Bye bye

Today, my mother and her boyfriend Wally are taking Samantha and Will on a vacation to Virginia. We are busily packing up. They are SO excited!! They've packed the DVD players and DVDs, Gameboys, books, papers, webkinz, pillows, chips, blankies...they're all set!! I've made them promise to write in a notebook everyday to tell me what they've done. And hopefully mom will take pictures!! I will miss my little guys so much-- a week is a long time! On the flipside though, me and Colby will get to spend some special quality time togther :) Not sure what exactly we'll do but we'll do something. I hope Virginia is warm... it just figures that this is a cold spell. Either way, I'm sure they'll find a way to have a blast! I just hope they can get along for a week or else it will drive Grammy and Wally insane (I know this firsthand!).

Bye bye, Samantha and Will... Mommy loves you!!! Have fun!

Happy Monday!

Happy Easter!

I took this picture yesterday of my mother and the kids and I love it!! They look so sweet, and so big, and my mother looks so pretty!

We had a great day yesterday. The Easter Bunny came to our house and left baskets full of toys and candy. He also hid eggs all over the house! We went to church, where the choir sang my favorite songs, which is always nice. And then on to Aunt Terry's where we visited with family. And we also had PASKA bread! Yum yum! And then back home for dinner, I cooked it myself and it was delicious. The inlaws were eat for Easter Dinner, so we took some pictures, too. It was a great day!!!

Now we are looking at a week off of school... but Samantha and Will are going to Virginia with Grammy and Wally from Tuesday until Sunday. I will MISS them... but it will be nice to spend the time with Colby.

Have a great Monday!

The Easter Bunny is on its way!

Hippity, Hoppity Easter's on its way!

I can't believe tonight is Easter Eve! We dyed our eggs last night and they turned out so pretty! We only have one pink egg... and Samantha did it! Although she swears that she was trying to get red because she hates pink!

The house is coming together... The Easter Bunny only comes to clean houses, right? That's what my kids think!

HAPPY EASTER!!

Good Friday

Today is Good Friday. It is going to be a busy day here at our house. We have lots of errands to run, and I'm bringing the kids swimming at the Y. Will has Boy Scouts tonight, we need to color eggs, and clean the house because MIL is coming tomorrow.
Yesterday, Little Samantha threw up all over Big Samantha's bed... and then all around the bathroom on her way to the potty. Yuck yuck yuck!! We disinfected the bathroom and are praying that no one gets sick now.
Samantha is excited-- she's saved up enough money to buy her own DS! We're going to pick that up today.
Almost Easter- I can't wait to get pictures of the eggs, the egg hunt, the family time on Sunday... and I'm very eager to eat some paska bread!!!
Happy Good Friday!

Hi, my name is Tracy....

Being the good Girl Scout Leader and volunteer that I am, I agreed to participate in the annual "Phonathon" this year, last night. Last year it was actually fun. This year, it was *anything* but fun. Two hours of calling people, giving the little shpiel (that I messed up almost every time) just to be told NO. In two hours, I got FOUR people to pledge money. I probably called 100. It was very discouraging.... had to eat a bag of M & Ms just to make myself happy.

So, that makes something Scouts-related three times this week. That's GIRL Scouts... Will also has a BOY scout meeting this Friday. That only leaves Thursday, and stupid me signed Samantha up for Firecrackers. I'm thinking we may have to bow out of that, but we'll go to the meeting to see what it is about anyways.

I am wishing to be in a bath tub... "Calgon, take me away"... oh, that would be heaven.

Right now, gotta run... more volunteering! I've got School Banking to go to today!!

Another milestone

Forgot to mention, on Saturday Colby LOST HIS FIRST TOOTH. See the picture... and *please* excuse the yucky nose. I can say that he was sick that day (and he was... had a fever from Thursday-Sunday)... but really, Colby always has a yucky nose for some reason. And I never seem to notice *before* I take the picture.... herm....

He already had a "shark tooth" growing behind it... so it will be interesting to see how quickly it moves up. Colby hated having a loose tooth... he complained that it hurt to eat everything, and he even tried getting out of school because of it!! Ha ha, nice try. He also has one of the top teeth loose, but that one doesn't seem to bother him as much.

Blog Challenge part 2

Here is the layout to go with the blog challenge that Jenny posted on Scraptown.com and also on here blog.

That's me! And those are my 3 most unlucky things.

As for life right now, two kids are still sick. Samantha has an awful cough, had a temp all weekend, and is losing her voice. Colby has had a fever all weekend, coughing, and now has a little diarrhea. Aahh-- life with kids! Thankfully, Will isn't sick. Let's hope he doesn't catch it, this sickness seems to linger.

Samantha has her first softball practice tonight. She won't be able to go, since she's home from school. There's a chance of rain so they just might cancel it anyway. I'm hoping-- I hate when she misses stuff like that. Especially since she really wants to go. She even gave up going to a birthday party to go to softball practice!

And tonight is a Girl Scout Leader meeting. My troop is working on a Service patch, and they are serving refreshments tonight. Should be interesting! The agenda shows that this meeting will be VERY busy... and we don't usually have girls there...! Here's hoping it goes well!

Have a great Monday!