My new ride.

I feel so special. Each time I walked into the garage today it surprised me and when I went to pick up Tanner from school I was feeling pretty special. That may seem dumb to those of you who have new cars but to me it's pretty cool. It's not new, as a matter of fact it's the same year as my previous car, but it's new to me and I feel toooooo cool.

My crafty kids.

My kids have been on a kick lately making pictures and wrapping them in paper and making surprises for everyone. Yesterday was no different. Grace was busy making surprises for everyone when she comes to me and says,
"Mommy, I made a surprise for ME, but I can't say it out loud because then I'll know what it is."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! My beautiful, sweet, funny, hysterically blonde little girl.

The last week...

has been eventful and just flew by. My mom and dad came down from Indiana for a visit. I wish I could go back and play it in slow motion. They were here for a week and it seems like it vanished in an instant. They arrived on friday the 13th. On saturday we had a few friends over to celebrate Tanner's birthday (a little late due to sickness). Thanks to everyone who took time out of their Valentine's Day to celebrate with us. It really meant a lot to Tanner and we all had a blast!

After everyone left, Mom and Dad volunteered to watch the kids so CJ and I could go out. It's been such a long time, and we had a lot of fun. Our friends Clinton and Jenny went with us. We had dinner at our favorite local mexican restraunt and then we went bowling. Too fun!! I suck at bowling but it was still loads of fun.
Sunday was a lazy day filled with food, naps, and of course - THE DAYTONA 500!!
Monday I took mom to a local scrapbook store to buy gifts for pokeno. She was totally overwhelmed. I remember feeling that way when I started scrapbooking. We went back home and mom made dinner and I made Hoosier Sugar Cream Pie - it was CJ's birthday.
Tuesday I was gone about half the day running errands and buying a new vehicle. :-) I don't have it in my possession yet, but when I do you'll get pictures. It's an old vehicle but it's new to me and I'm excited. It runs, which my car was about to not do any longer, and it has more room - yeah for Tanner who is always squished between the two car seats in the back. Then Tuesday night I drug Mom to pokeno with me. We had a good time, and I'm glad some of my friends got to meet my mom.
Wednesday was Morgan's birthday. We went to the Granbury town square and did some window shopping. Stopped at Rinky Tinks for lunch and headed back home. Because the previous few days had been so busy I was not really in party mode. I did manage to bake a small cake and we celebrated at home with just mom and dad.

Happy Birthday Morgan!

In keeping with the tradition Morgan got his first 4-wheeler for his second birthday. He's still learning to like it. I'm sure it won't take long before he's wheeling all over the place.

Thursday and Friday we just kind of hung out, which was nice. CJ left friday afternoon for Shreveport to stalk the professional fishermen during the BASSMASTER Classic. For those of you who know nothing about fishing the Classic is like the Superbowl of bass fishing. I've talked to him several times and he's having a blast. We took the kids to Granbury City park to play for a little while then we went to Logan's for dinner. Dad and Tanner had a blast throwing peanut shells at each other.
Saturday Mom and Dad left before the chickens woke up. I took Tanner to his baseball tryouts. He did really good. We'll get a call sometime this week to find out what team we're on and when we start practicing.
After that we went to Southlake to the Lego Education Center for Johnny's birthday party. We had a really great time and I did the cake:

That made for a pretty tiring week and I'm enjoying resting today. Have a great sunday everyone!

Do I even need words?

Probably not, but I'll give you a few anyway....WOOHOO! WOW! YIPPEE! FINALLY! HALLELUJAH!

**sigh**

It's been a bummer of a week. Tanner ran a fever for a full 5 days, Morgan did for two days, CJ's sick in bed now and has been since 8:30pm last night, and I'm not so sure Grace isn't coming down with something. She's not feverish yet (I've checked her several times today) but she looks awful and she says she's "soooo tired" - great.
Needless to say Tanner did not get to participate in his 1st grade program on Tuesday night (which brought tears), he did not get to go to GymKats last night (which brought more tears) and we've postponed his birthday party that was scheduled for tonight (you guessed it). I'm exhausted and I feel really bad for him although he's doing well now.
Maybe it'll turn around over the weekend.

What did I do last week?

Well, I made a graduation cake for a friend. I've never done a graduation cake before but I think it turned out pretty cute. Simple design. She used his real tassel on the cap.
Last Tuesday/Wednesday we had ice so wednesday morning the kids had to get out and play in it. It's so funny to me to see them so excited about a little ice, but they've never seen REAL ice and snow. By the time that we got outside to play (about 10am it was already warming up enough to start to melt the ice so the fun was short lived but CJ took the top of the sandbox (turtle shell) and turned it upside down and hooked it to one of the commercial mowers (because they go really fast!) and took the kids for a ride. They had fun and that's all that matters.

The first grade program is tomorrow night. Tanner is super excited. I hope he's well enough to go to school and participate in the program. Today he's home with a fever. Yuck.

Thursday we have gymkats and friday is Tanner's birthday. We should have a pretty full week. There will be pictures and stories to come. Have a good one!