Elf Yourself

So we elfed ourselves tonight, check it out!

This is all us girls
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1112269194
This one is of all the kids, Lauren Jack Carson and Kenedey
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1112444722

This is of Jack, Lauren, my mom and I
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1112537624

This one is of Kenedey, Carson and Kari
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1112659733

Okay and last but not least, here are my fellow co workers!
http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=1112842735

Don't cha love dead beat dad's

Well Lauren did the funniest thing the other day, her and Kenedey went between my bed and the wall. Well kenedey could stand up and Lauren couldn't. Then a few days later she did it again and so I took her picture, it was HILARIOUS to see her, just the top of her head. It was sooooooo funny, I had to take her picture. That's all for now, I just wanted to share these pics. Oh, I guess I will give you all an update on me while I am at it. Well as most of you know Ryan has lost his job with Barrett. He didn't bother to give me any for warning that I wouldn't be receiving child support or nothing, it just stopped coming. Then I get a phone call from my lawyer saying that Ryan's attorney just now checked on my state aid for day care, when I signed a waiver months ago giving him access to my info at the FIA, and now claims that I owe Ryan somewhere around $5,500 because he has been paying to much in daycare expenses. Well first of all I shouldn't owe that dead beat shit! Second of all, he still hasn't given us his pay stubs from Barrett. Even Ryan admitted he was making more money there. And lastly if his lawyer was doing his job he would have looked into my stuff at the FIA back in march when I signed the waiver and we wouldn't have this problem. Anyway, I sent my lawyer a breakdown of my out of the pocket expenses for daycare and he is getting Ryan's pay stub from Barrett and the evaluation will be done based on that, so hopefully everything will work out. If it comes out that i do owe him money it won't be much and since he hasn't sent me a dime since Sept. 6th it will come out of that money.

Other than no child support and having to try and get student loans to cover my bills things are good! My classes are going great. Math I am getting a 4.0, I know who knew I would be so good at math even when I despise it. As for Human Bio I am getting a 3.0. Which is good since I am not to good at Science and it is a really really hard class. I am positive that I can improve my grade, I am shooting for a 3.5. This should be a good week, it is Project Success day on Tuesday and for those of you who know what that is I am excited, no class! I also get to have lunch that day with a good friend of mine and do some catching up, so I am really excited to get to spend some time with him. Well talk to you all soon.

Jack's First Day of School!!!!!

Well where do I begin, my little baby is off to his first day of school. Kristyn, can you believe that the little baby the you waited hours to see in a cold waiting room is big enough to go to school! Yes, big bird, as we called him before he was born because I couldn't pick a name, is finally a Big Boy! We took Lauren to day care and she wasn't quite sure about going into the house with out her big brother, I don't think she understood what was going on. The bribed her into the house with letting her watch Stewart Little. Then Jack and I went to his school. He was so excited we went and put his bookbag in his locker and then went to the lobby to wait for everyone else to get there. Once everyone was there and the big kids cleared the halls they headed to his class room. I asked him if he wanted me to go with him and he said "No, I am big now mom." So I left him with his teachers, so he could be big, lol! I will tell you all more later tonight on how his first day went and how the bus ride was, he was excited to ride the bus too.

My little Lauren!

She is getting so big and is absolutely beautiful! My cousin took her on Saturday and did her pictures and they look amazing. My cousin is a wonderful photographer. I am so amazed at the photo she takes and these ones of Lauren just take the cake! So I am just going to post them and let you all take a look at pictures of our little model by Kari our family photographer!

Finally!

Ok, I know your all thinking finally she has come back to blog. Well I have been super busy with classes. Last night Jack cleaned the toilet and so I took a picture of him doing it. He did a really good job I was so surprised.

Here is a picture of Lauren on her new cute

outfit I got her from Old Navy.

And Last but not least my random picture for Kari!

Cat!

Well we got a cat. It is soooooo cute. Her name is Winnie but we have been calling her Minnie, Jack calls her minnie winnie. She is 3 years old, has had all her shots and has been spayed. She also came with the chip in her back in case she gets lost. We went to the Humane Society and she was sooo cute and only $25. She is really playful but still a litle afraid of the kids. I wanna go back and get fluffy this other really cute one that is a little younger than Minnie and fluffier, same color though. For now one is plenty.

ENJOY!!!

