Camp Cedarledge 5-09

These are the only pics that I have that don't have other peep's kids in them. I am going to do some cropping later but I don't have enough time this morning. The one with Ab on her bike in jeans is because we had just rode our bikes back from horse back riding. They had to wear jeans for that. Abi is great at the archery because she had already taken it at school so she taught me a few things. I hadn't doen archery since my senior yearof high school. She's an old pro. I can't wait to do it all again. Not sure all of the girls would say the same thing though. :)

school picnic

These are Lindbergh Spirit Fest Pics. David came back that day from DC. Went home from the airport, changed clothes and meet us at spirit fest. What a Dad! Mom Deb and Sam went too. We all had a great time. We spent the whole day there. We took a break to go home and rest for a bit and then went back in the evening. It was an awsome day.

summer is almost here

Well, I can't believe summer is almost here. Three more days before school is out. I am ready to go into my summer hiding. 4 days a week at the pool, trips to the zoo and the botanical gardens. Swimmin at granny's house :) Last year we bought a pool for the yard. This year we are getting a pool pass again. I think I am going to be taking a leave of absence from house hunting. I am hating it anyway. I doen't really want to leave my school anyway. Char and Cara get to go for free next year to Lindbergh's ECE program and I can't find that anywhere else. The laundry is overtaking my house again since I got out the summer stuff from the attic again. I have to figure out how to make my yard safe for the kids and the dogs without Uncle Billy stressin me out. He has this shed in the yard that the kids can get into that has so many dangerous things in it. It has no door to keep the kids out so bubba is always getting in there and getting shovels and walking around the yard with this stuff. Not very safe. He won't put any of it in the garage either. Abi and I went to our very first ever girlscout sleepover campout. I can't post any pics of it yet because I don't want to post pics of other people's kids so I have some cropping ot do.

Opinions are like...

Asses, everybody has one and your stinks!!! Not you of course. I like you. :)

Look at this picture. Are we a motley crew or what. This is my sister and two brothers. Not in any particular order. My sis came home for a week last week. I only got to spend a little bit with her. I wish we cold have spent more time together. I need to take the kids to Texas to see her. Wouldn't that be nice for her. :) Me and my 5 kids just coming in for a visit. She doesn't have any kids. :) Well, trying to get excited about the house without getting to excited. Still waiting to here from the bank if they are going to accept our offer. I am glad that none of the kids are going to have to leave their schools. I need to get up off my but and do something. I look like a sore thumb in this pic. Oh what the folks in this pic have gone through in the years. It is so great to see us all together. Wish Jessi would move back to Saint Louis. They have people here who like to do yoga too. I think I have been on a roll of feeling like a bummer. Too many excuses to little time. I will start something tomorrow, there is to much to do, can't today, try again tomorrow, to tired, baby sleeping, gotta make dinner, gotta take the kids to school. If you wait around for the right time, it will just never happen. I gotta just frikin do it. Oh wait here's a good one... When I move I will have more time. HA!! Yah right. Going to just pray for peace and patience. I need lots of that. Lord knows. :) going to bed. need rest so i can find more excuses.

Thank You...

Just want to thank God for what he sent our way today. God is good to me. Just let me please feel more at peace about the whole thing. I am a worry wort and I just can't help that. Can't really pray to help me be less worrysome. (sp?) I am a Mom, I have to worry. Otherwise, what kind of Mom would I be? Lets just hope that this is His will. :) And not just my own.

crappy day

Well, I had a pretty crappy day today. David left for what is to be the start of a very long month of Memorial Services for fallen officers. National Law Enforcement Officer's Memorail Week will begin in a few weeks also. They have a pretty big deal in Washington DC and David goes to that. He has gone now every year for the last 5 or 6 years. I haven't gotten to go yet becasue I have always been busy with the kids. On to other things... I went to Barnhart and looked at a very nice house today. This made me finally decide that I am not going to move out of my school district. We really do like our schools, the twins are going to get to go to Lindbergh Early Childhood Education (ECE) preschool program next year for free so that is just to good to pass up. Where else am I going to get that? Probably no where. We have been in this school district for 7 years now and what happens if we move and i don't like the kids new schools? Then we are just screwed. We would not be able to move again. I have decided to slow down on the house hunting for a while too and let my agent do her hunting. It has consumed my week and last weekend. I am going to really try to take a week off. I haven't found anything I really want to jump up and down for anyway. I am comfortable in my decision in not moving out of our schools though. Before I wanted to move far, far, far away. Now, I will just be glad to find something that meets our requirements. Okay, now on for BIGGER news... Abi is going to be in her first Jazz concert. She will be playing both the trumpet and the french horn in this concert. I am so enormously proud of her. She has not had an easy year but no one ever said middle school was easy. She has learned so many different languages this year and is interested in being and having a foreign exchange student. I told her that my sister was a foreign exchange student to Stuttgart Germany and loved it. I think German might be Abi's favorite too. She does pretty good with speaking it. She is such an awesome kid. Now if I can just get her to understand that she does not need a cell phone or a FB page i will be doing better. I am looking forward to our camp out, sleepover that we are going to do together this summer. Maybe if we get to move before school starts, she could do a sleepover, camp out in our new back yard. Supposing that we actually find a house with a yard. *please GOD*... Well, it's late and I can't think anymore so I am going go go to bed. Tomorrow is goiung to be a better day. I just know it.