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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:56:10 GMT

A group of Wellness @ Work members from the hospital met last night for a knitting class. This was my first time casting on and off and it was a lot of fun! I hope that I can find the time to do it more so that I can master this skill!

Life is busy! I know I have a lot of catching up to do around here!!

Hope everyone is well!!

Friday, September 11, 2009

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:54:34 GMT

Bella had her first night of dance classes Tuesday night! Her class is one hour a week. They do 20 minutes of tap, 20 minutes of jazz, and then 20 minutes of gymnastics.

She's making a weird face and pose in this picture! What a goof!

She just loved it! She's been practicing every day since and can't wait for her class again next Tuesday!

Today is Homecoming for our school district so the big football game is tonight, tomorrow we're heading to the Renaissance Festival, and Sunday I'm training Region of Iowa Phi Theta Kappa officers. Life is busy as always, and it's also reason why I haven't been around here as much! Not enough time to post when we're going, going, going all the time!! Ha ha ha!

Hope everyone is doing well!
Have a great weekend!

Remember fallen heros from September 11th today............

Thursday, September 03, 2009

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 02:28:52 GMT

We purchased a new.......(to us)........motorhome this year! It's a 1977 Ford El Dorado so it's not exactly "new" but it's just perfect for us and we love it!!!

We took it out camping for the first time this past weekend. We like to camp more in the summer but it's just been such an incredibly busy summer that there has been something going on every weekend! It was a little chilly so we didn't get any swimming and beach time in this year, but we still had a great time and the girls got to go fishing finally!

Deshon caught his first fish!

Playing at the playground:

Walking grandma's dog:

And Katie caught her first fish too!

Ladderball or Snake Golf.......people call it different names.

My girls and I performing.........we entertain regularly!

Pam and Jill getting tipsy!

Lynn & John

Mmmmm........meals over the campfire are the best!

MMMMMmmmmmm.............S'mores!!!

Chilly nights!

What a great weekend though! And the first weekend spent in the camper was fabulous!

Thursday, September 03, 2009

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 00:29:05 GMT

Bella had Little Rocket Cheer Camp last Friday! This was for kids from Preschool up to 6th grade. They were taught cheers to cheer at the half time of football games and are invited to be guest cheerleaders at Homecoming next Friday! Here are some pictures!

The preschool girls that participated:

The Cheer Camp group:

Bella getting her official shirt and pass to cheer at games:

She had a great time and of course she makes her former cheerleader momma proud!

Monday, August 24, 2009

Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:14:48 GMT

One of my good friends from high school was married Saturday. It was a quick but beautiful ceremony. He was so incredibly happy and his bride was beautiful!

The ceremony:

The new Mr. & Mrs.

Ashlee & AJ

Randa & John

After the ceremony Bella was picking up the flower petals the flower girl "dropped"! Ha ha ha!

Cake eating......or smearing! :)

The Best Mans toast:

AJ speaking

Classmates! A mini class reunion!
(I wish I would've seen that these pictures turned out blurry though! )

Petey, AJ, Kyle, Nick, Me, and Mary Beth

And then AJ called me yesterday to tell me that they're expecting!!!
AHHHH!! I'm just so incredibly happy for them! He will be a great father!

John asked me on the way to the wedding "Are you okay?" And I said "Yeah, I'm just can't believe he's getting married today!" And now going to be a daddy! It's making me realize that we're not kids anymore!! Ha ha ha!

Hope everyone had a great weekend!
I know I need to update on so much but it's been a ridiculously crazy busy summer!!!

Monday, August 17, 2009

Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:07:27 GMT

Bella started her first day of preschool! She was SOOOOO excited!! It was MUCH harder on me though!

Waiting for the bus: Bella, Jonathan, and Randa at the babysitters:

With her new pretty pink princess bookbag that's almost bigger than her!! Ha ha ha!

Running out to the bus! I was like "Hey! Wait!! Look for cars! Hey wait! Give your mom a hug!" Ahhhh! It was so hard to see her get on that school bus and leave all by herself!

