Have you ever seen such a sight?!

The first day that it reaches 70 degrees and the kiddo's strip down and go under the sprinkler.......only 5 feet away is a snow bank! And Todds Scout!

April fools!

My boys love this day! They have already tried to trick me a few times. C said he is going to try and trick his teacher today at school. I told him not to get in trouble! I found thishttp://familyfun.go.com/printables/craft-templates/printable/april-fools-chore-camp/april-fools-chore-camp.html and I may print it out and show it to the boys later....think they will fall for it?? Have a great day!

Happy Easter!!

Have a Great weekend!!

Our winter pictures 2007/2008

OOPS!
Great Job boys!
Ain't snow pretty! crazy hair doo's

putting Them to work Z's 6th B-day
C's 10th

The Sisters

We had a Choir from Maranatha Baptist Bible College come to our Church last night. They were Awesome! Anyway, the Church had to house 40 students for the night. We took 3 ladies. Well,
my boys are on cloud 9 with all these girls playing with them and talking to them and just having a great time! N-Dub (age 2 1/2) has named them the "sisters" . I am not sure if he thinks they are sisters or if they are HIS new sisters! It is sooo cute! They were all taking pictures together last night and they read the boys their bedtime stories..needless to say the boys were not in bed until after 10! OH well....I hope Nathan does not cry when we have to say good bye today!

enough is enough already!

The state has received 102.2 inches of snow in Concord, where the official records are kept. The record was set in 1873-74, when the state got 122.0 inches. Since 1900, only one year -- 1995-96 -- has been snowier than this year.



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Happy Leap Year!

Yahoo! February is almost over!!!!!!!!

fun quiz

http://www.blogthings.com/howrareisyourpersonalityquiz/
This was how I scored....

Your personality type is playful, charming, open minded, and energetic.Only about 7% of all people have your personality, including 9% of all women and 5% of all menYou are Extroverted, Sensing, Feeling, and Perceiving.

Happy CHD Awareness Day!

As a lot of you know, our Oldest son was born with A Congenital Heart Defect. His Diagnosis is Shones Syndrome. He has had 2 open heart surgeries and one heart Cath. 10 Years ago right now we were at Boston Childrens Hospital waiting for Calebs surgery date. I am so thankful that we have had 10 great years with our son and we are looking forward to many more.

Also, My Mom had a triple by-pass in Sept. 2007 and has had a good recovery, which I am also thankful for.

So lets just all remember all the babies, children and adults that have had surgery.

Another Birthday!

We celebrated our oldest sons birthday today. We went bowling and had pizza and cake. It was fun. He got some cool gifts! His real birthday is tomorrow (the 10th) and he is turning 10!
I will try to add pictures later..

question for you

What weighs more..a pound of gold or a pound of feathers?
















DUH!

Bible Verse of the Day

... the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. Genesis 2:7 NIV

another one

Gray hair is God's graffiti. Bill Cosby

quote of the day

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby

What the Dubya's have been up tooo....

Why is it that January always is the Longest month ever! It seems like it has dragged on and on..
Maybe it's because we have already had a LONG winter with multiple snowstorms! The kids have already used at least 3 snow days (maybe 4 I lost count). We started the year off with a good storm...which caused my Ride to get a boo boo.. on the 2nd I was driving the kids to school and on the way home I was on my road and I met a school bus, I stopped like I am supposed too and I started to go again and Something fell out of the trees and onto the back of my SUV. At first I thought it was just a big bunch of snow falling from the trees.....so I kept going and got home and inspected my car...ummm not just snow...one of the tail lights and half of the back bumper was completely gone! OUCH! My neighbor went by and she told me it was a tree branch that had broken off and fallen down and hit my car!!! Anyways long story short...it had over $1200 damage and is now all better. We enjoyed a Manchester Monarchs hockey game with L-Dubs family....they lost!
I have been keeping in close touch with my Mom (she is back to work just 3 months after a triple by-pass!) My Grandfather has been in the Hospital with blocked arteries in his legs and an infection in his foot, while at the hospital they found that he has an abdominal aortic anyerisym. So he is now in a nursing home recovering from surgery.
L- Dub had his 34th birthday!
Anyways thats all I canthink of right now........looks like Feb. will be just like Dec. and Jan. SNOW >>SNOW>>>SNOW!!!!!!!! Yes we got about 3 inches of snow and slush today with more on the way tomorrow(3-6inches expected)!

