Gingerbread Party

Here are a few from the Gingerbread house party at the Thompson's house. Nov 30, 2008

a long time!

I just saw how long ago it was I updated!
Things are good. Jaxon turned 5 on the 3rd of Dec so I have been crazy busy with that. Not so much that day but today was his party and I made the cake - I will post picture tomorrow.
I have also been very busy with the Key fob orders - I am so excited with the number of orders I have gotten. Now I just need to keep them coming on after the holidays!
The holidays are in full swing, we had breakfast with Santa at Jaxon's school - they fed them donuts and cookies (talk about to very excited kids!)
We received our 1st Christmas presents today so they will go under the tree!
December is going to be a very happy month with all the parties with friends and family, we are so blessed to be invited to so many places.
I am very sad for Bobby and Hallie's lost of fray fray but thankful family was there to help them in the time of need!
I guess Thanksgiving is just hanging around because I am very thankful for my life and loving the Christmas joy everyone has!
Now I am off to bed the kids have school so it is a early morning for us!

Thanksgiving blessings

We had a great time today with out family at Jerry and Amanda's house. The food was great. The kids had a blast playing and running around. We shared the day with 6 kids and 13 adults. It was great! We missed Bobby, Hallie, Tommy and Maddie but we know there were surrounded with love from Hallie's family in NC.
The kids played on Claire's new car and the princess house. And we made gingerbread houses that Amanda's mom brought. The adults had a fit with them but the kids enjoyed the candy. It was a practice run for what is to come on Sunday at our Annual Ginger bread house party.

Another weekend

It is Sunday and another weekend has ended but this time we start a week off school. I think I have enough planned for the kids but we will see. This weekend was Erik's b-day and Saturday. Jaxon and Erik went to the sad LSU game but afterwards we hung out with our neighbors then ended up at our house for a night of fun on the Wii. Guitar Hero - world tour rocks after a few drinks and a few crazy people!
Sunday we had lunch at my parents house and now we are back home and I am avoiding cleaning.
Hope everyone had a great weekend!

end of the weekend

another busy one!Erik and I went to New Orleans Friday for dinner with friends and dancing. Good times!

Saturday I did a job at the Shell Fall Fest, the kids had a great time and we hung out with the same people as the night before.

Then Jaxon and Erik went to a game together. they had fun but the cold and the lack of playing on LSU's part made them leave at 1/2 time (i know they came back later in the game to win) Erik made this for his office...



Then today we saw Madagascar 2 and went to a B-day party.

Now KK is asleep on my lap and I am about to go to bed for this crazy week before the kids get out of school!

some of the colors

A few pictures of some of the colors and what the key fob looks like

great for gifts

I posted this on our 3-day blog - (http://geauxbold.blogspot.com) but in case you do not check that one I wanted to post it here also. These make great little gifts or stocking stuffers. So far everyone has loved them.....

Ok so most of you know I am making Key Fobs for donations to my 3-day walk.
I was asked to make a list of ribbon I have so here it goes.

If you want a letter on it also let me know - I will post the color list for that soon.

The outer ribbon is 1 1/2" wide and the inner ribbon is 7/8" But you could use 2 outer ribbons to make a key fob also just let me know which color you want on the outside.

If you are looking for a color and I do not have it please let me know or if you want to see a picture of the ribbon let me know and I will post it - Thank you!

Outer Ribbon
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Yellow Gold (LSU color)
Electric blue
Navy Blue
Black
Light Purple
Pink with Ballet slippers
Green
Red
Pixie Pink (light)
French Pink (med)
Pink (med/dark)
Brown
purple (LSU)
Orange
Green with red& white dots
Lavender with white dots
Yellow with white dots
Brown with pink dots
Yellow with pink dots

White with red hearts and Swirls (dark color letter)

Brown with pink circles - retro (too busy for letter)
Dragon flies with flowers - light green and light pink (too busy for letter)
White with American flag hearts (too busy for letter)
Bees and honey combs(too Busy for letter)
Blue with Sunflowers (too busy for letter)


