Ok.. oppps.. that's all I can say. Last weekend... (the 22nd-23rd) We had hockey and Kim & Co came to town and we celebrated Thanksgiving. Tanner also got more b-day presents. I really think his favorite gift this year is his ICarly DVD's. They are in the DVD player all the time. He loves that show... she is so hot.. LOL. Oh and Rick ate 4 pieces of my my moms pumpkin pie.. and I got none!

On the 26th I surprised him and took him to Sesame Street Live. He had lots of fun, he got to high 5.. the count and also Grover.. Twice.... We also bought an 8 dollar.. yes I said 8 dollar balloon! and a little Elmo. He really got into it in the second half and was yelling for the characters to come over by him. We had row B seats but there was an empty chair in front of us.. so he was hanging on that!

Turkey days was a quiet day and we just sat around and ate.. it was just the 3 of us.... it was relaxing. Michele and I went to Kmart and to Michaels that night.. I bought Tanner a little light up red tinsel tree for his room. Tanner fell asleep at 600.. and then woke up at 8.

Yes I did go out shopping on black Friday. I was at Kohls by 430! I was home by 8. I went to Walmart and Target (which was the worst). At Target there was this insane guy behind me that was trying to pick a fight with some women. He said she kept banging her cart into him on purpose so he would get out of line.. WHAT.. who does that. He just kept swearing and stuff... Dude.. if you cant handle crowds.. do not go shopping on Black Friday!

The rest of the weekend was quiet.. Michele came over on Saturday night ans we scrapped. I did almost 30 pages this weekend. I really need to get rid of some of the stuff I have.. So hopefully I will be doing some power scrapping.

Rick and Tanner played in the leaves on Saturday afternoon.. it was nice out. I put up the Christmas lights outside.. thankfully as today it snowed!

been awhile

Ok so its been a while. We've been busy.

Thursday Tanner and I went to Target and he picked out a new toy and used his money from Grandma Mi. We also went to Kohl's and picked up a few things there... I needed new pants for work....as I have not many that fit.

Last Friday night we wet to the hockey game. Holly and Ron also came to the game. About all I can say about that is there was a good fight in the first period. They played like crap!

Saturday night we had a party for some of the Grand folks. That was fun. I had not had that much to drink in a while.. and boy did I have a headache in the AM. There was much laughing and Tanner I think had fun too. We let him open 1 b-day present. He opened his Creative Arts Studio. He played with that for a while that night also.

On Sunday we celebrate the BIG 5. We went to Bowling and Beyond for the party. He had 11 kids come to his party and they had fun bowling and eating cake. It was a bit chaotic... as all of the kids wanted there own balls and did not want to share. He got a lot of nice presents and of course when we got home he had to open them all. We had BOXES everywhere! We had to buy extra tags at the grocery store to put out more garbage.

Sunday night was a sad day as Renee called to tell me that Elle Grap had passed away. She is a coworker and has 5 children.. the youngest being only5. She had a heart attack. It was a sad day at work on Monday. Right now they are trying to figure out how to best support her sister (another medline co-worker) and the kids. She was a neat lady, great laugh. I had a few emails from her that I saved.. and I am forever glad that I did so that I can go back and read them. Its very weird when someone dies suddenly.. I really keep thinking that she is going to walk back up those stairs and into the building. I am not going to the services as seeing her that way is not a memory that I want to keep. I would like to keep the happy go lucky gal in my mind.

RIP Elle!

Today we got Tanners Advent calendar for this year. I got it from Playmobil. It has a pirate theme. It is way cute!

I will get a few pics up soon of Tanners party!

Sunday was a lazy day for us. We didn't do anything or go anywhere. But those days are my favorite. Tanner did want to go outside at about 5.. but I said Brrrrrrr. I also made and Advent Calendar and a mini Holiday recipe book. I have been wanting to compile all my sweets in 1 book.. so I was pretty happy. Its VERY basics. but that's all I need.. everything together.

He did mention that on Sunday he has now decide to marry Addy. Sorry.. Em don't know what happened. But his sights are now on Addison! Which makes Will happy as he digs Emma.. and you wouldn't want to upset the best of buds with romance.. LOLLOLOLOLOL

Today .. the first day of the week.. Blech.. I hate Mondays. It was payroll day and I actually forgot about it till I looked down at my calendar and was like.. oh duh! It got done in time but now as quickly as normal. I am also really sick of wearing dress clothes to work! I can not wait till the week of turkey day! It is Farmer's Market at work this week.. so W/th/F I may make some extra $$$ I do like that!

