Happy Birthday Hannah

HAPPY 7th BIRTHDAY HANNAH

Today is the day that my first baby girl was born! How she has changed in those 7 years and what a wonderful girl that I have. Hannah is just done with 1st grade and looking forward to her summer of fun with friends, the pool, and summer reading. Hannah brings me joy and is so very thoughtful in everything she does. She works hard in everything she tries. WOW! What a joy it is to be her mother. I love my little girl and all the laughter and good times that she brings to my life. Hannah Mae you are a blessing strait from heaven! I love you my dear Hannah Mae :-)

This is the girls who I took to the movies with Hannah. They all had a great time and it was a great way to celebrate Hannah's Special day! Now I just hope that some of them get to be in the same class with Hannah next year in school. This group of girls are such great friends! I can see lots of fun to come for all 4 of them through the years.
The birthday girl with her sisters! Ruby and Katy love Hannah so much and answered all the "birthday questions" right too!!

Is it Summer Already???

Well here we are on the cusp of summer time. Less than an hour to go and it's official Summer Time!! The kids are done with school and our first activity of the summer is taking Hannah and a few friends to see the last Shrek movie for Hannah's 7th Birthday! Yep we are doing the 3-D thing and I am taking as of right now 4 girls with Hannah. I think it should be fun and it's something to do on this great last day of school. (pictures should be up late tonight!)

This week has been a little bit long though with 2 of my three kids sick, but we are getting through it. Hannah is getting over strep from last week and is doing better. I thought we were in the clear, but when I took Ruby into the doctor on Tuesday we found out she had bronchitis! She really did impress the nurses when she saw her x-ray and could tell people where her spine and heart were! Proud momma moment! Katy is hanging in there with a cough she has had forever, but is the only really well one during this round of being sick.

This week also brought end of the school year things. Of course I got no pictures because I have been home on sick kid duty while Steve went to things. Hannah's end of the year awards was fun for her. She stayed on the A Honor Roll all year long and got a medal for that along with making it to the Golden Eagle level for AR reading! I am very proud of her!!

Ruby is all done with preschool this afternoon. Well for the summer anyway! and Katy is excited to start in the fall (well in August. That really isn't fall, but that's when they start school). I have found that if I bribe Katy with a slush from Sonic that she will go to the bathroom all by herself. I am sure that she will be sick of slushes by the time we have mastered this, but I am desperate right now. The girl really needs to start doing her bathroom business all by herself!

Steve has been busy with work and continues to do great! He has landed some pretty big companies this week and people are paying so that is a good thing for all of us!

I am doing lots of summer reading! I even have a page at the top for all of my books I have been reading! It's fun to keep reading new things and finding new worlds to spend a few hours in each day. There isn't much on TV anyway. What is there to watch anyway with 24 and LOST being over for good?!?!? If anyone has any other ideas for good reads for me this summer send me a note on my summer reading page! I would love to hear from you!!

In all I am really excited about our summer adventures! I know that summer will be over rather quickly, but it should be fun. We already have our pool pass! Summer trip to Texas planned for the last half of July! and trips to the library, parks, and friends all in the works! I am thinking that this will be the best summer yet! Hannah hasn't been back to Texas since she was 15 months old, so we are a little over due and I don't want Ruby mad at me for not being able to go to Texas.

So here we go SUMMER IS HERE!!!!

Ruby's Spring program

Ruby's Spring Program
Brought to you by Miss V's Class
There were good times, times kids forgot their lines, and even times we got a good laugh in too! Here are a few pictures of my cute blue fairy from the night. Enjoy the video's and the pictures. It sure has been a good year this year for all of us in Jacksonville!!

Wow! It's May already?!?!

Guess I am a few days late on that but it has been busy again. April brought nice weather, May is hot and overly busy!!! Seems like every weekend we have something to do and the end of school brings lots of things to do too. In any case we are all still alive and doing well.

Hannah is staying busy reading and trying to get to the next eagle award before school is out. She is doing great in gymnastics and will hopefully be moving up to team in the fall. She even got asked to attend summer camp with the team girls in June! Hannah is also looking forward to her birthday at the end of the month. I really don't think that I am ready for a 7 year old, but it's almost here!!!

Ruby is dealing with a streak of bad luck! She has hurt her fingers, toes, and has fallen a lot lately! Mostly it is the toenails that have bugged us! 2 weeks ago she was trying to open the door and popped her whole big toe off! it was still attached but hanging on by a little bit. Finally yesterday most of it had healed underneath, so we cut the part that was falling off. She is left with just a little toe nail that you can barely see. Any guesses on when she will have a big toe nail back???

Katy has been clumsy lately and the poor thing is covered in bruses. All on her own too! She fell at wal-mart and scraped up her knees and hands. She was goofing off at home by standing on the timeout chair and the table at the same time. Needless to say while she was dancing she fell. Hit her head on the table and got a big cut on her shoulder! Along with the normal trips and falls it has been a trip (hahaha) for Katy lately!

Steve has been having fun at work and getting lots of deals closed! I love it when they call and ask for the bill because they want to pay. I wish all of them could be like that. He has also been working hard in the garden and keeping the birds away. The fencing should be here today and that will be another project tonight to get up. We gotta save our food!!!

Me....well I have been reading for the summer and trying to get some studying done too, but right now books are winning. I have already read one and started on another. Too bad they don't have summer reading for adults too because i would be all over that! I am headed back to wal-mart today to get the kids a little pool that we can put in the front yard. It's way hot already and they need something to cool off with and i need an excuse to work on my tan. Okay...I know I already have a tan. I was born with it, but I do have a winter vs. summer look and I would rather have the summer look right now.

Well it's after 7 am and I gotta get the kids some food before Steve thinks that I can't do that either. He usually takes care of the whole breakfast thing, but I told him I would do it today since he is out tending to the garden. Toast is easy so hopefully I won't burn it! Off to the kitchen and feeding the kiddos!