Arrow Board

Well today's the day we made J's Arrow Board. He is getting is

Arrow of Light on the 23rd of this month and today was the only I was willing to drive out to Redlands. It's another beautiful day here. Not a cloud on the sky. Windows rolled down. I wish I had stopped to take pictures but I knew I wanted the board to be today's POTD. We grab the extra patches for the board and head on home. J was very excited I never got around to sewing all of his patches onto his jacket. See it helps to procrastinate. He arranged them how he wanted them and stared to glue them all down. I think it looks great if you ask me. He still wants to add the pins he has earned and then loops for his arrow. Wow I can't believe my little guy is going to be a Boy Scout in a couple of weeks.

Beautiful Day

It's another beautiful day here in Sunny CA. The kids were still in their PJ's eating lunch so I sent them outside to walk the dog. Little did I know the kids had other plans. They gave the dog a bath and then took her outside for her walk to dry. They also decided to stay outside and play a game of Guess Who. I was at my computer Reading blogs when I looked out my window I saw them being oh so cute.

12th day of Christmas

Today's the 12th day of Christmas. How did we celebrate it here? J had his friend come over and they had many little mini wars. If it wasn't with their new Nerf guns it was with Light-Sabers. J also got involved. They tried to get me too but I started to take down all our Christmas decorations. The only thing left up is the bare tree. While the kids switched house to play at I went to Target to buy the new American Girl movie for J. While there I saw they still had Christmas stuff now at 90% off. They had some trees that nobody seemed to be looking at. I grabbed a box and scanned it. $2.49 NO WAY!!! I got 3 6ft trees. Don't know exactly were 2 of them are going to go maybe the front porch but for that price I wasn't going to think too much of placement.

Thinking now on my POTD I should have shot a tree, but I shot left out ammo. It's great to have the kids "play" still. I don't know how much longer they are going to be willing to be KIDS.
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A Nice Lazy Day

You ever have one of those days were you did some work around the house and then decided to take the rest of the day off. That's what we did. The kids woke up and continued playing a Monopoly game they started the night before and I did a load of laundry and emptied out the dishwasher. They then took Christmas out of their bathroom. It felt like we did a lot so we took a little break. J played his Dinosaur King and J when to a friends house. I started to play on the computer but it decided to freeze so I started a scrapbook page.

J and her friend came back over here and were hanging out in her room coloring and talking. You know how pre-teens talk. They want to be so cool yet they are still little kids. I loved it. So today's picture is of DD coloring in her High School Musical activity book that she got from Grandma E. -

Monopoly

Yesterday, Jan. 4 2009 we had a great Monopoly match between Grandpa and J. It is a well known fact in our family that Grandpa is very competitive when it comes to Monopoly. He doesn't care about your age he will take you down. The kids are also very competitive, so when we got the Electrical Monopoly for Christmas J was excited to play Grandpa. He brought it with him to Grandpa and Grandma's house on New Year's Day. But Football was the only thing on all the other guy's minds. Grandma called on Sat and said they were sorry they never got to play Monopoly and that they wanted to get together on Sun. So they came over to our house after Mass. Grandpa took a power nap while the kids and Grandma made chocolate chip cookies. As soon as the cookies were done he was ready to play. We were going to play the new electronic Monopoly but I never did read the rules on how it works so we played the Here and Now version. Grandpa bought the first houses and it was down hill from then on. J was doing great too. We all tried to land on J to die but we all ended landing on Grandpa's infamous hotels. The game ended with just Grandpa and J going head to head, but since we all landed on Grandpa he had almost all the properties. Poor J fought a good fight rolling doubles a few times to escape but you can't mess with a power nap. J ended up landing on the horrible property that we all met our fate at. What a good game! A rematch was already been mentioned, but Grandpa isn't allowed a power nap.
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What pic should I use for my POTD???

What to do What to Do

Today it was sprinkling off and on, so the kids and I stayed in for most of the day. J and I did venture out when Jingle wanted to go for a walk. I took a few pictures but they came out better in my head then on film. J stayed in all day building his Star Destroyer. It's cool if you're into that sort of thing. He want to have if flying in his room when he's done.

I was going to take another picture of J building today but I just took his picture for day 1 so I wanted to try and take something different but just as meaningful. Like I said before I went outside I saw a tree that had all it's leaves surrounding it on the grass very cool in person, On film the house in the background took away from the shot. I saw a lone flower in our yard, took the picture-Nope So I took a picture of our new windsock. I just love angels. Protectors. This one is playing it's trumpet. Can you hear it.

I'm a bad mom

Well today I've been the bad evil mom. I'm having the kids clean their rooms. Evil right. They have so much stuff it drives me nuts. I hate stepping on stuff when I walk in their rooms. I told them that if I step on anything it's going into the trash or to Salvation Army.

Before I unleashed my evil punishment I took a picture of our growing chart. I normally mark how much the kids have grown on their birthdays and on New Years. Well I forgot yesterday until they were already asleep in bed so this morning they got another mark on the wall.