Polar Plunge... brrrr

It was a rockin' 5 degress in the morning when then filled up the little water pool! Fast forward to 6 hours later.. it's a whoopin' 20 degrees outside! They had to take the layer of ice off the top of the water before the kids could jump! The kids didn't reach the 5000 goal for the principals to jump! so the 6th grade through 10th grade got to jump! brrrr! the look on their faces when they jumped in was priceless!! shock!!!

So here they are.. a video might follow later if we can download it from the other camera!!

Here is one of Mr. R holding up a chunk of ice they took off the water!!


Ana and other 6th graders jumping!

Our first official band concert!

We had to arrive early and wait to be ready to hear Ana and the rest of the 6th grade band play...... two songs :) Not bad for 6th graders 3 months into the school year :) That little clarinet has seen many a Christmas Concert in its day!

It was a nice concert.. I look forward to next year when Ana gets to join choir as well and listen to her sing her little heart out!

Tomorrow is the Polar Plunge!:) It sounds like hubby is safe from jumping (darn it)unless they are hoarding it somewhere.. but Ana will jump!! So after Karina's party I'll hop on over to the middle school to watch the big jump!
Okay got the two songs uploaded to you tube!!! enjoy!




Okay will be back tomorrow with "cold jump" pictures :)

Christmas stuff

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Isn't it Lovely!! Look delicious???

It's my birthday cake!! Made especially for me by my lovely daughter Ana and my "other" daughter Lily (waves @ dd#3)! It's my favorite of the chocolate cakes.. German Chocolate with lots (think 2 cans) of frosting!! yummmmy!! Of course, Ana's comment was "it looks like puke.. I can't eat that!" okay so don't eat it! More for me!!!

What a wild and crazy weekend! I must be getting older...I can't party two days in a row like a use to! We had the Middle/High school staff party on Friday night got home waaaay late but had lots of fun! I got a super apple cutting board handmade by one of the teachers @ the high school...it's a hot item every year! Brett got some Starbucks (the adult kind)!

Saturday morning we went to a memorial service for our friends dad. It was hard.. much harder than I thought it would be. It's been 2 years since Gary left us and the tears I cried on Saturday during the service were for our family (the memories of Gary) and for the other family as well. It's never easy and time does ease some of the hurt but it still does hurt. Big hugs and thoughts to Laurie and Jay and kids and Mary and Bill and kids...

Karina was a busy little kid with not one but two birthday parties on the same day and almost the same time. Lucky for her, she was able to bowl with Dylan and then move on to Shelby's party for pizza!

Between all this I was working on my cookies for the beer and cookie exchange party across the street! Tried a new kind this year..it's an eggnog snickerdoodle! I've yet to eat one, but got rave reviews from hubby and children!

I'm off on Weds. this week, so I get the joy of watching Karina's performance and to help at her party! and the best part is that I'll be able to watch the Polar Plunge! If the middle/high schoolers bring in enough cans I'll get a picture of Brett jumping into the cold water (and it's suppose to snow and snow so brrrrrr)! Ana was chosen by drawing to be the 6th grader to jump! So she'll be jumping in the cold water too! Camera ready to go!

I'll try to update with polar plunge photos on Friday!!!

December has arrived...

Only 15 shopping days left! Yikes I better get a move on!! I have mom and dad done. A good idea what for Brett and still working on what the girls want. Having a hard time with them as they have too much already and the don't really need ONE MORE thing. It will just be tossed aside :( I'm not happy with my girls right now. Seems they have no regard for picking things up and taking care of them. Are we really becoming a throw away society? Where people think.. oh well I'll just go buy a new one?? *sigh* frustration on my part :)

The "ickies" have hit our house..lucky for those involved it seems to be just a 24 hour bug with the tummy. So far I haven't gotten it yet (knock on wood)! I so don't need this!

We had snow and now it's gone.. but not before they went sledding in the dark (Ana had gone to Spokane with Taelor). Buster was forced to sled..poooor Buster!



