wogoman weekly - volume 4 issue 21

Good Sunny afternoon!

This weekend proved fruitful as Jason and Nikki Barnes went hunting and a nine point buck came out of the woods. He is awesome and is going to taste so yummy! :)

We had a lovely thanksgiving this weekend and it was good to see everyone. My cousin was in town from Canada and there was also a baby shower. Tenille, Jason, and I all had the plague as well call it. Head cold, with a cough that just won't stop. I didn't want to infect my cousin's new baby so I stayed away from the shower. Can't wait to see Paisley though . . .she will be back for Christmas.

Since we were all sick we pretty much stayed at home and sat by the fire. That always makes us feel better.

I forgot last week to post the bubble pick of Tenille. Brie and her took a bath together and when I came in to check on them that is all you could see. They were both so happy. I mean, who wouldn't love all those bubbles?

Tenille made the famous, Thanksgiving Indian vest and hair band. She now runs around the house yelling . . "I'm am Indian" and making Indian noises. Not sure how to spell those. :)

We have another thanksgiving on Thursday and then it's Black Friday! :) Not sure what to do this year because everyone is opening so early. But I can tell you FOR SURE that we will be getting that snow globe at JcPenny's at 4 am and having hot cocoa some time later!

That is pretty much it. When you are sick you don't do a whole lot. :) Here is to hoping your Thanksgiving day is awesome and that you take a few moments to remember what you are thankful for.

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I'm not sure what to make of this week since I have more pictures of animals than I do of Tenille. The buck and doe were the prize catch from Sunday morning. They are already at the processors being turned into yummy food. The head of the buck has found it's way back into my freezer awaiting a mounting. The story of how these two perished is good and you should ask J about it. I don't want to steal his thunder, but just want to say I am proud he can provide so well.

The picture of Tenille making cookies makes me so happy. That rolling pin is the one I used with my great grandma. So now Tenille gets to use her great great grandmother's rolling pin. It is so special to me There are just not a lot of things that make it around that long. Hopefully some day we will get to pass it on to Tenille's kids.

And ahhh the picture of the coon coons. We knew we have been feeding the deer but I guess we have also been feeding the coons! Our camera picked up 400 pictures in just a couple days. It only takes a picture once a min so that is a lot of eating going on down there. Luckily coon season opened Wednesday and they are going to be on their way out. (Is it sad that I know when raccoon season opens?)

This week t and I stayed home on Tuesday. I think I needed the rest more than she did. We slept from 12 - 4:15pm. What a nap. Everyone should do that sometime.

Quote of the week:
Hank barked at Sasha. J says, "Well, I see Hank found his bark" Tenille looks at him and says,"Daddy where was it?" So stinking cute! Now if we could get them both to sleep all night that would be awesome. :)

I know you all will be rushing out to see the new Twilight Movie coming out tonight at midnight. I am hoping to get to see it this weekend. We also have our first Thanksgiving and a baby shower for my cousin who lives in Canada. Can't wait to see that baby! (and my cousin too!)

Have a great week.

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For the moment it has stopped raining.  Yippy!  It's hard enough with this daylight savings time but when there is NO sun to look at  . . well that is just sad!   Everyone is doing well.  Hank is getting big.  Tenille I swear grew from the time I dropped her off at school to when I came home from boot camp.   We had a three day weekend and it was awesome.  Lots of staying at home and fires and relaxing.  After having parent teacher conferences two nights last week I needed that.  I spoke with 58 different sets of parents about their kids.  That is enough to wear anyone out.  But our parents loves us much and we had a potato bar to eat one night and a soup bar the other night.  Both were awesome.   Still working on the Christmas gift front but am coming along nicely.  Got Christmas cards order this week. :)  We went and saw Santa at Linton's.  I needed the picture for a photo op later. :) Jeff's kids were with us and when Santa saw Luke was wearing a Middlebury shirt and he said . ."oh I've worked for them for 30 some years"  I grabbed Tenille and ran away.  Santa does NOT work for Middlebury Community Schools.  Santa spends all his time withe the elves in the north pole.  Oh goodness, I guess it is going to be harder to protect Tenille than I thought. :)   Tenille watched the wizard of oz for the first time this weekend.  She sat through the whole thing and was so excited about it.  Unfortunately it was on Direct T.V. so there were those commercials.  Tenille doesn't under stand commercials.  We DVR a lot of our shows and so skip right through them.  Movies don't have them.  When we go to my parents house and we are watching T.V. Tenille pouts because they have commercials at there house. :)   I can't even get my mind around the technology that she will have access to or how that will change her life from all of ours.  So cool and so scary.  Guess that is why I need to haul her outside to play with us.   Well the birds are finding our house is not the best for them.  Saturday a cooper's hawk ran right into our window in the living room.  How do you know what it was?  As the bird sat on the porch trying to recoop, I ran and got my bird identification book.  I showed Tenille and we watched it as it walked around and finally flew away.  Both dogs sat on the other side of the glass, VERY interested in it.  The other bird this week was not so lucky.  I let Hank out last night and when I opened the door to let him in all I see is feathers.  Some how that dog figured out how to catch and kill a bird and was doing his best to eat it.  He was so sad when we took the bird away.  Tenille's comment, must have been a naughty bird.  We are trying to teach her there are good reasons to kill some animals sometimes.  But mostly she just thinks we kill naughty animals to eat. :)  cute kid huh?   Well until next week . . . I will leave you with Tenille's word from last night.  Importable.  That is an important item that is moveable.  Makes sense right?   Tracy "The difference in who you are and who you want to be is what you do."   check us out on the web: wogomanweekly.blogspot.com   13551 CR 12 Middlebury, IN 46540 t - 574.361.2334 j - 574.596.8144

