Been a long time

Wow, So it really has been a long time. So much for once a week! I have been extremely busy lately so now that fall semester has come to an end(well Friday) I will hopefully have time to blog! Today I would say was our first snow and it was so beautiful! I love the snow, I just hate rain and ice when mixed with it. School was cancelled today and the kids still ended up waking up before 8 and asking to go out and play in the snow by 8:30. Finally after 3 pairs of pants, 2 pairs of sock, 2 shirts, a coat, hat and mittens they were ready! I suppose it is that time to invest in snow pants and snow boots so it doesn't take us an hour to get ready and a load of laundry after playing! ;-) They did make it out just after 9am and I decided a few minutes outside for ms. avani would be fine. I just wanted to get a couple pics of them all surrounded by the snow BUT as we ventured out first with the video camcorder, it died after only getting about 2 minutes filmed and then going in to get the picture camera it died just as I got everybody seated and went to push the button so NO pictures..(sigh).. Guess I will hope for the next snow.. That is if I can find my battery charger for the camera.?.

I have been looking for toys for the kids lately since Christmas is ONLY a few weeks ago now! So far it has been pretty easy by watching what they play with mostly everyday.. Avani of course loves chewing on everything and smiles every time she sees herself in the mirror so I am thinking chew toys, a mirror toy and lights and music toy! DeAlijah loves tractors, trailers, trains, trucks and cars.. Wow that is really strange with everything starting with a T except for cars of course.. Dillan ..hmmm what to get dillan? He likes to play with cars but we have wayyyy enough of those and he likes things like the Wii but yet he is still too young that I have to get everything hooked up for him and I don't let the kids do those things everyday.. So I'm thinking I may have to do some more investigating on what he likes.. Movies, he does love movies but again not everyday! Well last but not least Taylor, my teenage 8 year old! She wants a Nintendo DS and I am not sure about that!?! besides that she likes anything she can draw and write with, glitter, fingernail polish and these little polly pocket baby things.. My dad bought them for her on her birthday so I am not sure exactly if that is what they are? I am excited to be going shopping this weekend with my friend Amber and hoping to get what I need and be done for Christmas!

So now that fall semester is over and it is that time to make my spring schedule I was excited until the class times just don't seem to be working that well with my home schedule! I could take a night class and it would save me from driving 30 minutes each way but then I would have to find a night babysitter plus have somebody take the kids to dance class I just don't want to put that responsibility on to somebody else.. Some of the class times are overlapping with other classes that I need and I have to take certain classes in order to take the next class I need the next semester.. Uh, so stressful!

It looks so beautiful outside right now with the Christmas lights on all the many houses and the fresh snow covering the roads and cars and tracks! I just love that Gap commercial with the little girls dancing and singing,lol it's just so catchy! So I decided to do some organizing today and rearranged the kids bedrooms and cleaned out some closests, put some things in storage. For some reason my room is always last and I never did get to rearrange mine but atleast its clean. Now I just need to figure out where my camera charger is? Well as much as I love snow days I am hoping the kids go back tomorrow I have much to get done this week! But for now it's sleep time.