Happy Holidays!

Well, Xmas has come and gone in a rush and the new year is only 2 days away. We had a good holiday and hope everybody else did too.

Merry Xmas!

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In the Armpit

Well, we are now in the armpit of TX for a short visit and lots of food. Jarrod has a job offer in Tucson we will probably go check out in the near future. Hope everybody has a great Thanksgiving. I'm off to bake.

Saying the Right Thing

Jack wakes up with a huge hangover after attending his company's Christmas Party. Jack is not normally a drinker, but the drinks went down easy. He didn't even remember how he got home from the party.

Jack had to force himself to open his eyes,... the first thing he sees is a couple of aspirins next to a glass of water on the side table w/a single rose. Jack sits up and sees his clothing in front of him, all clean and pressed. He looks around the room and sees that it is in perfect order. So is the rest of the house.

He takes the aspirins, cringes when he sees a huge black eye staring back at him in the bathroom mirror. Then he notices a note hanging on the corner of the mirror written in red with little hearts on it and a kiss mark from his wife in lipstick:

'Honey, breakfast is on the stove, I left early to get groceries to make you your favorite dinner tonight. I love you, darling! Love, Jillian'
He stumbles to the kitchen and sure enough, there is a hot breakfast, hot coffee and the morning newspaper. His son is also at the table, eating. Jack asks, 'What happened last night?'

'Well, you came home after 3 A.M., drunk and out of your mind. You fell over the coffee table and broke it, and then you puked in the hallway, and got that black eye when you ran into the door.
Confused, he asked his son, 'So, why is everything in such perfect order and so clean? I have a rose, and breakfast is on the table?'

His son replies, 'Oh THAT!.. Mom dragged you to the bedroom, And when she tried to take your pants off, you screamed, 'Leave me alone, I'm married!!'

Broken Coffee Table $239.99
Hot Breakfast $4. 20
Two Aspirins $. 38
Saying the right thing, at the right time . .
PRICELESS

I'm NOT on the snotty list!

Ok, so this is what Mia has been walking around all morning saying. It all started while in Walmart. This is the conversation:
E- I'm being a good helper, so I'm going to get presents from santa.
Me-yes you are, I bet you will be on the good list. Mia (who's been a pill), do you want coal this year or presents?
M- What?
Me- If you're naughty you go on the naughty list and get coal in your stocking instead of presents.
E- You are on the naughty list.
M- I'm NOT on the snotty list.
E- Yes you are.
M- I'm Not on the snotty list.
E- Yes you are. Mommy tell her.
Me- You aren't on the snotty list, but you're going to be on the naughty list is you don't start behaving and being a good helper when we ask.
M- I'm not on the snotty list!!!
This went on for a good 10 minutes as people all around u snickered as we walked by.


Our dog has also gone missing. It has been a week tomorrow. No phone calls or anything. So, Bear we miss you and hope you are somewhere safe.

Happy Bday My Beautiful Baby

It's hard to believe that 3 years ago today I held you for the 1st time. You were such a skinny little thing. Daddy and I were so excited that you were joining our family. Your sisters were excited too! We all love you so much and you are growing up to be such a sweet and beautiful little girl. So, in honor of your third birthday, here are 3 things I just LOVE about you:
1. You are my cuddlebug-you just love to snuggle up with me and play with my hair until you fall asleep and even though it may irritate me sometimes due to the inconvenience of when you might want to play with my hair, I secretly love it.
2. I love your sweet smile and your kind heart
3. I love to watch you play- it is so funny and cute...your imagination is amazing!
As you can see, I love EVERYTHING about you and can't wait to see what this year holds!
Three years ago

Today




Here is a halloween pic for anybody interested

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! Hope everybody had fun today. We sure did. Will post pics soon.
Too tired now =)

Oooh...that chicken

I thought this was pretty good...so I'm sharing-

**Why did the chicken cross the road??**

BARACK OBAMA:
The chicken crossed the road because it was time for a CHANGE! The
chicken wanted CHANGE!

JOHN MC CAIN:
My friends, that chicken crossed the road because he recognized the need
to engage in cooperation and dialogue with all the chickens on the other
side of the road.

SARAH PALIN:
Because it was the Maverick thing to do.

HILLARY CLINTON:
When I was First Lady, I personally helped that little chicken to cross
the road. This experience makes me uniquely qualified to ensure -- right
from Day One! -- that every chicken in this country gets the chance it
deserves to cross the road. But then, this really isn't about me.......

DR. PHIL:
The problem we have here is that this chicken won't realize that he must
first deal with the problem on 'THIS' side of the road before it goes
after the problem on the 'OTHER SIDE' of the road. What we need to do is
help him realize how stupid he's acting by not taking on his 'CURRENT'
problems before adding 'NEW' problems.

OPRAH:
Well, I understand that the chicken is having problems, which is why he
wants to cross this road so bad. So instead of having the chicken learn
from his mistakes and take falls, which is a part of life, I'm going to
give this chicken a car so that he can just drive across the road and
not live his life like the rest of the chickens.

