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Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Backyard Progress
The rock walls are complete, the patio on the top level is complete and the walkway is complete. Here is what it looks like so far, it is a rainy day today. We still have the landscaping to do and we are looking at putting in some wrought iron railings at each set of stairs. Also, they still need to do a stone landing at the bottom of the first set of stairs.
Monday, February 11, 2008
Wacky for Webkinz Party
Mariah's Wacky for Webkinz birthday party was held on Saturday. Indy and Taryn decorated the house while Mariah was sleeping so she'd have a big surprise in the morning. How sweet is that?! 15 girls attended along with their favorite Webkinz animal. The party started at 3:00 p.m. and went to 7:30 p.m. Mariah and I planned it over a month ago and had been steadily working on getting everything ironed out and supplies purchased. It's a good thing we started early because we ended up having to move the date up 2 weeks, when just a week after my surgery we found out the Saturday we had planned on conflicted with a Girl Scout camp-over. It's a wonderful feeling to be able to say, hey no big deal, we're ready to ROCK!
The first thing we did when a guest arrived is make a pet collar for their Webkinz so we'd know whose was whose if anyone brought the same pet. Then the girls got a jean tote to carry their pet around in, and to use to put all the other stuff they'd be getting during the party. We played a game of our own creation called Webkinz Sardinz, where one person hid their Webkinz and we had to find it, put our Webkinz in its hiding place and race to the couches. Whew! We were tired after an hour of that!
Then we went on a Gem Hunt, kinda like they do in the virtual Webkinz world. We bought flat sided jewels and put them on sticky tape inside easter eggs. Taryn hid them for us in the living room. The girls had to spin the Wheel of Wow and find that color egg. Mike made us a great Wheel of Wow using our Game of Life Spinner. Once everyone had gone thru 3 times and had 3 eggs, they opened them using only their Webkinz - it was great watching them problem solve that one. Someone quickly figured out that you could pick up the egg using the Webkinz' paws and throw it to the floor making the egg break open. It was alot of fun!!!
Then we played another game we called Tic Tac Toss. We made a tic-tac-toe out of masking tape on the floor and the girls had to stand back about 6' and toss their Webkinz onto a square. When 3 Webkinz made a tic-tac-toss row, those 3 girls got to go to the scarf tower and choose a color of fleece to make matching scarves for themselves and their Webkinz. They were alot better at that than I thought and we found ourselves way ahead of schedule. So I just told them to free play for awhile until the pizza arrived.
Next thing I knew, the girls were in about 3 groups playing with their Webkinz together. It was so cute. I was especially impressed with a gal who turned her red fleece scarf material into an Academy Awards Red Carpet event. Pretty soon most of the girls were either throwing tic-tac-toss or making entrances down the red carpet like celebrities. I ran up with the camera on flash and yelled "The Paparazzi are here!" and started snapping pictures. Everyone got into the action and it was great! We all gathered as a group to pose for the Paparazzi and took a bunch more photos.
Mike and Gib soon arrived with the pizza, we ate, and then Mariah opened her presents. When she opened a present from a friend, that person got to take the Jellybean Challenge - which was to enter their guess of how many jellybeans were in the jar. That is a daily activity in Webkinz World.
Then we were ready for the birthday cake which was cupcakes formed into a Wheel of Wow. Everyone took a spin to see what color cupcake they got to eat. Once we were all sugared up, we moved onto the crafty critterz portion of our Webkinz party.
We had two crafts - Totes of Wonder and making Matching Scarves and accessories. We took the jewels they got in their Gem Hunt and using glue dots applied the jewels all over the tote bags. Another group was making their scarves and a matching one for their Webkinz. We had all sorts of fleece scraps from the other scarves and they were free to do whatever they wanted with them and boy were they creative! I saw a bandana, ponytails, bows, braids, and a bodywrap!
Finally it was time to wrap things up with photos of our Webkinz, Totes of Wonder & scarves, which we are submitting to Webkinz World in hopes of getting into their Crafty Critterz online. Everyone got to leave with their loot and some other party goodies to fill up their tote bags. Mariah had a wonderful birthday and I was really worn out!
