Getting Caught Up, Thursday 13 style.

It has been forever since I have found time to post.. So I figured I better get all caught up and what better way then to do it T-13 style.. The last day I posted was August 30, 2009 so we will start on August 31, 09

#1 Aug 31, 09

Started the morning getting a phone call from the school district sub hot line, wanting me to work at the 5th and 6th grade school, So I jumped out of bed rushed around getting everything ready, Thankfully DH was home and able to watch Little Man, then I got my kids up, dressed and feed, dropped them off at school and went to work myself. After school I came home cooked dinner feed everyone got there homework done with them right away, dropped the 3 younger ones off at my Grandma's house and DH and I went to Princess's 1st 8th grade volleyball game.. Right after the game DH took off to work and I stayed at the school for Princess's open house for parents to meet there kid I got out of there at 8:30pm picked up the kids and got them ready for bed and went to bed myself

#2 Sept 1, 2009

to be honest I'm drawling a blank of what I did this day, I know it was alot of running around and cleaning of the house doing laundry and dishes.. but there was some reason I was gone 1/2 the day and I can't for the life of me remember what it was LOL.. but that evening.... DH, Mr Man, one of Mr Man's friends and the friends dad all went to The Q. to watch WWE smack down live.. Mr Man had won tickets to the show by answering 10 questions correct and was then placed in a drawling and he won. They left about 4:30PM and I got home after they left, I did take Princess that evening out to watch her friend C. play soccer in the next town over(he is on the varsity team there) I got everyone in bed early but no one fell asleep..until after DH and Mr Man was back close to midnight.. This made for a long morning Wed.

#3 Sept 3, 2009

did the normal get the kids off to school thing, Then took Little Man over to the hospital for his speech therapy, after that did some more cleaning(one would think as much as I clean, that my house would look like it but sadly it doesn't look like I did anything ever..~sigh~) It was about that time I got called to go into work at the Jr. High school for Thursday so I started rushing to get the work I planned to do Thursday done. I cooked dinner before going to pick the kids up from school. As soon as they were home I had them eat dinner and do there homework.. Then I packed the 3 younger one cloths up to spend the night away.. I dropped them off at my grandma, where Mr Man and Sweet Pea was going to spend the night because I had to be at the Jr High by 7:30am and they normally don't wake up for school until 7:45am, so my grandma offered to keep them over night and get them off to school for me.. But I dropped all 3 of the younger kids off at grandmas while DH and I went to Princess's 2nd volleyball game.. DH had to leave for work before it ended and I had to leave before it ended also to rush over to Little Man's preschool for the Parents orientation meeting that night. My mom and grandma was at the game still(grandpa stayed home watching the kids) So Grandma took Princess home after the game and dropped her off and my mom picked up Little Man and took him to her house to spend the night(she doesn't live in the same town as I do, but grandma does that is why my grandma kept the middle two over night and mom took the youngest who didn't have to be at school the next day) I got home around 9pm again that night. I took a shower check my facebook and climbed into bed.

#4 Sept 3, 2009

Got up at 6:30am(which for me is still the middle of the night YUCK) and woke up Princess we both got dress and was out the door by 7:05am since Princess needed to be at the Jr high by 7:15 and I had to be there by 7:30am

I worked till school was over at 2:30pm Princess had to get right on the bus to head over an hour away for her 3rd volleyball game, I headed home. I wanted to go to the game but I couldn't because once again I had another parents meet the kids teachers night, this time at the elementary school where Mr Man and Sweet Pea goes to school, so no v-ball for me Thursday night.. I got home got dinner read to make, then went and picked up the middle two from school(they don't get out till 3:15pm.. Got them home did there homework with them, cooked dinner, woke DH up and we got to sit down for dinner.. But then he had to leave for work at 5:30pm that night.. My parent got to my house about 6:30pm bringing Little Man back home from spending the night and my mom watching him while I worked that day.. and my mom and dad stayed at my house to watch the kids while I went to the elementary school b 7pm.. I was there till 8:30pm, but while I was there Princess bus got back from v-ball so I had to have her call grandma to pick her up at the jr high at 8pm that night.

When I walked though the door at something till 9pm I said thank you and good bye to my parents. I was hungry and so were the kids so I left Princess baby sit and I ran to taco bell and got us all are 4th meal LOL. we all ate and went right to bed afterwards.. I just crashed I tell ya.. I don't even think I had any dreams I was so wore out.