GEORGE W. BUSH:
We don't really care why the chicken crossed the road. We just want to
know if the chicken is on our side of the road, or not! The chicken is
either for us, or against us. There is no middle ground here...

COLIN POWELL:
Now to the left of the screen, you can clearly see the satellite image
of the chicken crossing the road...

ANDERSON COOPER - CNN:
We have reason to believe there is a chicken, but we have not yet been
allowed to have access to the other side of the road.

JOHN KERRY:
Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it!
It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's
intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.

NANCY GRACE:
That chicken crossed the road because he's GUILTY! You can see it in his
eyes and the way he walks.

PAT BUCHANAN:
To steal the job of a decent, hardworking American!

DR SEUSS:
Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes, the
chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY:
To die in the rain. Alone.

GRANDPA:
In my day we didn't ask why the chicken crossed the road. Somebody told
us the chicken crossed the road, and that was good enough.

BILL GATES:
I have just released eChicken2007, which will not only cross roads, but
will lay eggs, file your important documents, and balance your check
book. Internet Explorer is an integral part of eChicken. This new
platform is much more stable and will never cra...#@&&^(C%......
......... reboot.

ALBERT EINSTEIN:
Did the chicken really cross the road, or did the road move beneath the
chicken ?

BILL CLINTON:
I did not cross the road with THAT chicken. What is your definition of
chicken?

AL GORE:
I invented the chicken!

COLONEL SANDERS:
Did I miss one?

DICK CHENEY:
Where's my gun?

I'm running for office!

Since I'm not too happy with my choices I thought I'd run myself.

Emma's 5!!!!

Well, today my little Emmabird turns 5. She is growing up so fast (too fast if you ask me). Her present from me and Daddy was getting her ears pierced. She was a big girl and didn't cry one bit. They put the dots on her ears, shot the earrings in and all she did was cover up her ears after to make sure they weren't going to touch her again. She picked out some pretty CZ flower earrings.


Emma,
On your birthday I just want you to know how much Mommy and Daddy love you. You are a very sweet and kind girl. You are constantly cracking us up. We love watching you grow into such a beautiful and special girl. You will always be our little Emmabird...no matter how big you get! We love you and hope you have a very happy 5th birthday!

Hallelujah!

Ok, so pre-school has started and regular school started awhile ago. YAY! Everyone is getting back into our normal flow-which is sooo nice. I look forward to preschool for 2 reasons (well, maybe 3).
1. My kids get to see their old friends and make new ones
2. I get to teach some cute kiddos (which I love!)
3. I get to see other adults that I can talk to about anything
(and they are all good, christian women)

I know what you're thinking-How can you like teaching all those crying, screaming little kids? The answer is simple- They're not mine. While my own kids drive me crazy with the yelling and whining, these kids go home at the end of the day and do that to their own parents. Their parents get a break, I get a break and I get to teach some kids (that may not get any of the stuff I have to offer them anywhere else). They learn life skills and many other things from me that I'm sure their parents teach/try to teach them, but if they're like my kids they won't listen to their parents. So, I LOVE SCHOOL!

Pot Brownies-Soooo Funny!

Check out this dummy. You need your volume all the way up.

Wow....

It has been an eventful few weeks here at the Fancher house. Here's the list of events-
1. we got home from our week off and our a/c was out, so we got a few more hotel days since it was so hot here (it was 105 the day we got back). We are now recommending Pearson Mechanical for anyone that needs a/c stuff. They are awesome!
2. Jarrod makes the announcement that he will no longer be a chiropractor. So, we spent a week telling patients the sad news.(we pretty much told our second family good bye...it was hard)
3. Emma is now on the gymnastics team.
4. Our car died and needed $700 worth of repairs.(we did get a really cool rental-a dodge ram...we were sad to see it go)
5. Right before team practice E decides to fall off the couch&chair she was playing on and smash her front tooth. Tooth went back&root came out. We had to do an emergency dentist trip to get it pulled and they even had to take off some gum. (I know, thank goodness we never let her see what it looked like before they pulled it)

So, now we are trying to figure out what the next step is. Pray for us.....for our health, life, stability, clarity, everything.

I attached some pics of Emma's tooth

Gymnast

Emma has been doing gymnastics for almost a year and they just asked her to be on the team. She was so excited! I am so proud of her. She will get to do meets and she gets a cool team leo and competition gear. She also had a team sleepover yesterday. They started at 8, she called around 9:30 sad so I went up there, but she was ok and she told me to go home. When she got picked up we found out she stayed up all night and played with the big kids. The other little ones fell asleep.

Hello Dolly!

Well, the rain and wind have been crazy. But, now the sun is shining a little bit. So, Jarrod, Natalie, Poppie and the girls have all gone to walk on the beach. Looks like we're out of the woods so far. Just some rain and some wind.

