Friday's are Fun

I always look forward to Fridays. Michael has the weekend off and usually a slow work day on Fridays.

Jillian had ice skating from 9-11 again today. She started learning her axel jump! She is really excited! The boys played with all the other siblings while we were at the rink. They always find something to do while they pass the time there.

Today was Chick fil a customer appreciation day! If you dressed up like a cow of some sort you got a free meal. The kids wanted to do it. We'll two of them wanted to, my 9 year old thought he was too cool to do it. The website had a printout costume. Basically some ears, a nose, and some spots, and a tail that they could wear. We went to our favorite Chick fil A, and ate for a bit less than usual. The kids thought it was cool! There were several in there dressed up...including adults!

We all went bowling after lunch for a few hours. We had to get back home after bowling so I could get the boy's packed to go to friend's houses to spend the night. Jillian got a night with Mom and Dad out on the town. We took her to her favorite restaurant to eat Mexican. She loves cheese dip and fajitas. We were planning on going to the $1 movies to see Hannah Montanta, but we ran a little behind at the restaurant and she opted for going to the mall clothes shopping. Which I am not sure made Michael any happier. He really didn't want to tag along with us to see that particular movie, but at least then he would be sitting down. Instead we drug him for over 2 hours through the mall. Jillian loves clothes and wants to try on everything. She is very picky about her clothes though! We are going to be in trouble when she becomes a teenager. She decided on several outfits, one in which she already said was going to be her first day of school outfit. We went to 2 different Wal-Marts after the mall. She wanted to make a blanket. The Wal-Mart we usually shop at didn't have a fabric section any longer. So we went 10 miles up the street to the next Wal-mart. Finally she picked out some fabric. It was so late when we got home that we put that project down for maybe later Saturday. Her last request for the evening was spa night. She loves lighting the candles, drinking out of fancy glasses and sitting in the jacuzzi. So we ran the water for her and got her all fixed up! She went to bed happy, except for the fact that she wanted to sleep in our bed with us. Which I have never been able to sleep when the kids are in our bed. She didn't argue but a second and went on to her bed. She was really tired, and we were too.

With 3 kids it is hard to get that individual time with them. We love doing things together as a family but it is great when we can divide up and do some one on one things together too.

Didn't go as planned!

Not much about today went as planned! The kids and I had a good day in spite of all the changes to what we had planned to do.

We had planned to go to Alabama Adventure for the day, but I wasn't feeling so well. The kids played with the neighbor's kids for most of the day. When Michael got off work we had planned to take them to play putt putt golf and to the drive inn movie to see "Ice Age-Dawn of the Dinosaurs." We went to putt putt, and I started not feeling well again. We opted out to go to Sonic and get ice cream and head back home and watch a movie at home. We will try next week to go back to the drive inn.

Don't you hate it when you have a fun day planned out, and nothing seems to go right? It was one of those days!

Today went by to FAST!

Where did the day go? Jillian had ice skating practice from 9-11 today. She had a lesson during 30 minutes of that timeframe. She is doing so well on her whole jumps now. She has been so excited and practicing hard this week. She goes again on Friday.

The kids made another deposit at the bank today! They are trying so hard to save! I love to see that in them!

The boys bought some new baseball gloves today. They are ready to get them broke in for this next baseball season. Josh really needed one. We finally told him he had to get a new glove. His favorite glove that he has had for four seasons has seen its last catch. It is beyond saving! He loved that glove! Hopefully his new glove will be as good as a glove as this past one was.

Lunch was served by Arby's today. They are running summer freebies on Wednesdays. Today was get a free swirl shake with a sandwich purchase. So they let us get 5 roast beefs they had on special for $5 and we all got free shakes, and we ordered 2 large fries. So for $10 we all had a sandwich and a shake and shared the two orders of fries between us. What a bargain!

We went bowling today again. Our family is loving the kids bowl free program this summer. We have been going at least once a week, and some weeks 2/3 times. They have really improved their bowling. We don't let them use the rails. It teaches them at an early age about ball placement and how to truly bowl. They are getting so good! It makes them proud of themselves to see how good they are doing and not being dependent on the rails.

We were planning on going to the drive thru movie in Argo tonight, but we got to cutting down some trees in the yard and the kids were riding their bikes that we lost track of time and was going to be rushed to get there in time. So we decided to wait and go tomorrow night. Ice Age is playing and they are so excited about going to see it. The drive in movie is $10 a carload. Sure beats the $50 for 5 of us to go see it at the movie theatres.

Tomorrow we are planning on going to the waterpark. I need to run and get my driver's license renewed first thing in the morning. Mine is expired! I hope there isn't a line!

We got Braves Baseball tickets today. We are going in a couple of weeks to the game. I know the kids and my husband can't wait for that. I can't either, I love baseball as well! The last game we went to we had sleet. It was March and unseasonably cold there that day. We were all miserable. We tried to get warm with hot chocolate that day, but needed blankets and heavy jackets. A portable heater would have been nice. Hopefully this time at the 7:00 game and in the middle of summer we will be more comfortable.

Hopefully Thursday will be a great day! I am looking forward to spending the day having fun with my kids!

Yard Work

So we didn't get much done today, besides yard work that is. We managed to cut the grass today! We really need to figure out what we are going to do with these bushes that sort of line our property at the front of the road. They grow like crazy and need to be trimmed constantly. The main problem with that is they are so tall and wide it is hard to get to them. You pretty much need a ladder.

Jillian had ice skating today! She is learning some new whole jumps! She is so excited and the enthusiasm is so intense right now. She is fixing to learn a new program for upcoming competitions.

The boys are in between sports right now, so they are playing a little bit of everything. They practice football for awhile, then they get out their gloves and throw baseball. Later I can hear them hitting in the tunnel in the garage. Then later you can hear the basketball going in the driveway. All around they love sports!

Rough night last night

What a night Michael and I had! We both came down with a stomach bug or food poisoning or something. From about 10 pm till 5 this morning I hung out in the bathroom, and Michael hung out in the guest bathroom. He wasn't quite as sick as I was. At times I felt that I was going to faint. Just really bad upset stomach and nausea. Still today I haven't gotten to feeling much better. Perhaps a good nights sleep tonight would have done me well, but....

Preston started complaining his stomach is hurting around 7:00 tonight. I was worried that he would be having a rough night like we had last night. I didn't want him to indur the same intense pain I felt in my abdomen. I called after hours, and they told me a few things I could do to ease him some. I actually still have a baby monitor in the house for the nights when the kids aren't feeling well. We just pulled it back out and put it in his room so we could listen out for him tonight. I am hoping we aren't passing something around.

Other than trying to recoop from last night we haven't done much today. We took our puppy to the vet for her 12 week old shots. We took some movies back and got some more. We have all seen Marley and me except for Michael. The kids wanted to get it and watch it tonight. So later this afternoon the kids played outside, we ate supper, and all piled in the bed to boo hoo together watching that movie. We lost our 11 year old Shih tzu since the kids and I have last seen that movie. It made it a little harder to watch this time around after losing a pet in the last 2 months.

We'll I am off to bed. I am hoping that Michael and I get to feeling better. We are still having abdominal cramping and icky feelings. I just pray that if it is a stomach bug....that we don't go through the whole family with it.

Relaxation and Sleep Needed

We had such a busy past couple of days. We had went to the waterpark Thursday and Friday, and then went to the fourth celebration on Saturday. Today we all slept in and just had a lazy day! I cooked a big breakfast this morning. We'll it was more like brunch. We had scrambled eggs, cheese toast, grape jelley toast, cinnamon toast, sausage, and cheese grits. The kids played around the house. They spent several hours of the day playing yahtzee. I spent some time trying to catch up on laundry.

We ran to Buck Creek to try and retrieve Preston's football that we lost last night at the 4th celebration. It got hung up in some brush by the creek, but it was so dark we couldn't find it last night. We went back to see if we could get it, if not we were headed to Wal-Mart to get a replacement. We went to the creek, couldn't get it at first. We tried sticks and rocks. We headed to Wal-Mart. Why they love that Nerf football when they play with a real football is beyond me, but they love playing around with it. Wal-Mart didn't carry the same version of the Nerf football. The one they had was cheaper made and was not going to last anytime. We told the kids we would check Toys R Us tomorrow but we would go back to Buck Creek and see later today if his football had dropped any due to the rain.

We fished with some friends for awhile in Riverwoods. We caught some bass, and brim. Strong winds and rain moved in so we packed up. The kids wanted to ride back down the street to Buck Creek and see if the rain brought the football down any. It had, and Michael then was able to go in the creek and play HERO. We had eaten our left over ribs and food from yesterday around 3 today, so we decided to pick up pizza for a light supper and call it a day. We came home and ate our pizza on the back deck as it continued to sprinkle. It was relaxing just sitting out and listening to the rain. We had promised the kids one more game of yahtzee before bed tonight, so we ended the day with a game of yahtzee that I thought was never going to end.

Started Back---Blogging

We'll our family just started back blogging. I had been keeping up with our life in scrapbooks and so on, but decided to start back blogging this morning.

So much going on in our household with three kids! First of all, they are growing up way TOO FAST! Where have the years gone. We now have a 9, 7, and 6 year old. It seems just yesterday my 9 year old was born.

We went to the local Fireworks and 4th celebration in our little town yesterday. It was from 1-9 however we didn't get there till after 4. We had a late lunch which consisted of ribs cooked to perfection by my husband, baked beans, maccaroni salad, potato salad, homemade cole slaw, and some awesome grilled corn that I doctored up. The kids and I made a homemade strawberry shortcake and some homemade peach ice cream. We had so much food we forgot about the watermelon we had put in the freezer to get chilled.

When we finally arrived at the ampitheatre in our town which is by Buck Creek we were all full and miserable! They had games of wiffle ball, volleyball, moon tosses, horse shoes, and scavenger hunts. We headed to the back of the park to place our chairs and check out the bands that were playing for the celebration. My son's intermediate school principal's daughter was on stage singing. She is a pretty good singer! The kids wanted to go play the moonpie toss game which consisted of standing behind an orange line and tossing moonpies about 10 yards away with hopes of ringing the bucket. You got three pies to try and land in the bucket. Josh managed to get all three in, and Jillian and Preston only got one in a piece. For each moonpie that went in the bucket you got to enter a drawing to win $50. Later on in the evening, they did the drawing and Josh won the $50. He was called upstage to collect and they handed him a purple bag with 50 gold coins in it. He was so excited!

We had fun sitting and talking with friends until the fireworks display started. They were once again awesome this year. After they were over we gathered our chairs and went and visited the new local coffee shop to get a treat before heading home. We listened to a few bands that were playing there and enjoyed some red velvet cake, and a blueberry scone.

All in all an awesome day with family and friends.