Easter 2019

My sweet kids all dressed up in their Easter outfits.

Chase’s 12th Birthday Swim Party

Evan, Archer,Cooper,Zach,Koen,Anthony,

Jake,Cooper,Skyler. The pool makes parties super easy:-)

LEGOLAND & 2nd Grade

On Friday I got to go to LEGOLAND for a second grade field trip with my one and only Sky. I initially had wanted the whole family to go but Mallory had a fundraiser dinner for young women’s and Chase didn’t want to miss school because of running club. Plus, Scott didn’t really want to go either.  So, it was just me and my boy. We left at 7am and arrived at 9:0am. The weather was a little drizzly. Nothing that we couldn’t handle. I paired up with some of Skylers friends Moms(which I friends with as well). So it was Skyler, Trenton, Liam and Ben and we had another boy named Declan  that someone was chaperoning. So, it was me, Kristen, Bryan, Stephanie and Bens mom(can’t remember her name right now. But, seriously we had a blast. Skyler loved it as well. We rode every ride. He really liked being with his friends and riding the rollercosters. When we were walking out he wanted to go to the gift shop. So, I bought him a husky stuffed animal dog and he named him LEGO. That boy and his dogs. That’s a post for another time. We drove home. He wanted McDonalds so I stopped in Temecula and made his wishes come true. He got a Big Mac. He loves those apparently. We talked all the way home. I love this kid and the opportunity that I got to spend a whole day with just him. I needed that:-)

Number 12 for Chase

When I reflect on Chase’s life the first thing that comes to my mind is Chase’s birth. It was by far the easiest birth out of my three kids. That’s kind of life him now.  Chase is normally pretty easy going. Some things that I love about Chase is his tender heart. He is very sensitive to lots of things. He’s afraid of the dark and sleeps with stuffed animals all lined up on the side of the bed that touches the wall. He sleeps with a pug dog, a little blanket and another dog and his baby blanket. He puts his blue blanket under his head and pulls up his sheet up over his head and tucks it in the back of his head and goes to sleep. It’s a production but it works for him. He loves his brother and plays super hard with him. He loves baseball and most days there’s arguing in the front yard about whose safe or bad calls on pitches or pegging each other. It’s nonstop. Chase is great at every sport he tries. This past year chase was on the cross country team at his school and was the fastest runner on the team. He played basketball for the city and was the fastest rebounder on the team. He’s got wheels. He loves running club at school and will not miss a Friday of school because he doesn’t want to miss being the fastest runner. Chase is a good student. He comes right home and does he homework. Chase is a great kid and I love him with all of my heart. He makes me very proud to be his MOM.

baseball and puzzles

Why not do a little puzzle solving after baseball practice??

Reality...

Well Monday sums it all up..
Mallory is on Spring Break for 2 weeks..
Since we are having awesome weather here..I was trying to take advantage of every opportunity to let the kids be outside and play.
Let me back it up for a second.
Usually in the mornings when Mallory is at school Chase and I cruise up to the park on our bikes.
Well that's about to all change.
Monday we went to the park. As we were pulling up ready to park our bikes I was going at a pretty funky angle and didn't want to overlap wheels with Chase so I went down the cement to the woodchips and there was a dip back up onto the padded play area. Well I thought I would just do a little bunny jump to get back up onto solid ground.
That didn't work out so well.
I flew over my handlebars and luckily was going slow enough to know what I was doing, put my hand down to protect my stomach and fell completely down. I got up, luckily it was early and know one was at the park yet. I wasn't hurt, I didn't fall on my stomach but took a chunk out of my leg from my chain so it was bleeding a little. I got up completely embarrassed like it was my first time on my bike. The kids couldn't believe what I had done.
Well, the next morning I got out of bed and was so sore..my shoulders, hamstrings, back, quads and the sore on my leg hurt.
Reality check at that point said to me..oh yea I am 30 weeks pregnant. Oh my gosh..I'm gonna have a BaBY! What the heck was I doing on a bike!!

Mallory's Actual Birthday Day..

In our family we like to take many days up to celebrate birthdays..

since it does only come once a year..it's just FUN like that.
So, this is Mallory's actual birthday day..she got to take a present to class for herself to leave and share with the rest of the students for the rest of the year. She brought a book..fancy nancy and the posh puppy...and got to bring cupcakes and her class sang her happy birthday..kindergarten style..with cha cha cha..

We came home and did our own little happy birthday celebration song with her.
I can't believe she is six. I just love her!