Goodwin Gang: August 2009

Has To Be DONE Sadly...

Going Private!!! Anyone who still wants to read our family blog, just let me know by leaving your email address on a comment here or emailing me @ az2strikes@yahoo.com . Friends, Family, friends of friends, old family once removed, whatever, etc.!!! I love to look at blogs on others sidebars daily, so really that is not who I'm trying to keep out... it's all of the wierdos who may like my kids pics or something a little too much. I put so many pics on and I don't want them falling into the wrong hands and I've been hearing some scary stories lately about just that! :) Taya

Daron's Day...

And WHAT a BUSY day it was!!! We had our family party for him and special dinner and then it was off to band night at the school! He's waited a WHOLE YEAR to sign up for band!!! He picked the Saxaphone and is sooooooo excited! Band starts Mnday and we have to be at schoolearly all week now for the rest of the year! YAY for early mornings, not! He'll do great and he had a blast on his birthday! Thanks to everyone who called and emailed and sent cards!

Messing Around...

Sometimes you just want to pick up Maddie and throw her!!!! LOL... (and all of the other kids too!)

More of Maddie...

Madison is over her "tomboy" phase of no jewelry, no cute hair stuff, etc., so.... YAY!!!!! She loves fixing her hair and accessorizing in the mornings for school. Terri has kept us in cute hair flowers for the GRILS!!! (spelling intended!)

What THE... ?!?!?!?!?

Okay, so last Thursday I took Lauren to drop the kids off at school. On the way home we usually talk a little, but mostly sing to the radio. I'm at the rail road tracks at a stop and I hear her say something like "owie" or "Yuck" amongst other words that made me turn to look at her behind me. What I saw was horrifying! She was bleeding and blood was EVERYWHERE!!! All over her arms, face, chest, shirt, pants... I told her it was okay and talked to her until I could pull over. I got out of the car and took her shirt off of her and used it to clean her up a bit and figured out it was a bloody nose. Until that point of course I wondered what the heck! How does your 3 year old get injured and spring blood riding in the car?!?!? She was fine, never freaked out or cried and was even laughing. Very calm! This was her when we got home before going straight into the bath tub... and believe me it was much worse than this before I used the clean part of her shirt to mop her down!

Argghh....

Lauren LOVES to play dress up ALL day long, EVERY DAY! Some day I will do a collage for posterity of just her in all her dress up clothes over the years! This is her being a pirate last week! I believe that she is even MORE dramatic than Kaitlin... and will definitly need to be in the entertainment business when she grows up or she's truly missing her calling!

Mommies Back to School Lunch...

The whole Fam Damily!!!!! (Well,not really... but I wanted to say it!)

Me and Bugga Boo!

Aunt Jade is always smiley!

Lauren 2-spooning her sundae!

Emmy girl, so sweet!

Fun times with FUN CHICKS (and chickees and BOB!)... We ate at California Pizza Kitchen and it was GOOOOOOOD! I love getting together with these girls and it was nice to visit with my little brother as well! I miss all of them when we don't see each other a lot because we are all super busy I know, but it makes the time we do spend together that much better!

Kaitlins Apron...

Here is Kaitlin sporting her new apron she made in Young Womens last week. There is a scripture on it referring to the "hands of God..." and they painted their hands and put them all over the front. She will blog aboout all of the details, but she did SUCH a great job I wanted to post about how GREAT she did!!!!

Along with making this lovely apron, she has set the goals in order to accomplish her first 10 hour project in Divine Nature. She is to learn to make 10 meals that take about an hour each and help serve and clean up afterwards. She's done 2 hours so far, and in the end she will also have to teach Maddie & Daron to make one of the meals and be the teacher for a switch to show what she's learned!

She's such a good girl!

First Day of School 2009...

The whole gang...

The 6th Grader...

The 3rd Grader...

Yo, yo, yo!!!

The 7th Grader...

Last year on the first day of school I was in the hospital because Emmy was born the day before. So Kevin got everyone off to school and lookin good! This year it was my turn and he was out of town on business. Next year I hope we're both here!!!! Anyway, the kids and I had a fun day... we were up, ready and cute, and inthe car at precisely the right time, they had a fun day seeing all of their old friends again and making new friends too, we stopped by Sonic on the way home for Happy Hour slushes and wnet to Fresh & Easy for Nacho fixings for dinner, we had nachos and watched Race to Witch Mountain and then we were in bed on time for day #2!!!! We also have a tradition every year of a special family dinner and Fathers Blessings the night before school starts, so we did that Saturday night before Kevin left out of town Sunday. He's such a wonderful Dad and I am so thankful that he can do this for our kids. Lauren even wanted a blessing this year and was so happy about getting hers! Next year I am seriously taking this tradition to the next level and surprising the kids with some fine tuning thanks to an inspirational Mom out there in blogger world!!! YEAH for the 1st day of school!!!