Day 47

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Day 46.

We had our 2nd attempt at making our own crayons this evening with a crayon maker the kids got for Christmas.

                 
The kids laid here and stared...and stared...and stared some more. After about 3 times of running them back thru the melter the crayons were still hard. We then finally realized we had the wrong size light bulbs in the machine. We will make our 3rd attempt in the near future.

After this fell thru - the kids started to wrestle. Apparently Riley hurt Ayden. So he comes over to me in this wimpy voice and said Riley broke one of his bones and he needed an xray. What else to do...pull up the xray app on our iPhone and give the boy an xray of course! He was so excited when we showed him that he had no broken bones.

Day 45

                         HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!

Little Morning treat for my valentines (tim had a big whopping chocolate PB cupcake, but i didnt take a pic)....

Afternoon treat for me....

Evening treat for Jaelyn....

Yep...my baby sister got engaged tonight. She asked me to be her Maid of Honor. I am so excited and cannot wait to enjoy all of the planning. I wish them many years of happiness!!!!

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Day 43

I only have one picture from today and I don't think Becky is going to happy with me for posting it.
Sorry Beck...I have to. Because if I don't, there's another blank day and I already have way too many!!

Today we took the kids to see The Big Miracle.

We were debating to take Ayden or not, finally I decided that Tim could use a day to himself and I could use some one on one kidlet time. So he came. Good decision....ahhh not the worst, but he wasn't terrible.

Gotta love it when you have no idea there is about to be a flash in your face!

Ayden was into the movie for the first part. After a little bit though I was thankful I allowed him to bring in his Leap Pad. He ended up sitting on the floor in front of me playing it for 3/4 of the movies. Oh, in between the multiple bathroom breaks. Including one needed 5 mins before the movie was ending - u know, right in the middle of the best part!!!??? 

Afterwards we had a makeup ice skating class for Riley. We still use rental skates at the ice rink and normally never had a problem. However, this week something was definately going on with the skate. Becky and I noticed that she just didnt seem right. So i went out to the ice and asked her if she was ok, sure enough most of her fott somehow slipped out of the skate. A little annoyed that the coach (which wasnt her normal coach) didnt assist Riley. She had to notice. I took Riley off of the ice and fixed her up. But by this time, she was already in what i believe was an embarressed state and i could tell there was no getting her out of it. Plus i'm pretty sure her foot hurt a bit to. She went back to class but stayed glued to the way the rest of the session. She still says she is excited to go to class again. We have no class for 2 weeks..so fingers crossed that this was not a set back because up to this point she has loved it!!

         

day 42

Happy Birthday Dad.

Not a day goes by that my dad is not on my mind. The beginning of the year is the worst. Between birthdays and remembering this time of the year in 2010 when we were unknowingly losing him. I can really get myself down i choose to ponder off back to those months, so I try really hard not to. Death just sucks!

Today after i got off of work..we all got together at the Olive Garden for his birthday celebration. What a great time we had. Mom bought my dads favorite desert...hershey chocolate bars for everyone. She also bought another favorite...chocolate peanut butter cake. We sang happy birthday, raised our hershey bars, and thought happy memories.

I love you dad.

        

Day 41

Mother/Daughter Valentine craft night with Tesla.

Tesla is a girl in Rileys kindergarten class. I will tell this first...

When Riley came home with this invite...i was ecstatic!!! I mean, this is one of those moments you think of the day you find out you're having a girl, isn't it?? I didn't hide my feelings either. Immediately i started telling Riley how exciting this was going to be and how I can't wait..etc. She didnt care. So what, I'm excited now - she will be excited that day. And as the day got closer she was constantly talking about it. So when we got to Tesla's that evening and Riley completely shut down, wouldn't talk to anyone, wouldn't even take off her jacket..i was pretty shocked. These little girls that she knew were trying their best to make Riley feel comfortable but she wasn't trying to hear it. As much as i wanted to get mad at her and then leave, obviously that is not the way to handle it. So i walked her around with me to the different stations that she was to be at in hopes she would start to come around. Wasn't happening. She didnt want to color, she didnt want to play any of the fun games we were kicking the night off with.
I decided to try a little trick. I told her i had to pee really bad and that i would be right back. I went up the steps and sat there (unnoticed). Sure enough, she came around. From that moment she was playing, laughing, having a great time with her friends. Riley just needs that little push to get over the hump of new experiences and then she is usually ok. We ended up having a really nice time, met some new moms, and made some really cute valentine crafts. Do you think i took any pics of them? You got that right, NOPE! I did however get one picture of a few of us at the one craft station. Thanks for a fun night Riley Elizabeth. I am looking forward to many more!!