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As you can tell, we've had a busy couple of weeks here at our house!

The kids had spirit week for Homecoming.

Here are the boys for "Wacky Wednesday!"

Curtis is SO his father!

No, he isn't going to school with the boys. It's just Bubba waiting to go out to the bus stop. He usually gets up just about the time we are going, and I have to quickly throw some slippers on him. Problem is his feet are SO much fatter than my other boys were at that age. (I didn't think that was possible!) We went to three different stores looking for slippers that fit, and finally had to settle on a girls pair. I told him he looked like the snow monster in "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer," and he went with that! He's quite the site out on our boulevard.

Bubba started preschool once a week. I had a babysitter that came once a week for 4 hours and instead of having her come, he's going to preschool now so he can play with kids his own age. So far, he's loving it! Here he is on the first day!

Lefty still LOVES to catch tree frogs!

Whenever the arms go behind the head, you know it's only a matter of time until the head starts bobbing! Didn't even finish the HEALTHY lunch his mother gave him! Shame!
Erik went to Vegas on his "Guys Weekend" a week ago. After baseball I took the boys to Carowinds Amusement Park with some family friends. We had a GREAT time and the weather was perfect! I'm thinking it may have been our last visit for the year!
That same day, the boys had their team pics for bball. Curtis is in the back row, second from the right.

Johnny is back row, the first on the right.

Erik got back from Vegas with presents for everyone. I was certain that they were going to be the 50 cent decks of playing cards each casino uses. Erik surprised us all and really pulled through with some good gifts this year. To give you an idea of how thoughtful the gifts were, this is the gift that he gave my 7 year old....SERIOUSLY! It came along with the "Laugh" that Erik is famous for. He thought he was SO funny! Needless to say, I didn't think it was as funny as he did.

On Columbus Day, when Erik returned from Vegas, one of my favorite people/cousins flew in for a visit- BIG JOHNNY! I didn't take a ton of pictures...but I did get this one. Johnny and I dropped off Andy at school and went to get a coffee. It was my Birthday, and we we were sitting outside trying to decide what to do with our few hours of free time. All of a sudden I heard a loud crash, and Johnny said, "OMG" at the same time. A car went too fast in a slippery intersection, and went up on the curb, and hit and ran over a tree. Good thing Fire Fighter John was in town! He went right over to help the girl, while I sat and sipped on my coffee calling 911. After about an hour, everything was sorted out, and we headed over to school so Big Johnny could be the mystery reader in Lil' Johnny's class, and teach fire safety! The class, teachers, and us had so much fun! Lil' Johnny was REALLY surprised!

Like I mentioned, last week was my Birthday and I have to give a shout out! My sister Megan made this banner for my fire place and sent it in the mail. I am in LOVE with it! If you are interested in her products or ordering one of these, check out her website at www.meganzellner.blogspot.com or on Facebook like the group "Mimi and Chip!"
A new TCBY with a drive thru opened up near our house. I introduced Big Johnny to it, and he fell in LOVE. We went WAY too many times, but since it's fat free yogurt, it's healthy....right? (I won't mention the MOUNDS of Reese's/Oreo's/Cookie Dough we loaded on top!) On Tuesday night we were headed there and Erik asked me to pick up a cake for myself, with a coupon he had. Johnny and I picked one out and asked the guy to write on it. This kid was in high school and CRACKED me up! He tried to get one of the girls to write on it, and they wouldn't. He was nervous and went to the back and began working. I told the girl working the register to tell him I wanted a unicorn on the cake as well...just to make him a little more nervous! Anyways, after a while, the cake was delivered by the girl with this post it note on it. We were laughing SO hard!

There's the finished product.

The unicorn is on the very top of the cake in pink! LOL!

We gave that kid such a hard time~! He loves us!

Finally, just because I love my lil' hubba Bubba....here's a pic of him watching TV the other night once his brothers were in bed! Gotta love him! Going to miss Big Johnny's company...and look forward to the next time he can visit!