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Good Thursday Morning. How did that happen? I was bored senseless last Wednesday and now my break is almost gone and I am wondering what I did with the last week. Oh Christmas and watching a two year old! We had an absolutely great Christmas. Thank you to everyone for everything. Tenille got her first gun and is proudly shooting the dogs with the marshmellows. They like it because they get treats! Tenille also added to her dollie collection and I will have to take a picture of them all now and tell you their names. She is so creative. :) Jason is taking today off of work and we are having our "new years" a night early since he works tomorrow. Oh for next year and hopefully not as many holidays to work. He has been busy feeding our deer out here. The forest has snow (well it did until this morning) but around his feeder it looks like a stamped occurred. I wish I could keep a running tab of all the cute stuff Tenille says. This week I can only remember the one from the bath tub. Tenille was floating around in there and I said oh are you flying? To which she responded, "No mama I don't have feathers. I don't have wings." All I could say was good point. Do most two and a half year old talk like that? So smart. I am sending her two and half year picture with Bart. As soon as we got Bart out to take the picture she ran to the sun room to find the big chair. Only to discover (after months of it being moved) that it wasn't there. She had to take her picture in the chair so we climbed the ladder to the loft (where the chair is) and took this picture. She is so big when compared to how little she was with Bart. There is rumor mill that they are going to move Tenille up to a new class at the first of the year so we will see how that goes. For Christmas Tenille made us cut outs of her hands. J opened them up Christmas morning only to find we had a had for mommy and a hand for Abbie's daddy. Apparently the dad hands got switched and Abbie's daddy got Tenille's had. I can't believe how much bigger Abbie's hands are from Tenille's. Abbie isn't that much older than her. Tenille at two and a half years. Tenille at one month. I get my student teacher next Monday. So everyone say a prayer that it goes well, he's good with the kids, and it doesn't end of being tons more work for me. :) I am starting my new years resolution early. I want to be able to make bread from scratch. I know a weird goal but it is something that I want to do. I have tried twice over break. First time is didn't get fluffy at all. The second time it was a sticky mess but tasted great. So if I try it once a week we outta be good by the time the year is over. I guess it just intrigues me that this is a skill my great grandparents and grandparents took for granted and now here I am struggling with dough all over my fingers. We have moved forward as a society so much but have lost the little things along the way. I mean have you ever made bread from scratch? See. Tenille did help the second time and loved getting the flour everywhere but she said it was "too loud" while I worked on kneading the bread. Well we have one tree down and most decorations put away. Just seems like the new year is coming so we had been clean up for it. May the rest of your 2010 be amazing. See you next year!

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Good Afternoon to everyone! I hope this finds you with presents wrapped and Christmas music playing. Just a short one this week. We are completely enjoying the library. There are computer games for her down there and she is so QUICK to figure them out. I am amazed at her all the time. She even lets me pick out books too! :) One of the computer games is actually a song game and she has learned where is thumbkin. Except she sings it like this, "I'm a pumpkin, I'm a pumpkin, here I am, here I am." Isn't that just adorable? She is a little angry with daycare because they are not "singing her songs anymore" now that the Christmas show is over she still thinks they need to be singing! I started helping with her class at church. That is where the picture of the play dough comes from. I have this unnatural fear of play dough. I think it is the texture and how my hands feel and smell when we are done. Play dough is a toy that is better for church and school then here. :) So far in two days off from school I have sewn my little heart out making these little organizers for all our electronic cables. I made one for Tenille out of a some Elmo fabric I had left over. That girl has more cords than I do! But her toys are so smart that it is a given. I put Christmas songs on her Violet the bear and she is SO happy. It is supposed to say your kids name but Tenille is not one of the 1,500 options so I put Neal on there instead. She is so happy. "Mommy it knows my name!" She keeps saying. My other chore is that I used my 4-H cake decorating skills. I always wondered where they would come in handy because really how many cakes do you decorate? Any ways, when we moved in my critical eye noticed that the tile guy had "missed" sections of grout. A little here a little here. Why is that a bother? Because I have been pulling dirt , dog fur, glass, and dog food out of there. So last Christmas I called the guy who we bought the grout from. He gave me a huge thing of grout for free! And it has sat on my shelf until today. I whipped up some of that stuff (there were no directions except pictures so I guess on the amount of water) poured that stuff into a Ziploc bag and started filling in the holes. I vacuumed first to get all the dirt etc out. Two hours later I am happy to say that grouting is just like frosting a cake. And darn I am proud of myself. There is actually more do to but my hands were all pruny from the sponge and water I was also using so I gave it up for today. Still totally proud of myself. Tomorrows goal? Touch up the paint that we have knocked off the walls in the last year. I am happy to report that she keeps saying the darnest things. I asked her what she wants to be when she grows up. Her answer, "A pumpkin, with big boobies and a big tummy." Yep that is our kid! It gets even better because apparently she went to school last week and told them too that when she gets bigger she will get big boobies like mommy. Oh I guess I have to watch what I tell that girl. I hope your Christmas is excellent. I know you will all be waiting for all the pictures. I'm sure there will be great stories like always.

