Week of May 7, 2012

Back from Pindale and back into the swing of things this week. The morning started off great, Addy slept until seven...SO HAPPY! We enjoyed some of the morning weather and went for a walk with the neighbors. After that Hailey had dance, then we came home and had lunch. Addy woke up crying hysterically from her nap, so we got out the bounce house and they girls jumped & played while I made salsa with the tomatoes from the garden to go with dinner tonight. It is so exciting to eat the food from our garden. After dinner, Hailey, Mackenzie & Addy played in the baby pool. We also discovered more tomato horn worms in the garden. We plucked out 14 of them, and Hailey convinced me to let her keep four as pets......ewwwww. Tuesday we dropped Hailey off at preschool and Addy and I ran some errands. When we got home from running errands Addy had fallen asleep in the car. She almost NEVER stays asleep once you try to move her out of her car seat, but today she did. She slept while I held her for an hour.....I LOVED it. She looked like a little angel. We went to visit Nana & Papa in the evening and then the kids went to bed early while Jaren went and played basketball at the church. Wednesday not much went on. We did get an awesome thunderstorm. Lots of wind and rain, and even some hail. Thursday Hailey had her last official "learning" day of preschool. Next week she has a water day on Tuesday, and graduation on Thursday. I can't believe my little Hailey Bug is going to be a kindergartner......sniff sniff. She is starting to get more and more excited though. Friday we went to visit Nana & Papa and Aunt Katie, hit the grocery store and did some swimming. Saturday we didn't do much, hung around the house, took Hailey to get her dance pictures taken for her upcoming recital, and made coca-cola cake for Grandpa Cleiburn's 86th birthday party. In the afternoon we went to Kohls with Nana and did a little shopping. Hailey was excited because we decided to go ahead and buy her school clothes for kindergarten. She just needs a couple pair of pants and we are done. Sunday was Mother's Day. I woke up early with Addy and we put a french toast casserole in the oven that didn't end up turning out.....bummer, so Jaren got up and made yummy pancakes. Then they had me go into the office to give me two cards Hailey had made. She told Jaren what to write and one said " if you touch me I will turn into an ice cube, that means I'll love you forever." So cute! Then they had me look at the screen saver on the computer. Jaren bought me a camera I have been wanting for a LOOOONG time, a Canon Rebel. He put a picture of it as the screen saver, and told me it would be coming in the mail in about a week! I love love love him. The rest of the day was pretty relaxed. Us girls went to visit Nana & Papa while Jaren did the yards and cleaned the pool. When we got back Addy took a nap and I got to relax a little and start a good book. In the evening we had a Petersen get together for Cleiburn's birthday/Mother's Day. It was a great week.