LIFE IN GENERAL

Treavor goes to an in-home daycare. He has the best time there and the teacher is the best. Her husband has Alzheimer's and has been there for the past 4 years that Treavor has gone there. On Monday i get a call that Dave is passing away and if i could come get Treavor. I rush out the door from work and let them know what is going on. I think i made it to the daycare in a record 10 min. When i got there there were 3 kids left to pick up. Treavor being one of them. I asked if there was something i could do to help and the family said we will be OK. So i took Treavor and he asked me questions about what was going on. I told him that Dave is no longer going to be around that he was very sick and he is in heaven with our dog Reba. Treavor knew he was sick because he helped Vicki out all the time with him. They would go to the store and Dave would be in his wheel chair and he would slide his feet off and Treavor would put them back on the wheel chair. Treavor and Dave were buds for the past 4 years. I told Treavor several times how sick he was but didn't quite let him know about the death thing. So Tim and i spent the day with him and took him to lunch and then to walmart were he was able to get a toy. We made it a good day for him. The next day Vickie was open for daycare. Like she says she has had 6 months to morn his death and the kids are what make it easy for her. So the next day Treavor went with Flowers in hand and made sure to make Vickie smile. Dave will be missed. I am so proud of Treavor because i asked him how his day was the next day and he said good. Vickie was good and i made her smile.

Fishing Derby

Treavor with the Red Robin Bird

Here is TJ, The coast guard came and talked about life jacket safety and TJ was picked to be the demonstrator. He thought it was fun!

Kids getting thier fishing ploes. They got to keep them!

Here are my little fishing buddies. After we went there we took them to Rattle Snake Lake to do more fishing and it was the first time they really were able to cast thier pole. Even Treavor at age 4 was able to cast his pole out. We all had a good time and I was so proud of them for learning to fish. Now for Treavors Birthday this month he wants to go fishing!!! Finally one of my kids LOVE TO FISH as much as I do.

BREANNA'S PROM!

BreAnna and her date Penn & the kids. She looked so beautiful. Its so hard to believe that she is that old and that I have a child that age. I am so blessed to have her as a child. The dance was at Pike Place Market.

kids

This picture was taken by a friend . I cant beleive how young they are! Man have they grown. I dont realize how big they are until i see pictures like this!!! man i have cute kids :)

PROM!!

BreAnna and Pen - went to the prom. I took these from my cell phone will post more when i get a chance too. She is so grown up!!!!!

Kids Dance!!

Here is TJ dancing at a school dance. He had alot of fun. I love going to the kids activity to see how they are around their friends. All i can say is they have a good time and i take advantage of them letting me go. I know it wont last forever.

More Updates

The picture came out blury but here is TJ at boyscouts with a project he did on Arizona, His birth state.

Here is Tim and Treavor Posing. We were at a concert for the kids at their school.

My 35th Birthday!!!

UPDATES!!

I hate it when your camera doesn't work quite right, or you loose the cord to plug in the camera to down load the pictures, or the lap top doesn't work to be able to down load them. Well all of this modern technology I don't even know were to start to fix any of it. So i have resulted to sitting at a desk to get them up loaded and so that my camera has room for more pictures to be taken. These pictures are from the past few months.


Tulip Festival

We went to the Tulip Festival the weekend after it closed. Tulip Town was open and it wasn't even crowded. It was a great weekend to go. Man i love the tulips

HaiLee turns 9!!!!

Today is HaiLee's birthday, she is 9 years old and so i see this on other blogs,

10 great thinks about HaiLee

1. She always has a hug for anyone
2. She is a great student, she reads over 200 words a minute
3. She is a great big sister to Treavor,
4. She loves to swim and knows alot about the ocean and its animals, i think she is going to be an oceanographer
5. She is a great helper when ever i need it.
6. She has the prettiest eyes ever
7. She has the prettiest hair ever as well
8. I am the luckiest mother alive to have her as a daughter
9. She is full of adventure, no afraid to try new things
10. She is always on the run, She roller blades, races me in the van to the school and usually wins, she loves everyone.

i am having camera issues so here is a picture of her at Thanksgiving!!

