Mr and Mrs Awesome

I haven't done a post in eight months ago, but it is time. I haven't posted because life has been really really hard. Not that good things haven't happened as well. But every time something good happens, something with my health changes, or we have some big upheaval in our life and I use all the strength I've got to barely get through it for ONE MORE FREAKING DAY!! But I'm coping with things better, so I am going to get back to blogging. I'm too sick to work, so I have the time, if not always the energy :-) So The last post was about Gratton's first day of first day. Well when he finishes this year, he will start next year as a fourth grader! That was definitely not how I saw this year going for him academically.  The parent teacher conference with his first grade teacher in Idaho did not exactly go well. He was doing great academically and socially of course, but his teacher literally said "I just don't know what to do with Gratton." H...

Gratton's first day of first grade is today! Kindergarten was only half day, and he didn't like that they didn't get snack time or lunch! He is happy he will finally be able to eat lunch at school now. Last night he had his back to school night, and he got to see his classroom and meet his teacher. She let them pick out a plush that would be their friend for the first week, and then they will be able to take it home forever. Gratton thought that was just grand, and he picked a little penguin. The teacher gave him a get to know you form to fill out, and he went right to a desk to fill it out. His teacher was happy he went to do it right away. David signed up to help out with math once a week in the class. I also signed up to be a class parent too. I volunteered in Gratton's Kindergarten class, and he really liked it. He rode the bus, and I am happy to announce that he was not late! He was very stressed out about that, even though we told him that if he was late we w...

We had an engineering day, and learned about making things. Then we made some hot wheels cars, with the hot wheels fusion kit. The kids had a blast!

This  grew in our front yard! It has been brightening up our house all week! Davids parents came up to Idaho this weekend, for a visit. We had a blast with them. Here are a few pics from the weekend! I took a selfie, because both my daughter and my niece liked my hair that day! It was a throwback to high school, when scrunchy, beach weathered looking hair was super popular. Successful hair day! Gratton made this Easter Egg at school. It is like paint, under plastic. It's pretty cool. A close up of the flower! The boudin pizza calzone we had Friday night. I only got a few bites, because I didn't want to get sick, but it was amazing! Especially that fresh mozzarella! Yum!  Gratton dying Easter Eggs with his cousins! Selfies with Kahlan and Miss Mia. They're so cute! They were fighting over my lap! Playing the Oregon Trail card game with cousins!  Easter Egg Hunt at the Idaho Falls Airport...

I got some decorations for Halloween when Porters is having their 75% off of Halloween decoration sale. That's super cute decorations their butt they are very expensive, so I only buy their decorations during the sale. One of the decorations I got was some skeletons in yoga poses. They're ceramic, but my kids haven't broken decorations for at least a year, so I thought I was good. Well I found them broken and then ask my kids about it and they both started freaking out and saying they were so sorry. Once Gratton was calm enough to tell me what happened, I got the story. He said they were battling with the skeletons and only one survived. I said, "and you just thought you could break my skeletons?" "No mom, I  thought they were WAY STRONGER THAN THAT!"

David and I were talking about pokemon, and he started singing the dugtrio song, which reminded him of how Gratton taught him the right words to the song. Then he said. "My son is correcting ME on pokemon?! Best day ever!!" In the voice of Rupunzel, from Tangled.

Were moving to Idaho Falls, so we're getting the house ready to sell. While prepping the house, I have discovered some amazing products at the dollar tree, that I never would have expected to work. Magic eraser- it comes in a 2 pack. Having gone through many clean checks as an undergrad, and when renting houses, I'm a huge fan of magic erasers. These at the dollar tree worked just as well! I'm never buying them anywhere else again. Painters tape. I've always hated how expensive painters tape is, when you need to use so much of it! Dollar store painters tape works just as well! Drano- yup! Dollar store Drano works! I was amazed. Plumber's snake- my husband said it worked really well. Paint brush- it worked great. And since it was only $1, I threw it away instead of washing it out. After painting, i HATE cleaning out brushes.  Who knew you could trust the dollar store for so much. If you don't like saving money, this isn't so exciting. Made my day...