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I asked my fourth block class Friday, would you like to hear the gross story or the messy story. They opted for the gross story so we will start there. Picture it a nice evening at the library. Tenille and I hung up our coats, have picked out 5 books, have colored on the computer, and are now doing puzzles. Tenille say she has to go potty and we head in that direction. Only to be side tracked by the chalk table. After moving her past there she looked and me and said. "I already go" I look at her pants and no, they aren't wet that I can see. So we head to the bathroom, me being confident that we had it. That is until I pull down those pants and realize that the underware are NOT leaving the bathroom with us and that the pants are soaking. So there I sit. My perplexing problem was this: My daughter had nothing for the lower half of her body. I didn't have anything with me to put on her. In fact, the long I sat there the worse I realized I was. I didn't even have my keys to the car because they were in my coat which was in the middle of the library. So do I 1) leave the naked girl in the bathroom and make a brake for my coat and keys. no. 2) do I take a naked girl into the library? No 3) wrap her in paper towel and take her out there. no.4) quickly clean up the pants the best I can and run for the keys. yes. So as I am literally running through the library I pick up our stuff get the books checked and out and start running for the door. Tenille at this point is in tears. Why? not because she is in half poopy pants but because she didn't get the get her hands stamped when we checked out. so back to the circulation desk we go, get two hands stamped with a chocolate smelling Christmas oranament and head out. Ugh. We made it to the car with no further problems. So now for the the messy story ( I know how could the last one NOT be the messy story) I go to school Friday to hear drip drip drip. Oh yes my ceiling is leaking at our new school. Guess that is what you get for putting a flat roof on a big building. Anyway, our awesome janitor comes up looks at it while I am at a meeting, and when I come back, no dripping. Awesome. Then during second block I hear it louder and in different spots. Then my kids says, "um your ceiling is cracking" I run over there just in time. I put a trash can under the cracked area and the ceiling falls down. Most of it went in the trash can. :) But then there is the thing, handing from the ceiling . . what is that . . oh another trash can that is now holding all the water that has been dripping for the last 4 hours. So my students (who are awesome when the need to be) jump up on my desk (oh yes this is all happening over my computer and my desk and my pictures) and hold the ceiling up while I call my janitor again. I am just glad I had 3 tall guys to help. So the janitor came in and took everything down and brought me more trash cans. They called the roofers and by the end of the day, no more leaks. Let's pray that it stays that way! On Saturday I decided that taking Tenille to the store is now a challenge. Toy Story is out and so is the new Shrek. So besides all the other cool stuff to play with at her level, she kept running around the store wanting to look at whatever Shrek/toy story merchandise they were selling. Then she declared she had to go potty so we run to the front of the store and there is a big sign. "no unpaid merchandise" so I leave my cart with the nice girl "vanessa" behind the counter and head in there. She did great and was so excited that Target has sinks her size. So we come out and then I remember, nope didn't bring my purse in. So we have to go out to the car, get the purse, and come back in. By this time, Tenille is about in tears because the new dolly I was going to get her has now been left twice. Poor girl. The check out clerk gave her a candy cane and the world was all better. The individual string chesse that I had bought for her didn't hold up to that. While all these stories have made my life interesting I keep hearing thise cute things she has said lately: "Mommy I am going to make a rainbow" when refering to peeing in the toliet. "I love her mommy" when I gave her a new doll. "I need you to help me play" when we wanted me to play house with her. "I look like a princess" when she put on her dress for her christmas play. "oh look I found a blue's clue" She saw a paw print on some soap to get rid of pet stains. "yes brie did it." When she found coloring on her notebook she blamed her cousin Brie. We might be in trouble ladies and gents. After all these great stories am I sure you are thinking there can't be more . .ahh but there is(hey J was gone all week, what was I going to do but type to you and wrap presents) Anyways, with the terrible winds we had Sunday I was amazed at how "leaky" our house was. The wind would blow and the doors would rattle. The air was a movin. So I close both chimmeys. They the wind really blew and the door to the gararge opened! I was so amazed and a little scared. Then when I downstairs to wrap presents. I went to get a pen in our "craft" room and it was SO cold! Why, oh the basement door was open and it had snowed in my house . . .probably all day! Awesome. So once I closed that door, hey my house wasn't so "leaky" and my furance wasn't running so much. But boy was that room cold!

