Spangler Family Communication Center

I'm telling you these next two years will be the most documented time of my childrens lives. If we have any more kids later (yeah yeah yeah) they will wonder why they dont have seven thousand pictures of them each month. Not to mention all the short little videos. But, it still doesn't make up for Mark being gone. I think he should make some videos for us!!!! Sounds like a good idea to me. Well, the kids and I are alone in the house now. I think we like it. I haven't stopped baking and cooking and having a ball. On wednesday we are having a little kid party or a play group where I watch all the kisd or whatever you want to call it. We are going to make crackers. It is like making sugar cookies so we can shape them how ever we want then bake them and eat them. It shall be a blast, I think. Tonight I made homemade pizza sauce for the first time. It tastes pretty good. We are having a make your own pizza night at my folks with my whole family (which is only like ten including Mark and the kids) so it isn't very big. I decided to venture out and make the sauce. I mean why make the dough and not the sauce. It was fun. I also made these really yummy fruit and nut bars. I sampled them at costco and they were so good but they were 20 bucks for a whole box. I read the ingredients as I do before I sample anything and there were only like five ingredients. I said to my self,"self you can make these" I did and they are like perfect. It cost me only 4 bucks to make like twenty. I am so excited I can just scream, but I won't cause my kids are asleep. The really excting thing about them is that there is no sugar in them. I am on a no sugar kick well no white or brown sugar only fruit sugars and natural unrefined sugars. So this is great!!!! I think cooking keeps me sane.

Micah is a teething mess right now. Makes me sad and it helps me to loose my patients with Ali. I would like those little teeth to pop in and be done. He has the biggest ridges I've ever felt really I have no idea why they haven't popped through. Maybe he is stretchy gums boy. How is that for a super hero Greg? Ali is doing well, she is a big help to me and she is learning to help mommy bake. It is great fun. Next week I think her and I will have to sew her an apron. I may need to ask Niki about some help making a mini apron. Call me. It shouldn't be hard in theory.

Mark is still on the field. We have a chain count down and wrip off a chain a day to chount down his apearance in Phoenix. We are super excited. Ali had a sad time a lot of today cause she misses daddy and can't call him. He has contacted us for like ten minutes each day which has been precious to us. We never know if or when he will call. So far he has only called once when Ali was up and that was today of all days. God knew Ali would miss him the most today so talking to him helped I think. She went right to bed without a fuss tonight after talking to him. (She despises going to bed, but I love it so I don't care that she hates it :))

The kids and I are trying to coordinate a camping trip for next week in the middle of the week. I am hoping it will work out. It may be a little caotic but it may help the anticipation of daddy coming home. We'd probably come back the day Mark comes in. He doesn't come in til like 9pm. I'm not sure if I'm going to bring the kids to the airport or just put them to bed, get a siter and tell them daddy will be home when they wake up. ????? Oh the delema.

I think I've blogged way too much so goodnight.
Jessica