A Mid Summers Dream

These past few weeks we have had AMAZING weather.  It is such a treat and the kids have enjoyed wearing shorts and short sleeve shirts to school.  I even enjoyed an early spring pedicure to get my feet ready for sandal weather.  It has been awesome.

This past weekend we headed up north to check out the play my niece was in for her high school.  It was Mid Summer Nights Dream by William Shakespeare.

 It was fantastic and we cold not be more proud of E and her performance.  It was a quick trip up north but so worth the fun.
Saturday was St. Patrick's Day so there was  a lot of talk about leprechauns; both finding and catching them. 
 K was all over getting that pot of gold. You can imagine when we came home from the play to Grandma and Grandpa E's house to find this mess that was left behind by those sneaky little leprechauns.

 Oh so fun.  The kids went crazy!

Raising Money For The MS Cure

This past Friday night we had our third annual MS Bowling fundraiser.  It is such a fun night and this year was a HUGE success.  I was responsible for putting together all of the silent auction packages this year.

 I had a handful of donations and some gift card money that we were awarded from our teams fundraising last year.  It was a lot of work to put together the packages but overall it turned out to be a huge success.  We ended up raising over $1500 at this event.
I have such awesome friends and family surrounding me and helping this event be successful.  It feels great to have a supporting husband, family, and friends that want to help find the cure for this nasty disease.  I feel so loved.

We have already started to discuss how to improve the event for next year.  It really is a fun night and all the money that is paid for the bowling is giving back to us for the MS Society.  So we will not talk about my bowling scores that night as I was not on my game but we had some AWESOME bowlers amongst the group.

Special Thanks to Donny who owns the bowling alley, Matt and Jenn who helped set up the venue and got some Silent Auction items, and helped us to run the event, to Emily, Shelby, Nancy, Carol, Jane, Mary, and Matt and Jen who helped to make the silent auction the biggest and best yet.  I love all of you. Thank you.

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E's New Smile

E came into our room early on Friday morning and she was smiling.  I could see that her front tooth was loose.  Ironically, I had just awoke from a dream where she had pulled out her front tooth.  So I told her about my dream.  We discussed her front tooth and she agreed that it was ready to come out.  She wanted to pull it out at school though so she was going to wait.  However, I managed to talk her into letting Jon pull it out since it was basically sideways in her mouth.  Jon had one little tug and it came right out.

I just love her new smile.  E has been waiting a long time for her front tooth to come out.  She is about 1.5 to 2 years behind the other two in losing teeth and it has been a long wait to finally get a turn.  She was so proud.  Doesn't she look cute.  The tooth fairy brought two dollars worth of change and a car wash token.  E was thrilled when she woke up to find that this morning. 

I am excited for her and this milestone.  Gosh they grow so fast!

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The Big Sleep Over

Not sure if I have mentioned this or not but this year I volunteered to "Co-lead" the Girl's Daisy Girl Scout troop.  We have been having a lot of fun with it and the other Moms have been AWESOME about helping out.  This past Friday, was the Cookie Dance which falls the night before "Cookie Go Day".  This is when the girls can start to sell Girl Scout Cookies. 

Last year we opted not to sell cookies as we felt the girls were a little young for that.  This year we decided to go for it.  A and E have been having fun and they even went through the neighborhood on Saturday with Jon to sell some cookies.  The neighbors were very sweet and did buy some from the girls!  If you are one of them THANK YOU.  Next we hit up the family and of course they were generous and bought cookies as well. 
Back to Friday night...I decided it would be a perfect night to have our big "Sleep over"!  So 12 girls and 4 moms came over after the cookie dance and we had a PJ party.  The girls watched a movie, played hid n go seek, ran around like crazy, and had some good ole fun.  The Mom's managed to have some fun too. 

The next morning, after a night of very little sleep, we had pancakes, sausage, fruit, and juice.  The girls played some more and then they all headed home.  It was a fun event and one that I dare say we will do again next year.  I am simply so impressed with our troop this year and how the girls are all so kind to one another.  It really is neat to see.  They all slept mostly through the night and were up early. 

Jon and K had to find another place to stay that night.  K exclaimed "I do NOT want to be home for that!"  I can only imagine in a few more years he will not want to leave for the event. 

The thing that makes me smile the most about the event is that the girls will have so many fun memories of these times.  I am so glad that get these opportunities.  Now...anyone want to buy some Girl Scout Cookies?!?!?!?!?!?

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Steamboat Part II

I just realized that in our busy return home last week, I did not get a chance to do a post of our last day of skiing in Steamboat. This happened to be the day we brought the camera out with us as well.

On this special day, we took the kiddos out with us.  We all LOVED it.  We hit the slopes by 10 AM and Uncle T, E and myself did not stop until the lifts closed down for the day.  It was a blast.  Sunny weather, nicely groomed slopes, and lots of laughter and fun.  The perfect day.

One of my favorite memories of this day was watching the three kiddos follow Grandpa Al down the slopes.  He would go and they would follow.  The kids also enjoyed skiing through the trees and taking all the mini jumps on the way. 

I truly love our time in Steamboat from the skiing, to the hot tub, and the awesome meals and great conversation, and the beauty that surrounds the entire village.  It truly is an amazing trip for all of us.  Jon and I have sure enjoyed watching the kiddos learn to ski and although they have a ways to go we were pleased that this year in Steamboat they could come and ski the mountain with us and they did awesome.  Soon enough we will have to keep up with them.