Snow in North Carolina

We had about 6 inches of Snow here in NC in Jan. It was great. The kids loved it besides for Ben.

home decorating projects

I have really gotten into interior designing. I designed my home in a Tuscany inspired theme. The kids rooms are cool to. Megan's is a hawaiian theme, zack's is helicopters and Ben is sports...mainly football.

Christmas 2008

We celebrated Christmas 2 days early because we drove to Maryland to spend Christmas with my family (although my family doesnt celebrate it). The kids didnt care. We told them santa came early because he knew we were going on vacation. They had a ball.

Unit Christmas Party

On Dec 17, 2008 we went to Cliff's unit's party. We had a lot of fun. There was babysitters for the kids there so after dinner they were able to go play while the adults played to. :-) It was great. Santa came and gave the kids presents to. We played games like musical chairs but you had to go find the items they said and hurry up and run back to your chair. The first one they said was pager...like that was hard to find..I stole one of cliff's. One time I pushed a 1 year old boy to the ground because I didnt see him running back to my chair. I felt sooo bad. Ben was home with a babysitter since the party ended at 10pm and base is almost an hour from our house to.

Date night

Cliff and I went out to celebrate a few things on Nov 12, 2008. He was gone for training for his birthday on Oct 29th. We also have our 8th wedding anniversary coming up in Feb and we wanted to celebrate early since he'll be gone. We went to Chamas Brazilian steakhouse. It was really romantic. The men come out with skewers of pork cuts, chicken, different types of steak cuts like filet mignon, sirloin, flank steak, etc. Its a good thing steak is my favorite food. I didnt eat half as much as I wanted because my jaw was hurting so bad. I have to get my wisdom teeth out here shortly...not fun. We walked around the little historic shops and got some hot chocolate since it was 40 degrees out and we both forgot our jackets. Then we went to Lake Jordan and snapped a few pictures of each other for fun. We wanted them together but no one was nearby. It was a great day and we were glad to get away from the kiddos for a day. I love you Cliff, the 8 years have flown by.

Megan's first tooth

Megan lost her first tooth on November 11, 2008. It had been loose for about 3 weeks and her and Zack got into their usual cat fight and he knocked it out by throwing a toy at her. She is still waiting for the tooth fairy to come because every time the fairy comes Megan is wide awake waiting. So the wait continues till she is actually asleep. At some point she'll fall asleep from all the excitement finally catching up to her. I thought for sure Zack would lose his first tooth.

So....I am thinking about making this profile become private. I keep getting random people I dont know making comments about my blogs. I swear people dont have a life. I wanted to make it not private so my family could read it and I know people like my dad wont have an account on here just to read a blog. Too complicated. I wish that dumb people would just leave other people's lives alone. Anyways...

Halloween 2008

Yet again for 2 years in a row we spend Halloween without Cliff. In 06 he almost missed Halloween (to make 3 years in a row) but luckily that year he flew in the morning of. We werent so lucky this year but as far as plans are now he'll be home for Thanksgiving and Christmas. The more fun holidays where family should be together. I also had a halloween party at my house for Ben's playgroup.

We had a good time regardless on Halloween. We went to a few different parties and then ended up trick or treating on Halloween night. Ben has finally tasted candy and begs me ever since. He sees me with the candy bowl and he comes running. He loves candy corn.

Ben is a spider, Megan a witch, Zack is batman and I am a vampire. I love the twilight saga and got hooked on vampires. To my surprise I really actually liked dressing gothic. I went through a phase in 9th grade where I really liked black so I guess it was second nature. The dress I am wearing I bought for a military ball a couple years ago, glad it makes a nice vampire "formal" dress now.