deja vu??

so here i sit... yet again.

same senario...

it is muggy hot out, i'm procrastinating and we are leaving to go camping in a few hours... and guess what?? yep. not. ready.

ugh.

School Days

school days are fast approaching around here. in just two weeks and two days Trevor will be starting school as a full fledged KINDERGARTNER!! wow.

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this won't be, however, the first time he is in this school nor will it be the first time he goes to school for a full day or a full week. he went to pre-school last year at the same school, and he was there for the same hours as the elementary school schedule.

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BUT he didn't ever go one full week, only because I thought it was way too much for him. he was little. he has 13 years of school ahead of him now... so why add an extra year if it isn't necessary. he had a good time some days, but most he didn't want to go and it was always some sort of problem while there. (hopefully they are getting all the kinks worked out and it will get better ~ last year was the first year they did the integrated pre-school program) so this is going to be a change. 5 days a week, full days too. but I think he will handle it just fine, in fact I know he will do better with it than I will.

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I'm going to miss him. I really am. and it is worse if I know he isn't having a good time and I'm questioning how he is being treated there, so hopefully he will LOVE it, like he is leaning towards already without even going yet, and things will run smoothly for us. He is going to have a really great teacher regardless of who they give him, I have heard rave reviews about them all from different people. and he is anxious to go.

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I don't share with him, just how much I'm going to miss him. how the house will be so much quieter with out him here. although it sometimes gets under my skin, I'm going to desperately miss all the motorcycle and motocross bike noises and the other silly noises he makes all day long. I'm going to miss him playing with his sisters, and helping out with the dog and most of all I'm going to miss just getting to see his big smile that lights up his beautiful eyes all day, and his great hugs and kisses that I get randomly through out the day. he is my mush.

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so we have two weeks and two days to do some really fun and great things. this weekend we are going camping. so that is good. then sometime this week and next i want to get some time in at the parks. we haven't done any of the local playgrounds this summer. i guess just too busy with camping and doing some other things, but I know they all enjoy them, so we are going to try to get to those. even if we wait till Bryan gets home and we do them then, that will be a little less time but a lot more fun. he likes to chase them around and he goes down the slides and climbs all over with them too. ;)

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I was thinking of another picnic lunch today, we have done only two this summer (I know, I know... I'm a slacker!) but, it is supposed to rain today so that is out. unless we have one inside. that would work I guess. I could make them a blanket tent over the table and they could picnic under that. we did that before and they like it. ;)

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I have some things to do around here, of course... so I'm going to go do them while the kids play quietly together. Trevor & Lauren are in his room playing so nicely with his castle stuff and Brooke, who rarely watches tv, is glued to the tv. they were all up at 6:30 this morning, so maybe they are a little too tired to fight with one another just yet. lol

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as for me, I'm trying desperately to be a "good girl" so I can earn a trip to wal-mart to get the second, third and possibly the fourth book in the Twilight series... I'm dying for them... I finished the Twilight book last week, and I am almost loosing sleep over not having the next one in the series, but since I know I will just devour it... I want to get all three of them. I cannot wait. I dream about it... I dream about Edward and Bella, mostly Edward though.

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Leaving... On a Jet Plain

****UPDATE @12:22PM****

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Made Trevor's bed in camper.

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Made Lauren's & Brooke's bed in camper.

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Brought in more un-needed blankets.

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organized a few things of clothes in camper

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put away clean dishes from drainer, washed remaining dishes.

cleaned sink & counter

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cleaned suger glider cage

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put Lauren & Brooke in for a bath

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put blankets away in house from camper.

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****UPDATE @ 11:25 AM****

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Made three trips to the camper. am sweating like a friggen pig! Still have a least 748 more to go.

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Took some stuff to camper, i.e. pillows and two dolls for the girls.

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Took unneed because I am an over packer and need HELP! things from the camper... i.e. 18 blankets! someone please tell this woman it is SUMMER time! plus we have heat in the camper if need be!

