Have you ever?

Have you ever...
Stole this from Jenn's blog...you copy and paste and then highlight the ones you've done...
Feel free to play along!

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland
8. Climbed a mountain
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty (as far as they will let you now...not the top :( )
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you're not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Ran a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33. Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo's David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal at a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain.
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Got flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets or plasma
65. Gone sky diving - but I was always planning to until I had brain surgery & they told me I couldn't!! :o(
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone's life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a law suit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

busy...

It has been a bit busy here (like it isn't usually?) with Addi's birthday and getting ready for Grandma and Grandad's visit for Addi's birthday (& Emee's piano recital). They got here Saturday before all the games/recitals and then left for Houston this morning. We (the 5 of of us & Mimi) are leaving tomorrow when Dave gets off work to go to my brother's in Fort Worth. It is our year to be here for Thanksgiving but we thought that a change in scenery would do us all good and since there is nothing (or rather no one) tying us here - we are off! I guess I should get up & get some laundry started so we will have clean clothes to take!

Update on Sophie...or umm...Sport

So here is the update on the cat...I guess I wasn't very clear on my last post because when we decided to keep the cat, we brought it into the house. It's litter box is in the garage and it sleeps there, but it comes in the house in the day. One of the reasons Dave said we could keep it was that it was getting cold outside and he didn't want it staying out in the cold. It is a pretty good kitty - we had a few rough days there - it kept going to the bathroom on MY side of the bed (for me to discover a wet bed when I am ready to crawl in is NOT a pleasant thing!!). It started this when it was about to explode because the lid was on the litter box and the cat wasn't sure about that - HOPEFULLY we have that issue resolved now...after washing the comforter, blanket, sheets, and mattress pad on the sanitary cycle (glad I have it!)which takes 2 hours per load - 3 TIMES OVER!!! One of the thing I have realized is how grateful I am to have a front-loader washing machine so I didn't have to go to the laundry mat but HELLO...that was a LOT of time spent trying to get all that cleaned - time I could've have spent washing our clothing that we need EVERYday!! Anyway, on to more interesting things...you know the story of how Kendie immediately started calling the cat "Sophie"...I kept asking Dave if he was SURE the cat was female (I had my doubts) but since he used to work for a vet, I deferred to his knowledge. Well, he has decided now that "Sophie" is in fact, a MALE! Great, so now we have a transvestite cat with a collar that says "Sophie." At first, Kendie was in COMPLETE denial that it was a boy and continued to INSIST that its name was Sophie. We threw out MANY names, but finally settled on SPORT (short for Sporticus) because really, Sport could go either way on the gender scale of names...if we are still confused...poor cat, I KNOW it is!! We are still working on the whole dog vs. cat issues...I'll keep you updated! Always interesting at our house!! :o)

Addi's Party

Birthday Party

Remember how when they are little and you spend weeks planning the "perfect" birthday party, with all the NEAT extras that will make this the BEST party ever?? Well, I have done my share of that (especially with Addi's first few when the others weren't here yet) but yesterday afternoon I did the unthinkable....I planned a party for TONIGHT!! Yep - just over 24 hours! (Now I do have to pause & say that I did throw a quickie together for Kendie last year at McDonald's because all the sudden I was having that T3 surgery in Baltimore but that was kind of a special circumstance AND it wasn't this quick!) Addi's 11th birthday is Tuesday and I've discovered that is the age when they are just starting that whole awkward stage and not sure if they want a party or not. At breakfast yesterday morning I finally said, "OK, we HAVE to decide on this party thing." We had talked about just going taking a friend or two to the paint your own pottery place and then for ice cream - VERY low key. So yesterday when I picked the girlies up from school and was heading to Starbucks for hot chocolate (Fun Friday - we get a treat), I called one of her best friend's mom & was asking if we could take her to Brush With Art. All the sudden Addi said, "WAIT! I don't want to do that!" I about had a wreck - hadn't we just gone over that a few hours earlier?? I told the mom I'd have to call her back (good thing she my good friend & understands girls) and tried to calmly ask Addi what she would like to do. She told me that she would like to go Midnight Bowling (they turn off all the lights and certain things like the ball and pins glow in the dark-good thing!), which at least is something we had talked about before. We called the bowling alley and found out that they only offer that on Saturday, Sunday and Wednesday nights - thank goodness it starts at 8 - so we picked TONIGHT!! The most surprising thing is that all 3 girls are able to go!! Can you believe that?? I told the moms that I would come & get them and then we would probably go get ice cream or hot chocolate afterwards and then I would bring them home. How easy was that?? I told Dave about it after it was all done!! Maybe we'll have pictures later!! Wish us luck - I am a bit nervous about the bowling alley crowd at "Midnight Bowling" on a Saturday night!!

