Playing catch up

We are back from Nascar and Disney. Still feel like I need more time to get everything back on track. I think it is harder to recover from a mini vacation when you have multiple commitments to come home to in addition to school and work. An extra one of me would be nice so I can cover all my bases to make everyone happy. Oh well what are you gonna do? For now I am just gonna keep on trucking. Here are a few pics from our vacation.












I hope all my crickets have been doing well. I will post a couple of the Nascar pics in the next post. Until the next time....

It's Fall

And you know what that means! Cooler weather, pumpkins, baking goodies, trick or treating. Last weekend Jeff and I took the kids to the pumpkin patch. Figured it was our only free weekend of the month. We weren't there long, but we got our tractor ride out to the field so they could pick out the perfect pumpkin...





It was a treat having Jeff join us to pick pumpkins because he doesn't normally go. If you know Jeff, crowds are not his thing. He got himself a treat at the pumpkin patch as well. Our local patch is a big farm that sells all kinds of stuff. We bought some jalepenos and tomotoes among other things. I came home and made an awesome batch of homemade salsa. I think he could live off chips and salsa if he had to. Then I made two batches of Zucchini bread. That didn't last long. They ate it up. Still have a bunch of zucchini left so I might make a few more loafs. I hope you all are enjoying fall.

Growing way too fast

Well Happy Friday my Crickets. Hope you had a great week. I get to end my week with a hair appointment. Nothing better than spending a few moments on yourself. Go treat yourself to a Mani or pedi! Those are always worth every penny.

Speaking of hair, Jamie's hair has gotten so long and she will not cut it for anything. She actually learned how to put her hair into a pony tail in the last couple of weeks. Not sure how she figured that out. I didn't teach her. I came home from work and she said "look Mommy, I can do my own ponytail". How pathetic is it that this moment made me so proud. Must be because she is a girl and she is my baby and she is growing up so so fast. Her 6th birthday is creeping up on me. I don't like that.

It's funny the little thing's that make you proud of your kids. And the differences between what things make you proud with a boy vs a girl are crazy. Obviously I wouldn't get excited if my son proudly announced he could put his hair in a ponytail. His ponytail moment was probably more like learning to tie his shoes when he was little. However he now feels like he doesn't need to tie/untie them when he wears them. I blame his Dad for that one. Jamie hasn't accomplished this little milestone yet, but she doesn't really own shoes that have laces. She is all girl and wants super girly shoes. Girls are all about slip ons and buckles.

I leave you with a pic of Jamie from her first day of Kindergarten. Yes my baby is in big girl school and she loves every minute of it. I will post more on that on another day.


You see how long it is? Jamie and Ashley before they got on the bus

Celebrate Good Times Come On!

So Jeff and I recently celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary. We went from this 09/04/99



To This, with a couple cute kids in between. 09/04/09



As it turns out Marriage is nothing like what I thought it would be, it's even better. I've learned alot about life and love these last ten years and glad that it was Jeff that I have learned with. I would like to think he has learned a few things about life and love as well. All I know is that after 10 years he finally learned how to cook. So I guess I will keep him around for another 10 years or so.

So for our Anniversary which lands on Labor Day Weekend every year, we headed to Tahoe for a couple days. Jeff's grandma got us a free room at Harrah's overlooking the lake. We spent the next four days hanging out at the pool, hiking and getting a little gambling done. We even managed to win a little bit. What we won covered any expenses we did have. Stephanie and Jason came up and met us on our annivesary and we went out for a nice 3 course meal. It was worth every penny. Trying to figure out when I can get him to go back. Maybe since we won a little and he enjoyed himself that maybe I can convince him to head to Vegas. That would be nice now that he got the gamblinng bug back. If you don't know Jeff he is more than happy to watch me gamble and not play himself. THAT is not fun, at least not for me. So now that he wants to play his own machine, Vegas sounds like a lot more fun.

So that's it for now. More updates to come.

Ok starting off small

I've been thinking for awhile now about my blog. I knew that it was in need of some serious attention. I had even considered just taking it down. I originally started this blog when I was busy scrapping all the time. Work however has kinda made scrapping hard. Not to mention that I now have two kids who are involved with school and sports. Blogging and scrapping have been pushed to the bottom of the priority barrell. I have this horrible habit of starting stuff, being super hooked on whatever it may be and then I fizzle out. I find something new and sparkly to get my attention. I always thought I had a great attention span, always finished what I started, however after 30+ years I am starting to think otherwise. I guess knowing that is a good step in the right direction. Yea whatever...

SO here I am, updating you about myself. I have decided to change the blog from a scrapping blog to a all thing's Pealer blog. Or maybe I should say I am updating myself. It's been so long since I updated all I hear are crickets around here. Here 'em?

Ok, now that I got all that crap out of the way... An actual update about what is up with the Pealer Family. Yesterday was my Sister-in-Law's Birthday. She is busy celebrating in San Diego with her man. Tomorrow is MY man's Birthday. Jeff gets to celebrate his birthday with the kids soccer games and Pizza. He already got himself a shiny new toy to play with. We bought a new PS3 last weekend for his birthday. Then we continue the party on Sunday with a softball double-header aka party time.

I think I will leave off here. Don't want to bore all you, who ever may be reading with too long a post. Have a great weekend crickets. Chirp Chirp..

Uh Oh....

I think our computer at home has bit the dust finally. Jeff still has his laptop but our desktop I think finally burnt out last night. So we will have to figure something out soon. Most of my pics and music are on my external HD so that is good. Sure glad we bought one.

Anyways on to other news. Jeffrey's team won their game last night. Only the 3rd one this year in the W column for us. At this level it doesn't really matter much, But it is nice to see the boys excited because they won. Usually they go home bummed. I could get carried away about youth sports and how they are managed but I won't.

Thought I would share with you one of Jamie's new favorite songs. Well the song is NOT new but it is to her. Every time we are in the office she wants me to play it. One of these days I hope to catch her singing it. Enjoy

Burning Up!

This last weekend was super hot here. Jeff said we reached 107 yesterday. Not sure if that is correct but it sure felt like it. Our pool jumped 4 degrees from Saturday to Sunday. Saturday started off with Jamie's T-ball game. The helmets are so big for her little head that she has to run holding on to the helmet so it doesn't fall. Here is a little video of her first hit at a T-ball game a couple of weeks ago.



She loves playing ball. How cute is she??



Jeffrey got to compete in a program called the Pitch, Hit, Run Contest. This is a MLB related event. Basically he competed against other kids his age in pitching, hitting and running. He advanced from out local little league to the sectionals which were held this last weekend. He did a great job but I don't think enough to advance to the next round. Some lucky kid will get to go compete at the SF Giants ballpark. Sure seems like my life revolves around baseball at the moment. I hope you all had a great weekend.