sickness abounds here

Rylan sick all last week with sore throat....then i woke with a cold Saturday and now Sunday Rylan has a cold like me ughh....i so hate being sick.....we did manage to go to the movies yesterday and seen rise of guardians cute movie we went with mindi allyssa Rylan Andrew randy and me ....afterwards Andrew and i went to walmart so he could get a ps 3 game ...i stocked up on orange juice walmart brand is my favorite also clam chowder and their frozen pancakes and sausage patties....now back to.laying around and waiting to get well....also took Rylan in for a strep throat test Friday of course he said he throat wasn't hurting anymore but it was still really red the doc even said it looked painful. blah

Thanks Giving 2012

a nice thanksgiving meal was had at my house this year ....we in vited Threasa Marvin.and the kids....my Mom happy grandma Allyssa my little niece , my brother bobby and his boy Joseph and of course mindi,Andrew and  Rylan ....we had my brother Billy with us on the side table and of course missed him and mt grandmother....but i have to say all in all it was a beautiful day and one that i hope the kids carry with them.as a fun memory ...we even.had the kid table for the kids ...i covered it with freezer paper and got out the crayons and makers and stamps for them to decorate ....i love spending time with the family and am very hopeful that we are able to.make lots of fun childhood memorys for them to look back.on ....pictures to come later

A beautiful visit with my Aunts

My Aunt Loretta and my Aunt Maren came to visit for a whole week ...It was such a nice thing to see them ..Isn't it funny how when your family comes its good for your soul and it doesn't really matter how long its been since you have seen them your soul know theses are my people ..to me its like seeing your baby for the first time its as if they have always been around they have ALWAYS been and ALWAYS will be a part of you ..
 AND more good news Mindi seen her cardioligist and he gave her the go ahead to have children WOW what a wonderful surprise to hear for all of us.... I just know there is a little baby waiting to join our family and I know when I see that baby I will feel the way I feel about my family she or he will feel like they have ALWAYS been a part of us ...cant wait ...now just to get Mindi Married off so she can get busy giving me a grand baby :-)

    Life is Good and I cherish everyday that is a good day :-)

Aunts the best kind :-)

my aunts have come to visit for a week ...its been so nice ...good for my Dad and good for me and the rest of the family as well...its been years and years since we have seen the and got to visit...Aunt Loretta came over from Georga and Aunt Maren from California ...pictures and stories to come later ...just wanted to.make a quick update...oh and i was a bit embarresed for them to see what a mess my home is ...oh well no lets just say i put on no funny bussness like i am a spick and span housekeeper ....anyways picture will be up soon off all the fun we have had this past month ...its been a very busy one ...

My facebook posts from yesterday LOL

That should give a good idea of things going on :-)

 Went on a field trip with Rylans classroom to raptor farms they grow food for the food kitchen then we checked out the food bank and then off to riverside park for lunch and to play for a while :-)

The next time my birthday falls on 10-11-12 I will be long gone and my grand kids will be old too ... I know weird thought LOL ...

 Oh and I am so so very glad my Mindi Wilhelm Rose was not killed on the freeway when her hood blew up going 65 miles an hour ..she almost hit a semi but held her head together and got to the side of the road ...Thank God ...That would be horrible to have my daughter die on my birthday ....I love you so Much Mindi... my God I would be lost with out you !!!!!!!!!!

 she is home now and I found out she was in the fast lane passing a semi truck when it happened Yi Yi Yi....Lordy Lordy...What we think happened is the tread came off her tire and somehow flew up and unlatched the hood so not only was it a blow out front tire, but a hood going up as well OMG !!!!

 she told me what was going through her head was "don't freak out and over correct, that's how people end up dying in a lot of accidents"

 and on another note my Dad had his pacemaker stepped up a notch or whatever they call it ...so maybe that will give him a bit more energy he was only getting 50 beats a minute the battery in it was not so good do they turned down his heartbeats to make the battery last longer ughhh ...so pray that he gets some energy from this adjustment he is tired or being tired all the time and this has been si

nce before he had his bi pass operations ....Just been a busy busy day today ...I also went on a field trip with Rylans classroom to where they grow produce for the free food bank......I must say WOW that produce looked yummy, the cherry tomatoes we ate right off the vine were the best I have ever eaten ..The farm is called Raptor farms and its on upper river road at the old Hop factory ...might look into Andrew Rose and I volunteering there next spring ..help out the community and get some good gardening tips at the same time ...they had cantaloupe called tiny bites that grow good in our area and you know they are ripe when they fall off the vines how cool is that ???

