Quite Thoughtful......

Joel leaves very early in the morning, so I basically feel a kiss on the cheek and then I go back to sleep. Anyways, Tues. morning he decided to leave me a card on our bathroom sink, with some very nice words and an adorable picture of "us" on the front. The next morning he had done the same thing, except for the kids (or at least those that could read!)
He had definately put quite a lot of thought into each one of the kids cards, just confirming how special they were and loved and also looking forward to the future w/ them. Of course, it's always nice to hear the words- but somehow when you have it to keep and look at later on in life, it's pretty special!

Busy Day!

Today started out with making sure the kids looked half way decent for pictures at school today. Quinn's easy-"get some gel in your hair." Mikaila, took a little while to curl her hair, but we got it done and she quickly got her breakfast and we were out the door. Poor Ashleigh, they had there pics. last week and when she asked me if it was picture day, I said nah it's next Wed! Ooops! That's what I get for looking at the elementary paper instead of hers.

Tonight, we dropped Ashleigh off at a friend of Joels (who he works with and carpools with) they had invited her to their youth group and they wanted her to meet their daughter and hopefully connect. We had told the little guys that we would take them to the playground while sissy was at church, and as we dropped her off, they completely fell apart thinking there was no playground and here we are sitting in this parking lot!
We went to a community park in Goodyear and let the kids play and get wet. It was our first time at this park and was quite impressed with it and Q & M had such a fun time just waiting for the buckets to fill with water and dump on them!

A week prob. just like the rest of you!

Hi,
Well, we had a pretty typical week with school, work, daily chores, bedtime, & friends over. Actually, Quinn was being picked up by a new friend & his Dad from school on Saturday for a play date or whatever you want to call it! I asked the Dad about what time should we pick him up ( thinking 3-4pm), and he says about 6-7pm. Now, that could be a VERY long day for the Dad if for some reason they didn't get along or whatever. I think that's how Moms & Dads think differently....mom's would prob cut the day quite a bit shorter and see how things go, but Dads typically are fly by the seat of their pants kind and just go with whatever happens-which isn't always a bad thing. We get a phone call around 6 that eve. (thinking it's time to go get him) and the Dad asks if Quinn can stay till 8pm-good grief!!! They obviously had a fun time together-& didn't even get around to going swimming. We're glad he has found some new friends at school.

I'm sad to say, tha my camera "magically" is not working right now & yes, I have tried numerous sets of batteries. Which means, I'm obviously unable to post new pictures at the moment. It's a bummer-becasue isn't the real reason why we check out blogs is to see pictures!? In fact, I wish I could have taken a picture of Casey tonight at dinner eating his spaghetti-very....... well, I'll leave that up to you to imagine what his little face looked like!
Yes, it was cute!

My phrase for the week "Pay It Forward" It's a cool feeling when you do something nice for a complete stranger. It could be as simple as waving to them or letting them go ahead of you at the store.

Day In The Life Mom Of 5

6:11 a.m.-Our bedroom doors fly open and then shut ( I think it was one of the twins).
6:44 a.m.-Door opens again "Mom can I open the Capn' Crunch" ( Ashleigh).
6:50 a.m.-Walk downstairs (usually I'm up by 6:30) and see quite a lovely breakfast mess! Clean up mess.
7:10 a.m.-Change 2 diapers.
7:15 a.m.-Fix Mikaila's hair for school.
7:30 a.m.-Out the door to take the kids
8:00 a.m.-Just heard "Mommy" 25 times in the past half hour. No exageration here! I must acknowledge what they are saying to me, otherwise they will repeat themselves until I do!
8:10 a.m. -Turn the Noggin channel on for them (Pre-school shows) Such a great thing!!
8:15 a.m-Eat my bowl of cereal.
8:30 a.m.-Get as much done before the boys' naptime. Clean kitchen, take garbage, straighten living room ect...
9:15 a.m. -Hmmm.... Discover another mess-Lotion on the family room carpet! Clean mess.
9:30 a.m.- the boys bring bookd to me, so it must now be reading time. It's been 15 minutes and thy tel me "all done" and go on their slide in the playroom. "Bye, Bye"
10:00 a.m.-Put in Blues Clues & get my shower.
10:30 a.m.-Check my email.
10:45 a.m.- Get the boys their snack.
11:15 a.m.-I make a phone call that is about 8-9 minutes and come out and find the boys with a bag of chips on the stairway with a TRAIL on a few steps. Thank goodness for the dust buster.
11:30 a.m.-Change 2 diapers and tuck the boys in for their nap.
11:45 a.m.-Finish straightening the house.
12:30 p.m.-Eat lunch and relax.....
1:25 p.m.-I see that Camden is now up from his nap (a little early)
2:15 p.m.-Casey is now up also.
2:30 p.m.- We need to get out the door to get the older kids.
3:00 p.m.-Back Home.
3:30 p.m- Get a phonecall from both a friend of Mikaila's from sch. and Quinn's -wanting to get together-Coordinating that.
4:00 p.m.-Joel is back from picking up Ashleigh and her friend from sch.
5:00 p.m.-Need to take Ashleigh to the store for some school stuff.
6:00 p.m.- We're back, and get a bite to eat.
7:00 p.m.-Joel and I start getting the twins ready for bed-Jammies are on.
7:30 p.m.-Older kids have showered.
8:30 p.m.-Four kids are now tucked in!
9:00 p.m.- Ashleigh should be in bed any minute-we'll see.......
9:30 p.m.- A little bit of exercise. No treadmill tonight-Are you crazy!!!?
10:00 p.m-10:30p.m.- Good night! See everyone bright & early and we'll do this all again tomorrow!

