Paige's Orthodontist Visit

Today Paige went into the Orthoditist and had her consult. The Dr was so nice and made her feel so comfortable about her upcoming procedures she will have to get.

Soooo...just for you mom, here's the update. She has impacted vampire teeth that are criss crossed up in her gums. The Dr is hopeful they are not infused to the bone, but says they may be very hard to get down, like about 6-9 months. She will have to go to the dentist and get her baby vamp's pulled out, they will then have to cut a small hole into her upper gums (the back side) to try to get to the vampire adult teeth and they will attach a bracket and wire. THEN, the orthodontist will put her braces on and slowly try to get those vamp teeth down. It will be a LOONG procedure but the outcome will be so beneficial for paige. In the event the vamps are fused to the bone (the x-rays are very hard to tell) they will have to be surgically removed. The ortho dr. said he can move other teeth to be in place of the vamps if thats the case.

The dentist is trying to see if our carry -over dental coverage will cover the pulling of her 3 baby teeth they need to have pulled before they can put the braces on. If insurance covers this, which we arent sure because it is VERY limited insurance, it will save us $360. She should have the braces on by January and the payments are very reasonable. I'm just so grateful we are able to do this for paige since she is very self concious about her teeth. The overall outcome: A Happier more confident Paige!!!

Veterans Day Program

Our school does a Veterans Day Program every year for all the local vet's, active armed forces,
and all of our local police & firemen. The program was SO AWESOME and the kids obviously all worked so hard on their songs. I was amazed at how many veterans showed up to be a part of this event...the veteran sitting behind me even had tears in his eyes.

The had all the flags of all the armed forces, gave all the service men handmade cards and sang them a big thank you song! It literally brought a tear to my eye to see all the old vet's in their uniforms who came to watch our kids. Ty said it was the best school program he has ever been too. Our only regret, is that we didn't invite Grandpa Bill to join in on the Veterans day tribute...he would have loved it! I was so proud of the kids!! (And the teachers who put so much thought into such an overlooked holiday)

The first video is of my niece's class (Annalese) you probably can't see her but she is at the very top sorta left of the middle.

The last video is the twins' classes. Alexa is on the bottom row in the middle (red shirt) and Tyler is on the very top row all the way to the right in a blue shirt (good luck finding him). Sorry for the shakiness....parents were walking all around us it was hard to keep the camera still.

Thanks to Britt!

I was inspired by a friend of mine, Brittney, who recently started going back to the public library after several years. Inspired by my love of reading, and my memories of my 'old library' days, I figured I would give it a shot and go back.

Can you beleive I was in there for over 2 hours!? Our newly built library is a bit out of the ordinary, but I was having quite a good time looking for books. Not only did I get many cookbooks (which I don't have to buy now) but I also got movies, and Paige got CD's and movies too. Paige was even able to type up her essay while she was waiting for me to finish..how GREAT is that!!!!

How funny that Paige ran in to so many of her friends from school in the library too. (guess it's the hangout spot...LOL, not when I was a kid, LOL) Once the twins and kyla heard wind that we went to the library, they are dying to go tomarrow and get their share...lol. How sweet!

So for tonight....Ty went to get pizza and we're veggin' out to a movie night (thanks to the library) in our living room. Thanks for the Inspiration Britt!! What a way to save some money...Love Ya Girl!

The Season Of Giving

As you can see, I am so excited about the upcoming holidays that I have already changed my blog layout again,lol. ThanksGiving is not my most favorite holiday, but I love when it gets here because it means we are almost to Christmas. The Christmas season in our home starts right around a week before thanksgiving, I know, crazy right?

I'm not sure what it is about the season..whether it be the smells of baking, the christmas music in the stores, the old movies played on tv, the excitement my children get waiting for santa or just the fact that I get to drive around and see christmas decorations and trees & lights. Whatever it may be, this type of year is my favorite because it makes me feel so GOOD! I love to give to people, I love to see people smile because of something I have done for them, and I just LOVE how other people feel the exact same way!! This sounds corny, but people are just more beautiful around christmas...don't you think? The joy of giving to others is by far the best feeling I could ever have. We are going to try to instill this again into our kids this season and let them each donate gifts to other kids in need. We were going to try to adopt a family, but due to our finanical situation we are unable to this year...however,I heard today that you can also donate time to your local churches (even if your not members) and you can help wrap presents and put together the food/christmas boxes...what a great way for our family to help someone elses.
That's what it's all about!!

