Funny quote.....

Tanner just came to me and said.. "I am going to practice being a man.." I said "ok". He said" I got some chips and I am going to sit on the couch and watch TV"

That is the funniest thing I have heard in a week.... well since he was telling us last Wednesday about how one of the presents gotten torn open a little.. ya know "it went zip.. and it opened"

The kida s riot!

He had a New Years Eve party at schoool today and they made some big fun 2009 glasses. I will post the pic on Friday... he wore his jammies and they all counted down at noon!

Happy New Year!

Its been a quiet 2 days. We are all finally better and no longer sick. Rick thankfully did not get sick at. He has been busy at work tho.. he has inventory this week and has been home late both nights. Hopefully he will get done early on Wednesday.

Tanner has a New Years Eve Party at Young uns on Wednesday. He gets to wear his jammies and they count down at noon. He is pretty excited. Today was Happy Meal day as I picked him up early as the kids were headed to the pool.

On Eve I think my parents may come over and maybe Michele. We may play some Wii or cards.. but pretty mellow night. After Wed.. I am off till Monday.... a nice 4 day weekend again!

Tanner is feeling much better. So much bettter that he helped Daddy shovel. Ok.. so maybe he was trying to golf!

Sry no post yesterday. We have been sick off and on. Tanner has been for about a week. Today is the first day that he hasnt been sick on either end. Now I am afraid that I have it. I dont think as bad as he. But still not good :( I feel better today. But still not 100%

Here are some pics from The last 2 days...
Happy Christmas All.

She is out of ICU!!!! Eating full meals. the rest of the week they will be doing somethings to see if they can determine the cause.

Thanks all.

I will post a Happing Christmas Email on 12/25!

Just a quickie....
Breathing tube is out. She is pretty drugged up on Morphine as her chest hurts from the pounding they did not it. She Is sitting up and knows she is in hospital and who folks are. But does not rememeber what happened. Hopefully things are on the upswing.

The hits just keep on coming. My sister was rushed to the hospital this morning. She was unresponsive. Her potassium was high again. They put a breathing tube in and she really fought it and then went into cardiac arrest. They got her stabilized and rushed her to dialysis, which reduces the potassium levels. They have kept her sedated. This is the second time this has happened in the last couple weeks. Currently she is out of dialysis. Dad said she is trying to open her eyes and is gagging on the breathing tube. Hopefully good signs.

We are not sure if there is going to be any permanent damage. Praying that there is not.

Will update later.

Winter play day 12/20

Mom was making cookies and Daddy and Tanner were out shoveling the deck. Well actually they were throwing snowballs at each other.

Tonight we are going to Murphy Park.

Santa Visits Medline :)

It was a BAD BAD BAD DAY, in fact its not been a good week for us at all.

Today we woke up to 8" of snow. Rick went out to shovel so I could get to work as I open. I am the only management there that early. I have NEVER NEVER not made it... can you see where this is going..

I get up the big hill... and discover that NOTHING in the city has been plowed... or maybe once threw... but other then that nothing.. so I slide down my parents hill to take Tanner. Well I make the mistake of trying to turn in there drive way... Well guess what I got stuck and Tanner learned all kinds of colorful new language. My poor dad comes out.. (the one with the new knew.. and not so good ticker and blood pressure) and he is trying to push me out... I am trying to get out and trying to call someone at work to see if they can get there as I knew I wasn't going to make it for awhile. I was seriously about to cry.. it was horrible. I wasn't sure if I should cry or scream. I was so upset and frustrated. Dad thinks I need new tires! Finally some men stop in a big truck and are able to push me out.. so I get Tanner out and go along my merry way to work.

I call Rick on the way and put him on speaker and I get stuck in an intersection.. luckily I was able to get out after just a few minutes.. by this time I am so steaming mad I am cussing like a sailor.

I get to work and see that folks had gotten in.. as I was not able to get a hold of anyone.. until I was unstuck... Bless Mike Garsides soul as he had the forethought to get up early and go to work and be there by 630.... gotta love him! He said he could not believe I wasn't there.

So My Dad takes Tanner to daycare.... they cancel his preschool program again... for good this time mind you.. so I am upset about that! Rick gets a ride to work from a co-worker.. which is nice as he has a 20 min drive.

