Yet Another Year

Guess what?!?! I'm 27! When did that happen? well yesterday actually. I can't believe it. I was SICK but I did have a pretty good day all in all. The kids picked up a tummy bug last week first it was E then as soon as he felt better miss Alex then Saturday I felt BAD and Saturday night it really hit Sunday wasn't much better but I patched myself together enough to go get my kids from my parents house about 40 min away. They had a nice bland but yummy dinner waiting for me Baked chicken, mashed tatos and peas :) oh and the kids (with mawmaws help) made me a YUMMY red velvet cake w/creme cheese icing and green writing Oh and 27 pink candles :) I didn't take any pictures sadly I wasn't feeling well enough to even think about my camera.

Mom and dad had a GREAT time w/ the kids over the weekend they took them Saturday morning and had them until Sunday late afternoon. It was planed that way so M and I could have a bit of time alone for my birthday however it worked out well because I was sick. Mom said that she and dad were SOOOO tired at Sunday night after trying to keep up w/ the kids and she was amazed that I could do it ALL the time and then offered to take them for 2 hours a week so that I could have a bit of time to myself or a date w/ my Micah :) They Love my kids but I think if they kept them much longer than a weekend my parents would need a week to recover LoL.

OHHH this mommy got some loot for her b-day!! My Micah got me a record/cd/tape player radio. Mom and dad got me some bare essentials treatments, a turtle purse and new stilleto grips for my motorcycle and some jewelry. My Kids (with Maw maw's help) got me a Vera Bradly purse! My aunt got me philosophy Pure Grace perfume and body wash and my grandfather gave me some cash :) All in All it was a good day I got to spend some time w/ my family and have a great meal all of us around the same table :)

Ok since this is a celebration of MY B-day I am gonna share some of my FAV pics from the last year of My life :)

Last year in October

Big Brother and little sister time

Last Christmas at my Grandfathers house E got a creepy crawler over lol

The night mom and dad brought Sybil to come live with our little family

I was taking pics of miss Alex and I said "look cute" and this is what I got
This was gonna be the Easter dress Maw Maw bought something a little more fancy so we went w/ that but this made for some GREAT Easter pictures ;)
A Day at the park




Pretty much every year we go to Boyds Bear Barn for Brunch with the Easter Bunny this year we went and they had a raffle and E won the biggest prize. Just so you know that's Fuzz T. Bear to you ;)

Alex and Sybil(Right next to Alex) , Harlee (in front of Sybil) and Mille (the basset down in front)

The Kids LOVE to have bubble parties in my jet tub Some times they get a bit messy but the pictures are great and they ALWAYS have a GREAT time :)

Just Cute

Fishing?

On the Beach


E LOVES the Ocean he's just splashing away. We went camping in Rehobeth Beach with some family and their friends this summer we had WAY to much fun! I hope next summer we can do it again!

Micah had an early meeting left and came home to find this ... I guess E got up, got dressed and climbed into bed w/ me and Alex just came in and passed out on my legs... this is so typical on my kids I just LOVE this picture .
And my FAVORITE picture of the entire year ....

Beware The Silence

My of my mommy friends and I have a fear of silence when the kids are home because it almost ALWAYS means something is going on the little angles don't want us to know about. Now I used to love the silent moments that I could just read or relax but in recent months I have grown to fear the quiet times in my home. Ethan and Alex have become quite the team when it comes to making messes. Most recent a bucket of blue paint was opened by Ethan and poured by Alex (it was a screw top kilz bucket) in a matter of 5 min. there was blue paint on the hall, in the laundry room, in the bathroom and in the tub!!! it was CRAZY!!!!! I did learn thou it all that windex can dissolve latex paint!! :) I really can't even go into all the time it took for me to clean my NEW tile and the NEW grout. Or how thankful I was that it was the old wood floors and now the new. it was a mess like none I have ever seen and therefore I took no pictures of the incident because I had NOOOOOO desire to remember the grief that blue paint caused me ... OR that my kids looked like smurfs w/ white faces. I was so mad all I could do was laugh. When I was calm enough to ask Ethan WHY???? his response was "I was just trying to make the house beautiful" which I can see was that case since they did in fact fingerprint on the walls with this dark blue paint. So how can I be so mad at someone who was just trying to help me redecorate. I don't think I will be cleaning the wall or repainting it. I got little hands and finger painted snakes ... and besides it's upstairs at the end of the hallway just next to the laundry room door, so it is kinda tucked away.

Now onto something I DO have some pictures of.... the shaving cream incident
Now I have never given much thought to just how much foam is in a can of barbasol shaving cream I just know I get one for Micah once every month to month and a half and I don't worry about much else. I also had never thought if the fun that could be had IF one decided to release ALL of the foam out of that can at one time. This is where my kids come in who says kids can't teach a parent anything.... I heard silence that was followed up by laughing and Ethan coming down stairs telling me Daddy didn't want ME to be mad. that was a BIG clue that daddy was NOT involved cause any of you that know my dear Micah he doesn't care if he makes me mad, I think that is one of his favorite hobbies. Well E went back up stairs I thought I would follow .... I come up the stairs and the smell of shaving cream hits me in the face ... my first thought: M bathed the kids and let them play w/ a little ... he lets it happen sometimes. So I went in the bathroom to find just about everything covered in shaving cream. including the kids... it was cute and the walls in the bathroom are tile so no worries but it was still something I had to clean up so there was a verbal reprimand issued. The whole time E was telling me daddy helped make the mess. So I called daddy out of his office to see his very own handy work... daddy was less than pleased at the site and it was obvious he had NOTHING to do with the fun times the kids had just had. So with out further ado a few pictures of my little creative monkeys.

She was nekkie so I had to draw on a diaper LoL

Kids feet

and of course Miss Alex



I think maybe next time I remodel I will put a drain in the floor .......

Welcome to my life

It has been brought to my attention that I need to tell more stories and post more pictures of my kids for my friends around the country to see. So here it is, my little blog. Now as far as I know neither of my kids have A.D.D. I, however, do. You will sometimes have a tough time following me cause I will skip around and I will go off on tangents and you my dear readers are just gonna have to deal because that's who I am and I'm NOT changing a thing. ;) I can promise you among the many grammar mistakes and spelling errors and plain old typo's you will find a story of a mom who LOVES her kids and sometimes those wonderful sweet kids are less then perfect. I will share with you all my messes, my heartbreaks, my proud moments, my embarrassing moments... just about everything. I will defiantly make you laugh when I tell the tales of my kids painting fun, shaving cream mountains and chocolate milk that is really more like liquid milk chocolate (don't EVER ask Ethan to make you some chocolate milk unless you want to drink chocolate syrup though a straw!!) Well Tomorrow I will copy and paste a few of the crazy stories of my kids and their messes and then I will start blogging about the everyday fun times we have around here in the Forman household!!
I'll close with a few recent pictures for all to see :D

Alexandrea (Alex)

Ethan and my dad

ME!!!
and Sybil ... She was MAD cause I woke her up LOL (she is soooooo spoiled WAIT till you see the sweaters I crochet for her!!!)

And for all of you that were hoping to see a picture of Micah, I am sorry I just can't find a recent one. I got some GREAT ones tonight maybe tomorrow I can upload and share!!