Makin' It Monday

Travis and I put this together a couple of months ago.  These are his dad's medals that he earned during the Vietnam War.  Tony gave these all to Travis in June when we were in Ohio visiting.  We brought the shadow box back with us when we visited him for Thanksgiving and he really liked it.  It is now hanging in our loft with the addition of 3 of the shell casings (one for Travis and one for each of our girls) from the 21 gun salute at his funeral.  His mother didn't even know that he had all of these.  He didn't talk about it, but that first one in the box, that is his bronze star.  

Life

It is now August and in only 2 days my baby girl will be turning 5! Yikes! On Sunday she told me she wanted to go to the splash pad for her birthday so I frantically sent out several evites and started planning a little party for her. I mean she is going to be a whole hand afterall. I have nothing ready but I am keeping it pretty simple so it shouldn't be too difficult to get everything together tomorrow.

On Saturday we got back from a week long visit with my mom and step dad in Virginia. We always have a good time with them. Last year our visit was so busy and we were constantly on the move though it was totally fun it was really exhausting. This year we took it easy and just hung out at her house. Took the boat out and once again didn't catch any fish. lol It is so relaxing sitting on the boat though so I sure didn't mind just being out there. We of course did alot of shopping, playing poker and cards and just sitting on the porch and talking. The girls love the 4wheeler so we all took them on many rides on that. It was a good trip and it is always hard to say good bye to them, I really wish we were closer so we could see them more than once a year.

In another post I will share Kaylee's exciting news from our trip to Virginia. No it does not involve anyone getting lost in the woods or getting ticks or poison ivy! lol This one is good exciting news :)

Ohio Photos

Here are some photo's to highlight our Ohio trip.

Girls with Grandpa Tony (Travis' dad)

Saying bye to Grandma (Travis' mom)
Beth, Me and Rachel with all of our kiddos

Beth, Mandy, Rachel and Me on our GNO

Us again at the Martini Lounge

Kaylee and Abby making pancakes with PaPa (my dad)


Me and Travis

My dad, Me and the 3 grandaughters (missing Aimee and girl #4 to be)

Abby, Kaylee and Mykenzie


Me, Kaylee and Abby

Kaylee and Lily on the Chuck E Cheese roller coaster

Kaylee, Lily, Mykenzie and Jaden~ yes we had a fashion show in Target

Kaylee and Lily

Jaden, Kaylee, Lily and Mykenzie

Sleeping Sisters

May?

Seriously it is already May? I am sitting here watching what we were doing on May 5, 2005 right now. What a coincidence huh. I am finally recording all of my VHS videos onto DVD's, you may remember this was a 2008 new years resolution. lol During this process I am so very happy to say that I have MUCH more video on VHS than I thought. I thought most of Kaylee's life was still on the mini tapes and turns out it isn't. There is some that is only on the mini tapes but it ends up only being about the past year and I don't really think I recorded that much anyhow. Whew! I at least have pictures so I will survive. Also after this process I realize I have much more video of Kaylee than I thought. I didn't think I taped much of her life and was all guilty feeling about it cause I had so much of Mykenzie. Yeah, no more guilt. I have plenty of Kaylee and way too dang much of Mykenzie. lol

This month is going to be NUTS! My calendar is jam packed already. This past weekend I went to Clarksville to visit my cousin Alicia. We suck and used to keep in touch really well when we lived really far away, now that we are within 2 hours of each other we don't hardly at all! lol So I finally made it up there to hang out kid free and it was really great to see her. We are going to have to get together again soon.

We have several school things going on this month since it is the last month of school. This includes Kaylee's graduation. I am so excited!! Mykenzie had a little program and got an award but Kaylee's is doing the whole cap and gown deal. It is going to be so cute!! So sad, as I sit here and watch her from 4 years ago this same time of year just starting to walk and now she is getting ready to go to kindergarten!! Registration for that is in the morning!! Holy cow! My baby is going to kindergarten! Good thing Travis is fixed is all I am saying. Not sure I picked the best time to transfer these videos the same week I am signing her up for kindy. Not very smart.

I also have a TON of girl scout stuff going on right now. I will be enjoying having the summer off of scouts for sure! Geeze. Lets talk about stress and having too many cooks in the kitchen. I will spare the details there. I have just been feeling with this and several other things in my life right now that the saying if you want it done right you have to do it yourself is seriously ringing true. Or maybe I am just a control freak. I am going to go with a combo of the two ;-)

One thing I would love to outsource right now is cleaning my house! I will gladly give up the control there. Seriously it looks like a bomb went off in it. Cleaning escapade begins tomorrow after school. I hope the girls are ready cause it is going to be rough on them! It is 8:30 and I really want to go to bed early, but alas I need to finish the laundry and get a craft project done so I can get the piles of crap off my dining room table. Bummer.

Oh one more bit of news! Aimee had her ultrasound on Monday night...... it is a GIRL! We are just not meant to have boys in this family! Everything looks perfect with her so now the countdown begins ;)