Sunday, March 23, 2008
Friday, March 21, 2008
Good Morning Jared
Jared wakes up each morning and shouts, "Mommy, I all done sleeping!" He repeats this pathetically until I get him out of his bed. He then picks up his blanket and his duckie and wants asks, "Can I watch PBS?" He is always cold in the morning, especially after eating cold cereal with cold milk, so most mornings he ends up with extra jackets on and a blanket at the table.
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Basketball Bracket
Benjamin loves basketball brackets. It was thrilling to watch his team progress to the top. (well, nearly to the top!) He connects with his Dad through these brackets every March. Nathan only has to say two words, March Madness, and Benjamin is in his room drawing and creating his own predictions. (Again and again)
Bruins Basketball with Coach Ron
Benjamin's team fought with all their heart to win the Championship against the Alabama Roadrunners. The first time they played against them as an undefeated team and they lost 19-43. During the Championship, a few weeks later and a new strategy, they lead the game for two quarters and then battled it out point for point but lost 27-30.
Monday, March 3, 2008
Rebecca Whitlock
Rebecca Whitlock and Sally Thompson are the first faces I came to know when we moved to Ft. Stewart. We're chaplain wives, which bonded us together, but we would have found each other anyway because we speak the same quiet language of love. We were able to see one another again when Rebecca made a special trip down from a Chaplain Meeting at Hilton Head to see us. Loved again.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Super Why! To the Rescue!
Hip-Hip-Hooray! The Super Readers Save the Day!
Benjamin has taught Jared and his best buddies Rachel and Erin how to make pretend they are Super Why (PBS show) characters. Jared is Super Why, Rachel is Wonder Read, and Erin is Princess Pea. Benjamin plays the part of Alpha Pig. They get dressed up and play with letters and act it out.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Deployed Wife Special
We help one another out during deployments. We walk in one another's homes, school each other's children in manners, watch each other's backs, and generally eat one another out of house and home. Here we are hanging out waiting for Momma Christi to come back from a day of luxury at the spa in preparation for their R & R with Dad. (Brian and Christi Larsen) I can see Sally's diaper bag there on the chair which means I am watching Sally's child, Rachel, too!
Monday, February 25, 2008
[deep voice] "I AM A ROBOT"
Jared taught Gabbi (Bobbi and Sgt. Tremain's daughter) how to play robot by putting the office trash basket on his head. She loved it and fell down a few times trying, but she finally got it and was thrilled!!!
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Snuggle Bugs
Benjamin and Jared read books together last night in bed and then Ben suggested they sleep together. I balked in unbelief. Jared's face lit up with delight and my logic disappated. We said prayers together and I tucked them in and walked out. This was them 15 minutes later!!!! I love my children!!!
Sunday, January 20, 2008
Telfair Art Museum, Savannah GA
Benjamin waited with anitcipation for the go ahead to destroy my precious masterpiece. He added the spinning crown on top of the head. Notice that I carefully followed the design in the book and that my child is able to think out of the "book"!
Benjamin experienced the rush of looking down three stories as he stood on a glass bridge.Thursday, January 17, 2008
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Monday, November 26, 2007
Friday, November 9, 2007
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Halloween 2007- My nickname this past year has been Dr. Evil,
so this is my attempt at creating an image. The boys had fun trunk or treating
and going to door to door to their friend's homes and shouting,
"Trick or Treat! Happy Halloween!" "I want the orange one.
Open this for me and Will you throw this away?"
Benjamin dug my new look and thought it was
pretty convincing until I kept acting the same way---
Jared running to our Family Readiness Group's Halloween Party.
Each battalion contributed a game and potluck dishes and candy. It was a blast!
Jared and Ben being reverent at church.
Jared's is repetively asking to see the picture
and we have to keep posing him so that we can TAKE the picture.
Ben said, "I will fold my arms and be reverent!!!!"
Jared is laughing his hiney off. This was the day of the children's
primary program. Benjamin memorized his line and did a great
job of standing when the chorister gave the signal. I was watching
his every move and then got distracted when it was actually
his turn to go to the microphone. I heard him but he was fast!
Monday, September 3, 2007
A SNAKE!
