Still busy

Been so busy with no time to take to blog anything.

I did a first on Tuesday night. I have watched every season of American Idol and never called in a vote. Ever! Well, until Tuesday, May 13! I just had to get my vote in for fear that another 'daughtry' would happen. I have loved him since "Hello"...

DAVID COOK! He so better win, too!

It really could go either way, little David A has such the teen vote.

We have been busy with soccer practices-Wed and games on Sat. Ethan seems to enjoy it. He gets tired and distracted, but it is good exercise and he is hopefully learning something.

We got to watch e's cousins back on Apr. 18-19 when their parents when on a cruise for their 10yr anniversary. I ended up taking that Friday off. After the boys were done with preschool we took them to Jump Central, Ethan's new fav place. It wasn't too crowded for the open jump at noon-2, maybe around 20 kids.

Then we had lunch at Schoops right around the corner. We were back in time for Trent to get to work, too!

We had to go to their house to pick A up from the school bus. I had a surprise for her that night. I had rented "Enchanted". They wanted me to make my little homemade pizzas for dinner.
We watched it the movie after dinner and I let them have ice cream with sprinkles!

Amanda watched Enchanted 2.5 times over the 2 days she was here.

Then the first game of soccer was on Sat. morning, so I had to take 3 kids to the soccer fields for games. So not fun, plus it was in the rain! I guess I was saying that "I am never taking 3 kids to the soccer fields again" He has repeated that statement in the days following.

I was even a nice aunt and took them out to McDonald's after their games PLUS to the playground one in the next town!

They could have played in that thing for hours! They had fun at our house playing video games/computer inside. Their parents didn't get home until 8pm.

I like seeing the kids interact, soo cute!

Ashton is 8

Our dog turned 8 yesterday & I forgot to get him his cupcakes. Tonight I made him up a bowl of all of his dog treats. He got pupcorn, 3-hip & joint cookies, little t-bonz, 1 beef bone & 4 little crackers. I told him to calmly eat and not devour it. He didn't go too crazy with it.

I usually take a pic of him wearing a party hat, too.

Happy Easter

We had a really nice Easter.

I am on vacation from work now! I am off for 3 days, Friday thru Tuesday! So much needed break. This week is Spring Break, too. We are not going anywhere though.

T didn't have to work on Friday, either! We colored eggs on Fri. and used the glitter egg kit plus the regular tablets.

Fun family time...

Ethan woke me up at 6:51am to say that the Easter bunny came and hid eggs downstairs. I got up and let him find them all. The bunny hid his Easter basket in the kitchen really well and I had to point out that maybe he left though the garage so he would look towards that door.

E's Easter basket and he got this cute little chick that chirps.

Then at church on Sunday morning...E with his cousins in their Easter outfits.

We went to my parents at noon for lunch. My mom had her egg hunt again this year. Ethan got to look for yellow eggs this year, she went out and got more yellow for this year. In the past he looked for purple eggs. My mom knows his love for yellow so had to get them for this year. Matthew gets green eggs, Amanda gets pink, of course!

We had ham, green beans, broccoli casserole (I made), scalloped potatoes, deviled eggs, orange/carrot jello salad, rolls, salad.

Then we celebrated my dad's birthday that was the day prior. Happy 67th Birthday, Father!

Matthew ate so many grapes that day, had to take a pic of him walking around eating them off the stem. I guess he had never done that before.

Then we went to T's parents around 3pm for another dinner. T's brother was in AZ this year, so just us with A. Dorthy. He noticed there was another egg hunt there, too!

He found his hidden Easter basket and another Build-a-Bear, the Happy Chick. He was so excited to see that chick. They just got it unstuffed, they like to take him there and let him do all the stations. T & I have never been there with him. He has 3 BuildABears, now!

Opening up the eggs, they put 2-4 quarters in each!

We brought this cute bunny cake...so much icing on it!

Fun filled day on Easter! I was so exhausted. I actually went to bed before 10pm!

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Are you wearing GREEN today? I'm wearing a pale green sweater, E wore green hooded sweatshirt from gymboree today to preschool.

I remember when growing up my dad saying we should wear orange instead of green, since we are Protestant and not Catholic. I guess that goes way way back. More fun to wear green, right?











I always think of my friend, Jean, on St. Patrick's Day. It is her favorite day of the year. I always send her a card or ecard on this day. I just sent the perfect one for her, found it at Hallmark, tried to capture it above. She loves Ireland, has been at least 4 times now. Here is a toast to Jean...
Have a green beer for me tonight! I don't think we are getting out tonight!

T's foot is hurt again. He stepped on a rock and twisted ankle. He has high tolerance for pain, so it must be bad. He has been icing it and using a crutch to get around the house.

Friday night - out to eat at The Circle & watched the Purdue game, which was really exciting, but they lost to Illini!

Saturday -I finally got out our Easter decorations. I didn't decorate for St. Patrick's Day, like I have in past. I just put up window clings on back doors. I need to take pics of our Easter decor. I made display above entertainment center again this year. Not sure if I will do an Easter egg tree yet. I still need to remove the red bows from the back yard bushes!

Sunday -we had a basketball banquet that was really nice. Ethan went to T's parents. It was C's birthday. I got her a spring sweater from CJ Banks. She seemed to like it. She brought out a green necklace that she bought and was wanting to match something with & it seems to go with the new sweater. E gave her a new '5' stepping stone. Our annual gift to her is a handprint stepping stone of E. I usually decorate it in some way, but write in the age and his name. She puts them all out in order in their landscaping areas. We had cake that Poppy got them...

E got another gift from them- Diego game for his Smart Cycle.