Scary Monsters...

So the other night my son, Ryan woke shaking like a leaf! He was yelling "stay away puppy!" He is deathly afraid of anything that is moving. The night this had all happened we were at my dads playing cards and my dad threw on this new show called "Crusoe." Well at some point in the show there was a dog chasing this guy because it was suppose to protect the bones. Anywho we think that it scared our little guy to death. Needless to say I had a sleepless night and was forced to sleep in a toddler bed with him for quite some time. So we thought after that night that would be behind us....then his nap came along at 2pm. The same thing happened, so he fell asleep on the couch with me. Derrek finally got home and Ryan told him to go spank that scary monster! So all we could hear was some slapping around in Ryan's room. Then I told Ryan to go check to see if the monster was gone and sure enough Daddy saved the day!:) He now brags to people "that daddy spanked the monster and it is all gone!" It was a sad moment for me. I didn't know what to do and was almost in tears at how scared he truly was. I want a home where he is safe and feels that way too. I know I have that and that I don't have total control over what happens when he is asleep and I really hate that part. We did have a good night sleep last night with no kids waking up. So I guess you call that my fairy tale ending story because it turned out to be funny with the spanking and all!:)

HALLOWEEN WEEK

It's been a great week for us here at the Buchei house. My son and wife have won prizes for the best costumes at our ward Halloween party the other night:) I must say my son and wife really know howto play there parts. Ryan is the cute mouse GUSS GUSS in Cinderella....I know he looks like a GUS GUS... and then theres my daughter the skunk and I must say she is one cute stinker! My wife is Cruella Deville and she is one smokin hot Cruella if I do say so myself....then there is me I'm Handy Manny. I don't know if any of you know Handy Manny but that's what Ryan wanted me to be....I didn't win a prize but theres always next year.

I must say I thought Halloween was fun and all but now that I have kids and they know what Halloween is and they just have so much fun getting in there costumes and playing the part of there characters it just makes it that much more fun to enjoy Halloween.

I hope everyone has a fun and safe Halloween this year. I can't wait to see what everyone is being for Halloween.

Happy Halloween.
The Buchei's

Crazy 8's

8 TV SHOWS I LOVE TO WATCH
1. Amazing Race
2. Survivor
3. The Office
4. Bridezilla
5. The hills
6. Real World/Road Rules
7.Prison Break
8. CSI's
Yeah I watch a lot of reality shows, I know pretty lame huh:) By the way Derrek watches all of these shows with me and likes them too, besides Days of our lives I am on my own for that one!:)
8 FAVORITE RESTAURANTS
1. Olive Garden
2. Famous Dave's
3. Cheesecake Factory
4. Outback Steakhouse
5. The Roof, pricey but yummy!
6. Fazolis
7. European Connection
8. Red Robin
8 THINGS THAT HAPPENED YESTERDAY
1. Potty Trained Ryan, and it is going fabulously!
2. Helped Tyler build my parents deck 3. Played Dominos with Ryan
4. Bought the batting for my friends baby quilts, she's having twins! now I just need to finish them:)
5. Played cards with my dad and hubby
6. Bought Fiesta Ole for the Fam, yummy!
7. Watched a movie
8. Changed many diapers!
THINGS I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO
1. not changing diapers!:)
2. Consolidating my loans:)
3. Christmas time! which is sad because I can't keep a secret and my kids get present like everyday because I like to see them light up and get happy, this year I can make it to Dec 25th with no problems....I hope!
4. Our family vacation to Disneyland next march!
5. Derrek getting home. He works 7 days a week so I can stay home, so I always look forward to him coming home.
6. My new grass in the backyard next summer. It looks good now but next year should be fabulous!
7. Growing a vegetable garden, shouldn't it be fun? I hope so and stuff better grow or else!
8. Nap time for the kids can sometimes be favorite times of the day, however they are constatly making me laugh, but I do like to relax too.
8 THINGS ON MY WISH LIST
1. No debt
2. A huge food storage
3. Derrek only working one job
4. A nice big shed for Derrek.
5. New furniture in my living room.
6. a little bigger house, I just don't think my house is proportioned right. weird I know!
7. Many vacations with the family like my dad gave to me.
8. Happy healthy family forever.
8 PEOPLE I TAG...
anyone who hasn't done it and wants too or if you are bored:)
1. Meghan
2. Casandra
3. Sarah McFarland
4. Brooke
5. Amy
6. Brandy
7. Staci
8.KEVIN now you have something to blog about:)

Let me just add that my daughter keeps touching my skin on my back with her cold hands and laughing while I scream because they are so cold! Silly girl!