#5 Sept 4, 09

woke up Friday morning to the normal run everyone to school thing.. Got home was home for 30 minutes before I had to pack Little Man up again and take him to the hospital for his occupational therapy. When I got home DH was waiting for me to help set up camp in the yard.. We had decided to stay home this holiday weekend but still go camping.. you know the staycation.. So we put up the tent and the screen tent, brought out the camping chairs and the fire pit.. found all the campfire cooking stuff and ran the extension cord into the tents and blew up the air mattresses.. and got everything ready.. it was pushing 2pm by the time we had it all set to go. Next we came in the house, DH cooked dinner while I took a shower, nothing like crawling around in a hot tent blowing up air mattresses to make you want a shower. We picked up the younger kids from school, then got Princess from v-ball practices.. came home cooked dinner ate outside, played a bit out there and then started the fire and kept it going till after midnight.. a few of the kids(as in Jr High age boys) in the neighborhood saw the fire and stopped by a bit.. it was fun.. That night the boys stayed in the tent and us girls came in the house.. Not because we don't like camping but goodness it was cold and even with the little heater out there it was freezing.. and Sweet Pea was still sick and on and antibiotic so I didn't want her out freezing at night, and Princess didn't want to stay out if we weren't going to. It must had been too cold for the men also because about 4am I heard them dragging pillows and blankets into the house and camping in the living room.

#6 Sept 5, 2009

Saturday my plan was to clean my bedroom it really needed it and it was an all day job. Though we did all sleep in until close to 10am ate breakfast and I got started right away on the room.. while DH kept the kids company and out of my hair. He made us lunch and I took a break from the room to eat lunch and then went right back at it.. I got done around 4pm and was in need of another shower LOL.. I did get clear out 5 trash bags(the big 30 gal. size ones) of stuff out of my room, 3 of them went into the trash and 2 of them I still have sitting here waiting for me to take to the clothing bank. I almost forgot around 12:30pm Saturday I dropped Princess and her friend off in the next town over(about 5 minutes from my house) to go to hang out with a friend who lives there and walk around the festival that was going on in that town.. DH picked her up at that night around 9pm In the mean time we needed to get groceries the kids didn't feel like going, so they went to my grandma and about 5:30pm DH and I headed out to get groceries oh the exciting life we live dating at the walmart on Saturday night. We got home about an hour later, put the stuff away, DH cooked dinner(yes folks he cooked twice in one day LOL) and I went and picked up the kids from grandma. We ate dinner, the kids ate outside but it was already getting cold so I ate inside LOL.. Then around 8pm we started the fire but it was freezing out even with the fire so we only did a 2 hour fire and we all slept in the house Saturday night.

#7 Sept 6, 09

Sunday we got up and went to church after church we came home changed cloths.. dropped Princess off in the next town over at her friends house again where a big group of kids were spending the day at the festival there.. While the rest of us packed it up and headed into the town DH and I grew up in for there Labor day festival. We spent about 4 hours letting the kids ride rides and such then we headed over to my inlaws house and had dinner and visited a bit then went back out to the festival for another hour or so when it was time to leave to go back home and over to the town next to ours to pick Princess and her friends up. We got home at 9pm Sunday night and started a fire and had it going till after midnight.. it was much warmer out then it had been so the boys tried the sleep in the tent thing again, and this time made it all night.. I still didn't want Sweet Pea getting sicker so I kept her inside and princess came in also.

#8 Sept 7, 2009

Labor Day 09

We slept in that morning.. I don't think the guys made it in from the tent till close to 11am, so we had a late breakfast.. at 2pm DH took Princess and her friend to mine and DH's town we grew up in to the festival there... I planned to meet him there but Mr Man and Sweet Pea had friends going also and we had to take both cars(well van and a car) only Sweet Pea's friend wasn't able to leave till 4pm.. So the plan was leave at 4pm get back after 10pm since there were fireworks being shot off there at 9pm Things were going well we were all the the festival all the kid having fun riding rides with the friends they brought with them.. and my brother was there with his girlfriend and her son, who rode the rides with Little Man.. but at 6pm the skies turned black and it poured and poured and poured.. thankfully I was able to get everyone in to the van before it started to rain.. We waited it out about 40 minutes before I left the fair and headed to my moms(who lives one street over) Thankfully my mom doesn't mind alot of kids taking over her house LOL.. Mom fixed us all a pizza and homemade fries and we all ate dinner there. When 8pm rolled around and it was still raining we figured fireworks were going to be called due to rain and we headed home.. dropped off the 3 extra kids we had and got everyone into bed for the night..

