Cake

So I agreed to make my neighbors Sweet 16 birthday cake. I used her invitations and came up with a few sketches. After she picked one I had two weeks to sweat it out. It was my 1st cake covered in fondant but I think it turned out pretty good. I had a few inexperience mistakes but over all I am happy with it. You'll have to excuse the pictures as the cake was in the garage. The one sucky thing is I have no voice. I have sinus drainage so my voice is gone...Last week was cowboy week at school and I will post pictures from that in my next post. Have a great weekend!

Christmas.....Already????

So yesterday morning as we were getting ready Matthew reminds me that we only have 50 days until Christmas. WHAT? Where has the year gone? It seems like yesterday I was whining about not having a Christmas card design and it is already that time again. (Just in case you were wondering..UGH no I haven't started my cards yet) So I ordered 5 Christmas gits on-line. It's a start right? Elizabeth is the hard one for me. She wants everything she sees but she is not really drawn to anything. Right now she says that she wants this princess chair. Now I haven't seen this in person but it is $70.00 for a plastic chair... Santa is cringing. SO now Matthew and I have the dilemma of, do we buy the chair that we are almost certain is junk so that Elizabeth gets what she asks Santa for or do we spend the next few weeks trying to talk her into something else. It was much easier before I had to fill Santa's huge shoes. So that is where I am with Christmas Shopping right now.

Now the one thing that I would do tomorrow if I could is start decorating. Now of course that would require a clean house. Which I am certain that I won't see until my kids are in college but I still would love to put the tree up. I already have a list of new decorations that I want to make. Hopefully my creative brain comes out of hibernation this year.

Halloween

The kids love Halloween. Elizabeth was Jasmine and Ethan was a "Ductor" ie train conductor. We started off the festivities this year by going to the Ghouls of Grassmere at the Nashville Zoo. We went the Friday before Halloween and it was COLD. We saw the best costume there. A women was about 6 months pregnant and she was dressed as a oven. She had taken a box and covered it in tin foil and cut out a opening and drew a bun on her belly. So she was a "Bun in the oven. The best part was her husband was the chef! It cracked me up. Then Saturday night Ethan got sick all over our bed. After about 6 hours of getting sick he finally settled down. I will be so glad when he is old enough to give me some warning.

Halloween Day was crazy this year. I spent the day at Elizabeth's school getting ready for the party. I did the crafts and the games for the party. We got to decorate the room while the kids were at lunch and having recess. When we were finished the kids all came in and we helped them change into the costumes. Then we trick-or-treated around the whole school. We went everywhere..it was great fun to see all the older kids fuss all over the little kids. It was also really nice because Ethan was able to trick or treat too. I am not sure how I would have survived, if I would have had to keep him back. Trick or treating took over an hour so we didn't have much time to do the class party.
The party was pure chaos. The kids eating snacks and running around. I have always respected what teachers are able to accomplish but after trying to keep things going I now know that every day we should send our teachers a huge "Thank You!"


That night we went to Tina's to trick or treat. We had lots of fun riding around in the back of the trailer. Elizabeth loved getting to see Bracey and Ethan was thrilled to go to "Tinas". It was a really nice night not to cold and not to hot. All and all a great Halloween.
THEN...Of course we topped it off with Elizabeth waking up in the middle of the night with a stomach bug. Yep she caught what Ethan had. So we had another long night. I do feel so blessed that she is old enough to run to the bathroom. We had a lot less clean up with Elizabeth. So that was Halloween 2007 for the Webb Family....

Ice skating video.... 5th Lesson....

This week Elizabeth got her new skates! She is really excited to have the white ones....

Update----

I always thought that when both kids were in school I would have time to get all the things done that I never had time to do. Well I was WRONG! Yikes if anything life has gone into warp speed. Sometimes I turn around and I can't believe that another week has passed. Someday maybe I'll learn how to manage it all.


