FYI

So if your children come down with a very strange stomach ache that won't seem to go away, call me! I know what it is. Tanner and Ethan have had this horrible stomach ache for 5 days, with no other symptoms. No vomiting, no diarhea, no fever, nothing!  Tanner finally got a sore throat yesterday but Ethan just has a stomach ache.  Now that 5 days have gone by i finally was sick of it so i called the doctor. They had me come in.  Come to find out my boys have strep throat. WHAT!!!  So go figure a stomach ache = strep throat.  The doctor said that for some reason some kids get a really bad stomach ache when they have strep. They won't even complain about a sore throat just a stomach ache.  I feel horrible cuz i sent them to school all week cuz they just had a stomach ache that came and went.  Anyway now we have drugs and hopefully they feel better soon. 

playing with the christmas toys

So Brendon (Adam) got a rocket for christmas.  It lauches 1100 ft in the air. YIKES!  We launched it today, and I have to say it was pretty awesome!  I felt like i was at cape canaveral! There was so much smoke.  The rocket went so high we couldn't see it forever. Then the boys caught sight of it, adam and I still couldn't see it.  It finally landed about 2 minutes later clear out by the main road by our house about 250 yards away.  They were so excited it worked. It turned out to be a good gift. :)

Christmas Morning

I love Christmas morning! Even though our kids are totally lazy and don't get up early at all(which i am not complaining about). I love watching them be excited for things to come, even Tanner who is 12 can't hold his excitement in.

As much as Adam and I try to say we are going to cut back this year and not spend as much this year, we just can't help ourselves. We have so much fun buying for the boys. I do make a list of things i want to get the boys. I am pretty systematic. I try and get everyone the same amount of presents so one person isn't still opening when everyone else is done. It is getting harder to do this since the boys are getting older and they are wanting more expensive things but it has worked out so far.
I think Adam has more fun than i do shopping. All year he is telling me to spend less, spend less. Then Christmas comes and I am saying we have enough, no we can't buy that too, would you stop shopping. :) I love it! He is such a kid at Christmas.
Anyway, the boys loved all their stuff and have a lot of things to build and work on. Adam, I mean the boys, should have lots of fun. :)

Halloween

Well we scored trick-or-treating this year.  My boys have enough candy to last them the whole year!  I actually only got to trick-or-treat with two of my boys this year.  Tanner ran off with his friends and Brendon went to a completely different neighborhood  with his friend.  Ethan was crazy and ran for two hours straight, just the thought of all that candy for a sugar addict was enough to keep him going.  Now i just have to keep my beady little eyes on his candy bag and make sure he doesn't overdose. :)

Gavin the dead skateboarder

                                            The Joker

                                     I know you know this is OZZY!

Ethan is the vampire in the front. he loved the cape!

Volleyball

Ok so most of you know I am a total sports junky. I love sports! (Hmm wonder why i have 4 boys! ) But i truly love volleyball. I could play this sport all day every day and not get tired of it. One of my biggest regrets of my youth was not playing in high school and maybe in college. I wish someone would have made me play. But i am making up for it now by playing in a league in Boise that is just awesome! I love it!! I am so glad my boys are old enough to watch themselves.
I have a new team this year and it has taken us a while to find our groove but we finally have and we are playing great. So in the league we play in they have different levels of play. The highest is Power (college players) C1(mostly college players) and so on, down to about C7(recreational). My team plays in C1. Most of the teams in C1 are also on a team in the Power league so it is really good volleyball and did i say i love it! :) Anyway i thought i would blog about it because we totally kicked butt tonight and won all three games. Our setter was on fire and so the hitters (me) got to hit a ton. It is just fun to go out there and play hard and sweat! It is my form of excerise since i am not motivated enough to work out in the gym. :)

scouting

I really love that my boys are still willing and eager to go to scouts. It is sometimes hard to work on all their badges and achievements with everything else going on but i think it is building good character in each of them. So far i think has been hardest for Gavin to get his stuff done but he is doing a great job. Last night he earned his Wolf badge and 4 arrow points. So in a month on his bday he will move into the Bear den and start on a new badge.

It was Safari night

Brendon is almost done with his Webelo Badge and will be working on his arrow of light here soon. Tanner is on track to be and Eagle scout by sept 2010. There are about ten boys in his troop that will all get it together. Scouts are AWESOME!!

My skinny boys playing football

Football is not the first sport i would choose for my boys to play but for some reason Tanner and Gavin have been drawn to it this year. I'm not sure Gavin enjoyed it as much as Tanner did though. Gavin is still pretty young and doesn't take the hurt like Tanner does. I really enjoyed watching them play, it was a sport we haven't done and it was fun to change it up. Tanner's team unfortunately didn't win any games and that was tough on Tanner because he is slightly competitive. (wonder where he gets that) He play wide reciever, punter, and saftey. The first game he took a helmet to the kneecap and it was bruised pretty bad, he couldn't practice for 3 days. But he got right back in there and did great.
Gavin also plays wide reciever. He can catch anything thrown at him in practice but he hasn't caught one in a game yet. He'll get one soon. Gavins team finally won a game last weekend. They were sooo excited it was fun to watch them. I'm not sure if Gav will play again next year but i know Tanner is going to.

In the pics below, Tanner is wearing the green jersey #18 and Gavin is in the bottom two pics wearing a blue jersey, white helmet with a B on it. #14

Tanner's great catch
Look at those skinny legs

The punter takes a beating but there was a flag thrown on this hit. It hurt his ribs pretty bad.

Gavin pushing and shoving

Finally a big hit!