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Day 2 Disney

On our second day at Disney we once again got an early start. We were at the bus stop around 7 to catch the first bus to EPCOT. But, the trip planner, me, screwed up. I mixed up which park was opening early. It was an easy fix though. We just hopped on the Animal Kingdom bus. We, of course, headed straight for the safari. All of the animals were out feeding. It was fantastic. After that we went over to Everest. Sophia had a special ticket for the whole group to get to the front of the line. One of the cast members gave it to her on our last trip when she was crying about being too small to ride. Yeah for us! For dinner we went over to Fort Wilderness Hoop Dee Doo Review. This is by far the most awesome dinner show in Disney World. The kids had a ball.

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Day 1 of our Disney trip

We woke up early on Thursday. When I say early I mean up at 6 am and at the bus stop at 7. In line for park opening by 7:30. Our plan was to kind of warm the kiddos up to the rides and start out easy. That plan went to crap when we found out a good portion of the park wouldn't open for another hour. So, we did space mountain. Most of the kiddos liked it. Sophs cried but said she would go on again the next time we come. We then hit up nearly all of the other rides, ate lunch, then returned to our hotel for a little rest. Dinner reservations were at o'hana at the polynesian resort. Dinner was amazing. We had chicken, steak, shrimp, dumplings, salad, pineapple bread, and a wonderful bread pudding. After dinner we took the monorail over to the Magic Kingdom for the Not So Scary Halloween Party. We dressed as a basketball team, cheerleaders, a referee, and a coach. The Halloween parade was awesome. We also got to trick or treat around the park and let me tell you, the cast was not stingy with the candy. We were out until 11:30.

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Disney vacation

Wowzers! We have had a heck of a 5 days. We flew down to Orlando last Wednesday to meet up with my mom, Dale, my sister, and her family and give them the whirlwind Disney experience. And by golly we did it. We went to all 4 parks, road every ride we wanted to, squeezed in some swimming, and basically ate everything within arms reach. I will give more details about the vacation in later posts but at this time I think I captured how all of us feel in this picture of Suri .








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School lunch

Last Friday Boo and Papi were in town to watch the girls while we were in Chicago. Since we weren't leaving until mid afternoon I thought that this was the perfect time to go and eat lunch with Sophia at school. So while Boo and Papi chased Sur Surs around I got to experience school lunch all over again. I'm no fool, I knew that Friday meant pizza day so I told sophs "you know we are totally getting the plate lunch" at which time she told me "mommy, we call it hot lunch now". My bad. Through the line we went, grabbing a milk carton that was semi chilled, then the pizza, then...oh wait," no Sophs you forgot the cookie". "we aren't going to get a cookie today mommy". Arghh..crazy girl. We had a fabulous date. We talked and chit chatted about the kids in her class, which ones were her friends, which ones were trouble makers, etc. She was so excited I was there. Besides skipping on the cookie I definitely want to do this again.

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Urbanathlon-Chicago 2011

In early summer, Josh had this idea to sign us up for the Chicago Urbanathlon. This is a ten mile race with military obstacles mixed in (and stadium steps). So, I took on the challenge of training for this race. I did the running, the weight lifting, and the boot camp style classes. I'm not, by nature, a good runner. I fall into the category of slow. So, I knew that ten miles was going to kill me. But, I made it through. Chicago was gorgeous and the weather was perfect. It took me two full days to recover and I still have bruises surfacing, but it was definitely an accomplishment. I'm not ready just yet to discuss the possibility of doing this next year. Only time will tell if I'm crazy enough to repeat it.








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Pumpkin patch

After Sophia's soccer game today we headed to Apple Works, our local pumpkin/apple farm. The girls had so much fun. They both rode ponies and picked out their own pumpkins. I helped them sneak in an apple cider donut, which was delish! We fed some animals, did a little dancing, and climbed a hay stack mountain. Now, I'm spent.

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It's been a whole week since I've posted, but I have a good reason. It has taken me this long to get over my crazy mad that occurred last Friday morning. I am finally able to talk about it without cursing. I hope. So, Josh went out of town early Friday morning for some nerd herd coach clinic at Michigan State. I was home with the girls but we had to get up and moving a little early to get Sophs off to school for a field trip. I loaded the girls in the car and sat down in the driver's seat, turned he key........and..........NOTHING!!! Sophs immediately starts crying because she thinks she is going to miss her field trip. And I'm thinking "okay, I can't be the sucky mom, what should I do"...... Unfortunately for us we do not have any family that live closer than 2 hours away so I was stuck. I unbuckled Suri and grabbed Sophs by the hand and we walked over to our neighbors house (stay at home mom). I have never spoken to this gal, but I knew that Josh had her daughter in class a few years back. I knocked on her door, and she answered. I asked this stranger if she would give us, all three of us, carseats and all, a ride to drop Sophs off at school. She said yes, thank goodness..... I can only imagine what kind of crazy she thinks I am now. 1600 dollars later, the car is good. I think I can squeeze another year out of it. I owe our neighbor big time.......


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Cuteness

Just a couple pics from this evening.









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Show and Tell

Sophia was so excited to go to school on Monday and show off those fancy earrings. I picked her up and she said "mommy, I showed all my friends and Mrs. W. Even let me stand on the star to show everyone". Now I'm not exactly sure what that means but I guess it is a BIG DEAL in kindergarten.

Also, Sophs told her dad that she was going to be a goth when she grows up. Can you guess how that conversation went?

Sophia: "daddy, I'm going to be a goth when I grow up"

Daddy: "oh HECK NO!!"

Yep, that was pretty much the end of that conversation.

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Ears

Guess who got their ears pierced today? Sophs!! With some help from Boo, Sophs talked her daddy into letting her finally getting them done.




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More soccer

Today was Sophs second soccer game. She scored 6 goals! suri was soooooooo aggravated the whole game. She couldn't understand why she wasn't allowed to play as well. In her defense, she totally could have hung with the big kids.

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Soccer game and birthday party

On Saturday Sophia had her first soccer game. You will not believe this but she scored.....wait for it..... Wait for it....... 10 GOALS!!! No lie. She totally kicked butt bunzies. She played so tough. My favorite part of the game was when she stiff armed another player. And that is legal, well, sort of legal. We were excited with the first 2 goals, but after number 6 Josh and I started getting uncomfortable. We were sure they were going to make Sophs submit a urine sample for steroid testing.

After the soccer game we drove down to Madison to celebrate Suri, Landon, and Izzy's birthdays. The kiddos had a ball.














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Baby bumble bee

Surs learned a new song.

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Happy Birthday Suri

Today is Sur Surs 2nd birthday. We aren't having her big birthday party until next weekend but we did a little mini-party with the four of us at home. We may have eaten half of the cake yesterday but just pretend like you didn't notice that.





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Soccer

Sophia decided last minute that she wanted to play soccer this year. Josh did some research and we found one church that was still taking applications. So.......her first practice was today. Enjoy the pics.













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Sour patch kid

I think I have mentioned before that Suri reminds me of a sour patch kid. She can be so sweet and so cuddly, then out of no where she will kick you in the shin. I caught her antics on the monitor the other day. Just look at this crazy girl.

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Good news

After a mock drop off yesterday evening and many many verbal reviews Sophia was dropped off at school drama free. Yipee! Matter of fact she ran right in the door, no hesitation.

Kindergarten has been going very well. She says she misses her friends at Goddard but she likes it. She especially likes recess, lunch, and art class. And, she has stayed on green everyday (which basically means she hasn't gotten in trouble).

Surs loves school. Josh says she is so happy in the morning. I also bribe her at night to go bed by saying "if you want to see ms. D. Then you need to go night night". That's terrible but it works. Suri's favorite things to say are "shake your bootie" and "I nummy" which means I love you.

Sophs and Josh are going to the colts game tonight and Surs and I are just gonna hang out.

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Drop off drama

Wow, the start of my Friday was, let's just say SUCKY!!! I'm off work on Fridays, which is wonderful because I get to spend time with the girls and clean the house etc. Well, today was the first Friday since Sophs started kindergarten so I had to drop her off at school. This isn't the norm for her since she is now used to riding the bus to school from her before school daycare. She has become familiar with the entrance to the school she is supposed to go in. Today I pull through the drop off line (this is my first time too and honestly I don't know what the heck I'm doing) and put the car in park and then I got out to help Sophs get unbuckled and get out of the car. This child starts heading around the school to the entrance she is familiar with which is at least 400 yards away. I'm like "no Sophs you have to go in this door with all of the other kids" and I run after her. All the while Surs is in the car yelling "mommy, mom, momma, mum, mommy.....". So, Sophs starts crying because she is now nervous and unsure. Luckily for us a teacher came over and asked if I wanted her to walk Sophia to her class. I felt like the most terrible mother EVER! But, that's not the worst part. I should also mention that we were backing up traffic at the school, at least 15 cars watching all of this go down.. Still not the worst part. The worst part is that I had stuffed my big ol' bunzies in a pair of spandex for exercise class and all of those cars saw me running around my car like some crazy lady shaken what my momma gave me. Yikes.

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First Day

Click this link for details on Sophs first day in her own words.

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First day

Well, I just dropped my sweet Sophs off for her first day of kindergarten. She did awesome. She was a little nervous but that quickly went away when she saw her friends Gabby and Riley. She will get to ride the school bus to and from her before and after school care and she was very excited about that. I will update more after pick up this afternoon. Until next time.....










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Sur Suurs

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End of Summer

This week has been super crazy. We have had open house for Sophs before and after school care, ice cream social at her school, and kindergarten orientation. Along with that, Josh and I have been training for a race in Chicago (still not sure why I am doing that). Sophs has also been tagging along with Josh when he has gone into school to get his lesson plans in place. I've been a lousy blogger the last couple of weeks due to crazy schedules and fatigue. Hang in there with me and I will get back on track. Here are some pics.





















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