Crazy days once again!

We have lots going on nowadays! Soccer has started! The boys did not get much practice in, as a matter of fact Joe did not get any in! Nicks coach scheduled a few practices before the games started but Joes coach only scheduled 2 practices before games started and Joe had prior commitments so he missed both! Today is Joes second game, Nick has had two games already too. Nick scored a goal on Thursdays game and i missed it because I was out that night! BUMMER!!!!
My parents have been big time helpers in getting the other house ready to rent out again. We had the insurance guy come out and they are covering most everything I think except the carpeting. So that will be a help. We are putting the boys to work there as well! This next weekend both boys will be spending it at the Church for thier "Discovery" weekend. It is supervised by adults, put on by the senior high, for the junior highers! This will be the second year for the boys, Nick has a talk to give so he will be working on that this week i'm sure!

I'm really behind here!

Wow! I try really hard to stay motivated and keep up to date here but it never seems to work that way! Today ends Easter Break for the kids, that means back to setting our alarms and early mornings! Tomorrow there will be no rest because after I drop Molly off Paul and i need to head down to the rental house and he wants to get some outside work done there. I am sure the weather will cooperate for us. Paul and my parents have been doing a super job, Paul washed down walls, my dad ripped up the carpeting for us(GROSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! yuck............)we need to still take up the tile work in the kitchen I believe, then we have to do painting this next week and then we can get the new carpet put in. I think we have some electrical issues to look into as well. Paul's friend thinks we'll have no problems getting it rented out soon again! I can only pray, and pray that they are good tenants who will care about the place and pay thier bills.Thats what has mainly been keeping ym mind occupied.
Soccer season has started too...for Nick at least! We have heard no communication from Joes coach yet which seems odd. So we will be busy again for sure. molly has ended her swim lessons and did not want to sign up again, I was fine with that, our own pool will be opened next month and she will get in swimming as often as we can!!!

It is official, I made the list

and trust me it is not a good list that I have made.





I have made Molly's List.

as you can also see Joe made the list(above referred to as Toe, thats how she makes a j for some reason) he did not join the list until this morning though.

We tried making a graph this week and rewarding people for using polite words. Well that ended because a little girl in the house decided it was way more fun to continuosly add stickers to her name and to remove them from others. So Iwas mena yesterday and tried adding a bit more structure to her day because she has been horrible about waking up, getting ready for the day,eating, and doing homework. needless to say it did not go well for anyone!! So we are now trying an earlier bedtime...alll that meant was this morning she woke up on her own a full hour earlier and decided to sing in her wonderfully operetic voice....sigh

Palm Sunday...weekend

Well! Let's see, yesterday Molly and Paul had a super busy day. They started out at Lowe's which held a free workshop for kids. They made a cute little kaliedascope(yes, i am sure i spelled that wrong!), then they hit up Michaels and she made a little bunny and chicky out of Crayola foam dots or something like that, then they went to Kids book club at Borders where she listened to a story and they made a little Easter basket out of a plastic cup. Then, Paul heard that Morley candy factory was doing a free self guided tour complete with face painting and ballons. Well, the ballons turned out to be balloon creations lol!! The lady made adorable little turtles,and ladybugs that could be worn on wrists,she also made fairy wings,tigers,swords,dragonflys,little adorable gumball machines! I've never seen balloon "animals" like that before they were awesome!! Molly chose a ladybug. That was enough for the day!!!

Today, Palm Sunday, they had the kids parade down the aisle waving thier palms and then sing a little song they learned. I was so proud of Molly that she stood up there and even same some of the song and did the movements!! That was a big step for her!!!

nearing the end of March!!

Let's see!! What is new?? Well, Paul and I updated our personal cell phones and service plan. We got the Samsung Reclaim, it is pretty darn cool, made of 80% recycled materials, has all the intenet,texting,video and camera good stuff, has "hot key" type things for Google, facebook, and email. The new service plan takes effect on Sunday, so we will try downloading ringers and stuff like that! Paul is even willing to try the texting thing, oh, the phone has the slide out keyboard at the bottom, he likes that.
This is MCREST week at church, we donated two cakes and I took both boys, on a different to spend an hour or so making the bag lunches for the next day. We worked along side my mom and a few of her friends. it wasn't much but everyone is thankful for the lunches.
Molly has Science day today at school, they were learning about Physical science, figuring out solids,gases,liquids, magnatism, force of motion type things. They all enjoyed that!
This week has been chilly, I am really hoping for nice, warmer temps to come and stay!!

Friday is here!

I thought it was going to be a long week when I woke up thinking "boy it's great that today is Thursday!" I have no idea why I thought that..we still had activities that need to be done Tuesday and Wednesday...oh well!! We made it through the week!! We had some gorgous weather but tomorrow and sunday do not look so promising...and that is a bummer because Spring Fever has hit and the boys are going camping this weekend. brrrrrr...at least they will be in cabins!

Happy St. patricks Day!

Molly decided to pick out her outfit today...she thought a green striped shirt and polka dot tights would be a good option...ummm you also need underwear....and a skirt my darling!!! lol