Tonight Tanner and I packed his goodie bags for his bowling party on Sunday. Of course he wanted all the extra stuff. He is pretty excited for that! We also got our new camcorder so mama is excited to use that.

Right now he is watching ICarly for the 1 thousandth time! Grandma Di.. he is going to LOVE LOVE those DVDs!

Yesterday I was oof. So Tanner and I slept in. I took him to preschool and then I went birthday shopping. I also bought him a couple of power ranger costumes... they were 75% off. He loves to place dress up so he was excited to have them. He wore them all afternoon. He was supossed to take a nap... ya right.

Today we went to the Kids Expo down at the Grand River Center. I was not really impressed. I didnt even see a city booth which I thought was odd. All Tanner wanted to do was play on the LT amusment things. I wanted to get him finger printed and stuff.. but he would not do it. For some reason he was scared of the Police.. I dont think that is a good thing. :( We have to get him over that fear! I wonder if all kids his age are.

Today Tanner asked Rick why he did not like to take baths. He then asked if it was becuase he did not like to sit inhis own dirt!

Monday was not a good day. There were issues all over. Some of them are still unresolved as of today. L I really do not care to get into it… but lets say I was disappointed in some people I thought were above pettiness. I am trying to put it behind me and move on.

Tanner has been talking about Obama and McCain now for quite sometime. He must have overheard Rick and I talking one night. I know on Tuesday he did ask me if I voted. I also know that they have been talking about it a bit in school. He also has been calling John McCain a nutbar. He also states that he is cheering for Obama… that’s what he always says. Today he did tell me that Obama won and that they talked about it in school. He is a pretty smart kid as we were watching the SNL show Monday night and he kept saying that’s not Obama and McCain.. that is people dressed up like them.

On Monday he also had his preschool conferences. They went very well. Ms Carsen stated that she thinks he is very intelligent. He likes to work with numbers and math, which is good because I don’t like that at all. She also stated that he is the leader in the class.. because if it is something he doesn’t want to do most of the other kids then follow in his steps and wont do it either, I am not sure if that is good or bad! He loves to do “jobs” in the room. He is one of the older kids in the classroom and also is in his second year of preschool.

Tuesday we spent most of the night watching the election results come in. They finally called the race at 10:00 after the poles closed on the west coast.. I stayed up watching the speeches. I thought John McCain gave a very gracious speech and tried to get the people to be unified as one nation. I also like how he mentioned Obama’s grandmother. Obama’s speech was also wonderful. He really electrified the audience of 160,000 people in Grant park! They showed Jesse Jackson and also Oprah a few times. I do find it ironic that Jesse Jackson was crying when just a few weeks ago he was not saying such positive things about him.

Tonight we have gymnastics and then also pictures for gymnastics so we have to be there at 530. I hope to be able to go to bed early tonight! I am tired. I am very glad that I am off on Friday

He also lost the bonding on his chipped tooth... but I am not paying 200.00 again to have it put back on!

Last night we had a couple friends over to the Wii. We borrowed it from some other friends. Tanner loved it. He is sad that i told him we have to give it back on Monday.

Today we went and visited Great Grandma Mi ... we showed her our costume and also took her a birthday gift. Tanner ran and ran all over her apartment until I thought my head was going to explode.

I also cleaned the house and took down all the Halloween decorations.

I went shopping at Michaels and sawy WAY to many Christmas things I wanted!

Happy Happy

First.. Happy Birthday to my mom.. she's the best!
and second.. hope you all had a fun and safe Halloween. tanner did 2 1/2 streets before he got tired. Rick said that there were alot of lights not on, so i think he lost interest. He came back and helped hand out candy. He loved that!

The other day Tanner asked if "oh shit" was a bad word...

HAHAHA

Tonight we have gymnastics and he has had no nap today. :(He is all hopped up on sugar from his preschool Halloween party!

Ok.. so it ws cold and snowing.. but we braved it and went trick or treating on the William F BLack. Tanner thought it was fun and he got some more candy :) But he sure was tired in the end. then we came home and had hotdogs and carved our pumpkins!