#8 part 2 something I didn't mention that I wanted to share.. was that back in Feb 09 I found a lump of sorts under my left breast sort of around the bra line.. I had it looked at, at my yearly gyn. appt in March and the doctor told me it was nothing don't worry about it, so I stopped worrying about it.. well on Friday I was having alot of pain in that area.. That night I took my bra off and the lump which was the size of the end of a pencil eraser about that round and not something you could see you could only feel it.. had grown to about an inch and a half oval shape and it was a pinkish color on the skin and you could see it just by looking at it.. so I was just a little freaked out all weekend about that.. I'll tell ya all more about this in my #9.

#9.. Sept 8,2009

Got up got the kids off to school.. I was to work at one of the elementary schools this afternoon. but as I was driving home from dropping my kids off at there school I got a call asking me if I could be there as soon as I could.. I felt bad but I had to tell them the soonest I could be there wouldn't be till 11pm.. I had a full morning ahead of me.. Little Man had his open house for preschool where he got to meet his teachers which was at 9:30am and then Sweet Pea was to have a recheck on her ear infection and cold at 10:30am.. So I had to say the soonest would be 11am which was only an hour earlier then I was set to go in. They said thank you just try to make it there when I could. ONLY the 1st thing on my to do list was to call my doctor about the lump(which was still very tender and sore and growing) They said we can see you today at 10:20am but not in the office here in town, it would be at there office in the town next to our town.. I didn't know how I would pull this off so I asked if they could see me after 3:30 or on Wed.. and they said the 10:20am appt was the only time they could get me in this week with the doctor I wanted.. they could get me in with the other doctor..but I don't trust that doctor at all. So I took the 10:20am appt. and called Sweet Pea doctors office to see what I could do about changing her appt. They were wonderful as always and got her set up to go in at 4:40pm that evening. So at 9:30pm I drove across town to the preschool with Mr Man, stayed there till 10am and left to drop him off with DH and I got home didn't even turn off the van just dropped him off and took back off I only had 10 minutes at this point to get to the doctors.. I got there right at 10:20am but then had to wait and wait and wait in the waiting room.. it was 10:45am and I hadn't been called back yet.. I grabbed my cell phone and called the school I was to work at and told them I'm sorry(once again) but I was still sitting in the doctors office waiting room and there was no way I would make it by 11am ~sigh~.. The lump is a cyst of some sort, it is infected and needs to come out.. and to top it off it was my 3rd time in the office that my blood presser was high 140/90 so they are wanting to watch me for two weeks with me checking it twice a day charting it and I go back in for a recheck on that on the 22nd.. I got the times all set up for the cyst to be removed and tested also.. and I left the office at 11:20am.. I stopped by taco bell grabbed a taco ate it stopped at home to brush my teeth and use the restroom(less then a 5 min stop) and took off to work. I worked till 3:30pm and got home about quarter till 4. got the kids finished up with there homework(dh had picked them up from school and once I got home he went to bed) at 4:20pm we loaded up the van drove to the Jr High picked Princess up from v-ball pract. at 4:30pm and headed right to the kids doctors.. I had called ahead to see if I could get all of them there flu shot while I was there and had them all with me.. so they all were being seen, 3 just by the nurse and Sweet Pea by the doctor. ONLY when we got there the doctors were all way behind, not just my kids doctor but all of them.. we waited at least an hour in the waiting room.. and then longer back in the exam room. We didn't get home until 7pm. and DH had to leave for work at 7:30pm I had no time to get dinner ready or lunch packed for him.. So I ordered a pizza for dinner and packed him PB & J for work..

Princess, Mr Man and Little Man was able to get there flu mist while at the office.. but Sweet Pea was not.. she is worse now then she was back on the 4th when I had her in.. her ears while not red anymore both still have fluid behind the ear drum or something like that.. the graph they did on them are both still coming out flat line, on both ears.. and her cold had turned into Bronchitis and her left lower of her lung has fluid in it. will the fun never end.. ~sigh~ so she is now on a new A/B to clear up all the stuff not only the ears.. I was so tired this night I was sound asleep by 10pm and that is normally unheard off for me.