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Took cooler up to the camper so I can load it in there once I get a chance to organize some more and clean the floor... which I may wait to clean the floor until we are there, and set up... it only will get dirty again with us taking bikes and cooler and tables and such out ~ CHECK! one less thing on my "To Do" list.

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still sweating like a pig, only a fatter pig now
Will be back soon.

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****UPDATE @ 11:03 AM****

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Took sheets and bedding off of clothes line (because before I started this list I had hung out two loads of laundry to dry, b/c I had stripped my bedding so we will come home to nice clean linens)

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Sprayed mattress with Clorox spray, and pillows too! Made bed. Put pillows to take out to camper. (haven't gotten there yet)

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Cleaned table and chairs in dinning room from girls' having breakfast.

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Gave Trevor some breakfast, he just wanted some NOW... I have been asking him all morning long.

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Dumped cat litter outside, and cleaned litter pan, then sprayed it with Clorox spray and put new litter in it.

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Gave the cat nice full bowl of dry cat food.

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Washed hands.

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****UPDATE @ 10:46 AM****

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Put away dish drainer FULL of dishes, and washed sink OVER flowing with dirty dishes, soaking dishes that wouldn't fit in the dish drainer.

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Also Clorox sprayed the toilet, door knobs, garbage & light switches in the bathroom, just for good measuer!!

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Had the kids bring out their pillows so I can pack them in the camper... which is soon to be my next dreaded chore.

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Off to do more hellish, because I procrastinate chores!
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Be back in a little bit with more updates!!
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****UPDATE @ 10:25 AM****

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So Bryan is going to be coming home earlier than he normally does... which normal time is about 4:30 or so. Which means I have even less time than I orginally was obnoxiously procrastingating about planning on. UGH.

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But good news!! So far I have totally cleaned the entire bathroom... sink, counter, toilet, shower and floor... that is one thing knocked out of the way... and only 3,742 things left to go! :-) I'm doing perty darn good!!

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Okay... we aren't going on a jet plain, but we are leaving. As soon as Bryan gets home from work, showered, dressed and hooks the truck up to the camper... or as soon as my parents get home from work and are ready to go too, I'm not sure which yet.

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BUT we are going camping again this weekend... not to far and no where really special, just a nice campground with a brook that runs through it... and a pool and some property we can hike and have a great picnic lunch. :)

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I'm going to try to go get everything done that I was supposed to do all week long and put off till today... and then maybe I will be back to post some pictures of the Rascal Flatts & Taylor Swift concert that was at Bethel Woods right here in my own backyard... Bethel, NY (the town I live in).

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But, I really need to get a move on... I have nothing packed. The camper is not cleaned from the last trip, and I have a messy house that I need to get in order and clean up so we don't come back home to a messy house. :P UGH!!

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Wish me luck!

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xoxoxox

$800 Stroller...

Stephanie... this is our stroller... while we were at Knoebels. :) I have some better pics of just the stroller when we first got it last year... I just have to find them. They are burried some where deep in the photo collection I have in my computer...

This was what entertained Brooke & Lauren while Bryan and Trevor were off doing HUGE roller coasters!! :)

The first day we got there it was raining... but we still took the kids to the park... it is kind of wooded here and there and also there are things to stand under almost every where you go... so we just toughed it out... I knew the kids were anxious to see everything. Plus it was so hot out... and it was a really fine rain... we didn't get too soaked. :)

This is the girls waiting in their stroller while Bryan and Trevor did one of the Flume rides they have.

Brooke & Lauren, once again in the stroller the day we took them to the pool. They had been in the kiddie pool/play area then they were in the big pool... and this was on our way to a big ball pit and slide... we were once again waiting for Bryan and Trevor to do this big climbing thing... that the girls wanted to do... but were too little for. :(

More pictures and more on our trip to come...

So In-LOVE!!

So yes, of course I'm so in-love with my son... and my daughters to be exact!! But, I have a confession, I'm also in-love with Picnik!

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This is an older picture of Trevor from 2 summers ago, and I just did some touch up work on it and added the awesome border and the 1boy2girls.com.

