LIFE ISN’T REALLY THAT BUSY, I’M JUST LAZY

So apparently it’s November now… I was unaware that time flew this fast. But October came and went and here we are… at November. So I’m just gonna blog a bit and let everyone know that YES we are still alive. I’m almost 99% sure that nobody was devastated by my lack of motivation to blog recently, but to those of you who give a dang… here we go!…

Christian is BUSY… and his latest project has been his grass. He seeded our lawn and whoa! I’m not sure if he pumped it full of steroids but our grass is GREEEEN. Crazy huh! Anyways… It’s been his baby, his pet project, his greatest accomplishment. Ok.. not really, but he is really proud of his lawn :) He also has 2 interviews for Med School lined up with ECU and UNC. This is very exciting and I'm sure a little nerve racking. Christian has been preparing by going over Interview Practice Questions. Some of the questions are: "Tell me about a time you failed." or "If you were a cookie, what cookie would you be?" Whaaaat? Seriously? Ok, so the questions are a bit broad and cover many different topics. So please keep him in your prayers so that he may know what kind of cookie he would be.

Kalea is excelling in school. Not that we had any doubt. Just kidding. She is loving learning and does get a little frustrated that she can’t read yet, but she is definitely getting there. She sounds out the letters and can form words. She of course is the little peace maker in her class. When they have quiet time she is gets a bit irritated when others aren’t quite as “reverent” as her. She does tend to watch the wilder kids in her class with wide eyes. Not sure what’s running thru her head when she see’s them exercising their free will, but I’m pretty sure she is in awe.

Mia continues to be a challenge to say the least. She was found escaping Nursery this week so she stayed with me for the most part of church. She also likes to challenge EVERY THING I TELL HER. Not quite sure where she gets this from. *ahem* Lately,her favorite phrase is to tell me that I am a bad mommy, or that Santa is not going to bring me presents for Christmas if I’m not a good Mommy. awwww…. dear sweet Mia. Her words touch the heart :)

Landen has decided that he wants to climb on EVERYTHING. He even pushes things up to the couch so he can get up. I’ve found him on numerous times ontop of the girl’s Princess table. He’s learned how to wave hi and say hi at the same time. He’s been practicing when I come home from work and at church. He is probably the most social, friendly little boy. He will continue to go up to anyone (Sorry Christy S.) and if he’s walking he doesn’t look back to see if we’re following. I told Christian when Landen turns 2 that I’m buying one of these: Is that a bad thing? I don’t think so. It’s not like I’d be putting him on a choke chain around the neck. I’d just be giving him a false sense of freedom. You’re welcome, Future Landen.

So Christian and I took a trip to Asheville for my friend Stephanie’s wedding. We also went to Biltmore. Christian has been a few times but I had never been and really wanted to go. So I dragged Christian kicking and screaming thru Biltmore. I thoroughly enjoyed it thru Christian’s bored sighs and his sarcastic remarks.

Then we went to the Fair the following week. One year Christian and I went as a date and we ate so many things we nearly puked… seriously. We had to toss our fried pickles out the window of our car on the freeway or we were gonna hurl deep fried goodness all over our car. So this year, we brought the kids with us. We felt a little outnumbered (as usual) but we really had a good time. The girls had fun on the rides and enjoyed the food. We had a deep fried Snickers, Oreos, and Reese’s Cup, a Funnel Cake, Cotton Candy, and some Hush Puppies. Landen really liked looking at the crazy carnies and really behaved himself.

Ok so last year we all dressed up for Halloween and we had such a great time we decided to do it again this year. Christian was Jack the Ripper (or as Christian was calling himself, Jack the Stripper), I was a Senorita (Zorro style – eat your heart our Catherine Zeta-Jones), Kalea wanted to be a Skeleton which was out of her regular norm of being something girly, Mia was a Ladybug, and Landen was the Incredible Hulk which was really appropriate cause we definitely DON’T like him when he’s angry.