Waiting for the Party
Red Carpet
Webkinz Celebrities
Posing for the Papparazzi
Up in the Air
Wheel of WOW Cake Table
Totes of Wonder
Scarf Corner
Webkinz in Totes
Wacky Webkinz Finale
The first thing we did when a guest arrived is make a pet collar for their Webkinz so we'd know whose was whose if anyone brought the same pet. Then the girls got a jean tote to carry their pet around in, and to use to put all the other stuff they'd be getting during the party. We played a game of our own creation called Webkinz Sardinz, where one person hid their Webkinz and we had to find it, put our Webkinz in its hiding place and race to the couches. Whew! We were tired after an hour of that!
Then we went on a Gem Hunt, kinda like they do in the virtual Webkinz world. We bought flat sided jewels and put them on sticky tape inside easter eggs. Taryn hid them for us in the living room. The girls had to spin the Wheel of Wow and find that color egg. Mike made us a great Wheel of Wow using our Game of Life Spinner. Once everyone had gone thru 3 times and had 3 eggs, they opened them using only their Webkinz - it was great watching them problem solve that one. Someone quickly figured out that you could pick up the egg using the Webkinz' paws and throw it to the floor making the egg break open. It was alot of fun!!!
Then we played another game we called Tic Tac Toss. We made a tic-tac-toe out of masking tape on the floor and the girls had to stand back about 6' and toss their Webkinz onto a square. When 3 Webkinz made a tic-tac-toss row, those 3 girls got to go to the scarf tower and choose a color of fleece to make matching scarves for themselves and their Webkinz. They were alot better at that than I thought and we found ourselves way ahead of schedule. So I just told them to free play for awhile until the pizza arrived.
Next thing I knew, the girls were in about 3 groups playing with their Webkinz together. It was so cute. I was especially impressed with a gal who turned her red fleece scarf material into an Academy Awards Red Carpet event. Pretty soon most of the girls were either throwing tic-tac-toss or making entrances down the red carpet like celebrities. I ran up with the camera on flash and yelled "The Paparazzi are here!" and started snapping pictures. Everyone got into the action and it was great! We all gathered as a group to pose for the Paparazzi and took a bunch more photos.
Mike and Gib soon arrived with the pizza, we ate, and then Mariah opened her presents. When she opened a present from a friend, that person got to take the Jellybean Challenge - which was to enter their guess of how many jellybeans were in the jar. That is a daily activity in Webkinz World.
Then we were ready for the birthday cake which was cupcakes formed into a Wheel of Wow. Everyone took a spin to see what color cupcake they got to eat. Once we were all sugared up, we moved onto the crafty critterz portion of our Webkinz party.
We had two crafts - Totes of Wonder and making Matching Scarves and accessories. We took the jewels they got in their Gem Hunt and using glue dots applied the jewels all over the tote bags. Another group was making their scarves and a matching one for their Webkinz. We had all sorts of fleece scraps from the other scarves and they were free to do whatever they wanted with them and boy were they creative! I saw a bandana, ponytails, bows, braids, and a bodywrap!
Finally it was time to wrap things up with photos of our Webkinz, Totes of Wonder & scarves, which we are submitting to Webkinz World in hopes of getting into their Crafty Critterz online. Everyone got to leave with their loot and some other party goodies to fill up their tote bags. Mariah had a wonderful birthday and I was really worn out!
Waiting for the Party
Sardinz Holding Pen
Tic Tac Toss
Red Carpet
Webkinz Celebrities
Posing for the Papparazzi
Up in the Air
Wheel of WOW Cake Table
Totes of Wonder
Scarf Corner
Webkinz in Totes
Wacky Webkinz Finale
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Twister Twister
Twister (1) by Mike
Tuesday turned into a rather interesting and long night. I started out with Gib at his weekly scout meeting at 6pm and returned home a little after 8. When I got home, Chrissie told me that Indy had indoor soccer at 8:30 and she had already left, so I headed back out the door. Chrissie was concerned about the weather that was shortly to be here and I was told to make sure Indy and I returned safely. Meanwhile, Gib and Chrissie prepared our storm shelter under the stairs, making sure we had water, flashlights, and blankets to cover our heads, and enough floor space for us all to fit in. The cats were rounded up and put in the master bedroom closet and bathroom.