Our Christmas Letter 2010

In the hopes of bringing you entertainment and knowledge of our family we have created our 2010 story for you:   C is for the care that we have been putting into the outside of our house.  Time flies by so fast and yet there is so much to do.  We had some Amish guys come in this spring and cut down some trees that were either dead of hanging over the house.  Then we were able to use a bulldozer to accomplish tons more work than we ever thought was possible in one year.  We can now see clearly out of our back windows into our forest.   H is for Harry and Sasha.  Sasha is doing well and is as feisty as ever.  Harry is a "98 model" as the vet said and is starting to slow down and lose weight.  It makes us sad.   R is for relationships.  J and I are doing great.  We celebrated our ten year anniversary with four days away.  It was the longest we have been away from Tenille.  J got two new guys on his rig this year and is training them.  I am teaching a new IB math class which is challenging but something new.   I is for the internet.  Our blog is still up and running at wogomanweekly.blogspot.com   S is for sleep that we wish we were getting.  Tenille is not sleeping.  Or maybe I should say, not sleeping very long.  Most night she gets up several times for all sorts of reasons.  Mostly because she is scared or doesn't feel well.  Ahh for the days of sleep!   T is for Tenille, Obviously!  She is growing like a weed and so smart.  If you ask her she will even tell you so. We are working on big girl panties right now.  What an interesting event that is.  She is still at Little Saints daycare and doing well.  She loves her teachers and is learning so much.   M is for maturity of our garden.  Jason used the bulldozer to flatten off a new area for a garden next year.  I tried my hand at growing seeds and only accomplished to bring squash, little pumpkins, and one zinnia into fruition.  So next year, watch out.  I've got herbs going and will be more prepared for the visitors that come to my garden.   A is for animals that that I just mentioned.  Tenille has named some of them; we have Flo the deer with her two babies, Abby and Tracy; the kitty cats which Sasha helped to "remove"; Dorothy, the 23 cent goldfish that was used for a decoration for Tenille's second birthday that is still living; and the birdies.  Ahh the birdies.  We have the most delicious house.  The woodpeckers come out of the woodwork (ha ha) to eat our house and two barns.  We also were graced with a bat in January.  There is a nice video of it on our blog.  The bat came into the attic via the hole from a LARGE woodpecker.  I got the bat a house for outside so I hope it moved into there.   S is for all the super things we hope to accomplish next year.  We are hoping to restore our pool to actually being a pool. This will be AWESOME.  So have a great Christmas and      remember the true reason for this season. Love, Jason, Tracy, & Tenille Wogoman

