May 2012

May 1- school, field trip to the new Science museum wing with klick's, lots of playtime, picked morgan girls up from school and went to ice cream for a treat, kiddos played, and met klick's at CFA for dinner.

May 2- testing for the big kids while the youngest two spent the morning playing in water at the klick's, picked them up and stayed for lunch/playtime, played all afternoon with the kiddos, lots of piano practice from cailey, and a fun family night together.

May 3- kinsey's gotcha day!!, EOYS (end of year school aka math review/flashmaster/phonics for K), ran errands, got e's haircut, celebrated K all day, met kelly at Bojangles since kinsey wanted it for her gotcha day, found out in BoJ's that they were def moving to TX:(, picked up morgan's from school and got them slushies in celebration of both gracie's bday and kinsey's gd, went to IHOP with morgans for more celebrating, then to their house to watch gracie open gifts.

May 4- watched alex, baked and decorated gracie's beach ball cake, met kelly at Jumpin Beans so the the kids could play, loved our 'talk time', traded kids for playdates and caroline came home to play with us for the afternoon while braden went to their house, baked fish cupcakes while visiting with cheryl all afternoon, leslie came over with winston and we finished the party prep while the kiddos were at choir rehearsal, and went to kohl's with Les so the boys could pick out a toy:).

May 5- soccer games, choir rehearsal all day, jackson's party at north hills park, toy store to get ephram's first super hero toy with brian!, kiddos played after choir, helped leslie with gracie's party (which cailey went to:)..and got some chat time in, and crashed after a busy few days.

May 6- church, lazy day, sleepy cailey, and the bayleaf choir program where the kiddos did awesome!

May 7- EOYS, walked at the Y with kelly then they came over for lunch, watched carter during gymnastics, kinsey went to their house for a playdate all day, poor cailey came home from the Y with a fever and spent her day in bed with a tummy ache, shrimp and linguini:), scouts for braden, and lots of playtime with my littlest guy.

May 8- EOYS, cailey still had a tummy ache all day:(, spent hours cleaning out my closet and it looks AWESOME!!, cleaned the kiddos closets too, read and played in between, and caught up with adele on the phone.

May 9- at home day, laundry (EVERY piece of laundry in the house!), got a SURPRISE call from chelsea:)!, snuggled with my still tummy ache cailey girl, read lots of dr. seuss to ephram, played games with kinsey and braden, EOYS, had to cancel a playdate b/c of cailey's tummy ache:(, and did lots of praying with my girl.

May 10- EOYS, cailey didn't feel well still, ran errands, youngest three played outside most of the day, picked the morgan girls up from school and cailey started feeling better so she played, made chicken parmesan:), had the klick's over for dinner and a fun night of freeze tag/laughing/blogging/remembering/and hanging out together....plus brownie make your own sundaes with the klicks and morgan girls.

May 11- came downstairs to kiddos playing games, brandon brought cfa for breakfast, watched the klick's and alex, lots of playing outside on the nice cool day, tons of laughing, went to cfa for free receipt day with kelly, went to AHG for the mother/daughter tea while the boys were at Kel's, played with the girls...and they played together nicely:), went to molly's shower at simply crepes and crashed!

May 12- kinsey and cailey's soccer games and award ceremony's, kinsey played in for cailey's team who was low on players and did great!:), impromptu play date with abby and lily after soccer...first to McD's then home for playing, spelling bee where C and B WON for their grade levels, kiddos played more with the girls (making hair things and playing outside) until dinner then we watched home videos as a fam. LOVE.

May 13- woke up to all four kiddos singing "Happy Mother's Day" to me and bagels, church, went to target together so the kiddos could use their gift cards from the spelling bee, cleaned the garage with the kiddos/then b, relaxed, went to the mall w/ the fam, and got lots of hugs and snuggles.

May 14- piano lessons, EOYS, LOTS of free time to play:), cailey spent the day making hair wraps, and took the girls to CFA for a mommy/daughter dinner date.

May 15- EOYS, lunch/playdate with Keel's all afternoon, date with Marsie and all the boys to the mall playplace and dinner, while brian hung out with the girls and took them on a walk/dinner at home/and played soccer with them.

May 16- EOYS, Y with Kelly, playdate with the Schoenlings, tons of playtime, triples at HT three times, cailey had soccer tryouts, outside play together, one on one time and stories with e, and games with the oldest two while K crashed.

May 17- EOYS, Y with beth for a HARD workout:), tons of playtime, picked up the morgan girls from school and got slushies before an afternoon of playing, soccer tryouts canceled because of storms, Cailey and Braden's piano recital, and triples with the whole fam AND the daddy cart:).