I got to the soccer arena just after the first game started, (they always play two games). About halfway through the first game, Chrissie calls and says the weather is ugly just west of us. Shortly after Chrissie's call the arena announces a tornado warning has just been issued for the Fairview area about 20 minutes west of us. Finally they decide to call the game with one minute left and everyone leaves. Indy and I race, not too speedy, home ahead of the storm line.
The TV channels are broadcasting their radar pictures of the storm lines and generally calling the play by play. The first track goes by us about 10pm, tornado sirens blaring, and the nasty super cell passing approx 15 miles north of us. The next line of storms isn't due until 1am. So, we all head to bed, with Gib and Mariah staying downstairs because they are hard to wake up.
Our weather alert radio starts going off about 1:20a and we turn on the TV. The next line is due to pass over us at 1:50a. It looked like another nasty cell and the tracking shows potential for tornados. This cell has the possibility of passing directly over us. As it gets closer, the tornado sirens blare again, Chrissie has Indy & Taryn come downstairs. I watch the radar track as it approaches and Chrissie is posted at the front window watching the wall cloud go by. The cell again ends up passing us about 10 miles north and we hardly even had any wind or rain (weird!).
There is another line approximately 15 minutes behind this one but it shows a break between cells that is tracking directly for us. So we send the kids back to bed and watch the last storm line track safely by us and get back to sleep at about 2:30a. School and work, unfortunately, will be on schedule in the morning. Chrissie felt that last week when school was delayed and then cancelled due to a patch of ice somewhere, it was even more important, after a night of no sleep for anyone in the county, to close school. Sleep-deprived drivers are just as dangerous! But no such luck, or sensibility!
The reports now indicate that the first line of storms had one super cell that caused the majority of damage in Tennessee and is the one associated with the soccer arena mentioned above.
This link has a video overview of the path this super cell took through Tennessee:
Storm Track Video
Google map of path with info links:
Google Map Track
Twister (2) by Chrissie
On Saturday, Indy & Taryn are going to TWISTER (Tennessee Women in Science, Technology, Engineering & Research). It's a conference to help 100 high school gals learn about careers in those fields, so they can begin thinking about, or confirm, a college major. The conference has 4 sessions, and the girls got to each choose their top 6 interests. They won't find out until they get there which 4 they get to go to.
Here's their top 6 - Indy: pyschology, neurosciences, digital media, forensics, aeronautics, emergency mangement. Taryn: digital media, forensics, animal sciences, architecture, environmental sciences, genetics. Neither knew what the other chose - there was no conferring and trying to go to sessions together, which probably wouldn't have happened anyway because if there's one thing my girls are, it's INDEPENDENT. But there were only 15 openings left when I found out about it so it was a rush to get it faxed in before they closed that day. Yay - they made it!
Now they are grumbling about having to get up early on a Saturday, but this is such a good opportunity for them, it'll be worth it. Let's hope they see that right away, but if not, I know someday, they'll thank me. It's what gets me past all the eyes rolling and deep sighs. :)
Tuesday turned into a rather interesting and long night. I started out with Gib at his weekly scout meeting at 6pm and returned home a little after 8. When I got home, Chrissie told me that Indy had indoor soccer at 8:30 and she had already left, so I headed back out the door. Chrissie was concerned about the weather that was shortly to be here and I was told to make sure Indy and I returned safely. Meanwhile, Gib and Chrissie prepared our storm shelter under the stairs, making sure we had water, flashlights, and blankets to cover our heads, and enough floor space for us all to fit in. The cats were rounded up and put in the master bedroom closet and bathroom.
I got to the soccer arena just after the first game started, (they always play two games). About halfway through the first game, Chrissie calls and says the weather is ugly just west of us. Shortly after Chrissie's call the arena announces a tornado warning has just been issued for the Fairview area about 20 minutes west of us. Finally they decide to call the game with one minute left and everyone leaves. Indy and I race, not too speedy, home ahead of the storm line.
The TV channels are broadcasting their radar pictures of the storm lines and generally calling the play by play. The first track goes by us about 10pm, tornado sirens blaring, and the nasty super cell passing approx 15 miles north of us. The next line of storms isn't due until 1am. So, we all head to bed, with Gib and Mariah staying downstairs because they are hard to wake up.
