Scooter

Here's Macie 2 minute lesson on how to ride her new electric scooter she got from papaw Doug and mamaw Karen for her birthday. Hysterical!

What we do when it's warm outside

Here's what we do when the weather is warm outside.

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The Best Yet

Macie played the best basketball game of her life yesterday. Of course there was some incentive involved, but it worked. She was dead all first half, but came ALIVE in the second. The incentive was a $1 for any offensive or defensive move. Her first point the ref was in my way, but it was a side shot, with girls all over her and nuthin but the net, baby.....She then swats the ball away from the girl she's guarding. Her next move is her first rebound of the season, then scores. This is the video. The video starts after she got the rebound (turn down your volume, for the obvious).

With less than a minute left she STEALS THE BALL, DIBBLES DOWN AND SCORES. Again nuthin but the net. I had two freakin cameras and miss this. I can't understand how that happened. So her total dollar amount came to $9.

6 points = $6
1 swat= $1
1 rebound =$1
1 steal = $1
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total + $9

Bowling

Here we are bowling for the first time. Not WII bowling, real bowling. The kids loved it at first, but the mood slowly dwindled. The kid balls were still too heavy for the boys. Macie did alright, bowled a strike and decided that was where her b-day party will be this year. I won of course!

Big Ear

For the past week now Austin's been dealing with a severe ear canal infection. Poor guy was in pain for several days and after taking two antibiotics orally and antibiotic drops for his ear he's finally feeling a little better. However, the inside of his ear still looks milky and his ear is sensitive to touch. I foresee a ENT visit in our near future. Here's a picture of his good ear.

Here's the big, bad ear. It was so swollen and I'd never seen anything like it.

Correction

Well here is Eli's face piece he has to wear at night to help correct his under bite. The orange things sticking out are cut up bandannas. They told us the pads on the chin and forehead will chap and break out his skin - which it has a little. I've fixed the problem, though. It now looks and feels better to him. Poor guy doesn't like wearing this. He's very embarrassed by the whole deal, but he's doing awesome with it during the night.

He has a retainer in his mouth. The rubber bands hook onto the retained and mouth piece. I'm hoping this works b/c the alternative doesn't sound good.

I guess Macie's mouth is next..

She's bbbaaaaaaacckkk

We had a very exciting surprise waiting for us when we got home Wednesday night. Samantha returned home after a very short, quick visit from the hospital. As promised she's good as new.

The hospital form said to expect 2-3 weeks for your doll to be returned. Macie asked every day about Samantha and I would tell her maybe she'll be home around Valentine's Day. I never expected she'd be gone a total (including shipping) of 8 days.

Even though she knew we didn't buy a new American Girl she wasn't quite sure what to expect.

She's on her way

Samantha is on her way to the hospital to get her hand fix from being attacked by a dog. I decided it'd be fun to track her route. (Hopefully I won't screw this up)

Chuck E's first skating confession

The boys went to their 1st "friend" bday party. It was at Chuck E Cheese, which they've never been cause of the germs..hahahahahahahahaaaaa To keep them from being labeled as "the weird kids" we had to let them go. And of course they loved it!! Eli's face lit up as we walked in and him and Austin both loved playing all the games. Eli really got into Chuck E Cheese as well. He even honked Chuck E's nose- hahahahahaaaa. Like I said he was PUMPED UP. Austin on the other hand wasn't all that impressed with the mouse (Jason's son).


Macie also had her 1st confession this Saturday, which she wasn't sure about but did fine.


Macie had her first skating party today. She's never skated a day in her life. She went from totally hating it to totally lovin it. And yes I skated as well. It's been 20+ years, but I gave it a whirl and will probably regret it in the morning.
Towards the end she even tried by herself and did pretty good.

Christmas

Our Christmas was a blessed one. Thank you family for such happiness on my children's faces.

I'm trying something new here so if you click on the above picture, then click on the word "slideshow" in the upper left, you should be able to see a slideshow.

