Calendar May 15th - 28th

The next 2-weeks are pretty active. . . let's hope the weather cooperates with us!!

Sunday, May 15th -
Monday, May 16th -
Tuesday, May 17th - Jaxen turns 5 months old! Tee Ball Practice 5p-6p
Wednesday, May 18th - Girl Scout Meeting 7p-8p
Thursday, May 19th - Tee Ball Practice 5p-6p
Friday, May 20th - PTO Walk-A-Thon 4p-8p
Saturday, May 21st - Bike Rodeo 11-3

Sunday, May 22nd -
Monday, May 23rd -
Tuesday, May 24th - Tee Ball Practice 5p-6p
Wednesday, May 25th -
Thursday, May 26th - Tee Ball Practice 5p-6p
Friday, May 27th -
Saturday, May 28th - CMN KidFest

Mother's Day 2011

Happy Mother's Day to all my friends and family!!  Being a mom is the most wonderful thing in the world but it is also the hardest jobs ever! You are all amazing, I am so blessed to have you all as role models!!

Jaxen's first Mother's Day!!

Today we haven't done much of anything.  Just layed around watching TV and hanging out.  I did cut the grass this morning and water the plants.  Kids had fun playing outside while I was tending to the yard chores.  I took pictures of all the plants that we planted last week.  The rainy weather we've had the last week has really helped them grow. . . and today brought tons of sunshine.  Can't complain about the weather today, it's almost too hot.  Poor Jaxen couldn't get a good nap in because he was sweating. . . hopefully once the sunsets a little it breeze will make him feel better.  Little guy just isn't used to the hot weather.

Jerry had to do school work and go to work this afternoon, so I put dinner in the crock pot.  Nothing fancy, just cream cheese chicken -- it's exactly what I wanted!!  In fact, it's so good, I burnt my mouth on the food because I just couldn't wait for it to cool off!!  That's how good it was!!

Other than enjoying the kids, enjoying the weather, and eating good - I've been able to sit back and watch Army Wives and cross stitch all afternoon!  But unfortunately, it's Sunday evening. . . Mother's Day or not. . . means bath time, trash time, and Mt Laundry!  I'm hoping the weather stays nice so that we can make a trip to the Zoo as a family!!!

Carter James Noble

Introducing MY Nephew. . . .

Carter James Noble

May 6, 2011 @ 4:11am

7 pounds 12 ounces & 21 inches long

Proud Parents: Amanda Dodds & Jeremy Noble

Here I am holding Carter. . .

Ready to start spoiling!!

The Cool Aunts!!

Aunt Heidi, Carter, and Aunt Joanna

Cousins. . .

Carter & Chloe with Jaxen & Jacob

 "CJ"

Welcome to the family, Carter.  Chloe and Jacob were so happy to see you!  Jacob can't wait until you can Jaxen are older. . . he wants to teach you to sword fight!!  (True Story - he hasn't stopped talking about it since we've gotten home!)

Congratulation, Amanda and Jeremy!!  Welcome to Parenthood.  It's a tough 24-hr job with no pay and no days off!  But being a parent has brought me many gifts. . . A love I had never known, Strength I never knew I had, More smiles than tears and absolutely the best and most rewarding job I was ever offered!!!  Enjoy every smile, every tear, all the love and even the stress. . . they grow up way too fast!

I love you Amanda!!  You did an amazing job!  It's worth all the sleepless nights and pains of pregnancy. . . He's a very handsome little boy!  And I told you, even after all the pain and stress of baking and giving birth, looking into to the eyes of your child is a love you can never describe!!  Definitely makes you believe in love at first sight.  And you'd do it all over again in a heartbeat!!

32 Kindergartener's and the KC Zoo

Chloe

Watching the polar bear

Watching the tiger

Mommy and her princess!!

Chloe

Petting zoo

Chloe and her new friend!

Chloe with a sheep

Mason and Chloe

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!!