Fun day with my Kids....

Well today was another great day! I woke up and decided we would go garage sailing. So we all got ready for the day and headed to buddies to buy a news paper. We found some garage sales in the ads and then found a few on the way to them. At our first stop we found a book for Lauren of barn yard animals and a fire truck shelf for Jack. At the next one I found an expensive TI-85 calculator for 5$. I have been stressing because I need one for math next semester and they are sooooooo expensive. So now I am super happy! The next couple ones we went to were crappy but then we got out to Hanover area and I got Lauren these really cute gymboree cords, they are tan and 4t but she will grow and they were only a quarter. Jack wanted spider man goggles, I don't know why but he wanted them. They were only a dollar and still in the package so we got them. Then we did something I have been dying to do with them for a long time, I just wish we had Kari's camera. But I will make her and her crew go with us next time because as she pointed out to me last night her picture quality is way better then mine, go figure right but I paid less for mine, lol. Anyway, we went to McCourtie park, the park with the bridges. My dad use to take me there when I was little and I loved it. The kids did too. We went on every bridge and got some good exercise. We walked up and down the hill and ran all over the place. It was soooooo much fun! We came home after that and i cleaned up my house and then we sat and watched a little tv, oh wait let me rephrase that, i sat and watched tv they jumped around and ran through the house. Then I made dinner. Hamburger helper, corn and salad. They ate really good even Jack. So we went and got ice cream.

Lauren got it every where but her mouth, including in her hair. So now we are home and they are in the tub. Next, we are doing pj's and we are going to get all cozy on the couch for a movie and some cuddle time. TTYL!

The perfect end, to the perfect day!

Well the day started out good. I woke and even got a shower in first thing! Kari went to work and I kept Carson for her. I got all the kids fed and we went outside to play. I saw that the park owner was at the office and so I went to reserve the club house for Jack's birthday party. When we got there she said they were having the end of school party and that we had to come and eat and play games. So when Kari got home that is where we headed.

The party was a lot of fun! Tons of food, candy, desert and snow cones! The kids played games and got some prizes and a HUGE sugar buzz! We decided to go to the lake and so I called Lee to see if it was ok. He said yes and so we started to prepare for that. I asked Jack to go lay down and rest for a few minutes in my room and relax a few minutes later he was out! When he woke up Lauren had fallen asleep. I said oh well it is to late for a nap now anyway. I loaded them up, packed a little cooler and we were off.

We got there and the kids played and Lee took us out in the boat. It wasn't the same with out my mom there. We had a good time anyway. Lauren loved going fast in the boat but Jack liked going slow, for once in his life! But we enjoyed the boat ride.

We headed home and drove through Norvell. I remember taking Sunday drives with my dad when I was little and going to the bridge or mill or whatever it is called. So we went and I thought the kids would enjoy seeing it, and they did. It was beautiful but it made me nervous I was afraid they would fall off the bridge.

Then we went to McDonald's. SO now we are home, they are watching Nemo on TV and thank God, are getting tired. The only thing missing from our day was Kenedey and my mom :(

So that is all for now. Love ya!

Finally.........

Well I know I haven't blogged in ages so I don't have any pictures but I thought I would bring you all up to speed on what has been going on in our lives. Well as you all know I have been taking summer classes at JCC. Let me just tell you what my schedule has been like the past two weeks. Last Wednesday i had Exam 3 in math, then on Saturday we had Lauren's second birthday party, Monday I had CPR class, and then Wednesday I had exam 4 in math and Thursday Final Exam in math. Lauren's b-day was awesome! She had a blast playing in her frosting. She got these cool green shoes from my cousin and would not take them off. She loves them! I hate math! I have also been good at math but I absolutely HATE it! Well as the short 6 week semester came to a quick end I had a test on a Wednesday, and than one on the following Wednesday and then our Final exam was to be on Thursday. I got very sick, allergies, before our Wednesday exam. I still managed to get an 84% but that was a lot lower then my first 2 test that were 92%. So with that test out of the way I was trying to study as much as I could to make up for it. Then we found out or Awesome Instructor made the final exam optional!!!!!! Yeah!!!! I got a 90% on the 4 Exam which made my average test grade 89.5% he put that for my Final Exam grade and over all 4.0 in the class, YEAH!!!!! How AWESOME IS THAT. On Monday my sister watched my kids so I could go take a CPR class for my other summer class. I am also taking Intro to Health Occupations and I have to get CPR certified for that class and for my program. So I get to the class on Monday and they mention something about the test being after Wednesday nights class, I am thinking wait a minute we have to come on Wednesday night too. Turns out it wasn't a Monday or Wednesday night class, it was Monday and Wednesday night. Oh well, the class and the people I was with were really fun. Oh yeah and I passed.

Hey Kari, what's the ratio of chest compressions to rescue breaths................times up 30:2 and STAND CLEAR machine is scanning.......STAND CLEAR ready to SHOCK! lol

So now that my week is over and my math class is done I have 5 more quiz's for my other classes, one more big paper and a few discussions to do and I am D.U.N. for the semester!!!!!! I am gonna rock this semester and 4.0 both classes which will dramatically raise my GPA and hopefully get me into my program for Winter semester. Well this weekend I will get some pictures up and talk more about the kids. TTYL!

Here are few pictures from the weekend.

Goodnight!

Well little miss Lauren has woken up so I took a few more pictures. I am not gonna write anything but they were so cute tonight!

Relaxing weekend....

Well I got out of work at 1pm on Friday and so the kids and I went home and cleaned house. It was such a hot day that we went to the nasty Grass Lake park. Not a good experience. There was bird poop everywhere in the grass and the lake was nasty too. We didn't stay long. We went and got dinner and then came home. Lauren fell asleep the second we got into the garage, like 6pm. She slept till 8:30 the next morning. Kari came out Friday night and so did my niece angel. The kids played and Kari, Jack, Carson and I went for a walk when it got dark and was cooler out. Then we all went to bed!











Saturday we woke up and Kari cooked us a great breakfast. Then the kids went to the park and I mowed my lawn, believe it or not! Then we set up the slip-n-slide and filled our little pool. I had to show the kids how to slip-n-slide cause they weren't doing it right, unfortunately there is no picture of that. The kids had a blast they played out side all day. Carson played in the mud and it was soooooo funny! Kenedey brought him in and he was covered in mud. We put him in the tub, his diaper was BLACK! So we got him all clean and made him some lunch. He was one tired little dude. The kids ate and once again returned to the outdoors to play.

At night once Carson and Lauren were asleep I took Jack, Kenedey and Angel in Kayla's convertible to get candy and movies. When we got home they watched movies and we scrap booked. Ken taught Angel how to scrap book. We all had a blast.

Sunday morning Kari made another great breakfast and we just chilled. Kids went to the park again. Tina, my sister, came over with my brother Dan's kids, Caleb and Caden. Poor Caden was crying because he is not use to going to other people's houses. It was so sad to see that he was sooooooo upset. Caleb was fine. I got a big bear hug and he loved playing with Jack. I took lots of pictures of them. They are so adorable! It was rainy so we just had a chill afternoon.

At about 4pm we didn't see Lauren. We looked around and she had fallen asleep on Jack's train table! It was sooooo precious. Now we are just hangin out. Lauren is still asleep and Jack and I are watching movies. It has been a very relaxed weekend and a very chili, layin low kinda day.