2009

As we are getting closer to 2010 I am going to give my best effort to recap 2009 for the Bish Family.

- January- we went to Buckaneer Bay for Sydney's birthday
- March - Tucker turned 2 and Brandon turned 27
- May - Lori survived her first year of teaching Kindergarten
-June- Brandon and Lori five (5) year anniversary
- July - camped at the Davis Co. Fair- also had a blast
- August - went to the Iowa State Fair as a family and stayed three days with the boys camping(our family vacation) - Mom started her second year as a Kindergarten teacher(wow what a year to start)
- September - Tayden Lee Bish started pre-school at the school riding the bus 2-3 days a week - Brandon went to Arkansas and killed his first wild hog
- October - Tucker was a bull rider and Tayden was a horse rider for Halloween
- November - Tayden Bish turned 5 - We enjoyed Thanksgiving
- December - We had a great Christmas season- Mom turned 25 on the 25th- We spent the night at Rathbun resort for Huggins Christmas-

Now for the New Years Resolution

- Loose some weight- yes I have to or clothes may not be an option
- Try not to loose my cool - in school and at home- i will try to be more patient and explain things better
- Get Tucker heathy- get allergies under control and get his ears fixed
- Get Tucker potty trained and let go of his thumb sucking habit (these are just goals for 2010)
- Get Tayden ready for Kindergarten
- Keep my daily life rolling and keep our family healthy and happy!!!!
- Finish Tayden and Tuckers quilts
- Keep blogging

With all of those things I hope all of you have a great and happy beginning to 2010!!!

We went to the doctor today and...

guess who had red ears? You guessed Tucker. I know I blog about him a lot, but my goodness every time we turn around his ears are red and we are on medicine. Therefore we went to the allergy doctor in Osky and he says two weeks of medicine and we are coming back, then we may do something majorly different. Thank goodness we like him and he is easy to get along with. Hope your day is going great and by the way we have black twins in the barn.

We have a new...

Yes after Christmas and all the gifts, the new puppy, spending a day at the waterpark and staying home for a full day (or we are planning on it). We have a new baby lamb. I was shocked because on my way to the mailbox I heard something and knew it was not a ewe and as I walked out to check out the sheep, I see a new tiny baby lamb, they are so cute and fun to see. Well I better go out and try to see what is going on in the barn.. I will try to post a picture of the new lamb later.


p.s - there are many updated posts about Christmas -please go back and check them out, I have been busy the last few minutes - okay hour!!

Christmas with Gma Nikki

Grandma Nikki had lots and lots of gifts to unwrap, we all have new clothes and toys to play with and wear.

Thank you Grandma Nikki!!

Thank you Uncle Brian

Aunt Mary and Uncle Brian

Uncle Brian had a squirrel gun of his that he no longer uses, therefore he brought it to the waterpark and gave it to Tayden to use. Uncle Brian and Tayden have a special bond and it means a lot to us!! Thanks a bunch Uncle Brian.

Day after Christmas

This whole group of kids plus all their parents spend 24 hours at Honeycreek resort.

The boys were not afraid of the water! It was a blast.

Christmas Day

Grandpa Dickie and Grandma Lisa's was fun on Christmas afternoon! We opened, ate, napped and played cards!! Thanks Grandma and Papa

The Utt Nut grandkids

This was the tree at Mom's, we had lots of gifts to unwrap, also each child managed to make it through their pile successfully!!! Lincoln's homemade gifts kicked a*%, sorry girls.

Santa found us early on Christmas morning, we were up at 5:00 AM!

Tayden got a big buck hunter game from Santa.

Tucker Ross got a new big race track!

Trunks on Dec. 26th?

Yes the boys have their trunks on. We are headed for a fun filled 24 hours. We as a family are going to Rathbun Lake Honeycreek Resort. The Huggins gang is going to go enjoy the afternoon and evening and come home Sunday!! The boys are very excited ad we are leaving in about 1 1/2 hours- with that said I better go shower and get some serious packing done!!!

-Yes santa found us, did he find you?

Merry Christmas to All and to all a good night!

As we are preparing to go to Grandmas for Christmas Eve, the excitement is here. I wanted to take a moment and wish you all a very MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!! We will celebrate from now till Sunday night then be ready for some great house cleaning on Monday!!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM TWO EXCITED BOYS & their parents.