I also went out and snapped some "frosty" pictures when I stayed home with Karina.




Well a busy week is on the horizon. I'm back to Wenatchee for a Math meeting on Tuesday (will go down tomorrow night). Piano for the girls. This new hip hop health clas they are doing... Ana is considering doing AAU basketball..hmm 7 weekends starting in January gone :( wel'll see. It's good for her!

Oh I'm a bad blogger...

*knocks on computer screen*

hey you guys out there! I'm still here! Bet you all thought I'd given up on this poor poor blog!

It's been CrAzY! The message I have on my Hello account reads.. Lisa has gone crazy.. Please leave a message after the beep! That would be my life! :) Not a lot of everything right now, but a little of lots!

We spent a very nice Thanksgiving here at our cozy house with my mil (waves hi!). It was so nice.. Brett and his mom cooked all day. I jumped in now and again to wash the dishes, load the dishwashere, unload the dishwasher and make mashed potatoes! and of course eat way too much!

Nana brought the girls a gingerbread house kit to do. They had tons of fun and only fought a little before it was finished! Don't they look they are having fun!!

credits here: SBB

We got our first bit of snow this last week and more is expected before the weekend is over. I love that first snow fall, the pristiness of it.. then I'm done with it! :)

Aren't these 2 the cutest things!! I love when I get new pictures to scrap of these two! and their mommy got MY dream camera so i expect lots and lots of pictures! (hint hint!)


Hard to believe we are in the final countdown to Christmas. It somehow snuck up on my this year! I can't tell ya what ever got as Ana reads the blog and she'd tell Karina what she got! Though I haven't gotten much so they better not be searching the closet by the front door. :)

Well it's almost time for bed.. so I'll say good night and catch ya later! If it snows like they promise it will I'll have some snowy sledding kinda fun pictures for you soon!

I'm alive :)

Really, I'm here! We went to visit with Mom and Dad in Tri-Cities last weekend! It was fun to be home with them! I think they always need at least a week to recover after we have been there! Papa loves to have his "date" with his girls. They went to IHOP for breakfast and all was reported as having fun.

The girls had their conferences this week. Both are doing great in school! I'm so glad that they both enjoy school so much and that they have such great teachers who care for them!

A couple weekends ago, I asked Kendal if she'd do some family portraits for us to help her and to help us have something of us as a family! She did a wonderful job! These 4 photos are some of my favorites, but I couldn't post them all :) (Kendal has some more on her blog).





okay everyone resume your normal life :)

whooooshh.....

That was last week flying by!! :) LOL Ana had the last of her 2 soccer games last week until spring! Even scored a goal in one! (go Ana!) Soccer is replaced by the drama club production of Nightmare on Elmway. This is a haunted house put on by the drama club of the middle school/high school. It runs 29th-31st from 6-9 each day. $3.00 to get in and be scared :) the doll room.. *shivers*

This next weekend promises to be fun!! Saturday is DIGITAL Scrapbooking Day! I know that many of the digi sites out there will have stuff to do all day long! I'll be found @ SBB hanging out in the forums and chat room to gather up all the fun stuff that is going to be given away :) Won't you come and play with us!! :)

Go HAWKS~~!!

We had a blast this weekend!! We went to Heidi's to help celebrate the October birthday brigade. Ana turned 12 on the 16th, Lucas turned 4 today and sweet Rachel will be 2 on Wednesday!! and let's not forget my dear sweet dad who's birthday is Thursday!! You'll have to guess how old he is :) *grin*


Sunday we went to the Seattle Seahawks game as a family. It was Ana's birthday present! It was really fun!! Here are a few highlights of the day :)

Busy busy day...

We started the day off downtown with the parade! Karina put on her witch costume and poor poor buster was forced to be a part of the pet parade with her! Isn't he cute though!!

(played with some new actions from my friend Lissa isn't it cool!)