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My evening conversation went like this. "Tenille here is your toothbrush." "Is this a new toothbrush mommy? "No" "I think actually it is" Is it weird to you that our two year old (excuse me two and a half if you ask her) uses the word actually in a sentence? My grandparents party this weekend was so nice. Family and friends from all over came to see them. We got lots of pictures and were able to hear stories that haven't been told for awhile. Like my grandparents friends wrote Just Married on their car with soap. The problem? The soap scratched the paint and so as long as they owned the car it said "Just married" Fun huh? I am sure my grandfather didnt think it was funny back then. We are "knock on wood" 7 days into no accidents with Tenille. She is still sleeping in a pull up and some mornings is dry. The other night she work up screaming mommy I need you. I go it there and she says she has to go tinkle. So we go and she does and then she falls right back asleep. Isn't that amazing? I think so. Today daycare said that she is going to the bathroom all by herself (that stinker, she doesn't do that at home) and so therefore are going to put her on the potty trained list and we now will get to pay LESS for daycare. Yippy! After looking at last week's photos I had to laugh. If you look at all my family at the tree farm I look so tiny compared to everyone. Am I really THAT short? I would also like to comment on our tree upstairs this year. While it is fake, J has decided that this is a "building year" for the tree. What does that mean. It means we have only 1.5 strands of lights that actually work, and angel that doesn't want to stay on top and a daughter that keeps moving the decorations. Next year I'll be sure to by more lights. :) My sister came over Sunday to sew some Christmas things. She helped me fix my machine and we both decided that I am sewing challenged. :) We made a pillow for Tenille and she is oh so excited it. She was supposed to take it to school today but didn't want to get it out of her bed. So it stayed at home today. We talked to Tenille about her new cousin that is coming in May. Tenille woke up this morning talking about her new cousin. She then said that she was going to name the Susie. Then changed her mind and decided she would call the baby, Baby. My Uncle Bill thinks we should call the baby squishy until it gets here. :) Jason got a deer Sunday night. Yippy now there will be meat in the freezer. He also had breakfast with Santa and made etruth.com Stinker told the paper the wrong name so this is what was printed. Gotta watch out for that boy! Caption: Elkhart Central fire fighters Bret Schrock (left) and Mike Nemes (right) make pancakes Saturday morning at the station for the annual pancake and sausage with Santa breakfast Saturday, December 4, 2010. (Truth Photo By Adrienne Barnett) http://www.etruth.com/Know/TruthPhotos/PhotoDetails.aspx?id=120610 Hope all is well in your neck of the woods.

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Good evening all! I hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful. We had a great time at our house. I had an extra day off of work and it was AWESOME to relax just a little bit more. That being said, Of course I filled it with things to do. Like Candy making and last minute gifts for people. Thanksgiving day after I got out of the shower and dried my hair, the power went out. I had to bake my baked corn at my mom's house. Crazy. So I am sure in Middlebury there were a few thanksgivings that didn't go as planned. But I guess that is God trying to remind us to be flexible. :) Potty Training is going so well I am afraid to jinx myself. She is sleeping in a pull up at home and at school and she wears one when she goes outside to play but that is it. Something about that cold air makes her have to pee like right now. I learned first hand when she peed down the slide at the park. ugh. She is currently 4 days accident free. :) Potty training is lending itself to quite a few fun phrases: 1)I'm gonna poop a big one 2)it's too hard to poop 3)I can see my tinkle in there, bye bye tinkle (as she flushes the toilet) but my favorite one is: my butt is empty mom (when she is all done peeing) or my butt has a lot of pee in it. How are you supposed to respond to those with out laughing? We got our trees up. I got a fake tree (gasp I know) for upstairs. I don't think I can survive another year of our tree falling and losing ornaments that will make me cry again. So the upstairs tree is special ones, the downstairs really tree is the fireman tree. Tenille got some ornaments last year so we gave her a fake tree. I thought she could put her few on there. Well she loaded that one down with anything that she thought was nice. I am surprised it doesn't fall over. :) Only two weeks and two days of school left this year and that I am done(for the year). Yippy! I always like to tell my kids I am quiting and not working for the rest of the year. They just roll their eyes at me. You know, how teenagers do. Well I think that is about it. Grandma and Grandpa Watson are having a big party on Saturday and Jason has breakfast with Santa that day at the fire department so it outta be a busy but good time. Tomorrow night is date night and we are off to our new favorite spot. The white pigeon inn. Thursdays is $5 pitcher nights, they have frosted mugs and pitchers, and they dote on Tenille like it is no body's business. So much fun. I have to end with a huge blessing in my life that I must pass on. I washed one load of clothes today like everyday and what do I find in the dryer? My USB. Ugh, my 8 GB USB with all my photos from the blog and my christmas letters and everything! I plugged it in and guess what? If you wash and dry your USB, it still works. How about that? I of course plugged it in and immediately backed it all up on my new 1.5 terabit hard drive. Yep, I braved the cold and the crazies to get 1.5 terabits. What am I going to do with all that space. . . anything I want. :) 24 more sleeps until Santa comes! Have a great night.

