TOGETHER

My time as a Stay at Home Mom ends tomorrow, back to work first thing in the am. While I am happy to get back into a routine I am a wreck I have to part with this sweet little baby for the entire day. She will be close by, waiting for me to come in and grab her for some snuggles throughout the day. I am thankful I have a job where I can see her as much as I like. I have become a fan of Ellen during my stay at home mom time. She cracks me up! It is now set to record each day.

and she is off...her first day of pre school in a brand new classroom in a brand new building! I am shocked and amazed I cannot believe she is in preschool, I know she is ready I just didnt want to let her go. She keeps telling me 'Mom, PLEASE let me get bigger!' so off she goes to the new emerald room, with new teachers, new work everything she needs! When I got home I was carrying Mae into the house and she looked right at me & gave me a HUGe smile as if saying 'Mom, this is what I have been waiting for for the past 8 week!' so here I am in my 4 hours of solitude & Mae time, she is asleep and I feel like I have forgotten to put on a major piece of clothing without someone yelling, whining, or needing something from me. It is crazy that I miss them when they are away...but totally LoVE the time :)

it is amazing...2 whole layouts! I love this one, it is Jesse but looks just like Mae. I guess I never realize it until I look at the past picture. The whole reason why I scrapbook. This layout I have wanted to do for a long time. Tags from all the different clothes that the kids wear. This one I wanted to do because I am constantly finding these tags and the little plastic things that hold them on in the kids bedrooms. They rip the tags off and just throw them on the floor. Working on binders now to hold all the school items that come home. Yes, I was trying to get them done prior to school starting but we will start with September.

(he really does LOVE her!) School is back in session! This usually makes me sad each year. I do not like it when summer is winding down, days get shorter, nights get cool, kids back to bed early & up early. This year though...way different story...GOODbYE older two...have a great day!! ok so about 1pm I did start to miss them. I do not miss: the name calling the tattle telling the door slamming the junk everywhere the crying the hitting the wet floors from the pool feet the screaming the capri sun wrappers all over the yard but I was very happy for them to come home. This girl is a third grader and I know she will do GrEAT! This boy is a first grader and is very excited to buy lunch! Rosa Parks here tried to sneek on the bus on the first day, she got up three stairs before she got kicked off. but she went down kicking and screaming! (here is her brother pushing her out of the bus line) so my days are now dwindled down to 2, two small little people, and only one can talk bu...

How cute is Amy sending me this awesome little package: and in this little package was all this goodness She is amazing...so calm, which makes me a little less of a freak during the session. GO to her Facebook page and 'Like' her page, then post on her wall telling her I sent you there!

This baby is 1 month...WoW I am amazed how the time is flying by! She spent her 1 month birthday at the Wild Water Adventure Water Park with her sisters, brother & cousins. She had a great time and so did they! It kills me she is 1 month already...I know, I know, that is not old by any stretch of the mind, but in my mind she is downright old! She is doing the following in her 30 full days of life: she loves to be held...yes, that is my fault but I dont care! she is not a big fan of the swing her ears are no longer scrunched up she is getting chubby she has shoulders like a linebacker has a sweet hairy back her cord fell off on July 28th she will give a smile every now and then she gets crabby about 6-8pm she gets carried around in weird ways, multi-tasking she likes to have her hair washed she has been to Starbucks more than any other place, she may not always get out but has been there she stays awake a little longer she sleeps 6 hours at night she loves to sleep all swaddled up...

Two weeks ago Joel's son Josh got married (Congrats Joshua & Katie!) I was able to go to the reception for a bit, it was fun, but made me miss Joel so much again. Of course I forgot to leave the card with the gift. When I got to the reception it was beginning to pour, and they move all the gifts inside, so I just never made it in. (It was an outside reception) This week I finally dropped the card off for them, so I had called Josh to let him know, and it was like speaking to Joel, which totally freaked me out. We were getting ready to hang up & he said, 'I gotta get back to it' which is a total Joel line he would say all the time. It was so weird hearing Josh say that, who sounds like Joel. So it could be the crazy baby hormones, but that led me to tears for the car ride home. Joel is laughing at me now from somewhere with these three sassy girls. His favorite age is what Jesse is now & I just know he would be loving the sas I get from her each day. I am sure he...