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I was finding my other blog layout a bit difficult to read, so I changed to this one! Nothing exciting to post today - but the day is still young! Hope everyone has a safe Halloween.

Crazy Hair Day

Today was crazy hair day at G-Man's school. We had to work at it a bit to get a crazy hair look! This is what he went off to school looking like...

Then we have RJ...Every morning he gets out of bed is a brand new crazy hair day for him! This pic of him is pre-shower - he slept in his clothes.

Later...FOUND - the cure for RJ's crazy hair day AKA bed head!

3 Day Training Update

I was so excited to do this post and let everyone know that on Friday last week, I passed 120 miles of training! We only started at the end of September, so I am proud of all of the training we are squeezing in during our shortened training period. Thanks again to my hubby, G, for getting up every weekday to do 5 miles with me.

This is the not so happy part of my 3 day training update - on Friday afternoon I was putting a Longaberger 3 qt. dish in my hutch and it slid out of the hutch, landing square on my left big toe!!! My toe turned a nice shade of purple and throbbed so bad I hardly slept Friday night. Saturday I skipped our 14 mile walk (ya think?) and went to the urgent care for an x-ray. I kept explaining to them that normally I wouldn't be concerned except I am in training for the 3 day. What can they really do for a broken toe anyway? X-rays were negative so the kind Doc gave me some meds to help me heal and sleep and they wished me well. Doc told me that he would recommend at least a week off if not more, but to listen to my body and I should be fine. Three days of no training is already killing me but I am trying to be a good patient and use the down time to focus on additional fundraising, as I am still about $1000 shy of the $2200 and so is another of my teammates.

If you think about it, say a little prayer for my toe and also that we will meet our fundraising goals. Thanks.

My 3 Day link:
http://www.the3day.org/site/TR/Walk/ArizonaEvent?px=2770975&pg=personal&fr_id=1180

Funniest quote to come from the toe debacle - D, my 15 year old - "I always knew Longaberger would be the death of mom - I just thought it would be from all of the giant boxes that get delivered to the house!" Funny boy.

Words I Haven't Heard Before...

Hello Mrs. T, this is the school Social Worker...and G-Man has been in a fight on the playground! HUH? Not knowing exactly how testosterone works, I wasn't sure how to handle this situation. As the mother of 3 boys I guess I should have expected to get that phone call one day, but I wasn't. I really thought the boxing matches would happen at home more than at school - silly me. Turns out there was a football game on the playground that included some smack talking and G-Man shoving one of his best friends (who is much larger than him) and the pal returned the love with a punch to the ribs. That was pretty much the end of the fight and they both ended up in the office soon after. This incident came on the same day as G-Man's parent teacher conference so we made him come to the school with us and apologize to the Principal for causing trouble in her school. She took mercy on both boys, knowing they are buddies and that it was their first (and hopefully last) offense, and she didn't suspend them. The principal also knows how competitive these boys all are since they are all on the same baseball team as her son so she banned the two delinquents from playground football for the next two weeks. G-Man probably has the biggest heart of our 3 boys and he shed a couple of tears knowing that he had hurt his friend because he didn't think about his actions first. There was a grounding and a phone call to the buddy to make nice so all is well for Monday morning - hopefully lessons learned!

I suppose since I have now embarrassed him on the world wide web, I should also brag a little that at his conference we received G-Man's report card - all A's. Way to go bud!

For Pete's Sake - Be Nice to Jesus!

A couple of months ago, I was pleased to find a little Preschool that was Christ centered for RJ to attend. It is a sweet little place where the children pray before meals and even pray for each other if someone has a need. They learn bible stories like Donut and the Whale (RJ speak for Jonah). Little did I know that Miss S - his teacher - was giving RJ ammunition to use against us in disciplining him...

Sunday, we took D to a favorite local restaurant for a Birthday dinner. As the evening wore on, RJ got bored and started winding up. I know, shocking! G reached over and gave RJ a tap on the rear to get his attention at which point, RJ looks right at him and tells him that he is not being nice to Jesus!? RJ continues to wind up even more and eventually G leaves the restaurant with him and leaves me to wait for the to go boxes. G lets RJ know that he is going to have a meeting with the spanky spoon when he gets home and RJ continues to insist that G is not being nice to Jesus. At this point we are hysterical and having a difficult time disciplining him as he is telling us we have to be nice to Jesus from behind his sobbing in the car! So, as near as we can figure, he is learning at his preschool that if you are not being nice to others, you are also not being nice to Jesus. Thank you Miss S.

He never did get to meet with the spanky spoon, we were just laughing too hard - especially after we started calling him Jesus with a Hispanic pronunciation (Hey-soos). We figure if we can't use the spanky spoon on Jesus anymore, we might as well have some fun with it and him!

So boys and girls our lesson for the week is...Be nice to Jesus! Probably not a bad lesson at all.

Happy Birthday D!

WARNING, this post contains overt bragging!

This weekend our D turned 15 - so hard to believe! It truly seems like not that long ago he was just a sweet baby/toddler starting to display his firstborn tendencies. Always the rule follower and pleaser, all we had to do when he was starting to do something that he knew was probably not o.k. was say his name a little sternly and he was done and off to another adventure. An avid reader today, this started out as D toddling over with a book for me to read to him and this would repeat countless times a day (with the same book!) until I would finally hide the book and make him find another favorite! Last week his first High School report card came in the mail - all A's with a 4.5 GPA. Way to go D! Keep it up and you will get to go to MIT and be a Mythbuster. Your father and I are exceedingly proud of the young man that you are and excited for all the possibilities that your life will hold for you. Happy Birthday, we love you!

I will now attempt a blogging first for me - posting a video...

For those that haven't seen this yet - it is D in Cinderella as Lionel last spring. We didn't know he could even sing! He didn't even tell us he had a singing part - we found out sitting in the audience. He decided after this play that he likes drama, something we have known since he was a baby, so he quit band and took up drama in High School this year. He just appeared (the only Freshman with a speaking part) in Heaven Can Wait. I have a feeling that this will not be the only post with a drama video attached in our future.

Welcome to my Blog!

I don't really expect that anyone more than family and an occasional friend will follow my blog which is ok with me! I am really doing this as a way to share with far away family members how the kids are growing with a picture or two and a video clip once in a while. I have been inspired by a friend that is a blogger. When I read her blog, it just seems like a great way to keep everyone up to date with your family and the funny,sad or weird everyday things that happen to you. Of course, my blog will be a bit more boring than my friend who has been chronicling her adoption of a daughter from Ghana! Nothing quite that exciting going on at our house but I would still like to share.

The most exciting thing going on at the moment for me is that I am training and fundraising for the Breast Cancer 3 Day walk. Two friends decided a couple of weeks ago that they were going to do the walk again this year and invited me to join them. I did not do the walk last year, but supported them along the way and attended the life changing closing ceremony. Deciding to train and fundraise for the walk that is on November 14th is a bit of an undertaking. If you are unfamiliar, you must raise $2,200 to participate and follow a grueling training schedule meant to be done in 16 weeks or more! My weekday training has been made possible by my wonderful hubby who now gets up at 4:45 every morning to undertake a 5 mile or more walk with me. Thanks G! Love you!!!

I guess that is all for now - until next time!