No More Cute, Just Goofy

We have gotten to that stage where The Boy doesn't want to smile nice for the camera anymore. He would rather make goofy faces when he sees the camera come out. I was trying to take a picture of the two of us the other night and every one I got has some crazy face from him going on. This was the best of the bunch.




This is a little late but here is Jaykeb getting his soccer trophy. It was a really cute trophy this time. He had to carry it around for two days even taking it into the Pizza King with us that night. Soccer was way more fun this fall because he was so good. There were two games he didn't score in and that was because they were called short and he didn't get to play much. He scored multiple goals in all of his other games. We start the winter clinics next month. He really likes it so we will keep doing it as long as he is happy with it. His mother needs to learn how to relax at the games a little bit though.





See this shirt! I don't really know who bought him this shirt but it couldn't be more perfect for this kid. Now I only wish I had a matching one in my dad's size. It's perfect for him too! It says "Got Candy" for those of you who are blind...Grammy.



Car update...The flying white squirrel has gotten her estimate and is now just waiting on parts. I am cruising the Camry and not liking it much. There was way more damage than we originally thought but she will be like new in a few weeks. My dad is now calling me the Deer Slayer. Isn't that the name of a movie or book or something?

Flying Goo

We carved pumpkins at my dad's the other night. Here is our weapon of choice. You know there is some serious pumpkin carving going on when you bust out the power tools and start improvising.



What was really funny was that mom kept telling Jaykeb, "Don't flip the pumpkin all over!" Then dad comes in with his rigged up drill and ended up flinging pumpkin goo all over mom. My dad gets way too many ideas from watching The Today Show. Something he couldn't do when he was still working. We sure learn a lot from The Today Show and Ellen DeGeneres.

Sara...don't ask me who Goo is!







Jaykeb insisted that we save the seeds and roast them in the oven. Mom is always agreeable and got the seeds ready to go into the oven. We decided to try two different kinds, butter and salt...and cinnamon and sugar. I googled if to make sure we were doing it right and in they went. Now, if you are a member of this family you should know what the next picture is going to be before even looking. Just remember I said MOM and OVEN.





Apparently if you put cinnamon sugar on the pumpkin seeds you shouldn't cook them as long as the ones with just butter and salt. The picture is showing the GOOD side of the seeds too! They were quite crispy like a lot of things that come out of that oven! The others turned out fine but just like I figured, Jayke hated them.




I was looking through old files and found this next picture of Jaykeb with his first pumpkins. I loved the hat he had on and just came across it in a box the other day. Thought I'd share...

A Squirrel Takes out a Deer...Only Sara Will Get this Title

I had a wreck last night. My dad says that cars and I just don't get along. He maybe right. I have had so many wrecks in my lifetime I can't even count them anymore. It had been a really long time, other than my pot hole incident last spring, since I had hit anything. I thought all my "bad luck" in cars was over...until last night. I hit a deer. Driving home from my dad's after dark in the light rain and high winds. Stupid deer. They need to learn how to use crosswalks!

I didn't even see it until I hit it and it scared the crap out of me! I'm just glad Jayke was not in the car with me. He is now a pre-school drop out. I took him back out of school so he is going back to my dad's two days a week and the rest of the week with my mom. He had decided he wanted to spend the night at my dad's so I was by myself when I took Bambi out.

The car is not even driveable. It tore up the whole front end and put a whole in the radiator. Aahhhh...the smell of anti freeze. Takes me back to my very first car that overheated every time I drove it down the road. My dad had to come meet me at the VP(Village Pantry gas/convenience store for those not from here) while we waited for the police to get there so I could file my accident report. The funniest thing about this is what he told me while we were waiting. He had the following conversation with my mother...

MOM: Gregg, Wendy hit a deer...she's at the VP in Anderson.

GREGG: Well, which VP?

MOM: I don't know.

GREGG: WELL NEITHER DO I!

This is funny to me because it is my parent's trying to have a conversation with each other which may happen only once every 2 or three years and usually this is how it goes. There are VPs all over both Muncie and Anderson and apparently he was supposed to know which one just because he lives in that town. Funny. At least I got a laugh while waiting on them to come haul my poor car away.

Yes, Sara, the flying white squirrel is out of commission...you can go have your moment of silence now. She will return though. She's resting comfortably down at Gaddis where she will undergo surgery hopefully on Thursday. A little rhinoplasty on the ol' girl and she'll be good as new!

On to other things...Jayke and I took the day Thursday and went on his class field trip to the pumpkin patch. I'm lucky that i work at a great place where they understand that people have kids who they want to be able to spend time with. This was also the first time I took a day off since working there. We had fun even though it was FREEZING outside and we went so early.

First was the hay ride back to the corn maze...



There was a great play ground there and all the kids got to play for quite a while.



