AA circus

The only pic I got of Grandma was the back of her head...sorry Grandma and they call me a scrapbooker???
See the baby elephant on the right? It was born in OK 2 yrs ago and is so adorable!

This is Brian (Connie's hubby) and he was picked out of the crowd to be in the circus!

Connie's girly girls...aren't they too cute!

Grandpa with the kiddos

Riding the elephant

It's a tradition in the Wedemeyer family that every year Grandpa will take the kids to the American Airlines performance of the circus and some years Kev and I go and sometimes we don't but this year we all went including Kevin's sister Connie and her whole family and Grandma went too! It was so fun! Thanks for a fun family tradition Grandpa!!!

Grammy and a movie

This is the 3rd year in a row that Grammy has invited us to see a movie early on a chilly saturday morning in Dec. and every year we've had such a great time. The first year we saw Alvin and the Chipmunks, last year we saw Bolt and this year we saw Planet 51. They have donuts and juice or coffee for us and then we sing some Christmas carols and then the movie starts. After the movie Grammy takes the "Fab 5" to eat and to make gingerbread houses and they also make some type of Christmas gift for the parents (that means me). The homemade presents are AWESOME, I love all things made by my children! One year they made us treasure boxes, one year a "let it snow watch us grow" measuring chart, and I think last year was a water bottle with pictures and artwork by our children! I wonder what this year will be???
While the kids are at Grammys house it gives Kevin and I some time to go out to eat and finish up any shopping that we need to get done without the kids around. Let me tell you we really need that time too, it's hard being a homeschool parent because you can't shop without your kids...they are basically with you 24/7!!

***fab 5 is the nickname for the Oklahoma grandkids***

Polar Express sleepover

The boys didn't even make it all the way through The Polar Express before they fell asleep!

The girls fell asleep watching "Up"

All the kids received Polar Express tickets

The girls made a "fort" in Kenzie's room that they planned to sleep in but they fell asleep in the livingroom floor.

2 weekends ago each of the kids invited a friend to stay the night and join us for our annual Polar Express party. This year Lil P and Eli stayed, we had a fun time playing, watching the Polar Express movie, eating popcorn and of course drinking hot chocolate (can you watch Polar Express and not have hot chocolate???), the boys didn't want to do any of the crafts but the girls made ornaments and Christmas puppets and a good time was had by all!

Duct tape and prom????

You have to check out this site called Stuck at Prom they have these really cool prom dresses and tuxes made out of Duct tape...isn't that just the craziest thing??? Very cool ideas, I don't think I was this creative when I was in high school and they have the chance to win a scholarship just by being creative with their prom outfit!

Scarves for missions

Punky Monkey Missions has been selling scarves to raise money for an adoption fund raiser. If you want to buy a scarf then let me know! Here is a sample of one scarf for more go to Punky Monkey Missions.

The scorpion
The birthday girl with Edward

Toby Keiths

Having fun

What do scorpions, New Moon, birthdays, and Toby Keith all have in common? Well all of that happened last night. I was getting ready to meet some girls to go eat at Toby Keiths Bar and Grill and I decided I wanted to wear my black boots so I grabbed them out of my closet put them on and hopped in the car and drove off. As I was driving my foot had this horrible pain in it like I had been shot in the bottom of my foot, so I pulled over on the side of the road and tore my boot off and pulled my sock off and a tiny little stinger like thing was sticking in the bottom of my foot so I pulled it out but it was really hurting by now so I grabbed my boot and shook it and out comes a tiny scorpion! I've NEVER even seen a scorpion in our house and until the past couple of years didn't even know we had them in Oklahoma. I called Kevin and he googled scorpion sting treatments and I met up with the girls and they helped take care of me. We ended up eating at Toby Keiths and had fun before seeing the midnight showing of New Moon and it was Leah's birthday too! Good times were had by all and it's a night I won't forget. Now I know to shake my shoes before putting them on because I NEVER want to feel that pain again!!!

It's official, we have a virus!

Our family has been sick a lot over the past year and now our computer is sick, it has more then 1 virus it has 37!!! Kevin took it to the computer hospital and now it's back home and doing well. We missed it while it was gone and we're so happy to have it back! LOL, it almost seems like I'm talking about a person here....that might be a bad thing!

What is it?

Kevin and I have started buying a 1/4 of a cow every year and part of a hog. So, we have fresh beef and fresh pork. We know how they were raised and that they were not fed hormones but when I went to pick up the meat at the butcher, this time I found that we had a Pikes Peak Roast. Does anyone know what that is and how you cook it? Should I cook it in the crockpot like I normally cook a roast??? If youi have answers please fill me in! We also had Arkansas bacon with our hog...and I don't know what it is either...totally clueless about both of these!

Couponing saved me $180 last week

Last week my friend Monica came to dance class and was talking about all of the deals she had gotten with coupons and she gave me a box of zantac that she had gotten for free! I decided to look into couponing and she told me about 918couponqueen.com and she went over some of the deals with me and I ended up getting 8 tubes of Almay mascara and 8 boxes of diet Snapple singles to go for only $6 it saved me $76 at WalGreens, then on to Target buy 2 Wii games get 1 free and also a $10 off coupon so I saved $60 on Wii games for Christmas plus some coupons at Target for cereal saved $19, and finally at WalMart we saved exactly $25 just by using some coupons. If you want to get some great deals and live in the 918 area code head on over to the 918couponqueen website and see what she is recommending for this week! Total money saved from using coupons just last week $180. Thanks Monica and 918couponqueen!!!

BA nature center

Check out that giant leaf

We had so much fun exploring the BA nature park and center and collecting "fall" items on our nature walk! While we were there we found some GIANT leaves and the kids loved them, we also found some Osage Oranges which are beautiful for fall decorating!

New Moon Countdown Official Poster

Another snake in the house...eeek!

I am TOTALLY freaked out by snakes and we have had 2 in our house this year! FREAKS me out, how do they get inside of your house???? I do know that they are little tiny snakes and will not hurt me but they still freak me out! One of was upstairs in the hallway, how did it get upstairs??? Does anyone know??? We have lived in this house for 10 years and never had a snake in the house before and then this year 2 in the past 3 months....what's up with that????

Zombie dancers

Kenzie getting her zombie makeup
Do they look scarey???

Kelsey looks freaky...her hair was AWESOME!

It doesn't even look like Kenzie does it??? What have they done to my sweet little princess???

Nice hair!

Makenzie has been dancing with a dance team for 1 yr and today was their first performance with their new dance that they are going to do for competition this year. Shayna (thier dance instructor) has them dancing as Zombies and they looked really good! Well my camera wouldn't record during the dance so I didn't get video of it but I got video of the breakdancers and Shayna and Adam dancing and I will add those videos later on.