#10 Sept 9, 09

My oldest daughter was sure to point to me this morning at it was 09/09/09 she said at 9:09am she was going to yell "it is 909.09.09.09 in the middle of her class.. but I forgot to ask her if she did it LOL..

did the normal run everyone to school thing except.. I went in with Sweet Pea to ask if they could give her, her prescription cough med at 12:30pm which is her lunch.. forgetting that the school is not aloud to give anything to them.. if I want her to have it during school hours I have to be the one to take it in and give it to her even with a prescribed from the doctor sort of anything. So I left with medicine in hand.. loaded Little Man back into the car seat and headed on to the hospital where he had speech.. I did get an hour of reading in while sitting in the waiting room.. came back home and worked on some of his homework for speech and occupational therapy.. and then it was time to head back to the school to give Sweet Pea her med. next it was home to cook lunch for me and Little Man and I started cleaning the boys room.. and before you know it it was time to get the kids from school.. did the normal homework cook dinner pick up Princess from V-ball send DH off to work.. and I finished up the boys room pretty much I still have 4 bags of cloths I need to sort though and fix up there closet a bit better. Got all the kids to bed and sat down at the computer to type out my Thursday 13.. I have pictures to go along but I'm tired so this might not get pictures.

#11 Thursday Sept 10, 09

I might spend sometime crying.. Little Man goes to his very 1st day ever of preschool.. and seeing how he is my last baby ever.. there might be tears..

he will be gone for 2 1/2 hours in which time I plan to get the kitchen, dinning room, living room and bathroom all clean then pick him up from school.. eat lunch play with him a bit.. then start cleaning the girls room.. pick the kids up from school get there homework done quickly feed them food, take them over to my grandma(OH WAIT.. NO!!! dad and grandpa are going fishing tomorrow I won't have a babysitter during the game,eek!!) OK change in plan.. take them all with me to Princess's volleyball game.. which should be over at 7:30pm DH isn't making it to this one because he has to leave for work early again(which is was for over time but they just keep messing with hours something about saving energy or something I don't know what) I should get home close to 8pm get all the kids bathed and ready for bed.

#12 will be Friday Sept 11, 09

WOW has it really been 8 years already... :-(

I don't only remember 9/11 on this day.. but my grandfather passed away on Sept 9 that year and his viewing was on 9/11 and his funeral was 9/12.. I really do miss my grandpa.. and it has been 8 years.. He never got to meet Sweet Pea but he knew i was PG with her, and Little Man wasn't even thought of.

This day is going to be a busy one.. I have an inspector from the gas company coming to check out my furnace at water heater.. he is also going to check the insulation in the house and the windows and doors to see what we can do to make the place more energy effishent.. which sounds all nice and dany for the eviorment.. but I'm just looking forward to way to save me money in my winter heating bills which right now are insain.. He is getting here at 8:30am and they said it should take about 3 to 5 hours for this.. somewhere in the middle I'll have to leave and let Barry stay home.. to take Little Man to his OT.. then maybe later friday night get groceries.. I don't know.. maybe do a fire in the fire pit friday night we will see.

This brings us to #13

Saturday Sept 12,09

THE BIG OSU game is on.. I plan to make DH hot wings and stuffed potato skins.. I was going to watch the game with him.. still might.. but those fireworks that got called off on monday they are going to be shooting them off saturday night insteed.. and the kids want to go see them.. so I might run them out to my parents town pick up my mom and head over to watch them.. we will see..

There ya have it folks what I have been up too and what I have coming up..

OH I forgot.. This coming Monday is when I go in to have this lump removed..

Happy Thursday ya'll... I guess I'll add pictures later on.. because it is after 11:45 and I need some sleep..

