T-Ball Season 2011!

Bring on the campfires and hot dogs, summer is upon us!!

Chloe's T-Ball Coach called and a week from today, my baby starts her 2nd year of Tee Ball!!  I'm so excited for her!!

T-Ball Coach
Chad Dean - (Chloe's Teacher's husband. . . who is also a teacher at Midway.)
Cell # ***-289-1097

First Practice is May 10th
Practice every Tuesday & Thursday
M.Y.A. Field @ the school from 5p-6p (I'm going to just barely get home from work!)

. . . and of course, she's really excited because she knows so many more kids this year - unlike last summer.  And once again, Taylor is on her team!!  :o)

Calendar May 1st - May 14th

The next 2-weeks are pretty activity light. . . and I'm sure that will change as the week progresses!
Sunday, May 1st -
Monday, May 2nd -
Tuesday, May 3rd - Chloe's Class Field Trip to the Zoo - Amanda's official Due Date!
Wednesday, May 4th - Girl Scout Meeting
Thursday, May 5th -
Friday, May 6th - Jaxen is 20 weeks old! AMANDA GIVES BIRTH!!  WELCOME CARTER!!
Saturday, May 7th - Cole Camp Trip!

Sunday, May 8th - Mother's Day
Monday, May 9th -
Tuesday, May 10th - Tee Ball Practice 5p-6p
Wednesday, May 11th - Girl Scout Service Unit Meeting
Thursday, May 12th - Tee Ball Practice 5p-6p
Friday, May 13th -
Saturday, May 14th -

What a week it's been.

It's Sunday, May 1st!  I can't believe how fast this year has gone.  Next weekend is Mother's Day - and hopefully, sometime between now and then, Amanda has that baby of hers!  I think it's time she started sharing her lil' ninja with the rest of us!  Lol.  I can't wait to get the call that she's having the baby, I have a bag packed for her and the new baby.  It ready to go - just waiting for that phone to ring.  Keeping my fingers crossed that when she does go into labor, I am able to leave right away.  (Hopefully, Jerry's not at work with the car or I'm not on a field trip with Chloe's class!)

This past week I have gotten all the training that I've needed to take my Girl Scouts Camping!  After work on Monday, I went to Camping 101 (6pm-9pm), Thursday I went to Camping 102 (9am-4pm), and Saturday I went to CPR-[2 years certified] (8am-12pm) and First Aid Training-[2 years certified] (1pm-3pm).  Yay!!  Only training I have left is my Brownie Training and I can take it at anytime before the end of the year!

Other than working and training not much has been going on around here.  The weather cooperated a couple of days and we were able to get the garage cleaned out and some of our flowers and vegetables planted.  We really need to get the house with property that we have been looking at, because Chloe picked Corn as her veggie this year.  :o)  Of course, we are giving it a good try out front in our flower bed, but she knows the chances are slim.  We are so close to being able to place a bid for the other house and if we get it, I can't wait for next spring when we will be able to plant a real garden full of veggies!!!  Fingers crossed!!!  When it warms up outside I'll take some pictures of what we planted on Friday.  We still have a couple more things to plant, but it got dark outside and now it's not warm enough to go play in the moist dirt and water.

I added about 9 more pictures in the April Album. . . my camera is cleaned out and now we are on to the month of May!!

Happy Easter 2011

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter weekend.  We sure did around here.  And we really didn't do anything fancy, which was exactly what this family needed.  After the last week, which we had something going on every single day. . . a weekend of rest was definitely what the Mommy ordered.

I didn't sleep to well last night, I was up until 3am.  So Jerry was in charge of hiding the Easter Eggs this morning when he got home.  I got the baskets set out before I went to bed, but I didn't have enough energy at 6am to hide the eggs.  Jerry did a great job hiding the Easter Eggs, not too hard and not too easy.

At 8:30, Chloe was the first one of the kids up.  And since she was chomping at the bit, Jerry went ahead and woke Jacob.  But the party couldn't start without Jaxen and I.  We were the last ones awake but definitely not by much.  By 9:30, the kids had found and opened everything and Jerry was headed to bed.

Since then Chloe and Jacob have colored and played and enjoyed a day together.  I am quite happy with them today.  Both of them got along pretty well, while Jaxen and I napped for a few hours.  But my nap was cut short when Jake got hungry.  So I made our annual Easter Egg Salad for lunch.  It was colorfully delicious! 

Now it's Sunday evening again and another week sits on the horizon.  Another crazy busy week that I'm not looking forward to.  I have a lot of Girl Scout Training this week on top of my work schedule and other weekly duties.  But once next Sunday rolls around, I will be done with my outdoor training.  Only thing left will be the Brownie Training I need for next year.

I've uploaded a lot of picture over the last couple of days, so if you haven't already head over to my picasa web album and take a peek.  https://picasaweb.google.com/dailyplanet04

Tooth Fairy's 1st visit...

Friday evening, Chloe reluctantly let Daddy and Uncle Bob pull her super loose tooth out while we were at Alex's house decorating Easter Eggs.  Of course, she was really scared so I started to bribe.  If you know my daughter, you know her weakness is Squinkies.  And that's what she wanted the Tooth Fairy to bring her, enough money to buy a set of Squinkies.

Of course, she's been warned that only the first tooth is worth $10!  The following teeth are only worth a dollar or two.  Besides the money, Chloe got an official certificate from the Tooth Fairy.  She was very proud of the certificate and it's already in her baby book!

While putting her certificate in her baby book, she and I both learn that the first tooth that she lost was in fact the first tooth that came in!  She loved finding out little facts about herself when she was a baby.

Now will someone please tell me what I am suppose to do with the tooth I collected from under her pillow?  I'm I suppose to save it or just toss it in the trash?!

Freeman Candy Hunt

My, my!  Have the kids grown?

Freeman Easter 2011 

Freeman Easter 2010

. . . I think it's safe to say that Jacob has!

Make-over

Wow, look at that!  My blog got a totally new look.  I sat down just to browse new backgrounds so I could change ours after Easter and with a couple clicks it was done!  I think I found my new background source, this 'upgrade' was super easy to do!  I hope you all enjoy it!! 

I'll be back later today for an Easter Update! So stay tuned...