Purple Sugar

In the morning routine this morning, I was making cinnamon rolls, yes a gift for Christmas and I said "Boys we need to run to town and get brown sugar, because we need it to make the monster cookies." Not thinking much I finish my kneading(hopefully done correctly, but the gift is only for the brother-in-laws so oh well.) I finish, change my clothes, (yes running to town in sweats with no make-up) and I am getting Tucker dressed and he asked like alway"going to Papa Dickies house?" no tucker and his reply back was "get purple sugar". I said well no we are going to get brown sugar. To cute of a story had to share. Now we must get to town while the dough rises.

Christmas Vacation

Well as most of you know, we are officially on Christmas Break!!! Whew who, hooray, wippee!! Those are all the things I thought when I woke up this morning. I am excited to spend the next two weeks with family and yes we got some quality family time in over the weekend. The four original, their spouses and all 9 kids played cards at the cabin with our choice of beverage on Saturday night. Sunday we spent two hours at church(the kids program- yes all 19 of us were there.) Followed by lunch at moms in celebration of some rockstars star birthday that is only a few days away. It was fun and I will admit I don't think any of us were to bothered by 1:00 on Sunday. Even though we heard the champion card players gloat (BLB and LKL)!! It was fun and it was fun to see the kids play without to much whinning- they made it a good 3 hours.

Back

I took a short break from the blog world. Also I am now wandering what to blog about-
-that we deer hunted all weekend and I did end up killing a coyote on Sunday evening 140 yard with my muzzleloader- thanks-
-that we have 1 1/2 days to work until the 4th of January
- that my birthday is only 8 days away
-that I am not done x-mas shopping
- that we have a new 7 week old puppy
- that every child in my life is very excited for x-mas , by the way that is 26 kids,
-that I sometimes wish I could bring a student home with me and fix some things (or try)
-that Tayden was in his first Christmas Program on Tuesday and we had a great day
-that I have a new cell phone
- that I am as excited as my children for Christmas

Anyway I will try to get some pictures on the blog in the next couple of days --

I have got it

I have got it the perfect thing that I need as a mother of two rambuncious boys (sorry mother for the spelling.), the teacher of 24 lovely students with 4 inches of snow, two weeks till Christmas and early out, mouthy sister on the way home and the youngest of 4 siblings. I NEED A STRIPED SHIRT. I think I need a referee shirt - look out Mike Hampton here I come!!!- or maybe I should just wear my shirt at home.



Now the story from home, that is somewhat entertaining is that in the bathtub tonight, I caught glimpse of a rubber duck flying towards Tayden's head. Low and behold rubber duck to the forehead and a large red bumb occurred after Tucker was in trouble for throwing something at Tayden I discussed with Tayden that a rubber duck couldn't have hurt that bad. Little do you know if I would not have intervened the whole situation would have gotten worse. Gotta love to boys who love to get even.

Snow or No

Will it snow as much as it is suppose to tonight, tomorrow and Wednesday? Will we have school? Will we have the Christmas Program Thursday Night? Will all 25 kids bring snowboots and snowpants to school tomorrow?
There are many questions up in the air, that only time will tell. I will be awaiting for the morning to come and see what is happening similar to what will be happening tomorrow afternoon and Wednesday morning. Hope you enjoy the first snow, because we did.!!
Happy snow!!

Tis the Season

We are in the season of Christmas, Deer Hunting, staying inside and keeping warm. This is the opening weekend of Deer Season, so yes you guessed it Daddy is on the mission for a deer. The boys and I are in the humor to stay home, stay warm and play, clean, eat, sew, and maybe even try to get caught up, or partially caught up in scrapbooking.

The biggest mission has been accomplished. My lovely mother and I worked on the quilt from last year's sewing club and got it finished tying. However there was a small problem, while I was tying before mom was there I was doing dishes or something in the middle of it and guess who found the scissors. Guess who cut a little of the quilt, in the corner,but still cut it. Yes you only need one guess - Tucker. I was angry with him and upset, then remembered it was only a quilt for us to go on our bed and if we had to remember that Tucker cut it when he was two and that is why the corner has some issues. Also it was not life or death and it would be okay, so we will fix it to the best of our ability(my lovely mother took it to fix and bind the outside)and go on with life.

Good Luck Deer Hunters and hope you all have a great weekend!!

AGAIN

Yes again, Tucker has red ears and more medicine. I believe it was November 10th when I last posted that Tucker had double ear infection.
-Today the comment was, well the one is really red all the way around the ear canal, we got drops to put in his ears, yes they are an antibiotic and steriod. Do you know how easy it is to put 4 drops in a boys ears twice a day? Yes wish us luck. I am hoping we come up with an answer that keeps us out of the doctors office.

- On the positive note Tayden only had a virus! Hope the Happy Holiday cheer is keeping you all well and happy!!!