Mothers Day Weekend

I am yet again going to try and start using a new meme.  This one was created by a good friend of mine and it's a great way to get people to talk about their weekend.  The other great thing is as we go on trips and do exciting things as a family I'll have it all documented to read through again down the road.  Time is so precious and sometimes we forget about the important stuff.

This past weekend started off with a Tea for moms at Allie's preschool.  We met them at their classroom door where they escorted us down to the Tea room.  The kids even were taught to have their elbows extended for us moms to hold on to and they had made wrist corsages for us to wear.  When we got downstairs they had homemade place mats with two types of Flower vases for us.    We had cookies with Ice Tea and Lemonade while we watched a slide show of the kids from the year.  It was a very sweet, special, and great day with my little Allie Bear!

Saturday my mother in law came over and we spend the day with her here at our house.  She treated us to our favorite Chinese restuarant.  Then we had Strawberry Shortcake for our dinner.  It was a nice and relaxing day!

Sunday I was greeted by the kids with cards and a necklace that my little birthstone kid gems could actually fit on.  Maddie also presented me with a gift she had made at school.  It was "TIME Exclusive "Tina Ross chosen Mother-Of-The-Year 2010" Special Edition".   Then we spent the afternoon at my parents house with my sister and her family.  It was a great day and my husband made allowed me to relax and enjoy the entire day! 

I am working on uploading lots of photos to share with you and am trying to find the best way to do this since I have so many to share.  What photo sharing site do you use when blogging?  We have a smugmug account and I have used Flickr and Photobucket but I can not decide what is best to use to share here on my blog.  I also upload way too many pictures to Facebook.  I wish there was a photo sharing site that synced with Facebook as that would make my life so much easier all around!

Garage Sale

Well we had a last minute Garage Sale today.  I was only going to put a table out at my neighbors sale but then the stuff to sell kept adding up that it took up 5 tables and a good chuck of my front lawn. Since I ended up with so much stuff I decided to do it right here in our driveway since we are right across the street from where I was going to put a table.  Well I am so glad that I did this because I was able to make $270 and I just got done listing things on Craigslist and have already pretty much sold another $200. It feels so good to make money and get rid of things.  Now to get the Goodwill stuff out of here and it will feel so great!

Family photo

On Easter we were able to get a semi decent family photo.  I must say though looking at it I see so many things that bother me.  I really need to learn how to use the many setting on my new computer.  I also really want to get this weight off again because I so am not happy with pictures if me.  Drum roll please.....

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!!!

Merry Christmas

This is our Christmas Card this year!!!

Lemonade

I am thankful for all of the prayers we recieved. Grandma was able to leave her earthly body last night and arrived in His loving arms where she is celebrating her new life with Jesus. The prayers were felt today as we had no power from the storm last night, our shower broke when I went to take a shower this morning (tub broke last week), & I swiped the corner end of another car with my trailer on the way to get it repaired for something else. I'm going to follow one my Grandma's many sayings and take those lemons we’ve gotten over the last week and make some awesome lemonade. God is only giving me as many lemons as I can handle!