Just thought I would add something cute that madi said..
well let me set it up first.... I was cleaning the kitchen and the kids were in the living room. I kept hearing them pause the T.V. I said to them

me: what are yall doing? why do you keep pausing the tv?

Madi: we are writing down our Christmas list.

me: You are pausing each commercial and adding it to your list..

Madi: Yes

me: You know thats not the way it works right?

I looked on madi's list and it had so much stuff... Madison had a Nintendo DS and had some wii dance game on there along with many other things...

me: Madi we dont even own a wii

Madi: I know... the wii is on Zacks list... LOL

I can not believe they are trying to out smart the system!!!
I think it may be time to tell her santa is not real and mommy and daddy have to buy all of this stuff... LOL

Well we started the business 2 days ago and I am finally getting on here to write about it.... I have been so busy that I have not had time for anything... I hope that this will pay off for us in the long run!!! Well see...

I feel horrible that I have been so busy that I never even got halloween pictures posted, never got our family Christmas Pictures, and we still have to shop for Christmas... UGH..... anyway I hope everyone is well.... I miss you all!!

Merry Christmas!! since this will be the last time I have free time..

Well after months and months of waiting we are finally approved for our loan for the business!! It was not the best time to get a loan these days but we are hoping that this business does well and we will have a little extra for ourselves!! (HOPEFULLY).... I thought I would put some before pictures of our place and as it gets closer I will put up what is being done!!! If any of y'all come down here to Odessa/Midland there will be a new place for y'all to visit..... Jumping Party!!!I am so excited for us to start this new adventure!!!!

The STUFF has hit the fan!!!!

Well no pictures this time just a quick note to SAY................... I AM BOBBY FREE... he he he he.. I feel so good to be free from all that drama!!! WOW.. I wont go on and on about what happened the other night but I will say this.. we found him trying to sneak in alcohol on Wednesday and by Thursday morning he was on a plane back to Ohio!!!!! anyway I don't want to ramble on to much but.... just wanted to say...... IT FEELS SO GOOD!!!! YESSSSSSS
Peace out homies!!!

Friday night lights...........

Well I took my family to see my old football team play this Friday... we had a good time watching the panthers crush OHS as usual!!! LOL

Tom could not believe that a high school team could fill up our stadium. We have a huge stadium that we play at and also an indoor stadium at our high school that they get to practice in...... For those of you who have not seen Friday night lights ( the movie)...it is about my high school. Believe it or not it was a good school!! yes the football players got away with a lot of things but we are in west Texas and I'm sure that happens everywhere..... We also had a great gymnastics team that I was on!!! GO MOJO Oh the final score was like 50 something to like 12..... we left early to beat traffic..... Here are some pics of the night.

They were sold out of tickets so they let people buy tickets to sit in the end zone in the grass... crazy huh??

I thought I would post a couple of photos of my brothers in Afganistan and remind all to pray for there saftey. Craig ( the bald one was able to catch a flight to go see cliff on his B-Day!! We are so excited that they had a little time together and that they are happy. Or atleast as happy as they can be away from there families!! I dont know how there wives do it!!! I love my brothers so much and cant wait till they are home safe and sound. Please remember them in your prayers tonight!! Thanks yall
Dani

Well when it rains it pours!!! About a 2 weeks ago I paid my tithing and prayed that all would be well. That we were broke and needed something to come our way and that I was paying the lord first. Well that night we got the call that we had to purchase a ticket for Toms Biological father. He has been homless for a while and needed help!!! So we purchased a ticket and he has been here with us and it has been a struggle because he does not believe in all that we do. We are in two seperate places in our life right now!! He somkes and drinks and we are trying to find a middle ground with everything. Well we think he passed out in the backyard in the middle of the night and we were in the emergency room all last night until about 5 in the morning. I keep having to believe that it is all for some reason!! Im not sure what that is at this point but I hope to see some light somewhere in the situation!! I guess I will just have to keep my faith up and keep pressing forward... Well here is what happend to him...

The Dr. said that he broke his nose and that he has a lot of fractures in his face. luckily those fractures should heal by themself... well we will see another Dr. on Friday and we should know more about any surgery we might have to do with him... UGH!!!! I just have to keep thinking everything happens for a reason!! RIGHT??? Anyway hope everyone else is well!!

