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09 Nov 2010
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Ten On Tuesday

1.  So my son thinks he quite the lover boy.  He has two girlfriends at school.  One has red hair (I think of Charlie Brown with that one) and one has blonde hair and blue eyes just like he does.  Those are his reasons for liking those two anyway.  Yesterday at the gym, he played with three girls the whole time I was working out.

2.  Jacob told me that when we got home, I could get a cheeky kiss!  I love that boy.

3.  It is supposed to snow here today.  It looks like it might but there isn’t anything yet.  We had 70 degrees yesterday!

4.  I’m not complaining about the weather.  However, it would have been nice to enjoy some Fall-like weather since we had such a hot summer and now it’s supposed to be in the 40s the rest of the week. 

5.  Mazie and I went shopping for new sneakers for her this weekend.  She went from a size 12 to a size 2!  All of a sudden.  Most of her dressy shoes are sized 1. 

6.  Jamie is still has two pair of jeans that are size 5.  They are a little snug but she likes them because she doesn’t have to roll them.  Poor thing.  Why can’t they make 6X in petite?

7.  If Jamie doesn’t grow soon, Jacob’s going to be the same size.  He wears 4T and almost the same size in shoe!

8. I am finished Christmas shopping for all the kids in our life…except ours.  I know what to get them.  I just haven’t yet.  I also know what I am getting others too.  Again, just haven’t gotten there.  I even have some birthday presents for the upcoming months already ordered or purchased!  I know, I’m on it.

9.  I have our Christmas cards ready too!  Thanks to Rachel who took our pictures last week.  Maybe there will be a sneak peek this week…

10. The downside to all that is that I have to get it wrapped and to the post office in a timely matter.  That’s where I tend to not just drop the ball but lose it altogether.  Hopefully, this will be my year to prove myself to be better at that part!

Happy Tuesday.

Posted in Family, Random
03 Nov 2010
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The Great Catch Up

I have to get things into an order before the big holidays start around here.  I like Halloween but that’s not really a big holiday for us here.  In fact, the kids didn’t even go trick-or-treating.  We went to the Fall Festival at school on Friday night and the AF/Utah football game on Saturday night.  I wasn’t going to take the kids out on Sunday because we kind of needed a day where we just didn’t go anywhere.  They didn’t even notice that we didn’t go out.  They typically forget about the candy anyway.  It sits in the pantry (while I sneak a piece here and there) until June when I finally throw it out.

So two weeks ago was Fall break around here.  I didn’t really post anything besides the kids jumping into our pathetic pile of leaves.  It really was pathetic but they did have their fun.  We also had lots of art time.  The kids love when they can color, draw, create.  So that’s what we did for one whole day.  Nothing but create…

We also enjoyed a movie day.  Each of the kids picked out one movie and then I added one for good measure.  There were lots of treats to eat.  Popcorn, chips, pretzels, and even ice cream for lunch.  Oh and they stayed in jammies all day long!

That’s all I have pictures of but the kids had fun playing together for the full two weeks.  It was time to go back last week though.  Jacob was ready to have the girls out of the house and me to himself.  And he was ready to go back too!

Last week was a busy baking week for me.  I made cupcakes for Mazie’s Fall class party.  I also made this cake for the festival.  I donated it to the cake walk.  I also had an order due on Sunday.  (you can see that on the business blog too)  Jacob loves to help me in the kitchen.  So while he was monitoring Ruby (the mixer) I snapped this picture.  He was telling me that the batter was “smooshy”.

Jacob also reached the half way point in his semester of The Little Gym classes.  So their theme for that class was a pajama party.  They were to wear their jammies and show all the parents their cool moves.  Here they are at their slumber party sleeping…

When they change stations they pretend they are a train…

I just love this picture of him showing off in front of a girl…

This picture is funny because while all the kids were doing their cool moves, it was storming (and hailing) outside and none of them noticed!

“Hey, Mom, are you getting this?”

So there was our Fall break and last week!  Whew that’s it.  I’m caught up!  November is proving to be busier than October already.  Lots going on this month.  Mazie has a choral concert and her first robotics competition, Pop Pop will be visiting 🙂 , Thanksgiving…just to name a few things.  Hopefully we will be able to breathe while all this is going on!

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26 Oct 2010
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Ten On Tuesday

1.  After I posted that our tree was just losing its leaves, still green and unchanging, it miraculously started changing and all the leaves were yellow and then on the ground.  Just like that, in a matter of days!

2.  So what do you do with all those leaves?  Jump!

3.  And the kids were all about it…

4.  I even got a few of all three together in the leaves…(check the banner too).

5.  This was all until one of the kids stepped into a pile of cat poop and was done. 

6.  Yep, we have cats…some from neighbors who let them outside, some stray…who roam around the neighborhood using our yard as a cat box. 

