Summing up the Holiday weekend...

This picture sums it all up! Way too much fun this weekend :)

Life's Roller Coaster this Week

This week has been full of Ups and Downs....
Up: Ian got the Clove Award for Academics and Citizenship in Kindergarten and 1st Grade now!
Down: Zaylee has been in the hospital since Wednesday with MRSA
Up:Paige's Danced her heart out at her dance Recital... She was SO cute!
Down: The Furnace went out for the second time.
Up: It didn't cost me 250.00 to fix it this time (that was last week).
Down: My favorite Babysitter quit this week without giving any notice.
Up: I found a new babysitter in 1 phone call.
Down: A colleague at work passed away from Cancer at only 53.
Up:I already had the time off work to Play this weekend so I didn't have to call in sick while we are here at the hospital. Summer is coming there will be plenty of time to Play.
Down: I was just told we won't be leaving the hospital until Sat or Sunday for Sure.. Not going home today :(
Up: I won a Prize at Bunko yesterday while Rob sat at the Hospital with Zaylee.

While the Ups are Ups and the Downs are Downs. This weeks Downs were huge and I am just grateful that my life is FULL of more UPS usually than DOWNS.

Zaylee, I hope you get better soon. I Love You mom!

The school year winding down and Preschool is over

So Preschool ended yesterday and this left Paige in tears. She is going to miss her big Friends (Christine, Quintin, Mason and Nate are her favorites this year) and now what to do for the Summer. She wants to learn to read so I am going to teach her the basics and start from there. She has another full year of Preschool because she misses the deadline. Just like Ian did and Zaylee will be in the same boat too. I should have had babies in the Spring not Fall :)

Here is her letter that they read at Graduation to everyone
This is our friend Paige. She joins us again for the second year at preschool. Paige is as cute as a bug and has so many ideas of her own! She chooses a big friend to play with and then she ends up playing with 3 or 4 other friends as well. She loves to play hopscotch every chance she gets. She is very nice and lets other kids have their turns too. Her friend, Maddi and Neighbor probably play hopscotch every day since we taped hopscotch in the preschool.

Paige is quite the little DIVA. She loves, loves, loves to have her lip gloss at all times. She loves calender time. Often she thinks she is one of the BIG friends and runs calendar time. Now let me tell you about Paige and Lesson Time. She might as well be one of the High School Students because she often helps teach the lesson and shows or explains how to make the craft.

Paige loves to play I Spy with My Little Eye when we have choosing time while we sin in circle time.

Paige was in charge at the Zoo. Even though her mom and little sister came with us on the bus, she let them know that "they were on their own" because she had friends to be with!

Paige is a lot of fun to have around! We are glad you came to our preschool. We Love You Paige!


Paige I am really sorry that you have to go to Preschool again next year. You are going to be so bored.

Ian's school is coming to an end as well. Only 8 more days and most of them are play days! He gets to go to the Zoo all day tomorrow, then field day and the School Lunch Picnic!

He is doing so well at school and Baseball. His last game he made the Game winning catch in Right Field. The Umpire gave him the game ball and told him what a Great Play it was. Ian was so excited. Rob said it was unbelievable! I was at work so I missed it.

Zaylee is talking up a storm and her favorite words right now are I do and Go Out Side!
Well we are gearing up for summer and lots of Playing!!!
Here is the invite for Paige's Dance Recital!

Happy Anniversary!

So we have been married 9 years today... We were talking the other day wondering how it has gone by so fast.... Ian is now 7, Paige 4, and Zaylee 1 and with birthdays in the fall they will be 8, 5, and 2! Wow is seems so weird to be the mom of Three! These past few years have just flown bye. It has been a wild ride! Thanks for Everything you do for me Rob! I Love You Abbie

The furnace....

This was my day yesterday......
So as I was downstairs doing laundry I noticed the furnace was making a funny noise. So Rob called the HVAC guy and he said sounds like the motor went out, and I can come fix it tomorrow.

What a day The tooth Fairy didn't come last night, the furnace is broken, and the washer is broken.

Well after dinner Roy came over and helped Rob unstack the washer and dryer and they took it apart and fixed it! My front loader kept reading F-1.. So I googled the code and found out that it meant the drain was clogged or the pump to the drain had gone out. Lucky enough it was just the drain that was clogged. Really clogged. Two plus dollars in change, a sock, a bracelet, hair pins, a back to a delta pin that I have been missing for sometime, and lots lots more crap. It was gross. I didn't even know that it would clog like that.

Well I ran a load of laundry and it is working great!
The Tooth Fairy came a Day Late....
And the Furnace well its 63 degrees in my house this morning and I have a feeling my pocket book will be a little lighter this afternoon.

Laundry...

Laundry is never ending..... Between all 5 of us you have Regular clothes, dress clothes, baseball uniforms times four Rob is on two teams and Ian is on two teams, Work Uniforms, and the list goes on and on and on. But last week my front loader washer broke and I'm afraid to find out how much it is going to cost to fix it so I am lucky enough that no one is in my basement apartment at the moment and I can use the washer and dryer in the basement. Which if you know anyone that needs a place to live tell them to call me.

But can I tell you what a pain in the ass it is to do laundry for 5 hiking it up and down the stairs when I have never had to before! I am so grateful my washer and dryer is on the same floor as the bedrooms. Now this is an incentive to get the washer looked at :)

Ian is the Winner...

Here is Ian's winning picture for the Arbor Day contest. He won out of three classes in his first grade for Viewmont! It was bitter cold during the outside award ceremony. Here it is April 30Th and we got snow!





Also Paige went to the Zoo for Preschool this week and here are some pictures. Her big friends were cheap and didn't take her on the train. They said they could only find the tracks not the beginning. Come on Big Friends it is a $1.50. While I guess she should have come with me because me and Zaylee went on it. She told me to get lost. She should act four and not fourteen.






Here is Zaylee eating Rob's Birthday Cake. It made it all the way to the cabin. No messes of any sort. While we were unloading the car Paige let Zaylee out of her car seat and this is what we get! Happy Birthday Rob! 31!!!