17 years and counting!!!!!

Yesterday was mine and Barry's 17 year anniversary of our first date. Yes it has been that long ago that we went out for the very first time. It almost didn't happen though. He asked me out in the parking lot of the church after the youth group got back from bowling one night and the day he asked me for was a day I already had plans with friends and another guy. I said no and he looked crushed. I felt bad, because I did want to go. I talked with my friend and she said to cancel with the other plans and go tell him yes. So the next day I went to his job and found him and he looked like he was mad at me. I told him that I changed my plans and if he still wanted to I would go out with him. So he perked up and we planned to go out. He took me to Arby's and to see "Sister Act". So that was the begining of the relationship we now have. I am so very glad that I changed plans and went with him.. He has been the best husband I could ever ask for and Dad as well. I welcome many many more years.

Awards Day and end of 3rd grade.

Well Mary had her fun day at school on Thursday and I worked the whole time at the 3rd grade booth with a few other moms. We had a great day and Mary enjoyed herself. Friday was awards day for the elementary. Mary received the 30 mile award for running or walking 30 miles this year. Most of the children received only that type of award. This year has been tough for all the 3rd graders. We only had 2 out all the 3rd grade to get A honor roll this year and only about a hand full to get A B honor roll. This shows that the year was tough for all the children. I am glad that Mary did as well as she did. She had A B C's the whole year, happy with no d or f on report card. I hope next year is easier for her and I also hope she gets the teacher she had in Kindergarten for 4th. She can go to school this next week, but it is not necessary, so I will leave it up to her whether she goes or stays home. Also her speech teacher has decided a couple of times this week to catch me at school and try to convince me into going back to school and becoming a teacher. She says I have the natural ability in her opinion and need to do it. I don't know about the natural ability, thinking about it thought.
Friday night we had a few friends over for dinner. We had the Robbins'(5), us(4), and the Strange's(4) over for spagetti. Let me tell you our house was loud and roudy from 6PM til a little after 11PM. We had a great time. The kiddos had a great time, but where wore out when we went to bed. I will be inviting more groups of people over next month for the same thing. We also played Rummikube. It was so much fun. I also have decided sometime soon I am going to get rid of the hubby and kiddos one night and have a girls night at my house and play games and watch movies. Let me know when may be good for you and if you like this idea.

Final Farewell to DFBK

Well last Thursday was Christopher's last time with his DFBK friends. He is moving on to big boy school in the Fall. We had alot of fun at the k3 and k4 goodbye party at Froggies Fun Center. He had a blast playing with all his friends and saying goodbye to them. I don't think he really understood that he won't be seeing them next year. I will miss all the moms that I have made friends with and also Mrs. Linda. This is our final farewell to DFBK. Mary Elizabeth went there for 2 years several years ago and we loved it them and now Christopher has been there for one year. It will be easier for me next year with both kiddos in the same school and it being only 1 1/2 miles from my house, less gas and less money. Hopefully I will be able to participate at the school more and sub alot more. Here are a few pics from Froggies...enjoy.

Mother's Day card from Christopher

I thought you all would kind of get a kick out of some of his answers to a card that Mrs. Linda had the class make for their moms.
I have the best mom in the whole world!
My mom is as pretty as a flower. She weighs 13 pounds and she's as tall as a flower. My mom loves to eat steak. I think Mom looks funny when she laughs. When my mom is happy, she smiles. I know she's really mad when she yells. My mom is proud of me when I eat. If I chased my Mom with a green bug, she would scream. If I had $100, I would buy my Mom a hairbow. I wish my Mom a Happy Mother's Day!
Is this not funny an that hairbow would have to be one gauddy bow for $100.

Happy Mother's Day!

Just wanted to say Happy Mother's Day to all you women out there. I have had a good one. The kiddos and Barry gave me a couple of storage shelves for scrapbooking stuff and a hand plate. The plate has both the kiddos hand prints on it. It is soo cute.
Friday night me and the kiddos went o ver to Laura's to spend some time and Lori came. The other girls couldn't make it. But we had a great time. The kiddos had fun with each other and the ladies did too. We ate talked and had lots of fun with each other. Thank you Laura, next time come to my house.
Saturday, the Sunshine Girls had a Mother's Day project. We made mini loaves of bread for the mothers at church to pass out to them. Then they made birthday cards for the little chinese girl we help support and her twin brother. Then they went out front to plant a few flowers in the pots. They did great and had fun. That afternoon when Barry got home from the men's retreat, Lauren and I went out. We went to Sumo to have early dinner and they gave me a carnation for being a mother. Then we went to see "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past". It was good other than a few half dressed women. We had a good time.
This morning they gave me my girfts and we went to church. The girls gave out the bread between services. Then we had lunch over at Barry's grandmothers home.
All in all we have had a good day so far. Hope you all have one as well.

ME and the eye doctor

Today I took Mary for her 6 month checkup for her lazy eye. As most of you know when she was 2 1/2 years old she had to have eye surgery to make the eye stay where it should and not trail out to the side, this was done on her left eye. It was a great success. Now he has been watching her eyes for a couple of years now. He told us today that it has gotten worse and that she also is a little bit near sited. He says her right eye needs to have surgery now. She will be having suregery on the right eye on June 1, 2009. He said he wants to do it before it gets bigger, since the bigger it is the more work it takes to repair it. I told him that I would do what he felt was best and he said we could do it after school was out and she would do great. He said she would have outpatient. Surgery would take about 30 minutes, then 30 minutes recovery and then within an hour she would be on her way home. She would see double that day and maybe the next and have blurry vision for up to 3 days. Her eye would be red on the white part for about 2 weeks and then all should be well. I hope so. I have noticed that she has been pulling the eye into place all the time now. Please keep her in your prayers and that all will go well with the surgery. She is not concerned with the surgery itsself, but with the stitches afterward. She has asked me will they hurt, how do they put them in there, how will they just go away(dissolve) and others like this. Maybe she will not worry about it any further.

Kindergarten Registration and Pizza Party Fun day.

Last night we registered Christopher for Kindergarten at Corner. My baby is now going to big boy school this August. They gave him an assement. He was asked to say ABc's, read abc's upper and lower case, colors, shapes and numbers. She asked him to count to 20 for her and he told her it was too hard (mind you he can count all the way to 100). She then asked him to count to 10 then. So he started counting and went past 20 and she stopped him and said I thought 20 was to hard. She thn told him, "I can tell you don't like to be wrong." Since he would not move on to the next one til he got that one right. He was excited.
Today his class at DFBK had their play day at the park and pizza party for winning the $1 drop a few months ago. They got to play in one of those big blow up jumpy things for a while ten went across to the park. While on the bus waiting on Mrs. Beth to come take then across the street they were all chanting "park...park...park...park". They had a great time. I loved sitting over there and watching them and talking with the other moms.