The Dembkowski Bunch

Homemade Coloring Books!!!

2010-07-29T09:33:00.001-05:00

Ever have trouble finding a coloring book for your little ones that is of their favorite character? I have trouble finding lots stuff for Sully right now, he is into Mario and they just don't sell much Mario merchandise anywhere. So I came up with a solution to our coloring book trouble yesterday and made one of my own! The kids colored their pages before I got them in our book but Fallon didn't finish all her coloring so she can now go back and finish what she hasn't colored yet. Here's how we made ours! Enjoy!

First of all google coloring pages of your kiddos favorite character. I of course, googled Mario and here are a few of the pages that I found!

Next my kiddos started their coloring!

While they colored I printed off a cover for our books (I also used a colored piece of paper for the back)!

Next needed ribbon, a hole punch, and some scissors. I had some extra ribbon around the house but you could use several things for the ribbon (yarn, staples, brads,etc.). Just be sure to set out the correct amount of material needed to secure your book together before getting starting to make this step easier on yourself.

Next I made three hole punches (this is much easier if you have a 3-hole punch not just a 1-hole punch).

After your hole punches are made start threading your ribbon through.

Once your ribbon is through voila! A fun coloring book!

These are a perfect way for your little ones to have a coloring book of their favorite character and for showing off their artwork to Daddy once he gets home from work!!!

Capes!

2010-07-28T08:43:00.000-05:00

My cape adventure started when Sully decided to put his arms through the handles on a wal-mart bag and proceed to wear that wal-mart bag all day long as a "cape." Seeing this and realizing how badly my adorable little four year old wanted a "Super Mario Flying Cape" I realized I had to make my kiddos capes! This was my first ever sewing project and I am thrilled with the way the capes turned out! Sully has only taken his off twice (at bath time, and bed time, because we couldn't let him wear a string around his neck at bed time) since I gave it to him yesterday morning and Fallon loves hers as well just not as much as her big brother. I'd say they are a hit and they were the perfect first sewing project for me!

How do you think I did?!

Family Movie Night!!!

2010-07-24T10:41:00.002-05:00

We have started a new tradition in our household! Family Movie Night every Friday!! I have to say I am loving it! Last week started with Ice Age and we continued this week with The Aristo Cats! It's fun family time and maybe later on in our kids life it can evolve into Family Game Night. Until then we will continue to enjoy the cuddle time and fun with our kiddos! I must say I do absolutely love my life! I love that I have kids that love to cuddle, and a husband that loves to do stuff with us, we are truly a blessed family!

Do you have any family traditions you have started in your home? Please share with me what they are, I would love to hear!

The Fourth!!!

2010-07-19T17:52:00.000-05:00

Finally a post about the Fourth of July!! Our fourth was wonderful! Aside from the rain that is. It rained most of the day which made our cook-out not so much fun. Although after the rain let up for a few, and we got food in our bellies. things started to look up! My sister and I went and bought a few fireworks and we had a little display of our own before heading to watch the big fireworks show put on by our wonderful city! The kids had a blast and we all went to bed exhausted. Fallon even held a sparkler! It was a good day all in all, and here we are a few weeks later and Sully asked me this morning to go buy him more fireworks.

Fallon singing and yelling at mommy!!!

2010-07-14T11:06:00.001-05:00

My daughter is so so something!!! Today we were singing our ABCs and she doesn't know all the letters yet but she does love to try and sing her ABCs in the second video she even gets the EFG!! Anywho enjoy her little hello, and yelling at me in her crazy voice, and the wonderful TADA at the end!!!

P.S. Don't forget to scroll down and pause my music player so you can hear miss Fallon and not the music!

Adorable places to find Adorable things!!!

2010-07-08T09:10:00.002-05:00

I wanted to be posting about fourth of July today but since my camera is still in my jeep it seems I am left posting about another thing entirely! It's ok though because its about cute sights to buy little girly bows and fun fun stuff! Fallon even got featured on a website modeling a bow! So fun! Also with the holiday season just around the corner (yes, I am already thinking about it) these places have wonderful options for the little cutie pie girls in your lives!!!

1. Kozzy Bottoms

Her Website (Look for Fallon here!)
Her Facebook

2. Gia's Boutique

Her Website
Her Facebook

3. Birdie Baby Boutque

Her Website
Her Facebook

4. Miss Lucy's Monograms

Her Website
Her Facebook

These are my four favorites as of late! I wish I had much more money to buy Fallon many more things! I foresee lots and lots of fun Christmas gifts being bought for the little girls in my life from these sites! If you buy anything let me know what you get! I'm curious to know what you will like!

Fell in love with this poem today!!!

2010-07-02T14:19:00.001-05:00

To My Grown Up Son
by Alice E. Chase

My hands were busy through the day,

I didn't have much time to play

The little games you asked me to,

I didn't have much time for you.

I'd wash your clothes; I'd sew and cook,

But when you'd bring your picture book

And ask me, please, to share your fun,

I'd say, "A little later, son."

I'd tuck you in all safe at night,

And hear your prayers, turn out the light,

Then tiptoe softly to the door,

I wish I'd stayed a minute more.

For life is short, and years rush past,

A little boy grows up so fast,

No longer is he at your side,

His precious secrets to confide.

The picture books are put away,

There are no children's games to play,

No goodnight kiss, no prayers to hear,

That all belongs to yesteryear.

My hands once busy, now lie still,

The days are long and hard to fill,

I wish I might go back and do,

The little things you asked me to.

For some Special Fellas!!!

2010-06-19T23:28:00.002-05:00

Fallon dancing!!

2010-06-09T21:28:00.002-05:00

I promised myself I would get three posts up today and what better way to end than with a new Fallon dancing clip!!! She is kind of jamming like a bobble head haha but she's having fun with it!!! Ignore her brother being mean to her. He sure has his boy moments sometimes. Enjoy!!!

Don't forget to scroll down and shut off my music player so you don't have two things going at the same time!!

Swimming-Swimming-Swimming!!!

2010-06-09T10:51:00.001-05:00

Yep folks that's where we have been! Outside, swimming, playing on the swing set that was given to the kids, working on our tans, and enjoying the outdoors!

Swimming!!!

She loves to dump water from one thing to another!!!

Getting ready!!!

Jumping!!!

Stuck the landing!!!

Water fight with Daddy!!!

Mad girly!!!

Jumped on a toy and got a huge owie!!!

Popsicles....

....make everything better!!!

Marigold Update!!!

2010-06-09T09:57:00.000-05:00

Finally I am posting a marigold update!!! I know, I know it took me long enough! It's been busy around here lately though. I started watching an adorable little eight month old and life got that much crazier! Promise to update about all of that and more but for now remember our marigolds? We have still been watering them and the one in the middle seems to be more like a tree than a flower! See when we planted them the pot got knocked over by our nutty dog and now I think we only ended up with the one seed in there and it's growing like crazy!!! Anywho showing is better than telling so here is our picture update!!!

Hello from our cuties!!!

2010-05-21T18:26:00.002-05:00

Haven't posted in a few figured I would say hello really quick!!! We took some silly pictures today and I thought I would share.

Smiley Girl!

Handsome boy!

Cute kids!

Little miss and her sunglasses!

Painted toenails and adorable sandles!!!

(Totally love dressing up my girl!!! I love dressing up the boy too but he doesn't let me do much anymore.)

Fallon!!!

2010-05-17T11:34:00.001-05:00

My daughter loves to dance and the other day she was being totally silly with it so I whipped out the camera and recorded her. Sorry it's dark but you can make out her and what she's doing. I thought it was funny and cute! Also for some reason she had to put on a hat for this particular dance haha! Enjoy!

You may want to scroll down to the bottom of the page and pause my music player so you don't hear two sounds going crazy at once.

Ramblings

2010-05-17T11:18:00.002-05:00

Hi blog followers!!! How have you guys been? We seem to have gotten much busier around here. Shopping and going out and doing stuff and cleaning and playing the list continues forever! The point is I have been neglecting you. I hope everyone has been enjoying the sun, or if you are like us the rain. I can tell ya though I wouldn't mind some sun about now. The kiddos are going stir crazy! I also am not enjoying the mud the dog keeps dragging in but oh well that's life it's easy to clean up I suppose.

There really isn't much new going on round here. We resigned our lease so we will be in our current location for at least another year, we made a huge decision to have no more children and my husband asks that I not talk about the fact that he is scheduled to have surgery on the 28th to have a permanent change made. Oops guess I just talked about it haha! I really need to say something about it though. I am having second thoughts about having that permanent fix being done. I know in my head that more children isn't going to happen but try telling that to my heart. No more tiny babies at home to watch grow up and do all their firsts. It makes me sad but on the same side it makes me happy. That also means no more diapers, no more 2 am feedings, no more worrying about the costs that come along with a newborn. I also get to start having a life outside of my home which is going to be a major shock to me at first. Sully is about to start preschool, and Fallon daycare shortly thereafter, which means momma gets to go to school, and get a job, and have a life away from my children again. I think that scares me more than anything. I don't know what I'm going to do with myself! I have no idea what I want to be in life. I have had ideas over the years but for some reason or another I just keep changing my mind and I don't know. I am scared and excited about all of this and I know I'm ready to not have more children but it still makes me a little sad. I think it would any woman to know that she was at the end of having babies, but where am I going to go with my life? I have no clue. Wish me luck! I am going to need it and I promise if I figure it out anytime soon I will let you guys know!

P.S. Sorry about the rambling, just needed to get that off my chest somewhere. Also, stay tuned later in the day for a craft post! We are going to make egg carton caterpillars!!

A special day for some special ladies!

2010-05-09T15:44:00.000-05:00

Tent fun!!!

2010-05-06T09:49:00.001-05:00

My parents got the kids tents for Christmas! We pulled them out and have been having loads of fun playing in them!!

In!!!

Inside!!!

Out the tube!!!

Cheese Mommy!!!

Sandbox or makeshift pool?

2010-05-06T09:43:00.000-05:00

Cleaned out the sandbox as we were running low on sand anyway and filled it up with water. I think my kids are having more fun with the water than the sand at the moment thanks to the wonderful heat we are having! I am loving this weather!!!

Grandpa came to play too!!!

She loves it!!!

Water gun fight!!!

Through the eyes of Sully.

2010-05-06T09:37:00.000-05:00

I let Sully have my camera for a few minutes and some quick snapshots. This is what came out of it.

Fingers, fingers, and mostly fingers.

Sibling Rivalry!

2010-05-06T09:33:00.000-05:00

Fallon had the camera. Sully took the camera. He snapped a picture. This is Fallon's facial expression when her brother ticks her off!

Pictures!

2010-05-06T09:29:00.000-05:00

So I have loads of pictures to share! My next bunch of posts will probably just be pictures. I don't have time for lots of writing but pictures we are taking loads of lately. Outside has just been too nice for us to avoid so that's where we are! Where have you been lately?

Quit taking our picture mom!

Why so serious?

Always happy!

Holding hands!

Hi Mommy!

Even poor Charlie gets his picture taken!

Peanut Butter and Jelly Roll Ups!!!

2010-04-29T13:00:00.002-05:00

While visiting my sister and brother in law a few weeks ago I was introduced to a new take on an old classic! They have young boys who have trouble with sandwiches so they have started making pb and j roll ups! I love the idea so much that's how we now make our pb and j and I decided I would share the idea with you! Let me know what you think!

What you need.

Have to roll the bread flat!

Sully loves this job!!!

Now that our bread is flat!!!

Add your peanut butter, but not too much! And make sure you have it from end to end so when you roll it up the peanut butter acts like a glue that makes the roll stay together!!!

Very lightly on the jelly now and leave a little room on the end that's just peanut butter for that glue seam I was talking about.

Roll it!

All done!

Enjoy! Great food for kids and grown ups alike!!! It's a very mobile version of peanut butter and jelly and as much as my kids run around easily carried foods are great!

I redid my flower bed!!!

2010-04-29T11:07:00.000-05:00

Recently I redid the flower bed in front of my house! I just packed it with petunias!! Can't wait for them to take off. The flowers are purple and I did black mulch. I love the contrast! Here are some before and after pictures. What do you think?

Before

After

K-State Spring Game!!!