I love how this came out. I also did a picture of the three kids together, but I'm not as crazy about it as this one.

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I'm going to hopefully get the pictures from my camera to my computer from camping and also now the fair and then I can post some "fancy" pictures of them.

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Anyway... there are a million and one things I should and need to be doing around the house today and not one of them are to be playing on the computer or to be messing with pictures. But oh well.

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If I find some extra time while the kiddos nap, I'll be back with more pictures and maybe some more of our camping trip.

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I also have to add to it now our trip the Doctor for Trevor yesterday and also going to the county fair with the kids and other family last night.

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Toodles~

T M I

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I guess I'll just start with our little camping trip, and see how far I get.

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We left at 10 am on Sunday and drove about 2 1/2 hours, stopped to have lunch at Cracker Barrel, which was so packed there wasn't even any parking for big trucks or trucks with travel trailers, so we decided it would take a long time to get food and since we had three kids that were just in the car for a long ride, we didn't think sitting at a table for a long time waiting for food was a smart move... although we all really LOVE Cracker Barrel.

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We head out...

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We go through the intersection and are in a mall parking lot that has Wendy's and Burger King... so we all decide on BK. We go in... there is a line. A LONG line. We figure out every one's order. My dad and Bryan get on the NEVER ending line, and... they wait. and they wait some more. and they WAIT even longer. I'm pretty sure if it was just Bryan on the line we would have left. My dad has a lot more patients and also there weren't too many more options of where to go eat.

The kids were playing nicely in the playroom they had there, and I actually let them. It was more like a mini arcade than a germ infested playground. I was still cringing some, but not totally freaking out. (I hate when my children want to go on the coin operated rides in the mall or at the grocery store, or go into playgrounds at fast food places ~ they are disgusting!!) Anyway, we waited well over 1/2 an hour.

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FINALLY... after two trips to the bathroom, a trip to check the dog and give her water, and Brooke ripping the skin off the top of her foot with the door to the "play area"...

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WE. GOT. OUR. FOOD!

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It was a miracle. And since we waited so long... the kids ate like little champs, like they hadn't been feed in days!

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There were no explanations or apologies for why or what took so long, no free coupons given out or anything... but we didn't care, we finally got to eat so we could get back on the road and get to the camp ground. :)

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So there it is... the first part of our trip. I will be back to con't on with when we got there and all... and then day one, day two and day three and then finally day four and our trip home.

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Also, I just have to mention that last night I had a great night out with JUST THE GIRLS!! I know. I know... how did that happen, right?? Well it happened because, Heather and I made plans to meet up with our other BFF Elizabeth who we haven't seen in a few months.

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It was awesome!! It ended up being Heather, Jillian and myself going to meet her, and we had a great time!! We shopped some in the mall and then went to dinner at Friday's and then after we were there for a while we went to Cheeseburger in Paradise and had chocolate nachos!

DAMN those are good!! Sinfully good!!

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WE had some drinks and most of all some laughs!! We had a great time, then we drove back to Friday's were we had left Heather's car... and we sat in the car and watched my wedding video... Liz hadn't seen it yet.... it was so much fun!! I think we all need to do that once a month or something.

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I'm a little tired today because I didn't get home till about 2:45 AM, but it was one of the BEST nights!! We always have so much fun when we are together!! I wish that we lived closer to one another... but Liz isn't leaving Jersey and we aren't moving there either! lol

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I have some pics and I could probably post some more about our awesome adventure... maybe another day!

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xoxoxo

This time...

This time tomorrow... we will be on the road! yay!!

I am excited to go. We are going camping. We have a new camper, we go it last year but it is a 2008. It makes camping with three children a lot more reasonable and FUN!!

We did the whole tent thing... we even did it with THREE kids... we set it up... it RAINED and poured and the wind was terrible. We stood outside in the pouring rain, with the wind making it BEAT on us like bee bees and tried to hold our tent together so it wouldn't get wet.


It got wet.