Well I thought I would start this one out with this lovely picture of our newest water park here in Odessa!!! Yep thats right... It's an oil rig!!! And yes this one is right off the freeway!! But thats how we roll here in Odessa!! LOL now onto more important things....

The first week has gone by so fast!! The kids have had a great week!! I can not believe Madison is in the 2nd grade!! Yikes... She just cracks me up the way she does things.... We picked out her first day outfit and I told her to lay it on her chair!! Well this is how my daughters little mind works... LOL.. She made it look like a person.....I love her.... I will just stop there!!! LOL

Zack has had a great first week of school!! His kindergarden teacher is wonderful!! Zack is so fun to see get up in the morning with such enthusiasm to start his day!! I think he will have a great year!!


I just thought I would add this one!! They think they are so tough!!! LOL
I hope everyone had a great day!!!

The Lake

Well we just got back from the lake house and besides being so SORE we all had a really good time... I think my cousin was trying to kill me while I was on the tube...I never knew how much strength you needed to get yourself back up into the boat!! LOL It was really hard pulling all of my weight back up there!! The stairs broke off the boat... ( no... not from me..they were already gone)Well Tom had to help me a little bit...LOL The lake only took a few things away from us.. ( Hair clip, my breath from hitting the lake so hard on a fall, and almost took my bottoms... The lake put up a good fight for them but my ankles held on tight to them....LOL

We all went fishing and we all got at least one fish... Tom and I got ours at the same time.. We were so happy to get out of the house and go make some memories. Now all we are doing is getting ready for school to start... I will have no one at home this year...YESSSS.... hopefully I will be able to post more with them in school...

Ok so sorry for all the pictures you are about to see!!! We have been busy!!! We are still working on the kitchen... however it is in working order so I am not sure when we will ever get the little things done. (trim work,paint,ect..) We also had the chance to go to the circus... The kids had a great time and I dont even remember going to a circus as a kid so this was fun for me as well... Here are new pics of the house and some circus pictures as well...

Old Kitchen

New Kitchen

Old Living room
new living room
and me hard at work!! Who would have thought I could do this!!

Circus Fun

The Kitchen

Ok... so my kitchen is almost done!!! I am really thinking the whole thing will be done by this weekend... I HOPE!! It was so cute to see Zack wanting to help his Dad.. As soon as he saw Tom start to work one morning he went straight outside to get his tool belt on and start working. He only got to play with a hammer on the side lines but he was ok with that...LOL He was just excited that it was a real hammer....

As far as the business goes.... We are in the process of getting plans to the city to see what needs to be done in order for us to get a occupancy permit. I hope we are not crazy!!!!

Crazy Life!!!

Well life is crazy these days... I went out of town for 2 weeks so Tom could take out the old kitchen and give us a brand new one. I come back and still have no kitchen. Ugh... Tom got the new tile in and it looks great but Lowe's did not put our order on the truck so we have to wait another week for them to come in. I have now been with out a kitchen for 2 weeks now. It was quite the experience cooking Father's Day breakfast without counter tops. LOL I am trying to keep a good attitude but I am running on empty. I am very tired of washing dishes in the bathtub, and I never thought I would say this but I am getting tired of fast food as well. LOL I will try and keep pictures posted of how things are turning out but I cant get the camera to work. ( surprise,surprise) Right now I have some pics of what the kitchen used to look like.

Another thing that is keeping us busy is that we are trying to start our own company. We are looking to find a building but here is Odessa the market is crazy. Everything is so expensive right now. ( Christina, can you believe it we are actually going to have a Jumping Party soon!!!) I will try and post pictures of that when 1. when we get a better camera and 2. when we find a building. I will keep yall posted..

Today we had lots of fun at gatti town.... We had Clif's kids as well
(Karlee and Brice)
Zack had a lot of fun because Brice is the only other boy in our family..
( 10 girls, 2 boys)
We have had bunches of fun here in Allen Tx with the King family but will be heading back to Slow detha (Odessa) tomorrow....
I hope everyone is doing well.
Love yall
Dani