83 days until school starts again...

Well school ended today at 11:30 and we almost had to make a trip to the emergency room. Well not really but we did have a little accident. Marie's face had a quick meeting with the arm of the sofa. Actually we were watching High School Musical and she was dancing and spinning and well the rest is history.

Now I thought she had just bumped herself and was going into drama queen mode so I put her in my lap and then discovered the blood gushing. Well we ran to the bathroom and she had calmed down a little until she saw her lip. Not dealing with busted lips very often I made the mistake of putting toilet paper on it. Not working we decided that calling daddy might be a good idea. I know now that putting ice directly on the bleeding lip will in a little while stop the bleeding.

So I guess what I am trying to say is we haven't even officially started summer vacation and this happens. What is going to happen by the end of the summer??? Save us!! Come for a visit!

Love to all.

What a show...

Well we are home from the recitals! We had a very busy day but luckily we were able to stay out of the heat and enjoy some good dancing. Marie was wonderful in all three of her dances. She looked so beautiful and so grown up on stage. We are getting the video of the recitals so be prepared when we come to visit we will be bringing the video! Here are a few pictures so everyone will feel like they were with us. Love to all!

Some Pictures for Your Enjoyment!

Just two pictures for everyone to enjoy. I will post more after the recital tomorrow! I could not believe Marie when she came around the corner with her new baby in the stroller! She wasn't really happy when I took the cheer picture because she wanted to sit under the tree. Oh well I can get better tomorrow! Love to all!

Happy Late Mothers Day!

I hope everyone had a great Sunday even if you are not currently a mommy! In order not to fight the crowds at restaurants we had my mom's day dinner the night before. While I was gone to Houston JJ found that we have a Tony Roma's in Oklahoma City. For those of you who know me well you will know this is by far my favorite restaurant in the world. Just as an aside this is the place where I went for my high school graduation dinner. The Carolina Honey's are the best thing to put in your mouth! Anyway we had a great dinner and it was definitely not crowded which was great.

So on Sunday since we were not going out to dinner we packed everything we needed to get done into one day. We started out with church where as I have been doing since January I played my flute. For the first time however I had a little solo. When I say solo there were times when the piano and choir were not singing or playing and only the one and only marvelous flute player (Me in case you didn't follow) was playing. I had a great time because I just love playing my flute. Then choir was serving the donuts and I got put on clean up so we went over and served and then cleaned up. Once we got home we planted a new tree in the back yard and dug up the pond we had put out there. Why everyone is probably asking did we dig up a perfectly good and new pond?! Well our little doggie was very interested in the pond and thanks to his size if he fell in he would probably drown!

As an aside my moms Labrador fell/jumped in the pond and we had to help her get out.

So back to the new pond. We got a fountain like thing where the water is completely contained and there is no water standing. It is very pretty and looks like a ceramic vase. It goes quite well in my meditation garden. I still however need some religious statues to put in there and then a little bistro set or something to sit on so I can spend nice mornings out there and think and pray. By the way anyone can take that as hints for any presents you may want to get me...

Well you would think we could get this little project done in one afternoon, but we ran out of dirt to fill in the hole. We also didn't have enough rocks to make it look good. So off to Lowe's for more dirt and rocks. So the dirt and rocks are sitting in the garage. Perhaps next Sunday we can get it finished! Wishful thinking!

We are all doing pretty good around here. Marie is getting over a little cold so she has been a little grumpy the past few days. We are struggling with going to sleep at night. We don't struggle putting her in bed the first time, but she continually gets up to give kisses, go potty, etc. We put her in bed between 730 and 800, but she is still up as late as 900 or 1000. We have to get her up by 645 to start getting ready for school. I was told not to go by how long they are sleeping but rather by how they act in the morning and as it gets close to bed time. She is a grump in the morning and a grump in the evening so I figured she is not getting enough sleep. So I am not really sure what we can do without gluing her to the bed! We have told her not to get up unless she has to go to the bathroom. Well she goes potty all the time and we are afraid if we tell her she can't get up to go potty that we will take a huge step back in the potty business. So ideas and suggestions would be greatly appreciated. It just gets a little frustrating putting her to bed and never really knowing when she is going to be asleep or when she will be making an appearance!

We have dance recital this Saturday! Marie will be performing at both recitals this year. At the first one she will be doing her Pom routine to the song Hey Mickey. They are wearing little pink and white cheerleader outfits. They are very cute! At the second recital she is doing ballet and tap. They have a beautiful lavender outfit with sage green accents and I think three dark pinkish/purple flowers. For ballet they are wearing a sage fluffy skirt that goes down past their knees. For tap they don't wear the skirt. For tap they are dancing to Zip-a-dee-doo-dah and for ballet to a song called Autumn leaves. I am not really sure about that song so I will let everyone know. She is really excited about being in the recital this year. We have not taken pictures yet, but I will post some from the recital for all to see.