Need I say more?

Our Halloween Pictures

We hosted Halloween this year at our home and all I can say are 5 words...KIDS KIDS & MORE KIDS!!! We had our kids, our family's kids and the neighbor kids. It was less then calm to say the least, but very very fun!

Halloween has become one of my new favorite holidays to celebrate, it's really one of the only holidays (next to christmas) that our kids look forward too. What I love about halloween is that it's a time when you can decorate, party, dressup and have lots of fun; and it doesn't involve me buying them tons of presents. I mean seriously, what a great holiday!!

Ty missed out on halloween this year since he was deer hunting with billy :(. I meant to take more pictures but with all the kids I didn't have much time before half of them were out the door. Me, Ty's Mom & his 3 sisters took all 13 kids trick or treating!! YES, I said THIRTEEN kids!!! Brave women we are, huh? lol. But we ended up not losing any little tricker treaters so I guess we did good...

I'm was such a flustered mom that night that I forgot to snap a picture of kyla (sorry sis) but I swear I will steal the picture that Hayley snapped and post it on my blog, otherwise I will make her re-wear her costume..LOL!! HEY, a moms gotta do whatta moms gotta do in order to capture her memories, right!?

I ended the night sitting up with my daughter Paige and her friend and we just talked and hung out for a couple of hours until the wee hours of the morning while everyone else was crashed....it was so cool to hang out with Paigers like that.....great times! (well I'm sure she didn't think it was so great the next morning when I made her and her friend go pick up the pumpkin goop from the 3 punkins they smashed the night before, little turds...they didn't think I would find out!)

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Markel in his scary mask~ (chelseys son)

Tyler as his scary vampire...

Little Allianna..I couldn't get her to smile not ONCE!

(Hayley's Daughter)

Halloween Pizza's the kids made...how cute!

Cute little Punkin!!!!

Kyla's friend stayed the night, she's SO CUTE!

Alexa's Pumpkin she carved {notice the dimples she did}

Tyler's Pumpkin

Awww...what a bunch of happy little pumpkins

Dominique dressed as a genie...what a pretty color on her

(Chelsey's daughter)

Annalese dressed as a sorceress (hayleys daughter)

There's Hayleys little punkin...

Brenton, I can't remember what he was (chelseys son)

There's my scary little sweet vampire again (tyler) I LOVE the black locks!!

Here's my little witch (no pun intended) Alexa

so cute....

Paige and her Friend~ this girl is such a sweetie. They looked adorable & had a blast!

This is Mishon, Nick and Paige. This picture was so funny because when asked if nick wanted to get in the picture he said 'YA' and he jumped right smackdab in the middle of these two beautiful girls, we were all laughing our butts off. He's a sweet kid!

It just blowsmy mind how grown up my daughter is getting, she's so beautiful.

After trick~or~treating kyla and kiki played a game of checkers before hittin' the sack

The boys patiently waiting to play their game of checkers..

Atlast! They finally got to play their game of checkers before they too headed off to bed. These two boys get along SO GREAT!

Let's Go 'Wheels'...

Kyla is rockin' her soccer this year! She is doing exceptionally well, her effort alone this season is better then I have ever seen her play in the years past. She is learning which positions she is good at & her coach this year has given her the ability to man those positions to allow her to keep learning & excelling. A couple of the parents told me that they named her "Wheels" because of her speed and footwork. They said she has the best footwork they've seen. (Proud Mommy Moment)

They are still undefeated; 8-0. Saturday was her first of three tournament games (which they won) if they win 2 more they will take 1st place. Even if they don't make it to 1st place, I am so proud of her for her dedication to her team this year!! Like I've said before, there is no better feeling then watching your kid out there doing something that they are good at and they love! (Another Proud Mommy Momment!)