5 am.Sunday wake-up

and no not on purpose ...ughh my plan was to.sleep late and slowley meander around the house doing random.things,  for instance my and Rylans laundry,  but it don't feel right to get started at 6 am (( the time I am making this post) ) what to do what to do ...I am not just up I am wide awake up :-/
        So I finaly broke down and ordered my make-up cliniqe kind gosh that's not cheap ..I needed everything but I did get 4 free subscriptions for magazine and they were pretty good choices...I got all you and outdoor photograhy for me and national geographic traveler for Andrew and one other I can't remember the tital at the moment...then after I did that I went to read tioga georges blog and wouldn't you know it there was a ad on his ad sence for clinque make up,  man if I would of just seen it before I made my order I could of helped george out on that click :-( from now on before I make a order I am going to check my favorite blogs to see if they have the ad sence links up for what I am buying...have a nice Sunday everyone ..

ughhh I have been sick for over a month

I have been sick since the first week of school ughh...not sick enough to go to the docs cause I think they would just say its allergies or something but I don't feel good...just getting over the yucky cough and now a sore throat, seems I have a weak constitution and I am not liking it one bit..today I am going to try and get my coupons clipped and go shopping but the chair and a nice warm blanket sounds so much better right now ...
         we have cub scouts meeting tonight Randy and Rylan might just have to go themselves I hate missing out on it but like I said I just don't feel good..I am hoping to get the call about getting the epidural in my lower back today I called and left a message yesterday about it I was supposed to call about a month ago but then my Dad got sick and I have been so busy with him I was to tired to even call and make the appointment ..
        Lets see Mindi now has my Grandmas car so she is mobile again maybe I will send her in to do the coupon shopping if I get everything together she has been cooped up here so I think she might enjoy the outing ...

Selling Popcorn and spending time with the Grands

Today Randy and Rylan sold boy scout popcorn at wal-mart..Andrew and I went to Goodwill and the new Joanns fabric store that opened about a month ago ..everytime we had planned to go to Joanns my dad ended up at the ER via us :-) ... Andrew aalso got his haircut at wal-mart it was a little short and he was concerned about how to wash hair that short I convinced him just do it like normal you can see how short it is in the picture of Myself, Rylan my Dad and Andrew above ... We then went to visit my dad for a while then off to Grandma Jessies to get our drinking water for the week ...it was a very pleasant day ..ohhh we also got to go to the dollar store one of out favorite places to shop I got a start on some Christmas stuff and Rylan got a knight in shining armor costume, the breast plate can be seen in the picture above of us with my Dad.. It was a nice day Love spending time with the family speaking of which we will be getting to see My Aunts on the 23 for a week and also will be seeing Nick Margo and the kids on the 18th ..I am so glad I found my little camera It had been lost for about 2 months over the summer and I found it on my dresser ... I bought Rylan a beautiful wollf blanket for Christmas at wal-mart for $16.97 I just know he is going to love it.. Tomarrow Mindi get to pick up my Grandma Gladys car yay she will be so happy to have a car again its been since the end of May since she has had one ..I will like being able to send her off to the store or into town to pick up a to~go dinner ... I have been feeling much better these days I hope it continues I need to make a appointment to get a epidural shot in my back and see if that works to get my back pain controlled better my shoulders have been doing pretty well so time will tell..

The saturn

well since I am trying to get better about blogging I have got to post about something :-) Randy is out working on the speedometer for our new to us saturn 4 door car we bought for $900.00 a few weeks ago .. I winnowed some of my sunflowers seeds and cut the rest of the heads to dry out on the picnic table ...Looking forward to lots and lots lots of sunflowers next year, I have a lot of seeds. Seeds are getting so expensive ughh so this will save us a few bucks ..I am also planning on drying some of my corn I grew this year for planting next year, its organic heirloom corn ..I am trying to be as organic as possible and learning along the way ..My redworms are doing really well, I dug through the bin the other day and found lots and lots of little worm eggs yay for worm love :-) maybe I will get back on here in a bit and post some pictures..I also need to tell the story of my Dads health this past month its been horrific started with a shot of methodextrate I spell that right later ..anyways he is doing better but it was really touch and go for him and he has had six bags of blood plus a few of plasma in the past month ..my poor daddy my heart was so sad to see him soooo sick :-(