2010-04-29T11:00:00.000-05:00

Tickets: $15

A hot dog, popcorn, pretzel, large soda, and a gatorade:

$19.50

The fun my kids had: $Priceless$

We had loads of fun!!! Can't wait we are gonna take Sully to an actual game this year. Fallon needs another year though.

The Deanna Rose Farmstead!!!

2010-04-29T10:49:00.000-05:00

Well as I have said a few weeks ago we went to The Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead for some fun while in KC! It was a neat place. The kids had a blast. They have chickens, and cows, and goats, and all kinds of farm animals. You can also fish, ride ponies, go on a hay ride, or feed a baby goat a bottle of milk among loads of other things. We didn't get to see everything so we are gonna go back again before the summer ends and do more but for now here are a few pics of what we did get to see and do! Enjoy!

P.S. Funniest story from our visit at the farmstead came when my son saw the ponies and wanted to ride one very badly, so we got in line, waited, and when we got to the front and he saw the pony there in front of him, he changed his mind very quickly and booked it to daddy who was waiting on the other side of the gate....that was a safer place than right there next to the pony I guess LOL!

Where have we been?!

2010-04-20T22:41:00.000-05:00

Well, we have been running, and playing, and digging in dirt, and soaking up the sun! The sun is supposed to be disappearing for a few days and we are supposed to have lots of rain and I promise to write a longer post then. It's much to hard to stay in and blog when the weather is so pretty outside. Hope you are having a great week so far and here are a few pics of what we have been up to!

At the Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead!

My pretty redone flower bed!

We got a turtle sandbox!!!!

2010-04-17T09:43:00.001-05:00

Thursday we became the proud new owners of a turtle sandbox! The kids love it and got plenty of toys to play with in it for Easter! I was sad because I didn't know if they would be able to play with it at all yesterday and we got lucky enough that we did get some play time in it yesterday. They are loving it so far! Here are a few pics from their playtime yesterday.

Hope everyone has a great weekend! We are headed to Kansas City today for our nephew's 3rd birthday and then have plans to go to The Deanna Rose Children's Farmstead Sunday before heading home. Can't wait to show pics and tell you guys about our trip!

Marigold update!

2010-04-16T11:06:00.003-05:00

Remember when we planted our Marigolds? Well Sully has been watering his flowers every other day! With a little help from mommy's reminding voice that is, and they are really coming along! We have plants sprouting up in all our pots! See?!

Sully..who else!

2010-04-16T10:56:00.001-05:00

My son is something! He is really coming into this attitude. Thinks he's much older than he is I think. See yesterday we went shopping and normally this is fun for me, I get to pick out everything and he just wears it..all this bliss changed for me yesterday. We were at Target and I had already gotten a few things for Fallon and was checking out stuff for Sully. We came across some shirts I liked and as I was looking through them Sully found one of his own that he liked much more than mine, so he picked out his shirt all on his own. I started looking at more shirts and as always I picked out two and turned to him to let him have the final pick of the two. His response to the shirts I picked out, "Mom those shirts suck!" Ouch! That response hurt! So I let him pick out his own clothes for the very first time yesterday. He did a good job! Didn't pick out anything horrible or bad but it's just proof that my little baby is growing up. He's gotten so big and that was just one more step into his little world of independence.

Below is a pic of one of the shirts he picked out! He is very into guitars so most all of his clothing at the moment has some form of a guitar on it!

Courtney and Josh!

2010-04-15T10:57:00.000-05:00

This post is dedicated to my little sister and her boyfriend...I mean fiance! He proposed to her last night and she said yes and I am thrilled for them! So happy she has moved on from the last douche and is doing so good in her life. Josh is truely a great guy. I say he reminds me of a puppy with his big brown eyes and his sweet disposition and I am happy he is gonna be joining the family. So congratulations to this newly engaged couple! I wish them loads of love and happiness!!!

No such thing as a serious picture with these two silly kids!!! Love you guys!!!

I-Phone App girl!

2010-04-14T13:23:00.001-05:00

Was perusing the net today and came across this girl's youtube videos! I think it's really neat what she is doing! She uses I-Phone Apps to do the music to songs and then she sings them. NEATO!!! Can't wait to show Ryan when he gets home. He's gonna get a kick out of this! The girl is a pretty decent singer too. Anywho enjoy!

P.S. If you scroll to the bottom of the page you will find my music player. Hit pause and check her out!

Ryan (Part1)

2010-04-14T02:39:00.001-05:00

Well now, I know some of you don't know this story! How did Ryan and I meet? I mean we are this boring old married couple now with two kids, and a dog, and blah blah blah, but the story of how we met is at least a tiny bit interesting! Anywho here goes!

I have to start a little ways back and build up to our story but we will get there I promise!

When I graduated from HS life was pretty insane! I moved to Pittsburg...Kansas that is...and moved into a house with two roommates, both of whom had boyfriends who practically lived at our house instead of their own, was enrolled at FSCC, and on the hunt for a job close to where I was living. I had a job whenever I needed it at my dad's restaurant but that was a forty-five minute drive away and I needed something closer to me. On top of all of these new changes my boyfriend of almost two years and I had in our growing processes managed to move four hours away from one another! So life was pretty rough for me at this moment in time. After a short while though, I managed to find a job at Pizza Hut.  Right down the street and within walking distance from my house! The boyfriend and I had worked out a schedule and things were going good, things were alright with the roommates, and even school was alright. Things had started to look up! Seems to me about the time they started to look up they started to look right back down again.

I wasn't making enough from my Pizza Hut gig to cover my bills so I had to start looking for a third job! I, at this point, was working for my dad, Pizza Hut, and had finally managed to find a job at the movie theater in an attempt to cover all my bills and my own fun expenses...see folks Amber had taken up the nasty habit of smoking (which I have quit now at least), and at four bucks a pack that stuff ain't cheap! Anyway, between school and three jobs there wasn't a lot of time for the boyfriend and we weren't doing so hot together. So in one final ditch attempt to fix our troubles I drove the four hours to see him.

I only had a day. I drove up, we hung out, I got to stay the night, and then I had to leave the next morning so I could get back in time for class that afternoon. This visit didn't go well and the trip ended in us ending our two year relationship. It was great...NOT! I had a four hour drive back home to think about all I had done to ruin things between the two of us. I was miserable. I held my shit together long enough to make the trip to my best friend's house and once I got there, I cried like a big baby. Cried until there seemed to be no more liquid in my body. I felt as though my heart had been ripped out, shredded, chewed up, spit out, and stomped on. During all this crying I managed to miss the class that I was supposed to go to but did remember that I had to work. I couldn't lose my job, I had to be there. So I pulled myself up by my bootstraps, made the rest of my journey home, took a long hot shower, and got ready for work.

Work that night was dead slow, and when you are waitressing dead slow means hanging out being bored. My co-worker and I who had been slowly becoming friends got to chatting during this boring time and she happened to ask how my trip to see my boyfriend went. At the mention of his name all bad thoughts came back into play and the tears started streaming hot and evil down my face. They gave me away. Showed the pain I was trying to hide until back in the privacy of my own room. I did my best to stop the tears and tell my friend what was wrong. I explained the break up, and the drive home, and how horrible and depressed I was feeling, how crawling into a hole and dieing sounded really fun for me right about then. She did her best to make me laugh. So did all my other co-workers. I was this sad little sap who needed cheering up and they did their best. Shaunisty (my co-worker friend) had the best idea of all, "Come to my house." she said, "I'm having a party. Come drink your sorrows away." I liked that idea. A night of booze and self-pity sounded right up my alley. I told her I would come to her party and she was happy to have given me something to do, aside from sit alone and cry. She even said there would be some cute boys there, sounded like fun to me.   Even though the boy notion didn't interest me too much, as I still only had room in my heart and my head for one boy.

I left work that night feeling no happier than when I had gone in. I was still boyfriendless, and felt terribly alone. Even the prospect of the party didn't make me smile. I got home and was gonna cancel but then decided the free booze sounded like a good fixer for my problem. Plus, I didn't want to be in the house with my roommates and their lovey dovey boyfriends. Yuck it made me sick. So I got cleaned up and headed to Shaunisty's house.

Once at the party I realized that the only person I knew was Shaunisty, and I honestly didn't know her that well. Great opportunity to meet new people, not the smartest time to get smashed off my ass. So I sat back and watched everyone else drink. About an hour into the party Shaunisty and I were chatting, and to keep my mind busy I asked about these cute guys she had said were coming. See at this point the party mostly consisted of girls and a few black fellas, and no offense but I am a white meat kind of girl. She explained that her friend Ryan and his buddies were on their way and would be stopping in soon. She seemed to think that Ryan was a stud and so cute but when he finally arrived I must admit, I didn't get it. I thought he was funny looking and had zero interest in this boy. He and his friends showed up half smashed and they had their toenails painted. Yes I did just say their toenails were painted! I had no interest. On top of the break up they were just not my type at all. So since my interest was lost fairly quickly in the new comers I went back to my small talk and when a new drinking game began I decided to join in the fun! The drinking game didn't go far though because we ran out of booze. So discussions started about who had booze and who could drive them to get it. I became the DD as I was the only sober person there, and as luck would have it Ryan had a good amount of alcohol at his house we just had to go pick it up.

So here I am, a young girl heading to a strange guy's place to pick up booze for a party I wasn't even interested in at that point. Now that I think back on this though I realize it's a good thing Ryan wasn't a murderer or rapist because my dumb butt went alone with this six foot four, 275 pound gentle giant, to his house. He had given me half slurred directions and we had managed to make it to his place and I even managed to get him inside. He was drunk enough he was stumbling through the place, yet sober enough he still knew part of what he was doing. I got a tour and was even introduced to his gorgeous husky Blue. Part of the tour that he doesn't remember giving was his bedroom. The boy tried to sleep with me that night and he doesn't even remember it!  Actually, he doesn't remember the trip to his house much at all. After the failed attempt to sleep with me, the tour, letting the dog out to do her buisness, and retrieving the alcohol we headed back to the party.

We pulled back in and people had started to scatter. The party was winding down and the alcohol we had just retrieved wasn't even needed. So we plopped ourselves down on the porch and began chatting with Ryan's friends, Dave and Murph. I decided they were fun guys! Maybe not my type for a date but they were all sweet, and kind, and good for a laugh in my time of need. At one point Ryan even mentioned that we should have taken his car to his house instead of mine. I said, "Well which car is yours?" He pointed to a very pretty white trans am that I kind of fell in love with. It was because of that car I gave him my number. I had no interest in him, just in his car, and taking it for a spin. After drooling a little more over his car I decided I wanted to go home. You see I was still single, and broken hearted. I had fun and the party did take my mind off things for a while, but I was still aching inside and needed to be alone. I promised to call Shaunisty the next day, and Ryan even said he would call me sometime soon, and with those promises made I left the party and headed for my house.

Once home I figured I wouldn't hear from Ryan and that didn't bother me. I wasn't ready for a relationship. I wasn't ready to do anything but cry over the love I had just lost. I cried myself to sleep that night and awoke the next day around noonish to my phone ringing. When checking my phone I saw a message that I would see a lot in the near future: Ryan calling.

*Stay tuned for the tale of how it was we came to be a couple*

Playing with Google's Picasa!!!

2010-04-13T12:27:00.001-05:00

Picasa is a free photo editing program by Google! Love it!!!

Before!

After!

Or just get rid of those nasty bumps and bruises!

Howdy!

2010-04-12T15:46:00.000-05:00

Sorry posts are few and far between here lately...hard to take the time to sit down and write a blog when I just want to be playing outside with the monsters! We have been spending loads of time playing with water, and bubbles, and bikes, and the dog, and sidewalk chalk, and taking walks, it's fun and it wears the kiddos out so mommy and daddy get a little extra quiet time at night! I hope you are out enjoying the weather as much as we have been! Bye Bye for now!

Sick, Sick, Sick!

2010-04-08T10:22:00.000-05:00

First the kids got it, then yesterday I got it, and now today Ry has it. Oh how I wish this nasty awful flu would vacate my house ASAP! Promise to post more once it has....until then I am playing nurse and janitor.

The end of Ry's vacation and Easter weekend (Part 2)!!!

2010-04-06T15:32:00.000-05:00

Sorry I know this is a day late but both of the kiddos got a flu bug and I spent all day yesterday cleaning up puke. Oh the joys of being a mommy! They are both doing much better today. Running around being their normal crazy selves!!! Anywho onto the update and pics!