We were obviously soaked.

We set everything out to dry and cleaned up the mess.

Everything dried. We put it all back in. We had a good night. All three kids slept pretty well.

We camped we had fun. We had another storm the third night there.

It rained, it poured the wind was horrible.

We stood in it and tried to hold our tent together so it wouldn't get wet.

IT. GOT. SOAKING WET.

A - G - A - I - N !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We were cold and soaking wet again too!

It was NOT FUN!!

We got it all dried out and dried up. Put everything back in and it went well. The kids slept well and we had a good camping trip! :)

The next year....

We... BOUGHT a camper!! YAY!! now this is really FUN!!! :)

I love it. You can pack stuff and leave it packed... when we camped in the tent I had to constantly pack and un-pack EVERYTHING we took each time... now we have things that are just for camping that stay in the camper.

BUT... there is still packing, cleaning and organizing... all of which I'm supposed to be doing ...

RIGHT. NOW!!

I have some of it packed... and some of it cleaned... like 1/300th of it... done. Yeah. Not looking too good. Especially not with me sitting here at the computer. UGH!!

Worse part of all is that my kids... yeah those little cuties that I always talk about... they are BEING the BEST BEHAVED children in the entire UNIVERSE!! I swear. They have been playing so nicely with one another and watching some Disney Channel and eating cookies and drinking milk... so I should be getting EVERYTHING done lickity split...

NOPE.

I'm sitting here procrastinating ... MAJORLY!!

I suck.

I'm getting up.

I have to.

Bryan will be home at 3 and we have to go get groceries.

I think we are also getting some company later. I'm not sure.

I have 299% more to go with cleaning packing and organizing the house and the camper.

alright...

here. I. go.

Hitting publish... then getting up off my duff and doing something... I might be back to let ya'll know what I actually got done and the world record speed I didn't do it in. :)

have a great weekend all.

xoxoxo

Whirlwind Weekend!!

For sure!! We had one hell of a weekend!! ugh! I'm so tired but since I haven't posted here for a while I wanted to post about our weekend... also b/c I want to make sure I keep track of all this... I want to try to make a book for the kids about our summer adventures... like a real book with pictures and a story!! Maybe I will make a few about the different things we did... I'm not sure yet... it is just a raw idea still... but anyway... if I blog about it all then I will have some place to come reference when my mind bails out on me and leaves me to fend for myself.

So it all started with Thursday night I went over to my parents house again to visit with my mom and make sure she was feeling well... I was still concerned... and honestly still am. I have called her a few times every day just to check on her... she sounds okay, well actually she didn't sound good at all for a few days b/c she had NO voice... it is just coming back today... thank God... but she said she was feeling okay. I can tell by seeing her that she is a little bit sore... which I hate!! I want her to just be GREAT...but I know that is totally unrealistic... so anyway... I will deal with that since she is up and moving and feeling, I guess, the best that can be expected right now. She is even going into work tomorrow... driving herself... which means no pain meds... so I really hope she is okay. I told her I would drive her and pick her up... but she said she will be okay. I hope so. I can always go to get her if she doesn't feel well and would like to come home and doesn't feel like driving. :) So yeah... I'm still concerned and worried about how she is feeling... but I think that is normal. :)

Then Friday Bryan was home... so that was nice... we don't usually get any extra days with him being off... sometimes he will just work on the holiday just b/c things usually don't happen till later at night.. parties and stuff... but this one he actually stayed home. yay! He even cooked us all breakfast... eggs, sausage and toast!! Whatta good hubby and daddy!! :)

Then I went over to my parents house again to visit and see how my mom was doing... and just check in on everyone... my dad had gotten hit in the face last weekend while trying to fix a strut, he got hit pretty hard, it bruised up his face, and lip and cut him pretty good on his cheek bone... ugh... I was still worrying about him too...