Inner ribbon (design on white unless other wise noted)
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purple paw prints
American Flag hearts
Grey kittens with red bow
red and pink hearts
green frogs
brown footballs
pink ballet slippers
orange gold fish
ice cream cones
soccor balls
green turtles
cartoon animals (light colors)
pink with small white dots
flip flops
blue with sunflowers
spa green with brown dots
hand prints

solid colors:
blue
black
dark lime
red
electric blue
white
bright pink
Mystic blue (light blue)
purple (LSU)
gold (N.O. Saints)
Yellow gold (LSU)
lavender

purple green and gold striped (Mardi Gras)
valentine skulls (black with pink and green skulls and red hearts)
shocking pink with monkeys
red with small swiss dots white dots

It is one of those days!

Today has been a crazy day but that is alright now - it is over and tomorrow will start the weekend!

Vote Today

I voted today did you??

Daddy update #2

You are right you did not see # 1 that is because it went away while I was typing it - and it was long! I think laptops have a mind of their own and get rid of things at random!
Anyway - Dad is doing good. When Bobby and I left his was coming in and out of sleep and talking crazy. This was not always the case. He was fine after surgery then he ate and drank too quickly and made himself sick so they gave him a dose of fenagrin(sp?) and that was it. he started talking crazy and then fell asleep - Mom was out of the room during this so when she got back from getting her food, she was a little confused with Bobby and me laughing.
The infection was not as bad as they thought so that was good. She did drill 2 holes into his bone so for the next 2 weeks he is not allowed to put pressure on his foot - for those of you that know my dad I give him 2 days before he is going crazy.
Dad should be home tomorrow!
Thank you all for your prayers!

one of those weeks!

Have you ever had a week that was so overwhelming that you had to laugh - will this is mine and it is only Wednesday!
Monday Jaxon walked out of our house and was crying at the neighbors house for Erik at 1:30am! We think he was sleep walking then woke up while he was at Misty's house. We will never know for sure but we dead bolt the doors now and turn the alarm on so it sounds as soon as a door is opened. The Dr said he would grow out of it and just try to keep him inside away from danger!
Tuesday both kids got the flu shot
Wednesday - my dad went to the Dr and has an infection in his leg that has be cleaned, removed, what ever they do to that. They are going to do the surgery tomorrow. They are not sure what they will find when they go in so pray for the best!! He may also have a blood clot around the spot. His leg bone is fractured and the infection may or may not have entered the bone. Crazy. I know I should be worried but I don't know what to be worried about. Anyway my neighbor is going to watch the kids so I can go sit with my mom during the operation.
So we will see what tomorrow brings.
I am also going to a haunted house tonight (it has been a long time) and this one is rated #1 "The 13th Gate, in Baton Rouge, has been ranked as the #1 best haunted attraction in America by the editors of Hauntworld: the haunted attraction industry's leading trade publication and haunted house website." It better be for $20 a piece!

Don't forget to pray for my Dad!

Weekend in Texas

We had a great time in Texas this weekend. Dew Berry Farms has only gotten bigger since we were there 2 years ago. We (me and the kids and the Labauves) meet Peter and Dawn and children there. The kids had so much fun playing together. Here are a few of my favs from this weekend. I felt bad that we had to leave kinda early but the girls were done. KK was a sleep before we got out of the parking lot! It was great to see the Comeaux family even if for a short while. Erik even drove 3 hours to see the kids for about 1 1/2 hours, thank you for that the kids were happy to see you.He comes home tomorrow - yeah.

