A Peek

I often think no one has any idea how busy my life is.  Well of courses my hubby, my best friend, my sisters, and my mom.  I wonder if my children realize how busy my little life is.  A lot of my hustle and bustle is due to there needs and extracurricular activities.  I thought I would write about the few things that have kept us busy that aren't really blog worth by themselves.

* Picture Day for all three kids over the last two weeks.  Allison reminded me the night before, I literally ran to Dillard's before they closed.  Cooper of course had his newly large scar on his head for this picture.  Beckett had picture day Wednesday poor guy got attacked by mosquitos which he is really allergic to, wonder how those pictures will turn out..

*Weight check for Camden.  Camden has been having tummy issues and we had to bring him back to the doctor to get his weight check.  He is doing good and gained weight.

*Allison's heal cup broke and I had to take her into the orthotics place to get them to check her heal and reorder another pair.  This took several phone calls and visits.

*Early release was this past week.  Allison and Cooper got out at noon, which is when Beckett gets out of school.  How to be in two places at once.  The kids were so bored at home so we decided to go to chickfila for an early dinner.

*Church presidency meeting this past week.  Being the secretary doesn't require me to busy all the time.  It is mainly a clerical job keeping up with ward wide auxiliary events, set up meetings, compile a monthly newsletter, and send out email event reminders etc. 

*Homework!!  It takes up so much of our time!  Allison is more a self paced worker, but I have to pretty much keep Cooper on constant task.  Allison has a ton of test this year were always studying for them and my dear Cooper drives me crazy when we practice for his test.

*Activity Day's is in full swing.  Allison goes twice a month.  Its tough to fit into our afternoons but she always has a great time.

*Soccer practice takes up a lot of our time.  Between drop offs, pick ups, and soccer pictures our life is around the clock soccer!

*I dropped a pizza off to a friend who just had a baby.  My sweet friend had her fourth baby and she crossed my mind a few times this week so I thought I would drop her family off a pizza for lunch and make her life a lil easier!

*Our church has a bi-weekly playdate.  It's fun to catch up with friends, I usually just go with Camden because Beckett is at school.

*Dinner date with friends.  We invited the A's over for dinner with there two kiddos Friday.  Cooper was counting down the hours and waiting by the window.  I love to entertain and we really enjoy chatting with our friends as the kids go wild with their friends.

*Cooper has had a few playdates with his friend Jackson, once at our house and once at his house.  Also Allison has had her friend Sam over to hang out.   

*The two little boys and I dropped off poweraids to go with the VT message to three of the ladies I visit each month.  Plus we visited with one of our friends at the park.

*My moms birthday was on the 7th and my sisters and I went in together to get her a fitbit.  I got one back in August and my sister got one in September for her birthday.  We do these fun challenges together.  Little do people realize how often I walk sometimes up to 26,000 steps a day!

*I joined a 8 week weightloss challenge with some ladies from church.  I've lost 28 pounds total since Camden was born to date, and 9 of those pounds since the challenge started.  I still have 9 pounds to lose and I'll be pre Camden weight.  Its been tough but I am up for it!  Its not a complicated challenge, its off a point system and percentage lost.  Anyway its been a constant thing in my everyday life recently.  I am the top 3 out of 21 people.

Soccer and other things..

Soccer season is in full swing.  Allison had a game last Tuesday and two games this weekend.  We managed to fit some time at Mr Gattis and steak and shake.  I also took the kids to the park Friday and Saturday.  With cooper's head injury he has been laying low and was ready to be his normal rambunctious self.  Since moving to a more competitive soccer bracket it's been harder for Allison to score.  We tied our last game and lost by one goal at the next game.  Beckett is so much more behaved at soccer games, which means I get to actually watch Allison.  Although I am sure that will change once Camden is mobile.  It rained through both her games and I stayed under the umbrella, but both boys were playing with friends.  I love how well Cooper and Beckett play most of the time.

A trip to the emergency room

Sunday afternoon after dinner we decided to walk to the park and meet up with some friends.  The two older kids wanted to ride there scooters.  I was loading up the double stroller.  Allison and Cooper were waiting and riding there scooters around the driveway.  I hear Allison fall and cry out then Cooper annoying yells at Allison.  I turn around and Cooper is holding his head complaining Allison hit him with her scooter when she fell over the large bump in the driveway.  I move his hand to look and its bleeding heavily.  At this point Cooper hadn't cried or fussed.  When he saw the blood his eyes got wide and he told me he didn't want to die.  I assured him he would be okay but that I thought we needed to head to the emergency room to get him checked.  I loaded everyone in the car and we went to the ER.  Allison was in tears worried about Cooper.  Richard meet us at the hospital and his parents took the other three kids so we could focus on Cooper.  We were seen right away.  The nurse checked Cooper's vitals, cleaned the wound, and suggested stitches and glue.  There was a several vehicle car accident so we had to wait.  Once they got to us things went pretty quick.  Cooper didn't complain at all as the nurse worked on him, and we were released quickly.  It was a long 5 days keeping Cooper from opening his cut.  Friday night we went to the park and he was back to his normal climbing jumping self.

