February...Came and Went...Here's what happened at our house!

I can't believe how behind I am at blogging. February came and went in a hurry and I didn't get a chance to show you all the fun things we did. Here is just a few of the pictures I took during Feb. (I took over 600 picts)!

Avery LOVES food! Here she is eating apples and blueberries...YUM!
I am Haylee's room mom for Kindergarten. This was taken during her Valentine class party.
Here's Ethan's gang! I went and found Ethan at lunch after the party! It makes me proud that he will still run up and give me a hug and A KISS, in front of all his friends!
Valentine Shirts! Man...I have cute kids:)
My kids got spoiled! Mom and Dad gave them a piece of cheesecake factory cheesecake, Grandma Mac made them sweet valentines and gave them candy, Grandpa Skip brought Haylee flowers (on the right), and Grandma Kathy brought Choc. covered and strawberries, and caramel apples! WOW, we all had tummy aches at the end of the day.
OK...I got spoiled too! Thanks babe I loved the roses:)
Sam and Jack flew home and we threw him a surprise party! It was fun we had the Peterson's and the Shippen's! Happy 1st Birthday little Jack...WE LOVE YOU!
We hung out with Jack and played for 10 days! It was a crazy week and a half.
The babies love going on walks, until they saw other kids playing then they wanted out so they could join in the fun.
Aunt Ally turned 21! We had a cheesecake party!

10 people...10 different flavors of cheesecake! Everyone agreed the tuxedo was the best.
Avery learned to LOVE her Aunt Sammy. She doesn't go to just anyone. It took about 4 days of seeing Sammy non-stop but by the end her and Sam were best friends!
Haylee got to dress-up as a Storybook character for school spirit day. After a lot thinking... and convincing, she was Little Red Riding Hood. (Cutest Little Red I've ever seen)
She also had a Princess Birthday Party, she went as Cinderella ( Our Grandma Mac makes the best dresses...Thanks Grandma)
Ethan graduated RAD Kids. It was a great program they do at the school to teach kids safety. I think every kid should participate in this program.

February was a fun, busy month. I can't believe March is almost over! I have been tagged 3 times so keep checkin' I'll post those soon. Happy February:)

Very Inspiring!

I loved this. It's a professor who is dying from cancer, and this is his final lecture. Hope you are inspired by this man as much as
I am!

I've Earned the "WORST WIFE OF THE YEAR AWARD" according to housekeeping monthly

My friend, Breanne, posted this on her blog, and with the request from my Mom I decided to post it too. According to this article from 1955 I am officially the WORST WIFE EVER!!!! I don't think there was one thing in that article that I could say I do on an everyday basis. From now on it is my goal to be a "little more gay", "stop talking, because his topics of conversation are much more important", "bathe the kids before he gets home...so they sparkle like the little treasures they are", and "always remember to take off his shoes and fluff his pillow"! What do you need to work on?

Cake Day for BUG!

Anyone who knows me knows I go all out on my kids birthday's. I love the parties, decorations, and most of all the cakes! I drive myself crazy trying to create the "perfect" birthday, but I still keep doing it. The day before the birthday is known as "CAKE DAY" at our house. Cake Day is where everything and everybody gets neglected because Summer is making THE CAKE! Haylee chose to have her party at the Kangaroo Zoo this year (which was fun but we didn't do our usual b-day things so it felt different) and the party room she chose was a flower room, so we made a flower cake, complete with ladyBUGS for my HayleeBUG (that's what we call her)

This cake was fun and easy to make. A lot faster then some of the other cakes I've done (pirate, scooby-doo, princess castles, etc.) I think Bug loved the cake:) Keep checkin' I will post lots of birthday picts!

Where have I been?

I have had so many phone calls from all of you fellow bloggers wondering WHERE I"VE BEEN! So, I'll tell you...No, I haven't given blogging up, or changed my blogspot address. I have 3 kids, a husband, and a house!!! I have dropped the ball and have been chasing it for about 3 weeks (man those things roll fast:) ) Let me start at the beginning. About 3 weeks ago Avery began being extremely clingy, and fussy. She started waking up every hour at night, and would not take a nap unless she was sleeping on me, and then she would only sleep for about 20 min at a time. After a week of this I got really behind on the housework. In my attempt to regain control I made every one chore cards (including me and Andy). Not even 24hrs later Avery started running a fever, only of about 99.5, and was struggling eating solids and would only nurse on one side at a time (We haven't used the chore cards yet). I took her to the Dr. the next day. My pediatrician was out of town so I saw the Dr. that was filling in, he told me it was just a phase she was going through, and they don't consider it a true fever until it is at least 100.4. So we went home and just kept doing what we were doing. Then, drum roll please, my washer and dryer broke!!! SO now I have laundry everywhere, bathrooms that were screaming to be cleaned, and a sweet baby just screaming! I hadn't slept in over a week and was just a tad frustrated. Blogging now took a back seat to LIFE. Presidents Day rolls around and the Repair man came and fixed my washer (the aggitator dawgs were broke) and Dryer (moisture sensor came unwired). I recruited my mom to come run errands with me, because I still can't figure out how to shop with 3. Avery cried the entire time we were out and I only did half of the errands I needed too. I did however purchase a high chair which I meant to do since Christmas. We came home and as I was putting the High Chair together I noticed Avery's mouth was stark white! I then knew the problem....her thrush was back. I packed all the kids back into the car and headed to the instacare (crying the whole way). My friend just happened to be working that night so she put our name on the waiting list and got me into the best Dr. there. The Dr. took one look at Avery, who was now covered in very small red dots over most her body, and said she had thrush that had gone on for so long that it was now Hands, Foot, and Mouth Disease. She also said she was in a lot of pain...then the tears came again and a few choice words. She said her throat was raw and all her symptoms (eating, slight fever, not sleeping) were classic signs of it. I was so mad (that the other Dr. should have caught the thrush before it went down into her throat) and really sad that she was in pain for so long. We got our prescription and headed to Walmart, I fed my kids dinner at almost 8 o'clock that night at Walmart while waiting the 25 min (which turned into almost 40 min) it took for them to fill the prescription. We did 7 days of 4 doses everyday of the prescription. She started doing better but not 100%. Then Sammy and Jack flew back last Mon. for Jack's 1st birthday..Yeah! I threw him a fun surprise party with both sides of the fam there. I just kept feeling like Avery was still sick so Tuesday I took her to our pediatrician. Sure enough thrush not gone, and throat still raw:( So we are on round 2 of antibiotics and doing lots better:) Sleeping schedules are still off but we are working on it. Ally's birthday was on Wednesday so we partied some more and ate 10 different flavors of Cheesecake Factory Cheesecake (picts to come). Then we had Haylee's birthday party today at the Kangaroo Zoo (her bdays tomorrow) it was crazy but so much fun, and we will party again tomorrow! Anyway Long story short ( not really thats just what you say ) kids feeling better, no more bdays for a while, caught up on laundry (got behind again,but am almost caught up), and most of house cleaned and sanitized (Thrush and Hands foot and Mouth very contagious had to bleach everything!),and sanity slowly returning...I think I'm back!