First Blog Ever

I always get into something at the tail end you know. Like blogging. Now everyone is Twittering, right? Or Tweeting or whatever. I think it's all hype though. Or maybe I am just old and don't get it. I like Facebook though. Especially getting to talk to my favorite niece!! This is really just for the family in case the want to see what's going on with us. And by "us" I mean the grand kids. I would have done this a lot earlier but my sister started a blog one and she's so good at it I was embarrassed to even try. She is seriously that good. I think she could easily write a book and have it be one of the most interesting things I have ever read. Go here http://letsbecrystalclear.blogspot.com/ to read it.
Well we are getting ready to go to yard sales again tomorrow. I think we are addicted to them. Already this year we have gotten a pool table, air hockey table, and foosball table for the garage for $60 total, found Keri a Sponge Bob skateboard for a quarter, gotten the kids countless clothes and plenty of stuff to sell on Ebay. I even found a place that had 15 pair of size 38 wrangler jeans and 4 pair of shorts for $2 each. The lady sold me ALL of them for $3 total. I guess she just wanted to get rid of them. I found about 4 or 5 pair I liked that fit and the rest I am selling on Ebay. We'll make a little money on that deal I think.
They can't all be winners though. We did buy an upright freezer for $50 and it won't get cool enough to use.I should have paid attention to how old it was but I didn't.
Keri, my 8 year old, quit her football team. It was too rough for her but she did really well when she played. . showed dem boys a thing or 2. She also has her last soccer game tomorrow which will be nice because we won't have to stop going to yard sales to go to her games anymore. Well at least not til the fall anyway.I think soccer is gonna be her game. She didn;t score any goals the first season she played and the first 6 games into the second season. Then something clicked and she scored 4 the last 3 games and like 10 last year. I would love to say I taught her but I don't know crap about soccer. We do play sometimes but I sure can't teach her anything. Mahala has started playing volleyball at the YMCA. That's her thing now. She loves it and I think she's gonna try out for the team at school next year. That will be cool. She also plays soccer for Optimist in the Spring an Fall. Just finished her first season. She was very nervous before her first game because here she was 11 years old and never played before. She was afraid she would suck I guess. She scored her first goal less than a minute into that first game (it ended up being her only goal too, but still). After that she was fine!!

Alex is sitting up by herself now and saying dada all the time. I think Bridget teaches the kids this because she KNOWS later on it will be all mama all the time. I love it of course. She is 25 1/2" and 14lbs 2 ounces now and still loves to scream, especially when we try to go out to eat. So we don't muc anymore. So I guess she's actually saving us some money. Might be the first baby ever to do that. Too bad it won't stay that way long. She is finally getting to the point where she will play by herself for longer than 2 minutes at a time so that's a good thing.