Springtime Fun.....

When the kids are bored and the pool isn't yet open, what do we do??? Put a ziploc bag on our head (or at least Madison does), turn on the water hose, get Daddy's plastic out (and hope he didn't have any plans for it!), squirt Dawn dish washing liquid all over plastic and S-L-I-D-E!!!!

When I asked Madison why she was wearing a ziploc bag on her head she said she didn't want to have to wash her hair. You would think washing her hair was some big ordeal but I'm the one that has to do the washing and drying.

Today would be a good day to.......

To fly a kite? Eat pizza on the front porch? Swing? Jump on the trampoline? Play in the sand? Ride the Go-cart? Blow Bubbles? We couldn't decide, so we did all the above!!!

Derrick (my 'lil brother) and Ivan decided to come play with us yesterday afternoon. Flying a kite is actually kind of relaxing. My mind just focuses on keeping the kite up. Our next door neighbor got quite a kick out of watching me run from one end of the yard to the other (in flip flops none the less!).

That's why I need a baby brother....

Monday the kids spent the night with my Mom & Dad. My niece and her friend also spent the night. So last night Grant & I was talking about what they did. He said there were 4 girls and only 2 boys so that's the reason he needs a baby brother. Nice try. I don't think so!!!

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3 1/2 weeks from today and Cary & I will be in Los Cabos. I can hardly wait.

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The kids are having a great time exploring the woods behind my parent's house. I've told them of places that I use to go to when I was little and they are having so much fun trying to find those places. Madison was so tired last night that she went to bed before 7:00. Cary said she was bright eyed this morning. Grant also fell asleep next to me on the couch last night. Spring Break must be wearing them out!!!

I'm a....

Bloggaholic (is that a word?). I admit due to ALOT of downtime at my job I spend alot of time reading blogs. I just love reading about people's lives. People I don't even know. Probably will never meet but yet I read about their everyday lives. I recently linked to a blog through another person's blog to read about her recently discovering she is having QUADRUPLETS. I have to admit my first reaction was I WOULD ABSOLUTELY DIE. That poor girl. BUT she then linked to another family that have quads that are 9 months old now. So of course I read their entire blog. I know a blog in no way compares to everyday life, but that family makes having quads look like so much fun. So in a brief moment last night I told Cary I think I would like to have quads (yeah, he's checking into mental hospitals today that will take me). Of course he didn't agree with me.

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When I picked Grant up yesterday from my Dad's he was covered from the waist down in mud. My Dad said, "I can't turn my back for a minute before he gets into something!!!" My response was, "Just think how smart he is going to be someday because of ALL of his exploring!!!" So when I get ready to go I can't find Grant anywhere. He was hiding in a Nasty dog crate that my brother keeps his coon dogs in. It was probably full of fleas and no telling what else. My dad said "yeah, he's really smart isn't he??"

On the way home I get a play by play on Madison's day. It goes something like this (and this is the abbreviated version). She was playing with her friends and she was Kalesha's horse but Lexi didn't want her to be Kalesha's horse so she called her a weird horse and she called Lexi a stupid horse Lexi kicked her she kicked Lexi back Lexi went and told the other girls that Madison kicked her and chocked her so the other Lexi came running really really fast and knocked Madison into the fire engine on the playground so now she is not talking to anybody but Kalesha. DRAMA DRAMA is what these girls do best!!

Yeah I really don't want Quads. But it would be kinda fun for a day!!!

6 Weeks--

From today and I will be in LOS CABOS, Mexico. I have been so excited that I can hardly contain myself. Cary has even asked me several times "why are you so happy?" I really didn't know how to answer him. Why not be happy?? Life is good. We're going to Los Cabos with NO kids. On Cary's defense, he does have a very-very stressful-time consuming job and I'm sure he's just trying to survive the day instead of dreaming of the future.

This will be our first trip to Los Cabos so I've really got my hopes up. I don't really know how I even chose Los Cabos. I think I just hit locations in the search section and this one caught my eye. After reading Trip Advisor almost daily, I am very excited. The place we are going is all inclusive, so that means everything is paid for, unless we decide to do extra. Now I only wish that I had booked more than 4 days. Oh well, if it is 1/2 has much fun as I think it will be we will just have to go back.

I am also planning our "family" vacation. We have decided that this year we will venture to Walt Disney World. We have put this off until the kids were older and could pretty much walk the entire day. I still don't know if that will be possible but we're going. So this too has got me excited.

Weekend Happenings...

We spent a fun-family-filled weekend at the Adventure Science Museum. We had told the kids that we were taking them "somewhere" Saturday but we would not tell them where. The only hint I would give them was it was going to be an Adventure. Two of Madison's friends spent the weekend with us, so they got to go too!!!

Almost every weekend someone from Madison's class wants to spend the weekend with us. I think Lexi would spend every weekend with us if I would let her. This weekend Lexi & Kaitlyn were the "lucky ones". I've always said that I wanted our house to be the house the kids wanted to hang out at. Not because I love kids that much but because I want to know what my kids are doing and what kind of influence their friends are. So far my plan is working.

When I asked Madison the reason everyone in her class (5-6 girls) always wanted to come home with her she said, " I don't know. They just love my house for some reason." I truly don't believe that Madison knows how blessed she is. I'm not talking about her "material" blessings, but her family blessings. She goes to school with several girls have who lost their mothers to accidents, divorced parents , and some being raised by grandparents. Madison not only is blessed with parents that love her dearly but she is also blessed with Grandparents and Great Grandparents along with aunts and uncles that are very much a part of her daily life.