Karina with her famous princess wave (learned it at Girl Scout camp..princess session this summer! LOL)


the cute little pumpkin walking ahead of Karina is Dylan :) Ruthie had to be in the parade too :)


Ana played soccer today and scored a GOAL!! She wasn't sure it was going to go in and mom was too busy looking through the camera lens to see the actually kick!! Here she is doing her famous throw in from the sideline!


All this before 1:30 pm! We ran back to Home Depot to get some painting stuff since I couldnt' find where Brett had hidden ours. Then off to paint the playroom...soon to be Ana's room!

I left her a message on the wall while she was painting the other wall..so she had to leave me a message back... I now have it in writing (umm painting) that she does Love her mom!! :)

Lazy days of fall

So here it is.. those lazy hazy days of fall. I didn't want to but I pulled up all my flower beds today so as to have a repeat of the last few years... snow came before I pulled them up and it was a yucky mess the next spring. I did leave K's strawberries to keep growing until the first frost hits (hasn't hit yet but it will hit soon!) My nose doesn't like this time of year.. it's itchy, sneezy and did I mention itchy? The little flower pulling along with some weeds sent me into a sneezing fit! yuck!

Ana had soccer in Oroville Saturday. I got a picture of the many October birthday girls... Miranda is on the right with the first one on the 6th, then Lily on the 14th and Ana on the 16th. Kelsie is in December but we couldn't leave her out!


Today was also the Bone Marrow Drive for Parker Brown. Ana and I went up to the church around 2ish and the line to sign up to be on the bone marrow list was LONG! It was so proud to say I'm part of this community! Ana browsed the silent auction stuff while I signed up to be on the bone marrow list. All went pretty well..it was an easy test... just had to scrap your cheeks in 4 different places! So I'm all signed up!

lessons learned...

IF your ehd doesn't have a fan to keep it cool...it will die and take with it 80 GBs of stuff. Of course, I've been a good girl and really in photo wise only lost the last month and a halfs photos as I've been saving to DVD. I'm hoping to recoup some of them from Sarah (sarah96) with whom I've shared the good ones over Hello with her, she has them saved in her Hello folder! The rest of the 60 plus GB was my entire collection of Digital Scrapbooking kits (yes, all of your stuff Amy :() I guess it's a good time to start "fresh". And all that time I put off starting to organize in ACDsee.. well it paid off ! I don't have to worry about it anymore! (trying to see humor!) There are a few things I'm really going to miss...like my Vera Lim stuff I collected while on her GuestCT and of course the Tracy Ann stuff I've collected. OH and my Shabby Princess stuff too :( *sigh* guess it should have been last month I joined mozy and did my back up stuff.

The good news??? The EHD is still under warranty. So though I can't recover my stuff from it (unless someone has $1500 running around unattended they want to give me) I do get a replacement. I just have to package it up and send it to Texas. Once they get it..I get a replacement one back.

Ana had her first soccer game this weekend in the Methow (they got KICKED) but they had fun! I got a shot of her having fun and then we went to Wenatchee to do Costco shopping. On the way down I saw a public fishing signs along the Methow river, so we pulled into one and proceeded to have fun chucking rocks and playing on the river bank. I truly do live in a place of great beauty! The dog enjoyed it as much as the girls!

I'm Famous!!

well only in the scrapbooking world!! Last week in the mail I got my check for my two layouts I submitted to Memory Makers Magazine! I had submitted my layouts way back in April, and had to mail them to the company in May. Today in the mail I get a big package with two of the October Memory Makers magazine in it. Ana was excited to prove that she was indeed in a magazine! We are on pages 64 and 65! It is so cool to see my name in print. Who would have thought that my little hobby would make me some money! So if you are in bookstore or looking for magazines, go buy the Memory Makers October issue and look for the girls and Max and Zoe too! (had to share our famousness with our good friends!)

