Tired

Well, our company is gone and we are all tired. Gage and Emma went to bed very easy tonight, and I am so glad, as Scott is out in western ND hunting antelope. His friend Steve got his, but Scott shot and missed. I'm not sure how you can kill 5 birds with 4 shots, and miss an antelope?? HA HA! Hopefully he gets it tomorrow and he'll be done with it. Then he'll be home long enough to get his crap together to head to Tuttle to hunt ducks. He has a friend from college staying there to hunt with him. The fall season is in full swing. I'm just thankful Brie goes with him! :-) I'm going to have to train her to hunt antelope for next year!

We're heading back to normal. Hopefully we all wake up completely rested tomorrow and ready to start a new day!

Gage

My sister-in-law took these pictures and emailed them to me. I thought they were pretty neat, so I thought I would share. It is a little difficult to see them here, so sorry about that. Apparently these were taken outside of Topeka, KS. We are going to have to go through there some day when we are vacationing. I think lunch at the Magic Wok in Gage Village sounds like a great place to eat! Gage would get a kick out of it. I'm surely going to have to do a scrapbook page of these different Gage signs. :-)

It is a beautiful day out today. Temp in the high 50's lower 60's. My kind of fall weather. Gage has his second den meeting tonight for Cub Scouts, so I'm trying to get things ready for that. Not much else going on. Gage and Emma are loving the complete and undivided attention of their grandparents. They will certainly have to be deprogrammed tomorrow afternoon. That's never a fun job but somebody's gotta do it!

Field trip to Papa's Pumpkin Patch

I took these pictures of Gage and Emma on Gage's field trip to the pumpkin patch. They are great posers! HA! You don't know what it took to get them to sit next to each other for this photo. Gage kept asking another friend if he wanted to be in it. I took one of him too, so he wouldn't feel bad, but I really was trying to get a photo for our Christmas letter this year.

The Birthday Boy turns 7!!!

I meant to add these pictures to the "May The Force Be With You" post. I made this cake for Gage for his birthday. The pictures make the cake look MUCH better than it actually was! I had major problems with it, but in the end, Gage loved it and it tasted good, so that is all that matters!

May the force be with you!

Wow! The week is over and I am so glad! Gage had his birthday party Thursday. We had 13 kids marching in line on our 2 1/2 block walk home. Here is a word to the wise...............if you have 13 kids coming to your house, do NOT, I repeat, do NOT make them take their shoes off. My house reeked like stinky feet. It was also a mistake for them to remove their shoes because they had all been on a field trip earlier in the morning to the pumpkin patch. Their shoes were filled with straw, which was then tracked all over the house. I don't know why I bothered cleaning before they arrived? Thank goodness the weather was wonderful and the rest of the party was spent outdoors. I even took the cake outside. I am so glad I did, as there were many spills that occurred! Gage had a blast and I think his friends had fun too? I was exhausted and I still am. I have been getting up at 5:15 am this past week to get a couple of hours of work in before the kids have to get up to get ready for school. This is following a week of not being able to get to sleep until 3 am because I was working late. If I ever get my sleep schedule in order, things will be looking good! I'll post some pictures tomorrow if I get a chance. Scott's parents are coming to visit for the weekend, so not sure what kind of time I will have. Wish me luck..........I will need it.

Popcorn

Cub Scout popcorn sales officially started yesterday. Gage is doing great. This is funny.........tonight after supper, the doorbell rang. Emma answered it and I could tell she didn't know what to say, so I went to see who it was. It was a young boy selling raffle tickets for Cathedral School fundraiser. The tickets were $1, so I went to look for some money. Of course I can't find any dollar bills, so I started rummaging for change. When I came back to the door, Gage was outside trying to sell this kid some popcorn. LOL! I was a little embarrassed at first. The kid's Dad then came up to the door and looked at the popcorn choices. They live a block south of us and he sent us to his house for his wife to buy some popcorn. I guess that'll teach em! HA HA! So, we met some new neighbors with kids about Gage and Emma's ages. They seem very nice. Gage and Emma had a blast playing with the 4-year-old girl while I stood inside collecting money.

I have tons to do to get ready for Gage's big birthday bash on Thursday. Gage told me that if you wish someone well, that means they will get better. He says we have the power to change the future. I'm wishing myself luck, because I am going to need it. We have about 8 kids slated to walk home with us after school, plus a few others that don't go to his school. I'm going to need some luck.

Back to the old drawing board!

Well, I'm back and I survived my wonderful weekend of scrapbooking! I haven't worked on my albums for so long it is pathetic. I scrapped 36 pages and felt a huge sense of accomplishment! I experimented this time to see if I went to bed earlier, could I do as many pages. Well, it seems that I can do MORE pages if I go to bed earlier! I wasn't too surprised. I could certainly tell when I started dragging and I just got up and went to bed, then got up early the next morning and went to town on my pages. No migraine this time, thank goodness!

My friend Tonya, who I rode with, was sick and I had to take over driving and take her to the emergency room in Dickinson on our way there. She was suffering a severe sinus infection and I felt so bad for her. She was a trooper and fought back and was feeling a little better by Saturday afternoon.

I got home Sunday about 6:30 pm and it was nice to sleep in my own bed. I was checking to see if Gage got his homework done over the weekend and saw his paper laying on the table. I picked it up to see that Scott actually did it for him. Gage has been having Math papers that we play games with either cards or dice and he is he then supposed to write about what we played and what happened. Scott wrote it instead of Gage. Gage did write on the sheet, and when I looked at it I was trying to figure out what in the world he wrote. It said, "I usd penis". I asked Scott what the heck that was about. He hadn't even looked at the paper. It was supposed to say "I used pennies". He was just sounding out his words. Needless to say, since the homework is due tomorrow, I kept the sheet home and we'll give it another go tonight! Sure glad I looked it over! Not sure what his teacher would have thought about that?!?

Cub Scouts tonight. We are busy busy busy!