Tammy’s Fabulous Blog

Cant believe tomorrow is December… I knew it would sneak up, I told my kids on Halloween that Christmas was going to be here before we knew it… and sure enough. I took part in Black Friday shopping, my sister, mom and I decided there was enough at Target to knock out most of our shopping so we would go there. We’ve made the agreement amongst all family, that due to the economy we would focus solely on the kids for Christmas gifts, therefore, Target had all the gifts we needed.  We spent Thanksgiving week in Danville, which is always a great time, kids are going non stop, and Im able to relax, its perfect.

Tonight the kids opened their first gift of the season, their advent calendars. Mady’s is a Polly Pocket punch out calendar, and behind each day is either an animal, or an accessory for an animal, and Max’s is a pirate themed advent, where each day he opens a box with tiny little pieces to a pirates theme. Mady’s is easy… ready to go, but I had to put every little box together filling each with the correct pieces of the scene for each day. But thier excitement was all worth it… they even went to bed early so that they can wake up tomorrow and reveal their first surprise. It is so wonderful to see the kids get so excited about the little things.

Read the book Twilight over the break, really enjoyed it, and am anticipating reading the next in the series (New Moon) it was backordered at Borders… maybe i will order it online
Let me know if you have read the series and what you think!

Happy December!

One week ago today, Mady had her earring  ripped out of her ear and had to get 3 stitches… went to the doc this weekend, and when he took the stitches out, it hadnt healed… Dermabond skin glue was then applied, hopefully this works, as Mady is not too excited about the 3rd step which would be a plastic surgeon, although she wasnt too sure what that was, she kinda figured it included needles. 

Max had his last Pinewood Derby this weekend, as he is in his last year of CubScouts (WeBeLo2) and if he chooses will be in Boy Scouts next year.  The Derby was well run, alot of fun, lots of cars, lots of invested Dad’s, quite funny to see which cars were scout prepared, and which weren’t, you could just tell by the Dad’s reactions.  Max did well, built his own car, didnt win, but he had fun.

Max also had his All Star Soccer Tournament this weekend, boy was that a whirlwind of 3 soccer games. His first game was a 8am, two 18 min. 1/2s with no real 1/2 time, just to change sides of the field, so they would have 36 min. games, and the refs called NO fouls, only time the whistle blew was when someone got injured. The teams were pretty evenly matched, it was great to see the boys get out there to win. Max had a win, a loss and a tie. They had about a 40 min break between games, so essencially we were out there for 4 hours, and then done. Max walked away with a t-shirt and a medal, and was happy to have the season over. He has been playing on a bad heel for 3 weeks, so maybe now it will heal.

Mom and Dad returned home from Maui after 5 long months, so it was great to have them participate in all the weekend festivities, and just great to have them home! Holidays here we come!!

Off to a busy week of work and travel, Oregon first part of the week and a day trip to Santa Clara to finish the week off. Should be productive, and tiring which is a great reason to take all of next week off

ta ta

A terrific song performed by my daughter:) and all her 3rd – 5th grade choir-mates on Nov. 12th.

Planet Earth (not the name of the song, but the words most sung ) In This World Together 

we enjoyed the performance, they did a fabulous job, and they really had a message with all their songs.

hope you enjoy as much as we did!