Week In Review

Now that it is summer, it seems like we are always busy busy busy. We try to spend as much time as possible outside. I am already dreading winter and those long awful evenings being stuck inside. Pax's t-ball got cancelled again Monday due to wet fields, he has yet to have a practice!! Poor kid keeps asking to play baseball too. I went ahead and signed him up for gymnastics for Monday nights also. He will have gymnastics from 5-5:30 then t-ball from 6-6:45. Yes I realize that's a lot for a 2 1/2 year old for one night, but that kid has so much energy that he can handle it. His gymnastics class is all boys and it's the Just 3's class (even though Pax is still 2) which means that I don't need to be in the class with him anymore!!! Last week was his first week and he did so good without me in there with him. I swear kids are always worse for their parents than for other people. When he was in Just 2's, I spent most the class chasing him and telling him to listen, this past week he did everything Miss Jamie asked and sat nicely and waited his turn!! Punk

This week was also my first week in my new position at work, Youth and Family Coordinator. I am so excited about this new venture and can't wait to bring some fresh ideas and programs to our Y. Not to brag or anything but we have an awesome facility!! I am excited to get an active older adult (that's Y speak for senior citizens) group together and do fun stuff with them like games in the lobby, day trips and eventually weekend trips. We have some pretty fun older members, they may be old but they are younger at heart and more fit than a lot of middle aged people I know!! Another thing I will be focusing on is establishing a teen leadership program and more teen opportunities at the Y. I am excited to work with this age group as well, we are going to plan some fun things for these kids to do and hopefully keep them out of trouble :) I will also be in charge of birthday parties and our preschool program that we have. Phew, it will be a lot of change for me and I am sure I will make mistakes along the way, but I am ready!! Everyone at work is really excited for me and made me feel very welcome at my first staff meeting on Friday. I got pretty lost cause they kept throwing out all these numbers and terms that I didn't understand but I will learn fast I hope. If not, I will just sit in the meetings every week with a dumb grin on my face and yell out things like "I love lamp!!" (it's from Anchorman for those of you who didn't get that at all).

On Friday, the kids and I went to the Relay for Life here in town to show support for Josh's Mom who is an 8 year survivor of breast cancer!! It was very special to be there for her and to see all these cancer survivors. It was SO HOT outside, but there isn't anywhere else we would have rather been, then right there with her. We watched her as she walked the survivor lap, then we got to get on the track and walk with her for the team lap. I am not sure why I decided to do almost all the pics in black and white, but I like it that way. The theme for the relay was hawaiin so Deb's team was called the Heavenly Hawaiins, hence the angel wings.

Survivor lap.

These are the people who are the longest cancer survivors, how cute is the old lady in the middle?

They passed the banner down the line, this the 5-9 year survivors.

This is their team lap. We got to walk with them.

At 10 pm they put glow sticks in all the bags that lined the whole track. They were dedicated to the survivors and the people who passed away from cancer. We didn't stay for that, but I am sure it would have been awesome to see. This is Deb's bag.

Sunday Funday

After all the drama at the beginning of the weekend, we managed to end the weekend on a good note. Harper slept pretty well all night, and only needed one breathing treatment really early this morning. She has been fever free since yesterday afternoon (Saturday) and was all smiles when she woke up today, jabberin away as I changed her diaper and fed her. The breathing treatments seem to be working and her cough sounds a million times better!!






Here comes Buddy...

Here lick my hand then I will stick it in my mouth, my Mom totally loves this (yuck yuck yuck)!!

She loves him though and squeals whenever he comes around.

I was up all night with an awful migraine, my whole head was pounding and every noise and light made me want to throw up. I finally fell asleep sometime after 3 am only to be up at 4:30 to give Harper her treatment. Needless to say I was exhausted this morning and the headache wasn't AS bad but still not pleasant. Josh really wanted to take Pax to Wichita to do something fun so I sucked it up and we all headed out to the big city :) We ate lunch at Cheddar's.........um yummo!!! Then we went to the bowling alley and played a couple games. This was Pax's first time bowling and he loved it, however he is still grasping the concept of waiting your turn and didn't understand why he couldn't bowl whenever he wanted to.........sorry buddy Mommy and Daddy wanna have some fun too. I ended up beating Josh both games. HE will say he let me win but I know better, he was totally bringin his A game today and failed miserably :) Then we played some arcade games, again I totally kicked Josh's butt in skee-ball. Poor Pax had to just stand there and watch us while we played heated game after heated game (can you picture it) BUT he did get a ton of tickets out of it and got to get himself an airplane (a tiny little cheap thing that ACTUALLY cost us about 10 bucks in game tokens!!!). Harper did great, she just hung out in her stroller and watched us and then eventually fell asleep. I am so glad to see her almost back to her normal self.

Josh showed him how to do it the first few times, then he DID NOT want our help!!

Happy girl just sitting and watching us.

Doin it on his own.

Not even kidding, it took about 5 minutes for that stupid ball to get all the way down the lane!

Please notice the score, I won both games!! Not to gloat or anything but....ok totally gloating!! And I must say, Pax did pretty good holding his own for being his first time, not that the bumpers had ANYTHING to do with that, right?

It was a fun way to end a weekend that started out pretty scary. I am glad it wasn't a total bust and Pax was able to have some fun after all. He still asked for Auntie Sarah when he woke up this morning :( We will have to make another trip there soon, but this time I will make sure the kids are 100% healthy and there is no rain in the forecast!!!