Gabby’s friend party for Mother’s Day

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May 9, 2009…We got our first invitation to a friends party for Miss Gabriella.  Her friends Sydney and Mackenzie were hostessing a mother’s day party at their home.  Who could pass that up.  (we’ve been to birthday parties before, but this was a school friend invite…not just us mom’s inviting our own friends over for our kids to play).  Erica (the girls’ mom) had lunch that her girls helped her with and little gift baggies and each of our girls made us mother’s day bracelets with all the fixings provided by erica…it was very cool and gabby and i had fun.  Too bad that while we were there we realized through conversations that none of the friends gabby had made at preschool (at least the ones i know the most about) will be attending the same school as gabby.  Bummer!  Gabby is not the socialite of the family either…while the girls were all playing, she mainly kept to herself, i think so that she could play with all of the princess toys that syd and kenzie had…i so wish she would play WITH her friends!

Big daddy…

ok…have you ever seen the movie “big daddy”?  it stars Adam Sandler (ugh…i really don’t like him…but he does have some funny stuff – and by some, i mean…a little).  Well, he kind of fosters this little boy and teaches him all kinds of inappropriate stuff.  But the one thing that this little boy had in common with my little one, is when the little boy was nervous, AS would have him put the sunglasses on, and he would be “invisible”.  Well, Lex does it a bit differently.  When she’s doing something she’s not supposed to, or she’s where she shouldn’t be – you can walk into that room where she’s at, and she closes her eyes.  most of the time she doesn’t cover them as she’s doing in the picture above, but she’ll just sit/stand there – eyes closed tight with an “ i should be in trouble, but you can’t see me to get me in trouble” type smile that stretches the entire width of her face.  she’ll eventually peek to see if you’re gone, but goes right back to eyes closed when she still sees you.  I kind of pains me to see that she’s already growing out of this behavior (not because she’s no longer being naughty…but she’s figuring out that she still gets in trouble for wrong doing, whether her eyes are closed or not), but because that this cute innocent stuff can only be cute for so long…then they learn consequences for their actions, and some of the cute stuff disappears.  oh, to let them get away with everything and be cute for the rest of their lives…can we keep her this small?  oh, nope…that’s right…we have to raise her to the best of our ability to be an honest and contributing member to society, and while doing that, our main focus is to teach her to love God and love her family and friends and all those around her.  wow.  never knew this parenting stuff would be so hard.  every day i see how i fail…but knowing me, i try and look at the positive, and i also look at how i succeed.  i don’t know how my children will grow up, and what they will contribute to life here…but i will love them as much as i can and teach them to trust, not in themselves, but in their creator, and trust where He leads them.  

Deck Building 5/2/2009

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We finally have the deck on the house! We moved in September 07 and are just now getting the deck on. We kept thinking that Jeremy would just do it, but we put it off for so long, we finally decided to hire it out (with a friend of a friend) and Jeremy would assist and that way we could just get it done! We did, Jeremy learned some along the way and now we have a beautiful deck. And of course the kiddos had fun with the whole process too!

YMCA All Sports class

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This spring we enrolled Ty and Gabby in the YMCA Sports class. I don’t know if it was worth what it cost, but it got them interested in sports and playing…just not interacting with other kids, like i had hoped. Another day for that i guess. This was their last class, and they had a lot of fun. Thankfully after the first couple of weeks, they did start participating, instead of standing there looking at their coaches like they were idiots. We had a great time watching them and cheering them on. Just a preview, i’m sure of what’s to come once they get involved in school (band geeks like their parents?).

Lex finally has enough hair for piggies!

Here she is…my youngest daughter…and she finally has enough hair for pig tails! she’s only two years old. Her older sister had this much hair at 9 months! Needless to say, she’s adorable, and once again, i hope that her little curls stay…but they won’t…none of our kiddos curls have stayed…so i must enjoy while i can!

We also had a picnic outside today. fun stuff, and it keeps the mess outside for the mutly to clean up, instead of me!

Wow, it's really been that long!

Here we are...i'll try to update more...i stink at this game. Today we went to Caledonia's easter egg hunt. Jeremy couldn't go, as he had to work today (one of the rare times that he has to work a saturday...) so i thought i would see if nana and papa would like to partake. They did so lovingly! Too bad it turned out that they were prepared only for the size of crowd they had last year, which was 1/3 the amount of people they had this year! None of our kids got to "find" any eggs. Lex went running and fell and then Ty toppled over her - by the time they got up - all and i do mean ALL of the eggs were taken. A little girl did stop and give Ty one of hers, so that was nice, but the majority of people were walking out with nothing! So we have decided (well, i have) that if no one builds a house in the field behind ours for next year - we're going to do our own. Bring your own plastic eggs filled with candy to hide, and we'll do our own little shin dig! So to make up for the disappointment (they weren't really disappointed much at all) nana said the easter bunny told her that he was bringing some extras to her house to hunt down...yeah!

We came home and had lunch and i took the kids outside for a little photo shoot in their cutie clothes and now they are napping. We'll finish up the resurrection eggs in the evening - as i want the children to understand what Easter is really about (where did the bunny come from anyway?) They need to know that they have a God, a wonderful God that loves them and sent His son to die for them...and that tomorrow, a tomorrow many many years ago, He arose from the tomb and lives today. I proudly say He is my Savior, and i (we) will celebrate that tomorrow! He is risen, He is risen indeed!

Photo Shoot…wow, i really need some classes…but we had fun anyway!

I took the kids outside to play (and wear them out before nap time…so we did a little photo shoot while they still had their cutie springtime clothes on!  not too shabby for a p&s camera and someone with no skills (yet)….

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One of these days i’ll get to tweaking them some more…gotta fix some color/sharpness/light, etc…but like i said…it’s a point n shoot…that is 5 years old…