Funnies, Recital Time, Fun Weekend

 As usual, our lives over the past few days have been nothing short of busy.  When I think about how busy we always seem to be, I can't help but be thankful that we are busy together.  Making Memories.  The down side to it is our house stays a wreck!  So I am publicly apologizing to anyone that comes over and happens to walk in one of the kids bedrooms.  Just close your eyes and pray you don't trip and fall.

Kyle was so excited that he and Karter made "The Santa Ana Times"... kind of like a virtual magazine that the ship puts out.  The employees are able to submit pictures of their families.... and they play slide shows during meetings, etc.  I love the idea!

They are the ones next to last on the right :)!

 Okay, this completely CRACKED me up when it showed up on my snapchat.  I had to screen shot it to keep for a "rainy day".  Tyler hacked Moms phone :)....

 How funny was that?

Now for a not so funny..... I felt like the WORST Mom EVER when this happened.....

See the cut above his ear and at his hair line? 

 I noticed some long hair above Karter's ear, so I was going to trim it.  For whatever reason he jerked his head and I ended up clipping his head.  He SCREAMED.  I cried.  He then assured me he was okay, but that he might die.  Made me feel 100 times worse.  I hadn't done anything like that since cutting Heidi's newborn fingers when I was trimming her finger nails. 

Thursday we spent the afternoon/evening at Moms (after the zoo).  I got this family selfie of us on the golf cart :)...

And then after bath time she had the girls try on their costumes so she could fix what needed to be fixed.

 As you can imagine, Soph keeps me entertained (& some days wanting to pull my hair out) most days..... 

"A day in Moms shoes"

 Kman had a tball game Friday night.  He is so cute playing.  He is the youngest one on his team and I love watching his determination and excitement.  He can't seem to run the bases without smiling and most definitely can't cross the home plate without sliding. 

 After the game, we ate Mexican with Babee and then came back to our house.  I had walked inside to put my usual arm load of stuff down when Heidi ran in and told Mom and I we had to come see this quick.

A freshly born baby bird had fallen out of his nest.  Now my last attempt at saving little birds failed miserably and they ended up all dying and my heart broke in a million pieces.  Not to mention the Mama Bird was trying her best to attack me. 

So I was pretty nervous about trying to save this one.  I was glad Mom was there to help.

 The kids were amazed.....

 I got the ladder and tried to put the bird back in the nest.... which was in a metal thing on our shop.  My hand would only go so far and the silly thing kept flipping and flopping and was about to fall out again.  Mom then took a stab at trying, but she ran into the same problem.  Heidi "tried", but was too scared.  Sophie was BEGGING to do it, but we honestly were afraid she would be too rough and kill it.  She did PERFECT.  She was able to get her small arm all the way through and place it on the nest.

Hard to see because of how dark it was... but the nest was pretty far in..

 We then stuck some paper towels in the end so it couldn't flop out.  The sides were open (we just couldn't reach them).  The Mama bird could fly in from the sides . 

Saturday morning we had to be at dance recital practice bright and early.... 8:15.  That was dressed, hair done, and makeup done.  Thankfully Babee came over at 7:00 to do their hair and brought Hardee's :).

Heidi's snap chat... not sure what Soph did her first time LOL...

 That little girl had been counting down the days until she "could get on stage".  She told us, "I am soooo excited.... I think I might cry.  I cannot wait to get on stage". 

 This years theme is "A Year of Dance".... (which is why Heidi is in a Ms. Claus suit). 

She took some selfies on our way to practice.....

I had a VERY fun morning with my girls. 

 This next picture was right, but I can't seem to get it to turn right on the blog.  My apologies. Yana's birthday was Saturday :)!!  Dad had been talking to me about what he wanted to do for her and I usually try to help him when he is at work.  She has wanted a deck to go on the back side of the pool where it slopes for as long as I can remember, so that is exactly what she is getting this year.  As you know, our printer has bit the dust, so I decided to just draw a replica instead of trying to find one to get someone else to print.  Tyler helped me color it :)....

 After dance, getting Karter from Tyler and us doing Yana's drawing, and visiting Yana on her bday :), we headed to one of Heidi's friends swimming parties.  They had a BALL!!!

 We had a fun rest of the afternoon/evening at home.  I washed my car (inside & out) and the kiddos played in the water, washed their toys, drew with chalk all over the drive way, just had a good time.

 Yesterday after church we went to Moms to eat a yummy lunch and then she kept the kids for me to go to my friend's aunts funeral.  She was also dear to me because she was the Mom one of my old teachers that has become a huge inspiration to me since Moms diagnosis.  She had cancer, so her viewing was exceptionally hard for me.  I didn't expect to lose it, but I just did.  I was still an emotional basket case when I got back to Moms. 

BUT we sat outside until church time and talked so that helped. 

How cute is this?? Oscar was loving the kids pushing him in the stroller. 

Last night when we got home these two were being so sweet to one another.  Karter kept rubbing Sophie's hair and I was trying to capture the moment, but I kept missing it.  I did capture that one and it is still sweet to me.

Ending with that funny.  Pretty funny to me because that was me a few months ago.  My legs hurt for days after.