Gymnastics Video

Tanner at Gymnastics last week.

Monday night we went to Target and Tanner got a space lego. He loves to put the sets together.. and he is actually very good at following the pictures and doing it. We almost lost a mitten there.. spent about 15 miuntes looking for it. Bought an new pair for 1.98. Tanner said they are soft and furry inside and feel like Kitty!

I took some video at gymnastics on Tuesday.. hopefully this weekend I will get it converted and uploaded. Wednesday he had basketball. They also had a planned early release. The Thunderbirds came to Young uns to talk to the school age kids. Tanner got some autographs and possibly 4 free tickets to next weekends games. We also went to Sam's and picked up some stuff. IT was sooo cold out. Its been below zero in the mornings.. with the windchill! Yuck.. I cant wait for Spring!

Tonight was grocery night! We have been on the go alot this week. So glad we have nothing going on over the weekend.

Today is also Grandma J's Birthday.. Happy Birthday to her!!!

We were so excited this Morning when we woke up and so no snow on the ground. Dry pavement. That meant school was not going to be delayed or called off and we would have the filed trip to the Swiss Valley Nature Center. Tanner was excited and I told him I would see him in a little bit as I was working a funny half schedule day so that I could still go.

At 8:00 Rick called me to tell me that Mrs. Weber was trying to call me and the field trip was canceled. WHAT… there is a few flurries outside. And its not even going to amount to an inch. Oh my I bet the kids are mad too. I am sure they will not reschedule it. Although on the paper that they sent home on Friday it said that they would have it if school was not delayed or canceled. If it was then it would not be made up. So unfair to the kiddos. The other 2 kindergarten classes are signed up to go this Friday. So half of them get a field trip and the other half not so much. Tanner has been asking to go to Target for a week now.. So I will take him there after school. I don’t think there will be any birds or deer tracks to look at .. but we will make out own field trip I guess.

We went to Target and bought daddy the Office season 5. Tanner also got a Space police lego, and we bought some activity books to take on the airplane ride!

We are officially at 45 days!

I think I finally got this to work.. I had to convert it to another format, but I think we are good to go this time.

Well I cant get the video to load. I will keep trying. On Thursday they called school off again. It was really icy out and when Rick went to back his car out of the drive way so I could leave he sliped all over the place ans we actually almost slide into each other. He couldn't even get is car back into the drive way. We left it in front of Frances house. He eventually got to work at around 945. By the time noon rolled around it had gotten warm enough that everything was melted and it was fine out.

We went to moms that night and Tanner played with Grandpa. But when we left it was misting again and getting cold. I was mad because Tanner had a field trip on Friday and I had taken off work to go.

So sure enough on Friday morning the phone rings and there is a 2 hour delay. So his field trip was canceled. We were pretty bummed. Mrs. Weber emailed me and said she would let me know if they were going to reschedule it. So I cleaned the house :( Yuck!

When I picked Tanner up at 330 he told me that the field trip was going to be on Monday ... but if there is a delay or school is canceled... they will not be able to reschedule it again :( there is snow in the forecast for Monday! I really hope it holds off till at least 11. He is pretty excited to go the Swiss Valley Nature Center to see the birds and look for tracks in the snow!

Friday night we went to the hockey game with Grandma and Papa. Tanner watched for the first few periods. But I think he got bored in the 3rd. Even tho he said the hockey game was t short and wanted to know why they didn't play more periods.

We are supposed to go to a sleigh riding party today at 3. But its raining.. so I don't think we will be going... who wants to sleigh ride in the rain. Not to mention that the snow is hard as a rock for them ice storm the last few days!

No school today! I guess there were scared of the rain... because that is all we really got. They thought it was going to freezing rain.. but it didnt. Now they have used all all the built in snow days. So if the cancel anymore we will be going into the second week of June.

Tanner had basketball tonight.. he had a ball! I am going to try and post a video from the game. At least this time they got more then 1 basket! It didnt go thru.. so I will try again when I get home from work.

Today Rick got his new glasses. I am going to try and snap a photo of them .. but he won't let me. It came with a clip, they are very similar to what he has. But his lens are thicker because he Rx got worse.

Yesterday Tanner went to the Loras swimming pool with Young Uns. He had to wear a swim belt and it chaffed his skin a bit because he had a big red mark around his middle, He also had a bump on his head where Aiden elbowed him and then Tanner slipped and fell on the ice. Poor little buddy. He watched the new ICarly last night and then watched the Big Bang Theory. He actually read one of his books that he got from the library... he read most of the words.