I go through the day.. my dad drops Tanner off at 3 to see Santa at Medline. That was fun.. I will upload pic later. Well Tanner and I go to leave.. I clean off my windshield.. only to discover a Giant crack in it. OH I THOUGHT I WOULD SCREAM. But didn't want to have Tanner hear my colorful language AGAIN! We call the insurance company and they say if its long then a dollar bill... they do not replace for free. So she calls around for us.. (what a nice gal.. So nice) and finds us the cheapest place to get it done.. but 230.00 and cant get done till Tuesday! So about this time I am going to cry.. as tires.. and a windshield.. We don't have that $$ laying around!

Dad calls.. i tell him the saga of the windshield., and he says.. well maybe you can rotate your tires and get you through till spring.. well the tires are all snowy right now so I cant look. But praying he is right..

Right now Rick is at his Christmas party since Tanners program was canceled. And Tanner and I are hanging out. We played Wii Fit for a while... and he is now watching ICarly.. I think I am going to go look for a drink. There has to be something around here for me.

Peace out...

So today I was excited.. then sad, then mad... then happy again. So Eddie had called and was going to try and get Tanner the elusive Bat cave that I can not find anywhere. They were going to Target in CR. But I looked online after getting the call to see that they were out of stock.. so I got sad.

Then I got an email stating they were canceling the Tanners Preschool program because it was Supposed to snow sometime tonight.. UMMM WHAT! I will say that its 930 at night right now.. and UMM NO SNOW! I was ticked. Tanner is so bummed and sad. They are going to try again on Friday night.. but if the snow really comes.. then I am sure it will be canceled again.. and they said it wont be made up :(.. so I was pissed.

Then on my way home Eddie and Kim called and saved the day.... The found the BatCave at Toys R us. SO HAPPY. They are bringing on Eve and we will sneak to the car and bring home to wrap for the morning.. THEY ROCK! So then I was really HAPPY!!!!!!

We played the Wii Fit tonight. Way fun. I wanted to play more but Tanner wanted to play something else .. so I let him.

I am headed to bed.. and umm still no snow!

Poor Tanner got sick last night at 2 AM. He threw up in bed. It always freaks him out when that happens.. as it doesnt happend very often. In the morning he said he felt better but when it was time to go to preschool.. he was so tired and cold.. Papa thought he should stay home.. so he did. He was better after he woke up from his nap at their house. So I think he is ok. :)

I didnt sleep much last night after that.. so I left work at 1 and picked Tanner up and we came home .. and I was sleeping by 130. Tanner to took a long nap and I had to wake him at 445.

Its been a lazy night waiting for the snow to come again! I hope they dont cancel his program again.

LeT iT sNow Let It SnOw! Yepp its snowing again. And it is suppossed to snow again on Thursday!! :( yep that is the day of the rescheduled Preschool Holiday Program. Those poor kids. We will never get it in. The make up date is Friday.. and thats Ricks Holiday party.. and Grandma Di and Papa *I think* have something with the Richeys maybe.. I can't rememeber what it is.

Well I made the Pretzel logs tonight. and Tanner did the sprinkles on them.. ***WOW*** i think he used the whole jar! They are really red! LOLOLOL.

We played Sorry Sliders on the Wii tonight..thats kind of a fun game. Tanner really liked it!

Well I have to get the preschool presents ready.. and the one for Gymnastics.

So I am out!

OH MY GOSH..... ITS FrEEzING here. The high today was 5. So that made the wind chill even colDEr!

I dont have much to say because I am cold and am going to take a bath. Tanner is out playing the Wii.. he is bowling.. he LOVES that!. So I am going to sneak some alone time and soak and warm up in a hot bath!

I was going to do some chocolate dipped pretzels.. but I think I am going to wait and do them on Tuseday...

Oh yeah we are expecting a snow storm too :(

Sunday.. another BUSY day. Basically finished shopping. I am looking for 1 thing for Tanner... but thats it. I went to Target today.. WHAT A ZOO... it was almost as bad as black Friday! Holy smoley!

I finished all the teacher gifts.... made another kind of cookie.. and the cream cheese mints. Got the supplies to make the appetizers for Christmas Eve. I am leaving the Christmas Day stuff up to Rick. I have done everything else. I shopped for almost everything and wrapped almost everything... so he can do that.

We went to the Medline party last night. It was a good time. We watched the hypnotist show.. that was good for a few giggles. We sat with Michele, Holly and Angela... Jennifer and Carl. We did play Joan Rivers again... and its so hard not to. Clinton and Stacy really should have been there.. they would have had a hey day! WOW.