Saint Ann's Fair 2015

We're very excited about going to the fair this year because we had no other plans that day!  Most years we are juggling our time between games, college football get togetherness, or birthday parties.  We went to the fair right when it opened.  It wasn't to hot yet and it wasn't crowed!  Beckett was actually big enough to ride more rides and totally cried riding the dragon roller coaster!  He was screaming to get off and go home.  Thankfully his attitude changed.  I think his favorite part was the Saint Ann's side.  Beckett got tired and hung out with grandma and granddad in the gym for bingo.  Cooper loved the space ride and went on it more times than I could count.  My favorite part is seeing our friends and eating a turkey leg and funnel cake. Camden slept for hours once he woke up he got fussy.  Richard dropped me off with the two little boys.  Allison friend Audrey came over and Richard took them back.  The girls won cokes at the ring toss, rode countless rides, and won two gold fish.  It's strange how Allison is getting bigger and wanting to venture out on her own.  I remember her first fair like it was yesterday.  Another awesome fair in the books, 16 years and we've continued the tradition.

New projects

I recently made a wreath for a friend who just had her baby.  I saw the idea on Pinterest.  I made one similar for Beckett's monster party.  It is so simple and inexpensive.  My brother in laws birthday was the same day my friend was being induced.  Allison saw me working on my friends wreath and decided she wanted to make one for her Uncle.  Accept she wanted to use candy.  I had never let Allison use a hot glue gun but she was determined to make this wreath without my help. Besides my idea to place the words on the candy all the same direction that was the only input I was aloud.  I think Alli did a good job!  My mom was cleaning out her garage and gave me a few thing.  I took home back in March for lack of a better word a basket.  It was metal on top and had a stone bottom, I took in hopes to replace the glass apothecary jar the boys broke.  The problem was the metal doesn't match the metallic metal decor I have.  After months of having this basket I finally bought spray paint and up cycled this piece.  I love the way it turned out!  I volunteered often for the kids school, I m on the PTA board.  The most recent activity was the word wall, the school will be introducing words every week to the kids.  There were 7 areas that needed to be decorated for the words to be displayed, I decorated two areas.  It took me four days and several different trips to finish my little project.  Its not my best work but with four kids and a completely full schedule its the best I got these days.  I haven't really done anything crafty in awhile so it was fun to work on a few projects.

Weekened fun

I am a little behind on blogging so I am gonna try and play catch up.  This post is from a few weekends ago, September 25th. 

I always try to make the weekend fun for the kids.  With a full week of school work and extracurricular activities I love planning special family time.  Because Richard had to work I took the kids by myself to Chuckee Cheese, there choice.  Then we went to run an errand at the mall.  We had planned to go to the park after dinner but we had a major rain storm.  We ended up watching football.  It was so nice to relax as a family.  I love football season, Richard gets so into the games and so do the kids.  Sunday night our friends the Russell's were having their son's mission farwell.  I cant believe we've known this family for ten years and seeing their sons grow into young men has been such a blessing.  Definitely a weekend to remember!

September 18, 1999

September 18, 1999

It's a special date to Richard and I.  It's the night we meet and he asked for my phone number.  Months went buy we spent all of our time together.  We talked on the phone everyday, we went on several dates.  Our first date was to the Saint Anne's fair.  We went to a ton of movie dates!  We also went to Midland High's homecoming.  Our first kiss at my families garage sale.  I finally mentioned to Richard that he never official asked me to be his girlfriend.  Since I was the first girl he ever dated it never occurred to him to make it official.  So we've always considered the day we meet as our official anniversary.  As it turns out 18 was Richards soccer number and it's become Allison's soccer number. 

We celebrated on the 18th and had Richards parents watch all four kids.  We went to dinner and a movie!  It was our first outing since Camden was born, without taking him with us.  Life has been on over drive since school started.  It was just wonderful to get out.  We went to dinner at Olive Garden and then to see the movie Maze Runner: Scorch Trails.  It felt surreal to be out by ourselves, like I had forgotten something really important.  I am so thankful Richard worked up the courage to ask me for my phone number.  Our life has been a roller coaster of amazing highs and lows.  I am so grateful I have an amazing partner by my side, I love you Richard.