Monday, July 4, 2011
Sunday, July 3, 2011
Splash Park Saturday, take 2
Last Saturday was such a success we decided to make another trip to the splash park! Ben was back in town so we invited JD and Raymond...we ended up with five adults, three toddlers and two infants. We started with a picnic and Ella and Hudson seemed to enjoy splashing at the park. Bets and Will had a great time, and our friends Raymond and Ryder came along too!
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
A day in the life
One blog I follow is doing a 'day in the life' series to document what we do all day. I've decided to participate as it's nice to reflect on how much we do get accomplished in a given day, and to maybe look back at how our daily life is changing as our kids get more independent.
Yesterday began with Betsy crawled in bed with me at 5:30 am. I silenced my alarm and slept-in until 6:20 to enjoy snuggling with her. Ella slept late so I showered and got dressed, got Betsy dressed (she wore new new purple monster looking croc shoes), got Ella dressed, packed Ella's bottles, changed her diaper and clothes, and got all the girls out the door (Madison, Betsy, Ella and myself).
Our first stop was Memaw and Pawpaw's house, as they are keeping Ella while Ben is fishing. I unloaded Madison and Ella, and we headed to church to drop Betsy off at daycare. It was chick-fil-a day at school which was a good thing as I was running a little late.
I dropped Betsy off at 7:20 and headed to work. I had a morning meeting, made it back to my office to check voicemail and email, prepared some documents to fax to other colleges, then decided to re-organize our recently emptied office supply room.
At lunch I headed to Wal-mart to pick up some pull-ups to leave at school for Betsy, as well as a convertible car seat for Ella to use in my in-laws car and a case of diet coke to leave in my office. I stopped by Wendy's and picked up an Apple Pecan Chicken Salad since I also didn't have lunch due to running late (this is unusual, I bring my lunch 95% of the time).
I got back to the office and ate my salad while I had a meeting with a coworker. Then I jumped back into re-arranging our offices and running up and down the stairs to meet with another department.
The end of the work day quickly ended and I grabbed my stuff to head over and pick up all three of my girls from my in-laws house. This was the most quiet part of my day, listening to K-Love the christian station for 15 minutes in the car alone!
MIL and FIL pick up Betsy and nephew Will from daycare most days and spend a couple hours playing with them. This is SO convenient so I pick up both girls from one place. I retrieved Betsy and Ella but left Madison with J and J while I took the girls out to eat (by myself! YES! I am brave!) at IHOP. Betsy had a 'pancake with a face' and I had bacon and eggs (yay low carbs!). Ella was a trooper and sat quietly in her seat while I also taught Betsy how to set the table. She sang some songs while we waited for our food, and also identified all the vegetables on the pictures hanging behind my head (side note, cutest pronunciation is Betsy saying 'onions').
We loaded back up and headed to J and J's house to retrieve Madison. We drove the back way to our house and saw donkeys, goats, horses and cows on the drive from my in-laws house to my house. Betsy loves the cows best, and Ella loves to hear Betsy moo at the cows.
We arrived home and I opened Betsy's door and let her out so she could take Madison inside through the garage (she is very independent, if I try to help she says "I get down. I step out. I close Betsy's door!".
I set Ella's seat in the yard while I checked the mail and cleaned out my car. We all got inside, I turned down the AC, (ugh it's 100+ degrees at 7 pm). Both girls took a bath. Ella drank a bottle and snuggled with me. Betsy finished her milk. Ella fell asleep at 8 and I moved her to her bed. Betsy got into her PJs and snuggled with me while I did laundry and watched a movie. We heard from Ben, Betsy said "Hi Daddy!" a couple of times, but he had to be quick on the phone as I don't think they have electricity where they are staying so they have to conserve the phone battery.
Betsy was very tired (I let her stay up late until 9:30) and climbed in to her big girl bed for lights out. I didn't hear a peep from either one the rest of the night.
After the girls were asleep I unloaded clean dishes and reloaded the dirty dishes, made bottles for today, folded one load of clothes and ran another through the washer and dryer. I fell asleep at 10. The day was very busy, and pretty typical except Ben wasn't around the help!
