My children are experiencing a rash of humanitarianism. They had the bake sale, the book sale & the day care for charity. Today they starting running around saying "Don't worry guys, you're coming with us!" They grabbed every "child" they could get their hands on....they saved them all!
This is where is all used to be...
(look, Ella was grabbing up the last of the loot!)
And that was our day.
29 July 2009
Save the Children...
27 July 2009
Busy Busy Busy
That is the only way I can describe the girls today. Emily decided that she was raising money for a charity (imaginary of course) and had run out of ways to make more... she had already hosted a book sale, a bake sale & an art sale. What was left to do? Run a daycare of course! Luckily, Ella has been right along side her supporting her in all of her endeavors.
This is them taking a nap with all of the "kids" that attended their Daycare
Charity event.
22 July 2009
Quiet Week
It's been very quite in our world the past few days. We hung out with friends and went to the pool. We also hit a major milestone, well Emily did anyway. She finally agreed to get rid of the comforter that she has had since she was 2!
Now it looks like this...
Emily and her room...so many changes!
Well, Ella being Ella she "had" to have something too...bet you can't imagine what she picked! Wait, first please remember what her room looked like...002.jpg)
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Well now hers looks like this...
Please notice the best aspect of Ella's room...the princess stickers are gone!!! Before you all say I'm terrible (and yes, I never liked them) it was Ella's idea to take them off the wall... she said the pattern on the comforter and the stickers was just too busy. Ella had to have what Emily picked, of course, but I am glad it actually looks different in each girls room.
That's all for now... to the library (to climb on a fire truck) on Thursday and the pool Friday...we'll see what else we get up to.
12 July 2009
Prepare to be AMAZED!
At 1pm this afternoon the I headed out to drag some limbs. A few minutes later the girls were out to help followed a moment later by George. Within the hour our neighbor was over and we were all working hard to clean-up the yard. I am nothing short of amazed at what our yard looks like now. Wanna see????
On another note of good news the house next door to me has been purchased and should close at the end of the month!!! We met on of the people who is going to live there and she seemed very nice and normal, hooray! The best part (according to the girls)...
Much more quiet week planned this week, we'll see if I have anything to say :)
11 July 2009
Backyard Update
George spent most hours of the daylight hours today working hard in the backyard. Our neighbor came over as well and more than a few times we had a chorus of chainsaws happily buzzing outside making smaller piles of tree debris to be hauled away or stacked up. Inside was a different story, inside was the chorus of 2 little girls that wanted to go outside and drag the limbs to the back of the yard so Daddy could throw them over the fence. Starting at 10am and repeating every 10-15 minutes I heard a whiney little song that went something like this "When will Daddy be ready for uuuuus??? When can we drag liiiiiimbs???" I know they were excited to help but oh my goodness I wanted to give them some tylenol and send them off for a long long nap! (Mother of the Year points for that I am sure!) At 5:30pm (after their dinner) the girls came outside and started dragging limbs to Daddy. They were so happy! If I had not been dragging limbs as well you'd have a picture but I am pretty sure that after cutting trees all day George would have been less than thrilled if I stopped for a photo-op, so you'll need to use your imagination.
I will. however, show you what it looks like today. So much more has been done than I think you can see in these pictures....the creepiness quotient of our backyard has decreased greatly!
Did you see the odd white things on 2 trees that are still standing? They were index cards that I stuck to the trees I didn't want cut down...they used to be rectangles, something ate them...YUCK!
10 July 2009
Our weekly goings on
I think we had a busy week although I'm not exactly sure what we did. One day there was a massive crime scene just outside our front door...
Luckily, no one was hurt :)
We went to the movies one day...the girls each picked put the "most appropriate" movie outfit, they simply couldn't be more different...
Some evenings were just spent playing outside having fun...
We also went to "Cow Appreciation Day" at Chick-Fil-A, the girls dressed up like cows (sort-of)...
They looked cute even if not exactly cow-like.
Then there was today...
This morning our backyard looked something like this...
However, right now it looks a bit more like this...
Here's why...
Our neighbor graciously offered to help George cut down about a million chigger (horrible insect that burrows in to your skin!) infested trees and make our backyard a little less scary...today (while George was at work) our neighbor spent the better part of his day off cutting down the trees. Tomorrow they will cut everything up and stack up the wood for warm winter fires...I just wish we could use the wood from these trees to re build our deck but I've been told that's not possible...too bad!
So that's all, not much going on around here... I'll keep you updated on the progress of our backyard...who knows, next summer we might even have some grass!!!
04 July 2009
Princess Camp!
Grandma & Grandpa from New Jersey brought my little munchkin home last week...HOORAY!
We just hung out all week. The girls spent the mornings at Princess Camp & had a blast! The afternoons were spent having fun with grandma & grandpa, either at the pool or just playing outside in front of a new audience. Here is what it looked like...
George has gone to St. Louis to be with his sister who just gave birth to her first daughter at 28 weeks (pleased to report everyone is doing just fine:) ) so this long weekend it's just me & the girls. We hung out at the pool today and then I took the girls to have ice cream for dinner...this is something they have been asking for for the better part of 2 years...
Well, it was decided (by the girls) that it was not all that it was cracked up to be and came home for some fruit and yogurt. They think they'll try again next year with plain ice cream...apparently hot fudge sundaes are overrated (in their minds anyway!).
Oh yes and Ella decided that we hadn't been to the doctor in a while so she got strep just so we could go visit them! She's so sweet ;)
They are sleeping peacefully now (how I don't know, fire crackers & fireworks all over that I can hear) so it's just me and my freaked Charlotte...all the noises are too much for her without George here...poor puppy.
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