WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!

Wow if I thought I was nervous wreck before Thursday's game then that was an understatement because the real nerves took hold after I knew we were playing in the championship game Nov 8th!! Let's see Friday morning was donut day for the kids then I proceeded to go "potty" about 5 times in between taking kids to school and the 90 minutes I had before my haircut. I then had multiple errands to run before picking up all three boys at different schools. It is amazing how my Fridays off are taking up by taking kids to school, donut day, errands and appts then picking the kids up from school. I might as well work b/c I think it would be a lot less hectic. Anyhow I was nervous all day and the only thing I ate between Thursday's playoff game and Saturday's morning championship game was a glazed twist, a glazed donut and plenty of TUMS!!! Why was I like this? Got me!!?? I was a wreck. I really wanted the boys to win and have a wonderful time but I didn't want too much disappointment if they lost because they are still a remarkable group of boys. I didn't want anyone to get injured. I didn't want to oversleep and miss the game. I didn't want it to be too cold (no such luck on that one). Friday night, sleep was pretty much impossible and Saturday morning my stomach was a mess but with the constant feeling I could vomit at any second I could NOT eat. I then went to the bathroom at the field about four times in the hour before the game until I went to my car and ate the remaining TUMS I had brought to the game. After the TUMS I was pretty good until the END of the fourth quarter, when I had to sit on the medical case on the sidelines because for the FIRST time in the game we were no longer in the lead. They gave us a little over a minute but that is all we needed to score and WIN THE INFC CHAMPIONSHIP!!! I cried with excitement, relief and overwhelming pride I felt for this team!! You would think they had won the superbowl or something. Some people look at us like we are idiots and make too much out of this team but I say, "just wait until it is your child!!" Then when asked what we are going to be like by high school my answer is "heavily sedated" but excited for scholarships and NFL so we can get a HUGE house!! Just kidding I do not care if the boys even play sports but I will support them in the fullest with anything they want to venture into with the exceptions of golf and baseball which I find so boring that I would sleep on the bleachers!! Here are the pics - I took so many that I just made a slideshow!!

NERVOUS WRECK FOOTBALL MOM

Thursday the boys had the final game of the playoffs before the championship. We played Pryor who has a jerk for a coach. He is rude, demeaning, selfish and down right awful to his kids. Some of the things he said to his boys during the game: "I don't care how you win this game just break their legs if you have to b/c they can't run w/o them!, You guys are playing like a bunch of girls!, and I shouldn't have even come to this game b/c you guys aren't playing football you are just embarrassing ME!" HELLO you are coaching 6 YEAR OLD BOYS!!! I think if he was my son's coach we would've had more than a few words WAY before the playoffs!! Anyway I was a nervous wreck ALL day thursday. I would get butterflies at the mere thought of the game. I wanted the boys to win so bad b/c they are just amazing and they have worked so hard to get to this point. Well needless to say after many moments of me nearly vomiting on the sidelines....WE WON AND WE ARE ON OUR WAY TO THE INFC CHAMPIONSHIP!!! Wow the last 7 seconds of the game were really INTENSE!! Everyone ran onto the field again and it was mayheim trying to catch the pics but you know I did!!! Championship game Saturday...WOOHOO!!

SHE'S JUST TOO CUTE FOR WORDS

Addy was smiling and laughing in her sleep so I got the camera to try to catch it but then she woke up......wide awake just watching me.....she's just too cute for words! She reminds me SO SO much of Elijah when he was a baby. He too smiled and laughed in his sleep within a couple of weeks and since no one believed me I had to take pictures of it. Those pictures are still some of my favorite of him as a baby. They both also roll their eyes all around and then sleep with their eyes OPEN....that used to really freak my sister out b/c she would think he was awake!! Here she is again, Miss Addison

4 BODY BAGS DOWN.....

We have three BIG trees in our small front yard and although they are not done shedding their leaves if we don't rake many times then the leaves will take over!! The past few days the leaves have really started to fall and after much prodding we raked last night. We managed to get a pretty good pile considering the trees are NO where NEAR done shedding their pretty fall colored leaves. So here you go one of my favorite fall fun activities, taking pictures of my boys and Avani playing in a leaf pile:

We bagged the leaves up and got 4 body sized trash bags full just think only about a 1/4 of the leaves have fallen!!

TOO CRAZY TO BELIEVE, BUT TRUE!!

Presenting the competition with a united front!!

Last night the boys had their second playoff game against Skiatook Red. Before the game, the Skiatook coaches were waiting outside the gate. The Skiatook coach actually offered my hubby money NOT to play Elijah in the game. I was in disbelief and thought for sure this was a joke; however, when my hubby said, "Are you kidding me?" the coach replied with, "Well NOT if you take the money!" You can't be serious!! These are 6 yr old boys and this is not the Superbowl. There is no money involved in winning the championship just the right to be called champions! I still think we should turn him in b/c it is obviously illegal but I still wonder how much he would have actually paid! Too funny and sad at the same time! This was THE game of ALL games!! An awesome football game! True nail biter and my stomach was in absolute knots! It was rather funny how people migrated over to cheer for our boys. Parents who could no longer sit in anticipation were standing along the fence line with perfect strangers who were cheering for OUR boys. Teams waiting to play were watching because it was just an AWESOME GAME!! At half time a lot of the parents and onlookers were worried and I was not about to give up telling them to look at our history. Our boys always come back stronger in the second half. Always! Even when we are way ahead at halftime they still come back to hit HARDER, run faster and further and THEY NEVER GIVE UP!! Wow this game was so good I felt like I could get sick at any moment. Our boys FOUGHT for this win that they so deserved! Fought right up to the last second! I almost cried when they won just b/c I knew how bad they wanted it and how hard they had worked. Don't say anything b/c you just can't understand the game unless you were there. Many of the Moms were a nervous wreck. We all stormed the field when they won to go get OUR BOYS!!! I have goosebumps just thinking of that moment!!

Good tackle Carson!

Halfway through the fourth quarter we scored then held them back!!

I thought it was over but they added some time. This was the final score!!

Our Coaches were so happy!

Tez was really proud of his little brother and it was so cute!

I know this picture is blurry but I love it anyway!

MADDOX NEEDS ANOTHER NEW HEART

I realized I hadn't posted about Maddox lately so I decided to update his story again. Apparently although Maddox and his donor, a 5month old little girl, weighed the same (that tells you how small he is at 20 mos. old) her heart was not large enough to compensate for his extra length and his lower extremeties are not getting enough blood flow. The problems with this new heart are not repairable and he is being placed on the donor list once again. This miracle boy and his family still need your prayers!

TRICK-OR-TREAT!!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN TO ALL!
This year Isaiah went trick-or-treating for the first time! Last year he was sick on that night. The year before too cold and small for him to really participate. Yippee! So his older brother teaches him the whole "trick-or-treat" saying which in my mind was to teach him to say "trick-or-treat". Nope I was wrong! They taught him the WHOLE little slogan!

Cute to hear him say but I really didn't want him to say that so I had to reteach him to JUST say trick-or-treat. I told him it wasn't nice to talk about pulling others pants down besides the fact I wouldn't put it passed him to try it!! He said it oh so softly at each door but I think all they really heard was Thank you! Oh well at least he was thankful! Trick-or-treating was sort of dead this year. Our entire street was dark and no one was handing out candy. I thought about taking the boys to my parents' neighborhood but alas I was tired and I hoped this years' trick-or-treat outing could be short and sweet since we had already been to two parties. We went to the other side of our neighborhood like we had done in prior years but honestly probably a 1/4 of the people handed out candy compared to before. The long walking in between participating houses was getting on my nerves b/c I ended up carrying a bunch of crap. I excitingly asked the boys if they wanted to go home to hand out candy and make homemade pizza. Much to my surprise they said, "Yea Mom let's go home!" Hmm...I should have tried that idea a little earlier. We went home, made pizza and only had one trick-or-treater ALL night at almost 9pm. This particular t-o-t was our next door neighbor who was happy with the excessive amount of candy he was given since he was our only t-o-t!! Sad t-o-t experience if you ask me but luckily we had gone to two parties already and had more than our share of candy. Elijah will be selling his candy in the next couple of days since he doesn't eat candy. Wierd I tell you!

FRIDAY FUN???

Friday I took Chai and Addison to the doctor. We had to drive about an hour away since Chai's stepdad is Addison's doctor. We had planned on taking my truck for the additional room since

1 - Chai can't drive at the moment and so she would have to be a passenger in her car with the car seat behind her seat

2 - she is about 6ft tall so she would have more leg room in my car and could possibly set the seat back to sleep if needed.

Problem with this plan ~ on the way to drop all the kids off for school I noticed a big 'ol screw in one of my tires!!

Lord knows I didn't want to get a flat on the highway on the way there and I had no time to get it patched. The only positive thing I saw at the moment was getting to drive Chai's car since it is a standard. I love driving standard transmission cars but I haven't in about 5 yrs!!

Ride there ~ great!

Doctor appt ~ great!

Addison' feeding ~ great and as normal since I fed and changed her she pooped!!

Lunch ~ greasy McD's ~ugh!

Then some greasy not very well groomed McD's worker just came up and started touching on Addison. Hello!! I think that is rude and especially if you are as nasty as she was!

