WhAt CaN yA sAy!!!

This will be short and to the point. The amazing topic of body hair was brought up again on Saturday morning. But this time Kale decided to share this information with his entire family. We were all up early on Saturday getting ready for the day of dirt biking.....Delaney and Taylor were eating breakfast with Kale and right in the middle of a nice peaceful breakfast he blurts out "I have underarm hair now"........."do you want to see?" The first thing Troy did was chuckle to himself, my first thought was.....that is very interesting but do you really think your teenage sisters want to hear that.....especially while they are trying to eat?!! I do not think they were really impressed by the fact that he now has underarm hair.....I am only judging that by the looks on their faces!!! So for the rest of the day that was a hot topic.....because he now thinks that having underarm hair makes him a man. I don't think that is true.....but maybe as a woman I see things in a little different light??? So I just hope that nose hair and underarm hair is all we have to find out about or SEE!!!! So I am going to say to my friend Angelia from Texas who has 3 young boys.......here's to ya girlfriend......GOOD LUCK!!!!! I am sure you have lots of body hair stories coming your way!!!!

HaNgiN' oUt WiTh ThE FaMiLy...

On Saturday we had a family "hang out" day with Troy's two brothers and their families. I am not going to start out by trying to explain the family tree so for now we are staying simple....Troy says it is more like a family bush rather than a tree!!!! So for this time it is pretty simple.....2 brothers and families!!! We went down to Amanda's (sister-in-law) grandfather's farm and rode 4 wheelers and dirt bikes and sat around under the shade tree and really had an AWESOME day!!!! This is the break down of the family who went.....Troy(the oldest) and all of us, Jay(middle child), Trae, and 2 boys....Jacoby and Dylan, and Brad(youngest child), Amanda, and two kiddos....Jayden and Kenton...oh and Amanda's 2 nephews...Bradley and Bryce. So there were 15 of us WOW!!! It was just a great day of hangin' out and all of the kids and adults too had alot of fun riding all over on many acres of land. So today I will just have more of a photo blog rather than me rambling on and on.
Troy, Trae, and Jay getting ready to go...loading 4 wheelers and dirt bikes into the trailer.
Dylan and Taylor hanging out before we left. Taylor is definitely stylin' in her new sunglasses....I think we wore ones that looked like that in the 80's?!?!?!?!
Dylan riding his little dirt bike.....he looked so cute in all of his "stuff" riding that thing!!!!!!
Taylor, Delaney, And Jayden taking off on the 4 wheeler.....and Taylor is still looking as cool as ever in her shades!!!!!!
Kale is riding the dirt bike that Jay and Trae had.....this is like the one he is saving his money to buy...so that worked out perfect.....it was kind of a "test drive" for him!!!! And he did really good!!!!
Kenton made one ride with his mom and fell asleep less than half way into the ride so this is where he spent most of his afternoon....on a blanket in the shade.....doesn't sound so bad to me!!!!
This is where city meets country.......Jacoby has to take a little time out from riding to do a little texting.....this cracked me up!!!!
Brad taking a spin on the little dirt bike.....doesn't look to comfy?!?!!?
Taylor also thought she needed to test drive the little dirt bike....she doesn't look so bad...kinda' cute!!!!
Trae and Brad getting ready for take off!!!
Amanda thought it had been awhile since she had rode a dirt bike so Jay was giving her a little advice....not sure if it was helpful or not but none the less it was given!!!!!
I know they both are very cute.....BUT I just can not help but think that they may be up to something????? Or maybe just a little girl talk who's to say?!?!?!?!
And we had to have a group shot at the end of the day......not my photo so it is a ways away...but there we all are. Everybody had fun and I think we all slept very, very good last nite!!!

dEmStEr

Ok...just a quick update on DEMSTER. I was way off on his weight I said 10 or 12 pounds.....more like 19 pounds!!!! That is at 11 weeks old I think he is going to be a big boy!!! And we have had several people ask about the name....Troy is a HUGE Chicago Cubs fan so I suggested Wrigley(the name of the field the Cubs play on) for a name but there are some people here in town that have a dog with that name so that was out..... so he suggested Demster....after a pitcher for the Cubs....Ryan Demster. So there you have it. Him and Bentley are getting along alot better....I think he has figured out she is his sister .....not his girlfriend......FINALLY!!!!! He is just the funniest thing ever.....he has absolutely no sense of urgency!!!!!! It is amazing!!!

I'vE gOt ThE MuSiC iN mE...oR nOt????

