I love the weekends!

Well, let's see. We had a very full weekend! It started Friday night. Justin and Logan went to see some tough guys perform at the First Baptist Church. They broke through cinder blocks, big pieces of wood and 6 feet or 6 inches of ice with their fist, depending on whose telling the story. They also picked up two kids on the end of a bar and stuff like that. Logan said he loved it, excpet they prayed a lot...maybe 19 times. Justin agreed that they needed to shorten the sermon from about 40 minutes in between to maybe 15. But aside from the praying...Logan had a great time.

We woke up Saturday and headed to the car store. What do you call that really? Oh, I guess car lot would be more appropriate. Anywho...we went to the car lot. With Justin getting the company car, we really need to get rid of his. We were going to see if we could trade both cars in and get one payment, but that didn't work out. So we're going to try to sell either one and trade the other. So if you know of someone that wants a truck or Escape...send them my way. They are in good shape! However, I did find the car I would like. It's a Nissan Murano. I can't wait until we sell one of these cars! Justin has a hard time believing that I don't care what color, but I really don't. As long as it's not orange, I don't care. After the car lot, I almost said shop again, we got home and found Pappy! And while Pappy was waiting he found, a big bag of balls...I'll show those pictures tomorrow! We played outside for awhile and he helped me work on my garden. It's a huge garden and there is no way I could have done it without him and Logan, and Justin on Sunday. Saturday he spent most of the day detailing the cars, getting them ready. After we were done with some of the garden we came in. The kids just played and played with Pappy. He helped Logan put up his monster truck display that he's been wanting forever. Then he took us to Rib Crib. Yum. I've only been there once, but it was very good! As usual, Logan and Cody probably ate the most. We came home and pretty much all of us went to bed. It was a tiring, hard working day!

Sunday, we woke up and Logan and Pappy went and got donuts. I haven't had a donut is so long, it was YUMMY. Then we headed outside. It was beautiful out all day! We finished up the garden. Logan and Pappy went four wheeling and Cody took a nap. When he woke up, Pappy said goodbye and headed home. We spent pretty much the rest of the day outside. The weatherman said it was 73 degrees...but as you know, I don't trust those people. We four wheeled and go carted all day. Then we played some soccer and watched the Super Bowl. Everyone was VERY tired. I laid Cody down and he didn't even move! Logan asked to go to bed...what??? And usually Justin gives me a hard time when I start cleaning up and heading to bed, but last night...he was right behind me. I must say, I woke up this morning a little sore. How sad...

That's all from here. I have tons of pictures so be on the lookout! Love and miss you all!

WOOO-HOOOO almost the weekend

Hello everyone out there. I hope you are all doing well. Things here are COLD. It snowed all day yesterday, they say we got 2-4 inches depending are where you are. Cody wasn't quite sure what to think of the snow when we were outside. It was blowing everywhere and landed on him, then of course my other children, yes, other children. By that I mean, Logan and Justin. Anyway, my other children brought the snow indoors. Here Cody and I are having a nice quiet dinner when WHAM, Logan gets pegged with something. Justins standing at the doorway laughing. I look and white stuff EVERYWHERE. Snowball fight in my dining room. Logan grabs what he can and throws it back. Of course you can imagine the problem with this, retaliation doesn't work with children. (Again, refering to Justin as a child) Justin goes and gets maybe the biggest snowball ever and throws it at Logan, then throws it at me, then Logan throws it at Justin, misses, bounces off the dining room table and hits me. This is not fun for the mommy. So I get my mean mommy voice on and demand the rough housing stop immediately. It does, for about a minute, until I get another wad of snow in my lap. Ugh, what am I gonna do with those two?

Cody's head is looking tons better. It doesn't seem to bother him either when you touch it. It was a good one though huh? We played most of yesterday at Kim's. She got a new bedroom set so I helped her put it all together. It looks soooo good, and she got it on sale, even better.

