Caleb's Dance Competition - Help him out!

Caleb is going to a dance competition and convention in February. To earn the money to go, he is selling raffle tickets to an AWESOME beachouse that sleeps 10 in Cayucos (it usually rents for $500 a night!) The above picture is of the actual beach house. Here's the link to check it out:

http://www.vrbo.com/254622

You can buy tickets from Caleb for $20 each, but do it soon, because the raffle will be held Monday January 25th!

Fine print: around 300 tickets will be sold, so the odds are good. All of the $20 ticket goes directly to Caleb for his trip. The beachouse availability is blacked out during summer. The beachhouse was donated by the parent of a child at the dance studio.

Caleb is also selling BBQ tickets to Sylvesters burgers in Atascadero. The BBQ is this Saturday, anytime from 1:30 to 5:30, and the kids from the dance studio will be performing at 2:30. Each ticket is $10, and includes a tri-tip sandwich or a chicken sandwich, plus a side. $7 of the $10 ticket goes to the general trip fund for the kids going to competition.

If you want to support Caleb through either of these fundraisers, just call our house! 239-8163

Funny kid!

I jst finally looked at this detailed wish list Caleb made me on the computer. I just found it funny!

(cut and pasted...)

Caleb’s Wish List

D-lite : $12.95 http://www.penguinmagic.com/product.php?ID=40

Othello: Target, Board Game Wall (next to toys)

Eye-Clops: Around $30-40 Target

The Other Side Of Heaven: Around $20.00 (buy online)

Blow Up Matress: around $20-30 (Twin Size) for camping

Puppy: Chiuaua (Pet Store)

Porcelain Piggy Bank: $15.00 (blue)

Money: $5, $10, $20

The hottest boy in town!

So my kids are growing up too fast! Yesterday, I had to have Cassidy take a make up class for dance, so I asked her if she wanted to do Hip-Hop with Anna, or go to Breakdance with Morgan (her little friend her age). She said, "I want to go to Breakdance with Morgan, because he's the HOTTEST boy in town!"

She also tells us she is a "teenazea" (for teenager), and that she is seventeen!

All of them are growing up so fast, I can't stand it!

House For Sale!

I haven't blogged in foreve because the house is officially up for sale and I feel like all I do is straighten and follow kids around and pick up after them. I am scared for summer to come when they are all home, 24-7. If you are a pray-er, pray it sells soon! News since I last wrote: Caleb turned 10, Anna turned 8, I got released as activities director and got put in as Webelos Den Leader. We went on a fun trip to my brother's house, ans we had a great time with the kids, dragging them, and sometimes chasing them, through all the fun kid tourist-y places along the way. Caleb built an awesome misson for his 4th grade project and it turned out really cool. Anna got baptised a week ago and she is thrilled. Today is my birthday (who-hoo, so far I ate donuts and then scrubbed water spots off all the bathroom fixtures for when people see the house later today). Tobin turns one this saturday, and then Theron's birthday is a week later. Whew, there's your three months in a nutshell! I have no pictures to show, because my computer is grumpy and won't let me take them from the camera to computer. I have three months of pictures on there, so I better not lose my camera!

Croc Hunter

So, funny story, but first a little background. Cassidy has loved "Bindi the Jungle Girl" tv show for a long time. Before she could talk well, she called it "Bidi da ga ga ga". She just LOVES it. We have tons DVRed (is that a word?). Anyway, Bindi is Steve Irwin's daughter, and Steve is, or was, the Crocodile Hunter. On Bindi's theme song, one line is "The Croc Hunter taught her, now his only daughter..." So a few days ago, my mom started watching a little girl at her day care. She is about Cassie's age and they get along well. The only problem is that her name is Hunter, and Cassie calls her Croc Hunter, and doesn't realize it! It is so funny I can't even look at her when she says it. She can be so funny. It is a strange obsession at our house...Bindi, Croc Hunter, we all seem to watch them. Even family wrestle time has become Croc Hunter time. People jumping on each other, saying "Death roll! Jump on the tail mate! Whoo, she's a beauty!" WE may belong in a nuthouse, but it's pretty fun!!!

Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day! (Well, a little early - I'm hoping you will be doing something way more exciting than reading my blog on the REAL Valentines Day!) Tobin's feet were supposed to look like a heart, or at least that's how I pictured it in my head before I did it..they don't really, but aren't they cute?

He wants to be a ballaweena

So Cassidy and Tobin were playing in their room. Cassie was happily dressing up in a bunch of costumes, and asked me to dress tobin in a little Bo-Peep dress. I told her he was so happy playing and he didn't want to dress up. Sloooowly the door closes... I got the camera because I knew this would be good! I went in after a few minutes, and Cassie told me, "He wants to be a ballaweena!" So funny. He was remarkably calm during the costume change, which I'm sure wasn't very gentle. I didn't hear a peep from him! I love these little guys!