It's been a long time. I am Sorry!

Hello everyone. I know, I know, I haven't been doing too good with my New Year's resolution. I have good reason! At least I think it is. Are you ready?
I am a "Twilight" series junkie. I believe the word for it is ""Twidict". Let me explain. Twilight is a series of books written by Stephanie Meyers. An unbelievable work of fiction about a loner girl, Bella and how she falls in love with a "vampire" named Edward. There was no bloodsucking, gory scenes, because this family of vampires that he belongs to consider themselves "vegetarians", meaning they only drink the blood of animals like bears, mt. lions etc... Well, as dorky as it may sound the book were awesome! There are 4 of them and I finished the series in about 7 days! The last book had 754 pages, it took me 2 days to read. Lorelai began calling me book lady! I don't know what exactly drew me about these books but, I can honestly say, I will re-read them and enjoy them just as much!
So now you know what I've been up to, how 'bout the rest of them? Life as normal of course. Lorelai continues to go to school and now is faced with the decision to either go two days next year or three. She also wants to get her ears pierced. we are letting her make her own mind up there also, I don't see it happening anytime soon though. Randall Jr. is still exploring all he can and pushes the limit every chance he gets. Randall Sr. is finishing up his job in NJ and will be back next week to start putting feelers in around here and out by my brother's for work. He has a couple things lined up but is really hoping to find something much bigger than just two or three day jobs!
Superbowl is coming up this weekend, my house is rooting for the Cardinals, my mom is furious because she wants the Steelers to win. I am going with the underdogs.
So I guess that's about it. I promise to keep up better than this from now on. Bye-Bye.

sick,sick,sick...

Sick, sick, Sick...that about covers our household right now. Lorelai has a cough , a stuffy nose, a slight fever, and a headache. Little Randall has a cough and stuffy nose. Mommy has a stuffy nose and Daddy has a stuffy nose. So we are all taking medicine and resting.
Besides that we are just hanging out until winter is over and trying to stay warm. It has been under 30* here for the past three weeks. Reaching about -11 at the coldest. Brrrrr.
We've had some exciting news that Randall has caught the eye of another company who thinks they could use his expertise. They are a gas drilling company from West Virginia. So they have been talking about places they know. The one man said,"I know Tom Paxton" and Randall said,"Different Paxton's". The guy said,"Not from Round Ridge", Randall said,"No, Long Ridge." The man actually lives in Spencer where Helen's parents live. Well, Lorelai has now woke up and would like to be cuddled. So Mommy duty calls. I will post later.

Hello Everyone, I am the Phantom of the Spaghetti O's. Looks pretty messy doesn't he? He had a ball eating lunch and I figured, "Well, it's nothing that won't clean up easy." Enjoy the picture!

A Game of Catch Up.

Hi there. Wow, It's been a really long time since I posted. Oops. I am really sorry. So I will once again catch you up on what's been going on.After we got back from John and Mona's life has pretty much gone back to normal. Randall is working today in Maryland on a cell tower in the bitter cold. He called to say he was fine and should be headed home in about 45 minutes. He started work on his race car, has the old stuff stripped off and the new stuff ready to go. Lorelai is back to school twice a week and play, play, play most other times. Since we got some snow she has played outside a couple of times. She gets bored quick and caomes in about 1 hour after she goes out.Randall jr. is still the same, although he is drinking more from a sippy cup then a bottle now. I am gradually breaking him of that, and hopefully by May he will be off the bottle completely. Then it's time for Daddy to start potty training him. He brings us diapers when he is wet or dirty so that is a really good sign.Me? Well, I just finished reading the Vampire novel "Twilight". WOW! It was awesome.I started it Friday and had the 498 page book finished by Sunday. I couldn't put it down. I can't wait now to read the next one"New Moon" and see the movie that came out this past summer. In fact I begged my mom to babysit tomorrow night so I could go to the 7:45 showing at the theater. I am so excited.I hope that doesn't sound pathetic? So, so far our New Year has been , thankfully quiet. I am going to try to upload a picture now, hopefully that will work. Until tomorrow...BYE-BYE.

Sorry, so late.

Well, it's been about three days since I last updated my blog. Not too much has happened in the last three days. We made our way home from John and Mona's on Monday and went straight to AWANA. Which is a children's church club that Lorelai is in, and I teach at. Yesterday we had a lot of Daddy's errands to run after I picked Lorelai up from her first day back in school. Randall left early and headed to Selinsgrove to pick up a new race car, well new to him, race car and dropped it off at Joe Domiano's garage. Joe is a really good friend of Randall's. He is a fellow racer who retired this year and asked Randall if he could take care of Randall's car for him. Randall of course agreed! So now he won't have to spend all of his nights working on his car.
We went to Mom and Dad Paxton's last night for dinner. The snow started here at about 3:00pm. It lasted until 10:00pm and all together we got about 3 inches, than the rain came and made all that snow, into hard packed ice. Great fun! I will definitely post tonight, after today's adventures. Bye-Bye.

Two days of fun.

We left yesterday morning for John and Mona's at 5:30 am. The kids wee still sound asleep and it made the trip a ton easier not having to entertain them too much. We dropped my Dad off at work Friday morning and headed out. We arrived safely at John and Mona's about 11:30am. It surprised them that we were that early. We went food shopping and to Wal-Mart, to pick up some snacks for the weekend. John's friends the Deans came over and we had a ball telling them all the crazy stories about my mom. There are soooooo many. Dad, Randall and Dan arrived at aout 11:30 pm. We carried the presents in and set them around the tree for the kids in the morning.
Little Johnny was the first one up and was excited because Santa had stopped at his house again!
....I am being paged so I will finish this later this evening. Bye- for now!

A New Year

5,4,3,2,1.....Happy New Year. I am sorry I didn't post last night or should I say this morning. We got home from our New Year Eve party around 1:00 am and since both kids were asleep we took the chance to watch a movie,"Annapolis". It was really good.
Lorelai enjoyed her night, she had lots of people to entertain. She played Wii bowling and had a score of 124!
FRAP just kind of wandered from person to person and enjoyed the attention.
Randall and I, ate, played Wii, ate some more, played more Wii, the ususal at a New Years Eve party. It's hard for me to beileve that this is our 16th New Year together.
I have a lot to do today, packing, cleaning, laundry, vacuming the car, so I will close today with a line from a song I sang when I was a little girl. It kind of goes with the challenges and uncertainities we face in a new year. As individuals, couples, and a nation :
"He's got everything under control, he's got everything under control. The stars and the planets are in His hands. The wind and the rain are at His command.You and I are a part of His plan. He's got EVERYTHING under control." AMEN!