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4-26-2009 Week in Review

Sunday - Sunday after church, since I was going to blog, I asked Ryan to take some pictures of me.  The settings were wrong on the camera and he didn't know so we ended up with some cool pop art versions.  (Rachel & Jamie -- The dress is actually white with navy blue, but the shoes are that red.)  So, anyway, here's the new skinnier version of me.....

Monday - Monday was Corben's baseball practice.  He did great!!  They had him on first base and he was catching and throwing the ball so well.  I was so proud of him!

Thursday - Thursday Ella was evaluated for her speech but they say she's doing great and doesn't qualify for therapy.  YEAH!  They also said she had the greatest visual memory of any child they'd tested in over 3 years.  Wow!  The funny moment was when one of the women asked if we could take Ella outside to see if she could jump from the bottom step.  At that moment Ella took a huge jump from the back of the couch and landed on her feet.  No problems there!  (I found her, Sunday morning, standing on TOP of her play kitchen (at least 4 feet up if not more) and watched her jump down to the floor with no problems.  She has no fears!! But I do!

Friday - Friday started another busy day.  Corben had an awards ceremony at school early in the morning where he received 2 awards, including one for Integrity!  Go Corben!!

I left straight from the school and took the girls to a fun play day at the park with some of their friends.

   

Our little Sylvie has the very bad habit of getting out of her crib and going through all of her drawers for other things to wear.  This is what she was wearing when I got her up from her nap.

 

Saturday - Saturday we had to get up early to head over and participate in the Lengthen Your Stride 5k.  It was a church organized activity to gather canned goods, clothing, and money for local area charities.

Ella walked a good portion of the way, but then she started getting a bit too worn out but refused to stop so Aunt Rachel & Aunt Jamie picked her up and helped her catch up with Ryan & the stroller.  Dade was having some asthma trouble so he became a volunteer and stood on the sidelines directing runners.

 

The whole family finished.  It was over 90 degrees so we were happy to get a yummy breakfast and some cold water!!

Sunday - Sunday we had a friend of Ryan's come to visit with his kids.  It was a lot of fun.  We FINALLY burned the Christmas tree!!  Sylvie and Ella refused to take off their "Princess dresses".  They are so girly!

-- Once again, I'm ending on yummy S'mores..............The End

My Talented Sister....

For those of you who have yet to meet my FABULOUS sister Tammy, I have to say that she's a pretty amazing woman. I am so excited because she and her family are moving here in October! My sister spent some time out in Nashville a few years back before deciding that her life was leading her elsewhere. Lucky for Nashville she spent a great deal of time sharing her talent for song. Here are a few videos I snagged to share. I didn't ask permission...yet...but since they're on Facebook they're not hers anymore anyway, right?! LOL

Here's her comments from Facebook:

"Just for fun--a few clips from our street performances in downtown Nashville with my insanely talented friends Susan Brown and Tom Worth. We were singing for our rent back then and now Sue's got a record deal on Warner Bros. and Tom's an incredible and successful songwriter! And me? I've been a Long Time Gone.....(with LOTS to show for it!) But I sure miss these guys some times!"

Too Funny!!!

I was directed to a hilarious blog today that kept me busy for a bit....it's called 9th Ward Cartoons and it's a father and son team who come up with the funniest LDS (Mormon) themed cartoons!  I found a couple that I thought many of you would enjoy!!

4-19-2009 Week in Review

Yep, it's Sunday, and here I am again, getting a blog out on time!!  (It's because the girl's are taking an extra long nap....)

Monday - Well, Monday was the big weigh in.  I've been trying for months to loose all the baby fat I got from having 2 sweet babies in 2 years.  I've had some great support from friends and family and had set Monday as a day to have lost a certain amount.  Well, I DID IT!!  I've officially lost 31 lbs!!  (Thank you Weight Watchers.)  Bring on the Cute Clothes!!

Most of this week was spent taking sick children to the doctors.  It seems all of my children have terrible allergies and have developed an evil cough that just won't leave!!  I'm carrying inhalers where ever I go!!

Thursday Corben had his first baseball practice.  (This is where we realized he needed an inhaler.)  He had a ton of fun until they ran the bases and he spent a good 20 minutes hacking and coughing...you can tell in the pictures.  He had fun at bat but spent most of his time in the outfield playing in the dirt and singing Pop Fly quite loudly.  He's a funny kid.