Disinfecting Addison ~ check!

Ok so on the ride home everyone fell asleep!

No mistake you read that correctly!

I said everyone and I mean everyone!!

Isaiah ~ yep!

Addison ~ of course that is almost all she does besides eat, burp and poop!

Chaitra ~ yep she was tuckered out!

Me ~ yep me too!

Wait....and yes I was driving!

I was SO sleepy. The car was SO quiet!

Just the sound of the tires on the open country road and heavy breathing from the sleepers!

Eyes shut!

Eyes open and realize eyes were just shut so major adrenaline pumps through body and sheer panic runs through my mind!

I could kill all of us and crash her car!

Ok I can do this...I've never fallen asleep during driving before that is my hubby's problem!

I want to turn the cold cold cold air on full blast but I don't want the newborn to freeze.

I want to turn the radio up full blast and sing as loud as I can with my oh so angelic voice but I don't want to wake anyone.

I want to make Chai wake up and talk to me but I KNOW she is exhausted.

I will be fine!

I try to call a friend to quietly chit chat on the phone hoping to keep myself awake. Good luck trying to get someone to answer since they are all at work!

Phone conversation ~ all of two minutes b/c apparently the dinky town I was driving through at the time had crappy reception!!

I'll be ok!

Again, eyes shut!

Eyes open and adrenaline pumps through my body again and I feel like I could just puke at the thought of killing us all.

My next idea call my sister ~ NO answer!

Call my hubby~ NO answer!

Stop and get a huge caffeine drink of some sort just to get me the rest of the way home.

Trying to find a place to stop ~ eyes shut again and car drifts into the next lane!

THAT'S IT! COLD AIR FULL BLAST ON MY FACE AND CALL HUBBY WHO NOW ANSWERS AND TALKS TO ME FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE FIFTEEN MINUTES UNTIL I AM HOME!!!

WE MADE IT ALIVE!!

Next I had to take my car to get the tire patched and screw removed. Luckily the place was just a mile from Chai's house so surely I could make it there. They said there was a thirty minute wait but I was not about to drive ANYWHERE else!! I kept dozing off at the tire shop....you know the whole head-bobbing-jerking-up-acting-like-you-are-NOT-asleep sleep!!

Tire fixed ~ went home and slept for 2 1/2hours until I had to go trick-or-treating!!!

More on that later...this blog just stressed me out!

FALL FESTIVAL

So a little behind from last week...here we go with catch up!! Last Wed we went to the Fall Festival at the Darnell's church. Games, candy, hayride, a box maze that Elijah became obsessed with, bonfire, facepainting.....who could resist. Not us! Just another reason for me NOT to stay home and do my much needed housework! Gotta love it!

Parker as Indiana Jones

They had a clown doing some amazing face painting with so much to choose from and he chooses to be a vampire. We tried to talk him into the many cool designs she could do but he still want to be a vampire so.......

..here he is - my son as a "vampire hulk"!

Ready for the hayride

I was trying to take a pic of Zay on the hayride. He was a little unsure of the fun factor involved with the hayride. However half the picture is the man next to him with his "big dog" undies!! lol

Pretty Miss Ellie

Brian ~ yes he is crazy!

BAD CASE OF PINK EYE IN A BOTTLE OF PEPTO BISMOL??

So yesterday I went over to paint Avani's room ~ pink!!

First we had to sort and purge through Avani's belongings while she was gone!!

I was excited about pink!

I've never painted pink before!

Boys aren't too keen on pink walls!

My helpers never showed up!

The paint went on really light so it was hard to tell if there were any white spots left that is until it dried.

While rolling paint onto the wall a GIANT glob of pink paint flew into my eye.

Not being able to see my own eye or how large the glob was I brilliantly decided to wipe the glob away with my already paint covered hands.

Brilliant I tell you!

Sometimes I just scare myself with my own intelligence or lack there of..!

I then can NOT see so I go into the bathroom.

My entire top lid, lashes, contact, white of my eye, lower lashes and under the eye were..........PINK!!

It took forever to get it all out: remove the contact, clean the contact and getting the paint out of all the little creases in the lash line was FUN for sure!!

Painting resumes then I start to feel like I am trapped inside a GIANT bottle of pepto bismol!

Seriously!

Hmmm.....hope this room turns out okay when completed!

I painted the room all by myself in about 4 hours!

This was much faster than Addison's nursery that Avani helped me paint!

Note to parents: painting rooms will always be faster without a child underfoot and helping!!

Pictures should be up hopefully on Tues night when I go over to finish setting up the room!

NOT ME! MONDAY

It's that time of the week again........time for........

