Well...

My Aunt Ruthie said to Blog again...so I am! ;-) Heart! I love blogging...sometimes I feel like it becomes repetative with Facebook being the priority...but I do love putting a big paragraph (of sorts) together as opposed to a one liner! :-) Took my van into the body shop today to get its boo-boo fixed. For those of you that don't know, I backed into Bob's Jeep a few weeks ago and did so much damage that the entire back hatch has to be replaced. :-( So I had to claim it on insurance since the cost was so high and also drop it off for about 4 days...so I am in a rental van that only has the sliding door on the one side so I am appreciating my van more now that it is gone. I'm hoping it looks like new when they are done with it! :-( I still question why Bob decided to park behind my garage door that day...he NEVER parks there and I was backing out mind-numbingly and just nudged right into his vehicle...ugh! Bob wasn't mad and didn't even react...he just shrugged his shoulders and went about his way...to him it is a "thing" and no one was hurt so life goes on! It's true...just stinks it cost so much to fix! Oh well... I'm still babysitting part time and I don't mind it. The girls I watch are so good that I hardly have to do anything extra...feeding them and making sure the tattle-tales aren't frequent! They do make for long days as I watch them for 12+ hours...but it's only part time so it's not that big of a deal! And the extra cash is nice! Looking forward to Easter and getting out of the house for a bit...the boys and I are getting a bit stir crazy with Bob on night shift for this outage. The hours are long and the boys CRAVE his attention whenever he is in the room...it's really sad. :-( We all miss him! Hopefully it will be over soon. But there is at least another month to go! ;-( Hope everyone is doing well! I, along with Ruthie, miss reading all the blogs! Hope to hear from you all soon!!

Chugging along...

Not much new has been happening around here...Bob is still working outage on night shift and has been on nights since March 8...so one full month as of today. He still has at least one more month to go. They are only allowed to work a maximum of 60 days on this schedule (4 nights on, 1 night off)...so it will eventually come to an end. Love the paychecks but the boys and I really miss him. Even on his "night off" we ony get to see him for the evening from about 4:30pm until boys go to bed, etc...so it's not MUCH time but it's better than nothing! ;-) Last night was Bob's night off and he took the boys to Emporia to run an errand and they had a blast going on a "boys only" trip! I had my Turbo class so I stayed home...they came home with some new sandbox toys that they are just ITCHING to try out. Once Camden wakes up, we will head outside on this gorgeously sunny day to give them a whirl! ;-) I've been keeping the boys and I busy with lots and lots of playdates at the rec center or park almost everyday! They love it and I do too! It's social time for me and for the kids! It's a win-win! Next week I will be babysitting more than I usually do so it will go by a lot faster! Anyway, not much else to report. So off for now...

Wedding Prep

So, as most of you know, Bob's littlest sister is getting married at the end of next month. We have been busying ourselves with a couple of wedding showers, a bacherlorette party, dress fittings, and tux fittings! We are ALL in the wedding so it has been a busy time for us! (I can't imagine what the bride is going through! I don't remember that far back I guess!)

Anyway, yesterday we had the boys' tux fittings and my dress fitting...the boys look SO big in their jackets! Which, by the way, are the EXACT same size! LOL! Here they are trying them on...so cute and handsome!

My dress fitting went well (sorry, no pictures), the only things that had to be done are the straps needed shortened and it needed taken in SLIGHTLY under my armpits...otherwise it was a perfect fit! :-)

Hope everyone is having a fantastic week and enjoying the end of March and hopefully the beginning of the ACTUAL spring weather! One can hope anyway!

Spring Break!

So Christy came down Tuesday afternoon and stayed til Friday afternoon. We all had a good time and enjoyed the relaxed company! Christy baked a cake with the boys and they LOVED the fun "baking tools" she brought with her! Good times!

Friday afternoon the boys and I packed up and headed to Cameron, MO to spend the weekend with Amanda & Derek...we stayed in and cooked and played games and chatted...it was so relaxing and fun! :-)

Sunday the boys & I said our goodbyes and headed to the Sprint Center in KC for the Toy Story 3 on Ice show! It was adorable and the boys had a GREAT time! :-) It was fun to see their faces light up with delight! Moments I try and cherish! Love my little men!

Spring Break

So our Spring Break started Friday...Bob had the day off so when he got up around 3:30, we headed to Emporia to run some errands! It's nice when he has the night off but we only get the evenings with him on his night off as he still has to stay on "night shift" since he only gets the one day off every four days. (He is in outage right now and it is slated to go through first of May but will probably go through June!)

