what a big girl

well its 9:42 pm and all is well. but our tiniest of children is right now as i type this is sound asleep in her big girl bed. She looks very tiny at least. We are having some sleep issues so i plan to take her to my room when i go to bed but she was so excyted about being with the big kids. i thought she would never fall asleep. i had to read four chapters of the kids book before she fell asleep. its so hard to see her growing and changing so much. i know its good and right but i miised so much of her little life that i do not enjoy going through these stages in fast foreward. i will try to take a pic of ellie sleeping cuz its pert dern cute. well i am off to ANOTHER of mom super yummy peanut butter cookies.

Happy Fathers Day Big Daddy!!

Honey, thank you for being my husband and our kids dad. i am so grateful for the sacrifices that you continue to make everyday for all of us. The kids are so lucky to have you for there daddy (whatever they call you). Thank you for Mitchell and his methodical thinking, for Kyleigh and her sweet spirit, thank you for Connor and his compassion, and thank you for Ellie with her fierce stubborn streak. I love you.

WHY IS THERE NO CHOCOLATE CAKE FAIRY?

When your day hasn't been bad but you didn't really get anything done and well you really need something, just something, I'm not a big drinker, maybe if they made a Margarita with butter cream frosting, anyway, there should be a cake fairy, screw the tooth fairy and i can live with the leprechaun that visits my sons kindergarten class but God, please send me a cake fairy!!

the sound of silence

I will start by saying that i am not one who enjoys silence. whenever its really quiet i am always reminded of a horror movie right before the bad guy chopps off a head or something so i always have something on in the background (the idiot box, the radio,kyleigh whatever) but since mom had the boys in sacramento this weekend visiting with uncle lew and aunt sherri i was blessed with a bit more quiet then usual and with the girls all bunking in my room the combined noises that they make are quite melodic. For starter, Kyleigh, my beautiful 41 pound pixy snores Like a MIDDLE AGED TRUCK DRIVER. This sound only a mother could love is broken speradically by the sound of Ellie half sucking half chewing her thumb. It really is quite a sweet sound and i kind of wish i were the sentimental mom who would record this for all posterity (or at least the boyfriend at about 17) but alas i amnt.

it has been fun being all girls. we played beauty shop, went to build a bear workshop and generally just got our estrogen on but we are certainly ready for Mitchell to come home so he can take out the mounds of trash out

What have we been up to you ask????

we have been doing alot of this.

Note the concentration. she was all

about shooting that gun. She is a big

kid dammit!

We celebrated three of these

Connor is seven

and Brian and I, well, were older

please note that i am not nearly as old

as brian is, man he's old

There has ofcourse been alot of this, new fence, baseboards,yardwork, new disposal and faucet some painting blah blah bod and norm look out her come big daddy and ellie

And of course there has been a little of this, we are us of course.

But mostly everyone is healthy and happy. Ellie continues to surpass our expectations. as do all of the kids they came out of the school year with excelent marks. we couldn't be more proud of the lot of them. I'm so glad to be there mommy.