Last Matthew Water Bottle/Sidewalk Chalk

I thought we had found the LAST water bottle from Matthew's Eagle Court of Honor, but I think this one is TRULY the last one.....

Michelle drew/made me something with sidewalk chalk...

I (Heart) mom

 

Sweet Little Michelle

Sweet Little Michelle just wanted her picture taken:)

 

Rescued Dogs

I took Matthew out to go help me "get ready for Christmas" and as we were driving I looked at the offramp and saw cars stopping for two dogs to cross the road. As I was going to get onto the freeway, I said, ahh, I wish we could help them. Matthew said, why can't we? So I was like you are right, why can't we? I went around the different loops that I needed to to get back to the dogs. We pulled off and went down to where we saw them. We found them and Matthew started walking with them. I remembered I had treats in my van so I ran back to the van and look for them. I couldn't find them but found a leash so I grabbed that and ran back down the hill to go catch up with them again. When I found them, they were walking across the on ramp, and I saw Matthew right by the side of the road holding up his arms to a big garbage truck telling it to stop. The truck stopped, the dogs made it to the other side safely and Matthew went across with them. After the truck and other cars past, I went to the other side and we were able to catch them. One of them had a number and one of them had a name on their collars. We called the number and it was the lady looking for them. We told her where we were and where our car was parked. We got them safely back across the on ramp, headed to our van when I remembered that I did have another leash. I left Matthew with both dogs as I ran to get the 2nd leash. I came back, and we finished walking them to our van. We got them into our van so that they were safe and then I called the lady again. We agreed it would be easier if we met at the McDonalds that was just a little further up. We drove to the McDonalds and I remembered that we had a collapsible water bowl in the car and water so we let them have a drink. Matthew just beamed from ear to ear the whole time. He kind of fell in love with them in just the little time that we had them. He likes the bigger dogs. These two were REALLY friendly which was SOOO nice. 

The lady met us at McDonalds and we were able to reunite them. A gate got left open she said.

Matthew enjoyed rescuing these dogs and getting to be with them for just a little bit. We felt SO good inside!

 

Where is Noah's Ark?

We had a HUGE rainstorm on Christmas Eve and it COMPLETELY filled up our ditch.

I had put a big rock just inside the culvert so that balls couldn't go in there, but apparently it got pushed way in there after so many rainstorms. Also there were A LOT of leaves that got put in there and it just clogged the whole thing up. 

Allison and I were out there trying to make it go down.....

it didn't really work.

The day after Christmas, my next door neighbor came out and helped me get the BIG rock out and all of the leaves! Hopefully it should drain much better now.

 

Michelle's Obsession with Otters

One of Michelle's first days of Kindergarten, her librarian read her a story, Do Unto Otters.

She loved it, Allison remembered it from when she was little and loved it.

I ordered it in the scholastic book order but ever since then she has been fascinated with Otters.

She asked Santa for an otter, Aunt Sharon got her the big one and Santa gave her a little otter and a slap bracelet otter and she also got Otter pjs!

 

Dutch Oven Cooking

Allison is learning how to cook in the dutch oven so she is showing me how to do it.

This tasted really yummy too.

 

Michelle's Admirer

Michelle has a boy in her class that just thinks she is so cute and so nice!

His mom is also the other room parent so it is funny.