Justin had to go to OKC last night so we were all alone. It's been awhile since he hasn't been here, it's weird. But fortunately my old friends from "Lost" were back. They started their season last night. And in a way I'm not happy about it. I always get a little freaked out after the show because it's so strange. And of course, Justin is gone and those two stupid dogs barked all night. I kept thinking I heard Jacob...ok, if you don't watch the show you won't get that, but it was funny...right Amy? FUNNY. Anywho...it was awesome. I can't wait until next Thursday. I wish more people watched it so I could talk about it to someone other than Amy. I have to wait usually for her to watch it and get off work the next day to talk, and I forget everything I want to talk about. Ok, enough about Lost...but seriously you should watch it and then we could talk about it!!!

I guess that is all. I'm off to clean house. Friday is cleaning day and laundry day...wait, everyday is laundry day. :-) Love and miss you all!

A big uhoh...

Well yesterday was a great day until about 5:30 or so...Cody bit it, and bit it hard. (you can see it in the picture) He was running around like a crazy man when he tripped. Caught the corner of the book case just right and slammed into the side of it. He instantly got a gooseegg and it didn't look too far off from bleeding. He cried and cried and cried and then saw a banana so he was fine. Bananas are the magic food around here, tired, cranky, hurt, sad...bring on a banana and all is well!

Logan had the opposite evening of Cody. He had an incredible evening. Because he got to go to Incredible Pizza! His friend Ian was going and his mom said he could invite someone. So Logan won the vote! They left about 4:30 and got home about 7:30...his mom said they kept saying, "ohhh, one more round of mini golf please." So she let them. He was so tired when he got home, went right to bed, no arguing...very nice.

Me, I got a lot of work done on the computer. I think I am officially moved over to my new computer. Got all the files copied and backed up. How exciting for me! That's the excitment in my life...not much!

Thanks to everyone for your positive root canal stories, it's nice to hear some good ones for a change! Well, I'm off to fix some french toast. Love and miss you all!

Dentists are not fun...

Well, it's not good news. Ok, here's the story...two years ago a chunk of my tooth fell out, remember, my hillbilly story? Ok, the dentist in OKC put in a filling and fixed it all up. Well, apparently, he put it in too deep. It has slowly been rubbing away the nerve. So my tooth is dying. Gross. So I go in on the 14th to get a root canal. Never had one, freaked out of my mind about it too! Wish me luck!

Other than that, nothing new going on here. Logan and Justin went to Study Island last night at his school. It's a program they work on in computers to help with the state testing. They apparently passed both the tests they took. I think Justin was more excited than Logan.

Cody is really talking a lot. Still, none of it makes sense, but geez, he sure has stuff to say. I'm a little nervous for when they are actual words because I don't think he's gonna ever shut up. The other day he came around the corner, pointed at me, and started babbling. It lasted a full minute and then he stopped, I said "oh yeah?" he smiled and walked away. Funny little guy.

I'm off again to Tulsa to get the last of Kim's comforter set. It's always an adventure when we go! Love and miss you all!

Dentist day!

Yeah, I'm finally going to the dentist today! I'm sooo excited. I hope they can fix the tooth today and now just look at it and set another appt.

Let's see, yeseterday was another great day. It started out pretty nice here, but soon got really windy and cold. Those weathermen don't know anything do they? Cody and I came home from our walk, did some chores and then headed to the mall with Kim and Evan. She was looking for a new bedroom set. The boys were getting a little restless so we let them out to roam for awhile. Oh my goodness, Cody acted like he was just released from prison. He went bananas. He went running through the bedding department just laughing and looking back to see how close I was. They were re-arranging the spot so there were several empty cabinets on the sides. He liked to climb in them and just sit. He would look so proud of himself, like he was doing something wrong. It was so funny. Finally she found a set and we headed home. He took a nap and woke up ready to play with Logan. He's really becoming a toddler, losing all that baby sweetness.