May 18- watched alex, went to the mall with kelly so the kiddos could play, cleaned, eve and cameron came for lunch!! along with kelly and her kiddos, left for the beach while brian came home early to watch the kids, went out to eat Italian for dinner, hung out at Joe's parents before being SURPRISED by Anne who joined Eve and I!

at home: kiddos played the rest of the day and then had a Star Wars movie night with brian.

May 19- took our time getting up then headed out for some shopping at the outlets, went to the condo, walked on the beach, ate at Benjamin's (YUM), walked around broadway for a little while, laughed, played games, and went to bed at midnight

at home: kiddos had a yard sale with brian and played in the tent, kinsey went to caroline's birthday party, and they went out to a Korean restaurant for dinner!

May 20- woke up to Krispy Kreme doughnuts, went out on the beach briefly before eating at Chili's, spent the rest of the day on the beach in the GORGEOUS sunshine, said goodbye to anne, went to Mellow Mushroom with Eve (yum), went to broadway for fun shopping and ben and jerry's for ice cream, then played some more games with eve.

at home: brian took kiddos to the Got to Be NC festival from 10-4!! where they had a blast riding rides all day and eating, then they went to their Awana meeting and awards night..where the girls got American Girl Dolls and braden got an Ipod Touch.

May 21- packed up to go home, left the beautiful beach, picked up Cameron then came home to my family for tons of hugs!!, made dessert, unpacked, more hugs, surprised eve and the kiddos with a visit from Laura and her kiddos, lots of fun hanging out, ate together, watched Rebecca open the American Girl Doll from Cailey, went on a walk together while Braden had his scout awards night, and stayed up chatting.

May 22- went walking with laura while eve watched all nine kiddos!, hung out with the girls until laura took eve to the airport...kiddos played together, braden and i made a coffee cake together, surprised the girls with a TWO night sleepover!!, went to CFA together, everyone had a great time hanging out and playing together, 31 party was canceled but leslie/cheryl/and laura and i hung out and had a great time talking while the kiddos had a movie night....and got a call from kelly saying that maybe tonight was the night to meet Charlotte!!

May 23- kelly called to say Charlotte was def coming today!, watched the klick kids for the day:), went on a walk with all 11 kids before lunch (which included a WHOLE loaf of bread), said goodbye to the welch's after a fun morning, played games with the all the kids, power outage fun, pizza for dinner, Charlotte was born at 5:20, took the kids back, read tons to the kids, and crashed only to have a little visitor in my bed:).

May 24- EOYS, played with the kiddos, laundry, cleaned, addison came to play for the day, went to see Kelly and Charlotte with Cailey, and ate Arby's with her before playing outside with the kids.

May 25- EOYS, watched Alex, Janet came over so the kids could play and she could help me with curriculum picks for next year, read on my IPAD:)!!, lots of reading for the kiddos, played games with all the kiddos (age appropriate for each), took Braden out for his birthday date with Brian for Chinese/bookstore/chocolate store while the morgan's watched the kids, and kids played outside until DARK...aka 8:45!

May 26- visit from granny!, kiddos played outside ALL day in the pool and with friends, brian (and me a little) started redoing the deck by taking all the old wood off, worked with the kids to bring all the new wood to the back yard, and movie night.

May 27- worked on the deck with brian all day while the kiddos played outside in the pool again...ephram spent the day at the morgan's getting lots of treats and attention:).

May 28- another deck day, all the kiddos played in the pool for the day and LOVED it!:).

May 29- last day working on the deck, kiddos helped with clean up and did GREAT team work (proud mama moment), had a hilarious time with the family trying to catch a baby bunny together...chasing it all around...and we succeeded and loved on it for a while before letting it go...kiddos continued trying to get it afterwards unsuccessfully, saw tons of "runaway the turtle" during the deck rebuild, got rained on/therefore couldn't stain it, and was SUPER proud of Brian for the great job he did!

May 30- pool date with cheryl rained out:(, played games and read books with the kids all day long:)!, lots of pente with the oldest three:), was silly together, menu planned with cailey, found out both cailey and braden got main parts AND solos for choir camp, and read TONS more with ephram.

from e who built a big lego 'ship'- "this is the ship where the Jedi's live...dark Vader can't get in."

May 31- first pool day of the season!! tons of fun swimming, chasing, splashing, catching, snuggling, racing, got the morgan girls from school and kiddos played, and went to CFA block party night with the lawleys for rock climbing (kinsey did AWESOME!! her first time making it to the top!) and she inspired her siblings to join her at the top:), bounce house, face paint...fun family night!