Love you HaiLee

Summer

So yesterday I was able to take the day off of work and go with Melanie and Summer to her regular doctors appointment. I had a good time visiting with Melanie and catching up and seeing what her day in and day out stuff she has to deal with, with Summer. Melanie is the perfect mother for her and Summer is such a cute baby. I was quite humbled to see everything she has to do for Summer and see what Summer has over came and has to still go through. Seeing alot of the kids at children's hospital is quite sad and happy at the same time. These kids that are coming in and out with their parents are from all ages and you don't know what is wrong for them to be there. Some of them you can guess but you don't know what they have gone through to be were they are today. Melanie is such a good mom and all of the people that she had to see that day were full of smiles when they saw Melanie walk up. Melanie has such a great spirit and up beat personality that no matter what she is there for she puts her best face forward and pushes along. I don't think that I could have been through what she has with these babies.
When i got home I ran and picked up Treavor from daycare, HaiLee was walking home from school right as we pulled up, Tj was already at home and BreAnna was on her way home from a school project that she was working on. For a few hours I was able to see what blessings I have in my life with kids that are healthy. I complain about my kids for one reason or another, not able to get through to them, or understand what is going on with them. I take for granted that they are able walk, talk, think, make decisions good or bad, go to school, eat, drink, you name it.
Melanie, thank you for letting me tag along and I so enjoyed it and like I said Summer should really be the poster child for them, she is way cuter than the ones that they have on there and thank you for being such a great mom and a great friend to me. You are a great insperation to me. Thanks again!!

CELL PHONE/ TOILET/ CHIP TOOTH

Those 3 are never a good combo. I have had service with qwest for years. well they have decided they they were not going to do cell phones any more. So we had to switch. After putting it off for as long as possible we finally switched carriers, we went with Verizon. So our trip to the mall to get new phones. I had the kids stand by the wall to stay out of the way and so i could keep an eye on them. They were horsing around and TJ hit his mouth on the Pole that was close by and chipped his front tooth. Cell phones are already costing us more. The following Saturday i was vegging on the couch until TJ had his basketball game. I was just messing with my new phone that i have had for a week. it was time to go and so i ran to the restroom before we left. Everyone was out in the car waiting for me. I go to run out and i cant find my phone.... Breanna calls my phone and says its turned off it went straight to voicemail. I was like no i just had it. The light bulb just went off in my head. I go check the toilet. Nothing is in there so i flush it to see what happens. CLOGGED. i flushed my new phone and now the toilet is clogged. After doing our run around ofter the game Tim tears apart the toilet. We basically have a whole in our bathroom. He can see the phone in the base but we cant get to it. He says we are going to have to break the toilet. I was like no let me try.... cant get it out. i finally surrender and say go ahead and break the toilet we will have to go get a new one and all of a sudden my phone comes out. YAYA, run down to the hardware store with 15 min before it closes and get the stuff to put the toilet back together. Phone is working somewhat. a little tore up and still drying out but this phone was about ready to cost us a new toilet as well as a dental bill. If one more thing happens i am going to say Verizon is BAD LUCK!!!

LIFE LONG GOALS

Sometimes being a mother has its challenges expecailly when you have such a wide span of kids ages. They all need something and are so different with what they need for their age and boy or girl. My oldest daughter and I have not been seeing eye to eye on things for a while. She is a teen and is trying her own Independence and is trying too hard not to become her mom. I am trying hard not to be a naggy mom at the same time and help her through her issues or should i just say life and growing up. She has really struggled this year in school and we have been really fighting about stuff and i am not relating to her to help her want to get her life long dream or goal in life of being a pilot. She is so smart and has wanted this for a very long time. She has been working at it for years. I finally got to talk with her one on one yesterday and it took a while but i think we finally broke ground. She is so stressed out and i just couldn't understand why. Her goal has changed, She doesn't know what she wants to do and it isn't the same as it was when she was younger and she is feeling like she has to accomplish this goal because it is all she has talked about and breathed for so many years. she is failing her own goal. It finally dawned on me last night through the tears. Its OK to change what you want out of life and what you want to become. She just needs to take what she has and the school that she is going to and make something of it that she wants. Her going to this school is only going to make it easy in life. All the tools that she needs to do what ever she wants is there and she can change her goals. It OK and her mom is right there rooting her on to what ever she wants to become. its OK, we will figure it out as long as she lets me in we can work though it and she doesn't have to think of her self as failing her goal. She is changing her goal to what ever she wants and its is OK to change as long as you do have a goal to work towards and at this point her goal is to figure out what her goal in life is going to be. I think that is why they call it the Teen years and not the Adult Years.

FIRST SLEEP OVER

The pictures didn't turn out too well but here is Treavor getting ready for his first sleep over. I was very sad that he is that old to be going on a sleep over with a friend. he packed all of his swords and toy guns, his toy cop stuff. He had a good time, he didn't even call me to say goodnight or anything. He now knows that the rule is to call mom before he goes to bed. My baby is getting older!! HOW SAD!!

SNOW DAYS!

White Christmas. I would have never thought that we would have enough snow to make a snowman as big as the house and still have that much snow left over. The kids loved it. Glad that it is over with for now any way.

ATKINS UPDATE!

TJ is now playing basketball, the video is kinda long but had to post it for the grandparents. He is having alot of fun!!