Weekend Recap June 26-28, 2009(camping and softball weekend)

Ok did I really ONLY post ONE time last week.. That is so unlike me.. but it is summer and I'm never home anymore.. think we spent every day last week at the pool and at ball parks in the evening.. so just no time for posting.. But I'm going to do the weekend recap and then maybe later in the week if I get some time share with you all some other stuff from the month of June.. but ONLY if I can find the time LOL.
This weekend was another softball tournament weekend.. ONLY this weekend we also camped out and not just in our yard.
Friday June 26, 2009
We had planned on leaving 1st thing in the morning to go camping but it poured Thursday night and DH wasn't feeling well at all on Friday morning so we debated back and forth if we were going to call it off.. Around 1PM DH said I can feel sick here at home or there in a tent and I thought that would me I would rather be in air condition and in my own bed when I feel sick.. but NO to him it meant pack it up we are leaving..
We loaded up the van and took Mr Man over to my parents house where he was staying because he wanted to go fishing on the boat Saturday over camping and softball. and then we were off..
We got the main tent set up and I got the taco meat I had made at home and then froze into the crock pot.. and we blew up the beds and got everything looking nice inside the tent.. and then it was time for Princess to head off to her 1st softball game.. the fields were only 5 minutes away from the campground, which made things really nice.. IT was sooooooooooo hot so I thought I would stay back at the camp and send DH and Princess to her game, while I took Little Man and Sweet Pea to the beach to swim.. We spent about two hours maybe two and a half hours at the beach.. then came back and showered and while we were showering, Princess and DH got back from the game.. At that point we set up the screen tent and I got the rest of the stuff ready for dinner, It was a late dinner but it was a yummy dinner of taco salad. While we were eating the kids heard the ice cream truck so we let them get something, they loved that. Then we build a fire sat by it for a while and called it a night around 11pm.

Saturday June 27, 2009
the younger kids woke me up about 8am so I got up and got them breakfast, while DH and Princess slept till about 9pm when they got up and ate.. We spent the morning laying around and relaxing.. took a little hike on a trail next to our campsite and then loaded it up and was at the ball field by 11am. There was a nice little playground there so I took the kids there to play until Princess's game started.. Her game didn't get underway till 12:30pm at which time we went and watched it.. they won.. she had a little break between games where we all went and sat under the shade and ate lunch.. then we went back and watched the 2nd game which we won also. They only had two games on Saturday and we were done by 4pm.. we took a little drive and waded in a river and then went back to the campground.. Princess had brought one of the other girls from the team to stay with us Saturday night.. It was still hot and sunny so we changed and went back down to the beach for about 2 1/2 to 3 hours.. came back to camp showered and made a firer because dinner that night was going to be pizza pies done over the firer with the camp cooker pie making things.. The kids got ice cream again and had some fun at the playground near our campsite.. then we sat by the firer again, the kids all went to bed around 11pm but DH and I stayed out by the fire till after midnight, then we went to bed.
Here is a slide show of our hike and at the playground.

Here is one of the ball games and our lunch time

and here is one after the games.

Sunday June 28,2009

Princess and friend had to be at the ball field by 8am for there 9am game.. DH took them.. I woke up not feeling all that well, seem to have caught what DH had on Friday.. blah..........

so I stayed back at the campground with the younger two.. who slept till 9am then I got up and made them bacon and eggs and we got dressed and started tearing down stuff and packing stuff.. all while I had to keep running to the bathroom..so not fun.. Dh and Princess came back and we got everything loaded right before it started to rain.. We drove to my parents house and picked up Mr Man.. who was not happy because on the way home from fishing Saturday right as they were trying to get the boat back into the drive way they took a turn wrong and hit a tree with the driver side window of the boat and now there is no telling when that mess will be cleaned up(there is ton of glass everywhere in the boat) and when they will be able to have it fixed if they can have it fixed.. so no fishing anytime in the near future. We came home.. unloaded all the camping stuff.. and took Princess and her friends to there youth group picnic and DH took Mr Man and Sweet Pea to a wrestling pay per view at bw3. while Little man and I took a nap and didn't wake up till after 7pm.. spent the rest of the evening just relaxing till I went back to bed. and that was our weekend.

here are a few pics Princess took from the youth group picnic.

Weekend Recap Fathers Day weekend 2009

WOO HOO I'm so excited... I have been trying all day long(Monday June 22, 09) to load pictures into blogger and it wouldn't let me.. and here it is 11:51PM and I was able to get the last of Sunday night pictures loaded. It only took me *14* hours. grrrrrrrrrrr blogger..
I'm not going to load anymore the rest of the weekend pictures I'll just make into slide shows.