Logan headed back to school. He's is enjoying everything but computers still. If you can believe it, that teacher makes him practice typing...mean, mean, mean. Logan says that's all they do is work, no fun. :-) Justin is going to take him to school today b/c of the dentist appt. He's pretty excited about that. Then tonight there is a parent/student thingy they are going to. He picked Justin over me...how sad...I've been upset about it all night. I'm telling myself it's because Justin doesn't get to do much at school b/c he's always working, not because he just doesn't like me as much!

That's about it from McNeill land. Hope everything is great with you all. Would love to hear your stories! Love and miss you all

Welcome Monday!

Hello everyone. I have to say we had an excellent weekend. I feel refreshed and ready for another week. Friday night we didn't do a dang thing. We had some dinner and then Justin and I watched some movie while Logan watched a movie in our room. There was some movie on Disney he'd been wanting to see for awhile.

Saturday morning we got up and got ready for Justins cousins shower. She's having twins. Ugh, I can't even imagine! She is so big already and still has until March. She looks miserable. I know I would be. After the shower Justin and Logan went to a hockey game. Logan was so excited to have a Dad and Logan evening. They ate nachos, watched the players fight, and even got to be on the big screen. They didn't know they were there until someone told them. Logan thought that was pretty cool. He also found out the Monster Truck show is coming soon and wants to go to that now!

Sunday we got so much accomplished around the house. Justin got the Christmas lights down finally. Yes, I said it, it has taken forever. It seems like the weekends he could do it we had something going on. SO finally got those off, we picked up a lot more of the branches and trees that fell. Cody even helped. He loves being outside and being a part. He thinks he's so big. He would grab a little stick and throw it onto the pile just like Logan. He was very proud of himself. Let's see what else, we cleaned out the garage, got together some more stuff for garage sale. It still amazes me how much stuff we have that we haven't seen in years! And then we came in and Justin cooked burgers. Cody was hungry before they were ready so he had leftovers...and then he had my burger. Half of it anyway, that's all I would give him. He's a piggy. That boy will eat anything. And Logan, he ate two burgers. I guess all that work makes growing boys hungry!

I hope you all had a great weekend too. I'm off to get this house up and around, everyone is still asleep here. Have a wonderful weekend and I'll talk to you tomorrow I'm sure! Love and miss you all!

TGIF

Yeah! I'm so excited. I'm gonna enjoy this weekend since my last one was so bad!

I just got back from the Social Security office in Tulsa. It was soooo nice. All computerized and new. I guess they just built it within the last year, that's what people told me anyway.

Things are running smoothly here. Cody is really getting the hang of using his own spoon. It however is always a huge mess. But he really enjoys feeding himself. And it's good since he won't let me use a spoon on him...too big for that I guess. Yesterday he had another play date. Kim went to get a haircut so I watched Evan for her. They had fun playing together for the hour they got to. Cody had to take a nap in between the times. He's figuring out how to play with others and let them use your toys. He's still a little nervous around Evan though, he's just beginning to walk so he needs some support sometimes, and sometimes that's Cody. Which makes Cody MAD. It's so funn, Evan just looks at him like "Gee dude, I just needed a little help..." while Cody is screaming. Poor Evan.

Logan got his report card yesterday. All A's except spelling. He got a B. But that's good because he pulled up his social studies grade so we were happy. He's on the honor roll again however. They had been practicing taking a state test lately which he hates. However, they get to do it on the computer so that makes it a little more fun he says. Also, they have started getting Flat Stanleys, but they won't open them all until I think the middle of February he said, he's excited to see and hear all the adventures he went on!

Justin and I are same ol'. We try to watch a little TV at night, but unfortunately, there isnothing ever on. So we've started playing games. However, I remember now, why we don't usually play games against each other. He's a whiney baby if he loses. And then it turns to anger...not nice things come out of is mouth if I win. :-)

Well, I gotta go to Wal-Mart to get some more eggs and bananas...these kids are banana eating fools! Have a great weekend. Love and miss you all!

Dancing Machine...

Good morning all! Well, our week has turned out beautifully. Everyone is feeling well, Logan is back at school and happy. He missed playing I think. Laying around for 5 days will get to you. Cody is back to his crazy self and I am loving not whining or vomit!