Elizabeth---
School is going really well for her. Last week we got her 1st report card and she got excellent marks. The two things that we need to work on are keeping her on task and writing her numbers. I am so proud of her. She loves school. Even on the weekends she wants to go to school. In September she turned 5! I still can't believe that she is already 5. I find myself just looking at her face because she has grown so much. When I see the pictures from even a year ago I am in awe of how much older she looks. Her birthday party theme this year was butterflies and she had a wonderful day. Having a birthday at the beginning of school year is good because it gave me a chance to get to know some of the other parents. In October Elizabeth started taking Figure Skating lessons. We started with a private coach thinking that we would switch to group lessons once she had the basics down but we love the coach. He is great with her. Elizabeth adores him so I think that we will be staying with the private lessons. We might add the group lessons on top of the private ones. Matthew and I don't have a plan yet.


Ethan---
Started Mothers Day out the 1st week of September. The 1st week went really well and then he figured out that I was leaving him. He started crying when I left and would cry on and off all day. It was really stressful for me. This last week we are finally back to him only crying a little when I leave and then being happy for the rest of the day. On Friday he even cried because Elizabeth had school and he didn't. I will truly feel blessed when he runs in and completely forgets who I am. He can count to 12 and it cracks me up when Elizabeth gets mad because he takes over and counts for her. He is not very good with his colors yet...Everything is PINK....Matthew swears that we will have lots of therapy bills.

So that is our kids in a nutshell....Next time I will do a quick update on Matthew and I...

Have a great Monday!..

Tagged---I'm it...and I have no one else to tag :(

A. The rules of the game are posted at the beginning.


B. Each player lists 6 facts/habits about themselves.


C. At the end of the post, the player then tags 6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog.




I have been tagged by Candice




Six Facts/Habits about myself




1. I don't like to watch movies or read books over and over again. Matthew can recite movie dialogue off at the top of his head it drives me crazy.


2. My favorite part of Christmas is wrapping the presents. I love to decorate the packages. Christmas Eve I am typically in awe of all the pretty presents.


3. I am afraid of the dark.


4. I have way too many interest. I *like* to do so many things that it is hard to become really good at one thing. Maybe someday I'll be able to nail it down to 1 or 2 things.


5. I LOVE the Internet. It is amazing all the things that you can find on-line.


6. I am addicted to diet coke. Sigh :)

Elizabeth's 1st day of Kindergarten

I can officially sit here and say that I am a mommy of a kindergartner. I am amazed that she is already (almost) 5. Sometimes I look at her and wonder where the time has grown. Around 6am I went into Elizabeth's room and snapped a few pictures of my little princess before the craziness began. When her alarm went off I went over to the bed and exclaimed "Today is a special day for Elizabeth Webb because..." and before she even opened her eyes she smiled and sang "she gets to go to Kindergarten.." Even though she was awake it took her a good 15 minutes to finally get out of bed. We did all the normal morning things and we left at 10 after 7. Of course traffic didn't corporate so we didn't get to the school until 7:50. By the time that we arrived to her classroom almost everyone else was there. She put her bag up and started to meet new friends. We stayed until after announcements and then we left. When Father Breane started the annoouncements he welcomed the kids home and then started with the school motto. He said "Do your....and all the kids yelled "BEST" and then father said "Do what's ... and the kids yelled "Right" It was great because you could almost feel the walls saying the words that have lead the school for so many years. Elizabeth did great she didn't cry or really even care that we were leaving. The only issue was that she had a mini breakdown because she wanted to color during the morning prayer and pledge of allegiance. Today was a half day so dismissal was at 11am. The pick up situation is a mess. I am not looking forward to repeating it 5 times a week. We arrived early so we had to wait outside and it was 102 out. When Elizabeth's teacher lead her out she had the biggest smile on her face. It made me really happy that we made the decision to send her to saint Edwards. I am going to end this post with the School's motto.

Do your BEST and Do what's right....