Monday starts the last week of the year where I have to work 5 days... WOO HOO.... 2 3 day work weeks ahead! Cant wait!

Lost a couple of days. I went to our management Holiday party at my bosses house on Thursday night. That is always so much fun.. and lots of good food! Went home with a Kohl's gift card :)... well I left with it.. but that is where I was going after the party so I spent it right away!

Friday was a busy day. Tanner went to preschool and I shopped, wrapped all his gifts. I picked him up and then made 12 mini loaves of bread and 2 batches of cookies. I was so tired last night! My legs hurt from standing int he kitchen.

Tonight is our Holiday party for my work! So Tanner will be hanging out with Papa. Papa is taking him to Bolt. Tanner is very excited to have a surprise with Pop tonight.

Tanner and Rick are currently outside playing right now. Its 40 out here and Rick is getting the ice scrapped off the sidewalks... thankfully it wont be there all season like last year!

We are almost done with our shipping have 4 presents left to get. We know what we are getting just need to do it. I MAY buy Tanner 1 more thing. It just depends. He really wants this Batcave set from Fisher Price.. its cute.. and he has a lot of the pieces that go with it already! We'll see.

Well I am off to make more cookies.

I will be quick tonight.

We did get the Wii. Tanner was very excited and played with it right away. He likes the bowling. He had asked all day when we were getting it.

He went to gymnastics tonight. SOO DID NOT LIKE THE HIGH BEAM. He was scared. Then slide off and cried. He didnt get hurt. But was upset. He doesnt like high things. He was also very tired tongith so that didnt help. When we got home he wanted to bowl So he and Daddy bolwed. But then he said he had a headache and wanted to lay down. He is watching Horton hears a Who. Hope he isnt coming down with anything.

No Christmas program tonight :( it was so snowy and icy! :( they are going to do it another night. But have not heard which one yet.

I was going to make some Cookies tonight.. but so got totally side tracked looking up what Wii games to buy. I have $$ in my Pay Pal account I am going to use and also a 50.00 gift card from my Cell Phone. So i figure I can get 3 games. :) We are co buying it! So exciting! We will be taking it to my parents house on eve so we can all play as it is something that Tanner can play as well. I may buy another game too.. with my Christmas bonus since I really didn't buy much for the family with that.

Anyone have any suggestions.... I am looking for games that we can play as a family.. and NO VIOLENT ones! :)

Thanks

Today was a nasty weather day! It was spitting ice off and on all day long. They let schools out early.

We went to Ricks moms for dinner and stayed and let Tanner play for awhile. But I wanted to get home as it was still spitting and then it started to snow. We stopped at Target grab the last present for Minnesota. I have gotten done wrapping them and they are all boxed up for Rick to take to his moms for the trip up.

Tanner was very sad when he found out that he was not going to get to see his cousins over the holiday :(

Here he is on St Nick morning!

Here is our downstairs tree and the outside of the house. I still need to take a pic of the upstairs tree.

Well its Sunday night. Its going to be a long busy week. I should be looking forward to it.. but really I am not. I am tired just thinking about it. I was supposed to be free on Monday but Rick told hi mom we would come over for dinner... Not that I don't want to.. it was just my only free night. I have been going since Friday of this week.

The coming week is..
Monday... dinner
Tuesday...Christmas Program
Wednesday...Gymnastics
Thursday...Management Party at Renee's
Friday... I am off work... but am baking all day for the holidays and for some gift giving.

Today Tanner got up at 830 and he and daddy went to church (he was bribed with doughnuts and a matchbox car) and I stayed home and cleaned the house and changed all the sheets... Its been a busy weekend. I also got our lights in all the front windows.

We then went to hockey at 130 and got home at 5, ate a quick dinner and then put up our tree upstairs. Then it was bath night and we are lounging in bed right now... I would love to go to sleep but the Tan Man is still awake!

I missed Friday. We had a pretty busy day! It was Holiday Bonus time at work.. which is always fun! Then when I went to pickup Tanner my mom had the stuff ready for Toys for Tots at the hockey game on Saturday night. She tells Tanner that they toys are for the poor children. Well on the way out of the house I said that we were going to Target to return one of the toys that he had gotten 2 of at Target. He also had a gift card to use there. So Tanner decided that he should give his toy to the poor children instead of returning it! What a sweet boy! He really does have a heart of gold.