I was just playing with this one

Cakes

Just wanted to show the cakes i made this weekend. the candy melts made the dolls dresses so easy and turned out really cute. I did not like the pink color of the pink candy melts but I got over it really quickly. I'll add more pictures from the weekend later.

what we have been up to

I know it is almost time for the next weekend. But things have been busy like in every ones life! Erik made it home Friday so we are all happy about that. Jaxon and him started butting heads right away! But now that he has been home a while everything is getting back to normal I think.
I worked the fair on Sunday for Jaxon's school The 1st job was great. Worked with a few good people and we talked the whole time. Learned a few things about the school that I did not know so over all that was a good 4 hours. I did get to see Jaxon fair act. They sung - Hey Hey we're the Monkeys - very cute. Jaxon even went on one of the big rides alone. It was a spinning one but I insisted he ride it and nobody else had a ride bracelet so he did it by himself. He is growing up to fast!
The next job SUCKED. It was the prize booth. The job itself was not bad, it was that they were out of everything the kids wanted! The prizes were just stuff. worthless stuff that were going to break as soon as they got home. But it made the kids happy so I guess that is what counted.

Ok back to getting KK ready for school.

Sunday

OK so I was so excited about my $40 that I forgot about today. My family got together today for my Dad's b-day we had a really good time and very little melt downs from the kids. We decided after dinner to play out side with some stuffed tigers and a parachute the kids loved it, we would make the tigers fall off and they had to get them. We hide under it and just had some good old fashion non electronic fun! Lots of laughter and the best part was all 6 kids could play!
Then Jaxon and I went to our first of many parties at Jump n Jive. I was talking to a mom and come to find out she was my student teacher in English when I was a Sr at McKinley! Thank goodness she did not remember me. It is just funny how 18 years ago she was my teacher and now we have a child in the same class. I thought she looked familiar but never in a million years would I have guessed that!

weekend fun

The weekend is over and we had a blast with this one. Friday my dad turned 61 so me and the kids spend all day with him. We helped him pick-up some of the trees from the storm. KK was so cute helping MaMere load the mini truck. We went to Chris' Speciality Meat and got the best meat and chicken. I was really happy with the food we got, I am looking forward to trying everything.

Saturday The kids and I went to see Tommy play soccer. The kids enjoyed being out side. We went to the Jr. Leagues Christmas Shopping thing and left very quickly - 4 kids and breakable things just do not mix - what were we thinking. We then went to the swamp on ULL's campus and watched the alligators, fish and turtles for a while.
Then we went and relaxed at Hallie's house. Hallie and I took the first step in our journey to the Dallas 3-day and signed up. So I am ready to fund raise $2300.00 so if anyone knows some one who wants to sponsor me or buy some of the things I am selling to raise money let me know. I am going to sell the key chains and little girl purses. I have already made $40 (actually it was $25.00 in sales and the rest was just donated) so I am really close to my goal, OK not really but I did get really excited about my first $40!! I'll post pictures soon so if you have a B-day party or a girlfriends party you need a little gift for. The key chains also make great teacher gifts!!
Once I learn more about the website I will share my site with everyone. But now it is time for bed since tomorrow starts week 3 with out Erik (hopefully he will be home Friday). I need my sleep!

funny

TKD testing

Jaxon tested out of his white belt yesterday. Here are a few pictures:


getting ready

jump real high

block

punch

stands still for 30 seconds



We had fun watching. My mom and dad came to watch so he was excited about that. But sad that Erik missed it but happy that my mom made a DVD of it. On Thursday night we go to the awards program and get his new belt.

Things are good

People have been asking how me and the kids are doing. We are fine. Erik has already said that the project is going to take longer then 3 weeks so it is now really an open ended trip. We have not changed much of what we did before just missing one person. Oh I have not cooked a full meal but we have been eating dinner just quick things the kids like - mac and cheese for example, I think we may have Tacos tomorrow. Jaxon has gotten 3 supers this week so that has been great. He is also testing out of his white belt this Saturday and is really excited to move up to the yellow. KK loves her dance class.
The neighbors have been great - earlier this week Eric cut the grass and today he was teaching Jaxon how to golf. Misty and I have just been watching the girls fight, I mean play. We did decide to put up a gate between the 2 yards but have the handle low enough that the kids can open it.
I talked to Megan and they are doing good. Ready to come home but they still have no power thanks to IKE. They are staying at a friends house on a ranch. Today they went to a drive through animal park. They plan on coming home Saturday since the insurance guy will be there and Megan has to work on Monday.
I'll update later.