Saturday

The day started off very slow for us. Seemed that getting around Saturday morning was just a slow going process. We wanted to leave Pittsburg at 10 and left at noon haha. Got our stuff loaded, saw our mobile home, said our goodbyes, and got on the road for the MC!

Once in Mound City we made a quick stop by my friend Annie's house to drop off clothes that I had for her boys and baby girl, then went to my parent's house. We hung out and got to meet their new puppy Twinkle. What a cute puppy she is! I'm sad I didn't take any pics of her. Seemed once we got to MC my camera didn't come out of hiding very often...I was just too busy to get many pics. Anywho after hanging out for a bit my grandparents came over and we had dinner and got to catch up with them a little bit before heading out to my Aunt Keri and Uncle Dan's petting zoo!

They have goats, turkey, calves, sheep, St. Bernards, emus, chickens, and I think that's it. Boy did Sully have fun out there. He couldn't believe the chickens....made me realize I totally have city kids, he had never seen a live chicken before in person haha. He also got to pet Maybelle the bottle calf, ride a four wheeler with Cousin Luke, and I don't know what else he got to see because I was too occupied playing with the day old baby goats! We had loads of fun out there wish we could have stayed longer but we had to get going because Annie and her little brood were expecting us!

We arrived at the Wallace house a few minutes late but honestly that's pretty typical for us, we seem to never be on time! It was a nice visit with Annie, Scott, Colton, Dakota, and Haelie. The kiddos played and played and the adults played and played...cards that is. I think a good time was had by all! After Dakota and Colton fell asleep and Fallon looked as though she may pass out and second from exhaustion we decided it best we get back to my parent's house and get to sleep. Plus the Easter bunny still had eggs to fill and baskets to set up!

Back at my parent's house we got the kiddos all ready for bed and Ryan laid down with them, while I played Easter bunny. After the kids and Ryan were asleep and the Easter bunny was all ready for his/her visit I finally got to pass out round 1 am.

Sunday

Talk about a busy day! Since there was soo much involved in this day I'm gonna just give a quick play by play.

First thing was doing an Easter hunt to find out what the Easter bunny brought the munchkins! They had lots of fun with that!

Second thing packing for the trip home.

Third was dinner at GG and GG Spencer's house.

Fourth was a visit to GG and GG Workman's house.

Lastly we headed for home!

Got home around seven that night and went to bed early from exhaustion to be awakened at 2am to a puking Sully. Have been dealing with sick kids ever since. Took loads of pics so had to do a slideshow! First half is the trip to see Ry's side of the family and the second half is my side of the family! Enjoy!

The end of Ry's vacation and Easter weekend (Part 1)!!!

2010-04-02T21:45:00.001-05:00

Since I have time and it's fresh in my mind I'm updating before Monday! Yay!

Thursday

Friday was an insanely busy day in which I spent a good nine hours in the car. First had to get everything at home packed, get everyone in the car, and then get one the road! We got headed towards our destination (Pittsuburg,KS) and because we are so incredibly lucky both of our chilren fell asleep almost instantly!!! About two hours into our almost four hour drive both munchkins woke up. This wans't a bad thing necessarily because I had plans in place to keep them busy. Well keeping Fallon busy is never an easy task but she was content until she threw up. We discovered on this trip that Fallon has car sickness. At least now that we know this we know the warning signs that tell us the puke is coming but hopefully since we now have this bit of information we can prevent it by keeping her occupied in the car. We eventually reached our destination and immdiately had to hop in the car and head off to our first stop to have dinner with my brother in law, his wife, and their two girls. It was a fun evening and it was nice getting to spend time with them...would have been much nicer had our daughter (who is hitting her terrible twos a bit early) not thrown a good hour long tantrum. That girl is getting to be quite the fit thrower. YAY us!!! NOT!! She is driving me nuts..have to step back and breath every now and again. Anywho off my rant, we got done with dinner, dropped the kids, and Ryan off at my mother-in-law's house and she and I headed off to Kansas City. My husband's Aunt Jackie and Cousin Kayla flew in from Milwakuee and they needed someone to pick them up so I offered to go with my mother-in-law to pick them up as she was tired and needed the company. We got up to KC and I got to venture into an airport for the first time ever...yes I live a sheltered life...have never been on a plane or in an airport....anywho, we got them picked up, got back to Pittsburg, and climbed into bed by a late, late 2:30am.

Friday

Today started early....we had a huge dinner here at Ry's mom's house with lots of family! It was fun and exhausting! Ryan smoked ribs and chicken and we had loads of sides and had a huge and yummy meal!! It was neat to see 8 of the 10 cousins in the family together but 8 kids ranging in age from 6 weeks to 12 years old made for one wild, crazy, and noisy time! I am exhausted and ready for sleep but before I head to bed I have to get Fallon's carseat all cleaned up because tomorrow we need it clean to continue on our journey. Tomorrow's stop: Mound City, KS! Can't wait to see family there and celebrate Easter on Sunday! Look for a new post and pics about the rest of our fun on Monday! Happy Easter all!

A little water, bubbles, sidwalk chalk, and FUN!

2010-04-01T01:57:00.000-05:00

Today we went outside. It was gorgeous and warm enough to play with some water! Both of our kids love water! They are like little fish, so we decided to get out some water and it ended in a huge water fight, in which we all got soaked! I don't think we could have had more fun. We did do a little sidewalk chalk stuff (which was washed away during the water play before I could take pics of the artwork) and played with bubbles, but the water was the most fun! Enjoy the pics and I will see you on Monday! Heading out of town to visit family for Easter tomorrow so I won't be posting again until Monday. Have a great rest of the week and a very Happy Easter everyone!!!

We finally planted our Marigolds!!!

2010-04-01T01:42:00.000-05:00

Remember when we painted clay pots?

Well today we finally planted Marigolds in them!!! We are very excited and promise to keep you updated on their growth!!!

Materials

Filling the pot with dirt.

Got a little too much.

Putting in the seeds.

Covering the seeds!!

Once we got them all planted we watered them but my camera died so I didn't get a pic of that.

My children and their first act of thievery!

2010-03-31T11:13:00.001-05:00

We have the stuff for the kid's Easter baskets hidden in the closet in our bedroom and today we had the closet door open while the kids were in our room. All of the stuff is in wal mart bags so they can't see anything, and on top of that they are both still young and we figured it didn't hurt until they started trying to explore what was in the bags then at one point they even tried to steal a bag of stuff LOL!

The hubby and I were discussing stuff looking at the computer and I hear the kids talking in the closet. I heard Sully tell Fallon,"Here take this and follow me." As she is to little to know the difference, and also pretty great at mischief herself she took the bag that her brother had given her. I see them walk out of my room, finish the conversation, and head after them. I reached Fallon just after she had gotten into Sully's room and as she turned the corner to go into her big brother's bedroom I heard him exclaim, "YAY! FALLON YOU DID IT!!!!" Boy was he elated! I deflated his mood when I walked around the corner and he realized I had caught on to the plan. He took one look at me and said, "Oh CRAP! We got caught."

Man are they funny! I do love those two little trouble makers!

On a side note Sully told me he hated me yesterday. I realize he doesn't understand what he means when he uses that word just yet, but it did still hurt a little. He has such a kind heart and I explained to him that saying you hate someone hurts their feelings. He then proceeded to tell me, "Well I hate myself then mom." He felt bad for hurting me and so he decided hating himself was a better option I supppse. I haven't heard that word since yesterday and I pray it stays away for a long, long time.

Sully!

2010-03-31T00:35:00.003-05:00

We ran into my sister and her boyfriend at Wal-Mart yesterday and they decided to take Mr. Sully with them and spoil him and have fun with him like any good Auntie and her boyfriend should...anywho long story short Sully LOVES music, and singing, and guitars and my son's new favorite person (Josh, my sister's boyfriend) let him play his guitar. His real guitar!! Not the rockband kind a real guitar and he hasn't stopped talking about it since!! He's not very good haha but man did he have fun!!!

What we did today!

2010-03-29T23:29:00.001-05:00

Today was the kind of day that just begs you to go out and enjoy it! So that's just what we did! Lots of time at the park, ice cream, windows open at the house, spent almost all day outside!!! Kids enjoyed it and were very worn out by the end of the day. I plan to do the same tomorrow! Here are a few pictures we took at the park, enjoy!

Happy!!!

Fun!!!

Hmmm....

Climbing!!!

On a mission...to run away from Daddy HAHA!!!

Down! Down! Down!

Up! Up! Up!

Cute!!!

Adorable!!!

Ridiculously weird swing!!!

Having fun!!!

Isn't he Handsome!!!

2010-03-28T18:20:00.002-05:00

Our puppy Charlie! He is a chocolate lab, almost 7 months old, and isn't he just handsome???!!!

Sad but Happy!!!

2010-03-27T21:45:00.001-05:00

Our team lost today. We are very sad about this. We will remain wildcats anyway!!!

What are we happy about?! Today is the first day of the hubby's vacation!!!! We get him here at home for a full 7 days!!! That seems like an eternity but I'm sure it will fly by! We get to see some family and friends during this vacation and we are ecstatic and Easter also happens to be next Sunday too so we will totally be ending this vacation on a good note!!! It has been a very happy and sad day here. How was it at your house?

It's GAME DAY!!!!!

2010-03-27T12:36:00.003-05:00

The mighty men Wildcat basketball team is playing today and can I just say I am PUMPED!!! Terribly sad that my hubby isn't here to watch the game with me but I will root for them and watch all by meself and with Sully and Fallon too of course! I am so proud to be a Kansas State Fan!!!! My kids have both been Wildcats since birth!!! See?!

My fave team advances to the Elite 8 and my fave Town rejoices!!!

2010-03-26T22:00:00.006-05:00

YAY!!!!

2010-03-26T11:04:00.000-05:00

So excited I just have to share this bit of information! After lots and lots of research and web surfing I have finally discovered the formula for making my own background!!!! I am also making my own headers now as well! I am proud to say that my blog is now my own entire design! Big moment for me been trying to figure this out for a while now haha!!!!

Painting Clay Pots!!!

2010-03-25T17:10:00.000-05:00

Finally an art project of late that I can blog about!!! With everything going on lately art projects have been pretty boring round here but today we had time to finally paint some little clay pots to plant flowers in! Got them painted today and tomorrow we are gonna plant some marigolds! Sully has been begging me to plant some flowers of his own so I hope we can keep these alive for a while and not kill 'em. Wish us luck! While we painted Fallon did some finger painting of her own and then played with a balloon...at one point she tried to use it as a pillow haha! Enjoy!!

Supplies!!!

Painting Pots!!!

Finger Painting!!!

Side One!!!

Side Two!!!

Side Three!!!

Balloon Pillow!!!

2010-03-25T10:03:00.002-05:00

My kids are slowly driving me mad....so last night I ran away for a while. Fed them dinner, cleaned up from dinner, and was supposed to go to wal-mart, yet somehow I ended up at Bridget's house until like three o'clock this morning. It was nice to get away from them for a while. Sometimes I get overwhelmed and need the time. I am thankful my hubby is wonderful enough to understand that and he let me go without any complaints, oh how I love that man! Sure he needs some work but don't we all. And sure he's no model but he's the most handsome man I know. And while my children also drive me insane and so does my husband sometimes I can't help but sit here and think, "DAMN I AM LUCKY!!!" Two beautiful, smart, growing, wonderful, children, and an honest, hard working, handsome man. I don't know what I did to deserve them but I do my best not to take them for granted. Suppose running away from them for a little while last night and having some time for myself helped me to appreciate them a little more.

Sully...oy that boy!

2010-03-24T10:46:00.000-05:00

Ok, so a few things first. My kids new favorite movie is Marley and Me. They watch it all the time! Also, my house is a mess with toys right now so I have set out today to get it cleaned up. I asked Sully if he was gonna help and this is how the conversation went.

Me-"Sully are you gonna help mommy get the house clean today?"
Sully-"No...I'm gonna watch Marley you do it by yourself mom."
Me-"Get your butt up and start picking up your toys."
Sully-"Crap! Fine!"

He then proceeded to pause his movie and is presently still picking up toys and putting them in his bedroom. What am I gonna do with him? He's four and somedays just wow!

