1st day of school 2010

Well today was the first day of school for the kids. This year they are in a brand new school! There is still a lot of things that need to be done at the school but it is learning ready. I forgot to take a picture of the brand new campus though. I did at least remember to take pictures of my kids!
Yesterday as soon as Laura woke up she wanted to make her lunch. She was so excited to make that lunch! I told her to wait until after dinner so as soon as she was done eating she went to go make it. I convinced her to wait until after I cleaned up dinner. Then as soon as I walked out of the kitchen in she went. It wasn't even 5:30 so I made her wait until at least 6:30. She sat and watched the clock and as soon as it hit 6:30 she bolted for the kitchen to make that lunch! She also kept telling me yesterday that she was going to bed at 6 pm. I told her to wait until at least 7! The other kids went to bed at 7:30. Of course as soon as the kids went to bed it started to storm! So with the storm and all the excitement of school the next day I think it was 9:30 before they fell asleep!
I was up at 4:30 this morning because we had a night visitor. A single little cricket that made a lot of noise! I finally gave up and got out of bed at 5:30! I could hear Laura stirring around in her bed then but she waited to get up until I got her up. She was no problem to get ready this morning. The boys even got up without a fuss! Kenni was easy to get ready but James was another story. He didn't want to wear what I had for him and he didn't like the socks I had for him. He wasn't going to eat breakfast this morning either but he finally changed his mind. He finally got over his fuss and the rest of the morning he was fine. Maddi didn't want to get up very easy this morning but she did alright. After everyone got ready we went outside to take pictures. Then it was Kenni's turn to fuss! He was mad because his lunch box was in his way so that just ruined everything. Once we got to school everyone was fine though and they were super excited because they all got to play on the playground together. All of their teachers seem really nice and I think it's going to be a pretty good year!

Look Mom! No Floaties!

For a while now Maddi has been totally capable of swimming with no floaties but she just was scared. For the last few weeks I have managed to get her down to only one floatie. Now yesterday we finally convinced her that she just doesn't need them anymore.

While we were swimming the kids were trying to get on each others backs....It did work so good!

I also wanted to try to get a picture of all the kids together by the pool.....

1st Maddi was crying...

Then she was MAD!

Oh then she was perfectly fine and ready to pose....

Then Kenni was mad...

I finally got them all together and then...

a helicopter just had to fly by and then that was end of taking their picture!!!!!! I tried but unfortunately my children aren't the best at co-operating with me!!!! Oh well...A day in the life of the Ozbirn's!

Almost Double Digits

We celebrated Laura's 9th birthday this week! I can't believe it's been 9 years already since she has been born! She grows up more and more each and every day. This year she made her own cake and it was delicious! She was so excited for her birthday she was up at 5am. Then about noon she asked me where Daddy was and what was taking him so long to get home from work. I told her he wasn't taking so long she just got up too early! She wanted hot wings for dinner so when Daddy got home he made his baby girl hot wings with extra hot sauce! That girl loves her hot sauce that is for sure! While the hot wings were cooking we did presents. We got her rock band so she can have some new songs to sing. After dinner we had cake and played rock band with her. She had a great birthday! Already she is talking about her birthday next year!!!!

Ouch...There's Cactus

Today I took the kids over to the golf course and took some pics of them at the cactus garden. Maddi was scared of the cactus so didn't cop-operate that well and the boys kept running around and stepping in cactus! I couldn't figure out how to make my camera flash so the pics turned out a little darker than I wanted but all in all they are still good pics.

Kenni's 1st lost tooth

This morning Kenni FINALLY lost his 1st tooth. This thing has been loose FOREVER! Since two of his girl cousins beat him to loosing their 1st teeth he has really been working on getting the sucker out! Both Laura and Little Man let their teeth just dangle before pulling them out. Not Kenni..Mr. Tough guy. He asked James last week to pull it but it just wasn't ready. Well after another week of wiggling it he went back to Daddy and this time it came out. James said he heard it crack a couple of times and then it came out but Kenni didn't even let out a peep! Kenni can get shots and pull teeth with no tears but tell him he doesn't get video games and the whole world ends!

It's Raining, It's Pouring....

AZ City is flooding! Monsoon 2010 has definitely arrived! Thursday the weather man forecasted it to rain but not before 5pm. Well about 1:30 the rain came down in buckets! A lot of the surrounding areas got terrible wind (60-70 mph) but we only got rain. The kids were scared because of the thunder and usually when the monsoon hits we loose power. They all went and found their flash lights but I went out under the front porch and watched it rain! I was always scared as a kid, even as an adult in IL, of storms but since we've been here I just love the storms. Once the kids saw I was okay they came out with me and we just sat and watched it rain! That night I was woke up in the middle of the night because it was raining again. Friday was pretty quite but again I was woke up from my sleep friday night from rain. When I got up this morning our whole backyard was underwater and our pool is VERY FULL! This afternoon we headed up to see James' Uncle and it took us a half an hour to get out of AZ City because there was no way to go that wasn't flooded! We even saw kids tubing down the road! By the time we got home this evening the water had mostly receded but there is still a lot of water in the streets. Now everything is a muddy mess but we sure do welcome the rain anytime we can get it!