I have been meaning to post and just have not had the time to get around to it. We are pretty much moved into our new house and loving it. I still do not have living room furniture but I am expecting it this week, so in the mean time we are busy getting things cleaned up and set up in the other rooms. My den and kitchen are in perfect working order. I have not decorated the kitchen or dining room yet and have not decided on what I want to do to decorate them. I did have Pooh in my kitchen but it would not look good in my new kitchen so I am going to have to do something else. I was thinking a wine/grape theme for my dining room but now I am leaning more towards Deep red roses/flowery theme. Who knows what I will end up with :o) I did buy a beautiful vase for the middle of my dining room table and my aunt is going to put a flower arrangement together for me. So we will see what I end up doing. The guys have started putting the basement together. The air hockey table is down there and needs to be set up, the tv and game systems are all hooked up and have been played with. I need to get the bedrooms in order and will hopefully get to them this weekend. We are almost completely out of the old house. We still have a few odds and ends hanging around and a lot of the kids toys, but I am not too worried about them since I plan on getting rid of most of them!
In other family news, my cousin's hubby may not have to go back to Iraq after all! If he was to go back he would have left for training out in CA last week and has not left, so we are taking that as a good sign. They are planning on coming in for the holiday weekend since her daughter will be 2 and have a birthday party for her while she is here. Also, my other cousin found out that his fiancee of several years broke it off with him completely and was out with another guy so to drown his sorrows he went out with a few of his buddies and on his way out of the bar was mugged and had the shit beat out of him by 4 guys, cracked a few ribs, broke his wrist and bruised up pretty bad, then when he got back to his car found that it had been side swiped and has a bunch of damage to his car. So needless to say the poor guy is not in the best of shape right now!! He did move home for the summer since he will be interning at a law firm here but will go back to college for the fall. My brother is officially out of school. His last day was Monday and he is really excited about graduating. His graduation is next Wednesday and I am really excited for him. He is car-less at the moment since he screwed up the transmission in the car he was using but will hopefully be able to get it fixed this summer. Him, my mom and my grandma are leaving for Korea on the 2nd and will be gone til the 20th so they are all getting geared up and ready to go. I wish I could have gone with them but am more excited about moving into our new house and getting new living room furniture!!
As for my kids, they are all doing great, my youngest kiddos last day of school is tomorrow and we will really miss all his teachers and friends that he had here. We have made many friends, including a Korean boy that was adopted by American parents. He has a Korean brother who is also adopted and the mom is super sweet. Hopefully we will be able to stay in touch with them and stay friends. Someday I would love to adopt a Korean baby! :o) The other kids last day is Friday. My kindergartner will have her graduation on Friday!
All the kids field trips are finally over!! I went to the zoo with the 4th graders, there were 2 boys and a girl in my group and we stuck with another group of girls so there were 7 total kids that we were with. They had a great time looking at SOME of the animals, since we did not make it through much of the zoo. The girls wanted to SHOP at every place and then wanted to ride the carousel so that took up a lot of time. The boys were happy just monkeying around. Then my older daughter had her field trip to one of the pizza places and got to make their own pizzas and see how the place worked. They had fun making pizzas and I had an all girl group that time so they were nice and giggly. We were supposed to go to the park afterwards but got rained out so it was a fairly short field trip but we all still had a lot of fun!! Then my youngest daughter had her field trip to the zoo and that was a lot of fun. More than I thought it would be with 4 classes of kindergarten kids!! I had 1 other little girl in my group and we stuck with another group of little girls and really had a good time. They loved seeing all the animals and had a great time with the penguins and learned quite a bit! All in all it was a lot of fun. We also had a Talent show at school that week. My older daughter decided that she wanted to try out and sing Jesus Take the Wheel by Carrie Underwood. I was shocked that she wanted to do that but she practiced and did a really good job!! I was very proud of her for getting up in front of people and doing that!!! She has really come out of her shell and is becoming quite outgoing.
Baseball and Softball are still in full swing. The girls have been losing a lot of their games but are just happy to get out there and play and have fun. The boys are a little more competitive but are still having a blast. We have 3 games just this week for the boys!! They won last night due to forfeit but they went ahead and played a scrimmage game with them since we were already there and did manage to beat them in that too! We are back at the ball field again tonite and my younger daughter has an ice cream social for girl scouts that I have to go to so it will be another full evening!! Then we have one final baseball game on Friday and will be done for the week!!
That is my life in a nutshell. It has been crazy crazy but we are taking each day as it comes!! I am sure there is a bunch of stuff I am missing, but I will eventually either get back to it or never blog it at all :o) I hope that all is well with everyone out in the world!!