Vikings Last Game & Seahawks WIN, & Packers in the Play-offs?!

So Papa is a HUGE Vikings Fan............ HUGE!  So... being from good ol' Wisconsin .. my Mom is a Packers Fan, and I suppose as a Wisconsinite, we are all a little bit (except Cal, he routes for everyone who plays the Packers!)....so Packers are in the play-offs cuz they won their game... and loving Washington, Noah is a Seahawks fan...  So Calahan was ... um....  bribed ... ah... conditioned to looooooooooooove the Vikings.  So he does, that is HIS team... him, and Papa Russ are die hard Vikings Fans, no doubt!  So, since the Vikings are not in the play-offs at all, their last game was this past Sunday and we went to represent!

Master Kaedyn all cute-ness-glory!

 Our table.... Dennis, Noah, Nana, Nathan, Papa, and Papa's friend Paul

 Calahan sat at the front table with his friend Jacob ...  it was Jacob's Dad's birthday that day too... 

 Master Kaedyn and the Pepsi cup...

 My hunky hubby...

 See the Vikings stuff all around... lol..

 Pretty cool ...

 Breakfast time!!  Being on the West Coast ... the games start earlier here....

 Breakfast....

 Kaedyn decided his train was hungry and packed his eggs in there...

 Nathan, Noah, Nana & Papa ... BREAKFAST!!

 Happy Nathan.... he loooooooooves eggs!!

 Nathan's dinosaur eating eggs...

 Close-up ... of Blue Dino eating eggs....

 How much is that dino in the window.......... the one with the spiky tail......

 Nathan ...

 Kaedyn ..... heehee...

 Seriously - I had to get a picture of this.....

 How much are those babies in the window..

 Kaedyn...

 Nathan...

 And a picture of Mommy thrown in for good measure I guess....

Sadly the Vikings lost........ ugh ... 

So then we had Spaghetti dinner at Nana & Papa's...  and the Seahawks game started as we were leaving to take the babies home to bed.  Cal wanted to get home so he could play before having to return to school today (which he came home dating a new girl...rolls eyes... seriously??) ...  and so Noah wanted to stay to watch the Seahawks with Papa.... 

Then there was the whole "I loooooooooooooove you Nana, can you get chocolate ice cream and whipped cream!?!?"  LOL...  but we won't go into that.......

So when we got home, Dennis and I watched the Seahawks game........ seriously, me, who has only sat and watched a full football game ONCE in her life (when the Seahawks were in the Super Bowl in 2006) ...  sat and watched TWO in one day!   What is going on with me!?!?!?

So we cheered Seahawks on and THEY WON!!!  YAY!!!  So they are in the play-offs too!

Noah - who ended up coming home after half-time but before the game ended, because he wasn't watching it anymore.... apparently turned it on his TV cuz he comes in later and says "Let me guess.... the Seahawks won!" ... I said "Yes, they did!" and he goes .... rolling eyes and all.... "I know, I watched it!"  LOL... 

Walmart Evacuation .........

No really!!  " Your attention please customers!  We need you to evacuate the store out the front doors quickly and without panic"

Let me rewind a little bit. Our beautiful double stroller.... our Cadillac of strollers ... was left outside, open, on the front porch and apparently it got snowed on and rained on .... well, when I looked at it about a week ago cuz I was thinking about taking the Bo-Bo-Brothers for a walk ... my heart B-R-O-K-E......  it was covered in little black spots (mildew/mold) ... seriously - expensive stroller!!

We tried to wash them in vinegar  ... no luck.....  so Mom and I decided to run to Walmart to see what we could find.   We got ... color safe bleach ...  mold/mildew stuff for the bathroom ... mold/mildew stuff for outdoor furniture...  yep ... (We also soaked it over night in vinegar but no luck) ... and there is a LOT - not just a spot or two.  It's covered.....

Anyway - back to my story ......

I wanted to run back to the baby department to find some PJ's for the babies, and so after we did that, we started towards the automotive center for pet safe "salt" for the ice on the driveway ....  while we are walking past the electronics area, the fire alarm goes off.   Mom and I kinda take a pause but keep walking.  Then we see a manager come out of the back of the store with a talky walky saying "Why is the fire alarm going off" ...  in her talky walky ...

Er....K....... but we still kept walking....

