Sunday, May 17, 2015
Wednesday, May 13, 2015
Mother's Day 2015
This past weekend was Mother's Day. We were fortuante that Grandma Barb came into town Friday afternoon and stayed the weekend with us. She watched the kids for Keith and I to go out Friday night to the Reverse Raffle. It was the first time we'd been out together without some of the kids since Ruth was born.
Saturday we all went to Caden's soccer game, then we took both Grandma's out to lunch at Longhorn following the game. The meal was good, but Elinore was having a rough day. She'd been sick the week before, and Grandma kept her up late the night before. The soccer game was during her nap time, it was hot and she was crabby!
After lunch my mom heading out, and the rest of us went to the local outlet mall to do some shopping. Grandma Barb needed some new tennis shoes, so we bought her a couple new pair of shoes for Mother's Day. I had my mom sent flowers that morning at work.
We were at the mall for quite some time doing some shopping. The boys got to use some gift cards they had gotten for their birthday the week before. They were thrilled and we now have a Repeat Pete talking parrot and some new Wii Star Wars video games in the house. Elinore got some new shoes, and I a new blazer and pants! Caden got new tennis shoes too.
On the way home we grabbed some DQ treats for supper and headed home to relax and get ready for bed.
Sunday Grandma Barb headed home and we went to church as a family. Before church, Keith gave me a new charm for my Pandora bracelet for Mother's Day and Caden gave me a nicely decorated picture frame he made a 4H for me. Once, Elinore saw that she ran to her room and got a picture frame off her shelf with a photo of her and I in it. She brought it to me and said here, I made this for you at school! It was seriously super sweet, even though she didn't make it or go to school, she wanted something special like her brother had for mom!
After church we relaxed and ate for awhile before heading to my parents house to celebrate mother's day with pizza and my dad and brother. We finished evening with Guerne ice cream, delicious!
A couple days later, Caden told me to look on top of the fridge for another picture frame Caleb made. I told him Caleb could do with it what he wanted since it was still his. Then Caleb grabbed it and tossed it to me as an after thought. He also made me a picture frame at 4H. Now I want them to take pictures with me to put in the frames!
Saturday we all went to Caden's soccer game, then we took both Grandma's out to lunch at Longhorn following the game. The meal was good, but Elinore was having a rough day. She'd been sick the week before, and Grandma kept her up late the night before. The soccer game was during her nap time, it was hot and she was crabby!
After lunch my mom heading out, and the rest of us went to the local outlet mall to do some shopping. Grandma Barb needed some new tennis shoes, so we bought her a couple new pair of shoes for Mother's Day. I had my mom sent flowers that morning at work.
We were at the mall for quite some time doing some shopping. The boys got to use some gift cards they had gotten for their birthday the week before. They were thrilled and we now have a Repeat Pete talking parrot and some new Wii Star Wars video games in the house. Elinore got some new shoes, and I a new blazer and pants! Caden got new tennis shoes too.
On the way home we grabbed some DQ treats for supper and headed home to relax and get ready for bed.
Sunday Grandma Barb headed home and we went to church as a family. Before church, Keith gave me a new charm for my Pandora bracelet for Mother's Day and Caden gave me a nicely decorated picture frame he made a 4H for me. Once, Elinore saw that she ran to her room and got a picture frame off her shelf with a photo of her and I in it. She brought it to me and said here, I made this for you at school! It was seriously super sweet, even though she didn't make it or go to school, she wanted something special like her brother had for mom!
After church we relaxed and ate for awhile before heading to my parents house to celebrate mother's day with pizza and my dad and brother. We finished evening with Guerne ice cream, delicious!
A couple days later, Caden told me to look on top of the fridge for another picture frame Caleb made. I told him Caleb could do with it what he wanted since it was still his. Then Caleb grabbed it and tossed it to me as an after thought. He also made me a picture frame at 4H. Now I want them to take pictures with me to put in the frames!
Updates
- Ruth is growing like crazy! She's about out of her 3 month size clothes already.
- Elinore is growing wearing mostly 3T clothes now and she's certainly grown in height lately.
- Her attitude has grown more though; she's reaching those 3s. I remember three being worse than the terrible 2s with Caden and Caleb.
- Elinore still is a charmer though, she may be stubborn, but when she randomly tell you she loves you, or says sorry, and you know it's sincere, she'll melt you!
- Caden is loving soccer season this year, and doing it on his own! I've seen him improve so much this season and enjoy watching him play.
- Caleb is really into legos and video games right now. Those are his two favorite things to do.
- The boys are starting to count down to summer. I'm ready for the homework to be over too!
- Yet, I need to find a way to keep them motivated and reading this summer. I need a system in place for that soon!
- Elinore talks about school and what she doesn't at school, which is hilarious since she doesn't go to school yet.
- Ruth is getting very good at rolling around!
- Keith has worked really hard on the bathroom remodel and he's almost done with it! A few finishing touches and we'll be there. With some help from Barb heming the showing curtain for us.
- Keith is getting into working on the garden now. Elinore likes to join him to help water it too!
- I've been trying to stay on top of the house work (see previous writing) and raise the kids and grow my faith.
- I've been trying to open my home more and do a better job at interacting with people and being a good friend. I'm starting to slip a bit in that as it's getting so busy with soccer, scouts and 4H. I'm hoping that will calm down in the next month with school letting out for summer and scouts ending for summer too.
- My Aunt from Wyoming is coming in this summer, so I'm excited to spend some time with her!
- We are officially taking a family vacation later this summer too; so excited about that. All of us are, even Elinore!
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