Dolly's Comin'

Well, we haven't been up that long (or atleast I haven't). The wind howled all night, but when I got up it was just sprinkling and thundering, but by the time I got downsatirs it was pouring. Kaitlyn and Jarrod just left to go down to the boardwalk and see how high the water was today. Yesterday I got a pic of it hitting about 3 feet off the end of he boardwalk. Yesterday half the people at the condos checked out and left. There are about 10 cars in the parking lot. I'll post more later today.
The little white specs in the pic are Kaitlyn and Jarrod. They just got back-it started pouring and they are soaked.

more pics

It would only post two pics, so here are a couple more.

More Beach

Today we went down to the beach around 10:30 and stayed for about 2hrs. Since Dolly is on her way low tide today ended up being higher up on the beach than yesterday, so our stuff ended up almost underwater by the time we were leaving. So, we went to the pool for a little while and now we're relaxing. I'll attach some pics. The girls are having a great time and every time we go to the beach "the boy" sleeps through it. I'll post some pics of the storm tomorrow.

Life's a Beach!

Well, we are on our first ever family vacation. My Dad has brought us all down to Port Aransas for a week of beach living. My family (all 6 of us) are here with my Dad, Grandma and my sister and her daughter. They youngest 3 kids have never seen a beach before (other than on tv) and the oldest was too young to really remember. Emma asked Jarrod before we got here if she found a coconut on the beach would he cut it open so she could drink the milk out of it. We also caught a bunch of hermit crabs. We just stuck our hands down in the sand and they were there. I think we got 7 of them. I am going to try and post a family pic. Hope it works!

Summer is HERE!

Well, I am officially not good at this blogging thing. So, looks like I posted last in April. So, here goes nothing-
May: Kaitlyn turned 9!! Preschool ended (I will now be teaching 2's)...politics, politics but's that's a whole nother story. June: teaching swim lessons for some families, been doing a lot at the library with the kids, VBS was awesome and we had so much fun! The heat is killing us though- come to fnd out that the crazy heat has something to do with global warming and when I looked up info on that a NASA scientist told Congress just recently that we need to get rid of coal power plants and do more environmentally VERY QUICKLY b/c within the next 2 decades (20 Yrs!!!) or there will be mass extinctions and lots of other things. That's SCARY considering it is still in OUR lifetime. Oh and I make my own baby food now. Which I could kick myself for not doing it with the other 3 kids. It is so easy and so much cheaper than buying jars. Well, I'll update more later.

Funny Things Kids Do.....

Well, I've been thinking back on the funny things my kiddos do. I have one "rockstar" who listens to her iPod as loud as possible and sings as loud as possible (and off key) to it while reading "quietly" in her room. I have another one that I will never take to the bathroom in a public place (atleast not Babe's anyway) because as I was sitting there waiting for her to finish doing her thing she started grunting and groaning (in a full RR mind you) and when I asked what was wrong her exact words were, "I'm trying to poop!". No one in the RR would look me in the eye after that, but I couldn't help but crack up. Then the little one that just loves Jesus so much. As Daddy tells them all these stories (almost always Bible stories) while we drive she pays close attention. He had just finished telling the one about when Peter cuts off the guys ear and Jesus healed him. Well, she was so distraught because she thought Peter cut off Jesus' ear. For days she went around talking about Jesus' ear and after 2 days we finally got her to believe it was someone else's ear, so now she goes around touching her ear going, "it wasn't Jesus it was somebody else". She and her middle sister also go around fighting over whether or not Jesus is dead. This was an especially exciting argument during Easter. My kids crack me up, so I'll have to keep updating with the crazy things they do.

Pics and bows

Well, Thursday we went to the Grapevine Botanical Gradens and had family pictures taken. Paige took them and if you haven't checked out her website yet, you should because she takes awesome pictures and she is very reasonably priced. She put some teaser photos on her photoblog and the pics look great!
I also teach with a very nice lady (Nicole) who is starting a business selling hair bows and really cute shirts and stuff. Her link is on my blog as pretty bows and things. You should check out her website too.
These are 2 great SAHM that make great high quality stuff and you should definitley check them out. Piage's photography site has a link too.

It's been so long....

I really stink at this whole blog thing. But, one of my goals is to keep up with it from now on. It's been so long since my last blog I should update everybody-
Ok, so Jude was born Jan. 1st he is adorable and the girls just love him so much. We still haven't figured out which one of us he looks like, but people say Daddy (I of course think me). I am back at pre-school. I missed it a lot the 6 weeks I was out. I just love those kiddos and the group of women I teach with are great! I potty trained Mia yesterday. I used the book Toilet Training in Less Than a Day. It was great, she still has a few accidents every once and awhile when she gets pre-occupied, but other than that she's great. She went all night without wetting the bed. So, I will be recommending that book to everyone I know. I don't know why everybody doesn't already know about it. It's like the best kept secret. Well, now you are all pretty much up to date.