Crazy week

Travis went from going into work in the middle of the night to going in late and not getting home until the boys were getting ready for bed. This past week, we are slowly getting back to normal. Just when I thought I would have more time with him, he agreed to create a Facebook page. He's not glued to that at night reconnecting with high school and college buddies. I love that he has the page, but I want my husband back!
Right after school and tutoring, I have to bring the older 2 up to the church. They are going to be pseudo-famous. They will be staring in a video on Facebook and YouTube.com for our Spring Break Beach Camp at the church. They won't be able to go to beach camp, but they will be advertising it. Thankfully Travis has offered to come straight home from work to make dinner for us. That way we can eat as soon as I get home with the kids and then we can start homework, that will take us until tomorrow morning. ( I hate it when we think we are finished with homework for the week just to find the spelling list that is due in less than 24 hrs from the time it's been uncovered.)

This past week has also been a week of on-going temper tantrums. In the Ferris house, those don't start until the age of 3. Maddox is very advanced! He's not going to be 3 for over 6 months and he's been throwing tantrums for over 2 months... This morning, rather than listening to the yelling and screaming before my coffee kicked in, I allowed him to choose his breakfast. It started out really good. He chose french toast sticks, raisins and milk. He then threw in one more thing.... Cheetos. Yep, the kid had Cheetos for breakfast.

I feel this EXACT same way most afternoon. Poor Liv just rolls over, covers her eyes, and goes to sleep for a couple hrs to escape. If only she would do this at night and "escape" for 8 consecutive hours at a time

7 yrs ago...

I embarked on the most rewarding, challenging, amazing job ever.
I became a mom.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY COOPER MICHAEL!!!!!

Yummy, food

Wildcats Basketball Birthday Bash

Monday we had an event! To celebrate Cooper's 7th Birthday we had 7 people over for a Wildcats Basketball Party. Everyone seemed to have a really good time. They began with
Basketball drills up and down the driveway, followed by making their own pennants, then ate pizza, opened presents, ate cake, and played outside.

The Wildcat pennants Travis made and I colored.

The kitchen table was all set up for the boys to make their own pennants.

This years birthday cake creation.

Cooper with his cake.

Something to tie you all over...

My picture card is full, it's a lot of nothing, but I can't transfer the pictures until Travis's crashed computer gets fixed. It's on the bottom of a very long list of things to do.

I'm going out tomorrow to get a new, bigger card. But, until I can fill it with Birthday Party fun, and cuteness here is one to appease you all.Notice the bib, someone started eating rice cereal once a day this past week! Those pictures are coming too.

Then and Now

What is left of the Sargent. (Note the severed license plate!)

Inside view; airbags deployed. Travis' sinuses were so stuffed from the airbag dust he snored for a week! That means I didn't get any sleep either, never mind the stiff and achy back.

Rosemarie, the newest member of our family.

I have stow n go! I love it!

Meet Rosemarie, the new van.

I would love to show you pictures, but my picture card is acting up. It has pictures on it, but I can't get to them
I will just share the details...
It's a 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan SXT.
It has stow-n-go and I love it!
It has Sirius radio, that's way too fun.
I push buttons and the doors and back hatch open.
It is a cranberry color with beige interior.

The Knights of the Ferris House

Saturday was a crazy busy day at our house. It was a good crazy busy. The older boys had a birhtday party to go to, Travis had some random projects to work on, and we were getting our new to us van! (more on the last one later). The theme of the party the boys were going to was Knights. Travis made them swords to take with. While the boys were there they made crowns, played pin the dagger on the dragon, and had jousting matches. When they got home, they had even more surprises. Travis and Maddox took the time we were gone to make more swords and shields for everyone!






My 3 knights ready to protect our "castle"


The 4th knight just had to get in the fun too!

new look.

I had a few complaints about missing my sidebar with other blogs. I decided it was time for a make over. I would love one, but I just don't have the time, babysitter, or money, so I will live through my blog instead. I was giddy when I found out I could add gadgets.
Pernell-Jacobs, resume with you stalking of others through my blog! ;)

Homework

Every night after dinner we have homework for about an hour. Cooper works on his Spelling words or one of the many worksheets that gets sent home.


Maddox wanted to get in on homework time tonight so he went and got his coloring book and crayons and worked very hard.


Olivia's homework was working on stickingout her tongue while playing with her Baby Einstien's turtle.


Nelson is missing from this post because he did his homework this morning while Cooper was at school. I would have gotten one of him coloring, but it took him that long to finish dinner. By the time he finished the dishwasher was almost finished running and homework was over.

My dad is the best!

No really, he is. What other man would take time out of his warm, tropic, vacation to call me and let me know that he saw an ad for free Grand Slam Breakfasts at Denny's today? Not many! I'm so glad he shared that tidbit of info with me this morning. It was exactly what I needed to hear!
We had a long, hard morning here. Travis left for work at 2:30AM (yep the middle of the night!), Olivia started waking up at 2:30AM and continued to fuss until after 3AM, just to be up again at 5:45AM. After breakfast and getting Cooper on the bus, Maddox decided to make it his goal to destroy anything Nelson did! Nelson, motivated by the $1 I promised him for cleaning up the family room, continued to clean as fast as Maddox could destroy. (Travis and I talked about it, Nelson is getting another $1 when he gets home from school, he earned it!)
When Travis got home from work at 11:30AM he packed up Maddox, Olivia and me and we headed out to Denny's. That breakfast for lunch was AMAZING!
So, thank you dad for remembering me! I do appreciate it! Maybe when you get back into town, I'll take you out and buy you a Grand Slam Breakfast!


50 years ago today, the first Grand Slam was served. It cost 93 cents. Now you can't get it for under $5.99, thought you would all like that little tidbit of information.