Molly's Birthday

Today (Aug 30) we celebrated Molly's birthday, one day early. She's only had one birthday before, but was really into the concept. She's been hugging her presents for the last week and just couldn't wait to open them. She's learned how to tear the wrapping paper off her packages ... on second thought, maybe that wasn't such a good thing to teach her...

She got a puppy from her Grandparents Hahn and the big BRIGHT pink ball from Great-Grandma (actually in the form of cash) so Great Grandma doesn't know what she bought for Molly yet. She got this outfit from the Grandparents Christensen. This will work out great for living in Houston.

Back to school 2009

Well another year, another school! Oh, I guess that's not normal unless you are in our family!! Anyway, Thomas is in third grade this year and Abby is in Kindergarten. They were very excited on the first day. And especially so because they get to ride the bus this year!!Here they are waiting for the bus, they got kinda bored because the bus was late. They started watching the bugs nearby. But the bus finally made it and they were off to school!After school Molly and I walked to the bus stop to meet Thomas and Abby. Once again the bus was late and we got tired of waiting... ( first day, I guess the driver needs to get used to his route!)
But again, the bus finally made it and the kids were home safe to tell tales of the first day!!

I made these cupcakes for the first After School Snack, they are supposed to be Ming-Ming from the show Wonder Pets!

Abby quote of the day, or week, or year!

We all went down to the school yesterday to register Thomas and Abby for the year at a new school! While Toby and I waited in line after line, the kids had crayons and paper and were sitting at another table drawing pictures. Abby came over after a little while and said with a totally straight face "Daddy what is that thing on Uranus?". We just busted up laughing and couldn't stop! Apparently she was drawing a picture of the solar system and wanted to know if Uranus had rings or moons or any "extras". That is our Abby always making us laugh!!

i don't get why the time is always wrong on my posts, it's not a big deal just annoying! If anyone knows how to fix it, please let me know!

I'm such a slacker!

I feel like I have put off posting on my blog for too long. I am having a hard time getting the new house all put together, and I feel like anytime I am on the computer is a waste of time. I am also waiting until I can take some good pictures of the house so I can post them for all to see. I hope all can be patient for awhile longer until I have time to post pictures of our Vegas trip and our move!

Stuff we've done lately!

Well, this first part is from back in April when Thomas' class did a program about bugs and he decided to dress as a cockroach! We made his costume the night before (classic Amy procrastination!) out of cardboard and brown paper. I think it looks pretty good for last minute throwing together!

Here is Thomas doing the Square Dance number with his friend Gabriella. They had a good time dancing together.
Soccer season is over and Abby's age group coordinator got all of the girls little medals, which is great, but made Thomas a little upset that he has been playing soccer for two years and hasn't yet recieved a medal! Anyway these pictures are of Coach Joe giving Abby her medal and then the girls gave him card and they even signed it themselves!

Abby is number 4

If you look really close you can see Abby's face squished between Kayleigh and Romina.

Last weekend we got to have some friends over for the afternoon and they had lots of fun together. Thomas and Stephen are about the same age and Abby and Callison are about the same age and, of course, Bensen and Molly are close in age as well. After some outside water play, they all came in to watch a VeggieTales movie. Abby told me "I know who I want to sit by!" And when I asked her who, she whispered in my ear, "Stephen" it was very cute!

After the movie Abby and Callison played dress-up

Molly and Bensen played Pop-Ons together and

Thomas and Stephen played with Legos. They all had lots of fun together. We will miss our Okie friends very much when we move.

And finally, here are two videos I recently shot of Molly. The first is just a short video of a few things she says regularly, and the second is of her jumping. I'm not sure why she even started jumping unless it was because Abby is going through a stage of trying to learn to jump rope. Anyway, the way Molly jumps is just hilarious, if anyone remembers how she crawled with her one "power leg" you will see why it is so funny!

Abby's game

So tonight Abby had a Soccer game at 6 pm. It turns out the other team thought the game was at 5pm, so we just played three on three by ourselves! About halfway through the game Abby started to cry for no apparent reason. She came and sat with me, but wouldn't tell me what was wrong for awhile. When I finally got her to talk to me, she said that it was too hard and she would never be able to score a goal!! She stayed out of the game for about five or ten minutes while everyone tried to convince her to keep trying and telling her that we are only playing for fun! Anyway, we finally told her that if she wasn't going to play anymore, that we would just go home. She didn't want to leave, so she decided to play again. Luckily, since we were just playing ourselves, the Coach was nice enough to tell the other girls to help Abby score. Well, of course she made her first goal and was very proud of herself! Thank You very much Coach Joe!!! She played the rest of the game and had a great time like always!!And then after the game Thomas was playing around and got stuck in the net! ( I made Toby wait until I got a picture and then help him down! hehe!)