Labor Day Adventures!!

Yesterday was Labor day and Richard and Allison had the day off!!! We slept in had a few things around town to accomplish and then enjoyed a late chili dog lunch and chocolate cake. After Richard and I cleaned the kitchen together we thought it would be nice to take the kids to do something fun and decided to take them to Hastings to pick out a movie and play with the train table and then wrap up at the duck pond to feed the ducks! My sister and her son showed up about half an hour after we arrived and we all had plenty of fun feeding the ducks, watching out for turtles and gold fish! If you can imagine Cooper waving to every duck, poor things running away scared! After our duck adventure we washed the Jeep only for it to rain today, but at least the inside is still vacuumed and crystal clean! Here are a few pictures from our adventure!

Allison missing tooth, and other thoughts....

Allison lost here first tooth on Friday! It had been loose for weeks. It was kind of sudden, we had been at my nephews football game most of the night and left the game a little early due to traffic and a minor emergency with my sister's son. We barley turned out of the parking lot and Allison says "OH, NO my tooth is gone!" We were all stunned and weren't sure what she meant and I said to her. "What do you mean its gone, did you wiggle it out?" "No mom its just not there any more, I cant find it any where." So we pulled over and searched for her tooth, not long after I found it on the floor board of the car and safely put it away in my purse. We came home from a long drive and put the kids to bed and the tooth fairy visited not long after. At 6 in the morning Allison woke us up to tell us excitedly I might add that the tooth fairy came to visit her and brought her a gold coin and a dollar bill, then she calmly walked back into her room and went back to bed for two more hours

I honestly was stunned when Allison told me her tooth was loose. I thought no way your like six when that happens, but then again I remember my love bug received her first tooth in a pair I might add at three months old which shocked me also. And then again, this was the child at five months old was holding on to things and trying to walk! I remember attending a friends baby shower in October when Allison was 5 1/2 months old and the child was walking and people couldn't believe it! Allison has almost always been above average on certain developmental milestones. When she was 1 years old we went to lunch with one of my sisters and also my mother and Allison told the waitress "I am one years old today!" she was stunned but my lil daughter had been talking for months! I honestly cant believe I have a five year old, time has certainly flown by especially since the birth of Cooper. Before that Allison and I were by our selves for three years. I could say that from the moment my daughter was born she changed me, but that wouldn't be true, in utero my daughter changed me. I've said it before Allison has stolen a piece of my heart and I will never be the same. She has not only changed my out look on life but the entire way I view love. Anyway here's to future milestones my five year old will be reaching in the next several months.

~Week 2~

What a bummer I was on my blog this past month, I am not sure this month will be any better, but I am sure going to try. I planning on dedicating one post to recap and finish the California chronicles. We survived another week of kindergarten. It has had its highs and lows. Everyday I pick Allison up from school she seems so pumped and tells me she had a great day and had fun with friends and learned something new. But once she gets home after awhile and before bed she goes to bed she complains that she doesn't want to go to school because she will miss me and the day last to long. One day she pretty much cried all afternoon and asked me if I would walk her to her class room because that's when she misses me the most. I had lunch with her on Friday and she did good, although Cooper was a wild little boy, break dancing on the cafeteria floor while the entire kindergarten cheered him on ugh such a ham. And then that night we headed out to another football game for my nephew. The rest of the weekend has been pretty rest full and I sure needed that. The week is so full of preparation for Allison school, study/homework for Allison, cleaning, running after Cooper, entertaining Cooper, Soccer practice. Some times I don't know if I going right or left! The important things are getting done but some things are falling through the crack! I am sure as the next few weeks go on things will work them self out for know I am just trying to survive! Thank goodness tomorrow is a holiday and Tuesday Allison is having some dental work so no school tell Wednesday what a relief.

One week down!!!

