I will start off today's update by saying wow holy moly is time flying by! It's now less then a month and we will be on our trip !!
Last few days I have been offline for most part due to getting kids ready for school and appts that always come up at this time of year, and dealing with 504 meeting preparations etc...
so Today was an interesting day
J started his 8th grade year which seemed to go very well !
I always worry for them on the first day, Despite the heat wave we are in and the fact he chose to wear pants etc vs shorts he had a good day, come home and slept for 3 hours after school let out. Thats one thing that doesn’t seem to change with him. If he is in school all day as soon as he gets home he sleeps wakes for supper then does homework and ready for bed soon after.
Kids and I in the afternoons walk down together usually and check the mail, we live in a small cluster area of town so we have no home mail delivery. We don't mind of course because it takes a moment of the day where we can take a small walk and talk while we do So today there was 2 yellow cards in our box ! Yellow cards means something too big to fit into the box 
So kids take it up and sure enough
BIG GIVE packages !!!! 2 of them
Course kids walk a bit faster on the way home allll excited, so here goes .. Another warning I take just awful pictures so please forgive me, I did the best I could
So the first package they open is from MinnieVanMom /April, I wanted to say Thank you so much Katelynn Loved the Skirt soooo much, was cute to watch her twirl and she loved how the turtles was on the shirt too and James also loved the pins 
he's soo excited to do the Pin trading Both Katelynn and James wanted me to make sure that I told you and your family Thank you Very Much.
Here they are opening package
Here are the really cool pins which J said I must take a photo of ( as you can see it is not blurry so wasn't I who took this one hahaha)
here is Katelynn showing off her new shirt all happy just so you know Katelynn most often does not smile or react when given something until hours later.... she is surprising me a lot these days with her spontaneous reactions
Here is Katelynn trying her outfit on ! Sooooo adorable will be perfect in Disney, playful carefree bright and happy !! We love it
So again Thank you April that was so thoughtful and sweet of you
The next package is from Fairy Goodmother such a cute name, so much so tag was cut off and added to scrapbook LOL it's not every day that you get a box from a FairyGoodmother. So kids are opening this up and pictures do no justice I have to tell you, I got an immediate oOOOoooOO out of James too cute. I also wanted to take a moment to Thank you for doing this for our family. And I would say that this is one of those pixie dust moments
right here, This package that came in today did something that hasn't been done. We have a FAMILY PICTURE !!!!!! all 4 of us at once next to each other usually its kate james dad or kate james mum or mum and james or kate and mum or kate and james … BUT this time it's all 4 of us !!!!! This I will take up and have a picture properly printed from it and it will be framed by this weekend!! kate and I have wanted this forever and a day so again Thank You now onto the pictures )
So here is the one where you can see James OOooOOoo'ing hehehe
Here is the one I am so excited about Family Picture, the shirts were soooo awesome no joke, each one has our favorite character on it, James Has his pixar lamps hehehe kate has her lil finding nemo friends OH BTW it took everything to get Katelynn to save it for the trip she put it on and did not want to take it off .. I kid you not I saw my toddler side of katelynn come out I love it, Mine had wall-e on it aww soo cute and my hubby's had the cars characters on it including his fav Mator ( I think thats the lil run down trucks name)
and I had to share this picture with you guys because James Katelynn n I had such a laugh at this one we actually had tears coming down.. While Katelynn was playing with her camera trying to get the settings just right she took this “test picture” well program that we have that we download pictures from gives you editing options.. MY DH could not have set this up any more perfect then if we had asked him to do so, but this was all done accidental and had us just laughing (btw those stuffies always sit at the kitchen table, use to be just eeyore but now it's eeyore pooh and tigger lol non traditional but cute none the less)
So again Thank you soooo much it was a shock to see BIG gives coming in already, had no idea so was a fun surprise for kiddos Thank you so much
Last few days I have been offline for most part due to getting kids ready for school and appts that always come up at this time of year, and dealing with 504 meeting preparations etc...
