Why is it....

Why is it when you get a child a new pair of shoes, the first thing they want you to see is how fast they make them run?



From that statement I bet you can tell Allyson got a new pair of shoes. And when we got home walking to the front door, she yells "watcht mom and dad at how fast my new shoes makes me run!" To say the least they sure do make her run faster than she has ever run before!

Just Because

I came home from school Tuesday night to find some beautiful white roses that Steve and Allyson got for me. I love getting flowers for no particular reason! Along with the roses Allyson made me a card that said:

Dear Mom
Me and daddy are giving you these flowers because we love you.
Love Allyson and Daddy
xoxoxox

Hot Car!

Well remember a few weeks ago and said that we got a new car, well we now have new rims to go with the car. Now I'm not normally all into this kind of thing, however with Steve putting these rims on his car it looks really good! Better than it just looking really good Steve is so happy with how it looks. I think since he got them put on a few days ago he has washed his car about 5 times! You ask how many times he has washed mine? NONE!!! But that's ok cause he's happy!

Early Valetine's Day

Valentines Day will be here tomorrow! This is one holiday that a completley step back and let Steve be in charge of! He takes care of Allyson's valentines stuff, and I'm not sure which one loves it more! At like the begeninning of Feb Allyson starts to get excited because she knows Daddy always comes thru with candy and flowers! I feel sorry for whoever she is dating when she gets older, her daddy has her spoiled already! Well she will be getting her present today when she gets home from school, Steve figured it would be hard to hide the flowers till the morning. So this is what is on her bed waiting for her when she gets home from school!

Junior Achievement

For one of my classes I have to teach a Junior Achievement class I got my assignment this week. I'm so happy that I got assigned to a kindergarten class! The lesson consist of 5 sessions and it was up to me and the teacher to do it in one week or one lesson a week for 5 weeks, the teacher wants me to do it in one week! So on Monday I will start my first lesson! I'm excited but kind of nervous at the same time, I have not had to teach a class on my own yet, so this will be my first! If you are not familar with Junior Achievement it is a non-profit organization that runs with mostly volunteers that goes into the classrooms and teaches students abuout economics. It starts out in kindergarten and they have lessons all the way to 12th grade. If you want more info on this organization here is the link: http://www.ja.org/

Well I hope everyone has a good weekend!

Drama in the Dodd House!

Well who would of thought that a DS game would put a 6 year old in tears, and I'm not talking just a little bit of tears, but the full blown, can't catch her breathe, hysterically crying! Allyson has been playing her new game Nintendog, which is where she has virtual dogs, its a pretty cool game, that she has to take care of the dogs. Well the first dog that she bought when she got the games was named Daisy, and she wanted to check Daisy into the dogie hotel, so that she can get some pampering, you know, because all dogs need to be pampered, and she went to the hotel to get her dog, and it kept telling her that they didn't have her dog. So she comes in the room telling me that the hotel is keeping her dog, and will not give it back! I played with it for a while and still no luck, and no Daisy. So now I tell her that I don't know where the dog is that she must of lost it, well I thought she was OK with that, she went back into the living room where about 5 mins later I hear her crying, she comes back in the room and is in full blown tears over losing her dog! Now Steve gets involved to see where Daisy might be. He goes to the hotel and it tells him the same thing, then he looks at the screen and it has 4 choices: Drop off dog, Swap dog, Pick up dog, and Donate dog, he asked Allyson what button she hit and she this one dad, DONATE dog, that's right she went and gave her dog away without even knowing it! So that lead to about another 15 mins of crying that she lost her dog forever! The way she cried you would have thought that she lost the real thing!
I felt bad for her, but at the same time I have to laugh about it because after all it is still just a game! Oh and after she went to bed Steve stayed up on it trying to her more money so that she can go and buy another dog. He's such a sweet daddy!

New Hair Do!

Last weekend I got so tired of Allyson's hair looking so rough, and she has been asking to get her hair cut short, so after church we went and had it chopped off! It came out a little shorter than what any of us was expecting but we love it now!

Here's a picture about a week before:
And here a few after shots:
I think the new hair cut makes her look older!