!!OY!!

2010-03-23T23:12:00.001-05:00

First of all let me just say, "!!OY!!" Today has been hell! You know people tell you before you have kids that they are hard to handle and I believed this but some days more than others do I get a lesson in just how difficult they can be. Today Sully pulled a chair out from under his sister, causing her to fall on her face and giving her a bloody nose. After that he then managed to almost break our lovely...expensive...tv stand...thankfully when Ryan got home we managed to fix that little problem. Third, he sat on one of the new night stands in our room and somehow managed to collapse the entire thing. So now tomorrow I have to find a way to put it back together again...wish me luck! In between all this mayhem I managed to feed, clothe, and even play with my children a little today. Nothing special for art time today so no pictures, we just painted, always fun for any four year old, and mommy too on occasion! After all that and dinner they are in bed and Ryan is too, and I'm writing this blog and I have yet again changed the look of the things. One of these days I will get it right, until then please bear with me while I work through my blogger changes!!! Oh and both kiddos are feeling much better! Both still have runny noses but are back to their normal, rotten selves!

**Picture today courtesy of a sick Fallon who fell asleep while using her daddy as a pillow. Aren't they cute?

Bikes!

2010-03-22T21:40:00.000-05:00

Easter is coming! Slowly but surely and well we will not be home so the Easter Bunny brought my munchkins their big presents early this year...very early as we are a little impatient and wanted them to get their bikes early haha so....we had one chance to ride before the snow hit and sickness and I'm gonna post a few pics from that! The kids are now sick and Ryan is sick and it sucks! Hoping we all get better quickly...Ry is on vacation next week and we need to be better so we can have a good time!!! More about vacation plans later! For now hope you like the new changes...we are having an identity crisis round here...enjoy the pictures!!!

Hiatus!!!!

2010-03-19T15:57:00.000-05:00

Well I've been on hiatus this week. I do have good reasons for this break though! Poor me, I've been sick. Felt like a truck ran over my head several times, then I lost my voice, then because of all this sickness my house has gotten to be a mess. So today I am finally gettnig things cleaned up and trying to get back on track. Promise to be back and on track come Monday! Although we do plan to attempt a volcano this weekend and paint some pots for planting flowers, so maybe there will be some blog posts before Monday! Either way enjoy your weekend I know I intend to enjoy mine....all except for the damn nasty snow that the weather people are calling for right now. I am so tired of the cold just bring on Spring already dang it! Come on Kansas be nice to us for a change!

Egg Carton Flowers on a rainy day!!!

2010-03-12T20:15:00.000-06:00

Today in the Dembkowksi house has been very busy! I scrubbed every inch of my house! Did bathrooms, washed bedding, dusted, mopped, vacuumed, you name it, I cleaned it in my house today. It was a hard day of work but I'm glad it's done and I can spend my weekend relaxing instead of cleaning. I did take some time out of my cleaning to feed and bath my children. Oh speaking of feeding them there's something new we have started at meal times that we are enjoying and I haven't told you about yet! I make the kiddos breakfast, or lunch, or dinner, and then we sit down and while they eat I read to them! Keeps them quiet because their mouths are full and focused because they can't get up and run around during the story. They have really been enjoying that reading time and so have I. At this point when Sully sees me start to cook or get any food ready he heads to the bookshelf, grabs a bunch of books, takes them to the table, then sits and waits patiently for me to get the food on the table and start reading. It's fun, it's new, and my kids are even eating better thanks to this new change in our routine!

Anywho onto the fun part of the day for Mr. Sully! Today we made egg carton flowers! Cut up an egg carton so you have just the shells, paint the shells, let them dry, then poke holes and stick pipe cleaners in the bottoms, put in a vase, glass, cup, any container really that looks pretty, and voila a fun spring decoration that you can enjoy, and your munchkin can be proud of!!!

Fallon was very into reading big books today as you will see! Enjoy the weekend everyone!

Apple Painting!

2010-03-11T18:48:00.001-06:00

Well folks things have been pretty dull round here the last few days. Yesterday we didn't have time for an art or craft because I was too busy scrubbing my toosh off. Anyway I'm starting today with my daily posts about art time. Today we painted with apples! I just cut an apple in half and we used the halves to make prints on the paper. They were a hit at first, then brushes and fingers got involved and the poor apples were forgotten. We did however get some use out of them and had a great time! Fallon refused to nap today so she helped us paint....she really didn't paint much on the paper as she was too busy painting on herself. Anywho pics to follow enjoy and hope you had a wonderful Thursday!!!!

Hello there!

2010-03-10T10:45:00.002-06:00

Hello there my wonderful blog readers! How have you all been? Things have been alright here. Lots of new changes in our daily routines that I need to update about and even new changes to the blog look. Hope you guys like the new look! Well it's Wednesday, hump day as some would call it, and I couldn't be happier. Feels like this week is dragging by and it's been a bad one so far, I think it's the rain...makes a person gloomy. Anyway some of the fun new stuff that's been going on around here....Sully spouts off some very funny things these days. For example the other day, he was climbing on the counter in my bathroom, I walked up behind and caught him, told him to get down, and gave him a quick pat on the toosh, well he turns to me and says, "Mom, that was NOT necessary!" I was stunned a bit by that one. Where did he learn the word, and know how to use it in the right context? Where he learns most thing I suppose,...from me lol! Still doesn't change the shock!!! Sully and I have started an arts and crafts/science/anything fun really time when Fallon is napping. So far we have done all sorts of paintings and made Mr. Sully an art wall for his fun new stuff, we have also been doing pop bottle science, salt dough, and a bunch of other stuff. I am gonna start trying to blog and add pics of what we do during that daily so stay tuned and wish me luck!

Fallon hasn't changed much. She's learning new words and actions daily...still she refuses to stay Mama unless she absolutely wants me...not sure why that is. Funny Fallon story...the other day Sully went into the bathroom and went potty, Fallon went in to the bathroom after Sully was finished and proceeded to go thru the exact same motions...only trouble is she thinks she's supposed to pee like a boy...guess that means it's time to pull out the little kiddo potty for Miss Fallon and teach her how to pee like a girl.

Pics are from this last weekend....it was gorgeous out so we bought some bubbles, grilled out, and enjoyed the weather!!! Happy Hump Day and enjoy!!!

"Mommy! I have to poop!"

2010-03-09T17:03:00.000-06:00

Well fellow bloggers/blog readers......I really do not feel like picking up the insane mess of toys that my children made sooo I decided I would tell a fun story that happened to me the other day.

Sunday while we were in Topeka, we stopped for dinner, and about the time dinner is over Sully looks at me and in a not very quiet or discreet voice says to me, "Mommy! I have to poop!!! I'm farting and I have to poop!" So knowing that Fallon has just done a number in her diaper I decide to brave things and I grab my one year old and the hand of my four year old and the diaper bag and head for the restrooms. The restrooms were not very close to us. They happened to be around all the way on the other side of the place. They could have been as far away as the moon it seemed it took that long to get to them. Why you ask did it feel like it took light years to get to the restrooms? That would be because my four year old kept up, in his not so discreet voice, the constant chatter of, "Mommy I have to poop! Mommy I'm farting, I feel them coming! Oh no mommy there was another fart! Mommy we need to get to the bathroom I have to POOP!" I kept telling him we were going to the bathroom, that we were almost there, to be quiet, and none of that worked. He had to go and he didn't stop letting me and the other restaurant goers know until I finally had him in the stall and on the toilet! I have never been so embarrassed before in my life!! I know that there are bound to be more funny things such as that to come in my life but wow that is one trip to the bathroom I will never forget! Oh and to top off the restroom experience, the doors to all the stalls were broken, as was the changing table, so I had to hold the door shut, change a diaper, and keep Sully on the pot until I could wipe his toosh, all while attempting to keep my one year old from screaming her head off because she wasn't happy. I told myself that night, "Yep. I'm a mom. No dad could have pulled off a stunt like that."

It's Monday and I wish it was Friday again....

2010-01-18T09:41:00.006-06:00

Well it's Monday and might I just say, "UGH!" I hate that it's this day again. We had such a wonderful weekend, I didn't want it to end! Why did we have such a fun weekend you ask?! I will tell you!

Friday

Well Friday was kind of boring. I cleaned. Finally got my house back to it's spic and span normal! It's taken me a while to accomplish this but it's finally up to my standards again! Friday night was made up by Mexican food and Dexter watching. Fun but not as much fun as Saturday or Sunday!

Saturday

Saturday morning at our house consisted of a very yummy orange danish breakfast, baths, clean clothes, picking up toys, and getting the munchkins ready to go to grandpas so mommy and daddy could go on a lunch date! When it came time to take the munchkins to grandpas I wasn't ready to go yet so Ry took them to his house really quick, I finished my hair, then we were off to see Avatar! I went into this movie not knowing what to expect and coming out a HUGE fan! I loved it! It's one of those movies that has a little bit of everything for everyone. I recommend going and seeing it in theaters in the 3D, it's worth the money to see it! Any who, after the movie we realized we didn't have time for our late lunch so we just ran to wal-mart and did a little grocery shopping before heading to grandpa's house really quickly to pick up our munchkins. Then once home did some more picking up before Sara got here to hang out. Sara got to the house and we ate pizza and chatted while I watched my Colts play their first playoff game and YAY they won!!! After the game we played some rockband on the PlayStation before Sara went home and my little family and I all passed out because we had a loong day!

Sunday

Sunday we woke up with the plan of taking the kids to the Cosmosphere but those plans changed and we decided to do a trial run at a cheaper smaller museum to see how our kids would do in that environment so to speak. They did great! We went to the Combat Air Museum in Topeka and it was a blast! Sully loved the planes! We got to go up into a few and that was the best part. The only trouble was no heat in the hangers soo we did our tour very quickly. We plan to go back when it's warmer outside and spend more time but the kids passed the test! They did great! No screaming, no crying, no tantrums, no nothing, just good little monsters! So we decided that soon we will be planning a trip to the Cosmosphere...I hope it goes as well as the C and A Museum. After the museum we went to the mall and did a little shopping! That was fun and after shopping we went out to eat before heading home. I tell ya taking two kids out to eat is a handful, I feel we and any other parents who are brave enough to take their young children to a sit down restaurant are brave souls! The occasional tantrum or just kid troubles sometimes really gets some rude reviews from other restaurant goers but dang it why shouldn't my kids get the pleasure of having dinner out too? K enough complaining our Sunday night was fun too, we played some more rockband with my sister and her boyfriend before putting the munchkins to bed. Then after they were in bed I realized that Charlie...our new chocolate lab....had a vet appt this morning so he needed a bath before that, so crazy me I gave my puppy a bath at 11:30 p.m. last night. That was fun! I got him bathed, brushed, collar on, and into his kennel and went to bed.

Well I took loads of pics at the museum this weekend but thanks to our lovely four month old chew machine I don't have a usb cable to plug my camera into my computer. So I do not have the ability to upload new pics at the moment but will soon and once I do I promise to add some pics of our trip! Suppose for now I will just add a pic of our insane new puppy!!!! We love him, his name is Charlie, he was Sully's birthday present, he's now four months old , a chocolate lab, and a chew machine! He annoys me but I still love him. Any who enjoy your Monday everyone...I am gonna keep wishing mine will turn into Friday.

HOLY COW AN UPDATE!!!!!!!

2010-01-14T22:50:00.004-06:00

It's a short update right now but shoot it's something! I know I've been on hiatus for oh about six or seven months now...oops! I've been going through some stuff that in all honesty I don't want to expose to all my lovely readers so I will just say I've been working on it and well I am hoping this post will be the start of a new me! I vow to start posting at least once a week with pics of the kiddos and if we are lucky maybe I will start getting in more than one post but baby steps for now! The kiddos are doing great! We had a wonderful Christmas (another blog I need to write!) and our New Year was fun too! Some birthdays have come and gone since my last post and I will try and update about those too. If I don't get to them all well bummer but if I do yay!!!! We have a busy weekend ahead of us and a trip to the Cosmosphere planned so I'm thinking my next post will be about our trip there. Until then here are a few new pics and enjoy your weekend!!!!!

Fallon is walking video!!!

2009-08-17T10:43:00.002-05:00

Vacation Update!!!