Have a great February!!!!!!

More pictures

Test Track....Z's Fav ride!
The whole gang!

Z

The first photo of the trip!

Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy New Year everyone!!!!!!

Snow...snow.....snow

Our drive to school looked much like this picture, with all of the snow stuck to the trees. It was really pretty. We have gotten zonked with snow this month! We got about 8 inches Sunday and another 8 Thursday!!

Disney 2007 pictures....just a few of the hundreds!

Chip or Dale
Ain't they cute
The kids off on a Mickey Pirate adventure
Pirate Nathan

Osbourne lights
Expedition Everest..the BEST ever roller coaster! The boys
4 pirates

Mickey & Minnie
one of the many Christmas trees
Mickey pumpkin

Nathan with his muppet vision 3D glasses

Mickey in Flowers
The kids in jail
Heading to one of my favorite rides

Looking down main street toward the castle

Packing it in....

Let the packing begin! I am trying really hard to bring as few suitcases as possible on our trip....I would love to only bring 3 suitcases plus carry ons but I am not sure if I can fit it all in. THe good news is it looks like we will have great weather, high 70s up to 80. We cannot wait! All of the boys now know where we are going, but Zach and Nathan just don't get how awesome it is going to be. Zach is comparing it to Storyland! They are excited to fly (not me) and to sleep in a hotel for 9 nights! Pray for a safe and wonderful trip for us! 3 more days!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

FIRST SNOW!!!!!!!!!!

IT"S SNOWING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Way back when.........

This is a picture of L-Dub and I at Santa's Village in the summer of either 88 or 89. We both worked there at teens and that is where we met almost 20 years ago!!!!!!!!

14 !

Happy 14th Anniversary L-Dub! I love you!!

Mickey here we come!

Look at my Disney ticker..a little over 2 months until our trip to Disney World!! 74 more days to be exact! I am enjoying the Disney trivia that my travel companion NurseatNight sends me everyday, some of the trivia is really interesting...yesterdays triva was: The world famous turkey legs that you can buy at Disney come from turkeys that weigh between 40 and 50 pounds and each leg is about 1.5 pounds!!
We are excited and have managed to keep it a secret form most of the kids. My oldest listens to EVERYTHING and he figured it out a while ago..but we have a few surprises that even he does not know about!! We did end up upgrading to Caribbean Beach resort which is a moderate and a bit nicer than the value resort which we usually stay at. CAN'T WAIT!!!!!

Have a Disney DAY!

Crabby news

Well we ar down to 1 hermit crab and I have been watching him closely for a few weeks now. He had buried himself in the sand for about a week. I decided I would look for him and when I found him I also found an exo- skeleton. I checked in his shell ust to make sure and he was still moving he had just molted. Well, he has been just lying around since (3 or 4 days), so this morning when I checked him his shell (painted like a football) was empty! I started to look for a dead crab but instead I found him in a different shell!! HOW COOL! He molted and changed shells! Yahoo! That is the first time we have had one change shells. The crab that used to live in that green shell molted several times but never changed shells. Anyway I know this is not that exciting to most people but I think it is cool!

AHH SUMMER!

Here are some pictures from our summer 2007............so far .......Hope you enjoyed them!