Umm its snowing... what the Hell!!!!! Thas all i got to sat, We are suppossed to go trick or treating on the Tourist boat today at 4

Medline Trick or Treat was this past Friday. I forgot to mention it. But wanted to add a few pics of our celebration. Its usually a pretty big deal at work. We spend alot of time decorating and dressing up to make it fun for the couple hundred kids that come in. Ok for some reason this stupid blog is not allowing me to upload anymore pics. I have some pics of Tanner to pu on here.. but perhaps I will later.

Friday night we had some guests over :) Michele and Carri came over to visit. We had intended on doing some project... but ended up talking and having a cocktail. Hannah came over and kept Tanner busy. They played for a while and then ended up watching Nick Jr.. and some show called the Naked Brothers.. and Carly was on it.. and Tanner kept telling her to Kiss some guy... ummmm really weird.

Today I went to the Toy Outlet in Dyersville to pick up some toys for Tanners b-day. I also went Target and Kohl's. It was nice to shop at my leisure and not have to buy Tanner anything unless I wanted to. I did buy him a couple of long sleeve shirts as alot if his are to small.
Rick and Tanner went and bought 2 pumpkins so that we can carve them this week. Tanner is very excited for that.

Tonight I bought a new camcorder.. since ours took a bath. I still can not retrieve the info off the tape that was int he player. I hope to take it to Flicks and see if they can rescue it.. I hope so as it is our whole summer. I am still very sad about that.

Wow... what a cold day BRRRRRR. I don't think I am ready for that yet. Today at work we finished up our decorating. We carved a Santa pumpkin and hung stockings.. :) We are doing a Christmas theme for Halloween and dressing as Reindeer and elves. That way we do not have to decorate again! Sweet eh

Tonight was gymnastics for Tanner... he always gets so wound up and takes him awhile to "come down" He just has started to settle down now. We were done at 7! I thought it would help zap him of energy... apparently it works the opposite for him.. same thing with Cam also... must be the red hair!

He got picture info tonight for gymnastics... good thing he doesn't mind getting his pic taken as it has happened alot lately!

I hope that Thursday isn't to cold for football!

Funny Tanner

The picture has nothing to do with the story... I just think its funny...this was from when Tanner put mommy's lipstick on. He just does it to drive Rick crazy.. This time he wanted his photo taken with him... :)

Anyway ...OK so tonight at the dinner table we were talking about Medline. Tanner says "mom Renee is astracted to you because she lets you get up from your desk and do fun stuff." I was like "What? What is astracted" and he says "Renee loves you. She thinks your neat so she is astracted to you." Rick then says.. do you mean attracted. and Tanner says "yes". I am not sure where he got that word from.. and he partially is correct... Renee does love me (as I love her to ) but I don't think she is attracted to me :)

Kids they say the darnedest things eh :)

I am back

Ok so the show is over and I took a little R&R for myself, and am ready to blog again. I am not going to go over in detail of the past 2 weeks.. But I will say that the show was oddles of fun. It was good to hang out with some Grand folks again and make some new friends. We had lots of laughs backstage.. especially the last night with shaving cream, water and paint!


Tanner is sure glad the show is over as I think he was really missing his mom. On Family night he cried when it was over and he had to go home without mom :( But he really liked the show and talks about it.. I think it was the one he watched the most.






Yesterday we spent some family time together and went to the Pumpkin Patch, to Culvers and to Kohls. Tanner had fun at Bahls.. but was sad to learn the there will not be a Medline night this year. He loves to play in that corn. He will get to go again with his preschool buddies on Friday so that will be fun for him. The place was packed! We did the hay ride, bought some gourds, cheese popcorn and he went in the bounce house. We even got a free ride back to our car on a wagon!

Tanner also got his Preschool picture taken. And today we went and took some pics at the Arboretum for his 5 year old pics. He did pretty well... but he does get cranky after a bit and we have to leave.





Well that is all for now.... I am going to edit these pics so that I can get the printed and hung up at the house.. we have a couple of parties coming up :)

Ok.. so I am going to just let everyone know that for the next 2 weeks blogging will be sparse if any. I will be down at the Grand for the show and will either be tired or want to see the Tan Man after the show. So I will catch up with everyone 10/19. I know we are planning on POSSIBLY going to the pumpkin patch next Sat so I will post some pics then if we do.

