Happy B-day Gretchen!

This year Gretchen decided she wanted to have some friends over and head to the Troy Aquatic Park (TAP - Troy Pool), have pizza for dinner and have the girls stay the night. So we agreed to 3 friends and the day came, it was not a pretty day so that meant the pool was closed, so plan B was go to the Vandalia Rec Center for inside swimming so we are heading in and I am thinking it is not real busy, oh no I thought. Yep I was right! There had been an "incident" in the pool and they were draining it and closed, ugh, what to do now? So we went to the didn't have Plan C - bowling, then still got pizza for dinner and then the sleepover. All and all it went well considering nothing worked the way it was supposed to, but the girls all had fun at our beach themed party and Gretchen was an Happy Birthday Girl and that is all that matters : ) The pictures are going in to swim (happy faces), after finding out not swimming and before we figured out what to do (sad faces) and her beach themed party.

Garage Sale & Lemonade Stand

Well it has been an annual event for my friend Jen and me to have an garage sale and since she has had the last couple at her house and her husband really doesn't like it all to well I agreed that we should move the sale to my house this year and try to get a few neighbors on board and have a neighborhood sale. Well my cousin Missy had also being doing some cleaning out so she took part too. So first day was rainy and nasty and we were the only sale to brave the elements and sell. We had us 3 trying to stay dry while all 9 kids entertained themselves inside, but the next day ended up being a better weather day a couple other neighbors opened up and the 4 children that decided to come back (really didn't have a choice) decided to do an lemonade stand, which is usually an annual event too. Well we each had our own goal in mind ours was enough for an basketball hoop for the girls they wanted and I have to say we each made our goal and even though it is a lot of work, it usually ends up being some good girlfriend time!

And it is an Hit, well to the face! OUCH!!

So had to post this pic as promised to some of you. Yes, you can actually see the stiching of the softball on her little, well big chin! So as you know Gretchen as played t-ball for 2 years and moved up to softball this past year, which I love this level and watching her play. And as most of you know I am the kind of mom that says brush it off, you are fine. Well with that being said, Gretchen is playing right field, one of the power hitters on the other team gets up and line drives it towards her, grounder, so Gretchen is in position to stop the ball and it takes a bounce and she did stop it, just not with her glove, it was with her face literally! So the coaches instantly star running to her and she starts to cry on the field and they all start looking for me, so I run on the field, again not my style and another mom runs for ice and they put her in the dugout with ice. Then I see it, the stitching, the swelling, the bruising already! Can you say OUCH?? But I have to say she got back on that field and played the rest of the game, I was so proud of that because I know it could have been real easy not to ever play again and be scared, but she wasn't. The positive is that now she knows, yes it hurts, but it gets better and she is ready to sign up again, so it must have not been all that bad. To be honest I think she wore it like a badge of honor, like bring it! LOL - she is so my kid, what can I say! Plus she liked that the coaches were all like OMG, we are going to get her something from the concession stand for taking one for the team. So I think the most painful part for her was that I kept taking pics of her chin,(why her tongue is out) so I would have them to show her in the future, you know in her scrapbook that I have not done! Well at least I am thinking ahead.

Taylor Swift Concert

Well this picture of the girls at the concert with their new tee-shirts. It started by us stating we was going overnight to Ft. Wayne, going to stay so we could go to the Zoo the next day. Fun they thought, but it got better. Gretchen figured it out when we got to Ft. Wayne and she heard advertisements about the Taylor Swift Concert in town and she said I bet you are surprising us and taking us there! When we confirmed it was like we were back at the Jonas Brothers/Hannah Montana Concert a couple years ago with screaming, screaming, screaming! So yes, they were excited and we were deaf, lol! Honestly those moments are priceless!! So the concert the girls LOVED, well except the seats for Gretchen, who like me does NOT like heights and let me say they were bargain seats! You don't realize how tall the Ft. Wayne Arena is until you are that high up! So needless to say after Gretchen and me finally got up, uP, UP to our seats we stayed put!! Delaney liked it until Keith "Gerban" as she called him, Urban, really kept playing, playing, playing, so with her little ear phones on she decided to nap! Side bar, not a big Keith Urban fan until that night, he puts on an hellluva show! So we headed back to our room and went to the zoo the next day, again lots of fun and then headed back home, well actually to an softball game, but you get it! I have to say I love being able to do special things like that for our girls!

Catching Up For Real

Okay I promise I have a list and pics on the computer ready to be posted so I am going to try to get caught up and stay up to date with the blog again for 2010. So stay posted. I already added first day of school pics of the girls on my last blog. Better late than never right! Plus maybe the summer pics and blogs will help my mind trick me into thinking warmth!

Summer's Coming To An End

So it is true the weather is starting to feel more like fall, the backpacks are filled, shoes are new to go along with a new outfit and open houses are set. Gretchen is excited to have found out this past Thursday that she will be having Mrs. Sutherly as her 2nd grade teacher and even received a note from her on Saturday. She has friends in her class and is very excited to be heading back to the bus stop on Wed. Delaney will have to wait until after Labor Day to put on her new outfit and shoes to go to Miss Sarah's class of 4 & 5 year olds, but is excited her friends will be back and that mom will be teaching right next door. So yes, I will be going back to school too the same day. I am excited about my 1st class of 3 year olds and to be honest a little nervous too! We will be getting the room together later this week, the notes to the kids are heading out next week before the open house and I don't have my new outfit yet, but I do have a new book to read about First Day Jitters. Overall I am sad to say this summer is coming to a close, I think it is because we have had so much fun and have done so many things (I promise I will get back to blogging, just got to get back into the swing of things first) and because although I am very excited to be "working" again I know it is somehow different for us as a family too, it means my babies are growing up and eventhough I know they will if I go back or not, it is just touching a special place in my heart this year - I can't even think about next year and putting my Delaney on the big yellow bus to go to the Big K. Or the following year when they will both be gone all day everyday! I just want to say I am so very proud of my 2 Baby Girls and hope they have another AMAZING school year and just want them to know they will always be my Baby Girls!

Too Much Fun

Okay, so I know some of you have been missing the blogging thing. So here is something, not to exciting, but something to read. Since school got out we have done all kinds of fun activities, but because we have been having so much fun and with computer problems it has made it difficult to blog, plus the other problem is what I probably should be calling my addiction to Facebook. So I promise one of these days I will start getting caught up with blogging, but we only have a few more fun weeks of summer left and I start teaching preschool too, so my dear friends I will be back and I am still alive, but your best bet is to find me on Facebook, so sign up already, lol.