Cititation from school and the bus "YIKES"

Rylan got his first bus citation today :-/ just happened to be the first day I volunteered in his class so I got to hear the whole lecture to the whole bus of kids not all of them got citations but Rylan and the two neighbor boys that he plays with daily got one.. yikes ....As I was walking out to the car Rylan said that they have assigned seats and he sits right next to the neighbor boys... so we turned around and went right back into the school and I told them I wanted his seat assignment switched cause these kids are like brothers and I can totally see them getting in trouble LOL not bad stuff just horsing around stuff ...jeeze I am out to the yard telling them to settle down every 10 minutes when they are playing so someone don't get hurt ...I also made him go straight to the bus driver and tell him he was sorry and he would not be misbehaving anymore ..Last week it was a citation from the teacher for not listening and refusing to do his school work... I went in and talked to the teacher and yep he didn't feel like doing it so she asked him if he thought his Mom would mind if he didn't do his school work and his reply was that "no, my Mom wouldn't care" LOL he now knows that I do indeed care and he better be good at school ....Funny he is so mellow.. I thought we would breeze through school and he would never get in trouble.. my older kids never got sent home with a note from any teacher or bus driver ever ...the citation form the bus says Boisterous I am guessing that word is made from the words Boy and rambunctious LOL yep that would be our little boys in the hood :-) ...

A shoe tier in tha family :-)

Rylan needed PE shoes for school since I was busy with my Dad Randy Wilhelm took him shopping all they could find were tie shoes ...so Randy taught Rylan how to tie his shoes when they got home......then Rylan showed it off to me when I came home...I have only bought him Velcro cause.. I have only worked very little on tying of shoes ...so glad he picked up on it so quick ...he will have a much better choices of shoes in the future with his new found knowledge :-)

My Long Lost Nikon...

its a good day I found my little Nikon camera that has been missing since May I know it was May because its got pictures of the parade on the memory card and I found Rylans cub-scout belt he was wearing it in the parade lol they were together ..I have missed my little pocket camera so much am so happy to have it again ...if your wondering where I found them well it would be on my dresser under a pile of bathingsuits that are too big for me lol I decieded today I needed to go through that pile and figure out what to do with them I guess they will go in my emergency fat clothes box

Stealing from my FB posts today

Figures its Saturday and I could sleep till noon if I wanted but nope I was up wide eyed at 6 am ....Oh well LOL I guess I am just keeping my schedule maybe I should go wake Rylan up so he keeps it too.....ummmm no I am just going to enjoy the quietness for a while longer plus he will probably want to take the computer and play minecraft or something :-) oh and his new favorite show is storage wars he is completely amazed at how fast the auctioneer can talk so fast asked me how he does it I said it takes lots and lots of practice :-) I love that his curiosity has such a wide range he is also loving outer space now and told me all the planets revolve around the sun :-) he has a book and told me some of the planets and where earth is and the biggest planet and the smallest of course I don't remember the names now, but he was right according to the pictures..

and from my other post a reply about schooling :
I like the idea of putting name cards on things I think I am going to start working on doing that around here...then maybe start working on those sight word into sentences on the objects in a few weeks so Rylan can start learning how they fit in ..Rylan had his first spelling test yesterday and thinks he did pretty well ....we worked on the words 4 letters that were a bit harder on his way to school... so hopefully he remembered them fresh when the spelling test started LOL and I have totally agree learning has to do with teaching style, last year he wasn't to thrilled about school I think because it was stuff he already knew, but this year he so far seems to enjoy going its still stuff he already knows but seems like its in a different format ..the little girl that sits right next to him has a hard time with Math and so far Rylan is great at math which I think comes from me being so sick when he was little I couldn't go out and do a lot so I tought him how to play cards and we played a lot of cards LOL so he has a good base of how numbers work at least in the simple forms and can add and subtract easily, so I told him its a good thing that he sits next to gabby cause he can help her with her math :-) so he also feels more needed at school and I think that boosts his self esteem...

