"Mom guess what?!"

It doesn't get much cuter than a phone call from a 10 year old little boy with a voice so excited he could hardly stand it. "Mom we got to storm the field after the game, there were so many people on the field you could only see the goal posts. It was so awesome. Did you see the end of the game? Did you? It was awesome. Dad and me stormed the field. We beat the Hawkeyes Mom, it was so cool. How is Tommy doing Mom? Is Jack with you? It's really loud here. We are walking over the Olentangy right now from the game Mom, just Dad and me. The game was awesome! Do you want to talk to Dad? I can hardly hear you Mom, it's really loud here. But we got to storm the field"

That's about the jist of the conversation Drew and I had 30 minutes after the Buckeyes beat the Hawkeyes in overtime. Priceless. Just priceless. Our boys will NEVER forget these Buckeye weekends with their Dad...what a gift. The gift of time!

Love it...I was more excited for Drew and Scott to be there than anything else about the game.

89 it is....

Tommy and Drew had their well check ups at the Doctor on Wednesday afternoon. They both weighed the same 89 pounds. It was kind of funny.

Drew is 5'0" tall and Tommy 5" 3" tall.

Both in the 95 percentile for height for their age

Drew 85th% in weight and Tommy 55% in weight.

So as the Dr told them, both perfectly made by God. Neither one too heavy, neither one too skinny. Just perfect. They both liked hearing that from him. Drew built like a Terwilliger and Tommy built just like his Dad.

We love our pediatrician, a very wise, kind and caring guy.

Drew's weekend

Drew is in Ohio with Scott this weekend. They left last night, stayed in a hotel enroute and arrived in Columbus today. Both so excited to go yesterday, it's hard to know who the weekends mean more to, the boys or Dad. :) Cute.

They played golf, yes golf in November, today at the Ohio State University course. They had a great time, played 18 and were able to just play with each other, they didn't get paired up which is a wonderful thing. Had dinner at their favorite Eddie George Grill. Now they are at our friends the Townsleys for the night.

Tomorrow is the BIG game. Buckeyes play the Hawkeyes. This is one we REALLY want to win living here in Iowa. :) Drew picked going to this game a long time ago. Hopefully the Buckeyes will pull it off! They will head to the farm after the game and spend a couple of nights there with Grandma and Grandpa Shisler. Head to the Browns Monday night football game and home Tuesday.

They are having a great time. The other boys and I have a day of basketball planned tomorrow, first for Jack, then Tommy has a tournament as well. Other than that, nothing on the schedule. That filled up the day on it's own. Sadly we will miss most of the Buckeye game live since Tommy plays 2 games during game time. Tommy is not happy about that. Oh well....I would pick the boys' games over anything else ANY day!

The house is much quieter without Drew and Scott home, but we know they are having a great time together. Memories being made every minute they are there...

Family Minute

What will your kids remember about their childhood?

Will they cherish the trip to the theme park, the Xbox360, PS3, or the cell phone you bought them? Or will they remember dad cooking pancakes for them, wrestling with them on the floor... and mom writing those special notes for their lunchboxes, or cheering for them at their games? Our children won't reminisce about big events and big-ticket items.

Rather, their hearts will be warmed by memories of the love, caring and companionship you showed them day-to-day. Those are the things that will make a lasting impression they will carry with them into the future.

P.S. Scott gets a daily email from the Family Minute it is in conjunction with All Pro Dad. Always some great family thoughts. He sends the best ones on to me...I loved this reminder.

My Day in Numbers

6:05 am all boys awake

25 copies of 6th grade party wish lists made for Tommy to take to school

24 gallons of gas put into the Suburban

$38 for my haircut

6 cookies purchased at Nan's Nummies on the way home from hcut (for the boys ;) )

3 loads of laundry washed, one folded so far

16 trips to the sunroom moving the Legos from the family room to there

9 birthday invites sent for Jack's bday next week

700 photos uploaded to Shutterfly to make the boys digital scrapbooks

281 pictures edited on the Disney Photo site and 1 cd ordered from them

1 turkey breast in the crockpot for dinner

6 baskets emptied and relabeled for toys

2 yogurts for lunch

2 pieces of pumpkin bread for a snack

40 times the baby has kicked in the last 20 minutes

100's of prayers said today for my friend Leanne's Mom whose cancer has returned

70 days until the baby is born

12 Buckeye magnets found behind the fridge

2:45 time to get the boys for their well check ups

6:30 church tonight

Fair

Jack : Mom, I guess it's fair. Girls get to be the ones to have babies and boys are the ones who get to keep their last names and don't ever have to change them when they get married. That's fair don't you think?

