Double Ones and HO HO HO!

Well, it's official I have a new tween in the house. JD reached double one status and really enjoyed his birthday week. I brought a cake to his class to share on Wed. He got up in front of the class as they sang the song and then he graciously bowed and repeated "thank you very much everyone". It was adorable. That night we gave him the choice to pick anywhere he wanted to go for dinner; choices like Teppanyaki, Chili's, the Marina....my boy picks McDonald's (which wasn't one of the options...hmmm). Go figure! He's like wimpy...He loves his cheeseburgers. So we went (man I wanted Teppanyaki) and after we came home, he opened up his presents from us. He had a board game thing going on since we are trying to get him more involved in "group" play. He always wants to play alone and so we keep trying to break that up a little more and give him opportunities to interact with others in play. He's doing well with that so far. So here we are all playing one of his games...the Dr Seuss game he was eyeballing in the PX a few days back.

And of course, Teage was doing everything JD was doing...

On Sunday, we capped off the celebration by taking a few of his friends to lunch, mini-golf, and to see the flick "Bolt". They had a great time and it was very stress free, which is something I needed after this long as heck week. Here's the Birthday boy...(can you spot the 2 year old?).

Lunch was funny...as you can see!

Cake time!!

And then..the mini-golf challenge!!

OK...so I forgot to mention that while we were eating lunch (about 15 minutes into the party), Teage decided to empty his whole drink onto his lap...hence the pull-up!! How cute is he though? But wait...he lost his ball in the frog's bottom?? This picture screams a topic for one of those motivational posters!! "GOLF...Who said it was boring?"...I don't know!

And here's all of them...sucked into the tree.


Hippo's are fun...ask Saige!

More presents. YAY!

And front row at the movies. Nice floor...must be a pastime for the kids to throw their drinks in excitement.

He had a great time...Thanks to his buddies for making it a special day!

On top of that and amongst a plethora of other things...the FRG hosted it's annual Christmas party for all the Families and Soldiers. It was a great success. I was in charge of Santa pictures and the picture frame craft. Check out my kiddies getting their Santa on...

And the FRG Leaders...

And last but not least...this is what the Holiday Spirit is all about!! Hands down!

Love Ya!!!

Hubby Lovin' and other Fam Facts

OK so I finally got some pictures from George of his happenings in TX so far. He has assured me that he is working his butt of, but clearly he has time for a few extra-curricular activities...

I'm glad he did to get some use out of those clubs since he did travel across half the world with them. He looks funny...I guess this was an impressive drive!!

You know it's no mystery that I have him bringing me back some Arby sauce, but I guess he thought this was a nice gesture to go along with that...to me it was just torture!! Thx Babe!

As was this...gotta love a breakfast skillet!

Anyway, I'm glad he is enjoying his trip back to the states. I get to vicariously live through his endeavors each night we talk about what store/restaraunt he visited. On top of all that, I found out today that he was voted by his classmates to compete in the AUSA Board (which is an awesome responsibility and goes on his record of having done so). So he will be studying for that tonight...since it's tomorrow. Way to go BABE! He also informed me that they had a PT contest this morning. I guess you could think along the lines of a mini competition amongst all 5 classes that are there for the course. His class WON and of course he ran the last leg of the relay. Andele!! Grabbing the baton he was in second place and in the last 20 meters, he hit his stride and passed some "long legged tall guy" for the 1st place finish. You go boy!! I might have to expand the doorway when he comes home to fit his head...LOL!! I know he always tries his best and that is why it pays off for him all the time. He rocks!! I'm so proud of him.

In other news, I went to visit JD for lunch this week and to get an update on how things were going in class so far. He is doing well...he always goes through a phase where he tries to see what the teacher will take from him. Charmers do that!! But he is learning his boundaries with this new teacher and being a big dude about it. It was cute because all the kids tried to hurry up and finish their lunch so they could go outside and play...JD is all about eating his food!!

Move forward to another couple days and Saige came home from school Tuesday with the chicken pox. Yeah, I know WTF? She along with the boys are completely up to date with all their vaccines and so how could this happen you say? Apparently, some of the kids this school year had to get boosters for the varicella vaccination (which is a live virus) and so it can cause a breakout. I was not aware of this when I took her in to get her shots...she didn't even get the booster..she got a Hep A shot. But she obviously came into contact with someone that did and so Voila!!...my baby girl got chicken pox. It was VERY mild and therefore she had a quick recovery, but she stayed out the rest of the week from school. She didn't really like that...you know it kept her out of the loop with her lunch social circle. But she is all better now and spending the night out tonight. But she thought it would be cute to show what her contagious side might look like...

Teagie has been Teage...acting like a wild man in all instances. He was too thrilled about showing off his new Cars pajamas though.

And then the next day he had stripped down to his pull-up and decided that he would see if he could still fit in Poquito's kennel. What a HAM!!!

I tell ya...I think they just wait to act crazy whenever their dad leaves. It's a running Army wife joke that the sh!* hits the fan always when they are away. It's TRUE!!

By the way, how would you like this hanging around outside your backyard on any given day?? Just all part of the military life we lead. This copter kept doing circles for like 45 minutes...it must have been some training because then they had one of those chinook helicopters doing the same thing afterwards. weird...

Well, I have officially started my Christmas shopping. Layaway is the shizzle!! Teage is all set, Saige will be my hardest. Dang teenagers and there expensive taste!! Today we are going up to the grand opening of Toyland so that JD can enter a Lego Masterpiece contest. He's hard at work as we speak coming up with his very own. He's gonna smoke them all. This is SO his idea of a good time!! I'll post pics on that next blog. I hope everyone is doing well and talk to you soon!!

Love ya!!