Carpool lines

Ok I have a rant and I could go on for hours about how stupid people are in the car pool lines at each of the schools I have to sit in line for!
1 - KK's MDO school has a simple map - you go in one driveway then turn down the 1st alse, then turn down the part of the parking lot that the other entrence turns in at and go around the parking lot, keeping our cars off the road where many many other people are trying to pass but instead of going to the right entrence these people have to turn in to the wrong one and block the street. Those of us that can read and follow simple direction go to the right entrence and then have to wait while those fools feel like letting us in or there line ends. Today I had one of those fool tailgate the car in front so I could not get in and we ended up in the same group for loading the kids - so why was she such a bitch and why did it bother me???
2 - Jaxon's school has a no cell phone in line rule - for the safety of the kids and teachers. People can not follow this rule and they don't even try to hide it! Once again why does that bug me? Oh because they can not follow simple rules!
3 - back to KK's school - they ask if you don't want to use the carpool line then park on the other side of the church and walk to get your child. They have stressed many many times that they did not want you to cross the line of cars by yourslef and especially with your child - saftey of the children come fisrt. Since we have been doing carpool (1 week) I have seen no less then 4 mom's a day break this rule. Now I am not saying I follow every rule out there but these are simple and some of them could use the walk from the other parking lot!
4 - Back to Jaxon's carpool drama - ok drama was too big of a word to explain but it is crazy none the less. We line up in 2 lines in the parking lot the right line turns right and the left lane turn left when you exit the school. Very simple right. Wrong once again everyday there is at least 2 cars that are in the wrong lane and if you are behind them you have to wait to see if someone in the right lane will be nice enough to let there dumb ass in. The thing that bugs me about this one is - no matter which way you turn you end up on Airline Hwy. One is a longer street but faster light other shorter street but slower light - same amount of time!!!

OK I am done. I did not go back and read this so it may sound confusing but then you would get the idea of what carpool is like!

Happy Birthday to me!

Here is a couple of pictures from my Birthday - 35 already! Oh well it was a great day and night. I'll upload some of the kids later!

little dancer

Did you think I wouls leave KK out of the dancers in the family - here is here little outfit she loves it and her class is so cute and small 6 little 2 years!! She had her 1st class wednesday!

I will be glad when life goes back to normal - no more storm watching!

I have an order in for 5 key chains so I will be able to start fund raising for the walk! Yeah!!

Stormplus.com

http://www.stormpulse.com/


cool website for tracking the storms!

Thank you for your help (not the picture)

I took this picture off High Speed days blog (which has more pictures) This is my parents house.

I forgot to say Thank you to Bobby (my borther) for getting me much needed supplies.and Thank you to Jerry (brother) and my Dad for picking up a AC unit for Us!!

I was amazed at how helpful peopel were - not family but in the neighborhood. 4 neighbors went to help Paul across the street when he was out fixing his fence - in the middle of the worst part. ANd neighbor Eric helpd my Erik with our fence in the middle of it also! Then afterwards we were giving juiceand other drinks from another neighbor because her work gave her more then they needed.

a little update

I have a few minutes but wanted to let you know that it was more then a little rain. The wind was pounding the house and we lost power at 11:00 on Monday and we finally got it back Sunday around 1pm. We had rain coming in 3 windows and the front door. Thank goodness we were here to put towels to stop the rain from ruining our carpet and Katie's bed. That was about it for damage. Our fence did fall down in 4 places but we can easily fix it for less then the deductable. We became really good friends with our neighbors over the past week with sharing food and cooking duties - which the men mostly did on the grill. We stayed up late most nights playing board games. Now everyone is in the cleaning mode. The last night with out power we hooked up a window AC unit in the down stairs bedroom and had our first full night sleep. Humidity sucks! But over all we did very well. Now we need to shop to replace everything that went back. But my poor parents did not do so well. They had 1 tree go into their bedroom, 2 trees fall on their fabulous patio cover, and 1 tree on the fence. But with lots f help from family their yard looks so much better but they still have a long way to go!