so Today was an interesting day
J started his 8th grade year which seemed to go very well ! I always worry for them on the first day, Despite the heat wave we are in and the fact he chose to wear pants etc vs shorts he had a good day, come home and slept for 3 hours after school let out. Thats one thing that doesn’t seem to change with him. If he is in school all day as soon as he gets home he sleeps wakes for supper then does homework and ready for bed soon after. Kids and I in the afternoons walk down together usually and check the mail, we live in a small cluster area of town so we have no home mail delivery. We don't mind of course because it takes a moment of the day where we can take a small walk and talk while we do
So today there was 2 yellow cards in our box ! Yellow cards means something too big to fit into the box So kids take it up and sure enough BIG GIVE packages !!!! 2 of them
Course kids walk a bit faster on the way home allll excited, so here goes .. Another warning I take just awful pictures so please forgive me, I did the best I could
So the first package they open is from MinnieVanMom /April, I wanted to say Thank you so much Katelynn Loved the Skirt soooo much, was cute to watch her twirl
and she loved how the turtles was on the shirt too and James also loved the pins he's soo excited to do the Pin trading Both Katelynn and James wanted me to make sure that I told you and your family Thank you Very Much. Here they are opening package
Here are the really cool pins which J said I must take a photo of ( as you can see it is not blurry so wasn't I who took this one hahaha)
here is Katelynn showing off her new shirt all happy
just so you know Katelynn most often does not smile or react when given something until hours later.... she is surprising me a lot these days with her spontaneous reactions
Here is Katelynn trying her outfit on ! Sooooo adorable will be perfect in Disney, playful carefree bright and happy !! We love it
So again Thank you April that was so thoughtful and sweet of you
The next package is from Fairy Goodmother
such a cute name, so much so tag was cut off and added to scrapbook LOL it's not every day that you get a box from a FairyGoodmother. So kids are opening this up and pictures do no justice I have to tell you, I got an immediate oOOOoooOO out of James too cute. I also wanted to take a moment to Thank you for doing this for our family. And I would say that this is one of those pixie dust moments right here, This package that came in today did something that hasn't been done. We have a FAMILY PICTURE !!!!!! all 4 of us at once next to each other usually its kate james dad or kate james mum or mum and james or kate and mum or kate and james … BUT this time it's all 4 of us !!!!! This I will take up and have a picture properly printed from it and it will be framed by this weekend!! kate and I have wanted this forever and a day so again Thank You now onto the pictures ) So here is the one where you can see James OOooOOoo'ing hehehe
Here is the one I am so excited about Family Picture, the shirts were soooo awesome no joke, each one has our favorite character on it, James Has his pixar lamps hehehe kate has her lil finding nemo friends OH BTW it took everything to get Katelynn to save it for the trip she put it on and did not want to take it off .. I kid you not I saw my toddler side of katelynn come out I love it, Mine had wall-e on it aww soo cute and my hubby's had the cars characters on it including his fav Mator ( I think thats the lil run down trucks name)
and I had to share this picture with you guys because James Katelynn n I had such a laugh at this one we actually had tears coming down.. While Katelynn was playing with her camera trying to get the settings just right she took this “test picture” well program that we have that we download pictures from gives you editing options.. MY DH could not have set this up any more perfect then if we had asked him to do so, but this was all done accidental and had us just laughing (btw those stuffies always sit at the kitchen table, use to be just eeyore but now it's eeyore pooh and tigger lol non traditional but cute none the less)
So again Thank you soooo much it was a shock to see BIG gives coming in already, had no idea so was a fun surprise for kiddos Thank you so much
That's crazy and stuff! Our zoo isn't all that big, but it's good enough for the kiddos. I grew up near the Cincinnati Zoo, sooooo my expectations are a little higher.. 
will be fun to have a wall full of various family pics from nice to candid shots !! 