Candy making 2010

Two batches to go. Five hours of yumminess.

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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I hope this email finds you with your turkey thawing and your groceries purchased!

Everything here is looking to be a great holiday and we are so thankful for that. Tenille is getting big like there is no end in site. Her vocabulary is increasing so much and yesterday for the first time I noticed her eyes when she is thinking. When you ask her a question and she thinks about the answer, she look up to her left. That is so cool! For those of you who aren't math/book nerds. It was so cool to she her brain working. I was asking her about what she did today so you are supposed to be looking left for remembering. I don't know if you are so excited as I was but I thought surely this is a milestone of some sort.

One other nerdy point I need to tell you is Tenille's birthday party date. J got to pick his vacation yesterday and he was able to get June 26th off. So mark your calendars we will be having cake on the 26th of June. I know it is weird planning it so far ahead but that is how us wogoman's survive!

I am sure there will be tons of pictures for this next email so be prepared. We already had one Thanksgiving and Tenille wore herself out. She passed out in the car on the way home. All those cousins will do that to you. Well I have 90 more tests to grade before I can left myself go home so . . . off to work. Short and sweet this week.

I am sure you will all be happy to know that I planted 10 trees last night. We got them from the Arbor Day foundation. Right now they are littler than pencils but . . . someday! Have a great day!

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Good morning!

I started Jason's day today by asking him, did he want the good news ,the bad news, or the good/bad news. He sighed and said, all of it.

Ok good news, my hot cocoa is warm. :) bad news, the microwave stopped working and while I was doing that harry puked on the floor, and the good/bad news, the microwave rested a little and now works again and the puke is neatly of the door mat to go outside. How did your morning start?

Everything really is fine at our house. Our big news is daycare said they were ready and so we started "officially" wearing big girl pants. She does really well at home. She has only had one accident there and that was my fault. I was balancing my checkbook and forgot to check in with her and she came up to me and said, "Mommy, the floor is wet, and peed down her leg." Poor thing. Now we are on a timing system that seems to be working. We are still wearing "night time diapers" because come on she is not even two and a half yet. :)

She so watches what is going on and our routines at the house. Last night she asked me to lay out her clothes for the next day. She wanted to pick them out. And pick out her panties. So off to school she went in an orange top and strawberry shortcake panties. She opted not for jeans, she doesn't seem to like them anymore, and went for comfortable pants. Who could blame her?

I survived my cold and am mostly over it. I gave it to Jason however, which it is the middle of deer season so that is NOT good. He has seen lots of deers but is waiting for the "big one". My freezer is starting to get empty but we will make it until the end of the season. :)

We had pizza Friday last week and Tenille helped with the cheese. I think she actually ate more than she put on but that is besides the point. She had fun. Our adventure tonight is to create a fort in her closet. She asked for one and I have to laugh, my sister slept in the closet for a long time when we moved to my parents current house. So Cari and Tenille and related and there is the proof. If I end of sleeping in the closet tonight with her we are all in trouble. :) She was climbing in the laundry basket and I asked her if that was her fort, she said no, what is a fort and we proceed to make one in the living room. Now she wants one in her closet. Oh boy.

On the boy front she apparently got a divorce from Ryan Crisp and now is back to Tenille Wogoman. She has decided that she needs to take care of another boy named Aidan. I guess she wipes his nose and gets him food. I am already worried about what she will be like down the road. Oh my. Well that is it. J and I are off to a hockey game this weekend and to finish up our Christmas shopping. :) Good luck to us right? Have a great day!