I am sure everyone is wondering what we are doing this summer so here is a listing of what all Marie will be doing. We would love to have anyone and everyone come and visit! We have not made any plans for travel except for the events that are out of Oklahoma. So pick a date and come and visit!

May 30-June 2 - University of Oklahoma Soccer Camp, Norman, OK

June 7 - Girl Scout Day Camp (a chance to get to know something about the girl scouts so she can decide if she wants to be a daisy next year) Norman, OK

June 12-16 - University of Texas soccer Camp, Austin, TX

June 19-23 - Junior Zoo Keeper at Little River Zoo, Norman, OK

June 28-30 - Junior Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader Camp, Irving, TX

July 6, 7, 8 - University of Oklahoma Gymnastics Camp, Norman, OK

July 11, 13, 18, 20 - All Saints Catholic School Learning Camp

July 24-28 - Vacation Bible School at St. Mark Catholic Church

August 14 - Back to School Night

August 16 - First Day of Kindergarten!

Well we are pretty busy this summer as everyone can see. We are trying to get Marie to find what she likes the most and hopefully after this summer she will know what she wants to do as her after school activities. We also have these great opportunities by being in a college town that we really want to take advantage of it while we can. She is SO excited about all of her camps this summer and she pretty much can't decide which one she is more looking forward to. The only thing we might not do is the vacation bible school depending on if we decide to travel any or not this summer. I really hope some people will be able to come and visit us for some of you for the first time. (Dad hint, hint, hint)

Mark your calendar now because Marie's birthday party will be held on Saturday, July 15 in honor of mom! After the foot surgery we know she cannot come so we are going to celebrate for her! I expect someone to come for her party this year! I know Marie would love to have her family here for the weekend so please think carefully about taking the trip. Other than Christy, Ed and my mom, I don't think anyone else in the family has been here for one of her famous parties. If you thought last year was fun just wait!!!

Well I worked today so I am pretty tired. I want to go and lay myself down however I think Marie fell asleep in my bed. I might just go and sleep in her bed! Either that or JJ can move her! Love to all and please think about coming for a visit!

PS The pictures are of the front flower bed. The tree is the one we planted in the back so that is gone. Also here is a picture of my roses. I just love them!

One of those days...

Have you ever had one of those days where nothing goes right?! Well I had one yesterday! Let me preface by saying if you don't want to know anything personal about me just stop reading now...

Some of you knew I was supposed to have minor surgery yesterday. Notice the supposed in the last sentence. Anyway I was scheduled to have a laparoscopy test (looks inside at the ovaries etc.), hysteroscopy (looks inside the uterus) and a D&C (where they scrape the uterus). I have been having my time of the month about every two weeks or so and it has been quite bad and also quite painful. We arrived at the hospital a little after 630 a.m. I was not brought back into pre-op until 7:30 a.m. Around 8:00 a.m. they told me that the machine used for the procedures was not working. Apparently there was no hot water in the operating room. The hot water would sterilize the machine. Kind of important! Long story short around 12:30 p.m. all I could get out of the nurses was that they might be able to do my procedure at 2:30 or 3:00 p.m., but they could not guarantee the time. Need-less-to-say I went home having no procedure. They are going to reschedule for later.

So now I am left trying to figure out the reason why something like this would be delayed. I know God has a plan, but I never figured I would have this postponed. Anyway so everything we had planned for yesterday has been put on hold. I did however get to go to Marie's first t-ball game which was fun. They won by he way 21-14! She has a really good team this year.

As a little update...I am obviously back from Houston. I ended up staying two weeks. The foot surgery mom had was a little more complicated than expected. They ended up having to put pins in her toes and a screw in the side of her toe. She could not drive for two weeks and honestly if the procedure was not planned I would have probably stayed another week until the pins come out. She is however driving and seems to be doing ok. I know she is really tired, but that is expected after having such an intense surgery. We had a good time while I was in Houston just doing our own thing and not having to rush around for any one or any thing. Marie was with me the first week and then we met half way and gave her to my sister who met JJ halfway so she could come back to school.

So that is what is going on around here. We are all doing good except we would all use some more sleep! I should get going now and get Marie ready for school! Let me hear from everyone and I will post when the procedure is rescheduled! Love to all!