OK it's weekend recap time again.. since I'm tired and really ready to throw the computer out the window due to blogger acting up.. I'll make this short and sweet.
Friday June 19, 2009
Day one of another softball tournaments for Princess. The fields were about an hour and forty five minutes from out house.. Sweet Pea spent Friday night with my Grandma and Grandpa while the boys went to my parents house (luckily for us it was on the way) so we dropped them off and had to be at the fields by 4:30pm for a 5:30pm game.. Here is a slide show from the game on Friday night

After the game went back to my parents house picked up the boys and took them over to my IL's house(a block or so away from my parents) DH, Princess and I were going to spend the night there because it meant sleeping in an extra half hour in the morning. Princess had a 9:30 in the morning game on Saturday and had to be at the field at 8:30pm so cutting 30 mins off a 1 hour and 45 min trip sounded good to me. when Little Man was getting sleepy we took the boys back to my parents house where they were going to spend the night since they didn't want to go to the games on Saturday. But about 10pm we got a phone call saying there was going to be at least an hour delay on Saturday games because of rain.. and DH told me to pack it up we were going home, he would much rather sleep in his own bed since we wouldn't have to wake up as early so we got home about 11pm and was on the road at 7:45AM come the morning.

Saturday June 20, 2009
Happy belated birthday to my niece(DH's older brothers girl) Big E. who turned 13 on this day.

like I mentioned we were on the road by 7:45am Princess had a 10:30AM game then a 1:30pm game and the last game of the day was at 4:30pm it rained on and off a bit in the morning so all the games were running even farther behind then this.. so it was more like a 10:30 game then a 2pm and a 5pm game. Princess pitched Friday night game, and the last two games of Saturday(all 7 inning games so by Saturday night she had in 21 innings of pitching) Here is the slide show from Saturday game time.

We found a place to stay Saturday night with in walking distant of the fields so we wouldn't have to do the drive again, but mostly because Princess had to be there at 7am on Sunday morning. Our 2nd baseman S. spent the night with Princess and they went swimming in the pool in there sliding shorts and ball shirts LOL, then we got a bit to eat and then the girls went back to the fields and played at the park till it was time to walk back to the hotel and get ready for there early morning game. here are a few pictures of them at the park.

I was so tired that night I think I was asleep before midnight.

Sunday June 21, 2009
Happy fathers day..
DH took the girls over to the park at 7am I didn't bother heading over till 8am game time.. It was a good game even if I was tired. We won and advanced to the next round which game wasn't starting till 11:30am So we went back to the room, I hit the breakfast bar there and then packed our stuff.. and we checked out and had Princess back at the ball park at 10:30am Another great game only we lost and that was the end of the tournament for us.. Princess pitched both of these games also and they went all 7 innings, So she pitched 5 out of the 6 games and pitched all 7 innings of each game. she was throwing good, and not only that her sticks were hot also this weekend.. Good weekend for my girl..
Here are the pictures from Sunday Games.

We loaded up the van said our good byes till next weekend and headed home.. Picked up the younger 3 who were all over at my grandparents house along with my parents for fathers day.. Stayed there for a bit talking and wishing my daddy a happy Father Days.. then came home and gave DH all his fathers day gifts.. the kids came up with the idea to chip money and by there daddy a fire pit.. It's nothing extremely big but it was all there idea and I didn't even have to go out and pick it up, Mr Man picked it out and bought it himself while out shopping with my parents one day and the rest of the kids chipped in there part after he got it.. He is such a Sweetie I tell ya.. So Sunday night we threw up the tent and had a campfire and sleep out in the yard.. we were out sitting around the firer till midnight Little Man and Princess did not make it that long, think they were both out before 10:30pm

Even our cat pulled himself up a chair and enjoyed the fire ;-)

And that was how we spent fathers day weekend 2009

T13 and Weekend Recap part 2

Today I'm going to combined part two of our Memorial day weekend along with my T13 post..

