More bday.................

Ok, I'm back. The sirens were going off as I'm writing this. We have Tstorm warnings and a tornado warning for part of our county.

Maddy also got Pet Shops (which she is very excited) and a Pet Shop carrier, 3D sidewalk chalk. She was a tired bday girl by the end of the night! A fun bday!!

In and around us tonight, we are in the midst of 5 storms going through, all of which are producing tornados. There are 2 storms that have blown thru here that are now tornadic. There was a picture of a funnel cloud here in Loveland. The storm over us is now stalled and swirling back to include a couple more towns by us. We're all in the basement hanging out, planning our day tomorrow!! We've had softball size hail-as our cars are out =( Our new roof is getting a work out!

Happy 6th Birthday Madison!!!

My baby girl is 6!!!! How can that be? She celebrated her bday for 2 days =) Tuesday when Katie was over at our neighbor Jenny's house, we took Maddy, Katie and Max to McD's to play and celebrate Maddy's bday. Katie is Maddy's very best friend that lives in the neighborhood. It was a bit muggy and hot and looked like rain, otherwise the park was Plan A. We went to Shooter's for dinner to celebrate early. Brent had a baseball game on Wed.

Wednesday for her bday, we celebrated in her classroom. We went to Brent's game then to UDF for ice cream cones!! They have awesome ice cream! All kinds of flavors and cones. We came home and Maddy got to open her presents. She rec'd HSM nightgown and shirt AND the MOVIE!! She loves it! She also likes Fancy Nancy. Gma & Gpa went to Gma and my favorite Troll Bead store-Busy Bee and bought some cute girly stuff for Maddy's room. We had cupcakes to celebrate! Maddy could hardly wait thru all of Brent's game to get home to celebrate! It was worth the wait! Happy Birthday my baby doll!!

Hayley horse back riding

We took the Girl Scout troop horseback riding. Hayley was unsure at first. Can't say I blame her since she looks so little on that huge horse! She had fun time. They played 'red light, green light' on the horses! The girls learned how to groom the horses and with what tools, their feed they eat and how much they poop a day! Hayley and I are finished with Girl Scouts. We need to cut back activities and see what fun after school activities she can be involved in at school this fall.

Gma & Gpa pulled in here last Friday around 9:30pm. Great timing for them!! We were all glad to see them! We've had fun going out to eat, house hunting =), the kids' ball games, and hanging out at home and chatting. We've had 'girl time' and 'boy time' and it's fun to chat about gal stuff, flowers, books, etc. I'm glad it's a relaxing get away for them. Tomorrow we're going to Ky to Mammoth Cave and do some sight seeing.

Our neighborhood pool opened last weekend. We've been down twice now and the kids have a blast! Hayley, Brent & Maddy have goggles and sinkers and they all are fish and love to go under water and play! Maddy can actually touch this year in the shallow end. We'll be spending endless hours this summer down there!!

This week is busy with Fun Day's at Brent & Maddy's school, Hayley has a school picnic on Thursday and Brent has a picnic on Friday and Hayley's class has a play on Friday too.

Hayley went to the ortho last week and she will be getting her full set of braces July 8th!

More pic's

Brent & Zachary-they attend our church and Scott & his dad Jason are friends. Hayley & Katie-they are on the same softball team and Katie is our neighbor a few doors down. And then Maddy with her licorice!

Reds game

We went to the Reds game last night. It was alot of fun and they won 5-1! It cooled down to 70 degrees when the sun went down-it was a great night to be out! They shoot off fire works when there's a homerun hit.

It's awesome to be in the open stadium. That's the Ohio River and across it is Kentucky.

Catch Up!!

Wow-I can't believe it's been 2 wks since an update! Let's see, what's new...........sports, school, fun. I chaperoned Brent's class to the science museum. Very fun. We saw Dinosaurs at the Imax. Cool, but made me a bit queasy. Brent loved it though! We had lunch and walked around the Natural History section. It went quick as the kids' attention wasn't there for seeing some old relics. Just been busy with games just about every night and Sat & Sunday's.

I had a good Mother's Day. We pulled out 3 bushes and planted some flowers and sod. We were outside most of the day and grilled steak-YUM!

Hayley had 2 girls from class over last Saturday to decorate flip flops, play Wii and just hang out and have fun. Hayley's toe is just about healed. She bumped it last weekend and it seemed to bleed but it's been doing great. She's been playing outfield and catching in softball.

Wednesday I volunteered in Maddy's room and as I left, the office called for me to come down. At am recess, Brent had fallen flat on his back. He was climbing and the playground was slightly wet since it had been raining in the am. He slipped and fell and had the wind knocked out of him but it seemed to be more than that as he was saying his chest hurt. He was trying to hold back the tears. I took him home and we went to the dr for xrays and he's ok, just bruised. It hurt him to breath deep. He took it easy the rest of the day.

Wednesday some neighbor girls and I went out for our Girl's Night out which used to be Bunco. We went out to eat-bison burgers and appetizers. We watched Idol-poor Danny was voted off! The kids couldn't believe it! I came home and Maddy had a cruddy yucky cough so she stayed home Thursday. I'm glad she did because she ended up with a fever and slept all afternoon. Friday was TLC which Kindergartner's have the day off so she had another day to relax. She's better now, just a little cough left.

Brent and Hayley had games yesterday and Hayley again today. This week it's more games and we're going to the Reds game on Wednesday for a fundraiser for Loveland softball/tball/baseball.

Grandma & Grandpa are coming on Friday for 2 wks! The kids have their countdown started! They'll be here for Maddy's bday and to celebrate Father's Day and see the kids' games, end of school parties, etc. The kids have 2-3 days more because of the extra 'calamity' days as they call it from the storm last fall and snow days.

Well, I must run, Scott is home with dinner. A late one tonight! Here are pic's of Brent at baseball.

She's BACK!

WOW! Hayley played in her softball game yesterday!!!!! YEAH! She's been bummed that she can't play. Her toe has healed so much even since Tuesday's Pod. appt. And she did AWESOME on the field!! Her first at bat she hit a line drive thru 2nd baseman and shortstop. Everyone cheered her on as this is her first hit of the season!! She made it home as the girls can steal bases this year. Her 2nd at bat, she was hit with the pitch so it's an automatic to 1st base. The ball grazed her shirt enough to move it but I don't think it hit her or at least not very hard. She was so happy! She stopped a couple ground balls and backed up the shortstop. Hayley is glad to be back in 2 shoes! She's using my glove this year! How funny is that? I've attached the lastest pic of her toe. I can't believe how much it's healed!!

We went to church yesterday and off to Hayley's game. After Hayley's game we went and played family softball at a field near us.

Happy Anniversary-12 years this year! Love you hubby!! We went out to eat after our family game-we had wings and ice cream to celebrate!!

Saturday Brent had baseball pic's and Hayley had a game. It was after that that we decided maybe we'd let her play since her toe looked great. We grilled cheeseburgers for dinner-YUM and watched a movie.

Friday I went to Granny's garden sale (thru school) and bought some flowers, picked Hayley up at school and went to a carnival to raise money for a fellow 4th grade girl that was diagnosed with leukemia earlier this year.