Been a long week!!

The flu has made it's rounds at our house! It started last Friday with Dawson and has made it's way through the whole family now except for Dustin.
I have not been able to go to work for a week now! I have been stuck at home cleaning up messes, shampooing carpets and furniture, scrubbing toilets and bleaching everything!! It has been pretty miserable. All the kids have had to miss school this week along with soccer games, football practice and probably a football game tomorrow night. Trace is really ill right now so I do not think there is any way that he can play football tomorrow night.
Our family has never been this sick before....it has been passed around and around. I was also told that there were a lot of kids out at Trenton and Dawson's school....about 30! So I guess it is making it's way around town.

I haven't been able to get on to update about last weeks games. Dustin's team had to go to Hobart, which is about 3 hrs away....they won! I couldn't go b/c I had sick kids so I listened to it on the radio.

Trace's team lost...again! They played well, the other team was just better.....and a lot BIGGER!!

This week is Homecoming...so Trace and Dustin will both be on floats in the parade. The team that we are playing is #1 in the state....so I have a feeling we are going to get spanked. So it will probably be a long weekend at my house!

A little survey

I got this from Heather-kinda fun

1.What is your occupation right now? I actually have a few...lol! Secretary, Mortgage broker, UCL demonstrator

2.What color are your socks right now? not wearing socks

3.What are you listening to right now? Hinder

4.What was the last thing that you ate? cinnamon roll

5.Can you drive a stick shift? Yep! My first 2 cars were 5-speeds

6.Last person you spoke to on the phone? Susan

7.Do you like the person who sent this to you? Yes!!

8.How old are you today? 27

9.What is your favorite sport(S) to watch? college football...GO SOONERS!

10.What is your favorite drinks? Dr. Pepper

11.Have you ever dyed your hair? Yep...not real sure what my natual color is anymore

12.Favorite food? anything Italian

13.What is the last movie you watched? Cast Away on tv last week

14.Favorite day of the year? Christmas Day (I love to see how excited the kids get)

15.How do you vent anger? keep it inside

16.What was your favorite toy as a child? Teddy Ruxpin

17.What is your favorite season? Spring

18.Cherries or Blueberries? Cherries

19.Do you want your friends to e-mail you back? hoping to catch up with everyone on my blog roll

20.Who is the most likely to respond? not sure

21.Who is least likely to respond? not sure

22.Living arrangements? in a little rental house with my husband and 4 kids

23.When was the last time you cried? last week

24.What is on the floor of your closet? hangers, shoes, a couple of boxes

25.Who is the friend you have had the longest that you are sending to? not sending it to anyone

26.What did you do last night? took kids to bible study/football practice, worked for a while and went to bed early

27.What are you most afraid of? something happening to my kids

28.Plain, cheese, or spicy hamburgers? cheese

29.Favorite dog breed? English bulldogs

30.Favorite day of the week? Saturday

31.How many states have you lived in? 3-Kansas, South Dakota and Oklahoma

32.Diamonds or pearls? diamonds

33.What is your favorite flower? Daisies

Busy Busy Busy

Boy it sure feels like I do not have any free time lately!

Dustin's football game on Friday was moved to Saturday due to highways being closed from flooding. They played on Saturday at 2:00 and we lost! They played Blackwell and as long as Dustin has been a coach (6 years) they have never lost to them. It was pretty ugly!! The final score was 28-7.

Trace had his first football game on Thursday, they lost too. The final score was 14-7. It rained the whole time so we were soaked!! It was Dustin's birthday so we went out to eat afterwards.

Dawson has had a couple of soccer games. He is doing great, he has scored a couple of goals and he played goalie one game and didn't let the other team score on him.

They are all enjoying school and all their other activities....we are staying really busy though!!

9/11

Do you remember where you were and what you were doing this day in 2001? I remember it like it was yesterday, I remember every detail about the whole day. Sept 11 is Dustin's B-day and the attacks happened on his 21st B-day. I was in class (I didn't know a lot of people so I pretty much kept to myself) and I heard people talking about an airplane crash, I wasn't sure of the details though. After class I went home and Dustin was watching the t.v. and we saw the second plane hit.....I was horrified. Then hearing about the other planes that were not accounted for, I kept wondering what was going to happen next. I couldn't believe this was happening to our country. We are the United States of America, we are supposed to be might and powerful, we should not be broken like that.
We were supposed to be getting everything ready for a bar-b-que but instead we were both glued to the tv.
Our friends and family came over that evening to celebrate Dustin's birthday, but it just didn't feel right. After everyone left we were back watching the news channels. I didn't hardly sleep at all that night....or that week.
I still watch shows and documentaries that are on tv about 9/11 and I always cry. I personally did not know anyone that was killed that day. But knowing that so many fellow Americans were killed.....they were someone's mother, father, sister, brother, son, daughter....it breaks my heart.
I am very proud to be an American and I love this country with all my heart, we are so blessed in so many ways.
I just ask that God be with the survivors, I am sure it does not get any easier on them from year to year.

Battle Wounds

As I have mentioned...Trace is playing football this year. I was not crazy about the idea....I love football, but he is so small!! He is the smallest kid on the team, weighing in at 65 lbs. The first few weeks he took a beating....he even said several times he wanted to quit. We have a rule at our house.....there is NO quitting something after you have started....but I wanted to let him quit. Dustin said NO WAY. So he stuck it out and he is now enjoying it. He has started to really enjoy punting and doing kick-off's....he is the back up kicker.....he has even asked to go to practice early so he can get some extra kicking practice before everyone else gets there. This makes me happy b/c a week ago I would cry after I dropped him off b/c he was crying so hard. I felt horrible, like I was sending him into a battle zone and he didn't even stand a chance. He ended up with some nasty bruises....I took these pics after 5 days...and they still look horrible.

This is his arm...it has bruises all over it, but this was the worst

And this is his neck...you can't see it really well...but it was black and blue

These are the worst bruises he has had so far....but the season has just started!!

Another Blog for UCL

I have started another blog for my Uppercase Living business. I am really excited about it! I will be displaying photos, having contests, giving ideas on where to buy supplies, etc. I just started it this afternoon so there is not much there yet, but you can check it out at http://tiffanyucl.blogspot.com

In other news, Trace has his first football game on Thurs, which is also Dustin's B-day....so we will be traveling to Enid to watch him play (it is going to be a long day). Dawson had his first soccer game last night...and it was FREEZING!! It is crazy how the weather here turns on a dime. Almost forgot, Dustin had his first football game last Friday and they won 28-0!! I was unable to go, it was the first home game in Dustin's 6 years of coaching that I have had to miss. Trinity was not feeling well and it was COLD! So I stayed home and listened to it on the radio.

We have a busy week ahead of us, 2 soccer games, 2 football games, and a lot of practices..lol!