First Day of School

I can hardly believe that the end of summer has gone and we are the first day of school for the 2011-2012 year. I felt so overwhelmed when the kids got out of school last year thinking we were going to have the longest summer ever full of stress. That was not the case at all in fact we had a great summer and it went way too fast. Now this morning I sent my girls off to 1st and 4th grade and left wondering where the time has gone. Logan starts preschool again next week. This is our last year of preschool at Kinderkirk and can not believe that in the last 7 years we have had a child there for 6 of them. This time next year we will be taking Logan to his first day of Kindergarten and I will officially have the house to myself everyday. It's exciting and scary all at once and I am so glad I have a year before it happens!

4 years already

How is it possible that it was already 4 years ago, on what was a rainy morning a lot like today, my little man was born.  Sometimes I feel like it was just yesterday and I swear even though he is big for his age I want to keep him my baby.  Alas though today we celebrate his 4th birthday while we are camping in Ludington.  We will hit his favorite restaurant House of Flavors for lunch and then Brats for dinner.  Happy Birthday my little man!

9 years ago

It was 9 years ago that I became a mom for the very first time. I can not believe how fast the time has gone and how much my life has changed in that time. I am very blessed to have Maddie in my life and though she is starting to push into the harder days in life I also find so many other things more exciting and easy to do with her as well. Happy Birthday to my oldest and thank you God for making me her mother!

Busy day

Busy day just took my Kindergartener to her last day before I lose her to all day school. Later today I am taking my Brownies on our last adventure as a troop (many of us are leaving including myself).  Then it's time to get packing for camping for 4 days and all of the cleaning that goes with being gone so we can come home to a clean house.  Tomorrow is Maddie's last day of 3rd grade and one step close to moving to intermediate school the following year.  Oh yeah and tomorrow Joel and I celebrate 11 wonderful and crazy years ♥  All in all seems like a pretty awesome day though it is busy!

Memorial weekend....

Oh what a Day..... a quick brief run down is we had the campground looking for Logan today and 911 on the line when Logan decided to hide and seek on us as we were packing up. Then came home to a defrosting deep freezer...unplanned BBQ of weird things tonight now.  This is after taking Maddie to the ER yesterday for periorbital cellulitus (infection in the skin around her eye) and Logan getting sunburned in 59 degree weather on Friday.

A little more on the Logan thing:  

Logan got in trouble for eating his popscile in the trailer after I cleaned it for packing up. So he decided to hide in there apparently while Joel and I were on the otherside of the camper getting electric, water, and sewer put away. We ...noticed he was not on the playground so I went into the camper and called for him. Then we ran around our friends sites calling for him and a better search of the playground. Nothing...I went into the camper and did a hardcore search and found nothing. At this point I sent Joel to the office to start checking the gate and alert the staff...our friends started to call 911 and people were looking through out our area for him. I decided to plug the camper in and slide our slide out incase somehow it had trapped him somewhere. As I go in for the fourth time he pops his head up and said here I am................... I totally lost it to tears at that point. I am relieved that he did not wander away but hate his ability to play hide and seek so well that he moves spots and does not even answer when Mom is yelling "Logan please come out I am not mad I am so scared please tell me where you are". We have had some major talks as can be imagined.See More

Home

Well we are home! I wish I could say that it feels so great but it is still just so cold here and it was so beautiful down there. It's barely even spring here in Michigan but in Myrtle Beach they are in Early summer for sure and it was awesome. I love the warm weather and the beach but I am not a huge fan of the humidty...well more what it does to my hair. We kept very busy but enjoyed much pool time and family time.

4 more days...

This is how many more days till we leave on our family vacation to Myrtle Beach.  It could not be coming at a better time either.  I had to spend some time this morning pulling out snowpants, boots, wintercoats, hats, and gloves to get the girls off to school because of an unexpected snow in the middle of April.  CRAZY!!!  It will make leaving to mid to high 70's seem even better.  We get to celebrate Easter down there as well!  If you can't tell I am very excited and ready...I even have almost everything packed and in the car.  We did not go anywhere for Spring Break either so this will be really nice for the entire family.  A really great thing too is that I am very close to my weight loss goal and get to wear smaller short than I wore all of last year!

Happy 6th Birthday Allie

I can not believe how fast time has gone and Allie is now 6.  It does not seem like it was really that long ago but she has sure grown into a wonderful little girl who loves to spend one on one time with us.  Though she may seem shy when she is alone with someone she will talk your ear off.  Love you Allie Bear!

Baby Bear

Our Allie Bear had surgery today to have her adenoids and tonsils removed and had T-tubes put back in. I was not worried as much about the actual surgery but the post op time worried me some. She has had some really yucky coughs along the way and I was worried that if she started to cough it would make things start to bleed. Thank goodness that did not happen and she did really well. She did have some face swelling mostly in the lip area due to the tubes and clamps around her mouth. It make it so we had to stay for an extra hour but she did awesome. She doesn't seem to be in too much pain at this point but it's not going to be as obvious until tomorrow because she has been given some good meds. Hopefully we can keep her drinking and just get back to normal. I know that they prayers have helped us to get to now and some more for the next week or so would be appreciated!

Happy Birthday Logan

I can not believe that 3 years ago today our little man came into our world.  He may be a bit of chaos at times but there is so much love and personality in that little guy that I know our lives would be very boring without him.  He is starting preschool this fall and he's potty trained.  It's so hard to believe how fast it went and there are times when I miss holding that bitty little guy.  Granted that is pushed away wit thoughts of how much work he was as well at that age.  We are looking forward to his party tomorrow.

Allie's future as a cosmetologist

Well based on today's events I do not think Allie has a future as a cosmetologist.  She decided that she needed a haircut and took care of this by herself.  Oh man did I want to break down and cry considering her hair was so pretty just yesterday and she loved me doing things to it.  So here ya go...enjoy the before, middle, and after!!!

Happy 5th Birthday Allie

5 years ago today my best April Fools joke came into my life in the form of Allie. I can not believe it has been 5 years since we had the worlds easiest baby! She really lulled us in to a false sense of security because we even decided to start trying for Logan before she was even 18 months old. Little did we know that she would become a little sneaky stinker just before little guy was born. She is still such a blessing and brings much humor into our life! She will be starting Kindergaten this fall and she can not wait. She is super excited about learning to read and do math. We love you Allie Bear!!!