What a trip....

Jack and the Toy Soldier, he was a real guy

Eating our daily Mickey ice cream bars

Scott and Tommy in front of their favorite rock n roller coaster

Tommy and Drew on the monorail

At Epcot

Driving the race cars

Drew driving

Tired Jack

Tired Tommy

Tired Drew

Note front row smiles...Scott and Tommy

Stitch liked their Ohio State Shirt wanted to do O-H-I-O with boys...

Jack doing his Jedi Training, his highlight

With Donald Duck

Magic Kingdom

Spinning the tea cup...it was a little much for Mom

Breakfast with Chef Mickey

Leaving our hotel, Grand Floridian, this morning

I don't even know where to begin...

We are just home from our week at Disney World and I can honestly say it was one of the best family vacations we have ever had. Thank you for your prayers for all of us. We had so much fun together. We just enjoyed it all. We packed in the fun in 6 days, but it worked out perfectly. Every detail seemed to flow well. Scott and I were amazed, I would say the trip exceeded both of our expectations in every way. The boys were at perfect ages for the trip. They all had stuff they enjoyed, they all had the stamina to make it through the long days...no complaints about all of the walking. Scott had his pedometer and most days he and Tommy clocked in 8 miles or more. Drew, Jack and I went at a little slower pace and didn't go to all of the rollercoasters they ran back and forth too.

I am not sure where to begin with pictures. We took over 800 not to mention the ones the Disney photographers took, add another 180 for those. I put a few of my favorites on here from quickly glancing through them...will add more later.

We are home safe and sound. I will detail the trip another day. For now I am tired and ready to settle into being home.

So many blessings...not sure where they start or end.

P.S. And we lost 2 teeth on the trip. Drew lost a bottom tooth at Epcot in Mexico, and Jack lost one of his two front teeth at breakfast this morning. That one made me cry...when you start losing those front teeth you just look so grown up. So I sobbed at breakfast over that. Luckily our boys are used to my tears.

Mickey, here we come...

We are busily packing up, getting all of the stuff ready to go, DS's are charging, DVD's being chosen, backpacks being packed, school work getting finished. The countdown is about over...we leave tomorrow morning for Disney World.

We have excited boys, all with different lists of what they want to do...

Here is the plan

Monday-Downtown Disney

Tuesday-Disney Hollywood Studios

Wednesday-Epcot

Thursday-Magic Kingdom

Friday-Animal Kingdom

Saturday-Favorite parks again

We are staying right on DisneyWorld property with a monorail into the hotel, and with park hopper passes we can hop back and forth between parks as the boys determine their favorite things. We do have some things scheduled and planned and a few MUST do's at each place. We have one meal reservation per day and the others we will look for and find.

It will be a wonderful trip. Please pray for safe travel, great memories, brothers who love each other, my body to hold up with all of the walking, laughs and FUN for all.

Saturday morning breakfast...we made Mickey Waffles in honor of our trip

Mom...you look beautiful

"Mom, you look beautiful", those were the words I heard, from Tommy, as I walked down the stairs and into the kitchen this morning after getting ready for church.

I can say that he did say that with some previous coaching, but nonetheless there was NO coaching today. It was all on his own. You see when I was a little girl EVERY Sunday morning I can remember growing up, I stepped foot off the steps, turned the corner to the kitchen and my Dad ALWAYS, without FAIL, would look up from the paper and would say to me "You look beautiful today, or Don't you look pretty" Always a compliment for my Sunday morning dressed up for church look. Always always...even when I was in High School and would be running late and meet him in the driveway as the car was about to back up, he still managed to tell me, even though he was probably frustrated I was late, "You look nice honey".

I have shared that story with our boys, and with Scott. ;) And told them that it is important they tell Mommy that, and their wives someday, and little girls if they have them....when girls make an effort to look nice, you need to comment and compliment that.

They have remembered sometimes, usually with a little prompting but today...on his OWN...Tommy remembered. Hopefully it sticks for their lifetimes.