Got to the automotive center and got the salt...  and then heard one of the guys from the automotive area say "what? we are evacuating?"  and then he goes "Okay folks, we are asking everyone to exit the store..."

Mom and I kept walking ... we passed a woman who seemed to be oblivious to everything ... and Mom touched her shoulder and said "They are asking everyone to evacuate" and we kept walking.....

The woman..... well, she keep right on shopping....

So we walked into the Garden Center where we had come in, and I said "maybe they don't know yet and they'll still check us out" and just as I was saying that - there was a woman between the two registers on the phone making the announcement to the store to evacuate.  So we asked if we could put our stuff in a cart to the side... it was already obvious what had happened...

Outside, in the outdoor garden area water was pouring down.  Now - at first I didn't know if something had happened out there and it was doing that because there was a fire out there and it was trying to put it out ... or what... but there was a weird smell wafting in from out there ...

So we put our stuff in a cart and walked out to see this ............

 Well we went out by the car.... and then I called Dennis to tell him what was going on....  and then, I said to Dennis "Oh I gotta get off and take pictures for my blog! BYE!" ... ha ha .. .no seriously - I said that... . don't believe me!?!?  Revert to the day I took pictures of the SWAT TEAM breaking into the neighbors place when we lived in Wisconsin the day I found out I was pregnant with Kaedyn!! ...  I'm that kind of blogger! LOL... (I didn't blog about it here, shucks!)
 

 Everyone evacuating ....  and then the fire men showed up!!  Mom says, she was so proud that the City of Bremerton sent ONE ENGINE...

Well, we got to go back in and check out .......... left..... and the water was STILL pouring out ....

Happy 2011!! Happy New Year!

So New Years Eve we wanted to get the kids out of the house for awhile and spend some time with Nana and Papa...

So we took the boys to the mall first to let them play in the play area there ....

 Nathan (in the green) and Kaedyn (in the gray) ... both bent over ...  are playing in the submarine.  Seriously - it is a Navy Base community - why WOULDN'T there be a submarine at the Mall? LOL....

 Noah (in the yellow) waving from the waves!!

 Nathan crawls through the windows of the sub all the time...  literally just goes right on through them, Kaedyn tried, I seriously ... thought.... he ... was ... going ... to ... get.... stuck....  

Then we went to Barnes & Noble and let the kids play at the Thomas Train table... 

Really want to get the boys one of these sometime soon....

Then we went to my Mom & Step-Dad's and we brought bottles of Welch's Fake Champagne and got a box of New Years stuff to play with ...  we brought a movie that Papa had mentioned not seeing that the kids got with Christmas money ...  and pizza!

 Noah wishing you a Happy New Year

 Nathan wishing you a Happy New Year!

 Calahan... well... he wishes you a Happy New Year too ... but he had to be BRIBED for this picture...

Kaedyn wanted NOTHING to do with any of it....  he says he just wants to dance!!  Course DANCING includes bending over and patting his behind!!  LOLOL... seriously - this is the first time I've ever seen him do it!  I was in SHOCK but it cracked us all up!!



But the dogs got into it too!!

Keya would pose and Sadie you had to chase!!

So then we went home cuz the babies were tired and needless to say... we got home and the pretty much passed out (after they had in the car) ...  so at the stroke of midnight, Mommy had her annual fun!!

 Noah all partied out

 Nathan all partied out ...

 Kaedyn all partied out!

Then there is Calahan .... who wasn't even CLOSE to going to sleep!!

 And me........ I had my happy bubbles!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!

So ... what are my resolutions????   They are as follows!!!

• ·         Go out on a date with my husband AT LEAST once a month…
• ·         Take pictures every day
• ·         Blog every day
• ·         Finish one of my books – don’t care which one, just FINISH ONE
• ·         Keep the kids out of the ER for putting things in the holes of their body that they  aren’t supposed to or eating crap that is harmful to them.  (Carrying this one over from last year)
• ·         To continue my journey to lose more in arseland and the continent of gut and leave knocker-ville alone because my husband likes…it…  actually, he says I can leave my arseland and knover-ville alone cuz he likes them….  So just the continent of  gut then!  Ha!  Regardless of where it comes off of…. I want to lose more weight.  (also carried over from last year)
• ·         To continue to help the kids on finding their paths to excellence!!

GOALS

• ·         Find our HOME
• ·         Get a van

Yep!  So that is that.............. I hope everyone had a WONDERFUL NEW YEAR!!!