Tracy
The Pilgrims made seven times more grave than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving.
- H.U. Westermayer

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Good Afternoon everyone! I hope that you all made the switch out of daylight savings time. Funny thing about that is Tenille did not get the memo on that one. So there is no sleeping in and she wants to still be up at like 9 pm. Crazy girl. There is officially 46 days until Christmas. I just would like all of you to know that. I have spent my day shopping online and finding fun gifts for Tenille and Jason. Isn't that fun? How is your shopping coming along? They were playing Christmas carols on WFRN this morning. That seems a little early. So you are now probably asking yourself, wait today is Tuesday! How is Tracy at home shopping on line? Well last week a kid sneezed on me(not really but you get the idea) and I got sick. Add to the mix that Tenille doesn't like to sleep (one night this week I never made it to bed, yep, clean sheets and I never got in there. Tenille's stomach hurt, her ear hurt, and oh yeah, she is sick too) But I digress, the reason I am home today is that I wore out my voice. We had the first night of parent teacher conferences last night and I talked to 31 parents about their children. That is more than I have ever had before. By the time I was done, I was done. So I took today off and I am finding that I must talk to myself a lot. I talk to the dogs I talk to the fish and all of sudden I can't so I feel like someone tied my hands down or something. So strange so strange. I would apologize for breaking the three picture rule I normally do but my goodness this girl was CUTE this week. (now while she was screaming hectically this morning because she didn't want to put on socks . . not so cute) The one picture is as close as I could get Tenille to stand with Santa. They were at Lintons this past weekend and she wanted nothing to really do with them. How nice. Then in honor of my brother I found this green thumb. I guess Tenille is hoping to get her uncle's green thumb. I mean how cute is THAT? The other picture that I just had to add it was the picture of the painted apple. When you ask Tenille what is that a painting of? her answer . . . a dragon. Oh OK. What an imagination she has. She went to school the other day roaring like a dinosaur. We are in trouble her people I can just tell. Tenille is officially my bulb helper. We planted many a flower bulb this past weekend. She got very good and throwing them to me. So we will see what happens in the spring. Hopefully flowers galore. Well that about sums it up here. Grandma Linda is in town and Tenille was so confused when Grandma was still here in the morning after she went to bed. They are becoming fast friends and that is great to see. Hope all is well. Start thinking about all those holidays coming up. I think that is about it. Guess I am not as speechless as I thought. :)

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Teeth! I forgot to tell you about the picture and the teeth. J took me last Friday to this spot in Elkhart that they say is a block of cemented teeth. When you drive by it, it looks completely normal. But when you get up near it, UGH it was put together with TEETH! Apparently the apartment building used to be a dentist's office and all the teeth that he pulled he cemented into this block. There are teeth laying all over the place. So Gross! Makes you wonder what the guy kept in his basement. :)

Tenille is now saying, ahh wait for it mommy it is loading. Everything from the computer to the DVD player is now "loading" she is so much more patient that I am.

I measured her on the wall this last week. She has grown like 2 inches since her birthday. No wonder the two of us can barely squeeze into the rocker chair anymore.

Halloween was great. I think I liked it more watching her than I ever did going myself. So was so excited when she got juice! By the end of the night she wouldn't let that pumpkin full of candy out of her hand. She has not asked about since then so that is nice. :) She liked walking up the houses with Brie when we were in the Summit, but downtown there were too many people for her and she didn't want to be put down. She wasn't really a fan of her costume but she lived with it when she found out she got candy.

We all worked outside tonight. So nice, a little cold but it is fall. We got the gardens all tilled up. All that fresh dirt and I wanted to plant something. :) I finally pulled almost all of my plants. What have I been growing still? peppers and peas. I left the peas in, They are still producing and are not really in danger of getting any frost. I harvested all the peppers because the frost finally got them last night. So I have a basket full of peppers. yummo! It is like summer in our house. :) I also harvested my one sweet potato that I grew. It is huge! So that is about it. Off to spend some time with the family. Wish me luck, parent teacher conferences are night week (two nights of fun!)