Saturday I took the kids to my parents house and then headed up to DeSoto for a day/night of fun! First it was Elizabeth's 2nd bridal shower then that night we had her bachelorette party! Came home on Sunday in time to see Bob before work and then we headed to bed.

Monday I took the boys to a playdate at the Christian Church here in town. It is close enough that I let Decovin ride his bike and I pulled Camden in the bike trailer on my bike. It was fun and we all got some outside time!! After Bob left for work I took the kids to the park for another playdate and they got their silly's out! They CRASHED at bed time! Thank goodness! :-)

Today Christy is coming over for her Spring Break thru Friday! The boys are SUPER excited as they LOVE it when Aunt Christy comes! :-)

Friday afternoon the boys and I are heading to my cousin Amanda's house for the remainder of the weekend and Spring Break! Should be fun! Hope everyone is having a wonderful week and enjoying the weather! I know we are!

More Weekend Fun!

Well, my weekends have been filled with fun times lately!!

This past Friday I met up with a lot of my family at a greek restaurant called: Tasso's. It was really good and I had a great time!
Saturday I met up with my good friends, Kim Grooms and Crystal McParland for a lunch date and pedicure! It was really fun and I enjoyed seeing them!

Sunday (today) we have had a nice relaxing day at home. However, the morning started out kind of rough as I set the clocks backwards instead of forwards...in my state of "tiredness" last night I decided to change ALL the clocks...it was a blonde moment indeed...my thought process: we LOSE an hour...so subtract! Whoops! Oh well, all is well and we are slowly adjusting to the time change. :-)

Decovin had his Kindergarten Round-Up Friday and "he did good" so says the school...so he is all ready for school for next year! *sniff* Where did the time go?! I can't believe he will be in Kindergarten! Not to mention Camden will be starting Preschool next year too! This mama is going to be an emotional wreck come August! ha!

Next weekend should be fun too, I'm dropping the boys off at Grandma & Papa Long's house as I am hosting a Bachelorette party for my sister-in-law, Elizabeth, Saturday night. Should be a fun time!

Hope all is well for everyone...been thinking heavily about those who have been affected by the damages done in Japan and for Paul Wagoner (Tabitha's father-in-law). Please say a little prayer or send positive thoughts their way...they could all use it, i'm sure!

Cheers!

Weekend Fun!

My friend Kim got these awesome capes/masks for the boys for their birthdays...the boys were ELATED!! Check them out...Camden is OBSESSED with his! LOL!

SUPER CAMDEN!!!
SUPER DECOVIN!!!!

They even have their names on them!! CUTE!

So before Bob starts outage next week, we decided to do a quasi-vacation with the boys...our first stop: Coco Key Water Resort Park in KC, MO. I didn't get any other photos b/c I forgot my camera and didn't want to take my cell phone near the water for fear of getting it wet...but trust me when I say it was AWESOME and the boys had a great time!! Camden asked to go back already! :-)

We didn't stay the night in the hotel with the water park, but we did stay the night at Bob's parents house and the next day we took the boys to the T-Rex Cafe for lunch and a little "Build-a-Dino" action...

Decovin doing his Dinosaur impression:

Camden doing his Dinosaur impression:

After lunch we went to the movies and saw Rango. It was ok...not the best animated film ever, but ok. Camden crashed hard after we left though:

And here they are with their dinosaurs they made at the T-Rex Cafe...Meet "Dina" and "Claw"...the boys love them!

It was a good time but I am so glad to be home again, even if it was just an overnight! :-) We are exhausted! LOL!

A little Part-Time work...

So I decided to start babysitting part time. I watch 2 girls, ages 6 & 4, two days a week. It's a long day as I watch them from 6am until almost 6pm, but I take the oldest to kindergarten so I only have her for about 4 hours total...and they are just really good girls. They play well with my boys and so far it has been going well! They have been here 4 times already and so far, no problems at all! :-)

So, other than that, not much else has been going on. Valentine's has come and gone. We don't celebrate that holiday so it isn't exciting...so there you go.

Bob and I will be running a 5K this Sunday in Lawrence for Breast Cancer. Should be fun...hoping it warms up a bit...not a HUGE fan of running in the cold, but I do it! LOL!

Camden is still fighting a cold...it started out as Pink Eye, then that got better...then he started coughing and it went straight to his chest...croupy even...then he started in with the fever and now runny nose...lovely! Ready for everyone to be healthy!

Hope everyone is getting their taxes all taken care of...April is right around the corner...:-)

Not much to say..

Sad. I feel like my mourning has been taken away in an awkward family debacle and really wishing this snow would stop so that I may attempt some form of closure at Michelle's Memorial Service on Thursday.

That's all.

Happy Birthday Camden!!