Saturday I headed out early for a photo class field trip.  Since I'd gone on this field trip before I tended to spend more time listening and learning than taking pictures.  I also spent a great deal of time being a model for some other photographers so maybe you'll get to see those soon!

Later that day, Corben and his friend found a caterpillar in the yard.  Another wonderful find??  A very cute, but very DEAD mouse!!  YEAH!!  No more mouse in my food storage!!

Today was a really nice day but not just because of fun things and beautiful weather!  Today was also my little sisters birthday!!  I love you, Tammy!!  And you don't look a day over 20!!

So, now it's Sunday, and despite my opinion for the first half of the day that I was in a bad mood, and despite dropping a very heavy stool and the tip of my toe and practically breaking it, it has turned out to be a nice day after all.  Ryan is outside right now putting a nice coat of sealant on my soon to be new kitchen backslash....which he insists in not working....he says it's his way of relaxing.

The end....and now I'm going to go and eat a Reese's S'more....yum!!

4-12-2009 Week in Review

(Okay, so first of all, I'm playing with Picasa's collage feature so please excuse the mass use of it in this post....)  Let's see, what did we do this week?  Well, Monday it rained a bit so I took some pictures of the yard through rain drops on the windows.  You have to click on them to really see but I thought they were kind of cool.

Tuesday, Corben was home with CVS (no throwing up, thank goodness!).  Wednesday started SPRING BREAK!!!  Wednesday I headed out to play with a lens I got for Christmas that I've been trying to master...I still have a lot of work to do.  It's manual focus so sometimes it's hard to get just right.  Here's one of Corben I love though he says he's squinting.

 

As you can see, Corben's cabbage has gotten pretty big.  He's already told my mom that he's going to "let her" buy it from him when it's fully grown.  She's actually very excited about that since she likes cabbage.

 

 

Aunt Rachel also came over on Wednesday and read stories to the girls.  I LOVE the group picture we got....LOL...Sylvie is actually saying CHEEEESE.

Wednesday night was a field trip to take pics of the Raleigh skyline.  Remind me to edit out the big phone pole in the picture!!

Dade left Thursday for a 2 night scout camp out...at the Beach!!  They went to the  aquarium and Ft. Macon and spent some time playing in the waves.  Lucky boy!

 

Saturday was so nice out so I headed out again with the new lens to try some shots of the girls.  They've become very resistant to pictures and so it's hard for me to get a face shot!  The run away laughing and yelling NOOOO!!  I'm doomed.  I did, however, catch enough to make me happy for the day.  (They're wearing some of the new clothes they were so excited about.)

 

Saturday night, I was going a little stir crazy (having spent all of Spring BREAK cleaning up after 4 kids) so I headed out to the local mall to get something just for me.  I called two of my SILs and they met me there because they're awesome like that!  It was so much fun!  I bought a new dress, shoes, and several new tops.  The company was great and we had fun.  Thanks my wonderful Sisters!!  I love you!

Sunday was, of course, Easter and my girls were SUPER happy to get new Easter hats and bags.  They were so funny walking into church with their bonnets and their purses hanging from their elbows.  They knew they looked spectacular.  I haven't been able to get the hats off of them since!  Ella even walks around holding hers on.  I think she thinks it might blow away or something.  Again, it was hard to get pics, but here are a few.

After church, Sunday, we headed over to the pond for the Schneg family birthday/Easter get together.  We had a REAL egg hunt (the eggs weren't real, it was just a good hunt) with the eggs hidden all back through the woods.  The boys loved having a real challenge and then finding that some of the eggs had money in them!  Ella was so grown up about the whole thing.  She gathered as many as she could until we told her to stop, then she calmly sat down in the grass and began opening one egg at a time, asking for help to open the candy, eating it, and then moving on to the next egg.  At one point, Nathan came over and sat next to her.  He grabbed some of his candy and said, "Ella, look at what I got!".  She looked over at him and said, "COOL!!".  I laughed so hard.  I'd never heard her say that before.  After the egg hunt, we finished off our fire cooked meals and had homemade ice cream and cake!  YUM!  Dade headed out for some fun on the four wheeler with Aunt Heather and we hung out with the family around the fire.  It was a fabulous evening and a great way to end the week!

Well, I hope everyone had a very blessed Easter.  I am so thankful to my Savior for the love He has for me.  He Lives!!

The End.