Random images from the past week......

This week went by so quickly, I can't believe it has been over a week since I have written anything! It wasn't a conscious decision - just busy, and I guess I didn't really feel like I had anything to say! So I will just give a few brief "bullet points" about what happened the past few days.....

* I walked into the kitchen to find my sweet, darling children....having a "dance off".....!!!

* Tim has been working a lot....the price we pay for him having so much time off last month!

* Clay has had a "spring cold"......

* The kids had a 4 day weekend for the Easter holiday, and we absolutely, totally enjoyed doing NOTHING this weekend!

* Even though neither of the children believes in the Easter bunny anymore, the awesome furry bunny STILL came to house and left fabulous baskets for the kids!

* I had a get-together with a friend of some of my friends.....ever since we moved here I have been hearing how I should have known Holly...we would have gotten along so well, etc. We became friends on facebook, and had a quick little meeting over Easter weekend. She has three beautiful daughters and a 7 month old Goldendoodle. Gracie and her dog, Ginger, had a ball playing and they both slept very well that evening! It was so nice to FINALLY meet Holly!
Hmmm.......VERY attractive, Miss Paige.
DUDE! Clay, YOU are "the man"!!!

Clay and Paige giving Gracie a bath after her playdate....she began to smell a bit, er, "ripe"....you know, that lovely sweaty dog smell.

The kids are off to school, Tim is off to Frankfurt...and I am doing laundry and tidying up the house. I walk out to the garage, and find this. A bucket FILLED with tadpoles. Some of you who have been reading this blog for a while may remember an earlier post about the 6 bullfrogs I found in Clay's room - so you won't be surprised. I am not complaining, mind you...it could (and has) been much worse. And - he did keep them in the garage, rather than the house....still.....you just never know what you'll find with a boy!!

It's been a good weekend. Tim got home Friday night and the weekend has been filled with yard work, a trip to Costco, another trip to Publix, cleaning and cooking lots of spaghetti. It was my turn to cook for the youth group up at the church - so I made spaghetti, salad, garlic bread and brownies....the kids (espeicially the boys) ate a TON!

Paige has been playing beauty parlor with Gracie today - she gave her a bath, brushed her out, and then "did" her hair....doesn't she look cute? She is getting so big....

Tim goes back to work tomorrow morning and then we have the usual busy week with all the kid's activities.....

Clay & Paige:

PAIGE: My History teacher pulled an April Fool's joke on us yesterday. Every day we have a "quickie quiz" on what we read the night before. Yesterday he gave us really, really hard questions...like "what was the first sentence on page 411?" and "what is your aunt's middle name?" It was pretty funny (after he told us it wasn't really going to count as a grade!) BUT, I did get 100% on the real one! Spring Break was fun. We went to the beach and got to visit Gramma. I got sunburned. It was really fun, though! No ballet this week because the studio is closed for spring break, but I did have a private lesson on Tuesday and yesterday.

CLAY: Hi. For Spring Break we went to St. Pete. We went to the beach and I went wade-fishing in the bay with my friend Mr. Joe. School is going well. I can't wait for the weekend though. Only a couple more weeks until my Taekwondo competition! :-)

April showers...........

Today is a dark, dreary, rainy day - lots of thunder and lightning last night and a 90% chance of rain - ALL DAY today. Blech. Oh well, it is good for the plants, right? By the way, in the photo above - all the brown stuff on the ground is that nasty oak pollen which has been making my life miserable for the past week or so. I really hope this rain washes it all away!!! I WAS going to take a picture of Clay's room to show you all how cute it looks, but someone didn't clean his room very well this morning. Guess what someone will be doing the minute he walks into the house this afternoon......?!

So....Tim wanted me to write this big, elaborate April Fool's blog today.....about Clay getting arrested, Paige getting a tattoo, me being pregnant...etc. etc. I explained to him that the idea behind April Fool's is that you actually have to fool people - i.e. make it believable, but he wasn't buying it. So...if he asks, just tell him I wrote about it (technically, I DID!) and that it was a GREAT prank. Ha ha...snicker, snicker.

No big plans for today....Tim left for work this morning, Paige has a private lesson today at ballet.....other than that, just the usual - cleaning, the never-ending laundry, and working on more school stuff trying to plan for next year!