I think my posting time is getting longer and longer between each. Sorry! I use to love spending lots of time blogging and reading but my life has gone from busy to just crazy busy.

Kids seem to become more and more active as they get older. My oldest is 8 and we are into everything these days, not to mention he is a social butterfly and is constantly off doing things with friends also.

(boys went fishing with grandma & grandpa)

Just to break it down a bit:
Soccer season for both boys just ended last Saturday. YEAH!!! This was the worst season as it has done nothing but rain. I think I sat in the rain at more of my older sons games than in the past 5 years of game playing. If it wasn't raining we either had bitter cold or extreme heat. No clue where the nice weather is but it isn't here.

Youngest was his first year playing soccer and it was rough so we are going to skip fall for him and see about trying again in about a year.

Now we ended those things but we have started swimming lessons twice a week, just for Luke right now. Thomas will get his turn in July, we were late signing up so we could only get one child in.

Piano lessons once a week for Luke.

Did I mention soccer camp, possibly two different soccer camps.

Now this is all pretty much Luke. Now lets not forget, I work, the kids go to the sitters, we have lots of play dates with friends.

We are trying to get siding on our house. Another tough project as the weather is not helping with this either. Last weekend I was scrapping paint in 90+ degree temps in the sun. Not fun!

We still have not planned our summer vacation. I also want to find time to take the boys swimming, what's the point of lessons if we never get to swim. I also really want my 8 year old to learn how to ride his bike this year. Seriously, the kid is to old for training wheels but we don't have a place to ride at my house, road to busy, drive way to small and we don't have sidewalks. So this requires packing up and going to a bike trail.

Anyway, that is my life in the fast lane these days. Hopefully the summer doesn't go by to fast. What are you doing this summer?

Time goes on...

I must say it has been a while, again since my last post. Our lives have been very busy of late and also a little on the stressful and crazy side of things.

I will start with my dog Mercedes. Here is a picture of both our dogs with Luke but it is a few years old. Mercedes is the yellow lab in the picture.

At the end of January Mercedes tore her ACL in her knee on one of her back legs. We were told she could live like this just wont be able to run and play like she use to. OK great! Take her home consider surgery but no rush, vet said we could decide in time. With in a month she stopped eating and develops a lump on the hip of the same leg with the torn knee. We start thinking her hip is now out of place (my dogs are 9). So we decide to consult the vet about moving forward with knee surgery. When we do we find out she has cancer and that lump on her hip is a cancer mass. At this point we have a couple options, first remove cancer (no promis of removing it all), then have knee surgery or do nothing and wait. We decided since she was 9 and two surgerys was just to much money with to much unknown we decided to do nothing.

We medicated her to keep her comfortable and watched this cancer lump grown into a volley ball size mass on her hip as well as growing inside. Needless to say last Tuesday (April 12) was Mercedes last with us. We had to put her down as she lost all control of one leg (it swelled and was dead) and was starting to lose the other which ment it was time.

We are all a little heart broken but this is the reality of life. Sad part is we never thought we would lose this dog first she was so healthy, fit, active before January.

As for the rest of our life, we are buys working on our house (painting) getting ready to put siding on it. This is only 9 years over due. Both boys are playing soccer now. This keeps us busy running two nights a week and then Saturday games. Thomas has not had his first game yet due to rain this past weekend they cancelled all games. Hopefully this Saturday will be his first. Lets hope I don't forget the camera, I seem to do that a lot these days.

Lost in a Magical World

Once again I have vanished with out a trace.... it seems I have been hiding myself in a book for the last 6 weeks. Technically it has been 7 books but once I started I became consumed and I seemed to do nothing else.

What have I been reading you ask? Harry Potter of course.....(yeah I know I am acting like a 10 year old boy)

I got all 7 books for Christmas when I just asked for the first one. I only asked for one book because I don't think of myself as a person who sits and reads. These books have been around for a long time, only in the last two years have I been caught up on the movie craze part of Harry Potter. Seen the last two films in the theater but before that I had to got myself all caught up on the video's.

Anyway, because I love the movies so much I decided I would take a stab at trying to read the books. I guess I found the books to be unbelievable because I just found myself consumed by them and doing nothing else but reading my books.

Then I had the struggle of do I read the last book or not? See the last movie comes out this July which is the second half of the last book. I wasn't sure if I wanted to read the book or not. I then decided I had to read it because I didn't want to wait and because the movies now make so much more sense to me after having read the books (yeah I had to watch each movie again after reading the book). Plus the books create so much back story that just isn't covered in the movies and just makes the whole story so much better. Needless to say I read the last book and I read it in 2 days because I was not putting it down.

Now I am really excited for the first part of the last movies to come out on video in April (I have all the other movies so I will own this one also). Then I have to wait for July to see the final movie. Oh how excited I am for it to come out. My husband will not let me tell him anything because he doesn't want the movie spoiled. I am splitting at the seems to tell someone all about it. Good thing Luke wants to know and I was able to tell him about it. It isn't spoiled for me, I can't wait to see it and based on previews I think they will do it justice. I really hope anyway.

Have you read the Harry Potter books or seen the movies? I must say they have been well worth my time.

Winter Energy

One thing I really hate is winter. We are all stuck inside (way to cold outside) and the activity level goes way down. However little kids still have a lot of that energy that they really do need to burn.

Grandma bought the boys this adventure game for the Wii at Christmas time. It comes with 25 activities and a play mat that they have to run and jump on to do the activities. They have so much fun and it really does get that energy out that they have all built up.

Have a look and tell me this doesn't look like lots of fun.



If you noticed someone thinks he is Indiana Jones. He has a hat, whip and everything, hence the singing with the adventure. I love it!!!

The only bad thing about the game is the mat walks all over the room and the boys never reposition it until I make them, so someone is always jumping right next to a piece of furniture.

Oh and we do have the occasional melt down when someone doesn't win. Oh well they have to learn someday.

NEW YEAR

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to everyone, just a little late I suppose.

I have lots to share but no real desire to get the camera card out, edit my pictures and post them. I don't want everyone to think I have dropped off the planet, just lacking any drive to be on the computer. I do have a lot of drive for many other things including working out more, reading my Harry Potter books I got for Christmas, yes I know a 36 year old reading Harry Potter but I love the movies and decided I must read the books. My husband and I have also committed to spending more time for just us because with kids we tend to not do that as much as we should. I am also trying to put myself first, not to sound selfish just find that I put me last and I need to give myself a little extra attention as well. So lots going on in my life these days.

We had a wonderful Christmas, Luke also turned 8 years old. Where has the time gone. We had our first ever all boy sleep over at our house on Luke's birthday. 6 boys in all and let me just say 7 & 8 year old boys are very loud and they can stay up very, very late. They seemed to have a great time and I am glad of that. We are at the age now where unless Luke has a friend over to our house we are not going to see that child much because he is always being invited to someones house. I really like all the families of Luke's friends. I am hoping that I can make some mom friendships out of a few of them. I am one who really keeps to herself and I shy away from letting people in and I am really going to try and work on that also.

Soon I will bust out the photo's but for now all I have is a very late Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.