Pics

Here are the pictures I promised of what has been going on in the Wild Wagner house....

You make a mess, you clean it up yourself....
Sam decided to empty all his goldfish out of the bowl and smash them with his hand. Do you think it is child labor if you make a 2 year old use the vacuum cleaner?

Found a new piece of ice to play with the hockey guys!!!
A beautiful rainbow outside after there was NO rain that fell at our house.
New books from Nannie & Pa. One of our favorite things to do, read in bed!!!!
That's about it. Even the camera has taken a break lately.

Bad, Bad Blogger

Ok. Yes, I'm still here. I just haven't taken the time to write anything down. Not that we have been exceptionally busy. I've just been exceptionally busy with things. I have a ton to do and don't want to do any of them. About the only thing I have been doing is running. Or I should say trying to run! I am training to do a 5K in our neighborhood at the end of October. Kurt and I are going to run it. Well, Kurt is going to run the entire thing. I'm training using a guide called 9 weeks from the couch to 5K. I've been training for 2 weeks and I won't be finished with the 9 weeks before the race, so Kurt is either going to have to kick my ass into gear on race day, or I'm going to have to walk. I really DON'T want to walk. I want to be able to run, but we shall see.

Other than that not much else has happened. I have nearly a dozen projects I want to do, but can't motivate myself to get going.
1. Paint and set up Sam's old room to Guest room with new linens.
2. Paint boys bathroom and set up with new towels, shower curtain, and decorative items.
3. Plant some Fall flowers in pots for front stoop since the temperature has reached below 100 degrees everyday.
4. Sell some stuff on Craig's list
5. PAY BILLS
6. Get carpets and window cleaned
7. Do some weeding in the backyard.
8. Make Matthew's birthday invites and get everything together for the party.
9. Work on the preschool Gala.
10. Oh, crap. I'm stopping now you get it I want to do a ton of stuff in the little time I have to myself.

I have done some things that I am proud of lately. I was a substitute teacher at the preschool twice, I have lost 5 pounds, actually took time to PLAY with the boys, going to church, and had a date night!!! Oh, let me throw in I've also been reading some books. My girlfriend, Sarah, has got me stuck on Nora Roberts. So when I read, I am soooooo slow. So nothing gets done!!!!! Just finished one tonight, Blue Smoke. It was really good. So I guess I gotta hit my to do list hard this weekend. Maybe I could pawn some of them onto Kurt's Honey Do!!!!

I do have a ton of pictures in my camera, I'll try to get those off the camera, into my computer, and onto the blog. Well, hang in there with me. I'll keep you posted with my life once I get back to it!!!

So much going on....

Where do I start? So much has gone on in the past few days, let's start with the most uneventful - a new scrapbook page. Another contest I didn't win, but again I think it's awesome. I'm beginning to think I'm the only one who thinks my pages are good.

This is another layout I got done late Monday night.
Now to the more important stuff......The first day of school. It was Sam's first day of preschool and he did great. Just a little sadness when I left. And of course, he was super excited to see me when I picked him up. Matthew of course was great, he barely said goodbye to me. I'm happy that he doesn't have any trouble with staying anywhere without me, but he could be a little sad sometimes to make me feel better. I guess that is just the beginning of them becoming independent. Here are a few shots. We didn't get to take any outside - it was raining!




And this is why Kurt thinks I'm too anal about things...ok...the kids needed to have their name on their lunchboxes, I didn't just want to write them with a marker, so behold a custom, laminated name tag. Hey, at least I didn't stamp some cute thing on it!!!! But the colors do match each backpack - sorry.
And last, the most important thing - Sam's Gotcha Day. I can't believe it has been a year since he was given to us. A year since I cried so hard I thought I would die because we didn't know if we were going to bring him home or not. A year ago we sat in Russia praying that Hurricane Katrina would not hit my parent's house where all of my family is and where Matthew was staying. A year ago that everything did work out and we were granted the second greatest things that has ever happened in our lives. I guess it has been a long year, but I can't believe what a wonderful boy he is turning into. He is really coming along. He is a great helper and cares so much when someone isn't feeling well. I knew that I would love him, but as with Matthew I really can't believe how much I love them, and can't even believe that they are not out of my own body. Kurt says that Sam is just like me, which I find so amazing. It just further proves the point of nature vs. nurture. So here is to you Sam, we love you and are so unbelievably happy that you are part of our family....forever!!!!

We celebrated by having dinner, opening Sam's presents, and a cake. We didn't make it to the cake because we went outside to test out his new scooter and ended up hanging out with the neighbors. Flash to an hour later, 8pm, 2 skinned knees and a bloody toe, we came inside, cleaned up the scraps and straight to bed. We will dive into the cake tomorrow, maybe he can have some for breakfast!!!


I think that is it for now. A few other cute things occurred in the Wagner house, but I'm let you know later, I'm too tired and need to go to bed.....Good Night!

Wasted Weekend

What do you do on a great 3 day weekend? Well, in the Wagner household we did NOTHING. Not really on purpose, it just turned out that way. Kurt caught what Sam had last week and it was 10x worse. He was laid out in bed, then didn't fell well enough to do anything else. So, basically I scraped all weekend. I was working on one last page, but my computer puked out while I was trying to save a page in progress and lost what I had, so that was it.

I was semi-productive today. We are back in school mode. The boys start preschool tomorrow. I think I am WAY more excited than they are. I know I will only have 8 hours a week to myself and most of that time will be spent on things for everyone else. I have to think that if I want to get a pedicure or sit in Starbuck's staring at the walls I CAN!!!!! It is 8pm here, the boys are watching one show before bed, the house is clean, lunches made, clothes set out for tomorrow, and I am relaxing and posting. Ahhhhh, I love schooltime.

I have to start some other projects around the house so I don't know how much scrapping I'll get done. I have to work on Sam's Christmas stocking and a few room painting projects. Hope everyone else had more of a productive weekend that us!