It's May, right?!?

It's chilly today! A little over a week and it will be June. We woke up to a thunderstorm rumbling over us and a nice downpour of rain. I have been enjoying this rain we have been getting. Even if it is a bit much. All our lakes are finally full again. A bit of change from the last few years.

I wanted to make a day trip out of here on Sunday but we are suppose to have thunderstorms again. I hope the forcast changes from now to then. I want to take pictures and its the same ole stuff around here. It would be nice for some new pictures of the kids.

I wont be off work for the whole weekend but at least I will be off Sunday and Monday with Mike and the kids!

Speaking of the kids they have tomorrow and then 4 days next week for school. Then we will be out for summer!!! Woohoo. We had a really good summer last year, so I am hoping for the same this year. Sleeping in is top on my list! And of course spending time with the kids.

I just came to realize we have 1 year until we will be enrolling the twins for prek. Yikes!!! Excitement and sadness!!!

Lovely

The first week of April I took the 3 younger kids to take pictures in the bluebonnets. I love my camera, it takes wonderful pictures. The bulkyness is annoying with the bigger camera but it takes fantastic pictures. I was very surprised I got Ella and Harley to sit long enough for pictures. They did great.

You know me

I can't remember to write here for nothing! You would think it would be a reminder with me having the app on my phone but even though i see it everyday i forget to write here. Alot has happened since March. We celebrated Easter at our house. My parents joined us. Sadly my sister and her family didnt make it. Her twins were sick. So it was just us and it was a great day. As usual I made way too much food.

April we didn't do too much other than the normal got to school, go to work. Mike and I celebrated our 15 year anniversary. We had a nice weekend away. It really was awkward waking up to no kids. Last time we did that was when I was pregnant with the twins and the big kids liked spending alot of weekends at Grandma's house. We drove out to winstar in Oklahoma. It really was a lot of fun. We ended up coming out ahead so that was even nicer. We have officially decided we have to do more away trips just us two. Other than not waking up to kids, it was great being able to have conversations without kids interrupting. And holding hands and him opening the car door for me! We get so caught up in the everyday stuff, we forget the little things that are nice.

Two weeks after our adventure we celebrated Lexi turning 15! It's hard to believe she is that old. Where has the time really gone? I've been getting a little sentimental these past few weeks. Of course realizing she will only have 3 more years of school and then she will be off to college. I am really hoping she will go to a college close by. We have talked about maybe her going to the community college to get her basics and then choose a bigger school later. But ultimately it's her decision. Just today she kiddingly said she's not going to college. Her choice. I didn't go to college and I could still go. I have thought about it time to time. I still could if I wanted.

Lexi wrapped up her gymnastics. She choose not to go to her banquet. She says she didn't miss anything. I think she should have went but it was her choice for not going.

School will be out in a little more than a week. We don't have any plans set yet for summer, although I would like for us to take a weekend trip somewhere. Maybe to the coast or maybe north. A nice family trip would be good for us.

Today Kaylee graduated from 3rd grade. I am so proud of her. She made A/B honor roll for the year, got an award for citizenship, music and completion of the 3rd grade. The twins were so well behaved at the ceremony and it helped that Mike was there with us.

Reality

I had the opportunity to move up at my job yet again... and yet again I had to pass it up. It truly makes me sad. Not only am I stuck in my current position but my pay was deducted. Reasoning was restructuring of the company. And I was getting paid too much. Needless to say I'm not putting forward 115% effort anymore. I am still giving my best but no extra. Once the twins go to school I won't be so limited with my schedule. I contemplated over putting them in daycare but I honestly couldn't see paying that much money for a stranger to watch them. They still have a year home withe before prek and I think I should enjoy it while I can. After all they are my last babies.

This week has flown by and I am glad. We have one week until easter and I've been preparing. I think I have all the stuff bought for baskets and the egg hunt. Now to figure out where we will actually have the egg hunt. I could host but I am pretty sure that not everyone would want to come over. So the next best option is my parents house. I'm just waiting on confirmation. Oh and I can't forget that we need to make out the menu.

