Wigs For Kids donation

Molly really wanted a haircut before school. She wanted it to be shoulder length. We knew it would be long enough to donate and her hair was in really good condition. Unfortunatly due to how it was ponytailed it still came out a little shorter then we were expecting...and with how it then needed to be cut to be in a nice style. BUT, Molly was htrilled with the cut, though dont get me wrong....she really misses her long hair lol!!

Missed updating tons!

So, since I posted last we had a tornado! Literally!! Thankfully at our home we "only" lost two large trees and the top of another tree. Even though there doesnt appear to be much damage to the house the insurance person came out and looked our home over and pointed out many numerous other things. If you travel down the main road that leads to our sub, it looked like a war zone! still does actually, fences blown down,many homes with tarps over them. The 2 days after the tornado were very odd. All you heard was the sound of chainsaws and other tools to take down trees and chop them up.
I also had a birthday, Facebook is great connecting so many "friends" I was greeted with many happy birthdays. I got lovely cards in the mail and also my family took me out for lunch.
Last week was Vacation Bible school at church. We all had a role! Molly was a student,Nick helped in the Bible Stories area,Paul lead the outdoor games time and Joe was his assistant. I took photos. it was fun! Paul even took a cake the last day because that was my birthday!
Now we are just getting ready to gear up for school!!

menu plans and other things to schedule

I have been slacking a bit in making menu plans for the house and I find they really help me add variety to the meals I serve, now that the boys are older they really like helping choose what meals we will have, and sometimes even help cook! I figure since now my youngest will be in school for a full day it is a great year for me to get everything organized. I figured that after everyone is dropped at school I will walk for an hour first...then get myself on more of a cleaning routine...maybe i'll even start that Flylady plan again! I think it's going to be a good year!!!

Summer can now continue!

All righty! Our family is now ready to enjoy the rest of summer! The boys are back from Jambo and we are all back from our canoeing weekend. You know how it is when you are getting ready for a big trip...well it's hard whne those that are getting are teenagers!! Of course they are capable of packing for themselves..but then we have to double check and make sure they got it all!! We did not do much while they were away and we knew as soon as they got back we had the Family and Friends canoe weekend for their scout troop.
So that's all done and we can relax around the house, do some swimming, and see what other trouble we can get into!

exciting stuff

Lots of exciting stuff around here!! Tomorrow night Nick and Joe, and lots of other scouts from Michigan are heading to Washington D.C and Virginia for National Jamboree. They are excited but kind of nervous as well. They will be gone a long time!! Whenever they have been gone long we have been together as a family or they were with my parents. So it will be different for all of us!
Also, my mom and dad are retuning from Alaska!! We missed them like crazy and will be happy to know they are home!

Molly's birthday came and went

Well, I think Molly was a bit disappointed about not really having a celebration. We chose not to have a "friends" birthday party, I am sorry but i was not up to spending an arm and a leg to invite her whole kindergarten class to a bounce house for pizza cake and other stuff like others from her class. I was going to invite 2 of her closer friends but her one friend wasnt going to be available and I thought the other might feel a little funny, so we will just arrange a play date sometime. Also, my mom and dad are still traveling, So we decided we would start the day with a movie, but she chose not to lol, we took her to Steak and Shake for lunch, one game of Putt Putt and then dinner at Texas Roadhouse. We did decide to go see Despicable Me as a family Saturday night.....Adorable movie..i LOVED it actually....but NEVER again will we do a saturday night movie out...it cost us almost 50 dollars and no I am not joking even Nick was quite shocked at the total! It was like 46 or 48 dollars.
Oh other news is we got the one side of our house all nicely landscaped it looks wonderful, we hired guys to tear out weeds, one dying tree/shrub, then they put in like 5 more arborvities trees and put in a nice stone walkway,fresh mulch over weed barrier....now the neighbors should be as happy as we are lol!! Just need to get a few other areas cleaned up and under control.

Busy first few days of July!

Where to start! Well, lets start with Saturday evening...we had a movie night and since it is summer I am a little more lieniant on bedtimes. Molly did not wind up getting to bed until 10:45...then she wanted to sleep with me because of the fireworks. So that was fine...except for the fact that even though it is a queen mattress she sleeps right.next.to.me.....or even climbing me is better she seems to think....that would be the reason that she is not often found in my bed!! So, even with the super late night Molly woke up at 6:15 in the morning....wayyyyyyyyyyyy to early!! I could not get her to go back to sleep for the life of me. I was praying I could get her to take a nap because for the 4th we were heading to Selfridge for a picnic and fireworks with friends of the family. Yeah....um no such luck there either!!! So she was up until 11 sunday night. Monday I was busy trying to get som updated photos for a headshot for Molly...i of course need to share my favorite so bare with me!
I am sure you can see why that's my favorite! So after many attempts to get one printed I did have luck eventually.Tuesday was the audition. I had really wanted Paul to drive us there because he had been there and this is kinda his thing...but no go. So I printed off straight from the link they sent directions. Bear in mind that this week has been bright sunny 90 degree by noon days. I get to where we are supposed...in a nice downtown area that I am not at all familiar with. I CAN NOT FIND THE DAMN BUILDING....EVEN AFTER WALKING A FULL BLOCK with an adorable 5 year old girl dressed up all pretty with slighty small ill fitting shoes on lol!!! She was a super trooper though I have to say!! We finally found a guy and I stopped to ask him if he could help...he said "oh..yes, i know exactly where you need to be it is South Washington not North washington...............we were 1 mile away.....would be nice if people sending directions would make sure that one little direction point is CORRECT! So we got there. finally after a little refreshing drink of water I had in the car and a short drive down. She did great I was not allowed in and now its just a wait to see if we hear anything.
Molly had also made another huge growth in that she now swims under water!!!!!!!!! Huge step for the girl who would not put any of her face underwater!!! Yay!!!!!