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Oh how times sneaks away from me! Wednesday already. When I look at the calendar I can't believe this year has gone so fast and is almost over!

Tenille . . ahhhh what can I say, she is adorable and smart as a whip. This week she picked up her Dora doll, said, "Mommy Dora has brown eyes like me. You have brown eyes. What color are daddy's?" I just looked at her like, where did my little girl go that could only say hi and Elmo?

She has just been in a better mood lately and that is AWESOME. Now of course she was a complete bear this morning to get up but I blame that on her daddy's genes. :)

Our little girl is famous, she made the Goshen News Monday. We went to see my dad in a reenactment of 1812. The Goshen News took her picture while she was petting the furs. She asked if it was a doggy, we said no. Silly girl. She got a doll there. On the way home she named in baby Olivia and then told us that baby Olivia has no face. Which is true.

Halloween is coming and Tenille is going to be a giraffe. Not sure if she will wear the costume but she sure looks cute with it on. I will be sure to take plenty of pictures. We are trick or treating with her cousins so hopefully they will show her how it is done.

First quarter ended for me so thing have been busy for me grading last minute things. Again where did the time go? J has been busy at work. He is taking a rope course which brings him up to my school so they can practice repelling and stuff. Always something to learn in his profession. Anything that keeps him safe get him a big thumbs up.

On the pumpkin front, Tenille likes to light the pumpkins every night. That means she tries to turn on the lighter and when she can't (child lock) then she gives it to me to use. Harry has taken it upon himself to EAT my pumpkin. No one else's just mine. I have lost the top and well the whole front. I had a small mouth now it is HUGE. Basically all that is left are the eyes. Guess he was trying to tell me something. Well I attached the photos on Sunday night and now I have completely forgotten what they are. So enjoy! Hope all is well with you!

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So it became very clear to me that you all actually read my emails! I sent the other one today before adding the photos on accident. Send and Save as a Draft are right next to each other at the top of my email. I was so happy to see your comments about "where are the pictures?" at least I know you guys are looking at us. :) So here they are, without further ado. Have a great night!

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Good afternoon all!
Hopefully you are enjoying these days of Fall! We have done the pumpkin patch, the pumpkin carving, and are playing in the leaves!

We went to the pumpkin patch in Elkhart and got our pumpkins. Tenille thought that was ok but all the animals were WAY more fun! We did have one melt down while there because Tenille fell out of the wagon and hit her head. All was good when we showed her the bunnys and the horse. She even got a ride on this cool carriage. She loved it!

Tenille was excited about the carving of the pumpkins until she saw what was inside. She looked at it for awhile and said, "nasty mommy". She said it again last night and J and I started laughing and then thought where is this child hearing nasty? We no more said that and Donkey on Shrek 2 said, "nasty" Well there you have it. She is in love with Shrek right now so this is where she heared it. Silly Tenille.

Other than that, I just have to brag about Jason, He is getting his hunting in, helping the new guys at Elkhart Fire learn the way things actually run, is AWESOME with Tenille, and is helping me around the house. I couldn't get it all done without him. Tenille and J spend much of their time running about taking each others noses. Tenille holds on to his until he gets home from work. Must be rough not being albe to smell all day! Last night he even mopped our kitchen floor. Yippy! Now I don't have to do it! He even mulched up the leaves for me so I can compost for my garden next year. What could be better?

Tracy
Why is there always money for war, but not for education? - bumper sticker

wogoman weekly - issue 3 volume 16

Ahh the things I forget each week, I forgot me asking her if she wanted her coat and she said ... naaa not really. How cute! What about the fact that she is in LOVE with Olivia the pig (did you even know she existed? me either until we started reading her books) Or how about that she has been sleeping so soundly in the morning that I can't wake her up and when I do try I find that she is pretending to suck on her pacifier (which has been gone for so long!) In her sleep she is just sucking on nothing. It reminds me she used to be so little and now as she says, I am a big girl! And when she is REALLY tired she will put her arms up by her head like she used to . .. ahhhh where did that time go? Currently we are livinging in the daddy stage. I am chopped liver and daddy can fix everything. I know Jason is eating it up. Hence, she won't nap with me but daddy and football you bet!Tenille is also still claiming her last name is wogoman-crisp. hmmmmm Might have to start digging Jason's hole for her now. :)

So this week was homecoming for Northridge. As you probably saw in the paper we lost is a big way but the week was fun and I think that is truely what it is about. I got to have a meeting with my soon to be student teacher. It seems weird him being so much older than me but I have 10 years expeirence on him. Yippy for starting a profession right out of college.

