THE KIDS MEET CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG

DANIEL AND HAILEY WITH CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG

CLIFFORD AT BARNES AND NOBLE BOOKSTORE

THE KIDS LISTENING TO A CLIFFORD STORY

HAILEY SHAKING CLIFFORDS PAW

DANIEL GIVING CLIFFORD A HIGH FIVE

HAILEY SHOWING OFF ALL HER TATTOOS

HAILEY WITH HER NEW VALENTINES DAY CLIFFORD BOOK

DANIEL WITH HIS NEW VALENTINES DAY BERENSTAIN BEARS BOOK

Today We went to our local Barnes and Noble and they were having a book fair. All books bought from Parents of children that go to Daniel's school a percentage of the profits goes towards the school. I was volunteering at one of the booths for the school PTA putting temporary tattoos on kids and Hailey was one of my best costumers getting 3 of them. They also had Clifford The Dog there and one of the ladies in the bookstore was reading Clifford books to the kids. The kids enjoyed meeting Clifford the dog as they love reading books about him. Funny thing this morning before We went Hailey was all excited to be going to see Clifford and Daniel turns to her and says "Sissy Clifford is not a real dog It is someone in a costume" I was a little amazed those words came out of his mouth and He knew that but later in the day I had found out some of the 2nd graders at the school were saying that. I never thought at 6 He would realize they were costumes and now He is going around saying to his sister Chuck E Cheese isnt real either He is a guy in a mouse costume, But Mickey Mouse is real but the real Mickey Mouse is only at Disney World all others are in costume. The funny things kids say.

DANIEL'S JUMP ROPE FOR HEART

DANIEL DOING JUMP ROPE FOR HEART IN PE CLASS

DANIEL AND HIS CLASS JUMPING ROPE

DANIEL TRYING THE POGO BALL

A NEW ICE CREAM STORE IN TOWN

DANIEL WITH HIS GIANT ICE CREAM CONE IT WAS DOUBLE CHOCOLATE WITH MARSHMELLOWS

HAILEY WITH HER GIANT ICE CREAM CONE IT WAS COTTON CANDY AND BUBBLEGUM

THE KIDS ENJOYING THEIR ICE CREAM

Yesterday in Daniel's PE class in school He participated in the Jump Rope For Heart event. He jumped rope in honor of his Great-Grandpa Hymie and his Great Uncle Michael. He raised 165.00 for The American Heart Association. Hailey and I were able to watch him for the last few minutes as it was toward the end of the school day. It was cute watching all these kindergardeners trying to jump rope and jump on pogo balls but Daniel did very well. It was kinda hard to get good pictures as they were all running around and jumping. After school for a special treat and considering I had to take them to get their second dose of their H1N1 shots I took them to this new ice cream store in town. They each got gignatic ice cream cones and these were actually considered kid sized cones and they forgot about their shots they had to get very quickly.

FAMILY UPDATE

THE KIDS EXCITED TO GET A PACKAGE IN THE MAIL WAITING TO GET ON THE WEB CAM WITH GRANDPA AND GRANDMA AND OPEN IT

STORM COMFY ON MY BED NEW BED SET I GOT FREE AT THE LINENS N THINGS GIVE-AWAY ON BASE LAST WEEK ONE OF THE GOOD THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN THE LAST FEW WEEKS.

WAITING TO GO TO SCHOOL

MR BEANS IN HIS PET SNUGGLIE

HER HAT BECAME PART OF HER WARDROBE FOR THE LAST WEEK

HAILEY WITH HER BLOSSEM HAT

HAILEY'S TWO STAPLES SHE HAD IN HER HEAD (WE ARE HOPING IT DOESNT SCAR AND HEALS REALLY WELL)

DANIEL VERY EXCITED TO SEE A CHOCOLATE SPIDERMAN LOLLIPOP

SOME EARLY VALENTINE TREATS FROM GRANDPA AND GRANDMA

HAILEY EXCITED TO GET HANNAH MONTANA VALENTINES TO MAKE FOR HER FRIENDS

DANIEL EXCITED TO GET WOLVERINE VALENTINES TO MAKE FOR HIS FRIENDS

DANIEL STILL A DOLPHINS FAN EVEN THOUGH THERE SEASON IS DONE (WE ARE ROOTING FOR THE COLTS AND SAINTS TO BE IN THE SUPERBOWL AND THE COLTS TO WIN IT)

HAILEY AND MR BEANS HE WASNT FEELING TOO GOOD IN THIS PICTURE

CLOSE UP OF MISS HAILEY

HAILEY FINALLY ABLE TO WASH HER HAIR AFTER 8 DAYS OF HAVING THE STAPLES IN

DANIEL AND MR BEANS HE IS FEELING MUCH BETTER

HAILEY FIRST DAY BACK TO SCHOOL AFTER HER STAPLES WERE REMOVED

I know it seems like it has been forever since I updated the blog and I said I was going to try to do posts more frequently. It has been a very hectic few weeks around here. Justin is doing great. We get to talk with him for a few minutes on the phone or on the web cam about 4 times a week. Skype is the greatest invention in the world to be able to see Justin while He is so far away and Him being able to see the Kids and Me. He works alot to keep himself busy. He works 13 hour days 5 on and 1 off so only gets 1 day off a week. And our days are completely opposite as He is 12 hours ahead of us. My old laptop crashed and Thank You very much to My Parents they helped me out to get a new one. You never realize how much stuff you do on a daily basis on a computer until you dont have one. Im sending my old one out today to hopefully be fixed but it wont be back from 6-8 weeks and i dont know if it will be able to be fixed. I had actually contacted a virus from facebook from a 3rd party application I had downloaded which I have now blocked every 3rd party app and game that you can play on facebook from my account. I will only go on facebook now to upload pictures and talk to Friends and Family and I will no longer use Myspace at all as I have heard that is the number 1 causing virus website. As most of you know Hailey took a trip to the Er about 10 days ago because Her Brother throw a toy chair at her head and She ended up getting two staples which were removed yesterday and She is doing great now. She wore this cute little blossom looking hat to school for the whole week She had her staples in but was very happy last night as She was finally able to get her hair wet. Also this past weekend poor Mr Beans got into the garbage and got ahold of something that tore up his stomache. He had to go Monday to the vet where they took a stomache xray to make sure nothing was abstract in his belly. Thankfully the x ray came out fine and He was diagnoised with a bacteria infection and He is on antibiotic and special foods for the next 5 days. He had a rough 24 hours but seems to be doing alot better now. They say bad things happen in 3's. I really hope nothing else goes wrong the rest of this deployment. On a good note Daniel next Friday is doing a Jump Rope For Heart in his PE class at school. He has been taking donations for the American Heart Association and has chosen to jump in honor of His Great-Grandfather Hymie and his Great Uncle Michael whom both suffered from Heart Disease. He is very excited to be participating in this event and supporting such a great cause. He has already raised 150.00 and Thank You to everyone who has donated for him. I think that just about catches us up for the last few weeks and I will definitly try to update more frequently. We have almost survived 1 month of this deployment with another 5 to go I just hope the time goes as fast as possible with no more drama and our Family can be all back together again.