I have been waiting for 8.5 years

Most of you know this because I talk about it constantly, but almost none of you can comprehend it....I weighed less than my husband this morning!!! This has not happened since the day we were married. I weighed one pound less than he did the day we were married, and have never been there since.

BUT TODAY, TODAY IS THE DAY!!!!!

No big deal dent.

Thursday morning...get up and put exercise clothes on (sports bra and capris, tennies). Make lunch, throw two coats on take Austin to bus, get home take coats off and someone knocks on the door. Open door, peak head around door, keeping half naked body behind door. Neighbor from across the street is at door. Her car is running in the road. She says that she hit our car. There is a dent. She has insurance. I tell her Jason will come over later and don't worry.

4 hours later...Jason comes home. Goes to neighbors says no big deal, don't worry.

Next day Jason looks at dent again, says it is worse than he thought. Jess upset that he told her not to worry.

Saturday...take car to Maaco get an estimate. Dent estimate: $2600!!!! Go to neighbor's and tell her that we need her insurance info...She is very pleasant gives info, says that she understands.

I will let you know what happens.

Snow Day!

School was cancelled today because of snow/freezing rain/etc.

At Christmas time my amazing sister-in-law gave us the coolest present. A bunch of pre-done FHE lessons. She is so creative and fun. The first one involved making play dough and came with a recipes, Alum-the weird spice that you have to put in play dough, and cookie cutters.

So...1+1=2...We made and played with play dough since Austin was home from school.

My brilliant idea, my husbands skills

A few months ago I had this great idea to hang up all of the left over socks in the laundry room so that as I am doing the laundry, I can easily make matches. I asked Jason to do this a while ago, but he hasn't had any time. This week-end he built me these beautiful hanging hooks in the laundry room. I made tons of matches just by hanging the socks up and getting them out of the basket that I normally throw them in.

Valentine's Day

On Wednesday night Jason came up after I was already asleep and asked me to come downstairs and see something. Being the kind, loving wife that I am, I replied, "You have got to be kidding me." And I promptly turned over and fell back to sleep.

The next morning, the 14th, I got up and went downstairs to find this beautiful handmade card. What a good husband!! The candy on it are Dove Chocolates, my favorite. He explained that having them on the card would help me not to eat them all at once...notice, it didn't keep me from pulling them off and eating them!

It was a great surprise that morning.

My new Job

Okay, so I know that I don't have a new job, I have worked at the same place for the last eight years. But I feel like I am starting a new job. I am going from working 16hours per month to working 24hours per week. Tuesday was my first day of the new job. I went out and bought myself a new scrub top, did my hair, and got all ready. It was a great night. (On a side note, last night was my second night and it sucked!!)

Austin took this picture for me...he was excited for me, like it was my first day of school. I think he did a great job...if only he knew of a way to make white pants not look so bad!

The Crowl's Disease

Apparently we are highly contagious...we have been sick FOREVER. My boys are both on their second run of antibiotics this year. Austin had a random infection somewhere and was put on antibiotics, then he got impetigo (he has two days left of antibiotics). Ryan has bilateral ear infections that just won't go away.

Anyway, Austin woke up and his cheeks were a little red. I figured it was from the cold and the wind and put some Eucerin on it. Shortly after school started the nurse called me said that his teacher sent him the see her because he has a rash. I told her that I thought it was just windburn. She had Austin lift up his shirt and it is all over his belly and back! So Jason went and picked him up from school. he also has a fever, but feels just fine.

The picture of Ryan is his nasty fat lip. He fell in the bath tub and scraped off the whole side of his lip. It was disgusting.

So stay away, we are a sickly bunch!

Presents

We all know how kids don't really know how to open presents when they are really little. This was the first time Ry showed any interest in opening presents. We still had to start the wrapping paper.

Ryan's 2nd Birthday!

For Ryan's birthday on Monday we went to Chuck E Cheese's. The kids all had tons of fun, including the kids over 18. Ryan even blew out his candle by himself.

Hide and Seek

The other night something happened and Austin got in trouble. (I honestly can't remember what happened, I just remember that he got in trouble and had to go to his room.) A few minutes later Jason went to talk to him and Austin wasn't in his room. Jason looked all over upstairs, then went downstairs and looked. He wasn't anywhere. Jason came and told me that Austin was missing. I looked all over and tried to find him. Can you see where I finally found him?