Spring is Coming

This weekend was so gorgeous! We spent all day outside today and most of the day yesterday outside. It was so nice for the girls to be able to run around and play. I cleaned up the front yard while the girls played with bikes and strollers. One of their favorite things to do is take the umla strollers and push them around. Sadie will take the toy balls and buckle them into the stoller and just push them all over the yard. Kallie was cruising around the yard on her Dora quad almost the whole time. It was just so nice to be outside. I was tired of being all cooped up inside and I know the girls were going stir crazy.

Today we spent ALL day outside. It was about mid 50's out and sun all day. We all went to church this morning and then when we got home we all changed in to grubby clothes and headed outside. ( We just started going to a new church called The Journey. Aaron's mom has been going there and Aarons Aunt and Uncle go there. ) Aaron and I cleaned up the back yard from all the leaves we never got to before it got cold. It was quite the chore. It took us acouple hours and the girls were playing on the swings and playing in the sand piles. I also start to make a path in the front of the house with broken cement. We have a cement sidewalk that goes from the front deck all the way down to the driveway but we mostly always walk the front and around the side to the back of the house. There was no longer any grass there since we walk it so much I figured I should do something. There was a huge pile of broken up cement on the path between our house and Aarons mom's so I might as well put that to good use. :) I've got a good portion of it down but I still have more to go . I plan on working on it more tomorrow. It's supposed to be most of the week. High of 60' on Tuesday. Lots more outside time! I am so exhausted right now. My feet, hands and back are sore. It was a long hard day but it was a nice day!
Time for me to call it quits for now. More soon! (Sorry no pics, Tabitha still has my camera :( )
Love ya!

It's About Time

All ready for school!

Geez! I am being really awful on keeping this thing updated. Shame on me. Shawna "yelled" at me yesterday for not updating in 2 months. I'm sorry :( I'll try to be better.

Lots has happened in the last two months. Kallie is now going to school! She started this Monday. She is so excited. It has taken me almost all the school year to get her in. I started at Spring Lake in October to get her in for speech and after her second visit in January we realize that we now live in Fruitport district and she can't go to Spring Lake for Speech. GRRR!!! So I then had to start all over at Fruitport. They do a more extensive meeting stuff than at Spring Lake. I had 2 meetings with them in Febuary to check Kallies speech and then last week I went in on Wednesday to set up an IEP ( Individualized Education Plan). It's pretty much saying that she needs the extra help than being in a regular ed class. This will be for the next whole year. So she is all set to go back in the fall when school resumes.

Not to happy to get on the bus.

She is actually in a preschool class that teaches all the same stuff that a regular ed preschool would be doing. This class just has 2 parapros (helpers) and they have group speech therapy and also music thereapy. The kids that need the extra help, like Kallie, will get pulled out and does one-on-one speech with the speech therapist. The teacher and speech therapist decided they probably wouldn't do lots with Kallies speech for the remainder of the year but work on her getting comfortable in the class and used to everything. She will still get group speech though.

Kallies first day was Monday and she was so excited. On Thursday Aaron and I with the girls, went and visited her class so she was alittle prepared. We also went and picked her up a new backpack. That was what she was most excited about. Also her "homework". :) She has a notebook that she will write in and says is her "homework". It's so cute.

Not so sure of the bus yet.

Kallie couldn't wait for the bus to get here on Monday. She is going to afternoon preschool so the bus comes at around 11:20. School is Monday through Thursday. Grandma Kathy came and watched her get on the bus for the first time. Once the bus got here Kallie was scared. SHe started crying. I helped her get buckled and got her all situated and got off the bus. SHe came home at around 4:20 and they said that she had a good day. Tuesday se just walked up on the bus and sat in a seat. No more being scared. She loves going to school. Sadie wants to go now.

Getting off the bus.

The afternoons are so different for me now. Sadie is still napping ( well not today :), so I have alittle time to myself again. I've been cleaning so Aaron is happy with that. I am going to try and work out acouple times a week now that I have some free time. Aaron just laughs at me when I say that. I don't have much motivation to work out. So we'll see how that goes. :)

Well thats all the time I have for today. So I will try my hardest to get more on tomorrow. Love you!!

Happy Sadie Day

January 1st for us is Sadie's birthday or Happy Sadie Day. This year she was really into singing "Happy Sadie". We had cake, that she helped make, at supper and then on Sunday the 4th we had the Grandpa and Grandma's over for a Happy Sadie Party.

~Sadie helped decorate her birthday cake, the family one. ~

~Sadie and her cake on party day~

We all just hung out and had cake and ice cream and Sadie got to open her presents. Her very favorite was her new "big girl" bed. Aarons mom and step-dad went and got her a new matteress, since we already had a frame. They also got her new bedding and the Veggie Tales Pirate movie. :) Daddy had to put the bed all together for her so that she could have it that night. She was just soo excited over it. She slept all night in it too. We didnt' have to pull her out of Kallie's bed. She still talks about her big girls bed. SHe is just so proud of it.

~ Snuggled in her new "big girl" bed and princess blankets~


~ I now have 2 almost matching day beds in the girls' room~

I can't believe how fast the girls are growing. I never thought that I would have 2 twin beds in their room already! I figured I had awhile before that would happen. Kallie is potty-trained now and Sadie is trying her hardest. She want's to be a big girl so bad. I wish that they would stay little forever. :)

~Each girl with their favorite puppy~

I've been crocheting the girls food for the kitchen set lately and I finally took a picture of my craftiness. :) So far they have 2 cupcakes, 2 ice cream cones, 2 couliflours, they had 2 broccoli's until Mya got one, 2 oreo cookies, 2 popcorns, and a bag of chips. Cheve got a hold of one of the chips so I think that there are only 7 now. The chips and bag are one of my favorites, I also love the broccoli and couliflours. They turned out so cute. Tabitha is supposed to be sending me over some more scrap yarns since I am running low. I've been having fun creating these fun foods for the girls and watching them play with them. I can't wait to make more.

THe girls LOVE their kitchen! Kallie was using pennies to "cook" with today. SHe would put them in a cup or bowl and stir them around. Silly girl!

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year!!

I can't belive that it is 2009 already!! And today is also special for us because it is also Sadie's birthday! She's 2 already!! Time sure goes by so fast. I remember coming home at 2am from a New Years get togther at Aaron's sisters and climbing into bed and having my water break and Sadie made her presence 5 hours later. She was 2 weeks early so it was a total surprise. I remember Aaron running around like a chicken with his head cut off trying to grab the stuff we needed to head to the hospital. Sadie was just ready to come now! She is still that way. It is Sadie's way and Sadie's time or nothing. She is so independant and has to do everything herself. I hear "NO ME" many times a day.

Today we are just relaxing at home. Kiri was alittle sweetheart and got up with the girls this morning (she spent the night so Aaron and I could go out), and let Aaron and I sleep in. She is such a big help with the girls when she is over. Aaron went to one of his coworkers to get some more wood for our wood furnace. The girls and I just played with their new kitchen set and I worked on crocheting more food for their kitchen. We are almost ready to eat here soon. Aaron is cooking Brats out on the grill and Sadie helped me make her a birthday cake we can have for dessert. We've been singing Happy Birthday to Sadie all day too. Sadie will now sing Happy Sadie. :)

I am really hoping to keep up with this more. I love reading Trees blog (my sister-in-law) and following up on their life and this way she can keep up on our lives too.

Happy New Year and Happy Sadie!!
Love you all!!

Fall and Aaron's Birthday Surprise

Hey Everybody!
Here are some pictures of the girls playing in the leaves last week. It was so nice out last week I got most of the front yard raked. It stinks having a huge yard when it comes to raking leaves. I spent hours out there and only got a small chunk in the front done. We have a ton of leaves. Then the weather had to turn yucky and I haven't been able to get back out there. Aaron got a little part of the back yard last night but it didn't even make much of a dent. The girls had a blast playing in them though. They had me rake a big pile and they would play in it for alittle bit and then make me rake it all back up again. They were so cute and they had so much fun!


Today is Aaron's birthday. Big 31. His sister and my brother and Aaron's buddy came over some time during the night and teepeed our yard. Plus it was raining last night so it's a big wet TP messy yard. They got the front really good. THere is TP everywhere. Not alot in the trees because of the rain but it did leave remnants in the branches. THey also took Instant Mashed Potatoes and wrote 31 in the driveway and in the yard with the flakes. Poor Aaron. His sister got him last year by writing in those car markers all over all the windows on both our vehicles. She covered them with a bunch of 30's and Honk and Wave Aaron's 30 today. She got both the vehicles so that it didn't matter which one he took to work they were both covered. He's got to plan something good for her birthday this year. He didn't retaliate last year. He's got to get her this year. I'm hoping to put some pics of it up but my computer is not letting me upload pictures right now. I'll get them up as soon as it will let me.

Happy Birthday Aaron!

Halloween and Fall

This is the third time I have sat down and started this entry. I had trouble finding my pictures that I wanted to post one time and the other the girls decided that they weren't going to take a nap for me. (Little stinkers)

We had a great time on Halloween this year. The girls are getting old enought that it was fun to watch Trick or Treat. We go to Shawna's in-laws subdivision. They have a nice little loop of a neighborhood and it is just perfect for the little ones. After the kids Trick or Treat we then go back to Shawna's in-laws house and have pizza and candy. The girls went as Thing 1 and Thing 2 from The Cat in the Hat. I made their costumes and then did their hair all crazy. Hairspray, teased and then blue spray. They stood so well for me to mess with it. They actually won best costume at our MOMS group Halloween party. THey just looked so darn cute and we had such a fun time. This one came out blurry but it's a bunch of dad's that all had some type of "Adult Beverage" in their hands. While the kids went house to house. THAT is the way to take your kids Trick or Treating . :)

Here is the whole crew that went out. In the back, at the top of the steps is Tabitha in her little Navy outfit and Teaque in his Survivor gear. Next is Logan as the Cat from Catin the Hat and then Kiri as a Rocker Chick and Sadie, Thing1 and Kallie as Thing2. THen Cyndl in Army gear and Andrew as a Dirtbike rider in the front. Everybody had a great time.

I was going to add a bunch of pictures of the girls playing in the leaves but the image uploader thingy isn't working right now. GRRRR! Well enjoy the Halloween ones and I will try to get them up later.

Time to go get the girls some supper! :)

It's Been Awhile

Hey Everybody!
I am still here and alive :) It's just been so busy with the move and then getting settled in and we don't have internet at home yet so I am using WI-Fi where ever I can. I am at the library right now. I just got done cleaning for Serendipity. I have been doing alot of cleaning for them lately. I go atleast twice a week and I did three days last week.

We are having a house warming party on June 14th if any of you peeps want to come. I am going to be sending out invites this weekend. I am not sure yet about the time exactly but it'll probably be about 6ish. We are going to grill and then have a bonfire and Aunt Patti and Uncle Terri are bringing fireworks. :) They made a trip to Indiana for the party fireworks, so they'll be great.

I am going to post some house pictures here soon. I know I said I would do it already but I haven't gotten around to it yet. I still have to upload a bunch to the computer first.

The girls are doing great. I think that I have finally gotten them healthy again. They both had runny noses and counghs. I was sick all last week with severe headaches and runny nose and I am feeling alittle bit better. The headaches aren't as severe so far this week so hopefully I am getting over whatever nasty bug I had.

I am so glad that the weather is warming up. It is starting to almost feel like summer. I can finally let the girls outside to play and not have to worry about them getting colds and getting sick. They love to be outside, esp.Sadie. I can't ever get her back inside. :) She loves to take tractor rides through the woods and anywhere.

Well, I gotta jet, gotta go releave my sitter.
Love yas!