My brother completed his first Marathon Sunday. I am so proud of him I could just explode. Technology is great and I got updates on my phone about how he was doing. I also watched the race live on my computer. Tenille and I kept "looking" for uncle Mark. There were only 41,000 people there, I am not sure why we didnt see him. :) So next time you see mark given him an atta boy. He deserves it big time.

J was happy to be back to work this week. He loves wearing the pink. (wink wink) There is a nice article about it today in the Elkhart Truth about what the guys are doing for breast cancer. Kinda cool to go to the station and see everyone in pink. J also had a big fundraiser last night for a local fireman that didn't have insurance and got sick. They raised like $6,700 or something. It was awesome to see so many people come out to eat a haystack supper. Haystacks by the way are a strange combination of food that tastes pretty yummy. :)

I started planting some bulbs and getting stuff done around here for winter. I have one tomato and three pepper plants that are doing well still. I know crazy right? Tonight we are going to try out our homemade pizza sauce. I'll let you know how it goes.

I know we have lots of pictures of us sleeping this week but we are just worn out around here. I did 6 boot camps this week (lost 9 inches and 1.5% body fat), J worked tons, and Tenille, well it takes a lot of energy to go running around this house at 90 miles an hour.
J's Aunt Cathy was/is also here this weekend so it was awesome to see her and eat with the family. Well, that seems like it, but I know I missed lots. hmmmmmm Have a great week, enjoy this weather!

wogoman weekly - volume 3 issue 15

I know you are sitting by your computer everyday looking for my email! Tenille is doing well. She bit 3 of her friends in one day and was put into "time out" at school. If you ask her about time out or if she wants to go to time out, she bursts into tears. So we are back to biting our friends. She even tells us, "you don't bite friends" but she still does. ugh.

An interesting development this weekend. When asked what her name is she now says wogoman - crisp. Ryan crisp is a kid in her class (an older man!). So sometime this weekend when we weren't looking Tenille got married and hyphenated her name. ahhh punk. J doesn't want to talk about it. :) I haven't had time to ask our friend Jen about it but I am sure that they will get a kick out of it. I hope because Ryan is one of the three that Tenille bit.

School is going well. I am going to be getting a student teacher this spring. He already has 3 degrees in engineering. He is 40 something. Should be interesting. One degree is from Notre Dame so at least he has that going for him. :) I will be splitting his time between myself and another teacher. That way he gets lots of different view points of teaching. So this will make my life easier or completely be a pain in my butt! :) Let's all pray for the first!

J is full into bow season this year. He has seen many but none with big horns. He got a new bow this year and is ready to go. Flo and her babies are off limits at our house so he has been hunting at my parents and grandparents house.

J and I went to first fridays last week in Goshen and had a GREAT time. It was nice to have a night out by ourselves. Tenille is great but sometimes it is nice to eat without trying to also entertain a 2 year old.

Some of my family did the breast cancer walk in Middlebury this past Sunday. It was awesome weather and it raised a ton of money. So cool to see so many people all there for a great cause.

Tenille found out yesterday that she will be getting another cousin! My sister is expecting in May. Tenille got on the phone and said thanks for the cousin, which I then had to translate to Cari. So yippy for that. I hope I can get Tenille out of the biting stage before the baby comes. :)

Tenille isn't really sleeping as is proof of the one photo. Yep, I finally got her to sleep on the floor. Poor girl has a cough and we were up all night that night. So when J woke me up to go to school that day he found Tenille and I snuggled up on the floor. Poor girl.

Well I am sure I missed tons of things that happen here but that is all I can remember right now. So good night all!