I started back exercising yesterday with Kim. It was nice to be back. However, I got winded a lot faster than normal. I'm gonna blame it on the sickness.

Logan had a friend come home with him yesterday after school. They played on the computer a little and then played marbles. They had a make shift circle out of shoestring and maybe 100 marbles in the middle. They had a lot of fun, but it took awhile to win. After that they played some video games until it was time to go. And then, homeword. I swear, they do so much homework it's crazy. He finished it all up in time for dinner.

Cody is silly. He's really started dancing this week. He also started blowing kisses and waving like a real person with his hand and not his whole arm. He also has figured out how to yell at Bo. I'm not exactly sure what he's saying to her, but it isn't pretty. If she invades his personal space, he's on her. "Ahhh, no, blah, blah, blah." And it's the same thing everytime so I know it's something. He however, loves Phoebe. Phoebe could sit on his lap and he wouldn't care. He will just love on her. He loves on Bo to, but just not as nicely. I've attached a video of him dancing. If you turn up the speakers you can hear the TV.

Guess that's all for now. Off to school. Have a great day. Love and miss you all!

Back on track

Good Wednesday morning everyone. I hope you all had a great weekend and first part of the week. I can't believe it's Wednesday! With Logan having no school on Monday and my mom being here, it has really messed up my week. But yeah! One day closer to the weekend.

Not much has been going on since the plague hit our house. We're slowly catching up on things and getting back to normal. Logan had 27 pages of homework. And this time, I'm not exaggerating. And some of them, I'm ashamed to say, I had a hard time with. We had to look up on the internet several times for information. But I know it all now, so bring it on!!!!

Cody is catching up on all the sleep he missed out on. You know he wouldn't take naps while he was sick so now, he's sleeping in and taking one good nap. We'll see how long that lasts!

Justin is back at work and happy as a clam. They are really busy getting new customers and trying to turn a big profit.

That's all from here for now. Love and miss you all!

I am weak, Justin is strong

There I said it. I will also say this once and only once publicly. Justin, I am sorry I said I was some sort of super human immune machine. I am obviously not, I am weak. Ok, enough of that, feel better? (He's been on my case to say good things about him all weekend on the blog!) Well KABLAM, Thursday night, round 4 arrived. And boy, did it.


Cody was still pretty bad Thursday night, but Logan was definitely on the mend. Friday morning I woke and up and tried to take care of Cody, but I just couldn't do it. I had 102 temperature and he was trying to use every ounce of energy I had. So around 7:45am I called Justin and asked him for help. He came home, immediately, and took charge. I was pretty much out of commission until Sunday. I ran a fever all day Friday and most of Saturday until Justin was about to go crazy from Cody's neediness. He decided to take us to the doctor. I think he might have wanted to take us somewhere and leave us, but fortunately he didn't! The doctor checked us out. Cody had a virus and an ear infection, and on top of all that, guess what? Two more teeth. Poor guy, I think he always gets an ear infection when he gets teeth. Anywho...I have a massive sinus infection. It was all the way to my teeth. She gave Cody a steroid and an antibiotic and me three prescriptions for all kinds of stuff.


Saturday night was horrible for me, the medicine made me even sicker, but Cody slept like a good baby. My mom offered to come help on Monday in case I wasn't feeling well by then, b/c she had the day off. So we said yes please. She came up Sunday and helped Justin clean up the house. I started feeling soooooo much better Sunday afternoon. Almost like a human again. Cody, however is hit and miss. I think he might have gotten a little used to Daddy holding him b/c now he's a little spoiled!


It's Monday morning and all is well though. Justin is happy to be back at work I think. Cody is happy to have Elmo. Logan is happy he has no school. Grammy is happy she's with her kiddos, and I'm happy I don't have anymore aches and pains. So that's our weekend. It was rough, but we made it. I do have to say that Justin did a great job. He really stepped up and took charge, even when he wanted to run!


That's all from here, love and miss you all!