Going Home

We are on our way home from the good ol' town of Burley and after a few days of running into old friends, chatting with relatives, rearranging parts of my parent's home, standing in line at Wal-Mart at 4 in the morning, a tour of my grandpa Beck's and Grandma Mimi's (different sides of the family) old college, and constantly worrying about the list that I have been compiling over and over again in my head of things that need to be done when I get home, we are on our way back to the land of Moses Lake. Traveling in the car with Stephen reading his usual magazine while driving and both my babies sleeping I am taking this time to once again fret over the things that need to get done when I get home. :)
we had a fun time with family and worked in a few chores while at it. Thanksgiving dinner was delicious as usual, at Grandma Mimi's house, but once again missing a main ingredient of Papa Doodle. My uncle Al (owns a good Pizza Shoppe in Burley, seriously best pizza ever and I'm not just saying that, I actually crave it) was making fun of my little brother about this big watch that he was wearing and he said, "yeah, you're like Doodle!" and I thought that was the best compliment I had heard from him in a long time. (He's a pretty sarcastic guy :) I don't like not having Papa Doodle sitting in his chair. We were also missing Tim and Debbie and family, Kortni, Jakobi didn't come until way later and Brit and her family as well. So for the actual dinner family was quite sparse, but we had some good conversation and just sat and looked at "black friday" ads. Stephen had a great idea on Friday to take my Grandpa Beck and tour the old Albion College where he went to school in 1929-31. My Grandma Mimi also attended school there, but she was not able to go out there with us. It was fun to wheel grandpa around the old grounds and walk into the buildings and hear his stories. They have renovated one of the buildings and it is really nice, but the rest are really run down and actually quite dangerous with rotting floors and spray painted hallways. There are not working lights, but we grabbed a flash light and took grandpa into the old gym. He told us that he worked as the janitor for that building and the women's dean would always get him in trouble by running her finger along the floor and showing all the dust he missed. There was a pile of the old floor boards in a corner and I grabbed some and hope to make him a frame with his graduation picture in it. My Gpa Beck had surgery on his cataracts and can see a lot better now. Beck (who is named after Grandpa Beck) went up to him in his wheel chair and just kept saying, "hi, Grandpa," and holding his hand. Talk about tear jerker. Grandpa actually called the next day and wanted to talk to Beck, but he was napping. he told me to tell him that he had "made his day." Watching my Grandpa like that is hard. He's 98 and yes, still kicking, but when our Papa Doodle passed away, it was a shocker to me and I wasn't ready, so I hate to leave and think of how that could be that last time.... My dad and Uncle go and stay with him back and forth, and I am not there to see him change to his ups and downs on a daily basis, so I can only imagine how my family there watches it happen.
Okay, enough of a depresser. :) My nephews are all getting big, Broxton, who is a month older than Pais, has been crawling and now walking along furniture, daredevil of a guy! My parents got a big ol plasma TV that my sister, Jakobi wrestled out of some people's hands at wal-Mart and I had a crazy experience tracking down the $30 Leapster that I wanted to get Beck for his birthday. I walked right past them in the mad rush and then found one, bought it and it was the wrong one ($70, newer version) so i took it back and while in line found another one, the right one, in the return cart, but was ringing up wrong because it was not the "blitz" item, so I left disappointed, but had to return because I lost my phone, left it at the customer service counter, and decided to talk the manager into giving me the non "blitz" leapster for the "blitz" price because it was the same one and I over heard them saying that they had honored it to other customers, so in the end I did get that silly Leapster! (hand held electronic game) Holiday was good, I love to see my family and I ran into some old friends, I got to go shopping! whoo hoo! and Paisley didn't have any teeth come in, so I am counting it as a success. :)
Wal-Mart Black Friday shopping!

Thankful

Dia de Gracias! Thanksgiving is tomorrow and I gotta do the "I am thankful for stuff," so I will just write a little list:

1) My family, including my smart, always thinking husband, and cute, mostly smiling children

2) My home, I feel as though my house is my home, I have everything I need there (as long as Stephen is home from work! :)

3) rainy days, it seems I have always loved the gloomy days, I love to stay home and keep the curtains closed with the lights all off or dim and just cuddle up with my babies and cook something in a crock pot and listen to the rain outside

4) My hobbies, they really keep me sane and happy, always keeping my hands and mind busy

5) internet, keeping connected with friends and family and finding answers to my questions at the click of a mouse

Happy Thanksgiving to all and I pray that it is a happy and safe one!

