Stolen car :(

Well we have had some bad news. Richard's little Nissan that he drove back and forth to work broke down while he was on his way home from work. Then, to top it off, when he went to pick it up the next morning, it was gone. He then spent 4 hours calling the different police stations and highway patrol and nobody has any record of the car being towed, so we figured that someone towed it illegally and we are now waiting to see if someone tries to contact us saying that we owe them money for the tow and storage. If that happens, we will be able to have them arrested and press charges against them, otherwise we are out of luck. We have already (within two days) taken steps to protect ourselves by having it removed from our insurance, reported the tag stolen to the DMV and filed a police report in case the car is involved in an accident or anything else.

Girls On The Run...

The girls had their practice run on Monday April 19th after they returned from Easter break. Here are a few pictures of Ally during their run.

















Ally finished up another season of GOTR (girls on the run) and ran her 5K race on Saturday May 8th. It was a nice warm day compared to last time when it was dead of winter. This year the race was held at the Crawdad Stadium and Katie and I went to see Ally run. You can see Ally cross the finish line at 49:35 and she is located under the 5 in the picture.

Proud mommy brag...

Well, once again it is report card time and Ally has once again gotten straight A's. Goooo Ally!!! Her teacher told me last week that she has been a big help to her in class and that she is recommending Ally for AG classes next year. This means she will be tested, her grades and teacher recommendation will be taken into account and she will most likely be put in advanced classes for the 5th grade. I firmly believe this will be good for Ally because it will give her something to keep her challenged so that she doesn't become bored with school.

I don't know if you can read the report card, but it says this:

Music ~ S Excellent recorder player

P.E. ~ S

Reading ~ 96

Language Arts ~ 100

Math ~ 95

Social Studies ~ 100

Conduct ~ S+

Science ~ 100

Art ~ S+ Participates well in class activities

Madison also received her report card and she brought home all S's. Goooo Maddy!!! Maddy is doing great with her reading words and we have started working on the 100 words she should be able to read before she starts 1st grade and so far she is doing very well with them.

Katie is also doing great with her vocabulary and talking in complete sentences now. Just tonight, she was playing with Maddy and I heard her say, "What matter Maddy?" It was so cute. She repeats everything her sisters say and she will even repeat what people say from a show she is watching. At this time, she is doing well with learning her colors and we have started on counting also.

Easter 2010

Ally's basket

Katie's basket

Maddy's basket

Look at my bunny Mommy...

I "luvs" him very much.

Yummy... suckers :)



Oh boy, chocolate!!!

A bunny from Nana and Papa.

A new outfit for Easter.

Candy!!!!! :)

Ally's Easter outfit from Nana and Papa.

Katie's outfit from Nana and Papa.

Don't we just look so cute? Perfect fits too.

Easter dessert. Chocolate chip cookie picked out by Maddy.

This is what the girls saw Easter morning when they woke up. Easter Bunny sure was very good to the girls this year. All of the girls received some candy, stickers, yo-yos and some other small toys along with gifts from their Nana and Papa. They were allowed to open their baskets after getting dressed and ready for church but they had to wait until after church to open the gifts from Nana and Papa.

Easter egg hunt

On Saturday April, 3rd I took the kids to an egg hunt at our church. This was Katie's 1st egg hunt so I was excited to see how she liked it. We also invited friends of mine to join us for the fun and festivites. One of the things I wish that had been done differently at the egg hunt was that they did the 2-4yr olds and the 5-12yr olds at the same time so I had to choose which place I was going to in order to take pictures. Since this was Katie's 1st time, I chose her age group and missed pictures of the other two girls. Another thing was that it was over sooo quickly and Katie's age group should have been broken down even smaller so the little ones could have a better chance at finding some eggs. Katie was the only one that got any eggs really because the other kids in our group only got one each. The good thing was that all of the eggs were empty and the kids got goody bags with candy after they finished the hot dog supper that was offered.

Maddy and Katie waiting for the hunt to begin.

Katie jumped right in and found 4 eggs quickly.

This is Steven and his mom Tonya who are friends of mine.

Steven, his sister Stephanie, Maddy, Ally and Katie.

Potty training time

Katie is working on potty training herself. For awhile now, Katie has been interested in the potty, so we went and bought her her own potty chair that is all pink...lol. Just what we need, more pink. :)

She has taken to the potty fairly quickly and as of right now, Katie will come to me and tell me she has to potty while removing her diaper. One time, she even went as far as to, wake up during the night, use the potty and then tried to put on a new diaper. That is what woke me up is her whining and I found her standing by my bed holding a clean diaper between her legs while trying to get it to stay on. It was the cutest thing I had ever seen.

At this time, I am not pushing the training since she seems to "get" the consept and is getting better. We will work on it steady when we come back from our road trip in June which will give us some leway while traveling.

Update on the house...

Well we have updated the kitchen with a few items. As you can see, I have a dishwasher now!! It is a portable one that hooks up to the sink every time you use it and I love it. :) Now I have extra counter space since I moved my cooking tools to the top of the dishwasher and got rid of the dish drainer.

This is a picture of my make shift pantry with all of the extra canned/boxed items that I have been stockpiling while using the Grocery Game. It is very easy to look before heading out to do my shopping and see what we are missing, getting low on or don't need at all.

Last but not least, here is a picture of all of my Tupperware storage that holds almost everything that isn't canned. Tupperware is my weakness and I buy some every year at tax time to add to my collection.


This is our bathroom which has a very deep tub (Katie uses it like a pool :) ) but it had no shelves and no towel racks. What is up with that? How can a bathroom not have towel racks to hang up towels?

I must say this is a decent sized bathroom all in all.

But we fixed the shelving problem with the same shelves we got for the kitchen.

Here is Ally's room (and where Maddy sleeps for now) and what it looks like since we moved things around.

Ally's bed with her new bedding.

Maddy's bed with her new bedding.

Since this room doesn't have a closet (very old house) we put up a hanging shelf for the few items that Ally hangs up.