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Well another Halloween has come and gone.  This one was the best yet.  She was so happy to be with her cousin and so happy to get . . .smarties!  Mary Shroyer also gave her a goodie bag full on awesome stuff.  Her fav?  The sunny d with a skull ribbon tied on it.  She also got a bag from Aunt Heather with my little pony stuff in it and a bag from my mom with a plastic lizard and other goodies.  This kid makes out like a bandit, that is for sure!   We had a great weekend(it was three days for me!)  I got Christmas shopping done, yes I sure did!  I also negotiated a treadmill.  They wanted $400 for it and it new was $1300 but they HAD to sell it because they were moving and closing on their house on Monday.  The treadmill kept giving them an error.  I gave them my number.  Went home and looked it up online and found the way to fix it.  Showed them I could fix it, and offered them $100 bucks.  They took it and J and I got a TREADMILL.  Merry Christmas to us!  We have both used it and it is awesome.  Heart rate monitor and everything.  So cool.  I think that is my best bargain of the garage selling season.  That and my free handle that makes my cabinets perfectly.  I mean, how lucky am I?   I couldn't find Tenille this morning after I got her up.  Where was she?  In Hanks cage, playing with him.  I had to save him from all the loving.  He is growing so fast that maybe soon, he will be able to with stand the love that little girl is pouring out on him.   Now it is time for the story of the frog: Tenille has been in love with this stretchy frog with got in Maine.  It only had three legs, someone had torn off the other one.  Anyways she was so happy to have it.  She slept with it each night.  Well one night we put her to bed and she stretches it and POP! off comes another front leg.  Tenille immediately starts crying and begging me to put the leg back on.  I tell her I can't and there is more crying.  So the next day I actually find some stretchy frogs online.  They come in an assortment pack and have a blue one that is exactly the shape of the other frog but the wrong color and a green frog which is the right frog color but the wrong shape.  I buy 4 packs.  I figure if these work then I want extras in-case we lose them. :)  With shipping that is $18.70 for the frogs.  So the frogs show up.  I sneak the old frog out of Tenille's bed.  I tell her I have fixed the frog and show her the new green frog.  Tenille looks at it and smiles and then says mommy this is the WRONG frog.  He is too fat.  So I then show her the blue frog that is the right fat size but the wrong color.  She is happier but then wants to compare it to the old two leg frog.  I show her that one and she studies them all.  She looks me in the eye and says, "Yep, I'll take all three mommy!"  So now we spent $18 buck and I have to find 3 frogs in bed every morning.  Guess she showed us right?   Well parent teacher conferences Tuesday and Thursday this week.  That makes for a very long week but a nice Friday off!  Wish me luck.  The one picture of Tenille is a little fuzzy but I had to show it to you.  This is the outfit she picked to go out to eat it.  She is a fashionista for sure!    The last picture is Tenille and her cousin Katie at my mom's house.  They just kept looking at eat other like . . Really what are you wearing?  Have a great week!   Tracy "The difference in who you are and who you want to be is what you do."   check us out on the web: wogomanweekly.blogspot.com   13551 CR 12 Middlebury, IN 46540 t - 574.361.2334 j - 574.596.8144