Spider-Girl

No, this isn't a Halloween costume...it is the new name for my youngest girly!! Imagine my surprise when I rounded the corner the other afternoon to this sight...needless to say I was a bit taken aback!! Just in case you don't get it - that is the TOP of the door frame!! I don't think that it would have been SUCH a surprise if I had ever seen her "attempting" to do this, but I have NEVER seen her do anything close to this! Wonder what will be next??

Weekend...

Even though we stayed busy this weekend, we didn't run around like we usually do so it was kind of nice! We only had 1 game yesterday - Addi basketball (25-4 we won) - and then Emee had figure skating. It was kind of more like last night - you know figure skating comes last in the line for the ice so we just have to take what we can get! We don't have a rink with ice year round so we can only have the ice when it is hockey season. In fact, there will be NO ice until the 1st or 2nd week of December - can you believe that?? It is definitely different than any sport the girlies have ever been involved in (& believe me, we've done a LOT!). It is very expensive, time consuming and COLD (freezing sitting in the stands for over an hour) but she told me again last night how much she LOVES it so that definitely makes it worthwhile!! Today after church we went to eat with some friends & then Kendie & I took a LONG nap - I think we BOTH need a nap once a week to make it through!! Addi had Cotillion (I've never known her to HATE something so bad!) & Dave was to be there with her part of the time to be her dance partner. I think it went "pretty" well. Emee & Kendie go to KidzPraize on Sundays so they are there now. I know it doesn't really seem like it to some, but this was an easy going kind of weekend for us!! :o) I think I am ready for colder weather now that we don't have as much going on (& soccer season is over!)...

New Family Member

Well, we are getting quite the menagerie here! Last Saturday morning while we were sitting around lingering over breakfast, we started talking about cats. Kendie kept saying things about the cats that we used to have (even though there is absolutely no way she could remember them - IF they were still around when she was born) and calling one of them Sophie. I kept telling her they were named Petey and Macy. After breakfast, we all went outside (it was BEAUTIFUL day here) to shoot baskets in the back. After a while, the girlies moved to the front and guess what?? There was a sweet, little cat there. It was not a baby kitten, but not a full grown cat either. Dave said that we were NOT getting a cat and I was fine with that too. I love cats, but I didn't want to think about cat hair and litter boxes! Oh yeah and we already have 2 dogs and a fish...Anyway, later that afternoon when we returned from Addi's basketball game and the cat was still here, Addi had an opened can of tuna! I asked her WHAT she was doing with that and she replied, "Daddy told me to give it to the cat!" Hmmmmm...he did, did he?? Long story short, the cat stayed around - we didn't bring it in & it slept on the bench on our porch so Monday night when Dave came home, he said we should go to PetSmart and get supplies (& a collar) so we could keep the cat - it is getting cold, you know...Oh yeah, guess what the cat's name is? Sophie, of course. The girlies told my mom it was short for Sopaipilla!

Trick or Trick

Here are the girlies getting ready to go Trick or Treating Friday night. It was kind of weird because it was so light outside since we had not had the time change yet. We started off really slow - as Emee said, "I have been keeping count & we have been to 7 houses & only got 1 thing!!" Things picked up...thank goodness! We had Hannah Montana, a kitty & Little Red Riding Hood! Our friends, Karen & David, were here from Oklahoma City so that added in the fun. We all had a GREAT time!