Ok...in our school district we start "band" in the 5th grade. So last year Kale was in 5th grade and did not want anything to do with band.....we were ok with that because we had been through many instruments with the girls and after 8th grade they were no longer interested. So now today out of the blue.....he brings home this giant instrument.....the Baritone????? Him and the instrument had to get a ride home because it was to heavy for him to carry.....clue one: if your instrument is to heavy.....don't play it!!!!! Now he is the only kid in the band that will be playing this instrument mind you.....this is the kid who HATES to go to the Christmas concert because he does not like getting up in front of people to sing....and who also did not go to his vacation bible school program because he did not want to sing in front of everybody!!!!!(just this summer!!!) But yet he is going to play this giant instrument that may draw some attention to him?!?!?!?!?! So we had family instrument nite tonite!!!!! The girls brought out the instruments out of the closets to see if he liked any of them. Kale playing instrument #1.....the Baritone. Ummmm not sure what to say...he may need to practice and it is really heavy!!!!!

Kale playing instrument #2.....Alto sax. Not bad...kind of squeaky from time to time!!!!

Kale playing instrument #3....drums.....I like the drums not sure if he has the drummer wrists but that is my choice!!!!

Taylor is giving Kale some drum lessons while Delaney takes it all in and ready to play along on the sax as soon as they are ready!!!!!

Taylor and Kale playing a little tune....or maybe that should be a little.....out of tune?????? But very entertaining none the less!!!!!

When Delaney took her turn trying the Baritone....I think maybe Taylor is trying to tell her something......not sure but I think that is what that look is saying!!!!! So after the "music nite" I think we are still back at the very beginning......why does he really want to do band if he does not like to get up in front of a crowd??????? Did anybody count how many times I used the word....instrument?????hahahaha!!!!

oUr NeW ArRiVaL

As some of you may know we have been on the hunt for a new baby bulldog for quite some time at our house.....web site after web site, email after email, and phone call after phone call, we finally found the perfect little boy in Worthington, Minnesota. So on Saturday morning we got up and waited for the phone call from Stacey and Michelle (the couple who raised bullies).....finally around 9a.m. we get the call letting us know that they will be there so that we can come to look, so by 9:30a.m. we are on our way. So what I think is going to be a 3 1/2 hour trip turns out to be a 4 1/2 hour trip and a half an hour stop to look at puppies is more like an hour and a half stop to look at puppies. So when we get there Michelle is not there and her husband Stacey is and they have 2 male puppies and I had one picked out and Troy liked the other(on the Internet) so he gets them out and the one I liked was a wild man and was VERY naughty so we decided to take the calm one and be on our way. Since we had been in the car all day we were just ready to get home to a 1st birthday party......so away we go with this cute little boy. We finally get home after a very long day of 11 hours in the car and are only 3 hours late for the birthday party......so so sorry Rachel Ripperger!!!!!! But she looked so cute in the pictures I looked at...she is such a sweet heart.....I will have to post a few pics of her when I can!!! So after all that I know you want to see what this cute little guy looks like but it looks like you are going to have to wait until the National Enquirer publishes the pictures......long photo shoot and huge check!!!! No just kidding if you haven't figured that out already!!!! So here he is........DEMSTER I know this pictures makes him look huge.....he is not tiny but he is not as big as he looks....maybe 10 or 11 pounds and he is 10 1/2 weeks old.
Here is Demster and his loving sister Bentley.....this is about the only way she likes to be close to him....if he is sleeping and her too I guess!!!!! So far she is tolerating him and that is about it. She is very spoiled so she does not like to share with him so she will run in front of him to cut him off if she thinks he is going to try to get some love!!!!! But she may not like him so much because this morning he thought she was his GIRLFRIEND not his SISTER......if ya know what I mean!!!!! So that may tend to be a little annoying!!!!!!

aRtWoRk...

Our last time at the fair we took the kids with us and we had these drawings done.....I think they are called charactures...not sure of the spelling. But don't you just love it!!!! The artists took a look at them and in 5 minutes this is what they come up with .....they just used a magic marker..... that is just amazing to me......I can draw stick people and I probably better use a pencil just in case I need to erase!!!!

Kale, Delaney, and Taylor. We had them done in 2002 also...... it is funny to look at how much they have changed. I will have to get them out and post those....you will get a kick out of them.

Here they are showing off their "artwork". This really shows how much they really look like the drawings. They liked having it done but they felt "weird" having people watching them and then laughing!!!!

FiRsT dAy oF sChOoL....2008-2009

Taylor(Junior), Kale(6th), Delaney(Freshman)

Here they are for those of you who do not know our children!!! Back to school they go!!! Everybody was excited this morning.....we will see how excited they are by next week!!!haha!!! Only a few glitches.....Taylor had to change a class and I think that may have been it!!! No homework today for anybody so that is a good thing....everyone is still getting straight A's so far!!!! Troy's new job went AWESOME today.......not one single phone call today saying you did not put my child on the bus route......so he is thinking that was a good thing!!!! He is the new transportation director at our school(Melcher-Dallas).....so all of the fretting over who was driving where and the long hours getting ready for today looks like they paid off!!!!! GREAT JOB TROY!!!!