Happy Birthday Steve!!!

It was my father-in-laws birthday on Sunday. We had pizza and a party for him. My mother-in-law gave him a new Dewalt miter saw and we gave him a laser to go on it. He opened the laser first and we said we bought it for his old Craftsman saw. He just looked it at and said ya I think that should work on my saw (with a puzzled look of what the h*## are they thinking this will not work on my saw). He was pretty excited to see it was for a new saw. So HAPPY BIRTHDAY Steve! We love you!

The Bedroom is FINALLY done!

Well our bedroom is done for the most part. I still have some decorating I would like to do but it is kind of hard to find decorations at Christmas time. We absolutely love it!!! It is definately our haven to go and relax. I really tried to keep it focused around Brandon and I and tried to give it a romantic feel when you walk in. Both of us have the same favorite color, which is red, so it worked out great. We love our red wall. I also love having a big closet. We have shared a little closet in the extra bedroom for a year and a half now and it sucked. My best friend Tara's mom did our carpet and we love it. Thanks Jill! I made the curtains on Friday night and I love how they turned out. I am so excited to have a place for Brandon and I. He has been so good to do the 'honey do' lists I keep giving him. He bought us this awesome TV so we can just relax and watch movies on nights when the kids are gone. Thank You Sweetie for all your hard work and for remodeling the room with me!!! I love you!!!

5th Grade Thanksgiving Play

So Lilly was in her 5th Grade Thanksgiving play tonight. She was in a indian tribe and was a narrator. We think she is quite the public speaker. She did an AWESOME job. The play was really cute. She has a really really good teacher and I think she did an AMAZING job at getting the kids to perform as well as they did. Good Job Lil! We love you!

This is Lilly's best friend. She is like a foot and a half taller than Lilly.

I took this pic for Lilly cause that cute boy in front of her with the blonde spiky hair is her boyfriend.

Alyssa's New Look

Well I am up to date on my blogging now!!!! I am sorry it has been so long....I actually got up 2 hours earlier today so I could get caught up. We have been remodeling our room for about 3 months now. We have been in the biggest mess and I honestly can't take it anymore. Everything from our bedroom is emptied throughout the house. Everyday I get home from work I fix dinner and go straight to work on the bedroom. And Saturday and Sundays morning til night working on it. I will post more about the room later when it gets done. We are finally getting carpet on Saturday and YAY we are so excited!!! I will be so excited to get organized and out of the mess.

A month ago Lys came home from school with a note from the school notifying me that Alyssa had failed her vision test at school and that I should get her into an eye doctor ASAP. After reading the note I looked at Lys and asked her if she has problems seeing things she replied no Mom I can see just fine. So I asked her about the test and she said she had no problems seeing anything. So then thinking back at her Kindergarten assessment test that she failed cause she refused to talked to her teacher and ignored everthing she said to her because she is so shy I thought I am sure that she sees just fine and she was just being shy. I had never had eye problems before and neither has her dad so I just figured everything was fine. I scheduled an appointment just to be sure, but I just kept thinking everything was great and we had nothing to worry about. Her appointment was scheduled a month out because they were so busy. Well I took her in last week. After a long evaluation the doctor turned to me and said that she definatly has some problems. She has what is called Lazy eye. She only has 20/50 vision in her left eye. If you cover her right eye she cannot see very well at all. So she lets her right eye do all the work and her left eye has just become lazy. She is also farsighted in both eyes. The doctor said we needed to get her some glasses and we also needed to do some patching with her right eye to make her left one work. She picked out her glasses (which are so stinking cute on her). They are Barbie brand and her case is a hot pink purse. We have ordered a stylish patch and she only has to wear it in the evening and on the weekends. We have done everything we could to make her excited about it.

We picked her glasses up yesterday and it was so funny. When the lady put them on her to adjust them to her head she said,"Mom I can see". It was so cute. So needless to say Thank Goodness for the vision test at school otherwise I would have never known. She thought she could see fine til she got her glasses and realised how well she can see now. She read her book to me last night and I can't believe how much faster she could read. It was AMAZING!!! I love you Lyssa!!! You look so stinking cute in your glasses!!!!