Melissa’s Blog

We got ready to go to the grocery store to get some snacks for play group. The kids don’t mind going to the grocery store since I have made it so much more fun. We are the Sander’s Team, we say go team. The kids carried the baskets and helped shopped. It was a quick trip as we didn’t need too much. I let them play Wii until their friends got here. I barely know how to turn on the Wii but Justin does. Our friends came over this morning and the kids seemed to have fun. The girls dressed up. The kids gathered instruments and practiced shows for us. It was cute. I haven’t been upstairs and am worried it is messy, but the kids had fun and that is all that matters. After everyone left we had a quick lunch as we needed to get to our get ready for kinder class. I dropped the kiddos off and did a few errands. I just took my time….then I went to pick the kiddos up. I love the big hugs I get when I pick them up. They showed me their drawings of plants, flowers, etc. They showed me their journals as well. We played outside there for a while, the kids rode bikes. Nikki really wanted someone in her trailer. We came home and just played outside. It was a really nice day. Justin played soccer on the greenbelt for a while then the kids wanted to paint. We got the easel out and the kids made lots of beautiful pictures. They are so proud of their artwork. Dad came home and we had dinner. After dinner we went upstairs and the kids played roll the ball. I tried working on Nikki’s bed. Dad read some books. I tried to cuddle with the kids a little extra tonight thinking that some day they won’t want me too.

Yesterday we had a fun day. The kids went to soccer. Justin scored about 4 or 5 goals. He was a one man team, the other 3 people on his team were not really interested in playing. Nikki did really well. She played rabbit and fox, dribble your ball and tag someone with your ball then grab their pinny hanging out from their waist. After soccer Justin and Nicole played soccer together and we just hung out at the field and relaxed. At home we did water balloons. The kids got soaked and discovered it was fun to make it rain, throw the water balloons on top of the patio cover. Nikki and I went to get our toes painted. Nikki got chicks on her toes and it was nice to be out with her alone. Dad and Justin went to Home Depot. When I got home Justin couldn’t wait to show me what they bought at Home Depot. We went to our next door neighbors for dinner. There was also another  neighbor there that had a 4 yr old as well. It was really nice. Although they served Mexican food, Bret loved it me not so much. Our kids spent most of the time watching TV. We didn’t get home until 8:00 and the kids were crazy hyper. They were dancing around, laughing, trying to pick each other up, etc. We were laughing so we just let it go on. I think we got them to bed @ 9:00.

This morning no one slept in, ugh. The kids did some puzzles and we read them books. When we came downstairs it was all about the Wii. The kids made lots of pics. Some for teacher appreciation at pre school, Grammy for mother’s day, etc. They had fun doing water colors. We finally got our lawn mowed. Seriously it was really bad. Nicole helped dad mow with her little mower. While they were busy mowing Justin and I were playing with remote control cars. Dad also started working on laying new wire for our new malibu’s. We decided to go look at possibly buying a new fridge. So we tried to go to one store and it was closed, so frustrating. We did have lunch over by there at our favorite sandwich place though, Lil Pickle. We stopped at Great Indoors and Best Buy. The kids were great. They had fun playing with all the appliances. At Best Buy they were able to play with the Wii. We felt so bad dragging them around everywhere that we stopped at Yogurt Land for a treat for the kiddos. Then we went to Carters and Lowes. The kids were getting crabby at this point, so we did try to let them play outside for a bit. Finally we just let them watch TV and relax. We made some dinner and dad played Uno with the kiddos. Upstairs I read lots of books and the kids went right to bed. They were tired. As far as a new fridge, we have bought one but just changed it to a different one. We still aren’t sure but wanted to lock in the pricing.