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Here is our new family member, they called him chino. We have gone from mcfluffenstein, to bender, to homer. Poor cat, i don't think he cares. The kids are so happy, and are madly in love with him :)

tae kwan do!!!

We took the man to tae kwan do today. He was a little nervous to start since he hasn't been in a few years. once he got into it, and figured some things out, he had a good time. he kicked that paddle thing hard! this will be good for him to get his aggresions out i think. of course his sister is saying i want to do that...
only problem is we have to learn all the korean again, which he was saying some of it, so i think it will come back. he has to say all the commands, and count in korean in the room, and for the belt test. This on top of monkey having to know her ballet words in french. we are going to be the bilingual family :)

catching up

So we have been busy getting ready for school, and all the extra activities. We decided that monkey's ballet school really wasn't teaching her a whole lot. It was fine when she was 3, and it was more about seeing if she liked it, and making sure it was fun. Now she is older, and wants to learn the right way. So with much sadness, we left her old ballet school. After her first class today, wow! I was sad and unsure, but her new school is amazing! i think she learned more in her 1 hour than she did in the 4 years. She is in the 8 yr old class, so she is the youngest. She kept up. She was watching and concentrating so hard, and said she had a great time. She loves the new teacher and her classmates. So we were very lucky. Tomorrow midget goes back to his old taw kwan do school. The teacher there is amazing, andn is thrilled he is coming back. He works him hard, and is strict. But he is extremely kind, and has a soft spot for my little man. Will have to take some pics of him. He's even letting him start back with his old belt.

This is what happened to our yard after a freak windstorm and crazy down pour last week. Our fence is leaning a little more, and the tarp cover got blown off the swingset.

So here are some pics of my new toy, the iphone. it is so neat, and so easy to use!!

Wii Fun

We got the new wii game calleed wii resort, and oh my gosh is it so fun!!! daddy and monkey were at it for hours, She's quite good as you can see. A mom at a party we went to this weekend said she refused to have one of those video game things in her house. She said she refused to let her kids be "vdeo game zombies", and how they "just sit there". What would you say, quite the zombies aren't they? so lethargic....

Love her in your face move at the end, so funny.

sad times

We are having some sad times in our house. My daddy passed away last week. There are some unsettling circumstances that took place with some "family" members, that let it happen without my brother or i knowing. He got a call after it had happened and I did not even get a call from them. I won't ramble on about those "people", i choose to take the high road, well, the slightly elevated i have made my comments before. They know what they did, and there is a place for them waiting. I do say though, i loved my daddy very much, and my kids loved him also. He had his flaws, but growing up i couldn't have asked for a better dad. We had so many great times, and to melanie, she shared tons of them with us. Remeber gospel bill? We used to sit in the very back of that silly station wagon, and when he would pick us up from the mall and take us home, we would pray to gospel bill. Where he came from i have no idea. we would say "PLEASE, gospel bill, please let my daddy see the light and let him have our fun times in our youth, let him allow us glorious creatures to share our youth". it was so goofy, and we would laugh so hard we would nearly pee in our pants. he would be rolling in the front of the car. Those are good times. All my friends would call him daddy, and he was so cool he would sit with us in the back of the bus on the way to football games. That is who i choose to remember.
So, on to other news, We took the masterchief to the airport. Our visa dillema was not resolved in time for us, so we are stuck here. Although i still say i would love to go back, and we could work it out..... :) Buti will not harp on it. Although renewing our vows on camels in baharain would have been the bomb..hehe. Alas, i will have to spend my 15th wedidng anniversary with ben and jerry, and the kids. Could this week be any worse?

disney overload

Monkey loved pooh bear when he was smaller, so if you look he is hugging pooh and tigger really tight. He even admitted to me that tigger is his favorite :) Those were full on hugs they got.

This was outside the castle after her Bippity boutique makeover she had. She was full on embracing the whole princess thing. We had rented a stroller for them and she claimed it was her carriage. She was eating up all the attention she was getting, and was really waving at the people, who were reallycalling her princess. It was so funny.

Cinderella told the midget she had lost the slipper too many times, so the fairy godmother sewed a strap onto her shoes to keep them on.

In the Bippity Boppity Boutique

Back from our vacation :)

It's so good to be home.... We had so much fun, we crammed so much fun into 10 days. The kids had a great time, and so did we. DH was kind enough to let me ride my Dumbo ride first off in the park. The kids too. Midget rode with me, silly as it is at 35 i was giddy. I've wanted to ride that one since i was a little girl. Dh was surprised when he saw it was just a silly little twirly ride, but he humourred me. The nickelodean hotel is amazing!!!! The waterslide there, and the shows poolside were a blast. Disneyworld really is amazing, and the happiest place on earth. However, let me say this. The happiest place on earth, is filled with overtired whining kids around 12 and on. They are all so tired, and hot. We have tons of pictures, monkey loved the haunted mansion ride, me too. i loved it for the air conditioning :) He loved the kids programs on the cruise. I will post tons and tons of pics later. We are just so glad to have their dad home!

There are lots of pics, but we had some lost luggage.. it's been found thank goodness. But the laptop stuff is in there.... so are the disneyworld and nickelodean pics :(

p.s. we met a disney star on the beach from the boat, and rode the banana boat and played with her on the beach in the bahamas, how cool is that? Midget didn't know who she was, and the girl was glad as she just wanted to relax with her family. Nice girl.