Yesterday began with Betsy crawled in bed with me at 5:30 am. I silenced my alarm and slept-in until 6:20 to enjoy snuggling with her. Ella slept late so I showered and got dressed, got Betsy dressed (she wore new new purple monster looking croc shoes), got Ella dressed, packed Ella's bottles, changed her diaper and clothes, and got all the girls out the door (Madison, Betsy, Ella and myself).
Our first stop was Memaw and Pawpaw's house, as they are keeping Ella while Ben is fishing. I unloaded Madison and Ella, and we headed to church to drop Betsy off at daycare. It was chick-fil-a day at school which was a good thing as I was running a little late.
I dropped Betsy off at 7:20 and headed to work. I had a morning meeting, made it back to my office to check voicemail and email, prepared some documents to fax to other colleges, then decided to re-organize our recently emptied office supply room.
At lunch I headed to Wal-mart to pick up some pull-ups to leave at school for Betsy, as well as a convertible car seat for Ella to use in my in-laws car and a case of diet coke to leave in my office. I stopped by Wendy's and picked up an Apple Pecan Chicken Salad since I also didn't have lunch due to running late (this is unusual, I bring my lunch 95% of the time).
I got back to the office and ate my salad while I had a meeting with a coworker. Then I jumped back into re-arranging our offices and running up and down the stairs to meet with another department.
The end of the work day quickly ended and I grabbed my stuff to head over and pick up all three of my girls from my in-laws house. This was the most quiet part of my day, listening to K-Love the christian station for 15 minutes in the car alone!
MIL and FIL pick up Betsy and nephew Will from daycare most days and spend a couple hours playing with them. This is SO convenient so I pick up both girls from one place. I retrieved Betsy and Ella but left Madison with J and J while I took the girls out to eat (by myself! YES! I am brave!) at IHOP. Betsy had a 'pancake with a face' and I had bacon and eggs (yay low carbs!). Ella was a trooper and sat quietly in her seat while I also taught Betsy how to set the table. She sang some songs while we waited for our food, and also identified all the vegetables on the pictures hanging behind my head (side note, cutest pronunciation is Betsy saying 'onions').
We loaded back up and headed to J and J's house to retrieve Madison. We drove the back way to our house and saw donkeys, goats, horses and cows on the drive from my in-laws house to my house. Betsy loves the cows best, and Ella loves to hear Betsy moo at the cows.
We arrived home and I opened Betsy's door and let her out so she could take Madison inside through the garage (she is very independent, if I try to help she says "I get down. I step out. I close Betsy's door!".
I set Ella's seat in the yard while I checked the mail and cleaned out my car. We all got inside, I turned down the AC, (ugh it's 100+ degrees at 7 pm). Both girls took a bath. Ella drank a bottle and snuggled with me. Betsy finished her milk. Ella fell asleep at 8 and I moved her to her bed. Betsy got into her PJs and snuggled with me while I did laundry and watched a movie. We heard from Ben, Betsy said "Hi Daddy!" a couple of times, but he had to be quick on the phone as I don't think they have electricity where they are staying so they have to conserve the phone battery.
Betsy was very tired (I let her stay up late until 9:30) and climbed in to her big girl bed for lights out. I didn't hear a peep from either one the rest of the night.
After the girls were asleep I unloaded clean dishes and reloaded the dirty dishes, made bottles for today, folded one load of clothes and ran another through the washer and dryer. I fell asleep at 10. The day was very busy, and pretty typical except Ben wasn't around the help!
Coupon for a cause!
Hey blog friends!
As most of you know I live in a military town and work across the street from one of the largest military bases in the world. Almost every one of my coworkers has someone they love who serves in the Army. I hear a whole lot about deployed soldiers as most of the other 9 people in my department are married to soldiers.
There is one unit who is currently deployed that I know is in a highly dangerous location. It's in the middle of no where so they don't have access to a PX where they can buy snacks, toiletries and other essentials. They only way they get these items is through care packages that are dropped in to the soldiers. We're doing a drive in my office to collect these goods. If you have extra coupons for shampoo, toothpaste, deodorant, and other similar items I would love if you would send them to me! I'll use them to buy what items I can.
