Busy weekend awaits us.

I just made my weekend plans list and oh boy are we busy!!! I'm afraid I have added to the stress level by deciding that today would be the day we paint the Living Room.
It looks a little like this

Today: Joint Compound the nail holes and paint the living room (if Ian feels like going to Home Depot to get the paint)
Tonight: My guys are testing for High Blue-YAY!!! (Tae Kwon Do for those of you who are lost :) )
Tomorrow: Try a Zumba class at the Y
Sunday: Church, the I'm hosting a Taste of Home party at 2, the we are having a birthday party for my sister's little one, then we have to take Megan to Choir and Youth.

Sheesh!!!

Back to reality

My weekend retreat was FANTABULOUS. I have the best girlfriends! Now I know you're probably thinking "No way I have the best girlfriends" but I'll have to argue with you and say "Nope I do!". We laughed so hard our abs hurt.

We did actually scrap. I got 24 pages done. But the best was Heather she scrapped over 400 pictures! She left with 3 huge albums completed-WAY TO GO!!!

I would post pictures but they're all on Wendy's camera :)

We want to make this a yearly trip it really reenergized us but by Sunday at 3 we were all ready to come home and see the kidlets. They were missed terribly.

I told DH last night "Thanks for letting me go" he said "Sure anytime" so I told him "How about next weekend" he didn't answer :)

Heading to the beach!

The best thing about my DH is that he understands the importance of my "girlfriend" time. Ofcourse if you ask him he'll say "What choice do I have" but he does and he understands it. I am heading to Hilton Head this weekend with 4 girlfriends (hopefully 5 if D can get out of work early) and we are going to scrapbook. Oh boy I am carrying a lot of stuff (I hope everyone else is too or I'm going to look like a total space hog :) ). I have printed the pictures for 21 layouts (basically 42 pages) I really hope I can do it.

I'm off to get ready! Have a wonderful weekend!

This child can sleep anywhere!

The littlest blueberry is such a nut. He is wide open all the time but if goes down for a nap he sleeps hard and where he falls asleep is where he stays :)

This is how is looks in his "wide open" stage running around like a crazy man. :)


And a little while later he sat down to watch Veggie Tales and he was down for the count :)
Even having an Oreo face didn't phase him.
And yes he is hanging off of the couch upside down sleeping. This was at 12:30 a.m when he finally crashed.
And yesterday he was sleeping standing up leaning on the couch (yes I did get pictures but they are still in my camera) :)

The internet, it's a great thing!

What did we do without the internet? Our co-op is starting on Friday and I am teaching a US Presidents and First Ladies Class. I stumbled across a blog (I was following link after link so I would post it but I truly can't remember where I was-LOL you blog stalkers know how that goes :) ). At any rate I have been looking for a printout of the Presidential Seal and came up with an entire Unit Study!

I realize in planning this class I miss Unit Studies. You see we went through a time where I had the need to unschool the biggest blueberry and we did Unit Studies all year long. It was so fun and she really learned a lot. Hopefully through this class and lapbooking these kids will learn a lot too.

She had a great time!

I forgot to post an update when the biggest blueberry came home! The first thing she said when she got off the bus was "Did you miss me" I told her yes terribly she then said "Well I didn't miss you!" hmph.... darn teenager





While we were waiting the boys went to play on the playground. I decided to play a bit in Aperture Priority Mode. Usually I am a little to shaky and they are blurry but these turned out great!



This is my favorite of the day of the middle blueberry he cracks me up!


And this is the littlest blueberry in the car waiting for his sister. Next time I'll change my focus point and get the mirror clear and the back of his head blurry.

Sigh she's growing up.

I need to face it my baby girl is asserting her independence.

Our church has an awesome youth group that she got involved with over the summer. All summer they talked about Awanita. Awanita is a HUGE Christian Campground that is an awesome experience (I went to Awanita 23 years ago-shocking isn't it!). Here is their website www.Awanita.org they have TONS to do ( alot more than when Mommy went)so I know she'll have a good time, but we don't even do sleepovers at our house so for her to be gone 3 days and 2 nights is a REALLY big deal! The one thing I didn't count on was how much we would miss her-even her brothers are ready for her to come. Here are some pictures.

Getting her stuff out of the van:




Mom quit taking my picture!!!


My shy child took the path of least resistance and sat right behind the driver (poor little homeschool kid doesn't realize you go to the back of the bus-LOL)



Here is how they left. There are a total of 120 kids going and hopefully between 2 and 3 o clock today we'll see this big bus pulling into the church parking lot bringing back our precious little (okay okay BIG) girl!