Monday, September 2nd, we were still drying up from a low front that had dumped more than 12 inches of rain. Benjamin reads books to Jared every night and this particular night I hear the shout, "Snake! Mom! A SNAKE!" With great, I mean great, exasperation I told Sally I would call her back, defied gravity and rose out of my chair in front of the computer and I marched across the house plotting what punishment Ben would earn for trying to pull a prank on me. (At 9:15 p.m., way past bedtime and I had caved to the request to keep the reading tradition. I wanted to throw both of them in bed!) I was shocked to see from the doorway a REAL snake! I started jumping, squeeling, and hopping around. Which started Jared doing the same thing. I told Ben to go get Eddie, our neighbor next door. I stayed to watched it and make sure it didn't go anywhere. I risked losing sight of it to run and get the camera. I threw the phone near it and snapped this picture. I don't know that it is that helpful though because it is taken at an angle and not next to it. I'm no expert but it gives a little perspective. Benjamin swears it landed on his head, slid down to his book in his lap, he launched it in the air when he jumped, it landed on Jared's foot and slithered to the middle of the room. Gross! Eddie arrived with a shovel and a stick and removed it after a couple of wiggly escapes. I had to find an EXTREMELY happy place in my head to put boys in there beds and me in my bed. This is the second snake this year! Last spring a snake slithered into my house as I opened the front door with my arms loaded down with groceries. I first thought it was our own snake leaving the house but the next instant realized it was an intruder. I hopelessly watched a snake that was over 4 feet long slither into my house and disappear under the front door. It only now occurs to me that I could have slammed the door shut and squished it. Shiver me timbers! Instead, I panicked, dropped my groceries and ran hysterically across my lawn panning my neighbors houses for any possible male that could be home. Miraculously, a neighbor kiddy corner from my house was out front mowing his lawn. John caught sight of me and leaped off his riding lawn mower to find out what was wrong!! That visual of quick response is burned into my brain. We eventually found it behind the DVD case near the front door. He picked it up with a nerf sword and it reached from the floor to his waist and wrapped around him a few times. It was a garter snake. Harmless, I know, but it wasn't a named pet and therefore not at all welcome!
Friday, August 24, 2007
Monday, August 20, 2007
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Monday, August 13, 2007
Verent Ova! Viret Perna!
Benjamin has begun studying Latin this year and he wrote to his Dad about loving his Latin class. When we went to the zoo last week he was able to read "Gray Wolf" in latin and tell he then told me "White Wolf" in latin. Incredibly cool! Nathan sent Ben a gift of "Green Eggs and Ham" in latin and after Ben opened it he ran to his room and got his english version and read them side by side.
Hales's Slumber Party!
Karin and John Hales are a part of the Kline family. Their children, Robert, Ashley, Brianna, and Andrew travel with Mom and Dad each summer to New York to participate in the Hill Cumorah Pageant and they visit friends and relatives along the way. We had fun letting the cousins make new memories together and had a gigantic slumber party. We watched Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Ben and Andrew played video games and watched t.v. in another room. Pizza, Feeding our Ball Python, Swinging Jared, Snuggling Jared, and Reading to Jared, and cooking were just a few highlights. Karen and John went out and saw the movie Bourne Ultimatum. John also fixed my computer and gave it a good, stern talking to about it overheating and not having enough hard drive. To which, my computer obediently compressed itself and hooked up with an external drive buddy and brushed itself off and apologized! Happy Me!
Saturday, August 11, 2007
Thursday, July 26, 2007
Jared's summer time fun!
Jared loves to wear goggles around the house, the yard and has even been seen at church sporting his "glasses". 
"Mommy, I want to cut!" I had strawberries handy so I gave him a few with a child safe knife and he was actually a great chopper!
We saw people but not many places
Dee Winters served in the same mission that Nathan did and we've kept in touch over the years. She remembers Benjamin as a little one year old having fun with all of our empty boxes as we were moving into the Ronald McDonald House in June of 1999. She reminded me that we loaded him into a box and passed him around between the three of us and whenever one of us passed him to Nathan, he would shoot him across the carpet so fast that Benjamin would roll out of the box laughing his head off. 
Thursday, July 5, 2007
I had an enormous amount of help from friends to make this lamb dinner for the guests of the Ronald McDonald House.
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Wednesday, June 13, 2007
Trampoline Fun
Benjamin's Grandma from Utah gave us the fun idea to put a sprinkler under the trampoline. It been the most requested fun in the backyard by Ben and his friends.
Monday, June 11, 2007
Loved by the Chilakaptati Family
Deepthi and her parents came to visit us in Savannah, Georgia.
Deepthi adopted our family when we lived in Chicago.
For her, it was love at first sight when Benjamin was just a few months old.
She's been there for teeth, walking, birthdays, parks, zoos, preschool, kindergarten and continues to stay in touch even though we've left the windy city.
Our family has been blessed by Deepthi.
Sunday, June 10, 2007
Mr. Clark's Piano Recital - May
Benjamin played "Little Indian Lance" and "Ode to Joy".
I played Bach's Minuet in G.
The Alletto and Sasser family came to support us at our recital.
Afterwards, we went out for an icecream treat.
Did you know that the performers aren't allowed to pay even though they did the inviting?
Just for You
This blog is created for my husband and friend so that he can see what's going on at home while he is serving in Iraq as a Chaplain.
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