Day One

Today we attended Erik’s football game.  Thank you to Krissy & her family for coming out to help me with Saige & Alex.  This was definitely an interesting game with the snack bar attempting to charge Jackie $7 for Nachos.  Unfortunately, Erik’s team did not win, but having fun is the most important part.  Saige entertained herself by running up & down the handicap ramp for the entire time that we were there.  Luckily she only tried to run out onto the field once.  Both Saige & Alex fell asleep on the way home from the game, and slept for about 2 hours after we put them in bed.

Both Saige & Alex are now awake as we attempt to pack up the van so that we can all drive to Prescott to visit Tom.  Saige being the Daddy’s girl that she is, will be very excited once we get there.  My phrase of the day is “if you can catch a baby, change it”. 

We have all arrived in Prescott!!  I discovered that 75 is far too fast for a speed limit especially when to the left it appears I’m going to fall off the side of the earth.  As always when going anywhere with the kids it was an eventful drive.  First, we had to pull off so Erik could use the bathroom.  This must be a boy thing of seeing how far into the empty desert he could pee.  I do have to admit I laughed about it for like 5 minutes.  Our timing was perfect, we arrived at my mom’s condo about 2 minutes ahead of Tom getting here from work.  The weather here is perfect and what I have been waiting for a month to have in Phoenix. 

On our drive into town I discovered that there really isn’t anything up here.  It will be an interesting transition from Phoenix.  Though, I am looking forward to a slower more relaxed way of life.  Maybe it will force us all to slow down a bit.

We are all here now and happy to have the whole family together. 

Home Alone with 4 Kids for 2 Months

So Tom got a job up in Prescott, AZ, which is about 1.5 hours North of us.  Luckily for us my mom owns a condo up there where he can stay.  We do plan to move the whole clan up there, but I want to wait for the school semester to end for Erik & Jackie and for Erik to finish off the football season that he has started.  So in the meantime I will be down in Phoenix with the kids and Tom will be staying in Prescott.  We plan to go up or have Tom come down as much as possible.  But in the meantime it will be an interesting adventure for me and the kids as we do school, work & the demanding football season.  My plan is to blog once a day until we all move this December.  Follow me to see what it is that the kids can get into and at what point I really throw my hands up and say "if they aren't hurting themselves or someone else I really don't care."  I'm hoping that this will help me keep my sense of humor as I attempt to be a "Single Mom of 4" for the next couple of months.

Being Married To A Chef Has It’s Advantages

Being married to an Executive Chef definitely has it’s advantages.  For one leftovers take on a whole new meaning.  Take a guess at the ingredients of tonight's meal and we will send you the complete list.  More to come as to what is done to complete the meal.

Send your guesses, whoever get’s the most correct by 7:00 PM tonight gets the whole list of ingredients.  We will post more as the dish progresses for more info on the dish.

Back to School

So with the “Big Kids” all going back to school we had Saige wanted to go as well.  So yesterday we did what every girl loves to do.  We went Shoe Shopping.  Not only did she get the shoes that she desperately needed, she also got flip flops, a back pack and “Cool” sunglasses to complete the outfit.  Payless is have a great sale of buy one get one half off literally everything in the sore.
She is almost ready to go
She is now complete and ready to get in the bike trailer and head to school.

What's For Dinnter? Sushi!!

There is a great new Sushi restaurant that opened to the public yesterday so Tom & decided to take a trip with Saige & Alex.  Considering Saige will eat anything put in front of her, it was really no surprise that she would Sushi.  We all had a great time as you can see from the pics below.

Waiting patiently

Coloring while she waits

She loved the sushi one she figured out it was edible

Saige even shared her rice with Alex

Saige loved the chopsticks

Day 1 of just Saige & Alex

So with Erik & Jackie in Prescott for the week, Saige is now the "Big" sister in the house and decided to teach Alex how to properly watch a movie.  They decided Monsters Inc was it and intently watched at least half of it.

Saige Teaching Alex how it's done

My Challenge!

With Erik & Jackie on their annual trip to Prescott this week, I am going to challenge myself to take as many pictures of Saige & Alex as I can and to post at least one funny new thing that they have each done each day, and the lessoned learned.

Wish me luck and stay posted.  With a 20mth old and 7mth old this could get interesting!