Then I came home and Bryan took a nap... while the kids were napping too... so while that was going on... I got everything packed up for our first Fourth of July party this weekend!! I had to get the kids outfits ready for what they were going to wear there... the girls had new dresses that were sooo cute and Trevor had a new shirt... they all looked so cute in their red, white and blue... BUT I don't think I got any pictures!! DAMMIT!! I will have to dress them all in them again and get some... maybe this week... I can bribe them with candy... they are NOT too fond of pictures lately...ugh!! Oh well... anyway... so I got things ready... and then got the kids up and got them dressed then got Bryan up and we went to the grocery store first to pick up some soda for the party... which WOW the store was packed... it wasn't as bad as my last grocery store experience... which I still have to blog about... that one... well that one will have you peeing in your pants and totally agreeing w/ me about how horrible it is to grocery shop sometimes. lol
**(I promise to post about that grocery store trip this week!! It is good!!)**

Anyway... then we were off the the campground where all the local firemen camp... it is actually the fire departments campground... it is a good deal... $40 a month for a campsite with sewer, electric, cable, water, and I'm not sure what else... but it is fun to go and hang out... Bryan's mom has a camper that she leaves there all summer! Anyway.. the party was okay. Lauren and Brooke HATE fireworks!! They are scared to death of them... Lauren plugs her ears the ENTIRE time... and won't really look at them too much... and Brooke had a DEATH grip on me... which she tightened up every time a firework was set off... poor babies... I hope next year they enjoy them! But we'll see.

We went to the campsite after the fireworks and sat around the campfire for a little while then we packed up some very tired and cranky kiddos... they went from being GREAT to cranky pretty quickly... it was time to go. :)

Came home and threw all of them in bed... dirty feet and all. :)

Got up the next morning and started getting everything ready all over again for another Fourth of July party... this time it was at Bryan's Aunt's house... so I had to bring swimming stuff and extra clothes and the works so there was even more packing involved... and when I pack to go some where for an extended period of time... I pack like we are going on a weekend vacation. lol I have to bring extra clothes for all three kids... and then I need to bring warmer clothes for them for it gets chilly or if they are cold from swimming, and towels and extra clothes for Bryan and I and all this... so there is a LOT of clothes... but you know what... I'm ALWAYS prepared!! ALWAYS!!! :) lol Bryan keeps threatening to just put a dresser in the back of the truck... which seriously would make my life a LOT easier!! :) lol

So we made some zitti with sausage in it... which was YUMMY and off we went... our entire wardrobe change and all!! lol

WE had a great time and got to see some more fireworks... in which the girls didn't enjoy too much again...but I'm really hoping by next year they will be good with them... we'll see. I also want to go to Disney before then... which probably won't happen... but if it does then they will see the fireworks there so maybe they will like them. :) who knows... okay back to the whirlwind weekend...

We didn't leave there until about 11:30 or so at which point I decided that I was definitely going to take the kids and go with Bryan in the morning to a water park... he was going to be down hill mountain biking with Chris... so Heather and I decided to take the kiddos to the water park which is at the same place!! :) yay!! WE SURVIVED!! lol It wasn't too bad... Trevor and Nick were EXCELLENT... they played great together and had a blast... they even listened really well... Lauren was GOOD too! She had a lot of fun!! Brooke was beat... she was so tired and cranky and GLUED to me all day... she had fun at some points but she also cried quite a bit and wasn't too happy... but they all had such a long weekend... that maybe it wasn't the best idea but it worked... and we had a good time! :) All of us... the boys did good riding Bryan crashed once at the end of the day... his last run... but I think it was b/c he was tired out from doing it all day long... but I'm not sure. Thankfully he was okay... he had on all his protective gear... we just need to get him a chest and back protector! :)

