jump one, two or five times. It was hilarious. My entire bus was literally jumping. It was fun.

This afternoon while the kids were boarding the bus after school, I played "The Chicken Dance". I was at the front of the bus doing it. It was hilarious!! The kids walking by the bus were giving me the funniest looks. Sarah the crazy bus driver!!

Homecoming

Billy recently went to a homecoming dance. He has a girlfriend named Jilly (which we love to say...Billy and Jilly). She's really cute and they had a good time. He looked very handsome and we were proud of him. Here are some pictures.

Her mom took these. I really like this one. I think it's my favorite.

HOLA CHINCHILLA

So, to catch up on life. A friend of mine recently moved away and was getting rid of her chinchilla. I unfortunately gave in to my sweet girls and decided to get the stupid thing. They are very messy. Anyway, the great thing is that Elana fell in love with it and we were able to talk her parents into taking it to her new place. She was picked up Sunday and now the chinchilla is gone. My favorite thing to do was to go squat by it's cage and say "HOLA CHINCHILLA" in a low voice with a spanish accent and for some reason it was scared of that! It would run in it's wheel.

Jason's favorite thing to do was call it "cat food". Elana named the thing snickers, but Jay never called it that. I didn't either. I thought it was funny to call it chinchilla. (pronounced cheen-chee-ya) It really annoyed Elana to call the thing cat food, but it was true. As I was taking the above picture, the below shows what was next to me on the desk!! :)

Ethan and the Bicycle

The other night I was sitting outside watching Ethan on this incredibly beautiful evening and he was sitting by a bicycle trying to figure out how the wheels worked. I thought it was so cute that I took some pictures. Enjoy.