McCain and Palin

So I was watching Fox news all morning waiting for McCains VP pick. I was shocked to see he picked never heard of woman from Alaska!! I sat watching the whole speech and I'm so excited to have her running with McCain. She is so inspiring and think she will do wonders for the campaign.  McCain was not my first choice but I would rather have him that Obama. Now that he has a young typical soccer mom, she will relate with the more conservative crowd again. She is a 44 yr old mom of 5 kids. He oldest son is in the army and then  3 daughters and a 4 month old, YES a 4 month old son with down syndrome!! He husband of 20 years must be a wonderful supportive husband and dad. I don't think I could do something this big and still have a family, heck sometimes I feel like I can't run a preschool and have 2 kids let alone be VP. But one day I hope to contribute to our community. She started in the PTSO at her kids school, then city council, Mayor, Governor and now Vice President!! I love it and honestly I always said the Presidents of the United States is a mans job but I don't mind a woman VP!!! Let the debates begin!!! I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!!!

Simple Sacrament Time Book

I saw this on someone's blog and thought it was cute and cheap (I really don't like the word cheap) so I'll say inexpensive. I bought a 10 pack of name tag badges at Staples for like $3.00 bucks. I have lots of scrapbook paper at home so I just picked out a few sheets and cut them to fit inside. Then for FHE we went through some old Friends with Ryker and he got to pick out pictures that reminded him of Jesus and the Sacrament. Then he glued them on the paper and poof and little quiet time book Ryker can flip through during the Sacrament.  I hope that someone will find this useful and give it a try. =) 

Thank you Dr. Phil

I normally don't watch Dr. Phil but I turned on the TV and he was on dealing with a family with a wild young boy, so of course I started to listen. Well that segment was about over and the next guest was a mom with 4 kids and to the point of wanting to leave her kids. I can't imagine walking out on my family!!  Not for good anyways, but for and hour here and their YES. This lady just chased her wild kids around all day and never took time for her or had hobbies. She was very pretty and took good care of herself in the looks department.  Stylish clothes, long hair with highlights, nails done etc. But she still wasn't happy. Bottom line Dr Phil said she needed to find a hobby and accomplish things. He said take up painting, tennis, crafts, cooking whatever but learn some new things and have fun with it. I ALWAY remind Shaun when he tells me I have to much craft stuff, that crafting, scrapbooking and sewing etc.. is therapy for me, I love finishing little projects here and their.  I've been saying this for years and now I have the proof, because whatever Dr. Phil says goes right =)    I'm so grateful for talents and hobbies and it is important for us moms not to lose ourselves when we have our kids. Because one day when they are all grown up, and no one is in the house then what will you do. I will hopefully be sewing cute dresses for my granddaughters or making a special treat for my kids and families.   Ok Happy Day to one and All. 

These are 3 of the millions of things I would like to make.

 

More Kid Pics!!

I know what your are thinking, I post so many pictures of my kids but they do take up a good portion of my life so I guess it is fitting to blog about them right!!!

Everyone asked me "oh is Ryker in your preschool class", um I tried it this year for the first week and he was the worst kid out of all 19 (I don't have them all at once)kids so he started his own preschool this week and loves it.  Dear Ms. Aleks, for taking him on!! This is his first day of school. So handsome if I do say so myself!!

I love this picture, Ryker was reading his favorite book to Amelia. She seriously loves him. No one make her smile as much as he does. But he loves her just as much, he is an older protective brother who is so sweet to his sister!!

Amelia is learning new tricks, she is sitting up by herself. Ok she is still a little tipsy but can last a few mins. She also started rolling over a few weeks ago. Next is crawling... EEK!!!

Hot Lips!! I just die laughing at her when she plays with her tongue, she sticks is up so it looks like she has these huge lips. I think it is funny because if you really know what she looks like, she has ity-bity lips!!  Oh and she has her first ear infection =(  I took her to the Dr Friday after a terrible night Thursday, which is not like her. She is a great sleeper so I knew something had to be wrong! Well that is the latest this week in the Martineau home.

Life Made Simple!!

