PURE BLISS

There she is....."the happiest girl around". Coming home from school and hopping into her own pool!!! Come on summer!!!

Happy Birthday Dave!!

a day late!! Love you!!

POOOOOOOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today we celebrate Amelia's 7th Adoption Day.

We also welcomed the POOL MAN!!! Above is a summary in photos of the day.

Sunday

Yesterday we hung out here just taking it easy. The pictures above are Andrew & Shain reading Flat Stanley outside under our dogwood trees. Can you see my trapeeze artist girls performing on the tree swings across the street from our house?

Housework

We're still working hard here!

We found an awesome handyman who built us a beautiful ramp off of the deck to the pool with a gate too! We had ordered our bedroom carpet and stair carpet runner over a month ago - everything was installed on Thursday. Ahhhh..finally carpet in our room. Nice!

Oh, yes and Dave worked on the laundry room bathroom painting and hanging a new mirror and new fixtures are mounted. The pictures documenting the before and afters are above.

1998

Thirteen years ago on this day, Dave and I were married.
Thirteen years.....pheeew!!!! :)

Mother's Day

Yesterday the girls were telling me they would be waking up in the "3's" (3:00am) to put together a surprise for me this Mother's Day morning. I told them it would be better to get up in the "6's", because I would wake up in the "7's". They talked all day yesterday about what they would be doing - whispering to each other and telling Dave. Well, this morning in the "6's" I heard what I thought were door knocks. Dave went to check that out. The girls were safely in the family room - just sitting there. Dave asked them what they were doing. They said they didn't know what to do!! Dave took all three girls to Dunkin Donuts to pick me up breakfast. Drew and I got a few extra zzzz's in the unusually quiet house. I was surprised to breakfast in bed and a homemade pin and card from Amelia, already had received my card from Ava on Friday, and lots of kisses and hugs from my babies.

We had a wonderful day of just hanging out here and working outside.

Happy Mother's Day to our great moms too!

Lilacs

Just look at that!!

Surprises

The hugest purple lilac found on the side of our new house!

Uncovered today at the house.... a very green, almost black pool....needing a lot of TLC.

24 + 1

I was going to stop at 24 months, BUT I just can't...so bear with me people.... Jenna is now 25 months!!! :) Jenna has thrown me for a loop since we've moved (sleep wise). I had to purchase a crib tent because I couldn't think of any other way to keep her safe. The crib tent doesn't look as bad as it sounds.. At the present time, Jenna will go down for her naps without incident, but IS crying for close to an hour at bedtime before falling asleep. Jenna is saying a lot now. You can understand a lot of what she says. She's started singing songs - Happy Birthday, Twinkle Twinkle, ABC's..that kind of stuff. She still loves her riding toys and riding her bikes and her trying to ride her sisters bikes outside. She loves to look at our neighbors dogs out the windows and on our walks in the neighborhood. She copies the girls for everything and is aware of everything going on around her no matter how much you try to keep her from things. She even gets ready for her bath - taking her clothes off, throwing them in the laundry, sitting on the potty (not going), wiping herself and getting into the tub. Jenna still loves The Wiggles - especially Hot Potato. She knows all the movements to the songs from her video watching. Today we went to "Hello School". She's sporting her turtle tats on her hands in the picture above. Jenna loves her class - clinging to me for 1/2 of it and right on the teachers lap for the other 1/2 of it.