HAPPY 40TH BIRTHDAY CHRIS!!!

LORDY, LORDY...

LOOK WHO'S 40!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



YUP... Chris turned the big 4-0 today!!

And we hope you had a wonderful day!!!

A busy busy weekend!!

Chris had this whole weekend off. It was wonderful!

Of course I think he did it so that he could relax on his birthday....
but wait....

Chris can never relax!!!

So instead we took all day Friday and got the kids rooms changed out (well mostly on Friday).

So if you follow.... here you go...

Conner went down to the main level in what was the guest room...
Kennedi went into Conner's old room...
Avery went into Kennedi's old room...
The baby will be in Avery's old room...

While each room was vacant we painted 2 of the rooms. WHEW what a day...

Here are some pictures of the way the rooms look now...
I do not have any pictures of Conner's room. It already looks like the room of a 15 year old boy!


Avery's new room...

Avery's new room... window view

Kennedi's new room

Kennedi's new room

the soon to be nursery. We will paint when the bedding comes in, currently on back order.

It's a good one!

As many of you know, I read a few blogs from time to time and one that I really like is written by Mama M. Today I loved the post she wrote about! It is about.....

BEING CATHOLIC!!

What a wonderful time of year for her to write about it as we approach Easter. There actually have been many times that I wanted to write about being Catholic and have not figured out a way to do it. Religion, like politics can be a sticky subject to write about.

Growing up in the north (well north of where I am now) most of the people I knew were Catholic. Moving back down south 14 years ago I was one of the few. Of course there are many more Catholics here now (at least where I live) but I still get "those looks" or the comment of, "oh, you are one of those" when some people find out that I am Catholic.

I wish I could claim it all as my writing, but I can't so click here and hop on over to her blog for a great read!!

HAPPY 75th BIRTHDAY DAD/PAPA!!

Last night most of the family got together to celebrate my dad's 75th birthday. It was not a surprise, at his age do you even want to surprise them anymore? You never know how it will end up. Just kidding!

When Chris and I were pulling into the parking lot of the restaurant we saw this...
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It was so pretty!

The rain had cleared and all that was left was a beautiful and huge rainbow. You could also see the other end but by the time I took the pictures it had faded a lot.

This was all of us who were able to make it..... One of my sisters could not make it. She was out of town visiting her oldest son for his birthday (which is 2 days before my dad's). We missed ya Karen!

and of course one of my dad (and mom)

Aunt Beth entertained Kennedi almost the whole time. Kennedi LOVES her! I think they both had a blast. I did feel bad when Beth could not even eat her dinner without Kennedi on her lap. I just hope Kennedi did not eat all of Beth's food!!!!

Kennedi and her napkin kerchief. It was adorable and she actually kept it on her head for quite awhile.

....after that my camera battery died. Figures that I forgot to charge it.

It was a great time!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD!!!

Registration already?!?!

I got home a little while ago from two meetings at C's high school. I cant believe it is time for registration for next year already!! This year has flown by and I am really hoping that the next three years slow down. I don't even want to think about the first child being out of the house and in college!

The first meeting tonight was the informational meeting about the AP classes being offered next year. I already had an idea on what was going to be offered for upcoming 10th graders when Conner came home from school last week and told me they met with counselors and that he had his 4 year plan in motion.

That kid is amazing! He knows the hard schedule that he maybe facing the next three years and he sounds like he is so ready for it. I have to say that I am ready for him to be challenged! My fear is that he will enter college with not having to study a whole lot and then have to learn quickly. I am thinking that I do not have to worry about that too much longer.

As of right now, and this won't be firmed up until next week, he is looking at a schedule like this:
Math 2 and Math 3 (fall semester and spring semester)
AP Psychology (if he is accepted in that one)
weight training (hey he has to have one class like this)
AP European History (this one is year long)
Spanish 3 (semester long)
Advanced Lit (semester long)

Whew... that is a lot. I think it helps that we are on block scheduling and he only has 4 classes each semester.

When he came home last week to tell me that he will double up on Math in 10th grade so his senior year he can take AP Statistics I about threw up. I love math and it was always one of my best subjects... until I took Stats!! That is one class that I hoped I would never have to deal with again. He also told me he was taking Chemistry next year and skipping Physical Science so that in his senior year he can take Anatomy.

I think that the counselor was really helpful since he already has his idea of what he wants to do with the rest of his life. I know this may change 100 times between now and senior year (and that is OK. Shoot I don't know what I want to do when I grow up!) but he has had the same dream since he was in elementary school.