Workin' for the weekend...

Not sure why that popped into my head "everybody's workin' for the weekend...." Freaky.



Monday blahs are here - full force!



We had a great weekend - lots of one-on-one with Owen on Friday and Saturday. We picked up Jared from grandma camp on Saturday and he was whipped!

Sunday was a lazy day in our household beginning with Mommie sleeping in until 11!! After a 3-hour trek to Meijer, the kids needed some good old fashioned running around. We herded them outside and convinced Jared to remove the training wheels from his bike.

Brian ran along behind him for about 50 feet and he was off on his own! In the span of less than 90 minutes he was starting off, riding, turning, and even stopping with control! It's time to go bike shopping!

The evening ended with Owen pooping in his bed and on his floor.

Hootin'

Owen and I went with a friend to downtown Pinckney last night for "Hootin' in the Park". Lots of fun to see people walking about - we missed the beginning and only caught the last musicians - a small band that played a lot of traditional "concert" type songs - we were hoping for something a bit more upbeat - we'll need to get there earlier next time.

Owen had a blast banging around the playground. He slid the fireman's pole on his own! He fell trying that earlier this spring, so I was glad that he started doing it again - most importantly so that he isn't screaming for help every 2 seconds!

Jared sent me a text from up north last night - he says that "otsego beach is awesome" - I agree. I miss the little bugger.

Six More Weeks...

School starts in six weeks! I guess it's technically 5 weeks and 6 days, but the first full day is in exactly six weeks.

First grade? Jared is so excited. He's excited to have lunch in the cafeteria and maybe even buy lunch (I'm sure that we'll do that MORE than a few times as I scramble to make his lunch each morning). He misses seeing his friends every day - even the neighbor kids just across the street or down a few houses! Everyone is so busy!

And Owen will go all day to preschool this year. He gets excited every time we pass LOTWA. He gets all pumped up "there's my school!" He will have to bring a lunch every day, so I guess I'll be packing at least one bag every day!

It's weird having Jared gone so much this summer. He was at Grandma L's all last week, and he left with Grammie and Grandpa B on Tuesday. He loves to be on the GO, so spending time with Grammie is good - he was all excited yesterday to tell me about their day - "we ran errands - we went to Hiller's, and CVS, and then to the bank!" Top the day off with a trip out to Crate & Barrel at Somerset and he was a happy guy.

Brian has a meeting tonight, so I'm trying to think of something fun for he and I to do together. I had originally planned on either the water skiing show in Whitmore Lake or the Hootin' In The Park in Pinckney, but it looks like rain. Maybe we'll just head up to Brighton to the McD's with the playground - he'll be beside himself.

Saint Patty's Day - Bar Hopping with the boys!

Lunch with Grammie

Owen ready for a swim

(Trying out the email feature - I can email pix directly from my phone!!!)

Is this appropriate?

It's Owen's favorite line "is this appropriate?" It's sister comment is "grandpa, this is not appropriate". It typically refers to something on TV, but sometimes he actually means his behavior, in which case I die of shock. :)

Six more weeks and my baby starts preschool! Hopefully he can learn something. :) Self control, patience, logic & reasoning, discipline - sheesh, it's Montessori, not miliary school! I need to pick up a little backpack for him - I love the cute little ones that I saw at Baby Gap. Aren't they cute? And a matching little lunchbox?

I finished Deathly Hallows - it took me about 8 hours. Brian was such a nice guy - he went out and bought it for me Saturday morning. I tried to stay up Friday night to go to Meijer at midnight, but I was too exhausted. So I woke up and there it was Saturday morning! Too bad I had to get ready to head to the 2007 Air Show at Selfridge.

The kids enjoyed the air show. I took lots of pix - I left my camera at home so borrowed Dad's film camera. It worked great, but now I need to actually go get the film developed! I hope that I got at least a layout's worth!

That's what it's about, right? The scrapbook layout? All of my pictures lately are taken with the layout in mind. Now if I could actually get the time to scrap....