The Drive-in

Last week a nurse at night and I decided we really needed to go to the drive in. I do not ever remember going to one (my Mom says she took us a few times when I was 3 or so) so I was excited to have a new experience. We had to dodge a few thunderstorms but we finally made it there and only got sprinkled on for a few minutes. Both families brought the trucks so that we could put air mattress's in the back with blankets and pillows for the kids. We brought chairs to sit in for the adults ( I use this term loosely)... anyway it was so fun! We had popcorn and various other snacks, used plenty of bug spray, and ended up needing coffee to drink to help warm us up! We saw Ratatoullie and Fantastic Four. Both movies were enjoyable! L-Dub forgot to bring himself a coat so he had to wrap himself in a red fleece blanket, which was very cute!! Four of the five kids fell asleep during the second movie. My oldest never falls asleep!
What a great experience!!

Gassy!

What a night! I decided to head outside in the 95 degree heat and humidity tonight and water my flower gardens. Of course, I had 3 little imps following me around and helping a little while I was out there. I walked by our Propane tank a few times and kept thinking that I smelled gas. I walked over to it several times and could hear a hissing noise. I have never heard a hissing noise coming from the propane tank so I thought it was weird. My hubby was out helping a friend move , so i called him and asked "does the propane tank normally Hiss?" He said he didnt think so and to either call our Friend who works for the propane co or to call the propane co. Our friend was not home and I could not reach him by cell, so I called the Co. They told me I should evacuate the house and stand far away from the "leak" area. So trying not to panic my kids I called them up from the family room and told them what was up and that we needed to go play outside for a while. The propane man came and long story short....said i made a good call..our tank was leaking, probably out a weld or something. He first checked the regulator and he could still hear the leak so he capped the line and took our tank. He just left with it!
Thank the Lord I noticed when I did. The guy asked if we needed a tank right away and i told him I wasnt planning on needing my vermont castings stove until at least OCtober...He laughed and said well, I wont tell the office that because they wont get you a new tank until November!!
Sighhhhh.

Lots of stuff going on!

Just thought I would give a brief ( maybe not) description of the last few weeks at the Dub-Ya house....

The boys got out of school the 9th and we headed "up North" for a family reunion ( my side) in Lancaster that weekend...that was kind of cool for me anyway to see all kinds of people I had not seen in years. ( L dub didn't find it that fun)

The week after school got out the school board had a meeting and because of a lot of unpaid tuition, and the lack of students signed up for next school year, they have decided to close SENHCA for 2007/2008 . I am very sad about this. The school had been in existance for 48 years. I understand that at one point there were 300 + students. Only 38 kids were signed up for next year :( very sad....as there is no other school in the area that I would be interested in sending by kids too...partly because other school are alot more $$ and for other reasons too. So, we will be registering our boys at Barrington Elementary for next year. I am having a little anxiety about "public school" but I don't know why, since I went to "public school "my whole childhood. I have heard that the schools in town are good. I guess if something happens..then we can always pull them out and try something else. I am getting alot of "why not try homeschooling?" We just do not think that is for our family at this point anyway. Z dub will be in kindergarten and C Dub in 4th grade. Pray for them!

Last saturday we celebrated N Dubs 2nd b day...I cannot believe he is 2 already!! I will get some pictures up soon. His real B day is this friday the 29th.

Last night we went with a group from church to a Fisher CAts/Seadogs game..that was really fun with fireworks at the end fo the game.

Today I went with a friend to Shorts sands.....water is about 50 air 96....

We will head to the lake tom. with some other friends...

Oh ya...Friday is C dub s cardiologist appt ...pray for that please.

Also pray for my step nephew.. he was born Sat ...11 lbs 13 oz at Dartmouth..due to complications..he was born with a hole in his palate and is being tube fed.

I think that is about it for the month of June....

July is around the corner and we have a camping trip planned and a few other things going on!

Good night!

Schools out for summer!!

It is officially summer vacation here at our house. The last day of school was this past Friday.
I went in for the Awards Chapel, Caleb got 3 awards, one for Bible memory, one for improved work habits and the last one for muscular endurance in PE. His report card was very good, he made honor roll for the quarter and also for his yearly average.
We are looking forward to 2 camping trips( one with kids and one without kids) and of course a week of VBT at Church. We will also be going to a Fishercats Baseball game. Daddy has been trying to get the pool up, but as of tonight it still has a hole somewhere. My cucumber plants are growing and we are excited about the blueberry plants too! Have a great summer!