Tanner had gymnastics tonight. I took a few photos since last year I didn't have many from there. I didn't have the right camera. I don't like to use a flash there because I don't want to disturb them. So the one we have now is better. When we got home Rick showed Tanner a sled he bought for a sledding party that we are going to on Saturday.. and Tanner thought it was awesome.. and said : I think I will try this out on the stairs! " Umm I don't think so! Thankfully he said it before he actually did it.. so I could say NO!

It was nice to have Friday off. I got the Christmas decorations down outside. I got to go to Target and Borders. I found Tanner an Easter present at Target! It was the Buzz and Woody play set he wanted.. it was regular 45.00 but on clearance at 12.48. SCORE. Its up in the closet! He will love it! I should have looked at what else they had but there were 3 people in that isle and also they were trying to stock some of it.. it just wasn’t feasible.

Friday night Jamie and Sue came over to scrapbook. Jamie brought Emma so Tanner and her ran around the house and played. At about 10:00 they both got pretty tired and wound down and were laying on the couch almost sleeping!

On Saturday we got Tanner signed up for Soccer. We were hesitant to do so as .l.. well frankly we don’t enjoy soccer. Its also a big commitment. They start paying in May and go all the way thru the end of July or beginning of August. There are also snacks/drinks that you have to bring several times and line ref the games. But Tanner liked it.. so we will play again this year. Since he is still in T-Ball and that is only on Saturdays they don’t conflict. But who knows what the year after will be. Maybe he wont be into it that much. But right now I think he is still trying stuff out and seeing what he likes… He cant like all the sports all the time can he? If there is anything ever going on.. and you ask him if he wants to do it.. he will always say yes. He just really likes to be involved in stuff…. Which is good. I would hate for it to be the opposite!

I also booked the Condo for the Wisconsin Dells trip. We have never bee4n to the Wilderness before .. but have heard great things. I am sure with the Clancys and the Aitchisons along.. we will have a wonderful time.. it will also be nice to have some friends for Tanner there!

This Coming Friday I signed up to go on Tanners Field Trip to Swiss Valley Nature Center! It’s a program about birds… YUCK… but Tanner was thrilled that I was going to go!

Sunday Tanner and I were very busy. We went to the River Museum and saw Dan Wordell and Word Girl from Iowa Public TV. He used to watch Dan Wordell all the time before he was in kindergarten. We also looked at all the exhibits, saw the big gater and the huge fish! He loved seeing the ducks. We then went out side where he got to ice bowl and watch some ice sculptures being made. Slide down a big ramp for sleds. Then we headed to Burger King for lunch… and then off to the library. He picked out a few books… ones that he can read some of the words. Some DVDs, a computer game and also 2 books on tape. He loves the library and we really should go more.. but its such a mess down there right now. I can wait till the renovation is complete!

Last night Tanner had his first basketball game. He was a little nervous because he said there were taller kids then he was. He is always a little bit scared the first time he does something. So I think it was just that, because there were only a couple kids that were taller then him and one of them was on his team. They play 5 on 5, and there is only 5 kids on his team so he got to play the whole time. He got hit in the face with the ball once… but after a sec ( I think he was stunned) he said.. “I am OK” and ran down the court. He seemed to be having fun and had rosy cheeks from all the running. He also almost always thru the ball back in after it went out of bounds or the other team got a basketball. That was his job.. none of the other kids seemed to mind or even go over to the ref to do it. So Tan always went. He was cute trying to get the ball away from the other kids of keeping his hands up in the air to try and block something. Afterwards he did say he had a good time.
We then went to Borders and Rick got his Fantasy Baseball magazine and they had Tanners Battledrons at 75% off… so they were 2.49. So he picked out a couple. We came home and he played legos and battledrons and then fell asleep!

Lego Boy!

Tanner the Lego Man!

Last night Tanner proclaimed himself a Lego man. He was born to do legos. He loves them, I am a Lego guy! I am not sure what brought this sudden Lego love on. He has always loved to build stuff and to play with them. But last night it was a passion! It was pretty funny. He got out all his Lego catalogs and Lego magazines and went thru them all. He was very pumped to go to the Lego store at downtown Disney. It is similar to the store at the Mall of America but bigger. They have just come out with Toy Story Legos… and I know he is going to want all those sets. Thankfully they are not any of the big expensive ones.. they are not to bad. I am afraid tho that he will want to buy so much that we will have to ship stuff home! I better pack light!

