WHOOPS!

There were a couple days that I definitely forgot to post something for. First being the 19th- my best friends birthday! Erin, hope your day ended well, glad we could talk on the phone for a little! My best friend is just that, the best! I am so blessed to have her in my life. Her brother chose to get married that day as well. He is the closest I have to a brother and I wish them both the best. Congratulations and enjoy that honeymoon!

20th - Another good friend's birthday. Happy birthday Cheryl! It was also Father's Day. I want to thank the wonderful fathers in my life, my father, husband, grandfathers, and many others who have influenced me for the better and been a wonderful example.

21st - $0.99 Rita's Italian ice day! In commemoration of the first day of summer, Rita's was having a sale on their regular size Italian ice. We stopped by for a treat and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Keela

So.... we got a dog. Yeah, I know. Finally took the jump and got a dog. The girls have been asking forever and since things weren't going as well as we wanted with getting a new car (basically, we haven't gotten one yet because we can't figure out what we want) that we decided to do the dog first.

We headed to the SPCA after Sissy's graduation on Friday, saw Keela and J said he really liked her. So, we interacted with her, things went well and so we said we wanted to adopt. Off we flew to the nearest Petsmart to get her the necessities and then we picked her up Saturday. She is such a great dog. I think she has come to accept us as her family and I hope she loves us a lot. She seems to. I love the exercise too. J and I take turns walking her. He usually gets the evening walk, I get the morning. No sleeping in for me ever I guess! Oh well. Maybe we will switch again once J starts work. This morning I took her for a 3 mile walk. She did great. Running with her isn't too easy, she keeps swerving back and forth. Until she gets used to it I think it might be slow going.

Her first day here, she fell asleep on the couch for a bit and Sissy put a blanket over her to keep her warm. It was the cutest thing.

 

Moving On..... aka Graduation

Sissy (little momma) "moved on" from Pre-K on the 11th. I tried to get some good pictures of her teachers, but.... most came out fuzzy.

The children sang a few songs, got their certificates and we all got to munch on some cake (at 10 in the morning).


This is Ms. Padgett - Sissy's Pre-K teacher. Ms. Barnes was her assistant for part of the year, as was Ms. Reid. I wasn't able to get great pictures of either of them though. We loved all of her teachers and feel that they were all very kind, loving, and HUGE helps in helping Sissy to learn a lot this year!

A Surprise

It has been a little while since I blogged. Mostly because we have had so much going on and I have had so little time on the computer. First.... J surprised me by coming home early. Some of our best friends here surprised me by bringing my husband home Friday night! He told me he wouldn't be home until the 7th and lo and behold, he shows up on the 4th!

Our time with him so far has been spent going to the zoo (and finally riding the train), looking for cars, running errands, looking for dogs, more errands, watching movies, and hanging around. Let me tell ya, we are never more lazy than when Daddy first comes home. But... the laziness is most definitely under the category of "quality time" as well. =)

J showed up very late on the 4th, some of my friends kidnapped my kids to give me a chance to "clean house". They all knew my husband was about to pop through the door. I come home, get ready to start cleaning, and the doorbell rings. I go to it thinking it is my friend, Stephanie picking some stuff up for the kids overnight and there is J staring at me - mustache and all! I couldn't believe it! Naturally, the kids didn't see him that night, so we planned a dinner for the following day with our friends so that Jeremiah could sneak up and surprise them. little momma was HILARIOUS! She looks at him, says... "Hi Daddy...." then it clicks. (Wait... Daddy isn't supposed to be home....) "DADDY!!! Did mommy pick you up??" While this was going on, destructo girl was already not paying attention, we had to turn her focus on him before she noticed, got a huge smile on her face and said, "Daddy!!" and smothered him with hugs. Little Man wasn't really sure what to do. He was already a little tired, he sat with J for a little while before he went to sleep.

We talked this past Sunday at church. Since our stake has stake conference this Sunday (Father's Day) we celebrated it on the 13th. Our topic was Fathers and the primary children sang. J had me tearing up a little bit when he thanked our Home Teachers and Friends for helping to make his job easier by knowing his family was taken care of. It is very nice knowing that you have people to call to ask for help in any way when your spouse is away.

Friendship

Melanie had a little (less than 30 minute) music concert last night at school. Kindergarten and Pre-K classes were the only ones to perform. Melanie and the rest of the Pre-K performed 2 songs. I was able to capture the first one on tape. You have to excuse the blurry parts and those where I completely move all over the place. I needed to hold Julia (because we were rapidly losing seats with all the friends and family that showed up) and so there were quite a few "operator difficulties". At one point you will hear Julia say she wants to go dance with Melanie. So yeah... my 3 year old trying to crash the party. GO FIGURE. I thought Melanie was HILARIOUS and am very proud of her... even if she doesn't know the words.

Numb

Once again, I am numb. That's the third time in a month!! Finally was able to get my gimp tooth filled. Things could go well with it, or badly. I am really hoping after spending as much as I have on the thing, that it will be good. The filling is fine, just that the cavity exposed a pin hole amount of pulp and that could either be good or bad. The bad resulting in a bridge, and a yanked tooth. Not extremely thrilled about that idea. All that is left now is to pray and hope that the Lord will bless me. (please!?)

Camping Out

 

This past weekend we were lucky enough to be invited along on a camping trip with our best friends. We went to Pocomoke River State Park for Memorial Day weekend. It was a little stressful at times (with three crazy kids and their dad not around to be stern) but overall, I had a BLAST! Tara helped the kids find a "tarzan swing" that they got to swing on a few times. I wasn't able to get pictures of that (and some other things obviously).

The weekend was full of bike riding, walking, swimming, smores, popcorn, campfires, yummy food, lots of bathroom trips, treats, birthday cake, and even some ticks! Melanie and Julia each had only one tick. I have yet to find one on Hunter or myself. We will keep looking though just to be sure although we were pretty thorough.

Julia fell off a scooter during our trip and scraped up her nose pretty good. Poor girl... thank heaven it did not break! Hunter was really great. He sat around in his pack -n- play most of the time or was held (aka spoiled) by someone in the group. He slept pretty great all three nights and had a rough night at home last night. Go figure... hopefully we'll get the routine down in the next day or two.