First of all I did not skip ALL football practices this week....Monday, Tuesday and Thursday!! Not me b/c I love football so much I wish we could practice everyday. Rest is overrated! I would never do that b/c I am a grade A football mom. I normally try to go to at least one a week BUT I did NOT feel it!!

I did NOT want to kick myself in the head for volunteering for crap ALL the time! Volunteering is good, RIGHT? Even if you are so dead tired you CAN'T sleep and you just want to cry! I need to learn to say NO to those who never lift a finger of their own!!

I did NOT drive Chaitra and Addison to see her stepdad for a doctor's appt about an hour away and then almost fall asleep several times on the way home. Nope NOT ME! That would be irresponsible. The car was NOT so peaceful with Chaitra, Addison and Isaiah all sound asleep and the radio was NOT so quiet that I had to concentrate to even hear a thing. I did NOT need to blast the radio and sing at the top of my lungs to keep myself awake b/c that would've woke everyone up and I was NOT sleepy, remember. I did NOT want to blast COLD air on my face and make the car an iceberg b/c then the children might get too cold. I did NOT drift into another lane b/c I'VE NEVER DONE THAT! If I had done any of this, that would give my husband something to finally make me shut up about him falling asleep and almost killing our whole family last summer....good thing this did NOT happen, huh, I would hate for him to have ammo!

I did NOT voluntarily watch extra football games on Saturday. I did NOT do this b/c I am not "footbally" remember!! Then when the only team that has beat us this season was SERIOUSLY getting their butts kicked in a playoff game I was NOT one bit happy that the cheating, non-rule abiding, mean-to-his-team, hat throwing Coach was flipping out. He then tried to say, "Oh my quarterback got hurt!" when people started to say things to HIM not his team. I guess he never learned that one player does not make a team! At this lame attempt to make an excuse for his serious loss I certainly did NOT yell out "SURE IS ALOT HARDER TO WIN WHEN YOU HAVE TO PLAY BY THE RULES, HUH! KARMA! THANKS REFS!" while standing only about 40ft from him. Good thing I did NOT do this huh b/c that could be construed as sarcastic and vendictive.....but NICE!! I think he did NOT like that I did NOT call him out!

I did NOT lose my stomach when coaches who were scouting our team during our playoff game said they had to watch #1 and #10 on BA Gold. #10 is my son!! I think we should switch up the jerseys so my boy can incognito!! However I would NOT do that!

I did NOT once again take 5 gazillion pictures at the football game! Did I mention we won our first playoff game 32 to ZIP!? Our boys are monsters!

We certainly did NOT go out to eat once this weekend b/c that would've broke our pact NOT to eat out. We also did NOT go out to eat once last weekend. Nope NOT us! Saving money here! We always turn down invitations to eat out with friends b/c we are NOT eating out anymore!!

I did NOT unknowingly sniff the "butt scratching" hand of my three year old. I think that should actually say I WISH I had NOT smelled it!!

IT'S TIME FOR THE PLAYOFFS!

The boys played their first football playoff game this morning. They played Sand Springs and won 32 - 0! I think Elijah may be "juicin'" b/c he was hitting too hard to be 6!! Just kidding about the "juicin'"!! He made a couple of kids cry and one refused to run the ball anymore. It is so odd b/c on one hand I am sad for that little boy but on the other hand I am proud of mine. Is that wrong? Torn.

Touchdown Elijah!!

Don't let them get you down baby! Go baby go! That's my boy! Check out Carson's mom in the background!

This was one of the refs at the game. He wanted me to take his pic and give it to all my single friends. I said, "Ok better yet I will put you online!" Here he is!
End of game rally ~ Zay always has to be involved too and he can't keep his hands off of Parker
You guys are #1 in my book!
Isaiah and his obsession Parker

Carson scored again in the LAST second of the game to make the score 32 - 0!
After the game I was supposed to go paint Avani's room, this did not happen today and I must say I was not too upset about it!! We planned on staying to watch the game right after ours HOWEVER that lead to them FORCING ME to then go out to eat then HELD ME AT GUN POINT to return to watch two more games. To see what I said to the cheating coach who we recently found out is a preacher, click here! It felt so nice! I pretended to enjoy the games and I think my cheering made the act more believable!! Just kidding we ended up watching several games and I enjoyed it ~ shhhhhhh....please don't tell anyone...I don't want to blow my cover!!! Then off to Chai's house. She was having a REALLY bad morning and in a lot of pain so I felt like crap for not having my phone when she called needing me to come over. Wow I felt really bad so I stayed for about 8 hours! Her mom came and took the girls for the evening so Chai could rest but we ended up just talking and laughing for hours!! Good times! I had a really good day today! By the way Thanks to the Harveys for coming to yet another game today!

Tammi and her granddaughters