7.  Wanna know what my idea is to getting rid of the cat poop?  Get a dog.

8.  I’m not so sure we are ready for another being in the house, especially since I want a larger dog.  Read bigger than our last dog.

9.  Remember him?  The crazy Jack Russell named Cleatus?  Yeah, Jeremiah is not allowed to pick this one.  We will adopt and we will pick all together.

10.  This was a pretty weird Ten on Tuesday.  I started with leaves and ended with dogs.  That’s kind of how my brain has been working lately.  It will straighten out eventually. 😉

Happy Tuesday!

Posted in Family, Kids, Random
24 Oct 2010
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Comin’ Back

I know I’ve been out of the loop lately.  It’s been a crazy two weeks of Fall break and then there was this cake challenge.  So I will get back into the swing of things starting tomorrow!  School is back in session starting tomorrow and we couldn’t be happier. 

But if you want to check out how the cake challenge went, you can go to the business blog (stahrscakes.com) and read all about it!

Thanks for sticking with me.  Bloggin’ world, I’ve missed you…

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08 Oct 2010
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Jacob’s Day

Jacob is now 3 1/2 years old.  I know, shocking to me too!  He just insists that he’s going to turn 4, then 5, then 6, then 7, then 8, then 9, and then 10.  He stops there which is fine with me!

So he obliged me with a little photo shoot last night.  How did I get him to do this?  Easy.  I promised the park after!  It worked and he was so excited to go to the bridge for these pictures.

First we had to say “Hi” to the biggest rock ever!

And, yes, he posed.  He really wanted to go to the park!

He even looked directly into the magic blinking lens!  See, I told you he really wanted to go to the park.  We finally made it to the bridge.  Can’t you see his excitement?

After I got that last one, I told him I would beat him back to the car.  He said, “I’m going to get down and then beat you” and took off running his fastest back to the car.  See, by the third one, you tend to find a few tricks to get them to do what you want…usually! 😉

We ended up at the park, where I asked for one more picture with him looking at the magic blinking lens.  And then he was off to play!

Happy Friday!

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07 Oct 2010
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Stahr Family Twenty Questions

JJ had this on her blog and I thought it was fun.  So we did it over breakfast this morning since Dad was home.  Feel free to do in on your blog so we can see what your answers are too!

Our key is: D=Daddy, M=Mommy, MA=Mazie, J=Jamie, JA=Jacob

1.  What’s your favorite color?
D: Blue
M: Red
MA: Blue, Pink, Yellow
J: Purple
JA: Green

2.  What’s your favorite food?
D: Pizza
M: Mexican
MA: spaghetti and meatballs (always has been)
J: couscous
JA: chicken, noodles, and broccoli

3.  What’s your favorite show?
D: Upside Down Show (if you knew what that on Nick then you know it drives him crazy, actually!)
M: House
MA: Mickey Mouse Club House
J: Team Umizoomi
JA: Cat In The Hat Knows A Lot About That

4.  What’s your favorite restaurant?
D: Olive Garden
M: Pancho’s (in California)
MA: Macaroni Grill
J: Macaroni Grill
JA: Noodle ‘n Company (affectionately called Company)

5  What’s your favorite movie?
D: StarWars
M: When Harry Met Sally
MA: Alice in Wonderland (“the new one, not the cartoon”)
J: Fox and the Hound
JA: Fantastic Mr. Fox and Cars

6.  What’s your favorite season?
D: Fall
M: Fall
MA: Winter, then Spring
J: Winter
JA: Spring

7.  What is your favorite class?
D: physics
M: anatomy and physiology
MA: STEM Lab
J: After school music
JA: snack time (are you really surprised?)

8.  What do you want to do when you grow up?
D: Walmart greeter
M: be THE cake lady
MA: Doctor
J: an artist
JA: Doctor or race car driver

9.  What’s your favorite sport?
D: NASCAR
M: Running/taekwondo
MA: taekwondo
J: taekwondo
JA: playing soccer outside with the girls

10.  What’s your favorite game?
D: Chess
M: Monopoly
MA: Hullabaloo
J: Checkers
JA: Race car game (a game he invented with his toy cars)

11:  What’s your favorite song at the moment?
D: Love of a Lifetime (our song)
M: Imagine
MA: Bulletproof
J: I Got A Feeling
JA: John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt (because his name is in it)

12. What’s your favorite book?
D: Anything by Stephen King, The Lord Of The Rings trilogy
M: A Christmas Carol
MA: The Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe
J: Cherry The Cake Fairy
JA: Diggers

13.  What’s your favorite character?
D: Charlie Mackenzie
M: Charlie Brown
MA: Minnie Mouse
J: Mickey Mouse
JA: Lightning McQueen

14.  What’s your favorite place to go with your family?
D: Hawaii or Alaska
M: Hawaii or the zoo
MA: Disneyland, Hawaii
J: Hawaii
JA: Zoo