2009-07-02T15:15:00.006-05:00

So Ry is on vacation YAY!!!! Yet sad because well it's Thursday and he goes back to work Monday. Time flies so much faster when he is on vacation I hate it. Any who an update! We haven't done much this week it's been a week full of relaxing and enjoying time together. Saturday and Sunday we stayed home didn't really venture out at all. Sunday I made a huge lunch of noodles, roast, and mashed potatoes and we ate ourselves silly. After our big lunch we just watched TV the rest of the day and tried to calm our full bellies. Monday Ry's mom got here and we hung out with her all day. She, Ry, and Sully went out and did some shopping for dinner stuff while I cleaned, we had another huge meal of steaks, salad, baked potatoes, and rolls. That night we watched Wall-E while getting the kids to bed then all passed out ourselves! Tuesday Ry's mom left after breakfast and then I got a text from Bridget asking if she and Austin could come hang and the boys could play in the pool! So we spent Tuesday afternoon watching the boys play in the pool and wrestle. So weird to see Sully wrestling. Seems he's too little for it to me. We had taco salad for dinner Tuesday night and watched a movie. It was a good day! Wednesday was spent doing mostly nothing. Playing games, watching TV, playing in the yard, typical stuff. The only out of the ordinary thing that did happen yesterday was Fallon stood up all on her own! She has been using props such as the couch, her little play table, people, anything she could get a grip on to stand over the last month and yesterday middle of the floor no props she stood up! I couldn't believe it!! She also took one step and grabbed onto her play table yesterday too. Goodness she is gonna walk so soon. I so do not want a walking baby yet, suppose I have no choice in the matter. Last night we ordered food for dinner, the kids played with a toy that is kinda cool because you can set it up for babies to crawl through and they both seemed to get a kick out of that. Today has been boring thus far...I will let ya know if it gets more exciting but it has mostly been full of cleaning, errand running, and stuff like that. We are off to KC for the day tomorrow to meet our new nephew (sis-in-law is in labor right now!), some family, and take Sully to a kid's museum, so I am trying to get everything ready for the fourth today because I won't have time tomorrow and hopefully the fourth won't feel too insane this way. Any who if I don't update before then HAPPY FOURTH EVERYONE!!!!!!!

YAY!

2009-06-26T09:29:00.002-05:00

So today I am very excited!!! Today is Ry's last day of work and then he is on vacation!!! YAY!! YAY!! YAY!! I couldn't be more excited. A whole week and a half with my man! Ok ok I am done being excited now I can tell you about yesterday. Well Sully didn't want to listen for crap yesterday. It was one of those days when I told him one thing and he did the complete opposite. UGH! Why do kids do that?!?!? Drives me nuts! He also fell down our front porch steps yesterday. I thank god that he made my son sturdy because if he hadn't Sully would have had far too many stitches and broken bones by this point in time. Sully also has some kind of bug bite on his hand that is really big and worrisome looking so I am considering taking him to the doctor for that as well. What is up with this boy??? I swear he's trying to give me a heart attack. Our afternoon was quick. Grandma dropped by with some stuff for other family members. We heard about Michael Jackson. Watched a good movie, that got me to wishing that Heath Ledger were still alive to talk about his best movie ever! After that Ry got home. Family members showed up to pick up the stuff Grandma had dropped off they got everything picked up and were off fairly quickly. Last night was uneventful aside from Sully's fall down the stairs. We watched some foodie shows, ate dinner, and eventually all ended up fast asleep. Ugh! No pics yesterday. I so meant to take some. I will post another one from the vault and promise to take new ones for tomorrow! Happy Friday Everyone!!!

Hmm Hmm....

2009-06-25T10:49:00.002-05:00

Well yesterday was uneventful. Cleaned, had fajitas for dinner, went to bed late because I had a few things to finish around the house. Sully was nice and sore all day from his ankle. He wouldn't stop walking on it and kept getting really bad with his limp and bothering me so I just about had to tie him down and get him to stay still and off it for a while. Fallon didn't do much yesterday, crawled, clapped (Yes she is clapping now! She started on Saturday the 20th), ate, and of course did the other usual baby things that babies do. Uneventful day it would seem. Today should be interesting we have visitors coming and people coming by to pick up some stuff. I am just anxious for Friday this week I guess because as soon as Ry gets off work on Friday he is on vacation until Monday the 6th of July!!!! I can't wait!!! Anywho Happy Thursday all!!!

P.S. Another day of pulling a pic from the vault as we didn't take any yesterday!

Quick! Quick!

2009-06-24T12:49:00.003-05:00

Well don't have much time today trying to get the house spic and span for a visit from the MIL tomorrow! Yesterday Sully had to be taken to the ER. He decided that climbing into Fallon's crib looked like fun but when he heard me coming figured he would be in trouble so he jumped down really quickly and in the process hurt his foot. He was limping and didn't want to stand on it and saying it hurt and all so Daddy took him in. He got his first x-ray, the machine scared him a little I am told. No break! Just a sprained ankle that should feel better in a few days. Now today if I could just keep him out of the crib! I am afraid he is gonna jump out again and finish the job and fully break his ankle. I am very funny today because I have caught him in there twice and he keeps trying to jump but here I come running up catching him mid jump or right before, he thinks I am funny, I am freaking out! What is it with kids and giving their parents heart attacks and gray hair! YES I at 23 have found a total of four gray hairs already OMG! This is not good! I can't blame those on just the kids I have to say the hubby is part to blame for them. Really aside from Sully's adventure and Fallon waking up with a HUGE scratch on her nose (I imagine you will see in pictures soon) yesterday was uneventful. I think Fallon got the scratch from my bad mommy moment on Monday. She must have scratched it when she fell. Its yucky looking. Anyway I must go enjoy hump day! Yay my week is looking up! No pics from yesterday so this post is being graced with a random something (looks like I have chosen a random of Sully's first time ever swimming!! He is only just over a year old in this pic.)

Crappy Monday.

2009-06-23T11:09:00.003-05:00

Well yesterday was a crummy day. Woke up to a hubby with lost keys. He wasn't happy. Fallon woke up crabby. Sully woke up being a brat. I couldn't find the keys throughout the day hubby was even more mad when he came home. Fallon fell off my bed because I had a horrible dumb mom moment, she landed on pillows so she wasn't really hurt just shocked so she wasn't happy either. And Sully well ugh! I don't much feel like posting anymore about yesterday. Happy Tuesday everyone.

Father's Day!!!

2009-06-22T10:43:00.006-05:00

Well yesterday was Father's Day!!! We celebrated by going to best buy and spending way too much on Ry, swimming, grilling, and playing in the grass!

Yesterday was fun for us as we got to watch the kids play in the swimming pool together and realized Fallon has enough hair to put a bow in now! Sully tried talking Daddy into a "real" doggie. Fallon gave me a kiss! We had steak, baked potatoes, salad, and kings hawaiian rolls for dinner and homemade cheesecake for dessert. I really can't say much it was a great day. Oh and Sully being his typical self gave a fun story to talk about! We have little diving sticks that are shaped like sharks and aunt Courtney taught him how to go dun dun dun dundundundun like in the jaws movies when the sharks are coming too funny!! Any who enjoy the pics!

A little bit of catch up!!!

2009-06-21T22:05:00.006-05:00

Well it's official! We are all moved!! Now if the house could just get totally organized that would be great!!! HA HA keep dreaming Amber....any who we have had a few fun tales in our two weeks at our new house. So here is a semi-short update of what has been happening to us!

Sully found a bunny in our yard one morning! We thought this was the only bunny and it had gotten lost. Come to find out it wasn't far from home because it's home was in our front yard! There was a nest of five babies bunnies around three weeks old Ry came across the nest while mowing. They were lucky they were low enough into the ground that the mower didn't chew them up and spit them out. The bunnies are gone now and Sully misses them.

One night while we were up hanging out Miss Fallon decided she would entertain us while playing with a book! She had a great time with this!

We had a really bad storm up here with some awful straight line winds that knocked down a HUGE tree in our neighbors yard.

One night while making dinner the kids decided to pose as our entertainment! As usual! Who needs TV with a three year old and a nine month old!

Sully has had a few great moments over the past two weeks! Like last night when he told me to "Bump it, Mom!' Pound fists as most would call it. HILARIOUS! He also spilled pop one day and asked me to please not get mad at him. Today he tried talking Daddy into getting him a "real" doggie. His new fave thing to tell everyone is, "Wait a minute, I busy." Like he has all these important things going on in his life HA HA! I know there are more but I honestly can't think of them and it makes me sad.

Well this is a short update but it's an update. I think I am back to being able to update daily but who knows at this rate! We have a fenced in yard now so it seems we are out there a lot! And we bought the kids a little pool so Sully is gonna want to live in that thing the rest of summer! Hope everyone had a wonderful Father's Day!!!!

My baby is 9 months old already CRY

2009-06-17T17:46:00.004-05:00

Well we are all moved in!! All unpacked!! Now if only I could keep my house clean for more than an hour! I don't have time for a long post right now but I figured I would update and say YAY Fallon is nine months old today and CRY Fallon is nine months old today! She went to the doc and is doing great! Healthy as can be! 21 pds 29 inches long! Bigger than her brother by an inch at that age and she has him in weight by 8ozs! How do I know this you might ask. I ran across a height weight sheet the other day while moving from Sully's nine month check up, thought that was a cool find. Also Fallon decided to celebrate her nine month birthday by climbing onto the dish washer. CRAP! She isn't supposed to be doing that yet is she? She is already pulling up on everything, standing on her own for a few seconds at a time, using the couch as a prop to help her walk from one end of it to the other, sitting, crawling, eating finger foods, yelling at Sully when he ticks her off, and she is spoiled as can be! I am sad my baby is growing up. Guess I knew that would happen sooner or later. Her brother is a different story all together lately! Promise to post about that soon, wanted to make this post about Miss Fallon. Anywho hope everyone is well! I am off to attempt to get this place cleaned before dinner with Miss Sara tonight!

Update soon!

2009-06-06T20:26:00.002-05:00

So it's a very long story and we have been dealing with stupid people just wanted to update and say I would update with a good post soon but we are moving right now and I just don't have time! Hope everyone is great and can't wait to tell you of our tales from the week!

Fallon video!!!

2009-06-04T11:15:00.002-05:00

Funny swimming video!

2009-06-04T10:54:00.004-05:00

I totally forgot to post this with the swimming pics from last week!

What a lazy Wednesday!

2009-06-04T10:02:00.002-05:00

Our Wednesday was exactly as the title says LAZY!!! Before I get into this too far I just have to tell ya that the pic today was what I walked into Miss Fallon rooms to see this morning. My happy baby standing up smiling from ear to ear! I love having a happy baby!!!! Anywho back to yesterday. We didn't go anywhere! We stayed at home and stayed lazy! It was a fun day full of cranky kids though so that part was no fun. After being lazy with the kids Ry called to let me know he was on his way home. He had to stop by the store for a few things and he rented a few movies. He got home and we had dinner. Dinner was a funny affair because we had Fallon in a chair at the table with us for the first time. Usually she just sits on a lap this time she had her own chair! She loved it! She ate her squash and crackers and giggled at us through all of dinner I loved it! She made a huge mess which I thought was hilarious especially considering I used to wipe Sully's hands off after every bite so he didn't make a mess but now I just let it go it's much more fun that way! After we finished up dinner Fallon got a quick toss in the tub and we hung out for a bit before Sully got just ticked off and was so exhausted he had to be put to bed and YAY because Fallon went down at the same time. So I finished baking some peanut butter cookies and then went to bed to watch the movie that was rented for me. Fell asleep shortly after my movie.

Continuing a Great Week!!!

2009-06-03T10:53:00.006-05:00

Wow we had a busy Tuesday! Got up in the morning and cleaned, afternoon did errands, took Courtney to work (she was an errand lol), came home cleaned more, boiled eggs, ran and got Ry from work (ugh one vehicle is annoying), got home, Ry started getting the meat ready for grilling while I finished making deviled eggs, Fallon had some crackers meaning she needed a bath, so I tossed the kids (why not give them both a quick scrub down) in the tub very quickly before our guests arrived for dinner. Got the kiddos out of the tub just after guests Sara and her mom arrived to enjoy some burgers and hot dogs with us. Spent the night watching some good TV and hanging with some wonderful people! Fallon gave a few good smiles but was of course very shy all night long oh well she was still cute. Sully was very silly and had too much fun as always playing with Sara. I think yesterday wore them out because they hit their beds pretty hard last night and slept like rocks. After our guests left I stayed up a little longer waiting to have a quick chat with Court before hitting the bed pretty hard myself.