Hi Jess hope you enjoy the new page I made for you its my new digital scrapbooking! I hope you dont mind I changed your page! Love ya!

For those of you....

who think I am a blogging FAILURE here ya go. Kari did my hair last weekend and took family photos, of course she posted about it but still hasn't put up my pics, lol. We had so much fun. I miss spending time out at Aunt Joyce's by the lake. As we were driving back to the lake Jack said "why are we going into the forest." He is sooooooo funny.

Well this week has been crappy at work, my computer is done! So I have been bringing my laptop into work. Anyway, here are a few pics and I will DO MY BEST, do write more later.

OMG!

Ha Ha Jess... didnt think id remember your password to get in here and tell everyone what a blogging failure you are!!! Hello everyone this is Kari Jessica's cousin and best buddy!

So all you lurkers out there who USED to visit her blog... get in here and tell her she is doing a horrible job updating!!! Remember she has family all over the US who like to feel connected to the kids and her and this is also a great way to document times with the kids when life goes too fast and we forget all the little things! So.... I challenge any of you to give Jessi a hard time in the comment section and tell her she HAS to get back to blogging regularly! Lets shoot for once per week. Then we will remove the below statement!

JESSICA RAYE CANNON IS A BLOGGING FAILURE!!!

Thank you everyone!

Fun day with my Kids....

Well today was another great day! I woke up and decided we would go garage sailing. So we all got ready for the day and headed to buddies to buy a news paper. We found some garage sales in the ads and then found a few on the way to them. At our first stop we found a book for Lauren of barn yard animals and a fire truck shelf for Jack. At the next one I found an expensive TI-85 calculator for 5$. I have been stressing because I need one for math next semester and they are sooooooo expensive. So now I am super happy! The next couple ones we went to were crappy but then we got out to Hanover area and I got Lauren these really cute gymboree cords, they are tan and 4t but she will grow and they were only a quarter. Jack wanted spider man goggles, I don't know why but he wanted them. They were only a dollar and still in the package so we got them. Then we did something I have been dying to do with them for a long time, I just wish we had Kari's camera. But I will make her and her crew go with us next time because as she pointed out to me last night her picture quality is way better then mine, go figure right but I paid less for mine, lol. Anyway, we went to McCourtie park, the park with the bridges. My dad use to take me there when I was little and I loved it. The kids did too. We went on every bridge and got some good exercise. We walked up and down the hill and ran all over the place. It was soooooo much fun! We came home after that and i cleaned up my house and then we sat and watched a little tv, oh wait let me rephrase that, i sat and watched tv they jumped around and ran through the house. Then I made dinner. Hamburger helper, corn and salad. They ate really good even Jack. So we went and got ice cream.

Lauren got it every where but her mouth, including in her hair. So now we are home and they are in the tub. Next, we are doing pj's and we are going to get all cozy on the couch for a movie and some cuddle time. TTYL!

The perfect end, to the perfect day!

Well the day started out good. I woke and even got a shower in first thing! Kari went to work and I kept Carson for her. I got all the kids fed and we went outside to play. I saw that the park owner was at the office and so I went to reserve the club house for Jack's birthday party. When we got there she said they were having the end of school party and that we had to come and eat and play games. So when Kari got home that is where we headed.

The party was a lot of fun! Tons of food, candy, desert and snow cones! The kids played games and got some prizes and a HUGE sugar buzz! We decided to go to the lake and so I called Lee to see if it was ok. He said yes and so we started to prepare for that. I asked Jack to go lay down and rest for a few minutes in my room and relax a few minutes later he was out! When he woke up Lauren had fallen asleep. I said oh well it is to late for a nap now anyway. I loaded them up, packed a little cooler and we were off.

We got there and the kids played and Lee took us out in the boat. It wasn't the same with out my mom there. We had a good time anyway. Lauren loved going fast in the boat but Jack liked going slow, for once in his life! But we enjoyed the boat ride.

We headed home and drove through Norvell. I remember taking Sunday drives with my dad when I was little and going to the bridge or mill or whatever it is called. So we went and I thought the kids would enjoy seeing it, and they did. It was beautiful but it made me nervous I was afraid they would fall off the bridge.

Then we went to McDonald's. SO now we are home, they are watching Nemo on TV and thank God, are getting tired. The only thing missing from our day was Kenedey and my mom :(

So that is all for now. Love ya!