Simply Cindy

At nine…

January 26, 2012 By Cindy Leave a Comment

My Daniel is nine years old now. He is such a sweet and smart and caring boy. I can almost smell preteenhood. I’m not sure I’m ready!! He told me the other day that he wanted a Bop magazine, because one of his friends had one and it was so cool. Oh, dear. He was very cooperative with telling me his favorites this time!

food:
Provino’s shrimp alfredo {I’m not sure of the name, but he shared some with his daddy one time and apparently loved it }

restaurant:
Laredo’s {local Mexican place}

song:
My Girl {Ugh, it’s on repeat in his room~ and what are they? 12? And texting their girlfriend. That so sounded like someone’s old mother. Ha!}

tv show:
Phineas and Ferb

movie:
Lego Star Wars the Padawan Menace

game:
Star Wars the Complete Saga for the DS

subject: Math

I love Karate!

Book:
Eragon

Color: Blue

Filed Under: Being a Mommy, Daniel, The kiddos

Wordless Wednesday…

January 18, 2012 By Cindy Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Daniel, Luke, The kiddos, Wordless Wednesday

Random Blogging…

January 15, 2012 By Cindy 2 Comments

Well, blogging in 2012 is non-existant so far! And it’s already the 15th day in – yikes! My first few days of January have been filled with strep throat and trying to get back to work. I had been off for over a month, so getting back into the swing of things has been challenging to say the least! In order to get a blogpost up, I’m going for random. When am I not random? I’m not so sure, but here we go…

* I’m blogging from my ipad for the first time. We will see if I’m capable of such a thing!

* We started off our year with Daniel getting strep throat and then I was next in line. It’s the total pits and I wish adults could recover as fast a kids!

*Daniel earned his purple belt in karate in December. He’s super proud and really enjoying karate.

* I might should not own up to the fact that I’m a soap fan, but I am and I’m sad that One Life to Live had their last episode Friday! I’ve watched that show my entire life {ratting you out there too, Momma } and it’s been my one that I’ve DVR’d since Daniel was born. It’s always been my kid naptime show. No more…

* Daniel got a few gift cards for his birthday and Christmas and was dying to spend them after Christmas. He had $65 and managed to buy $100 worth of Legos and a new game for his DS. That’s my bargain shopper! He was so excited to get 2 huge Lego sets for half off.

*Luke was also excited to use his gift cards… for what else? Batman, of course. They now make Batman legos. After Christmas. Guess who wants them all?

* We went to Golden Corral last night {we haven’t been in ages} and they now have a chocolate fountain that my kiddos thought was the best thing ever. There was ridiculous amounts of chocolate on our children and their plates!
Chocolate covered strawberries for my strawberry lover

*I need a lot more practice on this ipad blogging thing. I’m too used to my computer.

* Have I mentioned my love of teacher blogs? Since I got my new job they are saving me with there awesome activities! That and teacherspayteachers.com.

* Luke is really into The Magic Treehouse books right now. I thought he might want to read a chapter book and I was right. He is loving them. I had book 1 at school, so he wrote me a note the other day to put with my school things, so that I would bring the book home for him.

*That’s all for now!

Filed Under: Daniel, Family, Luke, Randomness, School, The kiddos, This blogging thang, Updates

Sunday Scripture…

January 8, 2012 By Cindy Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Sunday Inspiration, Sunday Scripture

Christmas…

December 31, 2011 By Cindy Leave a Comment

Before the year ends, I wanted to do a quick post to record our Christmas 2011. It was awesome and I’m kind of sad that it’s over! It went by entirely too quickly.

Jeremy, Santa’s elf stirred up all sorts of trouble in the days that he was with us. You can see his first few days of mischief here and here.

We had a lot of fun with Jeremy.

I didn’t take the first picture of my boys all dressed up on Christmas Eve and Christmas day! I can’t believe it, but they looked super handsome. J

I really didn’t take a whole lot of pictures on Christmas day either. I took pics of the kids opening toys and that was about it.

