Happy Anniversary Mommy & Bri-Bri

My wonderful girls wanted to make sure they gave Brian and I our anniversary cards tonight, because they won't see us tomorrow night (date night for our anniversary).

Kaelyn's front Cover

Inside side 1

Inside side 2

Maddie - Front of card!

Inside - notice the "green" how cute is she? She wanted to know if it would be enough for our dinner?

YOU GOTTA LOVE THESE SWEET LITTLE GIRLS!!

Faker Faker!!

On Saturday, I had the pleasure of having Miss Ava Grace hang out with me!! I went and picked her up and she came to Maddie & Kaelyn's games with me and then we all went back to Jeanette's for Dinner.
I am a bit biased, but I have to say, she is so damn cute!!!! On the way home she played her "I'm tired, can I have my binky and take a nap" (she knows she is ONLY allowed to have the binky if she is going to sleep!! Well fakey fakey only lasted so long, before we knew it she was OUT!!

What is a Wigwam Anyway?

It's 4th grade project time!! This year Kaelyn had to make a model of an algonquin wigwam. What the hell is a wigwam?? I know teepee, but not wigwam! Well I am told it is the same idea as a teepee but not pointed and is often made of fur, leather and twigs. Below is our final project! Wigwam complete with firepit, garden and stream with fish! I fell an "A" coming on!

It's all about presentation - isn't that what they say? Well, how cute are these two little girls proudly holding the finished product!

Does Anyone ELSE see the Resemblance?

Sooo, the other day, the girls and I are driving around and we went past Maples Farm. They have a nice fall display out and this strangely familiar looking scarecrow! I half screamed at the girls "DOESN'T THAT LOOK LIKE GRANDPA?". This is my dad's usual work attire, khaki jacket, black glove and baseball type cap. The winter weather is upon us now, so dad has upgraded to the warmer clothing, but I just had to do a comparison shot for you all to enjoy!!

CRASH!!!! BIG HAPPENINGS IN THE BURG!

So.... last night we were sitting quietly on the couch watching the Yankees kick some Twins Butt!!! When all of the sudden.... CRASH! Brian we outside to see what it was, and there in the middle of the road was a huge branch off the tree in front of our house. Some passerby stopped to help Brian pull it out of the road ( I love strong men, well.. mine was strong at least!). The guy said it fell right in front of a car driving down the road! Scarey.. right?

CRITTER VISITOR

We had a little critter visitor at work yesterday... .he was about 4 or 5 inches long. Either he escaped his man eating mate OR it was a female!!!

Grandma Steele Breakfast

Breakfast is not the easiest meal in the Yearwood/Schloicka house. The girls get sick of cereal and I don't buy the processed sugar breakfasts like Pop-Tarts... Time slips away from us very quickly and I try to come up with things with some nutritional value that will interest Kaelyn & Maddie.

This morning was Grandma Steele's Famous Celery & Cream Cheese (except I had to cut the celery into little pieces instead of having them long with like 2 or 3 olives on each, because neither of the girls have all thier teeth to bite it with!! haha). We've got vegetables, dairy and i have no idea what category olives fall into. But we washed it all down with some pineapple juice.....

Is that normal? Cause they devoured it!!

Surprise!!! - Happy 50th Anniversary!!

Yesterday was Fred & Alice's Surprise 50th Anniversary Party! Thanks to The Wonderful planning between Brian and I, and his brother Bill and his wonderful wife Linda, we pulled it off perfectly!! They were truely surprised, and seemed to have a great time with all their friends and family!

Speaking of family - here I am with my two beautiful girls!

The Family that was created!! Fred and Alice with 3 of their boys... Bill, Brian and Fred

The Happy Couple

OK - so now it comes time for "The bride cuts the cake"... watch the progression in the pictures below....

All cleaned up and wearing the shirts Billy and Linda had made for them with their wedding picture on them.

Billy created a slide show with pics from their entire life together and it was great fun to watch.

