Build-a-Bear

We had a visit from Grandma and the Hirst cousins in April.  My kids had so much fun with Isaac, Joey, Anna, and Will!!!  They love it when family comes to visit.  While they were all here, Grandma took everyone to Build-a-Bear.  Samantha wasn't able to come with us because she was at school and couldn't miss any more days but we picked her up an animal too!

After making our animals, we found some fun ride-on toys in the mall.  Luckily, we had just enough quarters for everyone to have a ride!!

Disneyland

We took a little trip to Disneyland in March to escape for a few days.  Josh doesn't remember the first time he went to Disneyland because he was only a few months old...he LOVED it this time!!!

Our Newest Addition

For those of you that don't know, we are having another boy!  This is a profile of our little boy when he was 15 weeks (I think).  I am lucky enough that I get to have ultrasounds every two or three weeks for the first 30 weeks of my pregnancy and twice a week after that.  When I find some of our other pictures I will post them.  It is very interesting to see the growth of your baby through 2D Ultrasounds.  This was also our ultrasound where we found out we were having a little boy!!  Andrea wanted a little sister really bad so I felt sorry for her.  She cried for about 10 minutes after we were told it was a boy...it was very sad.  Now, she is fine and can't wait to see Baby Benjamin.  She talks to him all the time and lets me know what Benjamin is saying to her!  He frequently lets her know that he wants to come out.  It will be interesting to see what happens when Benjamin is born because in all but one of his ultrasounds, he has been sucking his thumb!!  It is funny to see his little mouth sucking away on his thumb!

Let's Try Again...

In case you haven't noticed, there hasn't been a lot of activity on the blog lately.  I do have good reasons.  The biggest reason is that it was almost impossible for me to post with our dial-up internet.  The connection had gotten so bad that it would take FOREVER to try to post anything and half the time it still wouldn't work.  So, I gave up!!  I also have been really sick with this pregnancy so nothing was getting done in the house and the thought of blogging never really entered my mind. 

However, we now have this new thing called high speed internet...it is fabulous!!!  We are going to try to do this blogging thing again and see how it goes.

The Web Files

Samantha's school does two musicals every school year.  They do one in December and one in June.  This is a video of Sammy's dance in the first grade musical.  She is the one with a pink long sleeved shirt under the gray t-shirt on the right side of the movie.  Because of our dial-up I had to make the video really small in order to upload it...sorry.  I was also using a new video camera and had no idea how to use it!  I was mad because it wouldn't zoom and I couldn't figure it out.  Apparently when you are in 1080 mode you can't zoom!  So, that is why there is no zooming in on Samantha.  She did a really good job!  I can't wait to see what they do in June!!!  One last note...the kids dancing were not supposed to sing the song and it seems the first graders didn't know the dirty rat song very well!!  Oh, well!

Elf

My kids have been loving the movie Elf the last couple weeks.  I bought it a year or two ago and never opened it...and now we love it!!  Don't ask my why but even 2-year-old Josh loves to watch it.  At dinner tonight the girls were discussing which characters in Elf they like to pretend to be.  Sammy told Jeff, "You could be called Buddy.  Then, you could give your dad a present that is a dress with boobs.  Really, he gives his dad a dress with real boobs and you can put it on!"  I was trying hard not to roll on the floor laughing but I did laugh a little!!  If you have never seen this movie, watch it and you will totally get what she is talking about!! 

Who Am I???

I always thought I knew who I was.  I have been Melissa Mabey for over 30 years and then I became Melissa Mabey Nichols over 9 years ago.  Apparently I was totally wrong...according to Facebook that is.  I tried to log in to my Facebook account yesterday and was told my account was disabled.  I went through the process and sent an email to Facebook asking them about this and telling them I really am Melissa Mabey Nichols and that I really only have one facebook account.  Their response made me a little angry because they basically called me a liar.

Hi,
Fake accounts are a violation of our Statement of Rights and Responsibilities. Facebook requires users to provide their real first and last names. Impersonating anyone or anything is prohibited, as is maintaining multiple profiles on the site. Unfortunately, we will not be able to reactivate this account for any reason. This decision is final.
Thanks for your understanding,
The Facebook Team


Apparently they changed their minds tonight because I was able to log in.  I did send them an email letting them know that my name really is Melissa Mabey Nichols and I wanted to know if they could explain to me what happened...who knows???  I wonder how long they will let me have my Facebook account back!!