The beach...

We played in the water.

And the sand.

This girl loves the water. She loved it when the waves splashed her.

She would get wet and I would think she was done and set her down in the sand.

As soon as her toes touched the sand she was running back to the water.

So much fun!!

Home...

Then we drove home.

It was a good week with lots of fun memories.
Jeremiah and I both agree that we now need a vacation from the vacation.

Preparations...

For the last year or so Bode has been collecting change in a jar. We told him when the jar was full we would go to Disneyland. Whenever there was a piece of change laying around he would excitedly tell me that we needed to put it in the Disneyland jar. He also get letters in the mail from his Grandma Joncas occasionally with dollars in them. He made sure that every time he got "monies" it went straight into the jar. Well check it out! The jar is full!!

So we went to our local Coinstar and Bode got to empty his jar.

The grand total is...

$59.55!

When we turned in our recept to get the money, he was much more excited to get the 55 cents than the $59 dollars. He was very happy to use his quarters to buy a big gumball.

Here he is with is earnings.

 I think $59 dollars will buy a great souvenir in Disneyland.

In fact I am positive he will be buying his souvenir and Laine's in the park.

Guess we need to go to Disneyland now... I think next week sounds good.

Don't you? :)

12 on 12...

Sort of.

I saw this idea on another blog, who actually got it from another blog...

On the 12th of the month this person always does 12 of 12.

12 pictures of 12 random things, people, ideas that happen on the 12th of the month.

Not that I am going to do this every month but is sounded fun yesterday. I just didn't have time to sit down yesterday to blog. So I am going to do my 12 on 12 on the 13th instead. The only thing you have to do is add a picture of yourself from that day.

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So here I am in all my Saturday glory.

Actually I think this is how I look everyday.

Some variation of tee-shirt and work out pants, unless I leave the house.

I always at least try to get presentable clothes on if I leave the house.

But that doesn't always happen :)

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I thoroughly enjoyed yesterdays weather.

I was shocked to wake up to stormy weather.

My kids loved playing outside in the rain.

I love any kind of weather in the desert!

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Laundry.

I did SO much laundry yesterday.

I am happy to report that I got 99% of it done.

There is only one load left to do.

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I cleaned and cleaned and cleaned!

Since we will be out of town next week I need to get the house all clean.

I hate coming home after a great vacation to a messy house.

So I dusted, vacuumed, scrubbed...

Luckily for me my sweet hubby mopped the whole house on Friday!

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I posted this on Facebook for my sister.

She is selling this couch if anyone is interested.

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I put in contacts... well almost.

I have been wearing glasses since last September.

I got them thinking I would only need to wear them driving and reading.

I was wrong. I was wearing them all the time!

I hate not being able to see so I would wear them to the gym, church, playing volleyball.

Let me tell you, volleyball in glasses is no good.

So on Wednesday I went to the doctor to get glasses.

I am no good at putting drops in my eyes. Just ask my husband, he has to pin me down to put allergy medication in my eyes. So I was a bit worried to get contacts.

It is not so bad. Yesterday I put them in with little trouble, but noticed that I wasn't seeing as well as I was the day before. Then I got to thinking...boy I can hardly see out of my left eye...

So I go check and NO there is no contact in my left eye. DUH...

I looked down on the counter and there is was.

I laughed at myself for that one.

Today I can tell you that yes, I did get both contacts in both of my eyes today :)

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I keep looking at my hutch and feel it is too cluttered.

 I need to take some stuff off and clean it up a bit.

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I patched a pair of pants.

They have a bunch of distressed spot in them.

I am not a fan of underclothes poking through so

I patched them with a little material and some no sew tape.

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I had to stop and laugh at my little shoe bandit.

If there are a pair of shoes laying around you can bet they won't be there for long.

Laine loves shoes. She screams with joy at the store when we walk by the shoe department.

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I gave Bode three rounds of medicine including;

eye ointment, hot water compress, an oral antibiotic and jelly beans.

Ok so the jelly beans aren't doctor's orders but they are the only way I can get him to hold still while I put the ointment in his eyes. After going to the doctor we decided to be more aggressive with the stye treatment this time around. So three times a day he gets eye ointment, hot water compresses, medicine and jelly beans.

If the big stye doesn't clear up on its own then we have to get is drained.

Thankfully just after 2 and a half days of treatment I can already see an improvement.

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ABC Family had all three Back to the Future's on.

So all through my cleaning and folding laundry in the afternoon we watched them all.

I love those movies.

I actually have them on dvd but was to lazy to get them out.

Bode said it was "so cool".

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And finally I put my kids to bed then I sat down with my computer, a large glass of water,

watched an episode of Frasier and enjoyed the silence.

No, it is not pink eye...

Bode get sty's very easy. Poor kid. Last year he had one that was huge and looked like a wart on his lower eye last. We were very concerned and went to the pediatrician 2 times and to an eye doctor 1 time. Each time we were told that a hot water compress would do the trick and that it would go away on its own. Well it took forever. Right went it healed up another one in the same spot appeared. I was vigilant about doing the hot water compress and it went away quick. Well they are back, in full force, and they brought friends...

Not only does he have 2 Sty's, one in each eye, he has a Chalazion. Basically a sty that instead of forming on the tip on the eyelid it forms lower in the lid. They aren't contagious, but they look awful :( We are going to go back to the eye doctor and hopefully get the under control.

This is my life today...

We spent 15 minutes this morning looking for shoes.

Shoes that the night before I put in the closet.

To bad we have a little 17 month old shoe bandit loose in the house that likes to hide them.

For example: The perfect place for a shoe is in the dryer.

Or in the decorative basket in the end table.

Or in the bathtub.

Then we spent the next 5 minutes looking for scissors.

I take all the blame for this one.

I am always looking for them,

finding them,

setting them in the perfect place that I will never loose them.

That perfect place is never the same place.

Oh my poor mommy brain.

So excited...

Summer is in full swing around our house. Which means...

• Swimming! We went swimming for the first time yesterday. Laine is going to be a little fish. She was fearless. She didn't want to sit in the little floaty and when she saw Bode jumping in she wanted to do the same. We are going to have to keep our eye on that little one. Bode has graduated from the full body floaty to just arm floaties. He was so happy to be back in the pool, and has already asked me 6 times today to go swimming. As for me and Jer... we suffered our first sunburns of the year. When will I learn that the color I am going for it tan not lobster red. Oh well. We had fun!
• Summer Movies! Every Tuesday Bode and I get to go to the movies. It is so fun to go just with him. He is getting so big. Last year when we went he could barley sit through the whole thing. This year he watched it all and was so into the story. Hopefully every Tuesday goes that well.
• Vacations! We are so excited to go to California and see the ocean. Then up to Pinetop to spend time on the cool mountain air. I can't wait to go camping with my family!
• HEAT!!! Today it is supposed to get up to 107 degrees. Summer is officially here.

Also I have decided that I want to do a preschool this year. I have been wanting to do one down here for quite awhile but had decided against it. It is hard when your don't know anyone or there are a bunch of other preschools around and you don't want to "steal" kids.  I love to teach and work with kids. For the past few weeks I have been putting together all my ideas, lesson plans, planning the days in my head ext... It has made me so excited to just think about doing it. I am really hoping to do a Pre-K class for  4 going on 5 year olds, with 6 kids in the class. If I don't get enough kids then I might do a 3 going on 4 class instead. I am getting together a blog (really how many can I have) that will have the 32 week curriculum, themes, what your kids will learn, cost and everything you would need to know if you were sending your kid to me. Anybody in Surprise interested?