We went to Target and he picked out some Batman toys. We then came home and ate. I went to Kohl's and did ALOT of Christmas shopping.

He also went right to bed last night....slept in his own bed all night because St Nick was coming.

He got up and got Don't Spill the Beans and a new Planet Hero. He was thrilled.... He came running into our room and saying "He came He came" I will put a pic up soon.

We then ate breakfast and then went and got haircuts (I went to Kohl's again and picked up Carly's gift) and then we came home.

We then put up the Tree in the basement and all the decorations down there. We were going to put the tree upstairs up. I got it together and fluffed.. but ended up with an EXTREME headache. So I went to lay down a bit. Tanner came and laid with me and we both fell asleep. In fact he is still sleeping now. We just finished dinner and are cleaning up. I will have to wake him up soon since we have to leave for the game at 630. We have to stop at moms and pick up her ticket as she forgot it. (she is working at Grand till 730)

Hopefully Sunday night we can finish the tree and the decorations upstairs.. we are only half ready for Christmas. Although I do have a BIG chunk of shopping done! Woo hoo! Only a few things left to buy!

Tonight we watched The Polar Express. This has quickly become one of my favorite holiday movies. It truly does capture the magic of the season. I love to watch it with Tanner. (although he does ask soooo many questions about everything.. you know like why are the elves wearing green tights) Anyway there are certain parts he just stops and really watches and is totally silent. One of these parts of course is when the reindeer come out and so does Santa. One of the bells falls off the reindeer and the little boy picks it up and eventually asks Santa to keep it.

.........If you have never seen the movie.. You can only hear the bell if you truly believe in Santa.. the magic of the season... at the beginning of the movie the little boy does not believe. But at the end he does and is able to hear the bell..........

So tonight after watching that part Tanner turns to me and says. "I hope Santa brings me a bell like that.. I want to hear it too. " I bet Santa will bring Tanner that bell. I really hope that he keeps that magic for awhile. Its really sweet to see/hear. It really does help the magic of the season. It is the most wonderful time of the year. Seeing things thru the eye of a child is a most wonderful thing!

And as Tom Hanks said in the movie... "The thing about trains... it doesn't matter where they're going. What matters is deciding to get on. "

~~~Have a great night~~~~

Wacky Wednesdays.....or should I say busy Wednesdays... they go so fast. We get home from work/grandmas and we rush around and have dinner and then rush off to gymnastics. When we get home its about 715 and seems like the night is almost over.

Tanner loves to go to gymnastics. He is getting better at his cartwheels and forward rolls. It does make him hyper for the rest of the night... I thought it would make him tired.. but not really.

I am usually really tired on these nights. And for some reason my neck has been hurting all day.. I think I slept wrong on it, its also given me a headache!

Tonight we picked up the cookie dough from Gymnastics and found that Tanner had won a prize. He won a mini basketball. He of course wanted it to get blown up right away when we got home. He then practiced dribbling in the kitchen... which helped the headache.

Anyway... I am headed to bed, I need to get rid of the headache.

2 days in a row .. can you beleive it. I thought I am going to try and blog everyday in December... even if it just a short snipet of soemthing that happned that day.

Such as today... It was Tuesday.. Tanners nap day at Young Uns. Grandma works on Tuesdays right now so Tanner gets his blue cot and sleeps at school. Well I am not totally sure that he sleeps.. but lets say he lays down. They are always outside when I come and pick him up.

Today we went to lunch with Renee. We went to Champs. They do have good food. I had the BBQ Chicken sandwich .. it was good.. but our contact there also gave us 2 free appetizers and free dessert.. so I am suffed.. I mean like really full.

After we got home Tanner wanted to play on the deck in the backyard. So I sat at the table and read the newspaper and then got out the work laptop and went online and did a few things. I really dig having a laptop. I am hoping that they give them to all the managers sometime next year ..when we get our new building. I keep telling Renee that.. even our IT guy thinks that its a good idea.... and really they could build the price into the new building... I think anyway.

Alright... I am out. :) have a great night!

I was a bad mom today. I forgot to take snowpants and didnt even have boots yet for school. Tanner did borrow some boots from school so he could go outside. Thankfully I had bought another pair of snowpants this weekend. We keep one at school and one at home.

Right after work we went to Kohls and used my 20 dollars in Kohls cash to by Boots! They are some nice ones too. 50.00 regularly for 25.00.

So now we are good to go for the season.