Our Memorial Day weekend (a few days late!)

We had a FANTASTIC Memorial Day weekend! Saturday I spent all day with Ryan, just the two of us! We went 4 wheeling for the day and then stopped and had dinner all by ourselves =)

Sunday was super busy. We left the house at 9am to go to Sugar Creek in Dansville. The kids had a great time! They went into the falls and played in the water for at least an hour. And the water was COLD. But they really had a great time. They had their clothes on in the water so I got them changed into clean dry clothes. And then they hit the playground and got DIRTY!! I mean covered in dirt dirty. And I had no more clean clothes with us and we still had 2 picnics to go to. So we left Dansville and headed to Honeoye to go to a picnic at my brothers. Cooper fell asleep on the way so we stopped at Walmart and I ran in and bought the kids new clothes! Didn't have much choice they were so dirty and we weren't going to head home since it was in the opposite direction.















And can I just say that it was REALLY hard finding shorts for Madison. All the shorts were super short and very inappropriate for her. But I managed to get her something. We spent a while at my brothers and then headed over to Naples for our last party. The party in Naples was at a friends house that I haven't seen since I was pregnant with Cooper. It was perfect because Madison and Casey are the same age and Cooper and Lucas are the same age. Plus there were a zillion other kids there. Madison was her shy self. After we had been there about an hour she ran over to the group of girls and sat down on the outskirt of the circle. She kept edging into the circle a little bit at a time and eventually was running around and playing with the other girls. This was HUGE! Madison is shy and tends to keep to her self and for her to willing join a group on her own was a big step for her. At preschool if one of the kids asks her something she usually won't answer them. At one point Casey turns to Madison and says "what's your name?" and clear as can be, and loudly, she says Madison!! I cried!! I was so floored that she joined a group and talked to them!! My baby is growing up!

All in all it was a great Memorial Day weekend!

Tea Parties, Trains and sand tables

I'm telling you that life is just too busy! I have no time to blog lately. Last weekend we were really busy. On Saturday Madison and I and her Grandmas went to the cutest tea party. The first part of the tea party was a little fashion show for dolls! Madison got to stand up in front of the room with her doll. The presenter told everyone the name of Madison's doll, what the doll was wearing and a special story about the doll. Madison brought her swim baby to class. She named her Emerson after a good friends daughter and Madison's baby can swim in the water by herself. Then Madison walked down the middle aisle. She did great! She actually stood in the front of the room all by herself which is huge! Then we went and had punch and some super yummy cookies! I ate way more than I should have =) They also did a raffle and had a TON of stuff to give away! Since I paid for everyone to go to the tea party the Grandmas paid for some raffle tickets. Madison kept asking me when she was going to get a toy. I explained to her that we needed to have a winning ticket and we may not win anything at all. But she did end up winning a very cute doll! The doll has a china face and hands and feet. As I am telling Madison shed needs to be very gentle with it she is twirling it around by the arm! LMAO! We really had a great time! Thanks Erin!!

Sunday we went to the Day out with Thomas the train. It was a lot of fun but it was COLD! We were in no way dressed appropriately! Winter hats and gloves were needed and we had neither. Both kids had colds and were feeling a bit off but still had fun. We got to ride on Thomas. Madison was as good as she always is and Cooper was very entertained for the ride. When we got back we did pictures with Thomas and then the kids did a bunch of the free activities that they had there and then Grandma and Grandpa said that they could both pick out a toy from the tent. So Madison got a Thomas the Train bubble blower and Cooper got a Thomas the Train boat for the tub. But I'm pretty sure that the favorite part of the day was when we pulled into McDonald's for lunch and it ended up being one of those play place ones. Madison's eyes got huge and she says "wow, I'm not hungry anymore. I want to play!" So they pretty much didn't eat but the rest of us got to relax and eat! Hopefully next year it won't be so cold and we can stay longer.

Madison got this sand table for her birthday. When I opened it it was EXTREMELY small. It took a 1/4 bag sand to fill both sides. But it was working. Until the kids leaned on it and the legs popped off. So after this happening 5 or 6 times I left it on the ground and they just sat on the ground to play with it. But my MIL was not happy that she paid $60 for a toy that doesn't stay together. She called Toys R Us and they wouldn't do anything because we didn't have the receipt anymore. She then called Little Tikes and they told her that people had complained about this happening and their recommendation is to place it on a flat surface and don't let the kids lean on it. Um yeah, so basically don't play with it and it won't fall apart! I ended up picking up this sand table for the kids and LOVE it! It is exactly what we wanted. My MIL is still working on getting a refund for the other table. Fingers crossed!!

Sweet Silence

Last weekend Ryan was out of town and next weekend he is going out of town again. From the end of April through mid June Ryan is out of town every other weekend. So I told him I needed a break this weekend. And by break I meant going to the grocery store by myself =) But Ryan decided I needed a real break and asked his Dad to take the kids today and also have them spend the night! So I dropped them off after breakfast and the rest of the day has been mine! I stopped at the mall (because who doesn't go shopping when they are all alone?!) and found these shorts. They are super comfy and have a wider leg on them! I sat in the food court and had lunch and read a little bit of a book I had just picked up from the library and then I stopped and had a reeses pieces sundae that was YUMMY! What do you want to bet that I gained back those 5 pounds I lost last month! I can't wait to sleep in tomorrow!!!!! And then Ryan and I are heading out to breakfast before we pick up the kiddos.

Madison was so excited when she got up this morning! She could not wait to leave for Grandma and Grandpas. I dropped the kids off and they didn't even look at me as I was leaving, they were having too much fun already!

It is strange to not have the kids with me! I usually only go out 2 times a month. One night Ryan and I go to a wine tasting and another night I go scrapbooking. Except for this week! This past Wednesday Ryan and I went out to dinner and then met up with his 4 wheeling friends for drinks (I didn't get to bed till 12:30am!!) and then last night Renae and I went to the Olive Garden for dinner and then went and had pedicures! So relaxing =)

I'll update after the weekend, it will be a busy one. Tomorrow Madison and I and her Grandmas are going to a Tea Party and then on Sunday we are taking the kids to the Day out with Thomas the Train and they are so excited that they get to take a train ride!! I can't wait to see their faces =)

I'm missing the kids already but the alone time is nice also.

Another shooting

Today there was a suicide at the local High school. The school that is 15 minutes down the road from us. We live in a small town and you think that something like that could never happen here. It scares me to death to know that a child was able to walk into school and kill himself in the bathroom. He had a modified shotgun with 30 rounds of ammunition and 2 Molotov cocktails. Thankfully no one else was harmed. But what was he doing with all of that stuff?? I am seriously afraid for the kids to go to school someday. School should be a safe place not a place where kids shoot each other or themselves. Condolences to the family that lost their son today.