Fantastical Mondays!!!

2009-06-02T10:33:00.004-05:00

I just love waking up on a Monday morning and being happy! That happiness I woke up with stayed with me all day long. It was a great Monday! I cleaned, played with my munchkins, watched a movie, texted and talked on the phone, Courtney came home and brought a friend with her, the friend has kiddos, so play date! Sully had a blast and got his first girl kiss (not so fond of this as his mommy) but it was really cute to watch! After they left my house was back to messy again! Have to clean today now oy! Anywho once my wonderful hubby got home he and I headed out on a date!! Sooo fun! We never get to go anywhere by ourselves so we had some good Mexican food, book shopped, and grocery shopped before heading home. Got home hubby was exhausted and went to bed I spent the rest of my night getting kids to sleep, listening to rain, and watching TV. All in all a very fantastical Monday!

P.S. Camera stayed out of Monday like it did Sunday so how about another Sully blast from the past?! This pic is our first meeting! Makes me sad thinking that he was that small and he is now so big.

Quick Quick!

2009-06-01T23:06:00.004-05:00

Sunday was boring!!! We were lazy all day long! Dang my hubby for thinking it's fun to be lazy. It's ok though because we still had a wonderful day together!!! I made cupcakes Ry made some jello thing and we played guitar hero and watched a new show most of the day. We ventured out to visit Grandpa Don and do a little wal-mart shopping but were mostly lazy. YAY for lazy Sundays!!! The camera wasn't involved in yesterday at all so no new pics :( But how about a Sully blast from the past pic! Sounds like fun to me! Hope everyone had a fantastical Monday!!! Promise to post about today tomorrow!!!

And yes that is Sully not Fallon!

Fine!

2009-05-31T09:13:00.003-05:00

Yesterday was a fairly boring day. We hung out with Courtney before she went to work. Watched some TV, played with some toys, I walked in to find Fallon awake from a nap and standing in her crib, time to raise the rail so she doesn't fall out, god she's getting big fast. Ry came home from work, hate his full Saturdays they make it feel like the weekend never really comes that week, we watched more TV, he played a little PlayStation, Sully went to sleep at 7:30, he slept a full twelve hours guess he was exhausted, Fallon was cranky most of yesterday so that was no fun. Really not much more to report. Since the kids went to bed early we got to cuddle up in bed and watch a movie. So nice we never get to do that! I awoke this morning to a funny conversation between Sully and Ryan. Sully was asking Ry if they were gonna play rock it (his way of saying guitar hero) Ry said no so Sully continued asking if we were going to Target, Wal mart, or the zoo today Ry said no to all of these things so Sully said Fine! got a very mad look on his face and stormed off so funny!

Catching Up!!!

2009-05-29T22:19:00.002-05:00

Friday

Friday, Friday, Friday! My friend Sara came over for a visit. Sully drove the poor girl insane! They play ghost and he never lets her quit and she is too nice to tell him no. On this night we watched Dane Cook's ISolate INcident special that we recorded off of comedy central. Had hamburgers for dinner and then went to bed. Nothing really special at all.

Saturday

On Saturday we got a visit from Ry's mom. The kids and I spent the day playing and watching TV before she got here. While we were waiting Fallon decided she should do a new baby trick! She crawled over to the couch wanting my attention and because I wasn't giving it to her she used the couch as a prop and stood up!!! So cool to see her stand up all by herself but scary because she is getting way to big way to fast!!! After that Grandma Jeanette stopped by to change her clothes before heading back out to a wedding she had to go to. Once she left the kids and I continued our playing and TV watching until Ry got home. Once he got home Sully and I headed out to run some errands. We got home from our errands to find daddy playing his PS3 and we spent the rest of our night watching that and playing then we were all off to bed

Sunday

Got up early to a Fallon who had wet her bed and was ticked off because she was wet. Put her in the tub got done with that, folded laundry, and then the other people in my home decided they should start waking up. I started a batch of muffins and realized I had forgotten a crucial ingredient for my special eggs (cheese) so I put Ryan to work cooking bacon while I ran to the store. Got home from the store finished cooking breakfast. Ate. Headed to meet up with my sis in law, her hubby, and kiddos for a trip to our Manhattan Zoo. We saw some peacocks doing some crazy stuff and got rained on but still had fun hanging with family. After the zoo we ran a few errands then came home and chilled the rest of the night. Gave Fallon her first really solid food of crackers she loves them and makes a huge mess with them but it's all fun! Also bought Fallon the cutest pair of shorts on this day (look for them in the pics)!

Monday

Memorial Day! Ry and I went and saw a movie, grandpa watched the munchkins, we abandoned grocery shopping to play with our kids, watched the season premiere of one of my fave TV shows, oh and Sully decided picking Fallon up looked like fun EEK! After that we went to bed.

Tuesday

Woke up way to early wanted to go back to bed, hubby told me one of the best things he has ever told me before he headed off to work, Bridget and Austin came over to play! The boys had a great time and the grown ups had some great conversation. Ry came home we had dinner then we went to bed.

Wednesday

Wake up to a text from Bridget telling me that Austin was dieing to come over! So I drug myself out of bed and started cleaning my house before running errands with Sara. Got home from running errands and waited on Bridget and Austin to get here we had another great day of playing and conversation. They left Ry came home and we had a very yummy dinner with Sara. After Sara left we all went to bed.

Thursday

Another wake up letting me Austin was begging to come play with Sully. This week really turned into a week of play dates but oh so fun! We played with blocks ate lunch had fun and when A and B left we decided that we would go to the pool tomorrow! Ry got home told him about the pool date made meatloaf for dinner, watched some of the shows on our overly stocked DVR and then headed to bed!

Friday

Woke up this morning excited to be heading to the pool for the first time of the season! Picked up the house a little, got the kids ready to go, then B and A showed up so we headed to target to buy Sully some new swimming trunks. Went and changed into our swimming clothes and headed for the pool. Had loads of fun swimming. Fallon's first time at the pool she was too cute she just sat and played and stuck her feet in the water a few times. No big pool stuff for her yet because we want to wait for Daddy to be there for that first. After swimming we went to sonic for a snack, from sonic to home, we had leftovers and frozen pizza for dinner because we are all exhausted. Sully has a new favorite movie and we have watched it five times today UGH! Now I am writing this post and the boys are playing the PlayStation. About to be done here and head to bed!

A snack!

2009-05-26T23:08:00.005-05:00

Promise to post about the weekend/early week soon but until then how about a pic or two to tide everyone over a small snack if you will to keep everyone satisfied HAHA!

The Teething Monster!!!

2009-05-22T21:26:00.003-05:00

The teething monster story isn't as great as Hurricane Sully but I shall tell it anyway!!! As you all know Fallon is teething! EEK!!!!! Sometimes she is my normal happy girl and sometimes she is, "The Teething Monster." Her moods change so quick it's hard to determine what she is gonna be from one minute to the next! So I was taking some pictures last night as her ever changing moods went from happy to pissed. P.S. the pics were taken one right after the next with maybe a minute or two in between.

My Happy Baby!!!

The Teething Monster!!!

Sweet Beautiful Baby Girl!!!

Teething Monster!!!

Somewhere in the Middle!!!

At least she has on a pretty dress!!! Aaa the ever changing moods of my teething monster!!!

Hurricane Sully!!!

2009-05-22T10:36:00.010-05:00

So yesterday was one of those days that I clean, clean, cleaned and the end result was wonderful until Hurricane Sully swirled through leaving loads of destruction in his path. The main point of impact was my son's bedroom. We all have to remember as we look at these next pics that the bedroom was fully cleaned and vacuumed just minutes before the hurricane hit. Brace yourselves folks these next pics are so bad they will take you breath away. This is what happens when you leave your three year old alone while you go take a quick five minute shower. Well, I better say ten gotta add in getting dressed time. OK here goes:

Here is what it looked like after the cleaning crews came through and got all the mess cleared away. It took three dump trucks and several man hours but we got the mess from Hurricane Sully all taken care of thank goodness!!! Here is the end result:

Man I love being a mommy!!!! Stay tuned for the post about the teething monster later today!!!

Too cute not to share!!!!

2009-05-21T12:36:00.002-05:00

Hump Day!!!

2009-05-21T10:26:00.006-05:00

Yesterday was another fairly uneventful day at our house. I spent the day hanging with the kids. Fallon was a lot cranky yesterday thanks to those evil teeth she has coming in. Sully spent most of his day wanting to be out on the balcony watching the birds through his binoculars. It was so funny!! He kept telling me, "Mom, I got get to work!" Like bird watching is his job! I laughed so so hard at my silly son yesterday! He and I actually watched the second Underworld movie and he kept telling me, "Mom we have go! We have to run! Monsters get us, we got get out of here!" His words exactly. So I had to explain they were just in the TV and they couldn't get us and he seemed content with that and wasn't as scared anymore. Then when my hubby got home we had some breakfast burritos for dinner while we watched the awesome American Idol finale! YAY Kris Allen won!! He was the guy we were rooting for so that was exciting! Also got to see miss Fallon pass out on daddy's lap which is always an adorable thing to see. After that I watched an animal planet special on hippos! Such fascinating animals. It was cute because Sully knew what they were and kept informing me they were hippos and he also schooled me on crocodiles when they came onto the show as well. After the special we put the munchkins to bed, my hubby went to bed right after that but I stayed up and talked with my friend Bridget before heading to bed and passing out myself. I fun day with the family gotta love those days!!!

Catching Up!

2009-05-20T09:33:00.015-05:00

This may be short or long I am not sure so enjoy and I am posting a slide show of photos from the weekend too many to post on here. So here we go!

Friday

Friday was fairly boring really. It was payday YAY! Since it was payday I spend my day running around paying bills and picking up a few odds and ends. Came home Friday night had dinner and my boys spent the evening playing the new game they had gotten at the store while we were out. That was our Friday in a nutshell.

Saturday

Well Saturday was a busy day for us! I got up and got all my stuff ready and headed out the door to go get my recycling done. Got to the recycling center and it was packed! I had to park across the street leaving me to run back and forth to get my recycling out of the car not too big a deal. After I got done recycling I headed home and hung out with the munchkins for a few before Ry got home. After he got home we decided it was far too pretty a day out to waste so we packed everyone up even Aunt Courtney and headed to the Topeka Zoo. Got to the zoo around three to find out a very disappointing piece of info. They put the animal that we were so anxious to see (the elephants) away at three that day. Such a bummer. We did get to see lots of fun animals that day and some cool stuff. Sully was hilarious!!! He wanted to get in with some animals and he asked every single one how they were doing and what they were up to! That was my fave part! We started off with the lions, as you will see in the pics that was fun!!! The female lions had a tiff over the male and the female that won came right up to the glass on the inside of this "dark cave" (as Sully called it) and laid down and watched us. She was very interested in Aunt Courtney who had been holding miss Fallon so not sure what that was about but yeah she didn't take her eyes off them. After that we got to watch two giraffes one chasing after the other. We went into this little rain forest thing they have I did NOT like that. They had iguanas and mice and porcupines and bats and all kinds of stuff running around. The mice did me in I have a terrible fear of mice for some reason lol but then I saw the bats and bolted! Sully and everyone else loved it. Crazy people those bats are huge!!!! After the rain forest we headed over to see the goats!!! Sully got to feed them and he loved it!!! He was handing out the food piece by piece so he didn't miss any goat, it was adorable and one of the cutest things ever!!! Once we were out of goat feeding money we checked out the rest of the zoo and then headed across the street from the zoo the check out a very neat park they have there where Sully played and had a blast. Aunt Courtney did too as you will see in some pics. After we were exhausted from all that we grabbed some food and headed home. We got home and watched this special on the national geographic channel about a man and his grizzly bear! Very cool special I totally recommend watching it. After that everyone was pretty much ready to pass out so Ry and the kiddos headed to bed while Aunt Courtney and I stayed up and ended up playing cards until 4:30am with my wonderful friend Bridget. It was a long day but a fun one and I was exhausted when I finally rolled into bed around five a.m.

Sunday

Well I got to sleep in a little considering the time I went to bed. Once I was up and going I had to get out the door had a ton of things to do. First stop was a haircut for my little man. I love Amanda the girl that cuts his hair! Then after that a quick stop next door to pick up a few things. Then we were off to the mall to run an errand. Got stuck there for a few mins because they had this HUGE model train track set up and they had trains running on it and everything and because Sully loves trains of course we had to check things out! He loved it and had to call daddy and tell him about it. After that we were off to grocery shop. Got that done and headed home. Had brats and hot dogs for dinner and watched a movie. After the movie everyone headed to bed all so tired from a long weekend!

Monday

Monday held lots of busy stuff. Cleaning, filling out paperwork, a trip to the park, yummy dinner, some TV watching, and before bed Fallon learned a new trick! She sat up without help or a prop just bam middle of the floor wanted to sit up and she did it!!!! YAY Ry was so excited because he got to see it before me and he never gets that. I don't know if I had more fun watching her or him lol either way it was a busy fun Monday!

Tuesday

Did nothing! Played with the kids watched TV and had manicotti for dinner.

Sorry this is such a long post enjoy the slide show!!!

Clean, clean, cleaning day!!!!

2009-05-15T10:39:00.004-05:00

Well nothing like a day of cleaning to get ya exhausted! That's what I did yesterday clean, clean, cleaned! Scrubbed the floors, vacuumed, did dishes, did laundry, you name I did it yesterday! While I scrubbed away at my house my kids just played away. Fallon following me from room to room, Sully pulling Fallon where he wanted her to go. OY! That boy! He decided that he thinks it's ok to pull Fallon around by her feet so she gets to where he wants her faster. This is a BIG problem for me so Sully got lots of time outs yesterday, not a very good day for him. Fallon seemed to have a decent day yesterday. Not as much screaming as the rest of the week, guess her teeth have taken a break from torturing her for the moment. Fallon also had one other fun thing happen yesterday besides a break from teething pain. She can sit up as long as we sit her up she can balance and get back to crawling and all but yesterday for the first time ever she sat herself up!!!! Yay for baby accomplishments!!! So basically a break down of the evening was this: I got the house cleaned, got the kids showered, got myself showered, got dinner on the table, made my hubby clean up from dinner, then had an interesting conversation with my friend Bridget, while Ry gave the kiddos a bath, after the bath they were off to bed and so were we. A pretty successful day, got lots done. too bad I had to get up this morning and see more dishes to be done and more laundry to be washed. So goes the life of a mommy. At least I have some cute kiddos to look at!!!!!!

A peanut butter cookie kind of day!!!

2009-05-14T10:32:00.015-05:00

Hmm yesterday, what happened...well Sully sat on Fallon. He just plopped right down on her. Thank goodness she thinks everything he does is funny or she may have realized that probably should have hurt her. Then while I folded some laundry Fallon crawled under my feet and bugged me lol while Sully played his daddy's PS3. He is really into playing the game Little Big Planet , its a great game for adults and kids alike. As you all know Fallon is mobile now. Talk about a pain in the rear. I was so not ready for that. She has really gotten adventurous lately and is not just staying in her designated areas but venturing out into the unknown spaces in our apartment for example, her brother's room. I was doing dishes and she was sitting watching me and playing with a measuring cup then out of the blue she disappeared. So I searched in the living room and dining room for her and she wasn't in either of those rooms. So realizing Sully wasn't around bugging me either I headed back to Sully's room where I found both my kids peacefully playing with blocks and having a great time. I didn't get to take any pics because Fallon realized I was in the room and it became a pick me up or play with us situation so I chose to stay and play and leave the camera out of it. We had tons of block playing fun and then Fallon got cranky so she napped, I showered, and Sully watched some Wubzy. After my shower I waited for Ry to let me know he was on his way home so I could start making dinner (cheesy, chicken, and rice very yummy). Ry got home and while dinner was cooking he and Sully played some more PlayStation a different game this time. Once dinner was done we settled in to watch our Wednesday night show were very thrilled with the outcome and then put our munchkins to bed. I stayed up a little longer and made some very tasty peanut butter cookies and after a small snack my hubby and I headed off to get some much needed sleep.

The things kids do.

2009-05-13T10:13:00.007-05:00

So yesterday I forgot to tell you all about Sully and his new need for brushing my hair. He has all of a sudden decided that my hair is ALWAYS a mess and his fix is to brush it. I don't mind this but it has become constant and I can't exactly get much done with my three year old running behind me with my hairbrush saying, "Mom your hair mess, let me fix it." LOL, I know! He has also recently started quizzing Ryan and I on our colors making sure we know them I guess. Oh and he has been going number two in the potty since Friday with no accidents!!!!! I'd say that's something to celebrate!!!! I am glad that my kids get along. Since Fallon has started crawling she either follows me around or she follows Sully around. Lately it seems she is much more interested in her big brother so thank goodness he doesn't mind having a tag along. It's funny when they are playing if Fallon gets fussy and I go and pick her up Sully tells me to put her down because she wants to play with him lol it's adorable, and about one of the cutest things ever! Well I have my daughter trying to attack me so this is a short post, but one more piece of exciting news! Fallon has bee pulling herself up a lot recently onto her knees and last night she managed to get past her knees and onto her feet!!!! EEK! She is gonna be walking before we know it!

Uneventful Day!!!

2009-05-12T10:19:00.005-05:00

Hmm what to tell about yesterday? Not much really we had a mostly uneventful day. Hung out with the adorable munchkins, waited for my hubby to get home, ate taco salad for dinner, and watched some TV. The best thing that happened to us yesterday involved the kids and their first "fight." Fallon was sitting on the floor playing with a toy and Sully decided to come over and take it from her, she looked right at him and yelled her loudest yell ever. It wasn't a cry it was more like a, "YOU BETTER GIVE ME MY TOY BACK NOW!" sort of yell. It was hilarious! We laughed so hard at it and Fallon continued this new yell until Sully gave her the toy back so I suppose it worked. Eight months and already has attitude, I am thinking I am in trouble! After this we finished the show we were watching, put the kiddos to bed, and went to bed ourselves. See pretty uneventful! Oh well still a very funny "fight" story!

Mother's Day 2009

2009-05-11T11:31:00.006-05:00

Mother's Day this year started out like any other day, babies awake early, me not ready to wake up. Since it was suppose to be my day Ry got up with the kids! That was nice I got a little extra sleep! I finally rolled out of bed a few hours later and we started getting ready to go over to Ry's dad's house so we could grill out. We have to go over there because we can't have grills at our apartment complex (BOO!). Well Ryan and Sully headed over a little earlier than us girls because I had to finish up my only job for the day deviled eggs! Once they were all done we headed over to join the fellas, who were already well into the cooking process by the time we got there. So we arrived to some very yummy smells!!! I dropped off a few things including Fallon and headed with Aunt Courtney to the wal-mart to pick up the fixings for strawberry shortcake because we figured we should have a dessert! Got back from wal-mart just in time for me to make Fallon a bottle and feed her and chill for a few minutes, then it was time for food! Ribs, brisket, potatoes, corn on the cob, rolls, and my deviled eggs!! Ate waaaay too much good food then put Fallon down for a nap. Stepped outside for a few after putting her down and Sully proceeded to fall in a big bunch of mud and cover himself in it. He did not like that at all, so I took some pics before cleaning him off. While I was cleaning up Sully, Aunt Courtney decided to give Lily the Yorkie a haircut. So at this point we have full tummy's, a clean Sully, and a napping Fallon. So we played Apples to Apples . Great game if you have never played it you should! Played a few games and then Fallon woke up cranky and ready to go home so around eight we headed for home. Got here had our shortcake and put our kids to bed. We watched a Jeff Dunham show that I had recorded on the dvr had some good laughs and then headed to bed ourselves. Pretty good day if I do say so myself!!!!

Fun Stuff from Yesterday!!!!

2009-05-10T10:45:00.005-05:00

Well we had a very very busy day yesterday! We did all kinds of fun stuff! Ryan and I went and recycled then went to a farmer's market here in town. Bought a few fun random things. After that we came home to pick up our munchkins and save Aunt Courtney's sanity. We got the kiddos and went to visit grandpa! Got a few fun pics of Fallon with grandpa FINALLY! Then we decided a nice trip to the park was in order so with grandpa along for the ride we went and let Sully run around and go crazy at the park!!!! I loved it! Fallon napped thru all of this. Then we went and did some grocery shopping and brought ourselves home. Exhausted we had some pizza for dinner put the kids to bed and instead of going to bed early we stayed up and played board games with my sister and her bf. All in all a great day!!! Nothing too funny and random I can think of to report, well Ry just told me that Fallon was crawling in circles around him just to climb over his legs that's pretty funny, wish I had pics of that! Oh while we were at the park, Sully wanted to go down the slide and there was a big kid just sitting in the slide and he wouldn't go down so Sully, becoming impatient decided he was gonna give this kid a helpful push down the slide. I personally was thinking GOOD JOB! But also thinking that's not a good habit to get into. So there ya go fun stories from our day!!! Happy Mother's Day everyone!!!!!

This is where you could find Fallon and Ry during most of our park fun lol!

Funny moment of the day!!!!

2009-05-09T01:20:00.004-05:00

Well today has marked a new milestone for my son. He finally is going number two in the potty!!!! Yes I know everyone wants to hear about this lol! Anyway so the funny story is he went and I wanted to make a big deal out of it so I gave him a dollar (because he is into money these days for some reason) and let him call his daddy to tell him. Well Ry is at work. For those of you who don't know my husband works at a car dealership and is around customers all day. So today the place was packed with customers and we are calling to tell him about poop. Right. So I tell Ryan he needs to tell Sully good job and congratulate him and all and Ry's response is, "Right now!?" LOL! He's thinking you want me, in a room full of customers, to tell my son, "Way to go buddy you pooped in the potty!" right. So I let him know that all he had to do is tell him good job. So he does and Sully proceeds to tell him the best thing he said today, he said, "Daddy I got a dollar for my poops!" How hilarious is that? Anyway funny story, fun milestone, and great day all around. We made homemade sushi today, I will have to post about that tomorrow that was an adventure.

Fallon Army Crawling!!! So Cute!!!

2009-04-22T09:57:00.001-05:00

Fallon Army Crawling!!! So Cute!!!
Originally uploaded by lilchick0486

Well Fallon is finally mobile!!!! She keeps trying to get her hands and knees working at the same time but hasn't quite figured out how to yet, so for now she has figured out a way to move around without getting her hands and knees in sync. It cracks me up and scares me all at the same time! She's gonna be everywhere and in everything before we know it. Shoot she already is. Anywho here is a little video. Enjoy!!!

Fallon's Birthday!!!!

2009-04-17T23:26:00.001-05:00

Fallon banging on her "drum"
Originally uploaded by lilchick0486

Well today is Fallon's seven month birthday!!!! Holy crap how did we get here so fast!?!??!!!!! We had loads of fun today and I intend to update soon with some stories and pics but this is what she spent a lot of her day doing, notice how she is sitting unassisted? BIG day for her!!!!

Fallon's crib is finallly together!!!!

2009-04-01T14:45:00.001-05:00

Well it has finally happened our daughter has a crib!!! Daddy finally got it out of the box and put it together!!! YAY!!! I love it, it looks so darn cute! It's very girly without being too girly I think. Anyway here are a few pics, as you will notice at the end she has no problem sleeping in her new bed. She has even started sleeping straight thru the night with no bottle wants at all. Anywho enjoy!!!!

Fish out of water!!!

2009-02-12T12:37:00.006-06:00

So in the past week Fallon has started this very funny thing where she is on her belly and drops her hands and just starts kicking away! She wants to be mobile so badly it hurts lol. Right now she hasn't got it all figured out but she does have a very funny looking half crawl half swim thing going. She looks like a fish out of water it's so funny!!! Anyway I am gonna upload a video of her that I have. I can't get the video to work from uploading it straight from my computer so she has made her youtube debut at five months old. Anywho Enjoy!!!

A few funny stories!!!

