From Easter to Now....

Let's see..... Easter was so much fun. We had all 4 kids here! Evan has been really excited about holidays this go around. Christmas was proof of that. He has been so dang cute. I keep forgetting he is nearly 6 since he hasn't done near as many things as Wendy has in the 7 1/2 years we have had her versus the 2 1/2 years we have had him. It is like having a 2 1/2 year old who is in real life a 5 1/2 year old boy... Does any of that make since? All of his firsts have been delayed for 3 years. I can't even imagine beginning with a child who is even older.... Any way~ They had a blast hunting for eggs and seeing all that the bunny had left for them. Evan graduated from Pre-K two weeks ago and was so excited because he will be in Kindergarten at Wendy's school this fall!!! Bless his heart he really thought that he would go right into Kindergarten the day after graduating. I had to explain that Wendy's school would soon be out for the summer and then they both will begin in August together. He was down trodden a bit. :) Wendy was on the "A" honor roll again this year!! We are so proud of her! She ranked 3rd in her 2nd grade class in Math! I just can't believe she is now a 3rd grader!! Time is getting away from me. It stays so busy sometimes way too busy. :D She and Evan just finished dance recital last week. I just love being able to watch them! Wendy has become a beautiful little ballerina. Evan is just a charmer! He is the only little boy in dance classes here, but the girls just love him! One even gave him a lipstick print on the back of his shirt before going on stage. When I found this as he was changing into his play clothes I about died over the cuteness. It was so dang precious! First swim lessons were on Monday. The water was very cold, but Wendy pushed through it and had a great class. They put her in level 3 this summer instead of level 2. She learned how to float on her back and the jellyfish float (?) not sure what that was, and they even jumped off the diving board many times. I was very impressed!! Evan on the other hand was moved up to level 2 when he really needed to be in 1 still. He didn't want to put his face in the water or blow bubbles. Hopefully he will do this next class. As for me... I'm enjoying not having to get them up for school! Easter Lacy in Rumors ALT Rumors School Play Mothers Day Evan's Graduation Wendy's Awards Wendy's friends Casanova Evan

Oh nooooo.... Blogger has change it's format on me! Now to figure out their new system. Once I do I will add what has been happening over the past few months.

I was very fortunate to find Evan on some You Tube listings. Not sure how to add them to my blog if I even can, but here is the link.

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=LLt3PTj9BeaIU55i7zwDVmGA

If you can't click on it directly from here you can go and look at them on you tube.
I found it amazing that I could locate him at all. Luckily someone had posted on the New Hope group for another video they had added... that helped lead me there.

Did I Mention We had a White Christmas???

Well I wish I had posted this one before the last post, but since I didn't here this goes....

When I woke up on Christmas Morning I discovered on the way to make coffee that we had had snow. Not much at first, but as the day went we got more and more. This made Mike one happy man. He lives for snow. The kids enjoyed playing in it as I took photos. But this all happened after we opened up presents.



My morning was really pretty neat....
I stood in the dark thinking of making the coffee when all of the sudden I heard the back bedroom door open and shut. There were tippy toes coming into the family room where the fireplace is. I saw Wendy holding brothers hand and explaining to him in a whisper that Santa had eaten the cookies and left stuff in the stockings. She turned and tip toed toward our side of the house but before she could see me I ducked behind the counter. Very quietly she said lets go and wake momma and daddy up. We always try to see who can say "Christmas Gift" before the other (this is a long time family tradition on my families side). Along the way they kinda missed that Santa had left some pretty awesome presents out. I tried to trail behind but my boy has a keen since of presence so that didn't work out. hehehe

I beat them at saying "Christmas Gift" and then I told them to hurry and beat daddy. They did and you could hear the giggles.... so precious!

I proceeded to ring the jingle bells to get the big girls up and I beat them saying it. HAHA!! They in turn tried to beat dad and the little's. Fun morning!!!! Here are photos of our morning. It is a shame I didn't have the camcorder running for the little ones coming in on Christmas Morning.

The Holidays Come to an End

We actually have had one of the best Christmas' in a long while. Everyone got along and if something did arise it was solved very quickly. :) It really seemed to fly by this time! Mike was on call and it was just absolutely wonderful to not get any phone calls on Christmas morning. The New Year was just a great. With an extra week off we had time to put things away, but are still not quite finished.
Funny for as much as I love Halloween.... I just don't have as much to put out in the decoration way. Christmas is one of those I love, but not as much as Halloween. The stress always seems to be way more during the Christmas Holiday. I had wanted to have guests in unfortunately that didn't work out since our house even though well endowed with decorations was always kept a mess with the two little's and two big's home. Dad was off more than he has been before; so we all let our hair down and enjoyed lots of home cooking. With that brought lots of dirty dishes to wash.... that was my chore. YUCK!!!
We went to see my mom and brother along with his wife and baby the first weekend of Dec. It was great getting to see them and play with baby Chelsea. We managed to see the REAL Santa Claus at North Park Mall.

Tomorrow is the first day back to school and Wendy is ready for it! My kids love being at school and love being back around their friends. Lucky for me they both behave better there too. LOL!
Dance begins tomorrow for both of them and Evan will go back to his school on Tuesday. It will feel absolutely weird around here, but imagine all I can get done. ha

I forgot to mention the weekend we headed to my moms Wendy had her allergy testing done. It wasn't fun for her since everything they exposed (pricked) her back to she turned red and itchy from. At least we know now what all she is allergic to....
Cats are the BIGGIE!!! Dust, Dust Mites, Bed Bugs, Pollen, Roach droppings are some of the biggest ones. Thank goodness that she isn't allergic to foods!!! They put her on Allegra and Nose spray and so far for 4 weeks she has been doing really well. Believe it or not I have a photo of her back! Mind you this photo was taken 5 seconds after they did the test and then left it on for 10 min.


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