And, we stopped for ice cream on the way home at the DQ so that was nice!! :) OH... duh and some where in there we went to Burger King for breakfast before getting to the park and then we went to this great pizza place for lunch and then went back to the park after... for about another hour or so... it was nice. :) I'm sooo tired though from the weekend... and I know I have a busy week ahead of me with cleaning and packing the camper and also catching up on laundry... we have a lot from the weekend and all... and also Lauren and Brooke have been having bed wetting accidents... which I think is b/c they are just so tired when they get into bed... they are sleeping so soundly that they just have no control of wetting... b/c they were doing really good with it... I think we just have to get back on our regular bedtime schedule or at least try, it is hard in the summer... but we are going to work on something... and then they should be okay... neither one of them wants to wear a diaper or pull up to bed... they look at is as punishment... so I don't want to do that... and I don't want to hype up the diaper and pull-up as being sooo cool and fun... so they will wear it... b/c I don't want them to want to wear it all the time again... Brooke was potty trained for a while and did NOT want to wear undies... she only wanted to wear pull-up. Thankfully we have gotten passed that. They have NOT worn one single pull-up or diaper since Father's Day!! :) yay!! yippee!! But, we might need to just at night time. If anyone has any btdt advice or just any suggestions or thoughts on this at all please feel free to comment about it... I'd love any and all input I can get.

Oh so anyway... I went off there about bed wetting and forgot what I was typing about originally. :) duH!! I know I have a lot of laundry and house cleaning this week and also getting the camper cleaned and packed and shopping for while we are away... I want to try to eat as many meals as we can at the campsite not the park... that gets way to expensive for 5 people... plus since my parents are going I'd like to treat them a few times too... they always try to pay for us... ALWAYS!! :) So anyway... I want to get some breakfast, lunch and dinner food planned out and some snacks too... they don't care what you bring into the park... so I'm going to start freezing some water and juices to take camping and into the park so they will be nice n cold to drink while we are strolling around. :)

Also, any thoughts and prayers for Jenn tonight, tomorrow during her surgery and the week to follow for a successful surgery without any surprises and also for a speedy recovery and feeling well, would be greatly appreciated! ~ you can read the post below and link her from there!!

God speed, Jenn!! I'm thinkin' of ya honey!! You're going to do great!! :) xoxoxo

Mexico

Here are some pictures from our camping trip to Mexico... NY! : ) Not sure if I have posted these already or not, but too lazy to go check , thought I would post them again, if they are already in here. Besides this posting stuff has taken me all morning to do, because it takes so long for the pics to upload, I keep on going off and doing other things. BUT, I'm lucky enough to have some help with doing housework and also with the computer from Brooke & Lauren. :D lol

Updating & Working on Blog...

Hello everyone. I'm back, briefly. I have a lot of information, news, stories, and of course pictures to share with all of you. But, with having three children, what I don't have is a lot of time to be typing on here. I used to type during nap time, but I have been staggering the kids naps, so that Trevor and I get some time together when the girls first go down, and then they get some time with me before he wakes up. It works out well, except that there is no time now for me to do things by myself while they nap. This is a temporary thing, because soon Mr. Trevor will be starting Pre-School, one of my many things to post on here... and he will be gone from home, so I want to get in as much time with him as I can before he goes to pre-school. Our days of just hanging out bumming around the house are numbered. : (
Anyway. I am going to download some pictures from the camera to the computer and post some of them.
Then I will be back, after I start some laundry and put some water on to cook ziti for dinner.

1. Our trip to Connecticut
2. Trevor's new scooter
3. Brooke & Lauren with Trevor's old scooter
4. The kids swimming in the ocean (sound)
5. Trevor's BIG new accomplishment
6. Trevor starting pre-school
7. Update on BIG girl beds
8. New Niece ~ Sabryna
9. Bryan's BIG "3-0H" birthday coming up
10. Trevor's BIG "4th" birthday coming up
11. Lauren's BIG "2nd" birthday coming up
12. Brooke's BIG "2nd" birthday coming up
13. Our next camping adventure, Mexico, NY

So that is that for now... I'll be back, after these messages. : )

Recap...