Backyard Done!

Well, we have had a dirt backyard since we moved in and just this past week were able to have it landscaped. Yeah! Right now it's very patchy and alot of brown spots, but I'm hoping the sprinklers will green it up real soon! I'm anxious to put up our volleyball set, there's always a million things you want to do to your background and eventually little by little it will happen.

As I picked up the kids from school on Friday, Quinn's teacher walked over to our van and informed me that he was chosen to be student of the month already! It always makes you proud when you hear how well your kids are doing-it's not always the "good grades" that are important, but their character and how they treat others is equally important to us!

Crazy Night!

Last night's storm was a tad bit crazy, to say the least! It seamed like it started with some lighting, which seamed soooo close and then the next thing I knew wind was whipping up and rain coming down. The boys were in bed at 8:00, I had Mikaila tucked in and about to leave her room and THEN....lights go out, the twins start crying, I'm trying to feel my way to them, I thought I hear Joel yell "Fire!", Ashleigh's trying to make her way out of the bathroom, all the while getting tootpaste in her hair!! Very chaotic trying to get the kids downstairs to see what was going on-even though I couldn't see! Quinn was scared and started to tear up a little. Lucky for us we actually had one bright flashlight that worked, and we could at least round up a few candles to light the house a bit. I knew I loved candles for a reason! Anyways, now that everyone was downstairs in the family room, we were watching the storm and all the lighting and wind. The next thing I know, our trampoline in the backyard was LIFTED up and going up over our block wall into the neighbors yard!!!! It's a twista, it's a twista! Well, I guess that's one way to meet the new neighbors, Oh, hi nice to meet you and by the way, can we get our trampoline that flew into your backyard?! It's actually kind of funny, and one of those moments that I'm sure we won't soon forget.

Tonight's the first night of the Olympics-I've always loved watching them and love all the patriotism that goes along with it all! I love the gymnastics, I always wished I was petite like all those girls, it looks like so much fun. Swimming is prob. my next fav. sport to watch. Go U.S.A.!

First Day!!!!

Monday August 4th was the first day back to school. Going to a new school is never easy, but somehow I think it's a little bit easier for the younger ones, than Jr. High age. I was crossing my fingers, just hoping everyone would have a great day....especially Ashleigh! I really didn't want to hear how bad they wanted to go back to there old school, and why do we have to go here?! Fortunately, that wasn't the case at all, in fact, Ashleigh happened to meet up with a friend she new at her old school and was quickly introduced to other friends.
Mikaila made two new friends, including a friend named Quinn (a girl) now that gets confusing when she's talking about her and I think she's talking about her brother!
Quinn's made two new friends as well.
I asked Mikaila on a scale of 1-10 how much she liked her new school and she said a 9. I said why not a 10.... and she said they need some swings!
It is so awesome how everything seems to be falling into place including our new neighbor who we carpool with to school.
It's nice having a little extra time to myself to get the cleaning done and spend time with the twins. They love looking at books and going over letters and things. They are quite the characters!!!