So we went to Ricks eye appointment on Saturday. Tanner was very good. He sat and watched my ipod, he was watching Spongebob! Although since it isn’t something that he isused to doing… he yelled everytime he had a question because of the head phones. It was actually pretty funny. But I think we were the only ones who thought so. Ricks eyes did change a bit but to much. His last appointment was in 2004.. so it has been awhile. We picked out some nice glasses with a clip. I can’t wait for him to get them. I am sure they will be better then the ones he has had for almost 10 years. (last time we just did lenses)

We then went to the book store and Tanner looked around and he got some battledrones at 50% off. He was pretty stoked about that! I am not even sure what you do with those things.. but he loves them. He played with those and legos all afternoon. It was nice.

He did have a tummy ache over the weekend. But gave him some pepto and that seemed to work. Kelly’s daughter was throwing up.. so I hope that isn’t coming around again!

I was going to put a down payment of the Dells trip.. until I found out it was more then half the bill.. so I talked to Kelly and she is going to pay half now as well. So I will get that done this week. I paid the second to last payment on the Disney trip. This Friday the 15th I will be paying it off! VERY EXCITING!

Sunday I signed and paid for Tanners Little League, got him pre-registered for Soccer. I also estimated our taxes and installed the tax software! I am just waiting on my w-2 so we can get going on that refund!

Hopefully it will warm up a bit so I can get those Christmas decorations down outside! At least we have the lights off on them.

Really

Really again... there is no school again on Friday! There was no school today either. I know its snowing out.. but really is it that bad out. Now they have lost 2 days at Easter break. And now more day care bills for this week.

I hope it clears up so that we can go to moms and visit on friday. We also need to go and get Ricks eye examed on Saturday. For some reason I was really tired today at work. I must not be sleeping well at night.

Tanner fell asleep today after work/school. He has been going to bed late! I told hom he had to go to bed early tongiht.. but he is wide awake right now, but I could not get him to wake up before.

Rick shoveled 2 today. He was going to have Tanner go out and play in the snow while he shoveled.. but he would not wake up!

TGIF yippy!

new years resolution

Yep again I am vowing to keep a better blog. \Seems like a lofty goal.. but will give it a try none the less.

Mom had surgery today on her Gall Bladder. Surprisingly it went very well.... we have been accustom to being on the side of.. "well this seldom happens but..." so we were very happy to hear that things went as planned. She is at home now and resting, we will go visiting on Thursday.

We had a great Christmas and Tanner got lots of nice things from all his family and Santa. he loves his Guitar, legos, his new mini hockey rink, Buzz and Cars blankets.. much to many to name.. and of course more Disney Dollars! He has quite alot of monies for the big trip. he is so excited!

We spent a quiet New Years Eve at home and watched a movie and Rick and Tanner fell asleep before midnight and I read a book. It was great.

We had quite a todo at Sams the next day.. I will not go in to detail... but lets say the screwed up our membership and I went crazy when they said there was nothing they could do... but needless to say I got it taken care of and all is well.. although I do not like how they initially handled it.

We are planning out Dells trip with the Aitchisons and Clancys. We are going the weekend of Ricks Birthday. It should be lots of fun. We are renting a condo so we can all stay together.

I need to decide what I want to do with Internet for our Disney trip... I hate to be without it! I know we will be busy.. but would love to be able to post pics and stuff.

Its also time to sign Tanner up for t-ball and Soccer. He wants to do both again. Rick also has an eye appointment this Saturday.. so we will be dropping alot of coin this weekend!

Holiday Concert

Ok so it seems like I have not had time to do this for what seems like forever. For some reason I have been come extremely busy. Monday nights I have a boot camp class, Tuesday nights Tanner has gymnastics, Wednesday nights a lot of times we go to Grandma and Papa’s, Thursday is Yoga night. Then by the time the weekend rolls around I am tired from running. I have 2 weeks left of exercise classes left. I think that is what the issue is..2 nights a week I am coming home from work getting Tanner settled and supper.. and then I am running back to work, for class. I just can’t do 2 nights. We will be taking a break for a couple weeks I think .. so that’s good.

On the 4th we went to Jumpin Janes with Medline. Tanner had a ball. He loves that place.

Debbie at Gymnastics has been calling Tanner the Mayor since Mayor Buol is rerunning.. and there are signs all over the place. Tanner thinks she is silly.. but I do want one of those signs!

Tanner has been doing well in school.. and he has made a few funny comments that I have posted on Facebook.. but they are… I asked him what they sang in Music class one day.. and he said James Brown!

He also asked me what I was going to be for Halloween and I said a crazy mom and he said.. “ but you are that everyday! “ Hmmmm

The Merz Family came home a few weeks ago and we went out for pizza with them and also Tanner got t o go swimming 2 at their hotel. He was a crazy man in the pool. Going under water and stuff.. stuff that he never used to do. That’s good. Swim lessons finally paid off!