I have bought outfits for Ella and Kaylee. Bought Mikey a shirt and Harley shorts. I am more than sure that Lexi has something to wear as her closet runs over! I have a skirt for myself but would like to loom for a new shirt. We won't be matching but at least we will all have nice clothes for pictures.

It happened

Last week Michael Jr turned 13! I honestly don't know how that happened. A second teenager for me to raise and help guide in the right direction. We celebrated with a home cooked meal and birthday cake. For his gift we took him to buy a new bike. We did let him pick it out. He made a good choice for sure.

Mikey is very loving but can make his sisters mad in a heartbeat. He helps take care of the twins on occasion. Usually it doesn't take much to get him to help out around the house. He really loves playing his xbox and watching movies. He would love his bike even more if we had some decent weather to ride it in.

Happy 13th Michael!!!

Snow Day

Well yesterday ended up being a snow day for the kids, again. Wednesday night leaving work I had to scrape all the windows as the rain had turned to freezing rain and then sleet. Actually as I scraped my windows the sleet was coming down. I have to say I am thankful for this little car of ours. It warms up so fast and the defroster gets an A+ from me. I got my windows scraped off as much as I could before freezing to death. Since work is only about 5 minutes away from home I didn't worry about not having use of the windshield wipers since they were frozen. As I started out from work it was lightly sleeting and barely sticking to the ground. Bu the time I turned onto the street leading into our neighborhood the sleet was coming down heavy and fast. As I got out of the car at home the ground now had a coating of little ice pellets. It was a little slick going from the car to the house. I knew at that time that school would be canceled.
When I got into the house Mike happened to have the news on and I caught it just in time to see the letter H's scrolling across the board. Our school wasn't listed. Kaylee happened to be asleep in my bed so in the time it took me to walk her upstairs and back to my room they had added our district. Knowing I wouldn't have a 5:30 am wakeup call I decided to stay up for a bit and watch the weather change. Oh boy it changed and quickly at that.
I got home a few minutes after 10 and by 10:30 the ground was white with sleet. By 11pm it was snowing, big fluffy flakes at that. Around midnight when I looked out we had about an inch and a half. At 1 am we had at least 3.5 inches. When we woke up yesterday morning it was a winter wonderland! We had approximately  4 to 5 inches. It was amazing. Around 10 am I took the twins out to play and it was nice. The sun was shining and it felt so warm out even though it was only about 30 degrees. We hurried to build a snowman. He was cute. But he quickly melted. I decided to take the kids to lunch at burger king so the twins could play on the playground. We ate and played and then headed home.
I think we really enjoyed our snow day together. Today starts spring break when the kids get out of school. And I will have a few days off with the kids.  I am happy we didn't plan a camping trip this year. We wanted to but it didn't work out. So considering the weather we have had we probably would have been miserable. Maybe next year or sometime into the summer.

Bad Weather

I am going to back up here since I forgot to come and post......

Monday the 23 we woke up to lots of sleet coming down. The night before the school made an early announcement that school was cancelled. That was nice because we got to sleep in! Mike came home early due to the weather and then I got called off from work. Late Monday night the school called off school again for Tuesday. So we got a second snow day. Mike went up to his job and nobody showed up so he got to enjoy the day with us. I was thankfully scheduled off that day. Wednesday was real iffy but the kids ended up going to school. They weren't too happy over that. Then skip to Friday, a half day already because of exams. It started snowing early around 9am and didn't stop until well into the late afternoon. Kaylee was out at noon and the jr high kids out at 12.30. The snow was pretty thick by the time I had to leave to get the kids. We had some bumps along the way but finally everyone was safe at home. And thankfully again I was scheduled off. Although Saturday we were asked to come in an hour later.
I love the snow but hate driving in it. Since Sunday we have had nothing but rain. The cars still need to be washed but it will have to wait until hopefully this weekend. Today we are expecting yet another cold front and sleet! We have a big possibility of not having school tomorrow. I would be ok with that. Friday is the start of Spring Break and hopefully we will have a good week. I have taken a few days off to be with the kids. I'm not sure at the moment if we will do anything because of weather. We are trying to go to six flags on Sunday weather permitting. Maybe if we don't we can all load up in the car and go for a drive.