Long Time No Blog

Brookie, Michael and Lucy playing...

Ethan and Landon helping us shop in their racecar cart...

Athena with her bday make-up on..
Ethan sleeping with one eye half open... and Landon with his crazy teeth!

Ok SERIOUSLY, it's been like forever since i updated my blog! So far my blog only has one post-super sad right? I posted the first one when i first joined Blogger and i haven't really had time to write another one. I know you're thinking Umm..Kori, you're not in school right now and all you ever do is babysit,housesit bake and go to church! Well i'm here to tell you that all of that stuff i do takes up a lot of my time! It started three weeks ago when i house/dog/fishsat for Lane&Adam(She's been one of my mommy's BFF's since i was like 7 and i watch their two kids Athena,5 and Aaron,2 every week-and she's preggo with a boy/girl-we don't know yet. YAY! When they go on trips i stay at their house and watch over it, their 5 Alaskan Huskies and their 10 Fish tanks!) Yes, you read that right-they really do have 5dogs and 10fish tanks with a thousand fish in them-they're DEF animal lovers, that's for sure! Anywho-back to my explanation of why i've been so super busy...I house/fish/dogsat for them for a week and not to mention i went back and forth to babysit for my other peeps while i was staying in Tempe. After they came home, i spent the next week watching Brooklyn while Kiki and Justin took Weslie and Chayse to Disneyland for Chayse's 5th bday. They had a blast and so did Brookie and I here in Phx, where it was starting to actually cool off! Afterall...it is OCTOBER for crying out loud! Only in AZ would it be October and it still be 100degrees outside! So while Brookie was here i babysat for Michelle and watched Michael,Lucy and Brooke. Three 2yr olds...enough said. They're all super sweet kids but they all have problems with SHARING. But then again, what 2yr old doesn't?We played outside-they have a huge sport court with a basketball court, volleyball and tennis court, tetherball and a bunch of bikes/scooters/skateboards/cars/etc..so we spent most of the day out there and i have some cute pics of them playing together. I'll post a few from the past couple of weeks that will complete the recap of my busy-ness.

Moving on...after that TiffERnee and I spent a week at our Next Generation Pastor Nathan Rouse's(Rappin Rouster) house watching their two boys Ethan,5 and Landon,3 while they went up to UCYC in Prescott for the staff retreat. Even though we had to wake up super early(NO it was not 10:00a.m.-which is the normal "early" for us) we had to wake up @6:00 in the morning to get Ethan ready for school! I have one thing to say about this- Boys are much much much much much much easier to get ready for school than girls are! They just wake up, eat, get dressed&brush their teeth and they're ready to go! Most of the time i didn't hear Tiff's alarm...so i kinda slept in i guess you could say...but she didn't try to wake me up(which was prob for the best :) Thanks Tiff!!) Anywho, can i just say how great, fun, sweet,caring and hilarious kids they are?! They were soooo good that by the end of the week when Rouse was coming home, we were ready to still stay and have sleepovers with them and keep teaching them how to play Guitar Hero and watch them teach us how to play SSX(some snowboarding game...don't even ask!) Your'e prob wondering about it so i'll tell you a little bit-they LOVE this game so much that if all they got to do all day was play it-they'd be happy campers! Every morning before school they wanted to play it and when the intro came on they would both do their dance to the "tricky" song. We had that song in our head everyday-"It's tricky...rock around to rock around..it's tricky!" We stunk at it but they were pros-we'll stick to GH! Oh and did i mention that they are the cutest things when they sing songs! Every morning on the way to school we said a little prayer and listened to K-LOVE and they would sing EVERY song! Ethan can go way high and when we told him he was a great singer, he just looked at us and went "Why thank you Miss Kori and Miss Tiffany, i know i am!" I wonder if he's heard that before? And he actually got our names right that time- all week they would call us by each others names..it's not like we look alike or act like sisters or anything, is it? No...people never ask us that! Haha well we had a great time with them and can't wait to watch them again!

The very next day after we were done watching the boys i went back to Tempe to house/dog/fishsit. Only for four days this time! Any longer than that and my allergies kick in. I don't really have many allergies but i'm def allergic to these dogs! I love being there and hanging out with them but i can never stop sneezing and blowing my nose :( Sad day! Over the weekend there were so many things going on in Fusion and i couldn't do any of them! I either had to babysit or go back to Tempe. Friday night was girls scrapbooking(scrapping-where everyone tries to beat each other up...or NOT! Idk where Nathan comes up with these things...) night, i would have gone but i babysat til late and then went back to the house, but we did see HSM3-Best movie EVER! Haha not really but it was really good. I think Katie,Tiffany and i laughed through pretty much the ENTIRE thing but i can't wait to see it again when i take Weslie and Chayse! Then Saturday morning a bunch of us went and helped a lady from church move...that was quite an adventure. She was really nice..she was just very particular and loved to tell everyone what to do and how to do it..nah what i mean? My fav part was after we were all done and we had a "Pizza Party" in the backyard. The house lady has this area outside for parties..it's super cool!...later that night was the "Backyard Campout" in Tandrea's(Tim and Andrea's)backyard. We wanted to go camping for REAL but i guess it didn't work out? I'll have to get on that and actually make it happen...but the campout thing was fun, Katie and I went for a little bit because our bbsitting jobs were cancelled at the last minute. We had a bonfire and made yummy cookies for Steven's birthday-Ella made white chip chocolate cookies from one of my recipes-i guess they're his fav? Joshie helped and they were quite a success! Speaking of baking--i need to figure out what i'm baking for our Halloween party on friday! I have so many ideas and recipes i want to try out, but i don't want everyone to ralph from all the sweets! All i can say to you peeps is you better come HUNGRY!!!

I've basically recapped the last 3weeks..kinda long-i'll try not to let it go that long before i blog again!!

Tonight's my night to make dinner so i better get on that...Thanks for stopping by and i'll catch ya later peeps!