Last weekend we went to Bahl’s Pumpkin Patch on Saturday and then went to Borders Spooktacular Party. I think he really enjoyed both. On Sunday we trick or treated on the boat. It really didn’t take that long on the boat. They also don’t really get that much candy.. not that he really needs a lot… because he doesn’t.

On Tuesday I had a nightmare of a morning. It was the first day that we could get ADR’s (advanced dining reservations) for Disney. They went from taking them 90 days out to 180 days. So there were about 90 days worth of people wanting to make reservations and there whole systems.. phones and computers went down. I got up at 430 so that I could be at work at 530ish so that I could be on the phones right away at 6AM. Well I couldn’t get thru.. I tired at 558 and everything was fine.. and then at 6.. boom.. a fast busy signal.. or the famous.. all circuits are busy! Dad tried to call as well. He got thru 1 and they told him to call back as their computers are down. Well I finally got thru at 11:55. I was on the call for a total of 37 min. Most of it was hold time. I was so scared to touch my phone that I would hit the wrong button and it would hang up. She also put me on hold.. and I was scared she would accidentally hang up. But all was good and I got them all made.. and with barely a glitch. The only glitch was at the Canadian pavilion we have to sit at separate tables… well that’s ok as that is the 1 place that we all really wanted to eat at. We have heard awesome stuff about the steaks and the Beer Cheese Soup! So now everything is planned for the big WDW trip.. meals and all.

Tanner is collecting his Disney pins to take and trade with CM’s (cast members = workers) He is very excited about it. I am also turning his allowance money into Disney gift cards so he has some of his “own” money to take to spend what he wants on… and no questions asked by mom or dad! buo

Tanner then had gymnastics last night and he won a t-shirt for selling cookie dough! He was pretty glad.

Medline Picnic

I love this pic of the boys!!!

Medline Picnic was lots of fun. It was nice to just sit and chat with Jamie, Kelly, Tony and Rick while the kids ran around and played. They all got tatoos.. which took FOREVER! I can not beleive they were that patient! The boys also jousted! The boys were running around (lucas, Tanner, Jack and Will) from blow up to blow up! They had a ball. And as usually Tanner cried and threw a fit when it was time to leave... but the party was over and blow ups were coming down! He was fiflthy and needed a bath.. so right when we got home.. into the tub he went!

blog break

So yep I took another blog break. Its been about a month. I am not going to attempt to go into detail on what happened in the last month.

Tanner is loving school and he really likes his teacher Mrs. Weber. He loves going to his Specials ( Music, Art and Gym) He is fitting in nicely at Eisenhower! He still hangs out with Jack at recess even tho they are not in the same class.

He has started taking gymnastics agian. He likes to go and see Debbie on Tuesdays. He is getting really good at his cartwheels. He can also almost do 1 armed ones!;

Jamie and I went to Scrapfest last weekend. We had tons of fun.. but man there were tons of lines and lots of just standing around. My legs hurt after the first day. I am hoping this is not how Disney World will be. We did pay for our airline tickets and booked our package. We have until 1/26 to pay it off. Anyway..back to scrapfest.. I love to look at all the new stuff at Archivers, what stinks is that I cant get it whenever i want. :(

We had Employee Appreciation week at work this week.. it is very tiring! I am totally worn out. I also started my second session of Yoga this week. I am also starting Body Boot Camp on 10\5. I am hoping all these things gets me in better shape for the big WDW trip since I know we will be walking alot and I need to be in better shape for that. Today... my hamstrings and legs are killing me from Yoga last night!

Sunday is our Medline Picnic! That is one of Tanners favorite days! He love the big blow ups, Cotton Candy, funnel cakes and TATTOS!

I hope to post some pics from that on Monday!

Well the Variety show is over.. thank goodness. I am so glad that I can focus on just my work.. :) It went really well... but what a relief!

Today was a big day.. Tanner went off to kindergarten. Yesterday we met with his teacher. He gave her his present and she seemed to like it. She went over the schedule and talked about what the kids would learn. It was very exciting. We then went to McDonalds and ate lunch. He fell asleep last night at 830 on the couch!

This morning when i work him up.. he got up right away! Although Rick and I did not! We slept thru the alarms as I had ear plugs in as Rick is still a bit sick and very loud! We still made it to Young Uns by 710. He got to eat breakfast there with Jack and Emma and Adelei. I saw the bus drive by my window at 815. I hope he is having a good time!