Life Around Our House This Past Week

About every 4-6 weeks my side of the fam. gets together. So, last Saturday we all went to the park and had lunch and a game of kickball. Man! If I had known we were going to be playing that, I definately would not have worn my flip flops-we played with a soccer ball & it was pretty hard! I must say, the boys are quite the little cheaters! Telling us no bunting and well guess what they did-that's ok, I don't recall the scores, but I'm sure we won both games!!!

Anyways, I'm glad we set aside the time to get together, because time just seems to fly by.

Saturday night, Mikaila had her cousin spent the night and Ashleigh went to an activity with her two cousins and ended up spending the night over there.

Sunday we tried to find some costumes for the kids.

I'll just skip a few days and get to this morning.....At 6:50 this morning I hear the doorbell ring, I just assume that it's Ashleigh's friend across the street wanting to borrow something or return something. Door bell rings again, then knocking-nobody there!! Hmmm....Too early for a sales person so I came to the conclusion that some kids were door bell ditchers!! Normally Ashleigh goes a little bit later to school and carpools with the neighbor, but she decided to go with me and her sister and brothers today. I drop Q & M off a little before 8:00 A.M. so, we hung out at the park for a while until she needed to be at school. It was fun!



Oh, by the way, GO SUNS!!!!!!!!!!

Our Little Carpet Picnic

Tonight, Mikaila wanted to make egg salad sandwiches (herself) and whenever we have that, we have the beans, chips, & fruit to go with it. We always have our little carpet picnic with this menu-it started at our old house, just to mix things up a little bit.
Now it's become our tradition I guess.

Our kitchen area is kind of big, so that often times becomes our indoor soccer area or basketball game time after dinner. It's actually fun, and you can burn a few calories at the same time!!
Casey is a little more of our "jock" and loves to join in on the action.

Tomorrow is Team Day (Field Day) at the kids school and they will be playing games all day long. How fun is that?!! Joel is off tomorrow, so hopefully we can surprise them and show up and join them.

Russell's Weekend

Well, lets see...Friday night after I had the twins tucked in, or so I thought-I decided to go check on them. Apparently they had a different agenda in mind because they wern't in their beds at all and they certainly wern't sleeping! I decided to bring the camera in there and turn the flash on, so you could see what they were up to. Quite the little leprocauns they are!
(March 17th b-day).

After school Quinn stayed the night at his friend's house, and when I called him on Saturday to see what time we should pick him up, he asked if he could spend the night again! I wasn't planning on him staying another night, and I told him I would just call him later and let him know what time we would get him. I had had a change of heart though, because I knew how much fun he was having and so I told him he could stay again-what a nice mom I am!!!

Anyhow, Joel and I decided to go to a late movie that night, after the little guys were tucked in. So Ashleigh, her friend, and Mikaila were somehow muddling through without us! They decided to pop some popcorn and melt chocolate on top of it and also put strawberry syrup on it-SO GROSS!!! They apparently liked it. Who knows what else went on while we were gone, but everybody was safe and sound when we got back.

Today we picked up Quinn and headed to a really nice park in Verrado. I'm really glad the little guys especially got to go, because I find myself making excuses during the week when they ask to go play at the playground. I don't know, I like just getting home after I drop the kids off and getting my cleaning done and whatever phone calls I need to take care of. But today was their lucky day, and I'm glad they had so much fun and the other kids too (that includes Joel!).
Sorry, this was kind of long-hopefully you didn't fall asleep!

Our Little Santas

Only 73 more days till Christmas, and the Santas at our house are already getting busy! I think I must be a little more into the holiday than the average person...Come November I have no problem listening to Christmas music, even though the kids are like "C'mon mom, it's not even Thanksgiving yet!" Being in our new home this year, I'm even more excited about the decorating part-so cozy!! No fireplace to hang our stockings on this year, I may just use my peg rack-I'm sure it will still look cute! Maybe it was all the cooler weather over the weekend that's making me start planning already!

Our Sweet Boy, Quinn

Thanks Quinn for letting Mom take some pictures of you. You are growing up so fast. I love your sweet spirit. You are smart, handsome, kind to others and a son that we are very proud of!

We love you very much!

Big Weekend for Ashleigh!!!

Well what can I say, except Ashleigh had a very memorable Saturday, & I'm sure she will not forget it any time soon!
Her good friend Sam, who she met in third grade, was turning 13 over the weekend and her parents went all out for her!!!! It started by the black Excursion LIMO picking them up at Sam's and then picking up 7 of the other friends and taking them to a RESORT to spend the night! Of course it was adult supervised. They went golfing there (which Ashleigh had to fetch a couple of her friends' balls, since they flew into the pool and she still had her suit on!), they went down the lazy river, pool, ordered pizza, made mini scapbooks, made ice-cream sundays and the list went on! Whew! This sets the bar kind of high for the rest of those friends that will be having a b-day over the next few months. C'mon she's only 13! I'm thinkin ice-sakting or something like that for Ashleigh. She had a very fun time. Obviously!!!