2009-02-04T12:02:00.007-06:00

So Fallon discovered her feet about a week ago!!! So so funny! She couldn't get them to do what she wanted and oh my how mad she got!!! She was screaming and fussing she was so mad at her darn feet lol. I have never seen anything so gosh darn funny. She also loves the bathtub so much that she fell asleep mid bath on Saturday. Such a silly girl.

Sully has gotten his first love, my friend Sara. Sara comes over once a week for dinner and hanging out and Sully has just gotten so attached to her. They play and laugh and have a grand 'ole time and last night Sully kissed her goodnight and everything! When he woke up this morning he was so upset that "his" Sara was gone that he started crying. Too darn cute!!! My kids they make life so much fun!!!

Kiddo Update (Fallon is four months old now)!!!!

2009-01-27T12:03:00.003-06:00

Well it's official! Fallon is four months old now!!! Man how the time flies! I can't believe its already been four months since she came out of my belly and into this world! She is doing great!! Weighing 15 pds 8 ozs and growing like a weed at 24 inches long! She is also making loads of screeches and grunts and new noises. It's amazing fun having two kids!! Sully loves her to pieces and she loves him! I think they are both very anxious for the day they can actually play together. Fallon has started rolling! Nothing continuous yet but she's got the back to front front to back thing down!! She also grabbed a rattle for the first time this month! She is really starting to get interested in her toys and her brother's toys...I can already see the fights over toys that are gonna happen lol!!! She loves her exersaucer. It's fun for her because she can sit up right and look around and Sully will bring his cars over and run them around her and all the while she can sit and watch him, or I will sit her in front of the tv and they will watch cartoons together while she's in it. What a wonderful invention that exersaucer!!! Hmmm what else? We had some cereal this month, not sure if she loves it or hates it but so far it's going alright. The last thing that I think is the cutest for her is my parents got her a sock monkey for Christmas and we keep it in her playpen and at night she pulls it toward her and sits and talks to it. It is the cutest thing ever!!! I will even wake up in the morning to her going crazy with noises all because she is chatting away with her little crib friend! I love it!!! Not much else to report on the kid front really. Sully has eczema which is a new and interesting thing we are dealing with...he also has this speech thing but I will post about that some other time. Stay warm everyone!!!

The Imagination of a Child!!!

2009-01-08T19:08:00.000-06:00

So I wanted to share this amazing moment I had with Sully today.

I will first start by saying Ryan got this little remote control toy helicopter for Christmas that Sully has been dieing to get his hands on but has yet to do because it will break and is a little too complicated for him. So when it comes to the actual toy Sully has settled for watching daddy play with it and he helps by picking it up and setting it up right so that Ry can fly off again after a crash landing.

Anyway my moment of awe today came when Sully got out his legos to play, typical thing for him to do during the day, dump them all on my floor, make a mess, play a little, and then move on. Well today was a little different, Sully built him and I remotes out of his legos. I was a little lost a first then realized what he was doing after a minute of watching. He was making a buzzing noise and staring up at the ceiling, all the while playing with his "remote." He was pretending he was flying a plane just like daddy's! I was amazed it was soo adorable. His plane crashed and he went and very carefully set it up right and went right on playing. I started to play with him and at one point my plane "crashed" so Sully very gently picked it up and went to the dining room table and proceeded to "fix" my broken plane. Once done he brought it back and proclaimed that it was, "Fixed!!!" so I could continue my playing. Once again sending me into amazement at watching him. Then our next hurdle came when he "lost" his plane lol. This upset him very much so he got on his cell phone (also pretend) and called his dad. He dialed -beep-beep-beep and called and talked to his dad for all of a minute so upset at his loss. Then at the end of the "call" he said, "Ok Dad!" Very happy about something then he went behind his sister's exersaucer and "found" the plane. "I found it," he exclaimed! I couldn't believe it.

We continued our playing for a good thirty minutes more before he was bored of it but it just set me in awe and shock. He has never shown that much imagination before and it was just so neat to see. You hear about a child's mind and how fascinating it is and even though at one point you had that same imagination its so hard to believe, until you get to watch your own child and their imagination. So pure, and innocent, and amazing. I loved every minute of it and it just makes me that much happier and thankful for my kids. So the next time your child has an awesome moment cherish it and love every minute of it because they won't stay that way forever, and someday you will have to be the one to remind them f that amazing imagination they once had.

A new year, some new goals, and a new attitude!!!

2009-01-02T17:46:00.000-06:00

Well first of all HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! Welcome to another year everyone! I personally am rooting for a wonderful 2009, last year was such a trying year, lots of stuff happened, some good and some bad, guess that's just how the cookie crumbles. Anyway, I am starting off the year with a new outlook and attitude towards life and friends, and rooting for some new goals...not weight gain or quitting smoking (made that happen last year YEAH!) but some other healthy ways of living. So here for your viewing pleasure are my 2000 and 9 resolutions!!!

Number One
Eating healthier my entire family!!!! Eating out less and staying in to cook good healthy food, this one is gonna be rough for my boys.

Number Two
Being greener!!!-We are gonna start recycling and using green products and do our best over the next year to appreciate our earth a little more. I feel this one should be easy as long as we develop the right system.

Number Three
I want to help charity. Donate, offer my help in some shelters, instead of throwing away old toys or clothes giving them to the salvation army, that sort of thing. I feel this one will be good for me and my self-esteem, I have so much and just want to give back a little.

Number Four
Save Money!!! So easy to say, so hard to do.

Number Five
Last but not least, I am making it a goal this year to spend at least one weekend all alone with my hubby. It's been two years since we had a night alone and I think at least one weekend is in order.

Anyway wish me luck!!! If any of you made new resolutions I wish you the best of luck with your goals!!! Also if you have any advice for me about any of my goals and how to make them easier on me please let me know I would love to hear your suggestions!!!

Peace, Love, and Chicken Grease!!!! (Yeah I am feeling a bit silly tonight!)

Merry Chirstmas!!!!

2008-12-26T11:33:00.001-06:00

Hey everyone!! Hope everybody had a merry Christmas!!! We did! We got spend our first Chirstmas morning at home!!! Talk about the best time ever!!! Sully had a great time opening gifts. The only trouble we had was that he would open one thing and want to play with it instead of opening the next thing lol. I think it's safe to say we have spoiled kiddos! I am glad we can do that for them though. We still have one more Christmas to go to and I am thinking, "Do we need more?" We got soo much already! Got to see our wonderful family, got tons of gifts, ate too much, suppose that's the holidays though! Anyway hope everyone had a wonderful holiday, got all they wanted, and stuffed themselves silly!!!

Kiddo Update Fallon is three months old now!!!

2008-12-22T17:05:00.000-06:00

Hey everyone!!! As we are rounding the three month mark in Fallon's life I thought I would send out a small update!!! We don't go back to the doc until next month so no size updates although Fallon is supporting weight on her legs now, smiling all the time, she has started making loads of noises when she is happy, she also can push up on her arms and hold her weight for a few seconds at a time...basically she is doing great!!! She discovered her hands and loves to suck on them, and I think that's about all the new stuff she has done!!! Sully has had his first "monster" scare which made for one very long night. We think we have cleared up the scare for now....but it will probably come back, as we think the heater is his monster. He is also doing very well in the potty training area!!! We still have accidents as we are all learning but things are coming right along in that area so YAY!!! I think that's about it!!!

Can't Sleep.

2008-12-08T23:11:00.000-06:00

Can't sleep have too much on my mind so I figured why not blog a little about my day.

Well let's see woke up at seven to my hungry little piglet, Fallon, got her fed then did a bit of net surfing all the while having a very intellectual conversation with my three month old...full of oos and aaas and all those wonderful first baby noises. I have been enjoying her noises soo soo much. She is also smiling tons!!! She is such a happy baby. She loves her mommy very much hehe!

About nine my monster got up and then my day got a bit crazy!!! Seems the crazy level in my house always goes up about 100 notches once he gets out of bed. We both ate cookies for breakfast...real healthy I know but I figure what the heck its the holidays and I made about 5 dozen cookies last night lol...we had them with milk so that balances out right ;). Sully and I spent the rest of our morning coloring and watching cartoons while Fallon slept in her boppy next to us on the floor. We spent our afternoon with me watching desperate housewives and Sully in my room watching more cartoons. I also cleaned cleaned cleaned my house...because I never do that, haha.

About seven Ryan got home made biscuits and gravy (yummy!) and we spent the rest of our night juggling our munchkins. Very interesting day in the life of us I know! Conversations with three month olds and three year olds, coloring, and cartoons! I totally love every minute of it!!!

Seems my typical day is ending badly though because I found out my mom isn't doing very well. She is in the hospital and has been for a month now and seems to be getting worse, although I am assured she is supposed to start getting better I just don't know how to feel. As most of you know I have a bad relationship with my mom, I haven't spoken to or seen her in almost three years and now I am thinking I am gonna have to break down and go see her, because if nothing else to ease my own mind. If she dies I will never forgive myself for not going and I will have that with me for the rest of my life, but if she's ok in the end am I expected to start seeing her and being a "daughter" again? So there lies my dilemma. Shall I stick to my values and not go or do I go? I mean no matter how far apart I have distanced myself from her she is still my mom right? So the obvious choice is go and see her...but on the flip side of that I feel I would be going solely because of selfish reasons, to ease my conscience because if she pulls out of this I won't be able to have a relatinoship with her, it's just too hard. I have given the woman so many chances in my life and she screws them all up and I am afraid if my kids know her she will somehow hurt them and I can't have that. Although like I said she is my mom. There is also this nagging feeling I have about being the oldest sibling. I am the oldest and in times like this feel I should be helping my younger siblings thru this trouble and be taking on the burdens that they are taking on. I am the strongest of all of us and I am sitting here on my butt having nothing to do with the entire situation isn't that selfish? God I am so confused. Am I selfish or am I doing the right thing? Who knows? I think I will go see my mom seems to me that is what I should do, if not for myself, for her, and my siblings so they have me to lean on. Yeah that's what I should do, that's the right thing to do.

The Dembkowski Bunch

Homemade Coloring Books!!!

Capes!

Family Movie Night!!!

The Fourth!!!

Fallon singing and yelling at mommy!!!

Adorable places to find Adorable things!!!

Fell in love with this poem today!!!

For some Special Fellas!!!

Fallon dancing!!

Swimming-Swimming-Swimming!!!

Marigold Update!!!

Hello from our cuties!!!

Fallon!!!

Ramblings

A special day for some special ladies!

Tent fun!!!

Sandbox or makeshift pool?

Through the eyes of Sully.

Sibling Rivalry!

Pictures!

Peanut Butter and Jelly Roll Ups!!!

I redid my flower bed!!!

K-State Spring Game!!!

The Deanna Rose Farmstead!!!

Where have we been?!

We got a turtle sandbox!!!!

Marigold update!

Sully..who else!

Courtney and Josh!

I-Phone App girl!

Ryan (Part1)

Playing with Google's Picasa!!!

Howdy!

Sick, Sick, Sick!

The end of Ry's vacation and Easter weekend (Part 2)!!!

The end of Ry's vacation and Easter weekend (Part 1)!!!

A little water, bubbles, sidwalk chalk, and FUN!

We finally planted our Marigolds!!!

My children and their first act of thievery!

Sully!

What we did today!

Isn't he Handsome!!!

Sad but Happy!!!

It's GAME DAY!!!!!

My fave team advances to the Elite 8 and my fave Town rejoices!!!

YAY!!!!

Painting Clay Pots!!!

Sully...oy that boy!

!!OY!!

Bikes!

Hiatus!!!!

Egg Carton Flowers on a rainy day!!!

Apple Painting!

Hello there!

"Mommy! I have to poop!"

It's Monday and I wish it was Friday again....

HOLY COW AN UPDATE!!!!!!!

Fallon is walking video!!!

Vacation Update!!!

YAY!

Hmm Hmm....

Quick! Quick!

Crappy Monday.

Father's Day!!!

A little bit of catch up!!!

My baby is 9 months old already *CRY*

Update soon!

Fallon video!!!

Funny swimming video!

What a lazy Wednesday!

Continuing a Great Week!!!

Fantastical Mondays!!!

Quick Quick!

Fine!

Catching Up!!!

A snack!

The Teething Monster!!!

Hurricane Sully!!!

Too cute not to share!!!!

My baby is 9 months old already CRY