Our weather alert radio starts going off about 1:20a and we turn on the TV. The next line is due to pass over us at 1:50a. It looked like another nasty cell and the tracking shows potential for tornados. This cell has the possibility of passing directly over us. As it gets closer, the tornado sirens blare again, Chrissie has Indy & Taryn come downstairs. I watch the radar track as it approaches and Chrissie is posted at the front window watching the wall cloud go by. The cell again ends up passing us about 10 miles north and we hardly even had any wind or rain (weird!).
There is another line approximately 15 minutes behind this one but it shows a break between cells that is tracking directly for us. So we send the kids back to bed and watch the last storm line track safely by us and get back to sleep at about 2:30a. School and work, unfortunately, will be on schedule in the morning. Chrissie felt that last week when school was delayed and then cancelled due to a patch of ice somewhere, it was even more important, after a night of no sleep for anyone in the county, to close school. Sleep-deprived drivers are just as dangerous! But no such luck, or sensibility!
The reports now indicate that the first line of storms had one super cell that caused the majority of damage in Tennessee and is the one associated with the soccer arena mentioned above.
This link has a video overview of the path this super cell took through Tennessee:
Storm Track Video
Google map of path with info links:
Google Map Track
Twister (2) by Chrissie
On Saturday, Indy & Taryn are going to TWISTER (Tennessee Women in Science, Technology, Engineering & Research). It's a conference to help 100 high school gals learn about careers in those fields, so they can begin thinking about, or confirm, a college major. The conference has 4 sessions, and the girls got to each choose their top 6 interests. They won't find out until they get there which 4 they get to go to.
Here's their top 6 - Indy: pyschology, neurosciences, digital media, forensics, aeronautics, emergency mangement. Taryn: digital media, forensics, animal sciences, architecture, environmental sciences, genetics. Neither knew what the other chose - there was no conferring and trying to go to sessions together, which probably wouldn't have happened anyway because if there's one thing my girls are, it's INDEPENDENT. But there were only 15 openings left when I found out about it so it was a rush to get it faxed in before they closed that day. Yay - they made it!
Now they are grumbling about having to get up early on a Saturday, but this is such a good opportunity for them, it'll be worth it. Let's hope they see that right away, but if not, I know someday, they'll thank me. It's what gets me past all the eyes rolling and deep sighs. :)
Monday, February 4, 2008
Superbowl Party??
Email from Indy to Chrissie on Friday from school...
Would you mind if I invited some people over for the Superbowl Sunday night? I'm thinking that we could get chips, salsa, food, etc.. like dad had for his football thing and we have a lot of room. Would be a good way for you to meet everyone and the family could have people to hang out with. You could bring Lara and Taryn could invite a few or so. Just an idea. Most of the people I'm inviting you have met or heard of..it's pretty much all boys, so Gib won't be outnumbered ;)
If you get this, try to email me back by 10:10.. if i don't get one I will probably call you during my lunch break.
By the time Chrissie had the opportunity to talk with Indy she had already assumed the correct answer and invited many. I believe the actual invitee list was approximately thirty and we ended up with fourteen. It was a fun night, the game was great, and there was plenty to eat.
Would you mind if I invited some people over for the Superbowl Sunday night? I'm thinking that we could get chips, salsa, food, etc.. like dad had for his football thing and we have a lot of room. Would be a good way for you to meet everyone and the family could have people to hang out with. You could bring Lara and Taryn could invite a few or so. Just an idea. Most of the people I'm inviting you have met or heard of..it's pretty much all boys, so Gib won't be outnumbered ;)
If you get this, try to email me back by 10:10.. if i don't get one I will probably call you during my lunch break.
By the time Chrissie had the opportunity to talk with Indy she had already assumed the correct answer and invited many. I believe the actual invitee list was approximately thirty and we ended up with fourteen. It was a fun night, the game was great, and there was plenty to eat.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Someone left a Surprise!
So the workers are here today laying a paver walkway from the back of the driveway around to the back of the house. Well this involves laying sand down and smoothing it down just before laying the pavers. They finish smoothing a section and then decide it is lunch time, so they take off. During their absence, Pixie decides that this is too good to pass up. She is certain that they made it just for her! I saw her leave the scene of the crime, quite excited and pleased with herself!
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