Sara's award

This morning at before school Sara received an award for outstanding student. There was one from each team given. Two grades, 5 teams each. Her friend Eunice received an award too. The both received awards together.....both great girls.

Sister love?

When necessary, Jeff takes the girls to the jerkey store....Sara especially loves the SUPER HOT jerkey, but has not been eatting it because of her braces. So, she promises to tear it into tiny pieces, so I agree and Jeff takes Sara to buy a small amount. Since Ruth did not go along this time, Sara decided to buy something special for her sissy......just see.


Is it just in Texas? I hope so. Ruth has not gotten to the scorpion yet, but says it is really sweet-apple flavor.....YUCK!



Notice the earbuds....always connected to her Ipod.....such a pre-teen I guess

More teeth gone

Well, after a week delay due to mid-terms, today Sara's last two teeth came out for her braces. This time they did not give her so much silly gas and she did great. Instead of a Wendy's frosty, she opted for Chick-fil-a waffle fries....go figure.

Don't worry, the tooth fairy is still generous and finally done at this house, I guess until Jeff and I begin to lose our teeth in our old age hehehe

2011~~Out come teeth

Welcome to a new year. We did all stay up to see the new year, followed by sleep! We have done our share of partying in the "younger " years, and now choose a quite, safe celebration. I still have some Christmas cards to physically mail out, and I will now title them NEW YEAR'S UPDATES. The heck with being like everyone else, along with the stress of the season.

We begin the new year with the joyful return to school of the girls. I am not sure who is happier, them or ME. Of course, Ruth misses the first day back with a migraine.

Day 2- Both back to school, but I pull Sara out one hour later for the first two of 4 teeth extractions-part of the braces fix. Unfortunately, the Dr. gave her too much happy gas and she comes home and sleeps for 3+ hours. Boy, those are huge roots too. It was fast and fairly painless.....and a Wendy's frosty always helps.

Day 3- FINALLY-ALL back to school and mom gets a break, for at least an hour, then it is the taking down of the Christmas things, part 1. It will be slowly finished within the week, and the tree is always last because it is so pretty, but the outside is now cleaned up just in time for the freezing weather coming in a few days. This year we once again have a light bulb theif that takes a few bulbs out of our, and our neighbors's lights about once a season. Now you tell me, who would want light bulbs that don't match~~~I guess I need to drive around and see who has some really funky bulbs in their yard! I hope to get most of it into the attic so I can fit the car in, or at least be able to open the doors to the car when it is in the garage hehehe.

Turning 14

So now we celebrate with the family Sara's actual 14th birthday-had to believe she is so grown up and grown up looking. She is already asking about a car next year, oh what a jokster!!!!!

Sara 14~less her hair

Today is Sara's 14th birthday and it is the day she has chosen to give something away for her birthday~~her hair.

Sara has not had her hair cut since we adopted her 4 years ago. This is one of the first requests that she asked of us when we first met her. She later explained that on a yearly basis, the kids are lined up and their hair is cut off. She tried to hide one year, but was found.

Now she is emotionally ready and this morning was the great cutting of the hair. I took her to a salon that my sister uses and off 12 inches went. I thought she was going to cry, but now that it is done, it is SOOOO cute, even though she looks older.

The hair will be mailed to Locks of Love.

Christmas #2

Next we drove 5 hrs to my parent's house for the big family Christmas. First we ate until we were ready to burst, then we had to do the dishes, then the gifts! It was so much fun and we had a great time laughing.

Next the card marathon began. The men at the kitchen table, the rest of us in the fining room and if need by, bring in the card tables too. Of course you can not play cards without chips, dips, and many, many other sweets, topped off with soda!

Christmas at home

We first had Christmas at home. Sara bounced into our room at 6 AM, threw on the light and announced it was Christmas, Santa had come, and time to get up! I quickly told her to turn off the light, leave quickly, and let us get some sleep. Remember to self:set time limit on wake-up call.

So, according to Ruth, she promptly went upstairs,turned on Ruth's lights,jumped in bed with Ruth and hit her over the head with the pillow until she stirred, I believe it was 9X.

Well, we did not get back to sleep, so we commenced with Christmas. The big gift this year was a WII- and according to the girls, it is about time.

Happy Birthday to me

Yes, today is my birthday. Sorry, there are no photos but believe me, I am still gorgeous hehehe

Jeff got me some Sapphire earrings and a matching necklace, along with tons of flowers and my favorite.....a slice of cheese cake of which I do not tend to share.

Sara's 14 b-day party

We had Sara's 14th Birthday Sleepover party and the theme.....ZEBRA. They played games, did mirror frame crafts, ate, did junk food, and stayed up late.

Jeff's Birthday

Dear Jeff turned the great 55 today and now gets many more discounts. Anything to save a buck for all those who know me. We had a little birthday party for him and the girls made him birthday cards.

Brace Face at our house X2

This morning both Ruth and Sara went in for their braces. They were not totally thrilled with the process and are still not eatting much. I am pressed to think of soft foods that they like and can eat.

Ruth just got the top set for 3 months until they get ligned up enough to do the bottom. Sara will get her 4 teeth pulled in January-two at a time and one week apart.....oh the injustice hehehe.

Christmas photos

We were working on getting a photo for the almost annual Christmas card and you can see how much these girls love each other. It took a while to get a winner, but I think we did.....now, see if anyone gets one before or near Christmas.....don't hold your breath.

I am thinking about sending out the "real" girls this year...we will see.

Turkey Day

We went to my Parent's house for Thanksgiving and almost everyone attended. We had once again a wonderful dinner and I so wish I could eat it all day long! We had crafts where my mother blew out extra large eggs and the girls decorated them for Christmas ornaments-photos to follow. Niece Julie was learning to sew, the usual card games, and we made turkeys out of oreo cookies, malt balls, icing and candy corn. All in all it was a fun weekend.

And did I say my girls were little angels most of the time......

SCHOOL PICTURES

Way back on Sept 3, the girls got their school pics made so here is how they look.

Good medical news

On Friday we took Ruth to get her spinal X-ray (no photos allowed) and Sara for her EKG. This photo is the only time they got Sara to stop giggling~~the girl is so ticklish. Got word back today that all is well and Ruth will go back in 6 months for her next one. With Scoliosis, it is monthly or yearly X-rays to make sure the situation does not get worse until they stop growing around 18.

Nature's Art

What else can you say but Thanks God! So glad we took time to watch a most beautiful sunset display tonight.

Yes, we are those kind of people...

So on Sunday, while Jeff was in town to help, we put up most of the fall/halloween decorations and had Jeff help us take the Christmas tree down from the attic. Why is it that only Jeff and I got cut/splinters? Note to self-next year wear garden gloves to handle the monster.

It was a little hard to decorate with it being 80 outside, but I put on the christmas music and we got the lights on. Some people are already putting outside lights on before it gets to cold. We have to do a final mulch cutting of the year before we put ours out so we are hoping there will still be some warm weather.