Randa sure missed her sister!

Monday, July 13, 2009

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:40:28 GMT

2009 Heart Connection Camp for children with cancer:

Monday, June 29, 2009

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:51:42 GMT

I know I'm VERY behind again! I think I start every post like that lately! But we have been having a VERY busy summer!!! I'm going to try to catch up a little as I can. A couple of weeks ago, my mom took the girls and I to the circus!

We stopped in the Old Market district to have lunch......

Randa checking herself out:

Skipping down the street:

Then off to the circus!

I laughed because Bella was SOOOO into it!

Mom and Bella:

Me and Randa:

At intermission my mom went out and got the girls some slushies in these horse cups. Apparently I was the only one that thought eating a mound of red slushy out of a horse's head looked a little creepy.......

When the tigers came out Bella turned to me all excited and said "SEE! I TOLD you there would be tigers here mom!!!" Ha ha ha!

Afterwards, playing around the statues outside the center:

What a great day!!!

Friday, June 05, 2009

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 02:41:11 GMT

I'm behind on updating again! Life is busy!!! It just seems like there is something going on every day........that and trying to keep caught up with my house and homework! OY! So, I'll just leave you with some pictures from last weekend.......

Friday

Went out for dinner and drinks with Jess, Jillian, and Alicia!

Alicia riding to the bar.....

We picked up Doug at one bar and gave him a ride to the next. He didn't even mind sitting in the car seat! Ha ha ha! As you can see he's had PLENTY to drink by the time he asked me for a ride!

I don't know who this guy is but he wanted his picture taken:

Jillian and Alicia:

Jess and I have had a few drinks by the time this was taken!

Saturday

Saturday afternoon, we decided to put up the swimming pool for the year. The girls were so anxious to get in it but we're going to need some more warm days before that water is warm enough to get into!!! Of course since the pool was put up, it's been kind of chilly here this week!

Can we PLEASE get in yet mom?

Bella and Deshon playing around the pool:

Randa is just chillin' out!

My friend Katie and her son Deshon came to stay with us Saturday night. We grilled out and drank a few beers. The weather was beautiful and we both got quite a bit of sun in the day!

Sunday

We got up and drove up to Kings Pointe Waterpark Resort. Katie had free tickets from her aunt so it was a fun road trip up there to spend the day swimming and splashing!

The girls eating lunch:

The indoor portion of the waterpark:

The girls had a BLAST swimming!

And Deshon loved the waterslides!

And because we always seem to have ice cream whenever we go anywhere........! :) Randa was a mess!

The outdoor portion of the waterpark:

Right next to the lake!

Katie and I settled in to soak up some sun while the kids played:

Randa and her floaty boat!

Shon went back for more ice cream! :)

Waiting for the water to shoot up at them!

Shon mastered these!

Sunday evening we made it back to go to Dom's graduation party!

Yummy food!

Dom (on the right) rocked out the guitar for everyone!!! He is amazing on the guitar and going on to college in the Fall with scholarships for it!

Randa danced the night away!

Afterwards, we stopped at another party and danced some more!

Jillian is pouring one for her homies! Ha ha ha!

Martha and Jillian: (This was Martha's daughters' graduation party)

And the DJ keeps playing!

Juice faces!

Just girls!

ROCK ON!

So, you can see. That was just last weekend. The weekend coming up is looking to be even busier!

Hope everyone has a great weekend!!!

Is it really June already?!?!?

Friday, May 29, 2009

Fri, 29 May 2009 14:49:40 GMT

The girls and I stopped at Jean's last night. (John's aunt) I try to stop with the girls several times a week to visit. The girls can ride their bikes there on the pavement so we don't even have bikes for them at the house because of the gravel in the country. The girls always water all of her plants for her too while Jean and I catch up on what's going on. Thought I'd share a couple of pictures from last night:

I am SOOOO glad it's the weekend! YAY for Friday!
Hope everyone has a great weekend!