15. Who are some of your best friends?
D: Megan
M: Jeremiah
MA: Kalea, Emily
J: Presley, Calissa
JA: Bella and Kota (Isabella and Dakota)

16.  What’s your favorite animal?
D:  Jacob
M: giraffes
MA: ponies
J: Budies Buddies at the zoo
JA: giraffes

17.  What’s your favorite holiday?
D: Christmas
M: Christmas
MA: Christmas
J: Christmas
JA: Christmas

18. What’s your favorite instrument?
D: Trumpet
M: Piano, flute
MA: Flute
J: kick drum
JA: snare drum (he demonstrated…very loudly…which drum he likes)

19.  What’s your favorite activity to do alone?
D: Read
M: read
MA: Highlights Magazine (doing the activities)
J: Drawing
JA: Drawing

20.  What’s your favorite toy?
D: Atari 2600 (and it still works)
M: Camera and new baking tools
MA: iPod
J: Camera
JA: Cars

So there you have it.  All kinds of useless information about all of us that you never wanted to know.  Now go do it on your blog and have fun talking about your answers!

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05 Oct 2010
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Ten On Tuesday

1.  We have our last first ever Parent/Teacher conference.  Are you following me?  We are scheduled to meet with Jacob’s teachers for the first time this afternoon.  He’s the last one so it’s our last first conference.  I knew you would get it. 😉

2.  I am loving WordPress.  It’s actually easier than I was expecting it to be.  With the business blog, they imported all my old stuff!  What have you been thinking of the new blogs?

3.  I think October is busier than September was and we are only on the 5th.  Anyone else feel like that?

4.  Fall break starts on Friday.  Two weeks + all three kiddos at home = a ready for Fall break to be over Mama!

5.  No, really, I’m looking forward to some time with the kids.  Since it’s cooler lately, we can go to parks that we haven’t been to for a while, stay in our jammies if we want to, make a fort, lots of things to do!

6.  Have I mentioned that Fall is my favorite season?  It is and I’ll tell you why.  I love to run on the crispy mornings and the leaves change colors.  It makes it even more beautiful here.

7.  Well, normally.  For some reason, the leaves on our tree aren’t really changing colors.  They are just falling off.  I’ve noticed that on some others around our neighborhood too. 

8.  The kids are working on Christmas lists.

9.  Did anyone see the big sale going on over at the business blog?  It’s big and lots of those goodies can be shipped.  I’m just sayin’.

10.  Tonight we are having Cooking Light’s Broccoli Cheese Soup.  What are you having?

Happy Tuesday!

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04 Oct 2010
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Mazie Monday

Mazie has her mama’s ears.  I saw that the minute the doctors handed her to me in the hospital.  So wearing pony tails won’t be a big deal if she doesn’t mind the wind flapping the tops a little!  I am very sorry she inherited that feature from me…

But she does have a great smile.  It takes a little to get that “real” smile out of her when I am trying to take a picture.  But when it does come out, it’s just perfect!

She is super smart.  I know many of you know this already but she is constantly thinking of something to solve.  Her brain never rests!

I suppose that’s a good thing.  She is a sharp one!

She loves being a part of her robotics team at school.  The kids do everything from building to programming.  Last week she programmed her robot to put a bone back together.

Should I be worried?  Yeah, I thought so…

I love you, Mazie Moo.  Even if you can figure out what my computer is supposed to be doing and I can’t!

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28 Sep 2010
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Ten On Tuesday

1.  I started Christmas shopping last week!  I’m so excited.

2.  Sunday we went to Golden for A Day Out With Thomas.  The kids were so excited about going!

3.  I just like this picture.  All three of them insisted on cramming into the train!

4.  My favorite part was the displays.  The volunteers really work hard to keep all the trains in running condition.

5.  The kids were having so much fun, they obliged when I asked them to pose!

6.  I have been working on ideas for the cake I intent to decorate for the cake constest that I entered.  The contest is on October 23.  I will have 1 1/2 hours to decorate a tiered cake.  I am thinking of doing pumpkins and leaves in various colors for a Fall theme. 

7.  Has anyone checked out the new business blog (stahrscakes.com) lately?  There are Elmo cupcakes over there that are pretty cute!  There will be an ad for some Fall treats coming by the end of the week!

8.  Mazie and I have been recommended to take our taekwondo test on Saturday.  Mazie will receive her Bo Dan II belt (which gives her two more tests until testing for her black belt!) and I will receive my Red belt.  Jamie’s curriculum is that she needs to skip this test.  But she will be cheering us on at the test!

9.  I’ve also started working on our Thanksgiving dinner menu.  Anyone joining us for our big meal?  You know I always make too much food.

10.  Friday, I am going with Jamie’s class to the Pumpkin Patch.  I’m so excited to be going.  It should be lots of fun!

Happy Tuesday!

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