Doctors visit, pumpkins, and witches!

carving pumpkins
Ryan is Gus Gus from cinderella, then Sophie is a skunk and so is Abigail. Abigail has the bow in her hair. She is my little stinker!

Too cute for words, they have the best smiles!

we went to the doctors on wednesday and it was a sad day for us. Abigail weighs 17lbs and is in the 1% of her weight. She is 29 inches long so 23% and sheis in the 40% for her head. The doctors aren't worried about her weight because he said it's genetics until about 8 or 9 and then it is habits and genetics. I always thought that she was more chubby than Ryan but I guess I was wrong. She had to get six shots so two in each leg then they did two in the back of her arm! I was so sad. Poor girl had a temperature of 102 the next day.
Ryan only had to get one shot which was good for him because when he got it his leg was across the room because he did not like it! He weighs 23lbs and is in the 1% as well. He is 37 inches tall and his head is in the 50%. So pretty much I have perfect kids, skinny but perfect! The doctors said they haven't met a two year old with Ryan's vocabulary. They said he is very smart and speaks clearly, so I hope he likes school!
We carved some pumpkins this week and we made a Pablo pumpkin from Ryan's favorite show the Backyardigans and than just a silly face one. We also went to see the witches at gardener village. My mom came and with Kim and Sophie. My sister Toni and Joe and Isabelle came for a bit too. My mom dressed up as a witch and was fabulous might I add! We had a lot of fun. I am going again next week so Ryan can go on a pony ride and see the animals with Derrek.

my friends are the BEST!!

I was playing the game "see how pictures you can be in" ever played that at Disneyland?!:)

We are one good looking group of hotties!

I like to think that I have many friends kind of all over the place. I have a group of friends that I literally grew up with and am glad to say that I still keep in touch even after they move away and then I have a group of friends that I met my first week of high school. I feel very fortunate to have so many friends that I can go to if I need them. My friends are all so different yet we are so much a like. I never really got that part.:) I love when we get together, we always have like four or five conversations going and we know what being said in every single one of them. We are always trying to be the loudest so people can hear what we have to say. Believe it or not but I think I have mellowed out a bit now that I have kids but I love to be a joker and try to include everyone. We always have at least one girl outing a year which I love and hope we can continue to do and be successful at. I am so glad that my friends are happy with their lives. It is a hard world to live in now a days and through their trials they can still find happiness. I love that our friends are so diverse. We have different cultures, religions, schooling, up bringing and of course goals, and they still don't get in the way of our friendships. Thank you my friends for always being my FRIEND!!! You are all fabulous and I hope nothing will change.

The kids have been so sick....

Yeah I know we're crazy, and yes he is on the roof.
he is daddy's little helper and a dare devil.

I guess my cooking was just that good or....

is she playing peek a boo? Your guess is as good as mine!

Not a fun week or two for me. The little ones got this really yucky runny nose and now it's to be turning into a cold. It is not fun chasing them with tissues and nasal spray. On top of that I am trying to potty train Ryan. He does well for a couple of potty sits but then he gives attitude the rest of the time. I can for sure say he has hit his terrible two's. He always tells us "I do it myself!" but he tends to have a scowl when he says it.

Abigail is walking around and her latest cute thing is that she kisses her shadow like a million times a day! When she sees it she kisses it:) I guess she has a new best friend.

Now to Derrek and I. We have GRASS!!!! That's right you heard it our backyard is nice and green and very thick! We had tilled up the backyard because there were just too many weeds to count and it has been about 2 months and now almost have a full yard of nice yummy, layable grass! Might I also add that the only sprinkling system we have is called "Tecia." So I am pretty proud of ourselves. Derrek has put away our swamp cooler for the year and our neighbor thought we were crazy but we haven't even used it in about a month and maybe he didn't notice but IT IS COLD!!! Anyway that is us for the time being. We will continue to be hermits until the kids get better, if that happens. They have there appointments to get shots next week and that usually makes it worse for them.....we will see.

I am having lots of campfires in my backyard in the fall, which is now, so anyone who wants to roast marshmellows come on over!:)

picture tag

I don't know about this one. Go to your pictures file, pick the 4th file, and the 4th picture. Post the picture and tag more people. And of course it would be a picture of one of my kids. This is when we went to pinveiw. he always lounging on some kind of float, he is definately a water baby. I tag anyone who wants to do this:)