We Love Grandma!

Does Loving your Grandma & wishing she lived closer get any cuter than this??? I don't think so :) Love these babies! The kids made Grandma a calender for work for part of her Christmas present this year & this was one of the pics!

Silly...

I went couponing last night & came home to this {And a messy house, but that's another topic right!}...aren't they sweet! I grabbed my camera, took the pics, unloaded the groceries, went upstairs and changed into my comfies, then after returning to put everything away I realized...Haliee was sleeping opposite Zoe behind her. LOL, had she been there the whole time?? I zoomed in on the pic and sure enough, she was in the picture too {See her pink sweatshirt top left corner}. I never even noticed her! Love these babies! :0)

So totally cute!

Drew brought home a gift from a friend a week or so ago & everyday she has been hounding him to open it. He kept telling her he was saving it for Christmas, but then she insisted he open it now so he could enjoy it before Christmas. This morning, he opened it....

It was a penguin snow globe ornament! He was so excited & thankful as he collects penguins. He hung it on the tree & couldn't wait to get to School & thank her.

My favorite part was a little note taped to the present that read:

To: Andrew

From: Find out inside

Dear Drew,

Thanks for being the best friend ever! Since you have been my friend since kindergarten, I got you a gift. And I don't like, like you so, your welcome.

From: Shelby

Isn't that the funniest, sweetest thing! I love all her punctuation. It is definitely going in the memory box forever! So sweet!

Hello...Anybody there????

Ok, this is ridiculous! It has been forever since I posted last :( SAD SAD SAD! I haven't even had many opportunities to look anyone elses blogs in what seems like an eternity. :( I am almost caught up with my Christmas orders & can finish up my own Christmas shopping/baking, etc. We have been having tons of fun amidst the chaos & I promise to update lots of happenings very soon! Until then I leave you with some Winter Goofiness! It has been snowing like crazy record breaking in November & Bone Chilling Cold in the negatives a few weeks ago as well. Here are the kids having some snowball wars...

Hal thought it would be fun to have a friendly family competition as to who could stay outside the longest in shorts, a tee shirt, and slippers in below 0 windchill. Ya sounds not so awesome to me {The smart one}, so I opted out....Drew won, Hal only made it about 45 seconds (wuss), Haliee about a minute and a half after him, and Drew, well, he could've stayed out forever but we made him come in after about 4 min. Goofy Son of mine!

Camping Immigrant Springs 2010

We met Grandma & Grandpa Cook in a cute little State Park near Pendleton, Oregon which is about 1/2 way between Coeur d Alene & Boise for a weekend of fun a few weeks ago! We had stayed there once a few years back but Hal had to work so I was so glad he was able to come this time! We even brought Miss. Zoe Grimmett along with us {She's been begging to go forever now. She told me she ws sick and tired of us going on family vacations without her} :) Grandma had Chase & Adelyn so it was fun for the cousins to play together!

We brought Grandpa all kinds of junk & homemade Baklava for his belated B-Day so he was a happy camper HA! HA! I'm a nerd I know! :0) Of course, camping isn't really the word we should use right...the RV has all the bells and whistles, my Dad had has a portable satellite cube thing so Grandma was even able to purchase some Football Ticket Direct TV thing and watch the Boise State Game! Man, that's roughing it! But the kids had a blast & it is always so great to hang with that side of my family since we don't see them nearly enough.

Technology...can't go camping without it!

In the last picture Haliee has a phone in each hand...good grief!

Dad's Satellite Cube :0)

The kids played hard all weekend! They had a blast playing games, using walkie talkies, going on walks, playing in the campfire, roasting marshmallows & hot dogs, eating junk, junk, & more junk! What are Grandparents for? :)

"Drew's the KING OF THE WORLD!"

We took walks, and looked in cabins {they rent these too}, found all kinds of weird mushrooms, and to top it off...they had a real life pay phone. The kids thought they had traveled back in time. They thought it was totally super coolio! :) It was funny as heck! Silly kids!

Addie & Grandma!

The "Amazing" Real life "Pay Phone"

Zoe had a blast she had never been in a campground shower before, she thought that was totally awesome! She did though think she may die from the 4 hour car ride. She has never really been more than an hour out of Coeur d Alene, so she kept saying, "Tabba, How.much.longer.is...it...?" :) My kids were like~ this is easy, try the 21 hours to California, ha ha! They are pro travelers both land & air~!

What fun family memories :) Makes me smile!

7th Grade Volleyball!

