Hablitzel Family

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving (a week late)

I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. Jason and I hosted again this year which we really do enjoy. WE like having all the people around. We made our first bird this year and it turned ouit really well. Jason and I made the turkey, mashed potatoes, corn casserole, and the pumkin pies. We were pretty busy on Wednesday night and Thursday morning trying to get everything ready. My parents brought the other Thanksgiving stuff and they also brought with them Great Garndma Mettenbrink and Big Papa Arends. We had a nice, delicious dinner and everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. My parents took Hailee and Carter home with them. Jason, Brook, and I joined them about an hour later. My mom and I's tradition is to go Black Friday shopping. We don't typically want any of the big deals we just enjoy the experience. Wal-Mart opened at midnight so we went to bed about 9 and woke up at 11 to go midnight shopping (nuts, I know) and found a few things. Then we came home and headed back to Menards at 6. We were done shopping at 9 (a.m. that is) I slept so much of Friday. I could not wake up I was so exhausted. My mom braved the crowds agan and took Hailee shopping in Kearney all day Saturday. We stayed at my parents until Saturday night and got home just in time to see Oklahoma beat OK State (woot, woot). Hailee spent another night there and came home Sunday because they weren't finished shopping. And Sunday we set up our Christmas stuff). And we found a new Christmas favorite, it's the original a Christmas Carol. It is awesome and the kids even like it. So that was our Thanksgiving. Also I am 99.9 % finished Christams Shopping. I started at the end of July which has made things so much easier so Jason and I can sit back and enjoy the Holidays without the stress of it. On another note:

I told you a whilke back that our camera was broke so all we had was a videocamera which took pictures but it is really slow. My parents had gotten a new super cool camera so I asked if I could borrow their old one until we buy a new camera and they didn't have a problem with it. I don't have an adapter for that camera to my computer so I need to get theirs so all of my pictures on that camera and have no wa.y to upload them yet and that is why the newest pictures I have are from Halloween, a month old. Ugh I will get it all together one day or another. Jason is gone again and probably will be for our anniversary which is Saturday which kind of stinks but you gotta do what you gotta do. I got kind of spoiled while Jason was home for a whole month. I got kind of used to him being gone and the kiddos and I got into out own little routine and it is kind of hard to switch back to being mom and dad. He is in South Dakota and it is reaaaaaallly cold up there so I am not sure I would want to switch him places.

Pumpkin Patch

Brooklyn not having any more pictures she had reached her limit

Jason sitting on a "mini" sized pumpkin

Carter is such a cool dude ( I don't know who the people in the front of the picture are)

Pretty Baby

Scream on the Square

York makes a big deal out of Halloween. THere is a lot of things going on. About a week before they have this thing called "Scream on the Square" where the kiddos can get dressed up and go trick or treating to all the downtown businesses and then they have a bunch of games and a screamiung contest ( we always leave before the screaming contest, I get enough screaming in my day to day life.) It is a really neat little thing that the kiddos enjoy. Being in a small town is kind of a drag sometimes but it definately has its benefits.

Hailee as Batgirl and Carter was Batman

My lil' "Pumpkin"

Girl Scouts

This is one of my troops at one of our meetings. I have a troop of daisies (kindergarten-1st grade) and a troop of brownies (2nd-3rd grade). Hailee is in my brownie troop. We are doing some really fun things this year. One thing that both troops are doing thi syear is a scrapbook that will document the year of scouting. I take pictures at everything we do, get copies of them for each girl, and then they make a scrapbook page. The girls really seem to enjoy it however, it is a ALOT of work for me.

Hailee

I know I have been reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllly bad about blogging, but I HATE the new blogger template design so I have been looking for a way around it and I can not. So I HATE the design and can't make it look the way I want it to. So if anyone knows of a better site than blogger or a way aroung the new design please let me know.

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

I know I have not been very good about blogging but we've been very busy. School started again which is always a big weight lifted off my shoulders, the kids were reaaaaaaaaaaaady. Hailee seems ot have a much easier time with homework this year, I am not sure if they have less homework or if she got that much smarter, maybe a combo of both. She is doing really well this year in every subject. She just seems to get it. Her organizational skills are still a major lack and it drives me crazy but my mom is always real quick to remind me that that was me and now I am a control freak about everything so I can organize it. She is in dance again, she is doing tap, jazz, and clogging. She seems to enjoy it. She also has girl scouts on Mondays where she bridged to a brownie instead of a daisy this year. Wednesdays she has a church group that meets from 6-8 and they do all sorts of things, it's sort of like an all year round vacation bible school. She really enjoys that and she gets to spend that time with her best friend. So she is a busy girl.
Carter is still enjoying preschool, he was old enough to go to kindergarten but we didn't feel that he was ready for that yet so we held him back one more year. He doesn't care he looooooooooooves hios teachers. He tells everyone he meets that they are his girlfriends. He also tells everyone that he is gonna marry "Wedah" (her name is actually Aleyah) who is Hailee's best friend. He plays soccer and he is awesome at it. He wasn't into it last year but this year it clicked and the kid can play some ball. I wonder if it's hereditary. He has games on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. He really enjoys playing. I will have to get the video and pictures uploaded of him playing some ball. Its pretty cute.
Brooklyn is soooooooooooooooo much fun to be around, she has the sweetest personality. I love all my children equally but Brooklyn is by far the sweetest natured. She is learning new things everyday and has quite the personality. We have nicknamed her "chitty baby" like off of "chitty chitty bang bang." She has really strted to not like wearing diapers. Evertime I go get her from her crib at naptime or in the morning she is stark naked she has taken all her clothes off. So within a month or so we are gonna start potty training her, I know it seems early but she is ready. She tells us about it. She knows what it going on. She is talking more and more she can say alot of things. She thinks its funny to call me "Nik" instead of mom. Nik is what Jason calls me so she repeats him and thinks its pretty humorous.
Jason is keeping busy at work, he has been on alot of business trips lately, which means I have to pull double duty and play mom and dad. Actually we have kind of got into a routine with him being gone so it doesn't both me so much anymore. He coaches Carter's soccer team so when he is gone I have to coach and I know nothing about soccer so that is always an interesting experience. My parents came up and helped with the other two while I coached his team a couple THursday's ago. Jason is leaving tomorrow morning for Canada and then the week after he is going to Wisconsin so send me soem prayers and good vibes that we all come out alive and with a little sanity left. The thing I miss the most when he is gone is my social time at the gym because our gym does not have daycare ( can you believe that) and I don't really enjoy my alone time, I am too much of a social creature. I do have four books to read (three now I finished one last night) and some bibs to sew so hopefully that will keep me busy. Things all and all are pretty good at Casa de Hablitzel, we feel pretty blessed.