Last night was the big night!!! It was the Michael W. Smith concert in Sioux Falls and what a great night it was. He is such an amazing and talented singer! I have listened to his music for years and this was the first time I have ever seen him in person.

Craig and I made a whole date night out of the concert. We left for Sioux Falls around 12:30 yesterday and had lunch with my sister and her boyfriend. We then went back to Jeremys house to play the Wii for a little bit before I had to be to choir practice at 4:30. Let me tell ya......the security around there is tough! Glad I had all my ducks in a row! Once we were all there we were ushered into the arena and there stood MWS. I have to admit. I was a little star struck! Then I realized he is a normal person like you and me, well except he has 21 albums, numerous #1 hits and an amazing band he gets to hang out with everyday.

So we started practice and it was so much fun. The concert started at 7:30 and the opening acts were Meredith Andrews, Phil Stacy (from season 6 American Idol and he has an amazing voice!), and Matt Maher (sp?). Then on came MWS and the whole arena started shouting in glee!!!! He sang 4 or 5 songs before it was time for the choir to come on stage. I was so excited and I will probably never have a chance like that ever again! It was so great and the worship was so intense! It was great to see so many people in once place praising God! We did take a moment of silence at the very beginning of the concert for those in Fort Hood, TX. So sad what happened there. The concert lasted 3 hours but it didn't feel that long. Time passes so quickly when you are worshipping God.

It was a great experience, and AWESOME worship time and I thank God for giving me the chance to experience it. Now today I am dragging a little but it was all worth it. I have tomorrow that I can take a little cat nap. Have a great weekend everyone!!!!

Family pictures

So last Friday night we had our appointment to take family pictures for the new pictorial directory at church. We were supposed to get them the friday before that but due to the H1N1 visiting our house we had to reschedule. I am one when I have to make an absolute decision I leave it to the last minute. I couldn't decide on what to wear or how I was going to fix my hair.

So the morning of pictures I kind of had an idea as to what we all were going to wear. After work Craig decided he needed new jeans, shirt and a haircut. WHAT?! OK......so guess that leaves me to get the kids home, fed, showers, curl Brooklyns hair and fix Coopers. Small dilema......it wasn't until after work that I realized that Cooper decided to cut his own hair. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! It was too late to get his hair cut and I didn't know what else to do. When I asked him what happened he told me that it just keeps falling off. Yeah.....that happens when you cut it with a scissor. So....I didn't panic too much and just combed his hair to the side. You can see it in the picture but it looks okay. I will post a picture as soon as I can. They really did turn out I just always stress over them too much!!!

We made it!

Well, we made it through the H1N1 with no problem. Took us almost a week to feel better but the kids are back to normal with the smiles and fighting. My counter doesn't look like a pharmacy counter anymore and I am back at work. Its amazing how one little illness can knock a household out for a few days. I did go around and start sanitizing like crazy afterwards. I am just hoping that nasty little bug doesn't visit our house again. So.....back to normal day to day routines. That is if you call my life normal......sometimes life is too busy. It was nice to have some days at home. I was just wishing it was under different circumstances!!! I am praying for all those that are effected with this flu!!!!

See these two adorable faces? Well the last week the smiles have been missing. The laughing, the games, everything has been missing? What stole the happiness from our house? Its a dreaded thing called H1N1. It hit our house this week and it took everything! It started out Wednesday morning. Brooklyn woke up running a high fever, head hurt, coughing, and body aches. I called the clinic and they told me that they are no longer testing but she has all the symptoms of H1N1. Great. The only thing that I could treat her with was Tylenol and Motrin. Her fever finally broke Wed night around 9:00. The next morning she got up and her fever was back at 101.2 which was better than the 102.4 from the previous day. So we spent another day at home and finally yesterday afternoon she was fever free and back to her normal self. We kept her home from school today just to be on the safe side. I stayed home from work this morning and was just dropping Brooklyn off at my moms when my phone rang.......

It was our daycare and now Cooper had all the same symptoms. So here we are hanging out at home again and I put my nurses hat back on. Right now he is laying on the couch in the family room while I work on the computer and he is just a limp noodle. The bad thing is I wanted to snuggle him but he won't snuggle. Guess those days are over! So.....its going to be a weekend of no plans for me and the kids.

I am sending Craig out of the house tomorrow. Its opening pheasant weekend here in South Dakota which is practically a HOLIDAY around here. He is going hunting with my dad and poor Cooper was going to go until he got sick. There will be other weekends for him in the future to go. Have a great weekend everyone!

Major meltdown and lots of DRAMA....

This little boy is something else.....let me tell you. Yesterday we were on our way to school and he asked me "Mom, if there is a piece of paper that I REALLY don't want you to see.....do I still have to show you?" Me with my curiosity spiked at this point told him yes. I was thinking he got in trouble at school and got a note sent home but here the paper was about the flu shot.

So last night I got a phone call from his teacher. She began to explain to me that there was an episode with Cooper at school yesterday. Great. I guess he wasn't following directions and got upset with his teacher. So she took him out in the hallway to talk to him and he DARTED OUT THE DOOR!! Luckily the principal was outside talking to one of the custodians and so Mr. D took Cooper to talk to him. Cooper told him that everyone was picking on him and he was going to run away to home to go to sleep.

Craig and I had a good talk with him and explained what could have happened to him. He won't do that again.

Needless to say.....its 8:15 and BOTH my kids are in bed. They were needing the extra sleep tonight and mommy needed the extra quiet time.

Come on already!

So it has been raining almost EVERY DAY since last Monday! Seriously......the only break we had was Saturday (which it rained that morning) and Sunday (which was still cloudy and cold). I am one that loves the sunshine. I don't care if I have to water my lawn all summer just to keep it from burning to a crisp.....I love the sun!!!! I feel like lately we live in Seattle or somewhere it rains a lot! London maybe?

Anyways........I always try to find a positive in a negative. So I figure since we are in a recession....I can use the rain to help me save some money. Here are my ways of going green!

-Instead of turning the water in the house on to clean laundry/dishes/bodies we are going to lather up with soap and stand outside to rinse off. Thank goodness we put up that privacy fence.

-No need to run to the carwash anymore.......I have my own super wash right in my driveway. It has it down pours more often than not.

-Don't have to water the lawn or animals. The rain is taking care of that.

-For Halloween we will just put rain jackets on an duck feet cause lets face it.......we are going to be paddling down main street in a boat here soon anyways. We can just say we are a family of ducks migrating south. No need for expensive costumes.

-Finally.....with the whole boat thing. I can save on gas because we will now being floating through town in our paddle boat.

There are my ideas on going green!

Way excited!!

Tomorrow we will FINALLY have internet at our house. I am waiting for all the gasps. Yes I know, we are way beind the times but really we never missed not having internet. The only times I missed it is when I want to post pictures to my blog and when worked BLOCKED facebook! Yep. I about had a meltdown! So.....as of tomorrow we will be hooked up to the world wide web finally!!!!