So Haliee is finally (way to quickly in my opinion) able to play Volleyball for her School! She is a big stuff 7th Grader now & eligible to play all sports! She was so excited to get her knee pads and shorts, and excited she can wear her funky rally socks like Softball! She practices with Drew in the backyard & is pretty good! She has never played before and made the A2 team! {There are A1,A2, B1,B2} She decided she needed a super cute bow for her 1st game & I rushed it to her about 20 minutes before the bus left (you know what they say...A plumbers sink always leaks, a housekeepers house is always a mess, a bow Momma's kid is always the last to receive her stuff, lol) But...I made it! Their 1st game was an away game & she was beyond excited to be on the bus! She texted my about a billion times! :)

I know the pics are terrrible but it was so packed and crazy in that gym, it was impossible to get good pics from where we were seated.

Here are some of Haliee's good friends, they are on the A1 team so they were wating to play. They also all play Softball too! I love these girls!

Drew's #1 Gal!

So Drew and Torrey have been smitten for almost 2 years now...and apparently in the 4th Grade you actually have boyfriend/girlfriends! Well, that's what I'm told. I guess "going out" means you ask someone to ask them out for you & they give their answer. If it's YES, poof, you are going out. You may or may not talk at recess but that's the extent of it! :0)

Drew and Torrey have been great friends since 1st grade. They really enjoy each others company and are both great kids! They hang out at recess (well Drew plays football & Torrey watches), eat lunch together, and walk out to meet their Mommies together after school. I just love Torrey, she is a sweetie! What a fun friendship!

My son will likely behead his Mother for this blog post, but I thought we should document it :)

I just happened to take this picture of Torrey on the 1st day of School. Isn't she a doll! :)

Viruses...:( & the ever growing list...

So last week I got a computer virus :( Well actually 10 :( It was hidden in one of the drivers needed to connect to the internet which the virusscan company found & then removed the entire driver instead of stripping the virus out & it took many agonising hours on the phone, ipod googling, etc. and finally a long lost family friend who actually works on computers for a living walking me through the steps via phone from San Diego to fix it! But...HOORAY it worked! Fixing it was a cinch, but finding the problem...ummm...not so much! I updated my virus scan (BAD Tabby learning the lessons the hard way) & we are back in the saddle! :)

Lots going on in the Hunter House=Bad Blogger!
Needing to blog about:

• Drew's New Favorite Gal!
• Haliee's Volleyball
• Baby Shower (It's almost time to meet Baby Brodie Man!)
• A fun little camping Trip with Grandma & Grandpa Cook
• Seattle Trip #2
• A couponing basics tutorial by request!

• OMGOODNESS! After posting this I realized I never blogged about my kids bday parties, oh good heck, I am WAYYY BEHIND!

Well, that's enough for the immediate future right?!? I'm comin...Hold on...

Guess who's back...back again...

So Hal told me last week I needed to get my booty back to full time couponing as we didn't have quite enough snack choices, lol! Wrong thing to say...I have been in full swing the last 4 days, bahh!

Here is my latest & greatest for $15! I have 1 very happy 9 year old for all this bodywash! Silly little man in the making!!

There's no greater joy to children than...

CHOCOLATE!

Atleast not this day! We had some leftover chocolate from the shower so we decided to have a Chocolate Fountain Party after school! :) They were so happy & I tried to get some pics but they were wound for sound! Here are the best ones of the bunch. Ellie kept dropping her pretzels in and freaking out, lol! She would start bawling & say OH NO! OH NO! OH NO! OH NO! LOL! Silly girl! Even the bigger "kid" had to test it out & make sure I wasn't trying to poison these babies *wink*

The funniest thing was about 45 minutes after they were finished eating, Ellie came down from playing upstairs, saw the fountain was still running & exclaimed "Oh NO, NO MORE CHOCOLATE" LOL, we told her, you don't have to eat anymore baby :) Too Funny! I think she may have over indulged just a bit! LOVE it!

Grimmett Family Pics

So the shower is over! It was perfect, I barely survived! If it weren't for Haliee & Karlene, I wouldn't have! Last night I started feeling crummy a sore throat & headache, hmm...maybe 3 - 4 hours of sleep a night isn't enough! Anyway, I crashed about 10:30 and didn't wake up until 1 pm this afternoon! Can you believe that?!? I have never in my life done that. I am still sick, but it was so worth it!

Last Thursday I took the Grimmets down to the lake after school for a maternity photo shoot. I needed some pics for the shower so we ran down there really quick. Haliee was at volleyball practice so Drew was my assistant! He did an awesome job at making the babies laugh. Didn't they turn out just perfect! I LOVE them! I edited them in Color, B&W, & Sepia and used sepia for the shower since it was the most woodsy! Here are some of my favorites, aren't they precious? LOVE MY GRIMMETTS!

I can't believe in 5 more weeks there will be a Baby Brodie Man in these pics!

I'll post the shower next week, I have mad pics to go through, but since I slept all day, lol, I have a ferocious mess waiting for me & some bow orders to get out tomorrow! I can't wait to share, it was so beautiful!