Thanks for reading and have a great week.
As most of you know I live in a military town and work across the street from one of the largest military bases in the world. Almost every one of my coworkers has someone they love who serves in the Army. I hear a whole lot about deployed soldiers as most of the other 9 people in my department are married to soldiers.
There is one unit who is currently deployed that I know is in a highly dangerous location. It's in the middle of no where so they don't have access to a PX where they can buy snacks, toiletries and other essentials. They only way they get these items is through care packages that are dropped in to the soldiers. We're doing a drive in my office to collect these goods. If you have extra coupons for shampoo, toothpaste, deodorant, and other similar items I would love if you would send them to me! I'll use them to buy what items I can.
Thanks for reading and have a great week.
Monday, June 27, 2011
Splash Park Saturday
Saturday my SIL Mary and myself took Betsy and my nephew William to the local splash park for a couple of hours. It's pretty cheap and it is PERFECT for this age. They LOVED it. Plus Mary and I could kind of sit and relax while they played as there is no standing water so we didn't have to worry about water safety. I bought Bets a new swimsuit at Old Navy (sale!) and I thought she looked SO cute this weekend. The splash park was a huge success, Betsy was in a great mood the rest of the day and went to bed early that night!
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Success!
Thank you Disney for the 'Disney Princess Sing Along' series. It was as if someone gave Ritalin to my girls, giving me a chance to do dishes and laundry after dinner last night. Plus I hope Betsy recognizes all the Disney songs as we're planning a trip to Disney later this year!
Friday, June 24, 2011
Wood's Wedding Weekend
Last Saturday our good friend Michael married a wonderful girl, Tiffany! It's so funny to hear people call him by his first name as we've all referred to him as an abbreviation of his last name i.e. 'Wood' since we've known him.
Saturday morning my lovely SIL and nephew came over to stay at our house with the girls so we didn't have to drag the kiddos all over the place. We drove to a small town two hours away and got ready for the wedding! We stayed with JD and Tiffant that night, and Mary bravely kept our girls and Will by herself.
The church was small but really pretty. It was a small white country church two stories tall. The reception was several miles away at a dance hall. I have no idea how many people were at the ceremony but I'm told there were about 650 at the reception. YES! 650!
Ben was looking forward to the reception as Wood told him in keeping with the Texas country theme they would be serving chicken-fried-steak. It was awesome! Wood is a fraternity brother of Ben and JD's so we saw several of their buddies we hadn't seen in years.
Here are a few pictures of the special day.
The boots Tiffany wore for the reception. So adorable!
These signs hung around town pointing people to the church.
After being pronounced man and wife.
This was in the middle of the shout song. I see JD in there, and Ben was in the blue shirt. Yes, face-down. We had a good time y'all.
Some of the table arrangements. I have no idea how many different decorations they had, or how many tables but they did a fabulous job decorating the dance hall.
Grooms cake (groom is a police officer)
Wedding cake
Saturday morning my lovely SIL and nephew came over to stay at our house with the girls so we didn't have to drag the kiddos all over the place. We drove to a small town two hours away and got ready for the wedding! We stayed with JD and Tiffant that night, and Mary bravely kept our girls and Will by herself.
The church was small but really pretty. It was a small white country church two stories tall. The reception was several miles away at a dance hall. I have no idea how many people were at the ceremony but I'm told there were about 650 at the reception. YES! 650!
Ben was looking forward to the reception as Wood told him in keeping with the Texas country theme they would be serving chicken-fried-steak. It was awesome! Wood is a fraternity brother of Ben and JD's so we saw several of their buddies we hadn't seen in years.
Here are a few pictures of the special day.
The boots Tiffany wore for the reception. So adorable!
These signs hung around town pointing people to the church.
After being pronounced man and wife.
This was in the middle of the shout song. I see JD in there, and Ben was in the blue shirt. Yes, face-down. We had a good time y'all.
Some of the table arrangements. I have no idea how many different decorations they had, or how many tables but they did a fabulous job decorating the dance hall.
Grooms cake (groom is a police officer)
Wedding cake
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