Also .. say a prayer for Michele as she is going to babysit Tanner next Fri at the hockey game.. and wow has he been wild lately! :)

Well its been a quiet few days. Which for a change is nice. Especially when the next 2 weeks will be busy. I am excited to help at the Grand for Mom and Dads show.. but know it will be hectic around here and Tanner will miss his mama. he is such a mama's boy!

Tanner had a doc appt on Monday and that went well.. well until the told him he had to get a shot as he FREAKED out and told Doc Bagby that he didn't want a shot. He didn't want it in his leg and got it on the lower part of his arm. He did scream and turn as red as his hair and cry. And man was he sweating. We also found out he has to be tested for lead WHAT! and its done at the lab. Tim thinks it is a finger prick.. man I hope so because I don't see how they are going to get a vile a blood out of him. I don't plan on trying to hold him down for a whole vile.. he is a strong little dude!

He is also now into showers. He took his first shower on Sunday and decided it was pretty cool. It was so funny as he was singing away in there. I am sure our water bill will go up as he was in there 20 min. He then proclaimed that he wanted to take a shower ever night so he would be clean all the time. I guess that's good . Its cute tho they way he dances and sings in there. I turned the video camera on just so I could record his voice. I had no intention of opening the shower doors.. as thats rude. But I wanted to keep him singing forever as it was funny. Rick about freaked as he thought I was going to film him actually showering.. DURRR... I am not that dumb. He did peek out once while I was filming and wave!

Well Wednesday I will be headed to the Grand to check out the show.. Rick will be picking Tanner up from Gymnastics... so I will probably not be reporting in then. I will check in Thursday during the debate.. which I hope will be entertaining!

**"You know Katie.. I am going to have to do some research and get back to ya" :)

Busy Sunday

The day started out not so good as you woke up with an awful bloody nose... but we got it stopped and we were off to Soccer. It actually went pretty good since we only had 3 players. Grandma Di and Papa came to watch.

We then went home to clean the house and get ready for some of my GF's to come over to scrap. Tanner was very impatient waiting for Emma to get there. He finally fell asleep for over 2 hours.. so that helped. They played and played until 11:00 last night. they made forts, made food in the play kitchen, played chase and watched s few shows. They had a ball. I swear Tanner drank about 8 juice boxes. He was so sad when they had to leave. He cried.. (he always does) and I went to finish cleaning up the basement.. and of course Tanner came down and fell asleep on the floor. Well there was no way I was carrying him upstairs... and Rick (who had gone to a movie) was sleeping... so I put him on the futon and we slept downstairs.

Today we went to Czipars Apple Orchard and to Schusters Pumpkin Patch. We had only intended on going to Czipars.. but we saw the sign for the patch and Tanner heard someone talking about a corn maze.. and he really wanted to go. So we figured why not we are already out there and had nothing else planned for the day. Tanner and Emma played some games to gather and Tanner went in the bounce house. We bought some Apple bread and headed to the Corn maze.

Tanner had fun wandering around.... it was pretty big.. and they had a map to follow and there were clues where you found letters to spell a word... Well heck one of them was really hard and we could not find it. Tanner had had enough and wanted someone to carry him so we gave up and found the Exit. He said it was fun.. but LONG! We were in there about 50 min or so.. so I don't blame him. He was sad that they didn't have any animals to look at.

He took a snooze on the way home... and I might go do that now.. as I was up late last night.

Its been a busy week....again! Tuesday we hung out at home all day.. well after I went to the doc. I did ask about my elbow again. But really don't think there is much I can do boo hoo I hate it hurting all the time. Tanner took a nap at 330,... nice eh. We woke him up to eat and then we went to Ricks ball game. Michele and Stef Long also came and we hung out for a bit afterward. Then we came home and Tan took a bath.

Wednesday night we had Gymnastics. He is getting really good at his cartwheels. He does need to stop being so hyper in class and listen a bit better to the teachers. Wed at school they had a fire drill and Tanner answered one of Barbies questions... "stop drop and Roll" :)
We then went to Sam's to stock up on stuff.

Tonight was football and groceries. They dropped me off to get groceries while they went to football. I was all done by the time they were done.. which was good. We didn't waste any time.

I am going to go and stock the basement fridge with stuff since we are now spending more time down there then we used too. We got lots of groceries so hopefully next month it will be a little cheaper :) But prob not since it seems like everything is going up in price every month.