Back to the North Pole

When Pixie arrived at our house I had 3 scared to death little kids, but now as she leaves for the North Pole I have 3 very sad little kids. They have thoroughly enjoyed her over the past few weeks and will be sad to wake up in the morning with no one to look for. Pixie left a note and it read:
Dear Sharum's
It's been fun living at your house for the past few weeks. I've had a blast playing with you guys. All 3 of you are very awesome kids. Stay good! Santa is very proud of you.

Macie - Good luck with basketball. Keep your eyes on the ball and your arms up. Get on those girls and stay on them.

Austin & Eli - Good luck with t-ball. Be patient with your swing and keep your eyes on the ball.

The elves and I will be cheering for you at the North Pole as we look down upon you.
Have a wonderful new year and always try your best. Have fun with everything you do.

I love you and will see you again next year.

(heart)
Pixie

Merry Christmas!

Just Dance - Eli

Eli was second best tonight. Boi's got some moves - haha!

This is so funny!!! But Austin was good..

Just Dance - Macie

Just Dance 2 was one of Macie's Christmas presents for the Wii. This was hysterical to watch. All 3 kids did pretty good, but I tore it up - bbaawaahahahahahahahaaaa..

Christmas in Oklahoma

We had an early Christmas with my dad and here's some videos of the kids opening their presents. I haven't even looked at my pictures yet, so I may or may not post those. We all got exactly what we wanted :0) Thank you pawpa Doug and mawma Karen. Merry Christmas!

Santa

Cold day for Santa! But he gave them an awesome goody bag.

A message from Tom

Our first message from Talking Tom :0)



Send us another message Tom!

What's Pixie Been Up too

Here's what our elf Pixie has been up to since Friday night.

Day 1:

Macie found her at the top of our tree. Took them awhile to find her but they finally did. Macie was beyond excited. Pixie was and still is talk of the house. Macie's still full of questions, like how did she get to the top of the tree w/o knocking off the ornaments? My response was maybe she flew and that opens another can of questions. haha

Day 2:

Pixie had a good time with Macie's American Girl Dolls.

Pixie was decked out in her cowgirl vest and boots. Needless to say the kids LOVED this.

Last night Pixie found her way on top of our bedroom t.v. She may have to go 4-wheel'n tonight in the boys room.

Since Jason wasn't home when Pixie arrived Macie is suspicious he had something to do with it. Jason was gone for a while this evening and Austin says he hopes another elf doesn't arrive - haha. He's not scared anymore, he says..Apparently Macie has been talking about our elf at school cause she wants me to email it to her best friends mom so she can see it :0)

Our Magic Elf, Pixie

Tonight we were watching Polar Express and it was towards the end when the train had stopped at the North Pole and the children and elves were waiting on the arrival of Santa. Well I knew our magic elf was coming tonight so I casually said "I've heard of elves visiting peoples homes". Austin said he hopes one doesn't come to our house cause he'd be scared and he kept his word. Our elf arrived with the sound of the doorbell, which Jason wasn't home and the rule is for us not to answer the door when he's gone, so Austin got scared when I was gonna open the door anyways. Macie was/is so confused, she was firing about a million questions about the elf and said she's gonna have a good story to tell her class Monday..Eli's neutral in the whole deal. He knows Santa sent the elf and is kinda on the fence about everything else. I hope they warm up to our elf Pixie Sugarplum, I have some wonderful and fun ideas..She's 141 years old which Macie just can't believe..Why is she so little, how'd she get here, where'd she come from, how is she gonna write with a normal sized pencil, does she really come to life at night, etc, etc, etc

Stay tuned on where/what Pixie does next.

Another Shining Star

Today we celebrated Eli being Student of the month. YAY Eli.. Of course, I forgot my camera in my car and my phone memory was full. I was rapidly trying to delete some pictures before the principal got done.

I can honestly say I'm glad November is gone. Just about the whole month has been one stomach bug after another. Hoping December is better.