Happy Thanksgiving!!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING from our Turkey Max. We hope that you all have a great turkey day and eat lots of pie. We are so grateful for all of the blessings that we have and hope that you take time today to remember all that you have to be thankful for!

Max and Spin Uno

For Max's Birthday he got Uno Spin. It is a game that our family loves to play. As a matter of fact, each morning Max wakes up and says I'm up for a game of Uno Spin - Anyone else? Most the of the time we all play and have a great time! If anyone is looking for a fun game to play with their family, I would highly recommend this one! We play it every Sunday and amazingly we all win at least one hand!

Maya and her answering machine

Maya is 4 but sometimes I think that she is really 16 or 17. For example of her and all of her silliness or sassiness depending on how you look at it - Bryant leaves for work before the kids get up in the morning. So we call him every day for them to talk to him. I was talking on the phone with him and he was on speaker, he asked if he could talk to Maya. She went and hid behind the chair that I was sitting in and said this "Maya can't come to phone right now, please leave a message." I was laughing so hard and I wondered how she could be so funny! She was quite pleased with herself.

This is just one of many examples of how she makes our lives so much funnier!!

The first of many remodels

After living in our home for over 5 years and the house being 20 years old, Bryant and I have decided that it is time to start remodeling the rooms in the house. It will probably take us a long time to get it all done, but that's okay because we are not going anywhere anytime soon.

So this past weekend, Bryant tackled our hall bathroom. It is a half bath with just a sink and a toilet. The pictures are shown above from the beginning to the end. The flooring was replaced, touch up done on the paint job that he did last year, new sink, vanity and light fixture!! We also got a new toilet set and I scrubbed the heck out of the old toilet to make it look new again.

Bryant did a GREAT job and the new bathroom looks great. We have yet to decide which room we (really he) is going to do next.

1.65 for a Gallon for Gas!!

Today - I got gas for 1.65 for a gallon!!!! How you may ask. Well, Safeway has a program that if you buy gift cards you get a double gas bonus - to for every $100 in gift cards you get 20 cents off.

Well - we are redoing our hall bathroom and had to buy a vanity and other items at Home Depot. So we went to Home Depot and got some gift cards to cover the amount of the purchase which gave us a 50 cent discount!!!

Today we bought 30 gallons of gas for less that 50$

I was sooooooo excited.

Last Day of Soccer

Madison and Max both played soccer this fall. Saturday were their last games. Madison did a great job and of course that once I turned off the camera, Madison took the ball and dribbled it down the field and Max playing in the sweeper position, cleared the ball over the heads of the opposing team. But they both had a lot of fun and got better. Max has decided that he might want to try baseball next. I think because it has less running than soccer... but who knows!!

Sunday Dinner and the funny conversation

Today we had meatloaf for sunday dinner. Not my kids favorite at all. I had been watching how good Madison had been eating her meatloaf without complaining. The following is what transpired between me and her.

Kari: Madison, thank you so much for eating your meatloaf without complaining.

Madison: Oh, I'm complaining but I am keeping it inside!!

Bryant and I got a good laugh at it. She is getting to be such an adult at the young age of seven.

A surreal moment and other stuff

Sorry that this blog does not have any pictures. Oh well

Yesterday, we finally went to set up the kids with the savings accounts. Yes, we should have done it a long time ago. But we have put it off until yesterday!

When we got to the bank, I was filling out paper work for each of the kids and I had to list their mother's maiden name - I started to write my mother's maiden name when I realized that they wanted MY maiden name. It was pretty wierd to write down my name.

I guess that means that I am getting older and maybe a little wiser - but don't hold your breath on that.

As today is election day, please go and vote and a plug for prop 102 in AZ - We need this now more than ever!!! This proposition has made me do things that have put me out of my comfort zone, but I would do it again in a heart beat if it helps my kids future be a little easier.