Good-bye March!

I can’t tell you how excited that I get to turn the calendar over soon.  It has been a super crazy month that has been filled with everything under the sun.  When you add in two kids with birthday’s and their parties, 4 kids playing in the festival on four different days, a trip to Calgary for a specialist appointment, basketball games, IPP meetings with the pre-school, extra music classes, piano lessons, parent council meetings, not to mention laundry and meals and housecleaning (which didn’t happen too well, I must admit) ---- it was a crazy month!  I am so grateful for my sister Mindy -- I never would have made it through the month without her help.  I can't count the number of times that she took care of my kids and made life so much easier!  If you look closely, you will see that on today – Good Friday – there is NOTHING on the calendar!  What a good Friday indeed!!

Award Winning Kids

Grace was awarded the “Patroller of the Month” award this week!  It was silly hat day – don’t worry – she doesn’t need a helmet to go to school – LOL!

Rebecca was given a literacy award for being a “Super Summarizer”.  Congratulations!!

Kiwanis Festival

All four of the older kids were involved with the Lethbridge Kiwanis Festival this week.  They have been working hard for the last couple of months to practise, polish and memorize the songs they would be performing.  I very well remember the nerves I felt when I was performing when I was in the festival as a young girl, and now I realize that my mom felt just as nervous as I did.  My nerves were shot by the end of the week, but I couldn't have been more proud of my kids.  Anna and Brendan both were awarded First Place, Grace came away with a Second Place and Rebecca received a certificate of Merit.  Rebecca had 7 other kids in her class, so the competition was a little steep, but she played the best I had ever heard her play and I was very proud of her.  Definitely a button-bursting week!

Moonlight Run 2013

Matt and I, and my brother Dave ran the Moonlight Run again this year.  They were super speedy, and I was within 15 seconds of my time from last year.  It was a chilly night, but by the time we were running it was fine.  We all enjoy this run and I think it will become a tradition.

Anna’s Birthday

Anna turned 9 this year.  We had a quiet birthday dinner with our family on her actual birthday and then she took 4 of her friends to the movies the next night.  Happy Birthday Anna!


  
 

Crazy Day!!

It was just such a crazy driving around day, I thought it would be a good idea to write it down --- and to remember that all days are not this bad!

7:00am - Take Brendan to seminary
8:10am - Matt takes Grace, Anna and Rebecca to school
9:15am - Take Sarah to school
10:00am - Drop Gid off at Mindy's and go to the preschool for Sarah's IPP meeting
11:00am - Finished meeting, pick up prescription, pick up Gideon and back to the preschool by 11:30 to pick up Sarah
1:15pm - Take Gid to the preschool for his music class
2:00pm - Pick up Gid from his music class
3:15pm - Pick up Anna and Rebecca from school
4:30pm - Pick up Grace from basketball practice
7:00pm - Drop off Anna and Grace at Activity Days
8:00pm - Pick up Anna and Grace from Activity Days

In between all those times I have been trying to put through about 8 loads of laundry too.  Crazy Day!!

Brendan’s Birthday

I remember feeling so grown up when I was 16, and today, I know I was really just kidding myself.  At least that is what I want to think – I am sure Brendan feels the same way.  Brendan just finished his basketball season, so I made him a basketball cake.  All the kids thought it was pretty cool.

It looks like we are about to set the house on fire!

This picture makes me laugh so much!  I think Gideon was excited that all the candles got blown out – no girlfriends for Brendan! ;)
 
Brendan got a new Wii game for his birthday and I told him I would paint his room for him.  I had some second thoughts after I heard his choice in color though --- ORANGE!!  Oh well, it’s only paint!
 
Brendan’s actual birthday was pretty low-key, but he was able to take a friend to the hockey game a week later and had a great time there.  Happy Birthday Brendan!