Campin'

The view from Pulpit Rock and Larry after crossing the river in his monkey undies! Dubyas camper too!

The water you can see is Papoose Pond

Z Dub

The Burnsys
C Dub

After crossing the water
Burnsys camper

We enjoyed our first camping trip with our pop up camper. It is so nice not to have to sleep on the ground and be cold! It was quite chilly at night but we have a furnace and an electric heater so we were nice and warm! We went camping with our buddies the Burns' at Papoose Pond in Waterford Maine. The kids had a blast and we only had one incident and that was little burnsy girl had a yucky tummy and got sick in their pop up...poor thing! Anyway here are some pictures from our weekend.

What color car should you drive?

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Mine was black.........which I just tod my hubby that I would likea black car next......but right now I drive a blue suv.

what kind of cereal are you??

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I am Raisin bran!!!! (yuck... iam more of a lucky charms girl!)

flip flop test

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Try this!

THE FIVES

5 Things under $5 that I couldn't live without:

1. Gas ( although it may not be under $5 a gallon for long)

2. Dunkin donuts ice coffee

3. a maple square from the Bakery in Barrington

4. diet coke! Luv it!

5. soft serve vanilla with choc dip at Golicks


5 favorite movies


1. Grease

2. the Notebook

3. You , me and Dupree

4. Night at the Museum

5. Pirates of the Caribbean


Baby names(notice mostly boy name...guess that it is lucky we had all boys!)


1. Caleb

2. Zachary

3. Nathan

4. Levi

5. Ella

5 Songs I could listen to over and over again:

1. What if his people prayed (casting crowns)

2. I can only imagine ( mercy me)

3. In me (casting crowns)

4. sunday (tree 63)

5. Life song (casting crowns)

People who have influenced me in a positive way

1. L dub

2. my3 boys

3. My Pastor and his wife

4. My parents

5. My BFF's (nurseyand Burnsy)

5 things that are always in my purse:


1. Discover card

2. Liscense

3. atm card

4. chap stick

5. cell phone (its pink!)

5 moments that have changed my life forever:


1. Marrying my L dub

2. my Dad dying when I was a teenager

3. births of my 3 boys

4. making my decision for Christ

5. Caleb's heart defects

5 obsessions i have right now:


1. getting my camper ready for its first trip next W.E.

2. planning our 15th anniv. disney cruise in aug. (any suggestions Essbee??)

3. shopping (always)

4. coffee (drink it now more than ever!)

5. sugar scrub from Arbonne!

5 places I would like to go:

1. grand canyon

2. arizona

3. hawaii

4. Nassau Bahamas

5. Bermuda

5 kitchen tools/appliances can't live with out


1. my 5 inch chopping knife

2. coffee maker

3. over the stove microwave

4. pampered chef mixing bowl

5. pampered chef stone pan

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!