Saturday, March 26, 2011

The day is only half over.

Let's see: breakfast, lacrosse photos, moved cubic yd of dirt, transplanted 11 plants, lunch, planted 2 lg flats of annuals, 8 azaleas, 2 basil plants, 2 cilantro plants, watered most of the beds, bagged three bags of leaves/twigs, kids playing in the sprinkler...
Time for a shower & a break... no idea about dinner...

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Spring Break

San Antonio for a couple days to visit a good friend... who's house is wonderful, has a hot tub (big hit with the hooligans!) and a pool.

Sea World... Shamu, dolphins, sea lions, penguins and a few roller coasters too.

Sleeping in late (not having to get up early, fix breakfast and herd them to school at the crack of dawn!!).

Cleaning up the backyard to make it habitable for the summer... dinner on the patio a couple of times.

Not to bad... not to bad.

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Two Birthday parties and a Slumber party all in one day...

Today was birthday party day.

Child #1 wanted to have two parties. One that she could invite her whole class to and one that would be a slumber party. Her first slumber party at our house. She's been to several slumber parties over the years but this would be our first.

Child #2 wanted Star Wars... again. So that's what we did. Again. I think this makes his third Star Wars party... boy sure does love Star Wars.

To make things a little easier on me, I decided we would again do the park for the class invite parties and that both parties would be "at the same time" again. The slumber party would be later that same night.

Overall things went well considering it was also the first day of Spring Break. Not as many people were able to come because of that but it was a good turn out and everyone seemed to have fun.

Child #1 wanted to invite her entire Posse (as I like to call them) of friends which is about 7 girls but I limited the number to 3 other girls... her bedroom just isn't that big for 6 other bodies to try to sleep in there. Two of her friends weren't going to be in town so she invited the three that were going to be in town.

Lots of giggles, pizza and me somehow getting sucked into nail salon mode painting fingers and toes half the night. Child #1 was quite happy with her party. I also promised her that she would be able to have the other friends over another time.

Now I'm very tired...

Sunday, March 6, 2011

Eight years ago almost exactly


Eight years ago an 8 pound 4 ounce bundle of joy joined our family. He stole my heart and still holds it tightly in his fist.

Now my "Little Man" is growing up. He loves his brother & his sisters. He's sweet, kind and fiercely loyal. He plays Lacrosse, loves Star Wars and Legos. He plays hard and loves just as much. So very proud of the young man he's becoming.

Love you so much son.