Just rain

It is 10:30 and it is here well not really but we are getting the start of it. It started really getting winding around 7am according to to Erik - I was sleeping -
So far my Parents lost power but we are doing alright. The trees are going crazy but little rain. We still have a while to go so I will let you know how things are going....
Happy Labor day!

KK's 1st day

KK started today at St. Andrew UMC Mom day out program. she was happy to see her teacher - actually run up to her and gave her a hug - which is weird for her since she only meet the lady last Friday. ANy way here are a few pictures, I know her bag is to big for her but it had to fit her lunch box in it which is kinda big.
And no she did not wear her headband to school she took it out as we were walking out the door.
Jax gets school pictures taken tomorrow so hopefully no cheesey face!
Everything else is good, the kids went swimming in their clothes in the rain on Sunday (Fay rain so no thunder) They all thought it was great.
Saturday went out to a friends house learned to make a new craft and a new card game. Erik even let me sleep in a little on Sunday since I got in late.
I have been walking or doing something 4 to 5 days a week. Tomorrow is Erik's last day but he has one more night. My neighbors may watch the kids this week so we can go get Dinner to celebrate the new job just need to pick a day when nobody has anything going on.

Happy Birthday

I was looking on Clickinmoms.com today and saw it was Dawn's B-day - So HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAWN!!!!

Saturday Fun

We all headed to Bobby and Hallie's house for a little BBQ for Hallie's b-day. We had a great time. Yeah for b-days!!
The kids had a blast and played great for the most part. We tried the to make the Key Lime Martini - they were good but not at all like we were drinking in SC. We even made one with cranberry vodka in the place of lime kind - I liked that one better. BRAD what are we doing wrong??
I love this picture of Hallie! She just looks so happy.
The pictures are being added to snapfish right now so I will add the address when they are done. Tons of cute pictures of the kids.
http://www1.snapfish.com/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=241795979/a=3637060_3637060/t_=3637060

1st day of school and other things

What are you looking at??


Jaxon did really good his 1st day at school. He was so excited today to see me at school serving lunch - he wants me there everyday! Not going to happen but I will be there at least once or twice a month.
He is still enjoying his Tae Kwon Do. He has been doing it for almost 3 weeks and really loves it. I ask him at the end of each class if he wants to come back and he says yes.
We are having a little trouble with getting him to bed before 8 so today we sent him to bed and let katie stay down with me while I watched the Olympics. Look Michael Phelps swims again! He is amazing but he has a 6'7" arm reach and is 6'4"
he burns 4000 cals in one work out! WOW that is what I call a work out. OK back on track.
Today I served lunch at school- much better the I thought it would be. The time went fast, Jaxon did not act crazy when he saw me and listened very well while he was eating minus a few screams of "Hi Mom" but still very good.
look WR and another gold for Phelps and Lochte who just swam and won gold 26 minutes ago wow these guy are good (I know they are in the Olympics)

10:00 bed time and both kids are up! Yeah for crying
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HALLIE

Fun with Balloons

wish I could take credit but this one was taken by Erik

Wednesday came early

Here is a picture of Erik's new car


Things are going great. Yesterday was crazy but I am mostly done with Jaxon for School. I finally found his uniforms but I still do not have the logo - I will get them at the school on Thursday. It is amazing how hard it is to find navy blue shorts and a white knit shirt - if the store had them they did have them they were flat front or not his size. But 5 store later we have 3 to start with. Then mom helped me make it flame print(he picked it out) sleep mat so that is done.

Yes the time stamp is right it is 4:15am and I have been up since 2:30 when Erik's alarm went off!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A week in Review

Wednesday we went out on the boat - last time we went out was last Memorial Day it was so nice to be on the river again!!

Wednesday after Megan and the kids got here we played on the water slide - don't ask what KK is doing to Ivy because we have no idea!

Thursday we went to the Mall and played then played outside before it rained

Friday we went to the indoor park
Had pizza and Megan read to the kids - bath time now and then Martini time!!!!!