Sill battling this cold/throat thing. The rapid strep came back negative, but the inspection of my throat and nose came up with a sinus infection verdict. So I'm on the good stuff that is only once a day for 5 days, with an inhaler, some other stuff to loosen up the gook in my sinuses and chest. They did send off the swab to grow in the old fashion way to see if it still might be strep. I hope not! though I'm already on antibiotics so it shouldn't matter much if it is strep.

Well it's bedtime, news is over and I'm ready for bed :)

We have Grand Champions in the house

and some blues and some reds! :) Karina was so excited! Her class went to the fair today so she got to see first hand her quilt... with a BIG purple ribbon attached!! She won Grand Champion for her quilt!! She was so excited.. her sister's quilt got a Blue ribbon too! Ana's butterscotch blondies served still warm from the oven (imagine Lisa standing in the check out line @ walmart with the buttterscotch chips talking to Ana on the phone explaining just how much 3/4 of a cup of butter is with the sticks of butter!LOL) We got everything in 2 hours before the deadline. Both girls photos got blue ribbons and both their "craft" stuff got reds. Karina was so sweet tonight.. she voted for Ana's quilt for her "people's choice" award that the Girl Scout booth has! :) It's a pretty ribbon! Hope she gets it :) It promises to be an action packed weekend..tomorrow morning the girls and I "man" the Girl scout booth from 8-1 then head over to the main stage @ 1:15 to get ready for Ana to sing with the Nashville Star stuff! She's downstairs singing her heart out right now :) Saturday morning is drive to beautiful downtown Brewster where we learn all about the Fall product sales for Girl Scouts. Back to the fair that afternoon to check in and such and back to the fair again on sunday for a few hours and to pick up all the stuff and clean up the booth area. *sigh* I'm tired just thinking about it all! Somewhere in there I have to do lesson plans and figure out what the heck I'm doing as I have 2 days of training next week in Wenatchee for the FOSS science kits. Going to be really really hard to leave my kids with a sub after only 4 days of having them! I'm still teaching routines and rules and working on stuff! and I'm still fighting this ugly head/chest cold thingy.. I miss my "normal" voice.. this croaky stuffy one is so not me! hee hee

End of brag.. photos to follow :)

Happy First Day of School!!!!

oh man, I'm always a bit hoarse after the first day but add this darn throat/head thing I've had going on for days it was really tough! I croak like a frog!! I survived the first day of Third Grade. Both girls seemed to be okay. Karina had "homework" which means I had "homework" to fill out. All those forms :) Yuck!!

Here are my happy girls this morning :)




This weeks promises to be crazy with the fair starting, school getting going and going crazy!!! :)

Have a great week :)

Buster...

okay it's dark but keep watching it.. It's buster attacking his toys.. He gets these wild hairs everyone once in awhile and it's hilarious to watch him pounce, go tearing off, come back and do it over and over LOL

sorry it wasn't working so I took it off.. believe me it was funny

Nothing new..

Realized I had updated in awhile..but it's THAT time of year!! Getting ready to go back to school! This year I'm a mentor for 2 of the new 6th grade teachers, along with being new to 3rd grade and serving on the building leadership team. I had gotten better while the girls were much younger about NOT doing as much at school...but alas it's come around again. This week has been 2 afternoons of training/working with my mentees, 2 FULL days of learning how to use the FOSS science kits! Though they were full days I'm loving learning my new curriculum for 3rd grade! this sound unit was soo much fun! Only drawback is the 2nd week of school I have to have 2 more days of training for the other science kit we teach in 3rd grade!