Finally.....X 3

I was so happy to see the 5 day weather report this morning. It is supposed to be 90 today and tomorrow and 70's all weekend. Finally spring is here!

Our Lilacs are blooming and I planted other flowers this week. Finally

My Durango is starting normally! Finally

Should we start building an ark??

This is crazy! We got about 3 inches of wet snow yesterday which turned to rain in the evening, and it rained all night and still has not stopped!! The noon news said we had gotten over 4 inches of rain!!
This morning I got up and checked the TV to make sure there still was school, and there was. I got the boys ready and right before I left, I called the school to make sure school was still in sesssion for the day. It was, so off we went. I crossed water(going over the road) twice on my road and got on Hansonville rd and crossed water 2 more times and then came to ALOT of water going over the road and decided I was NOT driving through that. I turned around and went back to Green Hill and headed over to 125 only crossing water 1 time in that stretch. I went through Gonic and over to Old Dover Rd to Whitehouse Rd.....when I decided I had had enough and turned around to head back home. I went back through Gonic and decided to go home a different way hoping it would be better. I got on route 16 and then off exit 13 and onto 202 which was flooded right by the highway. I drove through the water and headed up 202. I went past a friends house , and their driveway was under water, kept going and had to cross water again that was coming out of Dry Hill Road ( bad name for this rd) and across 202 and down one side very fast moving!! Finally we made it home. (45 minutes later) I got the boys inside and while I was on the phone with Hubby... a huge gust of wind and our grill blew across the deck!! Now this is a big grill with the extra burners and it even had a propane tank attached to it. It was laying on its side so I had to go out to pick it up.....not easy by myself, so I called my oldest boy out to help...he was pretty useless, anyway i pushed and pulled with all my might and got it back up! I pushed my glass and metal table up against it hoping it would stop it from blowing away again. What a day!
It is still raining and the wind is very strong and gusty but hopefully it will settle down soon. I am thankful we still have power a lot of people do not.

Pot o' white gold??

The leprechauns left us a pot of white gold......we got about a foot of snow over night!!
When I left to pick my boys up at school yesterday it was just starting to snow. It takes me about 45 minutes round trip from our house to SENHCA and when I got home it was like a blizzard!! My oldest son looked at the temp. on the way home and it was 25 degrees and he reminded me that a couple days ago (wednesday) it was 75 degrees. Crazy!! Well, I am nice and warm inside and poor hubby is outside trying to clean up the mess with the Atv and plow. I will reward him later with a nice boiled dinner. Happy green day!!

5 is enough.....

Here is our family picture.....since a few of you asked to see it.

Lovin' this Beautiful March weather!

N O T!!
This is crazy, it is almost like the seasons have shifted by a month. It was nice in December and now that it is March we are still getting super COLD weather. It was 0 degrees yesterday (-25 with the wind chill), and today it is like 8 degrees! Maybe I am just getting old and cannot take the cold weather anymore. Let's just pray it doesn't snow in May!!

the 3 stooges??

We went on Saturday and had pictures taken....what a bunch of hams!
Aren't they cute!

#1 is 9 today!!

Well, today is our first son's 9th birthday. We celebrated with a small party ( 2 friends and his 2 brothers). We took the boys down to Chuck E Cheese and they blew through almost $50 in tokens in about 1 1/2 hours. Then we came home and had pizza and cake. It has been a good day. As many of you know Caleb had a rough start into this world with his heart defects, but 2 open heart surgerys and one heart Cath. later he is a very healthy and very good kid. We are so thankful for these past nine years with him and pray that we have many more! Just think....nine more years and he will be getting ready to graduate from Highschool! Wow! Happy Birthday Caleb!!