Sunday, February 21, 2010

game time with cousins

Saturday morning we got up bright and early to go watch Daddy's game. We've only made it to a couple this year because it's just a bit hard for me to take all 3 by myself. Reese isn't much into sitting still and watching the game. The older 2 are pretty entertained....especially when food is involved. But this game we met our cousins and A.Hildy. I think that made the game a bit more fun for all!
Daddy's team was either leading or close through-out most of the game, but lost it in the last few minutes even with all his personal cheerleaders yelling. :(
We still decided to celebrate and met up for a little play time and lunch.
Thanks cousins for coming. We had lots of fun.
(thanks a.hildy for the pictures)

Thursday, February 18, 2010

fire station

Yesterday I was able to go with Presley on her field trip to the fire station with her pre-school friends. I just love watching her interact with her friends. Here she is with her friend, Sara.
We got to take a tour of the fire station - see where the fireman eat, sleep and hang out. They had a fire safety presentation, got to see a fireman all dressed up in his gear and finally check out the fire trucks.

With friends, Shea and Maddie.
Such a fun day. So glad I was able to go.

good, good day

So yesterday was a good, good day. Reese wanted to make sure she was the first one to wish me a happy birthday. She woke me up at 3:30 in the morning. She was wide awake and in such a great mood. I just played, snuggled and talked with her for 45 minutes. She was so sweet. Then I got to take Presley on her fire station field trip with her pre-school friends. (more on that later)
After the field trip I went back to school where my friends had gotten me cupcakes from the most yummiest bakery ever. After work I went to pick up the girls and found that they had made me a cake with help from Mawmaw. They were so excited to show me. They greeted me with the cake and a song. They did it almost all by themselves and were very proud. Reese even helped.Isn't it beautiful?
From there we met Daddy for a yummy dinner and then it was home to enjoy the best ever cake!

A great, great day indeed!

Thanks Mom B. for the cake and for the pictures too!

Sunday, February 14, 2010

happy valentine's day


Happy Valentine's Day!

We started off the day by going to church.

Then lunch with Mawmaw, Pawpaw, A.Cindy, U.Ben, Tyler & Gabi at one of our favorite ulta-cheap extra yummy Mexican places.

Home for naps/rest time. The older girls got to watch their new movie Daddy got them for Valentine's Day. Daddy took all of his girls out for dinner tonight.

Then it was a quick run to Target to get supplies for dessert. And finally home to enjoy some homemade milkshakes. Seriously one of the best valentine's day ever! Spending the day with my 4 valentines. :)
And a BIG thank-you to Chad for my wonderful present - gift certificate for a haircut, facial, manicure, pedicure, and massage! Perfect! Love you!

Saturday, February 13, 2010

early wish

My early Valentine's Wish for all of you - I hope you all have a wonderful day with those you love!


Thursday, February 11, 2010

change of plans

A. Hildy took the day off to take Presley to her field trip which got cancelled because of the weather. So instead, she picked up Presley and Addison and let them choose where to go to eat. Presley picked "The Peanut Place" aka Logan's. After lunch A. Hildy took them back to her place to bake and decorate cookies and apparently a little singing and dancing.
Addison was the lead singer with Presley doing back-up, but actually up front dancing. If you listen carefully you'll hear these lines from Addison - "Ariel is my best cousin." "You are my best frie-end." :) So fun. Thanks so much A. Hildy for a fun day!

Tuesday, February 09, 2010

where or where?

Has time gone? Seems I've taken a little bloggy-cation. I didn't intend to, I guess life just got in the way. It always seems to be a bit busier for us this time of year. And this year is no exception. I actually have a student teacher in my classroom right now. I initially thought it would make things easier for me, less work, but I now feel almost busier if that makes sense? It's almost easier for me to plan and teach then show my student teacher and help her with her lesson plans. She has a few more weeks with me in my classroom and then actually just found out today she was placed with Chad for her 2nd placement. :) So with work, daycare, pre-school, basketball and normal house duties time has gotten away from me. We also were dealing with some yucky colds a few weeks ago. It was actually soon after we got back from our MLK get-away. It started with Reese. She got a little temp early Tuesday that quickly went away with a little Tylenol. Later that night the temp came back so we gave her more Tylenol. When I went to check on her before I went to bed, I noticed that she was shaking. At first I got really nervous thinking it was a seizure. I picked her up and could tell she wasn't doing well. Chad and I brought her downstairs and decided to take her in to the ER just to be cautious. We gave her another dose of Tylenol while we waited for Cindy to come over and stay with Presley and Addy (who were sleeping). On the way to the ER she had stopped shaking. They checked her out and did a chest x-ray on her. Her temp at the hospital was 102 and that was after the 2 doses of Tylenol we had given her. So they gave her Motrin and it went down a bit to 101.7. Dr. came in and told us it looked like a virus to him. He told us it was good to bring her in to be safe with her background of seizures. The next day she seemed a bit better but Addy started with the temps and while sitting at dinner actually started shaking. She said, "Momma, I can't stop wiggling." And then I think Presley got a bit of it the next day. Chad and I took turns staying home with all 3 girls the rest of the week and were both able to somehow avoid the bug. Chad ended up taking Reese back to the Dr. on Friday because she just wasn't kicking it and they ended up giving her an anti-biotic to help her get over it. And thankfully now they all are much better. They still have a bit of the cough, but Dr.'s said the cough could last up to 3 weeks. We are thankful that it was just a cold because it seems there is so much worse going around. So now here we are coming up on Valentine's Day. The girls were working hard on their cards tonight. I took them last week to pick out their cards and Presley really wanted these Hello Kitty cards, but tonight as we started writing her name on them she got frustrated with not being able to write her whole name on the cards. Luckily I had picked some Mickey Mouse Clubhouse cards out for my class at school that had LOTS more room for her name, so all is well. Tomorrow Presley has a field trip to look forward to with A.Hildy and her pre-school friends to the fire station and Addison and Reese have their daycare party. As for me (and Chad), I have weigh-in Wednesday for the Biggest Loser competition that we are doing at school that I'm not looking forward to...the Superbowl was this weekend, I think we should have a grace period weigh-in. I'm looking forward to a long weekend and hoping to relax a bit and hang out with my favorite girls.
I see some Barbie time and sledding in our future."Look Ma, no hands!"And I just had to share this next picture... I had no idea I snapped a picture that captured this bubble until I went to edit the pictures on the computer.
Isn't this hilarious? Gross, I know, but so funny. Especially with her little tongue out there. And I don't want to leave you with that, so I leave an even cuter pic of little Reese.