So Here it is 13 things I did on Saturday and Sunday May 23 & 24 2009

Saturday May 23, 2009

1) we got up and dressed and then took Princess, her friend K.D. and Little Man and went off on a hunt.. A hunt for a new tent.. Our tent is pushing 9 years old and both the front and back door zippers are acting up or not working at all So we are in need of a new tent if we plan to do any real camping, which I really hope to do a lot of this summer. Only we can't seem to find a tent as big as the one we had for around the same price we paid or a tad bit more.. The stores we seem to have checked don't carry tents that big and the ones that do want more then I'm willing to pay for a tent. Our tent now is 20 x 13 and about 6 1/2 or 7 foot tall in the center. Anyways we had no luck on our hunt Saturday morning :-(

2)Since we were up by the lake on our camping tent hunt we told little Man he could play on the beach.. So while I got some rays he got to play in the sand.. Sand wasn't such a good idea for Princess and her broken toe.. we would have never got all the sand out of her post op. shoe she has to wear to walk right now.. and if she took it off and tried to walk in the sand she would have done a lot more damaged to her toe.. So they called a few friends from there youth group who lives in that area and was going to see if they wanted to hang at the park next to the beach.

3) It turns out that there friends were at a festival and that festival was right next to the beach.. So Princess and her friends hung out there while Little Man got to play in the sand.

4)After cleaning off the sand and meeting back up together we went for ice cream and then we took K.D. home and Princess went to hang out with some other friends for a couple of hours and Little Man went to take a walk and ride bikes over at my grandmothers house.

5) while all of that was going on, Mr Man and Sweet Pea was still with my parents and they had taken out my Grandpa's boat for a test drive.. Grandpa bought the boat in November with big hopes of fishing all summer long, but now he has changed his mind and figured a 76 1/2 year old man, really can't get the boat in and out of the lake and shouldn't be out in the middle of the lake alone fishing anyways.. so he is selling it.. But my Dad, Mom and the kids thought they would give it a test run make sure everything works on it before they threw the for sale sign on it.

6) Since all my kids were busy doing fun things without me, LOL.. DH and I was able to have a nice dinner alone which was really nice and time to talk and hang out.. after dinner we went and picked up Little Man and Princess and her friends G.S and the boyfriend(who as of today is the ex boyfriend again.. I can't keep up with these kids on again off again stuff)

7) DH stayed home with Little Man and got him to bed, while I went with The BF(or ex BF) and Princess and her friend G.S. to the drive-in about 40 minutes away from us to see Night at the Museum 2(great show and I plan to take the younger 3 when it comes to the drive in here in town).. We only stayed for the 1st movie since there was church the next day. This is the line to get into the drive-in theater, It was a mad house.

Sunday May 24, 2009

8) Went to church Sunday morning. After church Mr Man, Sweet Pea, and Little Man went back to my parents house for a cook out, swimming and s'mores making (they were spending the night again with grandma since grandma wanted them and her pool was ready and warm for swimming) Princess and her friend G.S. went over to my grandma's house for the afternoon to hang out with a group of there friends who all live around grandma's block and from there Princess's friend K.D.'s mom was picking them up at 3:30pm to take them to there small group Bible study and to youth group that night.

9) since i was childless again DH and I thought we would have a nice date day of sorts.. Only for the 1st little bit we would have to drive two cars since I was the mom bring the kids home from youth group that night PLUS we were picking up a bit of lawn and garden stuff for our self and for my grandparents wasn't sure if we would have the room for it all in just the van.. So we stopped at the store we needed to get the supplies from and left DH's car there and then he took me out to lunch.

10) then we took a drive to the lake were we sat on the shore holding hands and walking and talking, it was beautiful at the lake that day, not hot but not too cold either.

11) after we left the lake we went and got the top soil and flowers and stuff that I needed and

12) next we headed over to the Chapel to get the kids from youth group. K.D. was having a party that night and I knew I would have the 4 girls that normally ride with us plus a few.. but when a group of 10 teenagers came out and tried to all fit into my van I was very happy that we had DH's car also.. so we divided them up(both boys and girls) and two guitars and sleeping bags and over night bags and such into both the car and the van and drove them all over to K.D.'s house where the boys were leaving at 10pm and the girls were spending the night.

13) after that we stopped by grandma's and unloaded her stuff and then came home unloaded ours and sat down just in time to watch the Cavs play off game(boy they need to start playing better or it is over..)

So there you have it My Saturday and Sunday of this past weekend.. and my Thursday Thirteen post all rolled into one.

tomorrow I'm hoping to have my Memorial day post up and ready.. if not it will come sometime over the weekend ;-P