Fast day

So I looked at the clock and realized that today has completely sped by, I feel as though I just got to work. Then I thought UGH! tomorrow is my birthday...why do they have to come so annually? ugh...brighter side though tomorrow IS national Candy Corn Day!!! There is a silver lining!
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Well Baby Visit

Matt got to go to the doctor yesterday for his four month check up! I let daddy handle this one...I did not want to have to be there for the shots! Matt weighed in at 16.11 oz respectively, and is 24.5 inches long. He got his shots and was a pretty good trooper. He started a fever last night though, we fought this one, 102.3, and it went away in an hour. He is happy as a clam though today. He slept most of the night (YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!) only waking twice, he ate and then went back to sleep (there is someone up There who loves me!!!).
John like usual is working his tush off. We see each other for about an hour a day, in the am, and talk on the phone. Sometimes I roll over in bed and there is this funny lump that grumbles...must be him.
I have been a reading machine lately. In fact I just finished "Smoke Jumper".
In two weeks I have read three novels, started one over (I really enjoyed it) and started another. I have also joined a book review swap website to get ideas for more books. I think the next one I am going to get is "Pride and Prejudice". I saw the new movie of it and thought I would probably like the book.
Ally is doing well in school. Her teacher spoke to John yesterday about her talking in class. Such my rebel!
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Pumpkin Patch time

Saturday was interesting...we woke up to Matt being covered head to toe in a rash of bumps. John took him to the doctor, I was at work, and they said that it was his body fighting the massive cold that he has had. They of course gave him nothing and he of course looks like he was eaten alive by flea's! Sunday morning John went hunting down on the river. I picked him up at the Grand Island park and we both realized that we had not taken the kids to the pumpkin patch yet!!! oh my what a catastrophe!! So I headed home with the kids to get them dressed for the patch (Ally was in her Pj's and Matt just a onsie) and John followed with his boat. We all made pit stops and went back to the patch. What fun! This year they had mull driven hay rides, a pumpkin cannon, and horse rides. We walked all over the patch looking for the perfect pumpkin. Ally picked out a petite one for her, John of course wanted something different, Matt's was really interesting...not sure if it is a gourd or what, and mine was the biggest! Ally got to ride a horse and go down a huge slide. The pumpkin canon was shooting a lot too. It was a pretty good day.

Take a look at the "pumpkins" in his shirt. Such the gentleman...caring all of the pumpkins so we don't have to worry about getting dirty.
So now you can see I am not the only one who takes pictures... definitely a decent shot, can't see anything in the middle of me...good work Hun!

I absolutely LOVED this gourd, but John didn't want to carry it so I took a picture of the kids with it.
Mommy's pretty little lady!

Okay okay...

I would have pictures of John on his birthday but I had to stay on FIRE alert to make sure we didn't burn down his parents house.


And just because the second anyone hears I had my hair done here you go.
Matt had his first solids. Applesauce and rice cereal...yum...


Ally wanted her hair done curly for school pictures... now she wants it this way always. I have created a monster!
I have had some grief about the blog and the lack of pictures it has with the family. so here you go.

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What a weekend...

This weekend was a very busy one for us. Ally got to stay at Grandma and Grandpa's Thursday night, Friday a friend of ours picked her up and took her to her Aunt Sarah's house for a slumber party...her first one! Sarah's daughter, Catie, turns 5 today and this weekend she got to go get her ears pierced. Ally went with them and when she was asked if she wanted to get her ears pierced she responded with "I'm not old enough". Plain and simple. It's great! The girls went to the spa, got special T-shirts made for them, watched movies and played. Ally was brought back to Grandma and Grandpa's with another little girl, Faith, and her mommy Jantina, she then got to stay at their house overnight AGAIN! Wow, three whole nights with out mommy or daddy, when asked if she was okay she said "yeah mom" and handed the phone to the closes adult to go play. Guess I'm not needed.

John's birthday party at his parents was fun. He got all kinds of gifts, a sling shot thing to shoot tennis balls for the dogs, an electric shaver with a nose and ear hair trimmer, some hot sauce, a Johnathen Fishing bear, and his brother found ALLLLL of his Nintendo games and controllers for him. It was great!

I have not been doing much, but I have read through a couple of books/novels, two to be exact. The first one is "Twilight", it took me two days to read through this, and the sequal, "New Moon", it took me one day to read through this. I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of the third novel "Eclipse". Ironically Sarah had a link to the "Twilight" website (it is going to be a major motion picture soon). I can't wait to see it, I think that I will love it.

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My "Old" man

Yesterday John turned the big 30...he is sooooo old now. All day I have been giving him a hard time about how old he is. How I am married to an older man and how much younger I am than him. I had a big party planned for Saturday night and was just about to send invitations when I found out that I had to work so nix on the party. On Saturday night though I am taking my "old" man out to dinner and hopefully some of his friends will join us. The other thing that was kind of stinky...his birthday gift that I paid extra on the 2-3 day shipping won't be here for another week!!!
So this weekend we have many birthdays... John's this week, my friend Krista's two children, my friend Sarah's daughter and Sarah's husband! So in tradional style, this is as close as anyone gets to my singing, her you go...

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you, happy birthday dear (insert your name here) happy birthday to you!"

It makes me laugh though...Sarah turned 30 last month, John this week, Ryan, Sarah's husband, next week and I am still the "baby". I am sooo much younger than my "older"friends!

Oh, buy the way...Sarah if and when you read this let me know when you are ready for your outing...I want to be prepared for any "accidents"! hahaha
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Busy busy busy

I realized that it had been sometime since I posted last and thought that I should put something. Nothing big going on. John and I are on opposite schedules. I am up at six and wake him about quarter to seven so I can take Ally to school, then at quarter to nine I am out the door heading to work. We don't really get a lot of chances to see each other...guess some might say it is the perfect marriage! Ally is doing well in school. She started out a little rough, talking a lot in class, but she is doing well. Matt is growing into his hands and feet...slowly. He is an eating machine though. He is sleeping better though six to eight hours a night (thank heavens!). John's birthday is coming up...big 30. I keep teasing him he is married to a younger woman!!! haha. That's about it.
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