Valentines Day

Robert had to work on Valentines day, so the kids and I made cupcakes before he got home and then we all spent the evening watching movies and eating snacks.

Jack had been doubled over in pain for about 4 days of sleepless nights - so I took him to the Doctors on Friday and they gave him medicine for gasritis (sp?) He's been so much better.

These are my valentines cards from the kids, and the last of the cupcakes that they decorated

Jack has been such a ham for the camera lately.... it was so nice to see him smiling after him being so miserable for so many days.

Robert and I went out to PF Changs for our Valentines Day dinner - but we waited and went on Sunday instead. It was still SO packed!

These pictures are mostly taken by Kyla. She was being quite the photographer. After each picture would turn out she would congratulate herself with a proud: "YES!"

I did something to my back on Saturday too - I pinched a nerve or pulled a muscle or something, because I was laid out flat on muscle relaxers and motrin! This is what happens when mommy doesn't follow you around and clean up after you. We'll be making a game out of "clean up" tonight for sure!! ( I can't believe I'm posting these )

This is Kade playing hide & seek!

Jeana is getting married!

Jeana's brides maids and mom threw her a very nice shower on Friday night for her wedding in April. It was so nice to get out and visit - however that was the start of our sick weekend, so I didn't get to stay as long as I would have liked.

Jeana looked absolutely beautiful as the bride to be, and was so embarrassed opening her presents.... I can't wait to see how she handles walking down the isle! I'm so excited for her and Anthony, you can just feel the love!!!

SICKNESS

My kids rarely get big-time sick, but boy let me tell you they are making up for it BIG TIME this past week / weekend!

3 small children with stomach cramps, and fluids exiting their bodies ( sometimes when they are not quite ready and in all hours of the night ) from all ends is not what I would consider to be an ideal weekend and stress reliever.

I hope my babies feel better soon. What's so hard is they act like they are better, get a burst of energy - then you have some hope. Well 3:00 a.m. rolls around and all hope is gone.

My mom got it too!

Repeating: " I will not get sick" " I will not get sick" - seems to be helping me so far.... lets hope it works.

Kyla started preschool.

It's been a long time coming and prompted with lots of interest on her part.... but Kyla's first day of preschool was today!

Aiden will be joining her within the next week, but we decided to go ahead and not delay her starting any longer, and I'm really glad it worked out this way. I wanted her to tackle this on her own and she did great! She was scared the night before and on the way there; asking me if I would please stay the whole time. Once we got there and she let go of my leg, she met a little girl name Samantha and off they went to color! 5 minutes later I asked if I could go to work and she did her typical, head nod accompanied with dramatic eye blink and slight grin which means "yes - I'm ok with that." No tears, not from her or me. ??? It's just amazing to me that this part of life is starting. ( with Kade I don't think I'll cry either - with Jack I'll be peaking through the windows for all 4 hours! Poor Jack - he's going to be guilted(which is not a word according to the ABC checker on this thing, but I'm not changing it ) into taking care of me his whole life! )
Anyway - I digress.

After school I talked to Kyla and she was very nonchalantly saying it was a good day, but not a great day because there were times when no one was playing with her. I did manage to figure out that she had lunch with 3 little girls and played outside, and most importantly is happy to go back on Thursday! I'm so proud of her! She's officially a "rainbow" ( That's the name of the room she's in... cute huh? )

I can't believe I'll be picking up Kindergarten registration papers here in only a matter of weeks!

Here is the one picture she allowed me to take and I had to sneak it with my phone!!

Super Bowl Party!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO to the Steelers!!!
Arizona should have won... you know the commissioner is bringing in that head ref due to too many ify calls! I can't wait until September to start all over again -

Despite the teams that played the game, TJ & Serina threw a very fun party! There was a jumper /slide for the kids, more food than was possible to eat and lots of drinks and friends!


Angie & Cierra

And Gavin - omg Gavin is the cutest baby ever. He's only 6 months old and sits up and babbles so much already. It's CRAZY!!! He is the sweetest happiest little guy!
He is SO smiley!!!

I don't know if you can see that there are 4 TV's ( there was one more behind the garage and one in the house too! LOL )

My Dallas Men

Kade was grumpy ( ya, really - strange I know ) when we first got there - the only thing that would snap him out of it was wearing a matching jersey like Uncles. I wasn't too happy - but hey if it made him happy I'll sacrifice! Jack wouldn't let me go for the first hour either.... what is up with this boys?? He finally left me when Robert got there and went to him for awhile, then he moved on about 45 minutes later and actually enjoyed himself!


He was happy to look like uncle.....

Then Robert tried to take it off (o:

Ya ya ya - whatever.

Kyla had S cookies that were covered in yellow frosting and black sprinkles... which she was fascinated to see turned her mouth a lovely green/blueish color (o:

Anissa and I had lots of jager shots because we had a very similar very bad day and night previously.... and Serina's mom gave me 2 B12 shots in my hips for some energy - I think I'll get them monthly. She said I must really need them because I felt NO different after the 1st one, so I had to get a 2nd - go figure!

We didn't drink it all, I promise (o:

This is when the game SHOULD HAVE ended!

After the last second of the game!

SILLY FACES!

I've been really blah and grumpy lately - so Kyla insisted we take lots of silly face pictures instead of normal pictures for a change! It was so cute to see Jack try to think of silly faces to make to be like his sister (o: Kade was of course too grumpy or "cool" to participate!!

These pictures make me wish I could go back to the life and brain of a child just for one day. So far, my resolution of laughing more isn't working out so well!!! I'll keep trying though!

I had to BEG to get these 2 normal ones!!

Heritage Park is awesome

I met my friend Anissa and Becky and their kids at Heritage park after work yesterday.... the kids loved it! It's such a beautiful park. A little hard to watch 3 kids, but I had 2 extra sets of eyes so it worked out nicely!

After Heritage park, I actually for the first time took all 3 kids by myself out to eat. I was going to attempt Coco's - but figured I would start smaller and we went to Weinershnitzel instead ( the one on South St. with tables ) I was actually kind of freaked out to be honest. I mean seriously - what if someone came up, grabbed a kid and ran away. What could I do, I have all 3 kids? There was a freaky homeless guy sitting right next to my car when we went to leave and I didn't like that he was talking to us. That's why I don't take the kids to the park by myself either... I'm totally out numbered. Anyway - I'm proud of myself for doing it! (o: