So I was educated today

My brother called me today to let me know that once you start a blog, you have to keep writing new posts on it. I told you I was new at this. OOOOOHHH......you write new posts on it every now and then......reealllly........some people write daily. Okay, now I get it. I'm not sure if I have an interesting enough life to maintain a blog, but I'll give it my best shot.

Chloe is toothless. Her two front teeth - GONE. The teeth on either side of her two bottom center teeth - GONE. We are temporarily not buying any apples for the kids to eat.

Tate is at his first school dance. I'll have to let you know how it went because he is literally at the dance right now. It's from 2:30-4:00 which I think is extremely odd. Swimming is over now, but I'm proud of Tate for trying something new and he did very well in it.

Mason has been doing a lot of 'hanging out with friends'. Unfortunately for him, I put a limit on it cause it was getting out of control. He's being pretty pouty about not having his driver's license yet. Doesn't seem like it's that big a deal to me, but I'm not a dude so I guess I don't understand. "All his friends already have theirs!" So I'm certain he has a right to be upset.

Today is the one week anniversary of my quitting smoking. This calls for CAKE! Still no exercise or healthy eating yet, obviously :) Oh, but I must be on my way to healthy eating because last night I had popcorn for a snack!

Steve is still exercising and now there is talk of buying a scale. I really don't want one, because before Chloe broke our other one I became a little obsessive about it. I much prefer to live happily in ignorant bliss of my exact weight. He hasn't quit smoking yet, but he has cut WAY down and I'm sure soon he will stop altogether.

I realized today when talking to Mike that my new puppy Clover has not been properly introduced to everyone. So, making her internet debut is my poodle, CLOVER. I never fancied myself a poodle person before, but I really love the 'no shedding' and she's a pretty clever girl with a sweet personality.

I'm going to try to add pictures, we'll see how that goes. Just in case I can't do it, one is of Clover so you can see how cute she is and one is of Chloe jumping on the trampoline. It's a little fuzzy, but if you don't see any teeth in her mouth, you don't have to adjust your monitor, it's cause they're not there. Oh yeah, we got a trampoline. The kids have been having a lot of fun on it. Chloe has fun just jumping with her friends, Savannah & Sloane. Tate can do front flips and back flips and Mason learned one trick that's kinda hard to describe. Oh, and Emo, Mangnay, Shelly, Sloane & Ryder came over on Sunday and I discovered that Mangnay doesn't know how to jump. Really, she can't jump right but she spent a long time trying. My stomach hurt from laughing so hard. I think that she just didn't want to go up because she's scared of heights, but then that sort of defeats the purpose of jumping on a trampoline.

So you might be wondering why we got a trampoline and if not I'm gonna tell you anyway. At the beginning of the summer we bought a swimming pool for the kids. I thought it would be great because they all love to swim and it gets pretty hot here in the summer. Yeah, pretty hot, just not hot enough to warm up the water in the pool. Not such a good idea after all. It was almost mean, because as I stated before the kids really love to swim, and there was a pool, right in our own backyard, full of sparkling water........that was way too cold to swim in. They would torture themselves for 5-10 minutes at a time, basically get in, shiver and shake until they couldn't take it anymore and then get out. Well during the same time that we got the pool, we also sodded the yard. We sodded around the pool. So, when the pool was removed there was a large circle of no grass. So, now we have a trampoline!