Monday, November 13

My little Pilgrim and my MOPS "spa day"


Our little pilgrim eating his lunch, as Kirby is there just waiting for any drop to fall. Lincoln made the Pilgrim hat at Moppets today, and has been wearing it ever since.

Today at MOPS, we had a surprise "pampering spa day". Good timing, I needed that!! We had lip masks, hand and cuticle exfoliation, foot massage, quiet room, crafts, speaker on nutricion, Smoothies, lot's of yummy food, coffee, door prizes, lot's and lot's of free samples of things.... As you can see, MOPS was a good thing for me today!!

Future Beethoven??





Lawson has discovered how to play the piano, which is one of his favorite things to do these days. He actually puts together what sounds like music!!

I love this kid!!




Sunday, November 12

Love Language

Do you know what your love language is?
Do you know what your spouse's love language is?

Ron and I did the testing to find out what love languages we both are. Now we are in the process of reading The Five Love Languages together. I highly recommend this book, it's great to find out how to communicate better just by knowing how your spouse thinks differently than you do.

This book is also christian based.

The author is Gary Chapman, and his website is www.fivelovelanguages.com

It is also beneficial to find out what love language your children are. Lincoln is "Words of Affirmation".

profit

I have sold 56 items now on ebay, making about $400.00. But, I'm running out of things to sell, and it's taking a little too much of my time so I'm trying to cut back a bit. Just listed 10 new items today.

About ME

1] What is your middle name? Michelle
2] What color is your mailbox? Brick, and I love that it is in front of my house..
3] Are you available? For what?
4] Have you ever hit a deer? Ron, yes, but me, no
5] Do you have to drive over a bridge to get home? At least not that I know of.
6] Do you get the paper delivered to your house in the morning? On Sundays
7] Who checks the mail in your house? Lincoln and I look forward to this everyday.
8] Do you have a small driveway? Too small
9] Do you know anyone with the same ringtone as you? Same phone but not ringtone.
10] What do you do first in the morning? I get coffee, Lawson gets bottle, and Lincoln gets his Bubbletine. First thing. We don't do anything else until we all have our morning drinks. Then we sit in the living room and drink and watch a morning show or just read, for a little bit then get up to have breakfast. We do the same exact thing every morning, except weekends when Daddy is home.
11] What brand is your printer? HP
12] Do you enjoy fighting with people? No, and never do.
13] Is your hair naturally straight or curly? Curly (frizzy), but I prefer to straighten it.
14] Who was your kindergarten teacher? Ms. Cocoma, so sweet!!
15] Are you taller than your mother? Exact same.
16] Do you have a favorite word? Not that I can think of, I'll get back to you on this.
17] Do you love God? Yes, more and more each day.
18] What do you do to get over a broken heart? Chocolate and hot baths sure help.
19] Do you have a deep dark secret? Not that I can think of.... or willing to share...
20] Do you enjoy writing in colored pens? I write in blue only
21] Does anything hurt on your body right now? Itchy, for 4 days, don't know why. But thats it.
22] Do you often cry during a movie? Just in a blue moon, except for lately my hormones are out of whack...
23] Do you love your life? YES, Absolutely!!
24] Do you get mad easily? I'd have to say no.
25] What is your biggest pet peeve? Cotton (long story), unreliable people
26] What is your away message? Always the same, don't know how to change it.
27] Shoe Size: 7 or 7 1/2
30] Do you have any friends? Yes, lot's. I love my friends!! They are just like family to me.
31] Do you have any mean friends? Try not to be around mean people.
32] What is the ugliest color in your opinion? Yellow and Orange tie.
33] Have you ever liked someone who all your friends couldn't stand? Yes, and vice versa
34] Age of 1st memory: Must have been before age 2, I was still in the crib and my Aunt was picking me up.
35] Do you have good hearing? I have HORRIBLE hearing.
36] What brand are the pant/jeans you are wearing right now? Gap size 6 Reg
46] 1st paying job: Receptionist for a psychiatrist.
47] Do you have any TV shows on DVD? Own, no, but I have rented an entire season of shows.
48] Are you wearing makeup? Nope, ready for bed, need to get there!!
49]Do you have a tatto? Gladly, no.
50] Do you know how to draw? I have always wanted this talent, and tried, but I'm a horrible drawer.
51] Who is your hero? Ron
52] Who did you last email? My Mops group, reminding them of the meeting tomorrow
53] Do you work a lot of hours? 24/7
54] What do you do when you are stressed out? I get insomnia and can't eat
55] Who was the last person to call you? Reaah
56] Is there anything you regret? Yes, but don't have time to share.
57] Do you know where your family name originated from? Geri is a shortened Italian name. Lucek is a shortened Polish name.
58] Is there an animal that creeps you out? Speaking of, we had a HUGE and UGLY opposum in our back yard just now.
59] What was the last thing you did for fun? Without the boys: Dinner out with friends last week. With the boys: Play Doh

Recommendations

Book: The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. Just finished this book and it was really really good.

Dallas Area Restaurant: Buca Di Peppo: We ate here for lunch today and it was absolutely amazing!! Our new favorite place!!

The Weekends Over

Wow, what a fun and exciting weekend. You can probably tell due to my lack of blog entries, how busy we have been over the past couple of days.
Highlights of the weekend include church, dinner at Celebrity, lot's of family time, family christmas pictures taken, spending time with friends.
Tonight, we had the Wueste's over for dinner and playtime. We had a great time, Lincoln enjoyed playing with the twins. Hope to have them over again soon before baby Tori comes along.
Hope your weekend was as good if not better than ours...
We have a fun and exiting week planned ahead, starting tomorrow off with MOPS Spa Day...Tues: Taking Emily to Build a Bear for her birthday... Wednesday: Bible Study Luncheonl, Thursday: Gymnastic, and Friday: Thanksgiving Brunch for playgroup. I like these kinds of weeks!!

