Night Owl Nattie

GREAT! Seems that this is an inherited thing. My Dad is a night owl, I am too, I just take forever to fall asleep! I remember sitting on the front bench swing at 1 am with my dad just chatting..Good times. NOT a good time is when Nattie comes strolling out of her bedroom at 10:30 wild-eyed and ready to be awake. Ohhhh noooo...she wont go back to bed, she insistently tells me "I wake mom!" So most of the time I will let her stay up a little and play either while I am on the computer or I will take her on my "peaceful" grocery shopping trip.(After the kids are in bed and Dave can listen for them) Pretty much anything to pass the time until she walks back to bed. (which is about only an hour and a half or so) I was playing with the camera taking pictures of her after one of these interrupted "peaceful" shopping trips, she was in rare form! You can see in her eyes she is really tired, yet she thinks she is rarrring to go! My little loony bird. These pictures make me laugh. I just had to share.

Hooray for good grades!

Jakob and Isaak switched schools in between their 1st and 2nd quarter. I was worried how that was going to affect them. They were going to a Higley school during the first quarter and come report card and parent teacher conference time I was really surprised. Seems they didnt do as well as they did the year before(at a Mesa school). We did all their homework and studying, but for some reason their grades didnt reflect all their hard work. They still did decent, but nowhere near how fabulous they did before. That brought their spirits down, and honestly, mine too. We ended up moving shortly before their first quarter ended, but I drove them out to school every morning until it ended. As soon as the 2nd quarter started at this new school,(a Mesa school)I enrolled them. The first day of school they both came bouncing home all excited that they had a lot of friends, and they loved their teachers. The 2nd quarter ended just before Christmas, and we had our parent teacher conferences last week. First we had Jakob's teacher..She is AWESOME. She has a wonderful personality, and loves Jakob to death. Jakob said half her class is spanish speaking, and a lot of them hardly know any english at all. How frustrating would that be?! She went on about Jakob being a perfectionist and showed us his work, all neatly written or colored, and even asked Jakob if she could keep one of his pieces of work to show the kids next year how she would like it done. Jakob got AMAZING grades, I just wanted to squeeze and kiss him right there! Next, we trotted up to Isaaks class. Isaak and his teacher get along great. She has a tight rein on his class, and he appreciates working "in peace" as he says. She told us she tests each child at the end of each quarter to see where they are in completing the requirements in 1st grade..well, Isaak has already blown that out of the water. He passed every single thing she put in front of him. She put him in a separate reading class from the other kids because he is so advanced, she wants to challange him. Isnt that awesome?! School work comes very easy to Isaak. He has gotten 100% on all of his spelling tests and we dont even need to practice! Monday he brings them home, he slaps his paper on the counter with his words on it, and says "Mom, here are my words, but I already know them all." Of course I have to test him to be sure, and sure enough he always does. How does that happen? I am so grateful for my boys and how smart they are. Jakob is the artistic/perfectionist and Isaak is just plain book smart. I suspect he also has a photographic memory. It just blows me away. Anyway, I just wanted to let the whole world know how much I love these boys, and I hope Colin and Nattie will be just as easy. It is so fun to be a parent and watch them do so good.

Random things you might not care to know about me.

Firsts and other random questions...

1. What did your first date consist of?
Well, Matt begged me to go out with him for a good month, I liked someone else, so I really didnt want to. But I finally gave in when he started bugging my best friend to talk me into going out with him, and then started sending me notes and stuff. So I told him I'd go to lunch with him on the last day of school which happened to be a half day. And for crying out loud, he took me to Filibertos. It was interesting though.

2. First Car?
"The Beast" I had a 1987 Camero that was blue. It fit up to 15 people at a time! Hahaha, I drove EVERYONE home from school, they even rode back in the trunk. Served me well, and then it got passed down to Tony who drove it into a pile of rocks. From then on it drove like any second the wheels were going to fall off. Good times.

3.. Your first Love?
Uhh. Shouldn't really say. Well, I think I was around 14 or 15 years old. One of those akward things where I was really in love with him and I'm pretty sure he wasn't with me. :(


4. First Born?
I had Jakob when I was 19. He weighed 8 pounds 10 oz. He was a really good baby, and hardly gave me any trouble when he was in his terrible twos. Even now, he is a sweet kid.

5. First House?
Ummm...Matt and I bought a house with his sister out on Ironwood and Southern. But we didnt live there long because we broke up a couple months after.

6. First Vacation?
I dont get this question...is this supposed to be my first vacation ever from when I was little? Because I dont think I remember. Most likely Nebraska or something. We used to go there every summer and visit my grandma. Those were some of my fondest childhood memories.

7. What is you dream vacation?
Well, there are two places that I absolutely HAVE to go to someday. First, I reeeally want to go to Ireland. Dont know why, I have just always been very much intrigued by that country. Then I want to go to Figi and go scuba diving. Well, I am a chicken with deep water, so maybe snorkeling. hahaha..

8. What does your dream house look like?
I have read so many books about Cape Cod, so I am thinking that is where my dream house is. Right on the ocean. With a big wrap around porch and a huge yard with no fence. Okay, so there have to be some pictures..




Wow..Just how I imagined it!

9. Dream Job?
Geez. Dont even get me started. So, ever since I was little I always found great pleasure in reading medical journals and encyclopedias. If I had no kids, and all my time was dedicated to my work I'd be a doctor. Yep. Either a plastic surgeon or an OB/GYN. I am a strange one, I know. But those both things I have read the most about and seems to peek my interest the most.

10. Top ten things you cant live without:
-A book to read
-lipgloss
-flip flops
-my cell phone
-bath and body works lotions
-candles
-my oh so comfy feather pillow
-music
-possibly..but hard to admit..the computer. ack.
-my kids of course.


And I am tagging...MEILI! BECAUSE YOU NEED TO UPDATE! and Tara, aaaaand...Brandi. and whoever else is bored enough that they might want to do it.

New hair!

I have a really hard time getting my hair done, and especially trusting someone to do it that knows what they are doing! The other day I noticed my hair in some pictures was a carmel-ly(if thats a word)color. So I called Brooke, and asked her if she could squeeze me in at some point today, and knowing how busy she is, she did it for me, and I couldnt be happier! She is awesome, and really knows what she is doing. I guess I've had some pretty tramatic hair times, but I am so happy she knows what I want, and just does it. So I took some before and after pictures. Dave took the camera to work with him, so I just had my camera phone and really it looks a TON better in real life. Yay for new hair!

Of course I didnt cut it, Dave likes it long, but Brooke made it lighter.
I dont know if you can tell a difference from these pictures or not, but it does look waaay better! The first couple pics my hair look really short because I just took the hot rollers out.






And here are some afters: