A weekend full of Fun

We had a fun-filled weekend for sure. And nice weather to boot! That doesn't happen often! :) Saturday was a busy day for us (or for me) depends on what way you look at it. The boys had there t-ball family day. Team pictures first and then snacks and bounce house fun. The pictures turned out great. I'm going to become a mom of her first "team picture button"........might have to get creative with those as the years progress. I stuck the two of them together for their "individual" picture as we have had just to many pictures lately and I'm not rich! I'm hoping they turned out. No idea when we will get them - might just have to call on that one.

After I watched them a few times on the bounce house I had to jet as Karly had her 5th dance recital on Saturday. What a great day for these girls - to put all of there hard work together on stage. The costumes are wonderful, great music, hair, make-up - it was days like Saturday that I am thankful I have boys and all I had to do to get them ready was throw a t-shirt and baseball hat on and say "smile"! Karly did fantastic and every time she is on stage I get a little tear in my eye. She got a trophy at the end as she has been dancing for 5 years. As the recital went on - to watch the class of tomorrow girls perform and think back to that same stage 5 years ago when Karly was 3 and all decked out in her pink fluffy outfit and then fast forward to her on stage looking very grown up - WOW! She is getting ready to turn 8 and it doesn't seem possible.

Sunday should of been a day of relaxing but I was itching to re-do my bathroom. I torn down the lady bugs and up went my "beach". I must say I LOVE getting ready at the beach every day. I cleaned that bathroom like no tomorrow. It probably was over do - but I was scrubbing ceiling to floor on my hands and knees. When i was all done, Cody walked in and said "mom, it's a little to girly". He's right - but the men of my house must give me some room. I am out numbered! My kitchen also got a face lift. Brett was in "the mood" and wanted to re-do the cupboards. Fine by me! It looks wonderful and so organized. Wonder how long it will last?

So what's coming up in the life of Luckey's.....more teeball, Cody goes to Syracuse for our start of the dental process, I'm walking in the Relay for Life, my baby is turning 4 (yeah, having a hard time with that), big birthday party at the fire station and then Tyler goes to the ENT for a check up (wondering what will be done as one tube has fallen out)....................and that's just for June! :)

My Birthday

This is a scanned picture of my card from my niece Karly. I love home made cards. This one though cracked me up. I love she made me the Birthday Queen! :) I then had to get clarification who the other two were. I thought maybe her and Connor. NO! It is ME (the queen with the crown on), my sister and my brother!

Well I am another year older....the big 32. I'm Ok with that....I love my birthday. Some hate it - but I love it. I had a great day all day. And yes, I even went to work. My co-workers are wonderful and I got a 2 great cards and a 12 pack of Mt. Dew. (You can say that is my drink of choice). Then today also was our bake sale for Relay for Life and OMG I ate to much. Everybody bought cookies "in honor of my bday" and well that required me to taste test. I think we could all quit our job and open a bakery and we would do quite well.

I got home and finished preparing dinner. Brett took the boys today to their end of year picnic. So hours home were cut short. He did all the hard work, I just had to put it in the oven. He got to come home at his lunch time and we all ate together. Then the Smith's came over after Karly's dance rehearsal and we did cake and presents. I got some great things. A new Bills lawn chair. I love it and will get to use it lots at teeball games. My mom and sister got me stuff to re-do my bathroom. Changing over from ladybugs to flip flops. Darn it, if I can't live at the beach - I am going to get ready in one every day. My shower curtain though comes with a story. I picked out a flip flop one from Target. My sister had to order it online and have it shipped to her house. So on the day it comes in the mail.....Shaun gets home first and sees it. He opens it and thought Tanya bought a new shower curtain. Knowing that he would just have to put it up anyways - he decided to surprise her and have it up by the time she came home. So she gets home and he is all giddy over doing it - until - they go in the bathroom and she was like "OMG - that is for Kelly's Birthday". So it got a trial run and looks really good hanging up. :) Super funny! I can't wait to do the "switch". I've had ladybugs forever and am ready for a change. My boys got me a great little purse and an IOU for all the rest of the bathroom stuff that I need.

So I had a fantastic day. What was even cooler was getting all sorts of birthday wishes on facebook. So cool to get those from friends that normally would of never known my birthday.

Yes that is a #3....cause I couldn't find a 2 and of course had no candles in my drawer. Whatever! :)

Baking...

Check out my bakers! Aren't they cute? I think so..... We had some scheduling problems for tomorrow and the birthday cake had to get made.....so.....that left me to do it. The boys wanted to help so bad anyways so it worked out. After dinner, I told them they could help. It is amazing at how good of listeners they are when they want to do something. They were huge helpers. Thankfully, the cake recipe called for 3 eggs so each of them got to crack an egg. I think I got out what fell in but guess we'll find out tomorrow. Then they wanted to stir. So each got a spoon and they stirred until their little hearts were content. And yes, I got out my camera. These are some of the best birthday memories in the making.

Ahh......

It seems that I am catching up rather than writing every night. I need to get better at that again. The boys are all doing well. They are enjoying the nice days, the bath tub enjoys them at night and they are all excited to be done with school in a couple of weeks.

Cody and Dylan had their Kindergarten registration last week. All went well. It was kind of sur-real actually. As I was sitting in the hallway, I could look off to my left and Dylan was in with the speech therapist, then I looked right and Cody was in with the teacher. I got a big ole tear in my eye. It's so hard to believe that they are going to Kindergarten in just a couple months and our school days are starting. The march upward to that big ole Graduation day! There will be little Graduations before that of course but it just is hard to imagine they are this old. Some days it seems like they are still those little babies that were always wanting to be fed at the same time, changed at the same time, etc.

What else....hmmm...this is what I get for trying to remember. I can't remember what I did an hour ago let alone a couple days ago. We had an uneventful weekend. Cookout and bom fire at the Smith's. A lazy Sunday with a sick Cody. Thankfully he feels better today.

T-ball tonight. The boys did good. Dylan has been hitting left handed and is doing wonderful. Everybody has commented how well he is doing and the coach calls him "lefty" and he thinks that is kind of funny. Thanks to Grandpa Jim for straightening him around. He was so proud last week after his game he had to come home and call him.

Tyler is doing great. He is turning 4 in a couple of weeks and we are going to have a really cool firetruck birthday party.

Till next time....

Dylan lost his 1st tooth

Yeah! Dylan lost his first tooth on Sunday! It has been loose for a while and he has worked at it. His adult tooth had started to come up behind it and we knew it wasn't long before the tooth fairy needed to visit. I can't believe he is 5 and lost a tooth already. The tooth had been very loose and just lying there but he wouldn't let us near it. He did however let John David near it (his cousin) and he grabbed it and it was all but out. The blood came and the look of shock came over Dylan. Brett grabbed a wet cloth and out it came. Yeah - the first tooth is out! The tooth fairy came and brought him $5. Some people thought this was a bit much. Whatever! Seriously, what can you buy for under $5 that is worth anything. So....check out this toothless grin! :)

Dylan holding his tooth for the tooth fairy...
And it's out...He's so happy...you can see the adult tooth already up behind it. Now it has room to move into position.

Weekend Catch Up

We spend the Memorial Weekend in Cuba at the in-laws. It wasn't exactly a fantastic trip home but the kids had lots of fun playing outside, seeing the animals, playing with their cousins, etc....and I didn't have to do much house work allowing me to soak up some sun rays and read a magazine.

We did however have some highlights from the weekend. For some Saturday night fun we went with Grandpa to get ice cream and then came back and got out the tee to hit some balls around the yard. Dylan was soaking in every word that Grandpa said. We had told him that Grandpa used to coach Brett and with Grandpa's help they got him hitting off the tee even better. He's now batting left handed and doing really well at it. Keeps his foot planted and can smack it pretty good. Then he showed him how to get "set" in the outfield waiting for the ball. Dylan really enjoyed that special time. Sunday we got the see all the Bradley's (Brett's sister and family) for a cook out and a birthday celebration for Nicole and Daniel. The kids were dying to get into the pool so in they went. It was cold but kids could care less. Dylan picked right up where he left off last summer - swimming like a fish. Cody seemed to move up a notch. He actually ventured away from the sides and experienced the whole pool. Tyler put water wings on so that was also a step up. I can't wait for more swimming days ahead.

So all in all a good weekend. I have some other feelings to post but those will have to wait for another day when my thoughts are more collected.

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And just how cute is this....There are times when they want to pumel each other to the ground, take their toys from each other to hear the other cry.....BUT...they love each other 100%

One of THOSE days

My day started out typical....hit the snooze on the alarm until the last possible minute. Then roll out of bed to get ready. Just to look forward to fighting with the boys to wake them up and get them ready. Once they are awake they are monsters and all the while I am trying to keep them quite not to wake Brett and Tyler up - who are so lucky to still be sleeping. Off to school we go and all is well. I decided not to have Tyler to go to school today so I could use my lunch hour to do errands instead of going to pick him up.

So at work, the managers were away so the mice must play. I did accomplish some major stuff but then Michelle, Jeff and I decided it was time to finally switch my cell phone over to my new phone. Not really new, new but new to me. Michelle gave me a flip phone so now I can text and write on a keyboard instead of punching the stupid button 4 times to get an 's'. So we are online and it's going smoothly until the very last screen where I forgot to change the number. Mind you I had only changed it 3 other times on the website. So we continue and yep, I de-activated Brett's phone. Oops. So I had to call him and get some numbers and it wouldn't work. Had to call Verizon directly for their help. Except I'm not "authorized"....so Brett had to add me and when the lady asked him if there way anything else she could help him with he just said "yah, help my wife fix my phone". Through it all I did get a "your amazing" from my husband. I think he was being sarcastic! :)

Then I was covering the reception desk (as our office was short staffed) and wouldn't I get a call from our CEO. He's a great man but aging and is around 80+ , his normal helpers weren't in the office and he asked "who else can help me get a flight"............darn it - that would be me! So I spent the day worrying about that and hoping he gets on his flight tomorrow morning.

At lunch I ran my errands and one of them consisted of going to Wegman's to get some snacks for our trip to grandma and grandpa's. As I was loading the groceries into my car - do I not realize in the cart, next to my purse is a bottle of hairspray I had picked up. And no, it wasn't paid for! OMG - I still feel really bad about that. Then I was waiting for store security to come and yell at me. Honest mistake really!

Finished out my "work" day......printing out Tyler's birthday invitations. Just to realize that I never put the date down on the invite. His birthday falls on a Saturday this year and so the party is on that day. I'm still shocked that everybody doesn't know when Tyler's birthday is....kidding.....so I had to many printed that I just had to write it in. UGH!

As I was driving home and heading to the highway do I not realize that I needed to go to the bank. So had to take a little detour. Tonight has just been crazy as I am packing to go to the in-laws and I have no idea what to pack. Wondering what the weather is really going to be like.

So I had one of "THOSE" days and I probably was trying to accomplish one to many things today. As soon as my kids fall asleep - I am going to go sit and relax in QUITE!

Happy Memorial Day!