Well we survived our first week of kindergarten!!! Allison seems to like school, she doesn't complain about going, has made a handful of friends, and loves PE. Allison told me "Mom you get to exercise in PE, did you know that? Its so cool." She even got to sit next to the "handsome" boy at lunch the other day. Which she describes looks like her brother blond and blue eyes. Oh and I had lunch with Allison on Friday and I meet this "handsome" boy which he seem about a head taller then the other kindergarten students and his name is Hayden. We have had a busy weekend drove out of town to go see my nephew play football his senior year and my niece is on the flag team. And were pretty low key today which was definitely needed, and then had our self a little kid less date night. Anyway here's to another good week!!!!

Allison First Day of school!!

So I know I am a day late, but this mother is tired!! Yesterday I sent my first born to kindergarten. I remember the day we brought our pride and joy home from the hospital, it actual took two cars to get all the flowers and gifts I received home from the hospital and my loving sister obliged to foloow us home with them. We of course as new parents took the safest way home down a rural street to our home and drove past an elementary school. We drove by as school had been released and my darling husband mentioned can you imagine in 5 years we will be taking our daughter to school, and I sat back and imagined it. Well lets say what I had imagined those years ago was not as picture perfect as Allison first day of school but it was pretty close. Richard had to be at work in Eunice New Mexico at 6am and could not be with us and 5 years ago I did not envision my sweet Cooper into the equation. But we managed, as I pushed my lil guys stroller down the hall and held my sweet daughters hand, tears were already watering my eyes. I walked her in her classroom, told her to hang her back pack gave her a hug and pushed back a flow of tears (got to be strong, don't want to upset her) and told Allison sit down on the carpet and I'll pick you up when school is over. I hesitated she did not I walked away and looked back several times. As I pushed Cooper back to the car I am not ashamed to admit I cried and I cried in the car because well I am emotional like that! The day passed pretty quickly and I was excited to pick her up, and when she saw me her face lite up and we walked back to the car as she told me about her day and especially about the "handsome" boy in her class! WOW, my daughter is in Kindergarten!

important events

Since my last blog we have completely moved in to our new house which is pretty much functional besides the boxes in the garage and the back yard needs some work! I celebrated my birthday this past Thursday with a huge crowd of family and friends, what a wonderful day that was! Allison starts kinder in a week from today and we have been running around getting ready for it!! School supplies check, lunch box check, backpack check, new hair cut check, is mommy going to cry in the parking lot the entire first week of school CHECK! We have been putting the kids to bed early for the past week preparing and going over her alphabet, numbers, and reading books I know she is ready. Today happens to be Richard and mine 8 year wedding anniversary! As I remember eight years ago, that I married the love of my life on a very windy day the most important people in my life there to help celebrate such a joyous event one of the most happy memories of my life. This literally began my life, and how eight years have truly changed I am so lucky to be a stay at home mother to my two wonderful children. As I type my baby blue eyes just climbed in my lap to be held. Life is truly wonderful and I am so blessed to spend it with my eternal partner. Happy Anniversary to my best friend.

Birthday boy

Hello blog world, I know I have been MIA lately. Life has been crazy busy, unimaginably busy. I dream of packing, I think I have been packing in my sleep! We celebrated Cooper's second birthday on Saturday, on his actual bday July 31! I cant believe my baby boy is 2! Seems like yesterday
we were preparing for his arrival, my how things have change. Cooper you are a hand full, but worth every minute of it! Yesterday you found the gum your sister hide, pushed a chair to climb to get to it and hide to eat the entire pack! You are one busy guy, always on the go people often ask me if you ever slow done and the truth is you don't! You love trains right know, you wake up and want me to put your train set together, I keep asking myself why I just don't leave it together! You want to watch the Thomas the train movie every day. Your talking ALOT! And you give the most incredible hugs and kisses, ever time you see your cousins you want to hug them even if one of them runs away crying. Your so smart, it baffles me on servral occasions. I am going to love 2, although I know its going to be a trial of patience but as your mother I am willing to put up with it! Allison just finished her in door soccer season, yay bumblebees! And moving this weekend to the storage unit then to our new house next weekend. Allison starts kindergarten this month, don't even get me started with that I might cry! So as far as the California chronicles go, there put on hold tell the move is OVER!