Camden David Plummer
Born: 01/31/08
Time: 9:51pm
Weight: 8lbs
Length: 20"
Camden, age 1:

Camden, age 2:

At the age of 2 he was 31.2 lbs and 38 inches tall...The 90th percentile for weight and 95th percentile for height.

Camden, Age 3:

He is now 35lbs and 38 inches tall (they said that they must have measured him wrong at his 2nd year appt...boo! Now I will never know exactly how tall he was then)...anyway, he is in the 85th percentile and doing great!!!

Sad.

I'm having a hard time accepting my cousin Michelle's situation. It hardly seems fair, or just, nor does it make sense. How can one of the nicest, kindest, most caring individual I know be affected by such a terrible nasty, invasive disease?? Why her? Why anything? Why not a rapist or a serial killer? It just makes me sick. I try to reason with myself and say thing just happen sometimes for no reason, but this time, I really crave a logical reason...why her?

I'm trying not to be a Debbie Downer, but in lieu of the situation, it's hard not to be. Sorry everyone. Thanks for listening.

Bday Bash for my 5 & 3 year old! EEEK!!!

Happy Birthday Decovin & Camden! My two ornery little guys who just happen to not be so little anymore. :-( I love you!!!

Happy Birthday Decovin!

My baby boy is 5 today! My how he's changed over the years!

Decovin Joseph Plummer
Born: 01/16/06
Time: 1:13 pm
Weight: 7lbs, 90z.
Length: 20 1/2 inches
Decovin, 1 year old:

Decovin, 2 years old:

Decovin, 3 years old:

Decovin, 4 years old:

Decovin, 5 years old:

Christmas, Snow, & Makeover

Well, Christmas was good. Bob had to work night shift that night but he was able to stay awake long enough to open presents with the boys that morning. After we were done with that, Bob went to bed and the boys & I (and Christy) headed to Cameron, MO for a family gathering! It was awesome and we had a great time! We headed down to KC, MO to hang out with my brother and his family for the night...the cousins LOVE to play together! FUN MEMORIES!!!

The next day I took the boys down to my parents house for a couple of days to visit. I left the boys with my parents for an overnight while I was to head to Emporia to meet up with some friends...I ended up detouring to my house as I was not feeling well and then ended up in the ER due to severe back pain, nausea, & vomitting...blah. It was not fun, I was thankful the boys weren't with me as Bob was at work and I had to take myself...so if the boys would have been here, they would have had to go with me. That would have been most unpleasant! *thank you mom, dad & Christy!!!* Here is me and my IV...it administered a bag of fluids, pain meds, & nausea meds....ahhhhh!

Unfortunately, the rest of the family got a version of this "bug"...and I mean EVERYONE...including Decovin, Camden, Bob, my mom, my dad, my niece, my brother, and my sister! Ugh!

The snow finally came to Decovin's delight! He woke up that morning and exclaimed: "IT SNOWED?? WE CAN GO SLEDDING?? I KNEW IT WOULD SNOW!!!" It was really cute. So after he was out of school, we spent a good 45 minutes outside! They came in for a quick lunch break and daddy came home from work early to take them sledding!!

Camden didn't much care for the sledding once he bit it and his face hit the snow...it was TOO COLD for him! :-( But he still managed to make a few snow angels! :-)

We also just started the makeover process on our Master Bedroom...we are doing the same thing we did to the boys' bedroom and playroom but this time we aren't in a hurry...we are taking our time and just doing a little each day. Slow but sure...it will be done sometime this year! LOL!

We are getting ready to celebrate Decovin's 5th bday and Camden's 3rd bday! Where did the time go?! They are getting so big! So hard to believe some days! We are throwing them a joint bday party and having it at our local library. It was a cheap room to rent and worth it to not have 30+ people in our house all at once! GAH! Should be fairly interesting. Pics to follow! :-)

That's all for now. Love to you all!

Christmas Program, check.

Decovin's Christmas Program was last night. It was really cute and I'm just lucky we made it at all! Decovin was running a fever the entire day on Sunday and when he woke up Monday morning...so we kept him home from the last practice they had that morning and since he was acting fine we went ahead and took him to the program. Unfortunately, he was a bit lackluster in his performance as he had fallen asleep about an hour before the show started so he had about a 30 minute cat-nap and then was groggy and not "with it" for the remainder of the evening. Oh well, he tried and did pretty good considering. Anyway...here are a few pics from the evening...my camera doesn't do well with poor lighting...dang it! He is in green and yellow...he was a wiseman. :-)

Here is Decovin with his friend Mallory, our next door neighbor! She is in the 3 year old class and did a super good job also!! :-) Aren't they CUTE?!?! Just love them! :-)

Norma's Popcorn Stringin' Partay!

You can always count on Aunt Norma to make you laugh! I love her silly style! We mesh well! LOL!

Gotta love the quintessential sock giving!

My family at Norma's...notice the popcorn garland...yeah, we rock!!

For Ruthie. :-)

The staple remover looked something like this: The staples look "crimped" after it is removed...completely painless it seemed! :-)

Please note: THESE ARE NOT FROM CAMDEN'S HEAD! :-)

Ouchy!

So the evening started fantastic! The boys had made me a bday cake and then I headed out for my bday outing with the girls! About 30 minutes into the "party"...I get a call from Bob saying I needed to come home now, that Camden had fallen off his cozy coupe car and hit his head on our rock fireplace...so I left my party, arrived home, and we loaded up everybody and went to the ER.

Camden was completely happy and acting normal and kept saying: "I'm ok mommy"...well the doctor took a look and said it needed a staple...just one. :-) They said there was no need to numb him as it was just one staple and would be done in just a second...and he wasn't kidding. It was SUPER FAST! He only cried for a second and then the doctor said to him: "I'll tell Santa you were a really big boy!" to which Camden replied, with a quivering chin: "ooookaaay"....it was really sweet and then we headed back home. I dropped off the boys and headed back to my party!

It was an eventful evening for sure! Camden slept wonderfully and even woke up in an AWESOME mood! He's such a big boy! Anyway, now he has a "story" to tell the grandkids! LOL!

So here is the pic of his head before the staple was put in:

Here is the pic of the staple:

Fun Family Weekend!

Thursday I met Amanda in Shawnee Mission at a really cool place called Little Monkey Bizness. It is an indoor playground for kiddos!! The boys had a blast and Amanda & I did too!! They had a coffee bar for the adults and the dining area sat semi above the play area so you could eat and watch the kids from there!! It was SPECTACULAR!! I would highly recommend it to any mom with young ones!!

Saturday night Bob & I took the boys to Christmas in the Park in Lee's Summit, MO for our annual tradition...it was fun, but we will never again go on a saturday!! Our wait time was one hour and fifteen minutes until we got to see the lights!! Thank goodness for the DVD player! Not sure we would have made it without that contraption that night!!

The boys LOVED the lights, of course, and hung out the window and pointed and giggled with glee! It was really sweet.

It was a fun evening even with the wait...I love our little tradition!

Hope everyone is having a fantastic week!

Tis the Season!!!

Helping Christy & I decorate the tree! (Thank you again, Christy, for coming and helping us!!! We all enjoyed having you!)
My ornery little guys!!!

Our attempt at a family Christmas portrait:

Happy Holidays everyone!! This is my most favorite time of year!! Though I don't always enjoy the constant state of being busy, I do enjoy the get togethers, the giving, the decorations, my kids' faces when they see christmas lights, pretty white snow, christmas trees, THE FOOD!!!

Did anyone else get some fantastic deals on Black Friday?! I know my cousin, Amanda, and I did! We had a blast and shopped til we couldn't keep our eyes opened any longer! :-)

I'm happy to say that I am 90% finished with my Christmas shopping...I started wrapping presents the other day too but I still have LOTS to go! :-/ It's getting harder and harder as the kids get older to wrap presents and them not see any of it! I have currently high-jacked my office/extra bedroom for present-wrapping craziness! LOL! The boys are not allowed in there right now. It's only going to get harder as the years go on I'm sure! Still, I LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!! :-)

Got the tree up and the decorations out. Decovin is a bit saddened we don't have outside decorations as the other night when pulling up to our driveway this was our conversation:

Decovin: "This is boring!"

Me: "What is?"

Decovin: "This house with no lights" *sigh*

Me: "Well, you're going to have to talk to daddy about that."

Hahahaha!

Guess I know what I will be purchasing at the "after Christmas" sales!! :-)

Camden, on the other hand, is IN LOVE with the Christmas tree and ornaments...everyday he gets up and goes directly down to the tree and spends a few minutes perusing the ornaments and talking about them. It's really cute!

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Camden is doing really well potty training...we pretty much have the potty part down...now to get the poo! We still haven't managed that one. hmmmmm....we'll figure it out soon enough!

Decovin, Camden & I got our flu vaccinations yesterday...FINALLY! It was the first time we were all well enough to go get it! So we are now good to go! Though my arm is real achey from it. :-( The boys did the nasal spray version so they didn't even fuss!

Starting tomorrow, the days are going to go by super fast with all the activities that are coming up! I'm gearing up for the hustle and bustle...Season's Greetings & Happy Holidays!