Dear Rylan,

Did you know that your not a early bird ? to make things easier on us in the mornings I get you dressed for school the night before you go to bed :-) so in the morning it just brush your teeth do your inhailer get your sock on I do the sock thing cause it helps you to wake up ..then your off to pee then shoes and out the door we go all in about 15 minutes ...Love Mom

craftroom clean up

well I have been.slowly working on getting the office/ craft room.organized its pretty pretty slow going it's because I'm sick with a cold so I don't get a whole lot done during the day but getting closer and closer and I hope by the end of next week to have it very organize a nice and I'm on to come over we can do crafts together

Rylans first day O'school 1st grade pics

Rylans first day of school was September 4th he was a bit cautious in the morning and then practically danced off the bus at the end of the day..
More homework to do this year but it looks like homework that he can pretty much do on his own lots of 3 letter words for spelling tests on friday and Math stuff and so far he is a wiz at math,Thank goodness because I am not a wiz hopefully it will all make since to him as he learns each concept ...
The renters that we have had for about the past 5 years have moved out and we were very lucky to get the townhouse rented out quickly now lets just hope they can stay a good long while its a nice home to raise a family in with a nice backyard for playing ...Randy and I have spent the past week shopping for paint and getting things repaired hopefully that is just about done then the renters can get to normal life again and we can too..
We bought a 1995 saturn car for $900.00 last week (had to borrow the money but have already paid that back) its a cute little car with a sunroof and gets about 30 miles to the gallon yeah I wont have to feel so guilty about quick trips to town that costs at least $10 just for the gas ...when Randys main carpool guy retires then this will be the carpool car and we will look for something else for me to putt about in ..no plans to sell the durango at the moment but you never know I may change my mind about that ..the thing is is that it runs really well and I feel safe out on the highway in it so for now it stays...

hospitials amd more hospitials, school and now i am sick

my dad had a bad reaction to a medication injection on his skin cancer bump on his head...
so after thinking he may die for a week and 4 pints of blood he is better....then a forest fire a few miles from the house...then my niece was in a bad car accident she is pretty severely hurt but should recover...Rylsn started 1st grade yay....I am now sick uky yucky and that's my update for now ..

Schools a coming ;-)

My Goodness this has been a long exhausting week ...only 1 more week till the little Man starts 1st grade.. Wow my last little baby a 1st grader ..where does time go its been so awesome being a "older" mother I would suggested it to anybody who has ever wondered :-) lets see I will be 45 in October and Randy will be 57 in November, so I think we qualify as older parents LOL we still feel pretty young at heart !!!

Camp 2012

its our first and last camping of the year ( plus last year too) we have had a great time...the cyclone roof vent we added to the blackwater vent worked awesome the motorhome didn't stink at all...now to get back to packing up our stuff to be out of here by noon ...will update with more pics later on ...

First camp 2012

Finally our 1st camptrip of the year ..what a greatime we are having down at griffen park in josephine county...our old neighbors are also camping with their little ones ...I am sooo glad they came the playground would of been pretty lonesome for Rylan if they hadn't ...the weather is beautiful about 80 in the day and a comfortable cool at night...

Been posting words

Trying to get another 60 swag-bucks so I can get another $5 amazon card so I typed in "blogger" didn't get any swag-bucks Darn :-( but figured since I was here I would make a post :-)
We are going on our first camping trip tomorrow and wouldn't you know it the batteries are not working ughh the fun of having a motor-home you never use because the price of gas is so high..Well that and our favorite campground close to home has been full the whole summer. Last year was not like that we could always get a space with only a week or two notice looks like we are going to have to reserve 6 months in advance if we want to camp a lot next year ..we are so excited our neighbors that moved right at the beginning of summer are camping to their kids John and Sarah are Rylans best friends

A Lazy Day

Today is a lazy day ..I did go out and water my trees this morning and made Andrew and I some breakfast frozen pancakes warmed in the microwave and some homemade blackberry syurp my recipe is a couple handfuls of berries mashed in a pan with about 1/4 cup sugar (maybe more) bring to a boil and boil for 2 pr 3 minutes  omg yummy ...my blackberry patch across the creek is pretty prolific..I water parts of it last night in hopes of more big fat juicy berries in a week or so ...my plan is to.make some freezer jam later today ...I have also beem freezing berries in a single layer then transfering them to my gallon size freezer bag its about half full ..I freeze a dinner plate out of each batch I pick ..

And a new Book begins

I took the jump and started a new blog I will never be able to remember what the last post I made before printing my hardbound book so this makes it easier for me..