The Strasser's

Well the phone is working, and probably my luck I will end up finding the phone, and I was looking for a week and no luck. Unless it is really gone.

Well I searched this morning and no luck on finding the cell phone. Now I am having troubles transferring over the phone number to the new phone. It's so hard not having a phone and Cory I believe has the other phone with him today. I need this working because it is the number that everyone has. I won't have everyone's phone number now so, everyone send me a message via email or facebook so I can add it to the phone.

Well our cell phone has been missing for a week now. I have been looking lots and haven't found it. I am going to do some more looking this morning and if I can't find it I am replacing it. So if anyone has been trying to get a hold of us you now know what is going on. It's very frustrating that it is missing.

We celebrated Shar's (my mother-in-law) birthday on Monday, her birthday was actually last Friday. She is now 54 years old. This was the first time I made a two layer round cake. As you can tell I was starting to run out of room when I was writing birthday. But it still looked good and also tasted pretty good also. I made a red velvet cake with butter cream frosting. I was going to make red frosting but couldn't find the red and ended up making pink instead.

Ok so I went back and forth from not having this a private blog to having it public. I have fully decided to make this a private blog. It's something I have been contemplating for sometime, and I felt it needed to be done.

There is nothing much to talk about. I have been trying to keep busy (trying to earn money, cleaning the house etc.). I haven't really been outside because if it being cold and sometimes I am ok with going outside and playing, but is has been cold, windy, and raining. It did snow last week, and by the time the kids were up and ready at 9:30 the snow was basically all melted. So with the little bit of snow we actually had, which wasn't much, we threw a couple of snowballs. So no pictures! Maybe we can make a trip to the snow some time. I have been feeling crafty, I have been wanting to sew a bag, and make some ties and sew them to white onesies for Evan for church or just for everyday. Because he looks pretty cute in them. Cory's been busy with school. I also thought I would get in one last post before February was over with. I can't believe that two months are gone out of the year already. Time has flew. So we haven't been up to much.

Well after much consideration, we ended up getting a mattress yesterday. We have never really had a new mattress, because of money. So we bought one yesterday. I am so excited because it is a nice one. Our mattress now is not so great. We both have sore backs when we wake up, you can feel the springs.  I helped Cory with a project for his classroom. I painted Popsicle sticks. Since he only teaches two classes I colored coded them red and blue, 35 each color. And I wrote the kids name on the sticks for each class. I think it will help him learn there names. He wanted to also keep their attention. I hope they work, it was the first day today. I have kind of working with Owen on the potty training I haven't gotten big results yet. I just don't like to have two in diapers. So hopefully soon I can catch him before he does and I think once I get him to go into potty chair or toilet he will understand it a little better. Especially with the delayed talking that we have been having...

I have gotten back into the coupon clipping again.....Saturday I went to Fred Meyer because I needed a couple of things. And they had toothpaste on sale for $1.00, and I had 6 coupons of that brand and they were actually going to expire on Saturday so I ended up using them. I spent 1.50 on 6 things of toothpaste. It was exciting to get toothpaste for $.25 each. Now we have toothpaste for a LONG time now!!

It was hailing now the sun is out some again. The sky light in the kitchen

So the past few weeks have been pretty hectic at our house. Monday and Tuesday's are two of the busiest days in the week. Cory has been student teaching for a couple of weeks now. He wakes up between 5:00-5:30 and leaves about 7:00. Than doesn't get home until about 9-9:30 at night. Today is the start of week 3, it seems like it has been longer than that. Well to start off week 3 one of his teachers was going in the classroom to observe and see how he is doing. I can't wait to hear what his teacher says about his progress. Actually there was a problem last week there was a girl in the class that cheated on a test and he was very upset with him self because he thought it was his fault he didn't catch it, his mentor teacher said it wasn't his fault and shouldn't be blaming himself. The girl got in trouble and Cory is going to be tutoring her now, and her mom is staying on top of her grades.

My husband brought me home a rose for Valentine's Day and a card. He is such a wonderful man. I love him LOTS!!!

Well it was a pretty good day today. I cleaned the house and spent some time with kids. We gave the kids a stuffed animal, and a thing of sweethearts, Alyssa got a horse with wings and I found a Mickey that had a stuffed heart sewed to it so I took a seam ripper to it and got the heart off, and gave it to Owen. I gave Cory a box of Willy Wonka chocolates and the movie the Grown Ups. Evan got a onesie that says "Prince Charming" on it. I will try to get a picture of him in it. We had the heart shaped pizza for dinner. After Cory's sister came over with her family, and his brother's family, and we had fondue. It was really yummy.  And we also had FHE.

Alyssa said to me "I think you should have three more kids".  A while ago she said I need to have one more girl so she can have a sister.

I think I have found something to try with Alyssa, so I can get her to help more. I think that it will work better when Owen is older but I think I might try this with her now and change it a little bit. http://nieniedialogues.blogspot.com/2011/01/job-balls.html

So we decided to do something we haven't done  in a long time, and we had lots of fun! Owen getting ready to throw the ball  Evan playing in his carseat Yes he did knock that last pin down! I believe she got those last two also! Ending Scores were: Alyssa : 96 Owen: 98 Me: 101 Cory: 98

Got some pictures of Evan now that he is a rolling baby now.

Yesterday I took the great mama to run errands with me. She offered to buy lunch, So I started asking Alyssa: Me: "Alyssa what would you like for lunch" A: " I want nachos" Me: "Where do you get nachos from?" A: "Taco Bell" Me: "Well how do you get to Taco Bell" A: "Your the adult you know how to get there" Me: "Oh Ok" :)

Oh what a week it has so far, I am hoping the rest of the week is better. 

To celebrate Valentine's Day I think I am going to make this for the kids and Cory. I have been wanting to do something crafty, so I thought I would make something for Valentine's Day, Not sure fully what to put in them but I will come up with something.