Thursday, November 9

The Boy's


This is what the boys are doing right now behind me as I am working on the computer. A little rough housing before bedtime. Speaking of bedtime, I'm going to put them down....

KAREN: Kirby is 6 months and FULL grown.
And we have this big poll as to whether Lawson is going to have curls. I think yes and Ron thinks no. Too soon to tell, Lincolns didn't come out until after he turned one.... You can join the poll and let me know what you think!!

Dining Room


Preview of the NEW wood floor Ron worked so hard to put in. Yes, the flowers are for me for all my hard work this week!! For all of you that enlarge the pictures, Jen and Reaah, please ignore all the dust on the floor: we have yet to dust and polish it up. It looked horrible in this pic but I had to post it bc it was so cute of Lincoln smelling the flowers....

Lincoln in Gymnastics



Here are a couple of shots from Lincoln's gymnastics today. I haven't

been able to take many b/c my hands are always full with Lawson, and also I don't want to be distracting to the class...

As I have said before, Gymnastics is one of the highlights of his week. This is Coach Jared helping him, and you will see his hero coach Jack on the right.

The other picture is Lincoln waiting patiently for his turn...

Bean Bag Boy






While Lincoln is taking his gymnastics class, Lawson likes to go into the media movie room and crawl all over these huge bean bags. He has so much fun, as you can see....

Wednesday, November 8

Lincoln's Buddy

This is Lincoln's sad face when I told him that Kirby couldn't come with us today to Bible Study.



This is where I found Lincoln today watching Go Diego Go. He wants to take the puppy with him everywhere during the day.
"Mommy I love Kirby SOO much, hes my mostest favorite in the whole world" "Mommy, do you love Kirby too?" "Kirby loves me mommy"
Lincoln is in charge of all the puppy feedings. He has done all the water and food refills. Next we need to teach him poopy duty...

Lollipop Boys

Please look at these picture's in Reverse Order, I can not figure out how to post in the right order.... But start at the bottem one first. You should be able to tell what is going on here!!



#4: YUMMY, Lawson's first lollipop taste....

#3: Mommy tells Lincoln to share with his brother and let him taste it.....

#2: Lincoln says nnnnnnnoooooo

#1: Lawson looks at Lincoln with such an intense desire to taste his lollipop....

What we don't see here in pictures is what happened right after this. Mommy had to put down the camera to intervene. Lawson liked the lollipop so much, he stood up and pushed Lincoln's chest until Lincoln was on the ground. Lawson crawled right on top of him and grabbed the pop right away. Watch out Lincoln, your little brother is VERY VERY strong....

By the way, for those of you that enlarge the pictures (Reaah) that welt on the side of Lawson's head is a mosquito bite. May be allergic, when he gets bit they turn into these huge welts. Got this one last night playing outside..




Lincoln won't be promoted from a car seat to a booster seat anytime soon, like we were considering.
Watch this, and have a Kleenex ready. (It's almost 4 minutes long, so watch it when you that extra time)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azgBhZfcqaQ

Monday, November 6

Brave Warrior


In just five days we officially declare a time to honor all those who have served our great country. Veteran's Day is meaningful to many as they reflect back on those who have given great sacrifice in return for the blanket of freedom that surrounds us.

Today, as I walked the halls of Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC) it was amazing to me how many of these men were smiling and high spirited despite their peril condition. I hope and pray that their sacrifices continues to sustain our freedom and our way of life.

The reason for the visit was to check on the status of one of our very own. Daniel was on a security patrol in Iraq when his convoy had to make a deviation off of the hardball and immediately ran over a buried landmine with his HUMVEE. Daniel has quite the story to tell of the events that followed. As he recalled the incident he seemed stronger and more focused than one would imagine after suffering from such a traumatic experience. His determination to return to his comrades is his only goal as he attends the immediate need of recovery. He appeared very healthy and spoke highly of the level of treatment he had received both State-side and in Germany. He did mention that Iraq is extremely HOT and that prior to the incident he had lost weight from just being in the environment. Daniel is expected to have a full recovery and our thoughts and prayers will follow him as he continues his quest.

Ron Geri

Welcome Back Lawsy

Lawson seems to be back 100% himself. Today was SO much easier with him feeling better. Lot's of smiles and cuddles!!

Laws, Linc, and myself all had FLU shots today.

Took the BOYS and Kirby to the park, it was 70 degree's. Very nice...

Ron flew to san antonio to visit his cousin Daniel, he should be home soon.

Getting ready to see who the prince chooses tonight!! (lawson is asleep and Lincoln is playing with his moon sand...)
No man is poor who has a godly mother
(Abraham Lincoln)

Sunday, November 5

Prayer Request

Please help us pray for a speedy recovery for Ron's cousin Daniel Varner. He is 20 years old, this is his 2nd year in the Army, and has been serving in Iraq. He and his team of four were attacked by a bomb after driving over it. The driver was his sergeant, who was killed. Daniel was ejected from the army vehicle, and experienced some severe burns. Thankfully he survived but is recovering in a burn unit on a base in San Antonio. Ron hopes to fly into SA to visit him. Keep him in your prayers, I may not have all the details right. Daniel is Debbie's (Rons mom) brothers son, they live in upstate NY....

WOW

W.O.W. Things on Wysteria Lane are really heating up. I thought tonights show was the best one yet. So, if you missed out tonight, I suggest watching it online tomorrow at abc.com, free download. It was REALLY good!!