When we got in the corn maze another dad and I decided to let his daughter and Jayke lead us through the maze. We broke off from the class and The Boy took us through the maze all on his own. He almost got us out but the dumb parents (me and the other dad) decided to read the signs with the clues and got us all turned around and lost going the wrong way. We ended up having the people who work there come in and find us because everyone else was out already. We should have let Jayke take us all the way and skipped the clues.



Here are a couple more pictures from the day...



I love this one for some reason. It was a big black ribbed pipe and Jayke was sliding down while I was looking up at him. I like the way the edges look and that you can only see him as a sort of sillouette.

Pumpkins pumpkins whatever...

This year I went with an easier pattern for the pumpkin. Last year I did Scooby Doo and it took forever. Won a prize for Angi at her work but still took forever. Since she won't be entering the contest this year I felt I could let my difficulty level slide a little.

Jayke insisted on cleaning the pumpkin out until it was spotless...thanks Mike. Apparently his dad taught him this when they carved their pumpkin a couple of weeks before. We have saved the seeds to plant in the empty lot next to Oma's house next year. Guess that will save me my $3 I spent at Walmart on this dude.






Tomorrow we are hitting the pumpkin patch with Jayke's school and this weekend the corn maze. Hope it doesn't rain! I must say that 6:30 in the morning is a little early for a trip to the pumpkin patch. Not only will it be freezing but I will barely be awake! I don't even get up for 2 more hours on a normal day! Work is having a costume contest but I don't think I will be participating. First of all I think it's pretty crappy that if you don't wear a costume you can't participate in the luncheon and also she just told us yesterday that this was going to happen. I don't have time to find an award winning costume in that amount of time. I do have devil horns and long red eyelashes. That will at least get me the free lunch. Screw their contest! We should have had an office decorating contest...guess who would have rocked that?

I must now go clean out FROG the turtles acquarium. It is tres' disgusting. Yes, Jayke named his turtle FROG...yes, my kid is weird.

Sara...I'm a mom, I'm not YOUR mom!

Yes, I'm Still Here...

Soccer is over again. Jaykeb didn't score in the last two games but had multiple goals in every other game we had. He got his new trophy which I like way better than the one he got last time. It will be a few weeks before we start the winter clinics.

Jayke is back in school and that is going well. He goes to kindergarten readiness two days a week and is making new friends. He still has some of the same old friends too. We have a field trip coming up next week to the pumpkin patch. After that is his fall festival but I'm not sure if he will get to go to that. He may be with his dad instead. He and his dad have already carved one pumpkin two weeks ago when he was here for the weekend. Jayke and I will be carving ours soon. I bought all the cute patterns but he hasn't picked which one we are going to do yet. I have his "boo" gift ready too. We don't live in a neighborhood so we don't get to participate in that but I still "Boo" my own kid.

Tomorrow and Saturday I will be selling off my old life. BIG sale planned. Out with the old and in with the new. I went and bought new dishes for the house that we are in the beginning stages of planning for. The house in SC went up for sale and my mom has found the perfect house in the school district I want to be in and just down the road from her and gramma. Also closer to my best friend, Angi AND in the same neighborhood as my new friend I work with, Sharita. I CAN'T WAIT TO GET MY OWN HOUSE AGAIN!!!

My weeks leading into the end of the month are planned down to the minute I'm so busy. I've got trips to the haunted corn maze, field trips, school parties, work parties and lots of other stuff. I love this time of the year. Thought it would be hard this month but it really hasn't been at all.

Work is getting easier but I still don't feel completely comfortable with my new job. My supervisor seems happy though. She was even in a good mood at the end of the month last month which is saying something. I have a plan to get Angi a job there with me. I've already gone to my boss and told her about her and she said that the next thing that opens up she will consider her. I don't know though, if Angi, Sara, Holly, and I are all working in the same place it could be dangerous. Sara and I are already taking longer than normal lunches with Angi now and she doesn't even work there yet!

Have to go out with Sara and Nate Friday to say goodbye to him. He is heading back to Florida Sunday. I'm pretty bummed about it. Hopefully he will come back to visit more often now that he has been here for a while and seen how fun it is hanging out with his crazy aunts. The crazies are heading to Amsterdam Saturday. I'm anxious to hear the stories they will have when they get back. You know ANYTHING goes in Amsterdam!

I may be able to get back to blogging on a regular basis soon. We are switching back to the old phone co so I will be able to get the laptop and everything running correctly again. Jayke is so sick of listening to my mom deal with the cable co that he has banned the word COMCAST in our house. He says he hates that word and doens't want to hear it again. I don't blame him...they suck! What is really weird is when our phone goes out my mom's goes out at her house too. That's just not going to work! I get called downstairs every time it stops working to try and fix it and there is NOTHING I CAN DO!!!

So that is my rather long boring update. I will get some pics of that cool soccer trophy up soon. Promise.