Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Valentine's Day

Kassi watched a show with a fancy romantic dinner on it right before Valentine's Day so she wanted us to have a fancy romantic dinner, candles and all.  She picked out the table decorations and Wes cooked steak and shrimp.  It was delicious and Kassi loved the fancy table setting so much that it hasn't come off yet.  She also wanted us to get all fancied up so we put on dresses and curled her hair.

She was so funny.  She had gotten a few dollars for Valentine's Day and once she got all fancied up she informed me she was going shopping at the Mommy store to buy me a wonderful Valentine's gift.  As I had already gotten a card and a box of chocolates I said, but you already got me my Valentine's gift.  Her reply was that was only a card and some chocolate not a real gift.  She is so funny.  (She went shopping with me at Maurices a while back and got to pick out some new clothes for me, she wanted her and daddy to try something on too, but I had to tell her that it was just a Mommy store because they didn't have any daddy clothes or kids clothes.)

 The "Fancy Romantic" table.

 All dressed up.

 Trying out some of her Valentine's gifts. (Thanks, Jones!  She is ready for it to rain.)


 The whole family and the new ladybug pillow which Kassi has wanted since before Christmas!

Colds, Colds, go away....

We have all been sick for what seems like forever now.  At first I was sick, then Kassi, then Wes and now I am sick again.  Kassi still has a horrible cough, but she is almost done with her antibiotics and the doctor said this cough will likely last at least a couple of more weeks.

This is the first year since Kassi was born that we have been so sick.  Seriously it seems like there has not been a time when we were all healthy this winter.

I blame it on dance class and the contact with all of the other kids.  If my theory is true what is preschool going to do to us?

Snuggling with the only one in the household who is not sick.  Kassi says that Annie Otter even has her cold.

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Beautiful Girl

Isn't she beautiful! 

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Free Time

Free time...what is it?  I don't seem to find as much of it as I used to.  Technically right now I could say I have some free time so I decided to blog...but actually I don't have the free time, because I should be putting away the three loads of laundry I just washed, emptying the dishwasher or many other things which need done around here.  I guess I have finally reached a point where I accept that my house is not perfect and enjoy spending the time I can with my beautiful family.

Tonight Wes is teaching his rookies at the Fire Hall, Kassi is having a sleep over at Grandma and Grandpas and I am thinking of all the things I should be doing, but really don't want to do right now.  Instead I'd rather sit here and update everyone on what my family is up to.

Wes, as I said, is still busy with the Fire Department.  He hopes to finish his officer classes this year.  He is Rookie Trainer again this year.  He survived his time in Texas and doesn't care to go back there again unless he has too.  (I don't think we will ever be taking a vacation in that part of the country!)  He will take additional ASE tests this spring/summer with the hopes of going forward and getting becoming a master technician.  He has been taking Nina out hunting as much as he can, and is very pleased with how she is working out.

Nina has turned into a pretty good dog.  She will be a year in April.  Everyone said to figure she would be in complete puppy mode until she was at least three.  I think she has calmed down a bunch here recently though.  She does really good with her commands.  She goes in her kennel when you tell her to, in the living room she goes to her bed when you tell her to and she has begun listening to Kassi when she tells her down or to sit.  She still gets a little wound up with Kassi when they get to playing so we are trying to teach her and teach Kassi to tell her down.

Kassi seems to have turned into a little adult overnight.  It seems like she has just suddenly grown up.  She amazes me all the time with her vocabulary, memory and just general knowledge.  For only being three she knows a lot of different things.  She is doing really well with her addition and subtraction.  I think she enjoys her dance class and is kind of excited to have her recital in May.  Lately her request has been for a baby brother or sister and of course I always have to break it to her that nope, that just is not going to happen.  I do however encourage her new "grown up" plans of becoming a doctor!

As usual I don't really have much to update on my side.  My asthma still continues to be out of control and I really think it stinks, but I also don't want to take the medication they would give me to help get it back on track, so I guess I will just live with it for now.   For those of you who know her I have an update on Candy, she graduates from Army Basic Training in mid February.  I am so proud of her.