County fair is in 2 weeks. Both girls will enter their quilts, Ana might cook some blondies or such, but we're not pushing it much. Both girls and me (the new and improved future girl scout leader for Karina's troop) will spend some (quite a bit) of time at the girl scout booth! Ana will have the chance to sing either Friday or Saturday on the BIG stage as part of the Junior Nashville Star. Brett has even volunteered to work the Republican booth in the one building :)

We have a little more than one week left until school starts andd I know once that happens this year will FLY!! Ana is doing soccer, both girls are taking piano lessons and doing girl scouts and I'm sure we'll find one more thing to keep them busy in the winter! :)

Have a great day..week everyone! Probaly unless i get some fantastic pictures of something..won't post until the first day of school! *sigh*

Getting ready for school....

if only school was ready for us! :) Due to the construction at the middle/high school, we are starting school 3 days later than normal. Karina's okay with it.. Ana on the other hand cannot stand that it's being delayed! She's ready and willing to start school!!

Both girls have finished their quilts. The pictures aren't the best but you'll get a general idea of what they did. I take no credit for the production of these quilts. The ladies @ Needlyn Time do wonders with 4 days of 5 hours each! Amazing!!
Ana's quilt- music themed..go figure!



Karina's quilt..doggies :)



We also just got back from 3 days @ the lake with our friends. It was perfect weather..not too hot, not too cold! Some pictures of the girls having fun!!



and of course today.. the last of the photos... Ana got her hair cut..short well not super short but shorter than it was :) Here she is :)

Not much more to say... the getting ready for school is hitting me too.. I have a meeting on Wednesday and then Tuesday-Friday the next week.. uggg it came way too soon!

Nothing Blog worthy

we are the "baum"s are boring:) We've done nothing that is really blog worth! Good news on my mom front...she is home in her own bed and loving it!! She still needs to be keeping up with the PT and exercise to keep those legs strong!

Brett played last weekend and the weekend before that in the club championship. The first weekend you have to place in the top 12 to go on. So going in as #2 he got to play this last weekend as well! Once again he came in #2...says he's so tired of being #2..someday soon I'm sure he'll be #1! :) *hugs to ya Brett*

Karina is taking the quilting class this week. She's having a bit of problem reaching the pedal easy but she's determined to finish this project! We were a bit worried she wasn't mentally/physically ready but she managed the first day well!

We go to the lake with Headleys this weekend. 2nd annual affair:) Weather should be warm but not too warm and no smoke this year for a more enjoyable experience.

School is speeding towards us. Can't believe that it is just around the corner! I spent some time in my room today while Karina was in quilting class (trying to save on gas and not drive back and forth!) Should have it all looking good soon. Ana is coming with me tomorrow so she can work on bulletin boards for me. Love that she wants to do that kinda thing :)

I'll leave you guys with an ad for the SBB August ezine! I have an article, a freebie and a layout in there!! You can buy it here at SBB! EZINE

Summer..it's going FAST!!

An update about the park!! Shortly after the City Council meeting.. 2 picnic tables, a garbage can and slow children at play signs appeared in our park!! Wow!! Talk about fast!


We hope that before winter we'll have the other stuff they promised us too!

It's been a week since I've updated, but we haven't done much around here. Brett is playing in the club championship this weekend, if he finishes in the top 12 he'll play next weekend as well :) Here's hoping for a top 12 finish! :)

The rest of summer promises to be packed with stuff to do! Wednesday, the girls and I along with the rest of the car load of Girl Scouts take off to Silverwood to play. We'll spend the night at the GS hostel and return the next day :) Karina takes her quilting class the first full week in August. We're going to the lake with the Headleys that weekend. Then it's time for Brett to start back to work (if the building is done enough.. remodeling is going a litttle slow!) ahhh stop this crazy train :) hee hee

Also have a back to school, check up on mom trip planned after the 15th of August..

8 years ago....

I was coming home from the Othello hospital with my baldheaded little pink bundle of joy! Here she is.. I'm thinking about 4 weeks old here.. didn't have any baby ones scanned (hmm better do that)
To her birthday yesterday...

They grow up way too fast!! We had fun at the pool party! Lots of friends and fun!! A few pictures to share!



There are many more pictures but I won't bore ya to death!!
Well off to try and finish up my Harry Potter book!