Thanks to everyone for a great day and all you did to make the day special!!

Glad I had my camera on me!

While out yard saling - we drove past a seedy strip club in down town Middletown.
This was on a car parked in front of it at 8:30am Saturday morning........

Dentist - Round II

So Last Wednesday was Dentist Round II - Kaelyn had to have a tooth pulled and some little cavaties filled - Maddie went for her cleaning!

Grandma went for moral support (for me, not the kids.. Thanks Grandma!!)

X-Ray Time

Kaelyn's poor swollen face after the "extraction"

her war wound

After the dentist Maddie had a Dr. appointment to try to find the reason for her recent bout of headaches.... he sent us for a Lyme test. Uh OH.... Blood work!!
Our friend Candy is a Phlebotomist and so she drew the blood for us (so nice to know the lady holding the needle loves you!). I had a lyme test done at the same time, as I have been having similiar symptoms for a while now (Brian thinks I am a hypochondriac, so we'll see...).

For her first time having blood drawn, Maddie was a trooper!

Here we are with our viles....

And of course, Mommy & Maddie's War Wounds

United States Navy - USS Norris

For all of you who didn't know - My father in Law, Fred, was a Navy Man!! He just recently had his annual Navy reunion and I took these pics from his camera to share with everyone. Here is the link to the ship's site for more information if anyone is interested. http://ussnorris.homestead.com/

These are the shirts he brought back for Kaelyn & Maddie

50 Years!!!

On September 12 (maddie's birthday) My wonderful In-Laws celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary! What an amazing couple!

For their anniversary, they traveled to Niagra Falls where they had their honeymoon! After 50 years they still jumped at the chance to pose on "kissing rock"!

YARD SALE DEAL OF THE YEAR

Soooooo......... My wonderful Husband/Yard Sale Partner in Crime, Brian and I went out Treasure Hunting last Saturday. It was Maddie's birthday and we set off in search for the perfect gift (nothing like last minute, right?). I flat out refuse to go buy something retail, just for the sake of having a present to give.... I just knew the perfect gift would find us that morning! We went to a church sale in which different families brought their own stuff to sell, kind of like a flea market. One lady had a box with "MAKE AN OFFER" written on it... In the box was a HP laptop. I asked the lady if it worked and she didn't know - just said it was her granddaughters and she said get whatever you can for it. My mom had told me to keep an eye out for a broken laptop for display purposes, so I figured for the right price...... When I asked how much, the lady said "how does $2 sound". I said "SOUNDS PERFECT". Brought it home and it fired right up! Windows XP and the internet are already installed!!! Sorry Mom, your broken display laptop just became Maddie's Perfect Birthday Gift!!! FYI - Also Scored a 14K white Gold Cross Pendant for $1 at the same sale!!

Let's go Pine Bush, Let's Go!

Today was Pine Bush VS. Warwick - Oh the conflict, as a former Wildcat, who do I root for??? Of course Pine Bush won out - they have some cute cheerleaders!!

All decked out in our PB Attire!

The girl's cousin Lane came out to help cheer on Pine Bush - is he a cutie or what??!!

First the Mighty Mights Played and Won!!

Then it was division One's Turn, they didn't have as good an outcome, but the cheerleaders kicked butt!!!

Maddie's One Request

Maddie's One Birthday request was BREAKFAST IN BED. So Sunday morning before cheerleading, Brian and I got up and made the princess breakfast. Complete with Tiara and Bell (so she could ring it and get my attention if she needed something), nice touch Grandma, thanks for the help!

This is how her tray was presented to her.... her requested meal was scrambled eggs, bacon, toast with butter and hot cocoa.

She is RED-E!!!!

The princess dons her crown.

Of course the big sister gets treated like royalty too.... same meal, not as fancy on the presentation. mmmm bacon!

Wouldn't we all love this? Maddie said this will be an every year birthday tradition!!