Here is a recap of the last few weeks, I'll be fairly brief... but you all know me, that isn't easy. : )
So.... lets see. The last post I did was on August 10th... well on the 10th, it was a Friday, we went grocery shopping. Yeah, I know this is what my Friday nights have come down to... a BIG night out to the grocery store with the whole family. YIPPEE... but we did go to dinner first, so I guess that makes it a little bit better. We were still getting everything ready and set for our big camping trip to Connecticut!! Everyone was pretty anxious... well the adults at least and my 11 year old nephew... my kids didn't really understand or know what was going on. Trevor, even told us that he rather stay home with uncle Ralph (my brother) then go with us. He didn't mean it in a way that staying with uncle Ralph would be bad, and going would be worse.. he just thought he would have a good time with uncle Ralph and not such a good time camping. : ) The mind of an almost 4 year old. But, anyway, back on track. Saturday we hung out all day, and packed stuff in the camper, although I had been packing all week. I packed everyone's clothes, and some junk. Bryan got all the bigger things ready, the grill and chairs, kids little picnic table and bikes. Sunday, we had a birthday gathering for my mom's birthday. Her actual birthday was on the 14th... Tuesday, but she would be in Connecticut, with me and my brother Ryan and everyone, but Ralph and Jamie and Julie wouldn't be there, so we had a gathering on Sunday. It was a surprise. : ) I made some angel food cupcakes and some loafs of angel food cake too.. they came out really good. I used my new silicone bake ware. LOVE IT!! Cools fast, cooks well, easy to clean up!! : ) I also had cut up some strawberries and they were marinating in their own juice so they would be really yummy with the angel food cake. I also had some really, really good blueberries, and I'm not usually a blueberry fan. I find them mostly tart and or not a pleasant taste... but these were really tasty. We also had some Cool Whip topping for the cake and fruit, and some vanilla ice cream on the side! It was YUMMY!
Okay, then we came home from that... well let me rewind some... after some cake and all that... we were outside hanging out and the boys went in the pool... by boys I mean, Trevor, Matthew and Bryan... they had a good time. : ) The little girls ran around playing and happy... and the rest of us just sat around and talked... it was nice. : )
We came home, got the kids in for mini naps, and started dinner and packed some more. It was a good day. : )
Monday... August 13th The Departure Day!
(I'll be back with more, I have to put some girls in the bath... )

WOW! So much INFO!!!

Wow! I'm bursting at the seems. I don't know what to type about first. I should be doing a million other things right now. Which I'm off to do in a few minutes. I just wanted to post this while it is NEW and FRESH and I'm anxious about it. :) First of all, I changed the girls cribs this morning into beds. They kept climbing out and it was just not safe for them to be in the crib any more... so they now are in BIG girl beds, well middle-of-the-road beds. They aren't cribs any more, but they aren't twin beds... LOL "twin" beds. They actually are "twin" beds, because they are for the twins!!! ha! I crack myself up, but anyway. They are youth beds, I guess you would call them that. Beds made with the crib structure and mattress.
I have some pics I'll post later.
AND also, we are getting a camper this weekend!!! A BRAND NEW CAMPER!! I'm so excited!! I cannot believe it. I was so happy when we went last weekend and looked as some Pop-up campers, but now I'm even more excited, we are getting a big, beautiful, BRAND NEW camper!! I personally never in my life have owned anything brand new!!! I cannot wait. We are going to look at them this Saturday, and will maybe hopefully bring it home soon!! We need to do a few things to the truck to bring it home. Safety things. Like get front brakes!! Anyway. I cannot wait!!! I'll see if I can find some pictures of the camper to post... if not I'm taking my camera on Saturday so some time after that you will see some pics of it. : )
Chow, for now.

Trevors new TENT!

This is the coolest thing ever. I didn't have one of these when I was little, although I had almost everything else imaginable... some how I missed this one. : ) Man, Trevor loves this... and it is a lot easier to get him to bed at night with this too! This was a Christmas present from Grandpa & Grandma (Brown). Now he just keeps asking me when can we go camping. He wants to go now... I tried to explain to him that we have to wait until it is nice and warm out... but he just wants to go. : ) I don't blame him... I'm very anxious for nice weather and to be able to go camping again. : ) Soon though, soon.