When birthday's come around I do my best to avoid parties. Too many children in one small confined space is not my thing. I especially avoid sleep overs. I can't stay up all night and I can't leave a group of pre-teen girls unsupervised. I may be a bit of a control freak!
When we started out planning I decided I would give in and allow them to stay over all night. By the week of the party before sending out invitations, I panicked and backed out. I talked her into one evening full of fun. I researched some party ideas online for the pre-teen. I knew I would need to have them busy or they might get out of control. I found one web-site that recommended a cooking party. I thought about it and decided that I could do this. I had to keep telling myself you can do this, you can do this. It is only a few hours, you can do this. I felt like the little engine telling myself over and over. I made homemade pizza dough and gave each of them enough to make their own pizza. After cooking the pizzas, we had homemade doughnuts for dessert. The girls helped to glaze them and add the sprinkles. I actually survived the evening and enjoyed being around the girls. One down, one to go?!
Saturday, November 13th, 2010
We were lucky enough to be given tickets to the OU football game against Texas Tech. (Thanks so much Cindy!) As much as it pains me to say this, it was a really fun, even though I am a Cowboys fan. Anytime I can see Texas get beat it is great. The truth be told I'm a person that is a fan of several teams. I root for OU as long as they aren't playing against OSU. I don't get to wound up or yell and scream too often. LOL! But next weekend may be another story. I am pulling for the boys next weekend. They deserve the win. They are rockin this year. Having a 10-1 season I would say watch out OU.
Back to the game. We had an awesome time. The kids loved it and couldn't believe how big the stadium was. Parker and Madison both wanted to move to higher seats. Parker took pictures of where he wants to sit next time!
Parker wants to be at the very tip top. He said the higher the better! I think he has mistaken this with the penthouse suites, not stadium seats!
Madison was a little grumpy, she stayed up way too late the night before at a slumber party. She needs to get her rest to be a pleasant person. I have no idea where she gets that?:)
As I was cropping these pictures, I noticed the guy guy cheesing in the background. Too funny, couldn't crop this one because it made me laugh. Madison was more interested in what her friends were doing than who was winning the game. Parker said "Say Cheese" so I guess the guy in the background was just doing as told! HAHA
GO POKES!!! Sorry just couldn't help myself!
October 26th, 2010
With all the craziness in the end of soccer season, I forgot to post about the end of season parent game. The boys coach always has them scrimmage against the parents. The boys love it! It gives the parents a chance to realize how hard it is to actually play soccer.
Chris loves cake so much I think sometimes he thinks about getting married again just to have wedding cake. I know he doesn't really want another wife. The one he has is probably hard enough to deal with. Hah He loves white cake with white frosting. I shouldn't say just white frosting. There is a certain type that he prefers. I think it is just the Wilton Buttercream. It may even be made with Crisco, who knows but you know the stuff. The amazing white cake icing that you get from the bakery. The chain store white icing doesn't count or qualify if you are Chris. It has to be the good stuff. So after we had Paula's birthday and Jarrett's birthday I decided he was special enough to deserve a special surprise. Two birthday's and he said he only got a single piece of cake! If you know Chris you see that this is a funny statement. One piece for him is usually as big as several pieces to the rest of us.I called the cake maker Christina and asked her to make up a cake for Chris. She asked if it was his birthday and I said nope, this is just because. Just because........I am hard to live with......I can be a witch.......I love my husband...........He deserves something to smile about........I know that this cake is his very favorite and I am to busy to make it myself. So Just Because. Isn't that something to celebrate? It is for Chris!
