Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Boys and Their Guns


Santa brought the boys airsoft guns and of course Matt had to have the "big" air soft machine gun. Bad news the trigger broke the day after Christmas. Matt and Mark made a deal one would run across the back yard and be the running target and then switch. Matt had tried to convince the boys, Hunter, and I all day long to do this for him. Needless to say we all turned him down. The boys play in teams with the neighbors a couple of times a day. Guess what - my back yard is covered in red, yellow, and orange bee bee's.

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Last Final for Fall!

Well I just finished my last final for fall and passed my ATI (predicts where we stand in the learning process of nursing) better than I hoped I could do and went out to lunch with friends for my birthday today! Now I am debating between taking a nap, making dinner, and not knowing what to do with myself.
I started a new schedule for my kids after school this week and it has been so peaceful, with chores done, no fighting, and kids in bed by 9:00. I must say it is sooo nice, Matt said do we have to do this everyday and I replied, "If you want me to stick around and be your wife you will comply!" He doesn't like consistently! While developing the schedulee schedule the kids and I chose to have him home by 6:00 PM so we could eat as a family each night. For those of you that know him, guess what he hasn't been home on time yet. He is a hard worker of which we are all thankful!

Monday, December 1, 2008

Thanksgiving!

We were busy during Thanksgiving taking care of Launa Mollotte, my niece, and attending 2 dinners will all the fixings. Basin City was our first stop with the Jenks side, it was unusually quick since it was at the Fire Hall. We ate, then quickly cleaned up. All the men had to go home and take a nap, but we ventured over to Grandma Jenks' house to visit with Julia Harmon, Darin Jenks, and Justin Jenks families. It was nice to see everyone and visit for a while.

Friday we drove to Wenatchee to spend the day with Matt's side of the family. We enjoyed the dinner and following tradition, whenever we get together with the Mauseth's there is always a camp fire. But this time the guys stacked two logs on top of each other after the notched the bottom one and hollowed out the center. It as interesting to watch the logs burn standing up. As usual Beau was there the whole time poking sticks in the fire and watching them burn, he also received an education on how to heat up rebar until it's red hot and brand the wood, cows etc. from his grandpa Greg. I think grandpa was teaching the wrong boy! He's my one child likely to burn my house down because he isn't afraid to try anything. I once caught him heating stuff up in the microwave for hours, luckily the electrical outlet caught the problem for us.

Did you notice Hunter's last entry for me. She just wanted to post all of her pictures she takes on a daily basis.