So in efforts to save our family a little money in the food area I decided (and yes I'm just now doing this after being married for 5 years) to plan out all our meals for a week and make a grocery list according to that. Before I would just buy random things and then never really have all the ingredients for good meals so we ate alot of bean and cheese burritos.  So now I only buy what we need and have started saving and not wasting food. Also with preschool starting up I'm pretty tired in the afternoon so I figure if I'm going to make lasagna or something, might as well make 2 batches and freeze one. Oh how nice it has been. So this week I made lasagna, enchiladas, taco soup and this yummy crock pot chicken stuff (we call it yummy chicken). So now next week when I'm tired and lazy I can pull something out and throw it in the oven!! I'm sure most of you are doing this and think I'm a dummy for just now getting with it. But shame on you for not telling my years ago!! If you guys have any suggestions on some meals that can be frozen let me know. If you want any recipes for some of the things I made let me know. My recipes are WAY easy and very good.  

*disclaimer* these are not pictures of my food =) I wish I had the green casserole dish though!!

Ryker boy, oh I mean the spiderman

I just got some new crayons for Ryker and every time he gets a new box what does he do? Yes take off all the paper. So we end up with papers and little pieces of crayons where his nails (claws) have scrapped. Then after all that he colors for like 5 mins.  Oh well at least the unwrapping part took him 15 mins.  I do love this boy but we have good days and BAD days. Today started out bad, as we were at a Back to School Breakfast with ward gals. He was the only kid turning off lights, standing on a big box, with another kid in it, etc.. But at least he makes me laugh. Here are a few things from today.

*he is no longer Ryker, he is the Spiderman, as he says it and everyone else must be one to. I'm Leonardo from the Ninja Turtles, Aunt Kebs is the hulk, Aunt Wuggie is the Batman and so forth. He runs in the room very serious saying "come on superheros, lets save the day" then runs off and wants us to follow him as we save the world.

*i was cutting his fingernails (after the crayon incident) and as I was cutting he would say, "ow mom your cutting my claws off. I need them"

*I put a pork roast in the crock pot for dinner (I found a yummy recipe for shredded pork sandwiches) so he was hungry a little early so I made him a sandwich and of course he only wanted the bread.  I finally got him to take a BIG bite and as he was chewing and he was getting tears in his eyes, I said "what is wrong"  he replied "mom I don't like worms"  Shredded pork does look like a pot full of worms. I felt so bad and was laughing so i just made him chicken nuggets.

*every night we have to make sure his closet is closed because he says Randall for Monsters Inc comes in his room to take him.

*oh and Amelia is not Baby Sister anymore, she is super girl

Spidy and Super girl (her mouth is always open like a little bird)

Sew mama sew!!

So a few months ago I made Amelia a cute little dress. Well by the time I finished it, she was to big for it =(   (Amelia is a big girl, or my momba jomba as I like to call her)  But I got her first skirt done and it fit!!!  It is my first one and I'm not a great sewer, but I'm trying.  I love the colors navy blue and hot pink together!! No I did not make the shirt. I hope to keep making more, so easy and "sew" fun.  (I'm such a dork)

Handyman- smandyman

This has been my preschool room for the past 3 year. Well in July sometime, the toilet over-flowed and all that water crept under all this flooring. So we had to instantly move everything out and rip up all the flooring =(    Well with little time and little money I decided I would put in the new flooring myself!!!  

This is what is underneath, it made the room dark and dungeon like. No good for preschoolers.

So with the help of my mom, a little from my dad. Here ya go nice new flooring!! It took several hours and I have to measure and cute each of the outside layer of vinyl pieces. They are 18 x 18  better than the 12 x 12 I was going to do!!!!  It looks like real tile right, well it is just the stick-n-peel.  So now you are not as impressed with me but seriously it still took some work!!

Feeling Like I'm in Highschool Again!!!

So one of my most favorite things to do ever is go to the lake. Well I love the ocean, ponds, streams, rivers anything with water. I love H2O!!!  In Highschool I went to the lake often, with friends and my brothers friends. I'm happy just sitting and hanging out but I LOVE to tube as well. Thank you so much Porters for the fun time. You have no idea how much I  miss going. It has been years.  

The lake was beautiful and had such a pretty sunset! Ryker, Deli and Eden looking for fish.

Shaun went to the lake maybe 3 times his whole life, he knows how much I love it so hopefully I can convert him to loving in just as much. He tried wake boarding for the first time and got up on like his 2nd try. He did so good I was proud of him!!!