On the Road Again

we are in the car again heading to Burley for Turkey day. Having just spent the week in Othello it feels as though there is no stopping, I unpacked and repacked and taught school this morning and here we go. I actually made my sister Jakobi a quilt (and finished it!) so I can count it as my very first quilt! I am still working on the Twin size one for Paisley. I will put pictures up later, not the most perfect quilt, but I was pretty proud.... Paisley has been quite cranky lately, well, cranky for her, she really is quite an angel baby, knock on wood. Beck got his first tooth at 8 months and she will be 8 months in a little over a week, so we'll see what this trip brings. She loves to be carried around and she loves her little "puffs" treats and these biter biscuit things. Anything food is great and she's done with the blah tasting oatmeal and rice cereal. Pais always tries to grab at everyone's food and hair/clothes/jewelry. She has us all wrapped around her little finger. Beck is talking up a storm and everything in the world dealing with horse/cars/vroom vrooms in mine, and don't you dare try and take it away from him. He has mastered the art of the tantrum, but still remains to be pretty cute. He has quite a strut too and this little run that he does when he is running away from you where he slyly looks back to see if he's gonna get caught. He does it all the time escaping from my preschool class. He's also convinced that he owns the gym. His best friends are his cousins Piper and Alizah and also his cousin Ashton, whom he calls Kashton.
I love the fact that we can use Stephen's lap top and in the internet while driving in a car! Who would have thought? I remember my computer class in the 9th grade and my teacher Mr. Waites was describing the "World Wide Web." I thought he was crazy! The only way he could describe it was like accessing all the information in the world and connecting with people through computers instantly. I thought, "why not just call them?" haha! And now my nephew, Taryn, has introduced me to "prediction text." and man, my texting from my phone has increased quite a bit, now that I don't have to hit the button 3 times to get an "s." Pretty sweet if ya ask me! Well, we are now almost to Burley and Pais is sick of me ignoring her, so Happy Turkey Day everyone!

Twilight

Twilight the movie, worth every penny, flutter of my heart, $4.00 for medium Mountain Dew, and Paisley fussing through most of it, but worth every part..... I haven't seen a movie this good in a long time. When it was drawing nearer to the end I was actually upset because I knew that it was going to be over soon. I thought, "ah man, I gotta leave this theatre and go back to real life?" Then I thought, "hey, I'll make my life as good as I think that Twilight is." No, I am not going to creep into the night and act like a vampire, but I am going to try and make my life better like I think the movies are. Don't get me wrong, I live a great life. I really do have a great husband and awesome kids, but you know how you are watching a movie and then it ends and you're like, "what? this isn't real life?" Well, that's how I felt yet again tonight as the ending credits came on, so here's to Korbi's new life, "sewing, opportunity grabbing, rolling on the floor laughing, making my kids smile, and my hubby grin, doing my hair and wearing make-up to help myself feel better and buying the expensive shampoo and all with a vampire twist." What do ya think? :)

Be prepared for MAJOR cuteness!

Beck (2 1/2 yrs) and Paisley (7 months) got their pics taken a week ago by Jenn Olson at the preschool. This is actually a first where Beck was getting a real school picture taken (even though he's still too young to be in the class (my class) he is actually enrolled!) Aren't they the best pics ever?? Man, as puffed up as it sounds, I've got some good lookin kids. :) Proud? yes....

Phone update

So Stephen just called the house I am staying at and informed me that my new phone has finally arrived! Yeah for me! After I get Beck and Pais ready we will head in and get it. I picked out a cute green one. :) And also today is our last day out here in Othello, My sis-in-law and her hubby return home in the wee hours of the morning. We have a bunch of stuff to do before we take off again on Monday night for Idaho. ( I think that we are leaving Monday) Hard to believe that Thanksgiving is here, and I am excited to see my family again even though we just saw them a few weeks ago for my nephew Bridger's baptism. Some more news: My twin sister Jakobi is having a GIRL! So I whipped out the top of a quilt for her new little one and hopefully I can at least get it put together before we take off. I still haven't finished my "first" one for Paisley, but that's what I get for my first one being a Twin size. I am slowly and surely doing the meandering on it and hopefully it will be done before she actually grows into it! I also had some fun out here making me some grocery bags. Poor Mary's house shows for my ignoring it as I sewed away. Like I have stated before, this was like my mini vacation! Although Beck is a little monster and would not stop attacking all of his cousins..... :)