Hi everyone!! I’m back!! Did you miss me? I’m sorry it has been so long since I last posted, but life has just been crazy and when something has to give I guess it needs to be the blogging. I figure there is no sense stressing myself out more over something that is suppose to be fun!!
Anyway, just to give you a little glimpse as to why I have not been blogging here is just a quick recap of May 9th-17th…it was a doozy of a week!!
May 9th: Work all day, spend all night preparing for the garage sale the next day…we wanted to get rid of a lot of our baby stuff!!
May 10th: Get up at the crack of dawn and haul everything over to the Imboden’s for the garage sale. It was FREEZING, but we did manage to get rid of a lot of our baby stuff and make a little money!! That night was actually our last chance to run any errands before our trip (which was still a week away), so we spent the evening doing that!
May 11th: Mother’s Day! Scott and the kids woke me up early to give me my card and a gift certificate for a massage (when things finally calm down a bit!) Then we ran around the rest of the day visiting and spending time with all of our wonderful mom’s!! We didn’t get back until 7:30 and still hadn’t eaten or given the kids baths! UGH!!
May 12th: Work! Parent’s As Teachers meeting for Seville! Scott was out of town traveling for business, so nothing really got done that night because I didn’t have a lot of extra hands!
May 13th: Work, t-ball practice and start packing…because there would be very little time between then and when we left to go to Florida!
May 14th: Work and last dance practice for Hadley in the studio before her first recital! Kristi and I took the girls out to eat afterwards because it might be their last dance class together…Hadley really likes dance more, but Alyson likes gymnastics more…which is funny because we actually thought it would be the opposite since Kristi danced and I did gymnastics!
May 15th: Work, take Hadley’s pre-school class on a field trip to see Funky Mamma at Wonderscope, and volunteer to watch/help Hadley’s dance class of ten 3 and 4 year-olds at the recital rehearsal from 5:15 p.m.-9:00 p.m. WOW…that wore me out!! Spent a few moments when I got home trying to pack because I was starting to freak out about it. Oh yeah, and Scott had to squeeze in mowing the lawn that night or we would have been living in a jungle by the time we got home!
May 16th: Work and Hadley’s first dance recital! She was of course in full costume and full make-up, so we wanted to squeeze in pictures, etc.!! We got home about 9:30 and then stayed up to finish packing. We also had to make sure the dog was all set-up for us to be gone, etc. Basically, what I have decided is that you need a vacation from getting ready to leave on vacation! And then on some vacations you need a vacation from your vacation. Regardless, vacations always seem worth it while you are there!
May 17th: Got up at 4:00 a.m. to leave on vacation with: two adults, two kids, two car seats, one stroller, 4 checked bags, one carry-on a piece for me, Scott and Hadley, my diaper bag/purse and the camera bag!!! WOW!!! Talk about fun going through security!!
So anyway, it is weeks like that that keep me from blogging, and unfortunately they seem to keep getting more and more common. Take into account squeezing in stuff like laundry, taxing kids around, keeping the house clean, etc. and there is little time for anything but catching a few zzzzs now and then! I am sure most of you already feel this way, but now I have officially joined the ranks of busy mom everywhere! Just when you think life can’t get any busier it does!! Like now Hadley is doing t-ball three times a week…two games and one practice…seems a bit much to me for a preschooler, but owell…we live and we learn!
I will try to do some catching up and posting of pics in the next week or so, but for now I will leave you with a little glimpse of our vacation. We arranged for a family photo session on the beach. After getting rained out on Monday night we took the pictures on the Wednesday night of our trip, and between the kids not smiling (I was jumping around like a crazy woman getting Seville to smile), the wind, water, sand, humidity, clouds, no real sunset, my hair blowing everywhere and looking nothing like it did when I actually styled it, etc., I didn’t think the pictures would be good at all, but surprisingly enough I am really happy with them. #214 is my favorite family shot! There are so many cute ones of the girls I will just let you pick your favorites. Let me know what you think!
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BTW…our little Hadley is turning 4 tomorrow!! Can you believe it!! More on that later when I have time to post pics. Also stay tuned for pics from the dance recital, Seville walking (yes, finally!) a hot air balloon landing on our street, vacation pics, and much, much more!!
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Whew. . . why is it when I read that I felt like I had to read it really really really fast!? Ha! :)
Maybe I can get mine updated this week...we'll see!
Probably because you had about the same week I did!! HA!! (and you remember is all too well!!)...just like I do!!
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