Tuesday Cade helped make a dessert! He loves whip cream!!

Wednesday ..Happy anniversary to me and chad! We have been married for 9 years now!! We didn't have anything planned. Our gifts is our new tv that we got the other weekend.

Steppin up in this world!!

my mom also had her radioactive iodine thing done for her thyroid. The whole procedure was really fast. I really don't know how she is doing now. I have tried to call her but no answer. The doctor had said that she would prob. feel really sick the day after, i heard that she was. Lee talked to her the other day and said she sounded really good. I hope to talk to her soon.

I had my ortho appt. on thursday. i was hoping to get rid of wearing rubber bands - nope! they are even right up front so they are easily seen! : ( oh well gotta do what i gotta do! My doctor said that I should have my braces off by christmas! Lets hope!!

I also decided on a fast decision trip to go to my sisters. Rick had called chad thursday morning and asked if he wanted to go camping last weekend so i said I'm going to my sisters. : ) It was my first trip with all three boys by myself. It wasn't so bad. The ride there was great. We had to stop and hour outside of ponca so i could feed my little man. The boys were awesome during that stop! When we got to Sally's, Uncle Jerry was waiting. I think he was pretty excited to meet Jude. I think he held him most of our visit. Lee Jay and Caci came to ponca to see us. It was their first time to meet Jude too. I'm glad I got to see them. I have missed my family! The kids had a blast -water balloons, sprinkler, bubbles, squirt guns, and uncle lee!! We had a great time and the boys were awesome except for going to sleep at night! : ) but that is understandable. Jude did really well. He pretty much slept with me. The ride home was total opposite of the ride there. Jude cried the majority of the time! It was a long trip back home. When we got home chad was already home from camping. He and Rick had a great time. Chad has really enjoyed being able to do stuff with his dad.

Lane 3 1/2 years, Lily 2 1/2 years, Jude 3 1/2 mths, Cade 5 1/2 years

My Handsome boys

Uncle Lee and his 5th nephew!!

Yeah water balloons - check out Aunt sally in the next one!!

Monday...The start of vacation bible school at the lutheran church. We got up and I took them to vbs. I was really excited for them. They had a great week. They really enjoyed going and Lane could even tell me some stories they learned about!! Everyday after VBS (except on thursday) a bunch of us met up at the school and the kids ate lunch. They have really enjoyed that and I don't have to worry about what I'm going to feed them or the clean up!! Thursday was Mdo so after VBS the kids went there.

The boys also started a library reading program on Mondays. The first Monday was a horrible day for me. The lunch room was loud with the sound of 50 million kids and then I took the boys to the reading program it is held at a building at the rodeo grounds. It was chaos!! I stayed because I didn't feel comfortable leaving the boys. Needless to say that was so hard on my nerves. By that evening I was numb. I told chad that I might just have a break down. I never did but man it was a hard day.

Thursday I had a dentist appt. Everything looked good. There is a couple of things that need to be fixed but can't until my braces are off. Which I already knew that.

Friday... Calley has been wanting to watch all 3 boys so chad and I could go on a date. It had been since the beginning of Jan. since our last date, and calley watched them then!! So we took her up on it. Chad and I went to naifehs and used some of my gift card I got in december. The food was really good. Afterwards we went to walmart. It was really windy outside so we couldn't go for a walk. We walked around walmart and calley called. Jude was ready for me. : ) We showed up and she had him calmed down. I guess he had a hard time. Calley said he cried for about 20 minutes after I left and she finally got him to sleep for an hour. She still wants to watch him though. :) When we were loading up in the car Cade said "dad how was your date?" It was so funny because he sounded like a buddy. :)

Finally got the exercauser out on Friday - Judes new favorite thing!!! WAHOO! Getting some chubbiness!!!

Saturday...The boys went with grandpa and gigi to go fishing. They were so excited!! I had pictures in a backyard I didn't know. I was a little nervous because of that and the wind. When I showed up the little girl was not in a good mood. We finally got her to have fun and got some cute pictures. Chad got started on taking down the cabinets! He had already had the floor done. So when I got home I started putting things in boxes. Oh man!! He worked all day and got the top cabinets out. We went and got the boys around 6 pm. While the boys were at rick and glennas cade stepped on some insect with a stinger! His poor foot is still swollen. I have been watching it to make sure everything is ok. I have been giving him benadryl and tonight before bed I put some cortisone on it. When we got home from dropping them off chad jumped in the shower to go to poker night and I ordered pizza. Hey you should have seen the kitchen!! I cleaned up the kitchen while waiting on the pizza to get done. I stayed up late cleaning and organizing. I finally got some stuff done in the laundry room!! I actually didn't get to bed until chad came home which was around 1:30a.m.

What a MESS!!! All I kept saying to myself and chad saying to me was "new kitchen, new kitchen, new kitchen..."

Sunday... I had another photo shoot. This time it was in rick and glenna's backyard. It was of 2 kids. It was a lazy day when I got home. No major things happend. i did go do my grocery shopping and chad and big boys went and flew kites.

Monday...We (calley, heidi and I) have decided to do park in the morning and then go to lunch at the school. We are trying to keep the kids busy. So today we went to the park, went and ate, we came home - I ate and fed jude, took boys to library reading program. It was so much better today. The boys didn't want me to leave so I stayed there with them. We handed in their folder with books they have read this week. The kids get "money" to get stuff from the programs "store". So Cade has been wanting to read books everytime I turn around. It has been some special time though. : ) They both got some stuff from the "store". After the program we went to walmart. I forgot a few things so we went to go get them. When we got home I got busy cleaning up a little. Josh, Calley and taylor came over to watch the boys for me while i went and workout. : ) how sweet is that!!! Not only did they come over here but calley did my dishes and josh took out the trash!! I say come over more. : ) LOL!! Thanks guys - your the best!! We got some 3D chalk at walmart - that was cool. The boys talked calley into letting them do it. I fixed supper and got some pictures ready to order. The boys went to bed late but that is ok. We were just taking it easy. Oh I made a dessert tonight. YUMMY!! i better get off here and wake up jude to feed him. : )

The boys have been really sweet by saying thank you mom for making my lunch, or thank you dad for taking us to fly kites.