It was a great day. The kids loved everything. We had a nice church service. We had a yummy breakfast and wonderful lunch. We played. We rested. We had a fantastic Christmas!

We had one of the best Christmas seasons this year. Both boys were super excited and very appreciative. Both boys got the fun concept of gift giving and receiving and they both understood the true meaning of Christmas and were willing to share that with any and everyone! We have had a great break from school and spent a lot of time with one another. It’s really been wonderful.

2011 was pretty good to us and I pray that we here and you there may all have a super blessed 2012!!

Filed Under: Christmas, Elf fun, Holidays

Five…

December 30, 2011 By Cindy Leave a Comment

My little Luke is FIVE!! I’m pretty sure I just gave birth to him, but apparently not!

He was so excited about his birthday and tore right through his presents first thing. When your birthday is 2 days after Christmas, it’s hard to space your gift getting throughout the day.

He was super excited about his Imaginext toys and he loved his Where is My Hairbrush playdough. J He played with it all morning! He would make his Veggie Tales friend “hair” (aka playdough) grow and then cut it with his playdough scissors.

He also got a cool big boy Phineas and Ferb bike. It took him a little bit to warm up to it, but he loves it now. He rode it all through the house. J

We had chili for lunch (one of Luke’s favorites) and had some cake. He was so proud of his cake that he helped me make. It ended up this crazy hot pink color, but we all called it red. He mixed the batter and iced it and poured sprinkles and put the candles all himself. He was so proud.

We headed to the zoo in the late afternoon. We went to Zoo Lights for Daniel’s birthday and Luke was disappointed that the animals were sleeping, so we went to see them awake.

It was cold and nearly 4:00, so I was worried about how much fun the trip would be, but it was great! The animals were so active.

The rhinoceros walked right up to us and stuck his head over the fence. We didn’t dare touch him, but we could have! I didn’t even zoom in for this awesome picture above.

Animals that we don’t usually see moving around came right up to us and the lion was roaring over and over.

We told Luke that he was singing Happy Birthday to him. J We had such a great time and Luke loved every bit of it.

We went out for the birthday boy’s favorite meal: chicken nuggets and French fries.

All in all, I would say Luke had a fun day turning 5 years old!!

Filed Under: Luke, The kiddos, zoo

A Peak into my House…

December 29, 2011 By Cindy 1 Comment

If you were to peak into my house today you would see people wearing pajamas and playing with new toys (even a boy riding a new bike around the house).

If you were to peak into my house today you would see a Christmas tree waiting to be disassembled and a couch full of decorations ready for Christmas boxes.

If you were to peak into my house today you would see lots of people (and animals) resting and all of my pretty Christmas cards still hanging on the Christmas tree.

I made a Christmas card blessing ring this year and LOVE it!

If you were to peak into my house today you would see a big ole mess and a sick boy lying on the couch playing video games.

Actually, maybe it’s best that you don’t peak into my house today…

Filed Under: Being a Mommy, Christmas, Daniel, Family, Holidays, Jack, Luke, The kiddos

The stars were brightly shining…

December 25, 2011 By Cindy Leave a Comment

Filed Under: Christmas, Holidays, Sunday Inspiration

Luke, the Christmas cookie maker…

December 20, 2011 By Cindy Leave a Comment

Alternate title: Luke REALLY loves flour….

Filed Under: Christmas, Holidays, Luke, The kiddos

Nine…

December 19, 2011 By Cindy 1 Comment

My first born little man is nine years old now! It’s crazy how fast time flies when you’re someone’s Momma!

Daniel woke up to his now expected balloons in his room. There were nine of them this year.

And streamers in the door way.

We spaced out the gift opening a little bit, because he was so excited. There was lots of Star Wars lego play before 8:00!

Daniel had a few buddies come over to play and eat pizza around lunch time. He was so proud of his cake. He went to the store and picked it out all by himself. Lots of chocolate. And some weird Christmas gift that looked like Mardi Gras on top. I love that he has embraced his December birthday, because he loved that Christmas birthday cake!