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My Little Lady...

Happy Birthday my Little Lady Julia! Today you are 11 years old, it seems so hard to believe how much you've grown! I feel like it was just yesterday you were born and that we were celebrating your 1st birthday, so many special memories! I love you so much, and love being your mom. As you get older I know things are changing and you yourself are changing into a beautiful young lady! You have many special years ahead of you.

I hope your day is as wonderful as you area and you get all your wishes come true! I am so proud of you and will always be here for you! As my 1st born you have taught me how to be a mother and through all the obstacles of life you have shown me the love of a child is a miracle of God. You will always be my most special gift, Happy, Happy B-day Julia Ranae!!

This and that..

This weekend we spent time in the evening fishing with the kids, they love it! And once again Mommy caught the first and biggest fish! We also went swimming which is always fun and I got some much needed sun, I always get so white in the winter!
Last night I had an Interview visit for the baby I committed to back in April. Things went well and are on track he is 5 weeks old and starts on Thursday am! I am excited and curious as to how it will go with two babies in the house. Baby Tray is just about 6 months now but is a difficult baby. He cries ALOT and I mean ALOT!! The problem is his parents hold him ALL THE TIME!! I have talked to her about it and let her know that there is NO way I can sit and hold him all day and that I just plain won't. I don't know what to do, I can't make them stop?! It's actually been real noticeable that it is detrimental to him lately. He can't sit like he should, he keeps his fists and feet balled up like a newborn and can't do all the things he should. He is rather small too which doesn't help! I guess its been frustrating and I just don't know what to do. When he's here I hold him when I feed him and some in between other wise he's playing (crying) on the floor, or in the Jumperoo (crying)!! He will play and cry and look at you at the same time, it's so hard. I don't want to give up on him but it is hard to take care of everyone else and him. His mom knows he has to cry sometimes but it hasn't changed her habits. Any suggestions???!!!

We have Family vacation planned for July, I finally got everything planned and set in place! We are leaving July 4th in the early am for Rapid City. We have lots planned such as Reptile Gardens, Storybook Island, Flinstone Park , Cosmos Mystery Museum, Fireworks up on Skyline Drive, and a few other things. I am looking forward to the Mall too..HA!! The kids are getting real excited! We will only spend the weekend out there and be home sometime on Sunday. I have always been home with family on the 4th so this will be different.

Today the van is getting a set of new tires, for some reason they kept going flat on us and they said they just are starting to wear out so might as well! I can't believe how spendy tires are, it will be about $500 for the whole set! And would you believe Brit's car has a flat too, yep and the same side and tire as the van!! Oh and the AC keeps freezing up so it's HOT in here! It's been a great start of the week and Iam hoping the rest of it is better!! Have a good one!!

Bike Crash..

I am posting some pictures from Jordon's recent bike crash. He has had a few falls as all children do but this one was big!! He landed on his handle bars. I wish they weren't so "personal" in view but this bruise is HUGE!

Then we move on to Janaya's latest encounter with BUGS! Remember the tick bite, that did end up spreading down her neck and she had a HUGE red bump for about 2 weeks. I tried to get a good picture of the spot on her head but being in the middle of her hair it was hard. Her eye appears to be at it's peak now so I don't think it will get any bigger!

Have a Great day!! Haircut courtesy of MOMMY...New Kerrie is much better...but I had fun!

Happy Father's Day!

To my husband Brit, my dad's Don and Wayne, to my brothers and all the other Father's in the world.....

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Weekend Recap

What a nice weekend, and the weather was pretty good to!! On Friday I ended up with no daycare kids at 3pm so we headed as a family to do our grocery shopping! The kids haven't gone that much in the last months so they had a good time "helping" load the carts!!
Saturday Julia left with Kari to go babysit for her daughter in Howard as she had to work. She babysat Sat night and Sunday all day and came home Sunday evening, she did very well and had a blast and made some good money. I don't think I mentioned that I hired her for the summer to be my helper M-F from 8am till 12noon and so she had payday there too!! She is so proud of herself and is planning so save up and buy something BIG!!
Brit, myself and the other 3 kids went fishing that evening and I caught the first fish of the season for us!!! YAY! We had a good time, and have been going every weekend!
Sunday the boys fished in the Knights of Columbus Tournament at Lake Herman and Jackson got 1st place for biggest game fish, a 15 oz Bullhead!! Jordon got drawn for Little Fisher Boy and they also got names drawn for other prizes. Jackson won a new fishing pole with some small tackle and Jordon won a John Green print. I took pictures with my cell phone but this computer will not ever let me upload them here with out them being so blurry its unrecognizable!!
It was a fun time and they had a blast! Hope you all had a great weekend!