home!

 we had a rather low keyed week, i spent most of it cleaning, and doing endless loads of laundry, some party planning and getting caught up in life.  the kids played, swam, played, cried, annoyed me and were bored. ha.  i spent time with ellie on helping her over come some of her "behavioral issues"  like lying, being mean to joey and being loud. ha. 

nate dressed himself. silly kid

mon-wed ellie was not feeling well.  she was burning a fever and spent 2 days on the couch

 nate tucked her in

 peek a boo my little boo

 by thurs she was back to herself. i ran upstairs to grab the bathing suits for the girls and found her like this. hahaha

 shes a great little cleaner

 raise them up!

 we hit up a few parks too. the weather has been really nice, so we spend a lot of time outside

 ellie was playing hop scotch!

 wed we went to the library, it was brutally hot out.  so i found a spot under the a/c and sat back to watch the girls play

 cute!

then we went back home to swim. you know its hot out when i go swimming too!

 joey has a new trick. she has asked me a dozen times to go pee, i put her on yesterday to see what will happen. guess what? she peed! im not ready to train her yet....so im still gonna stick with my plan to wait and train her....unless she comes to me and asks again....im in the mindset that i train hard core, no more diapers...just underwares and i am not wanting to give 100% to the training process at this time.  i need to prepare myself for the patience and willing to clean up all the messes. haha  but this morning joey asked to pee again....i did put her on but i am not sure of she did pee....who knows....but ellie was quite taken with the whole cheering on job of the big sister!

 its rainy and icky out so we spent time working on party decorations. this was NATES idea! and a great one at that

 ellie helper pants

 working together to get the job done!

all i can say is tank you jesus that today is FRIDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1   chris is home tomorrow and i can get a break from the demands of mommyhood!!!!!!

happy friday everyone 3 comments

Posted by mel at 12:12 PM

trip part !

 we left for ontario bright and early sunday morning.  we planned on staying in ottawa, but bec we made such great time, we decided to drive on to cornwall and stop at a ho jo....that was ummmmm needing some help.....the room was quite bad, but we stayed the night and sucked it up. i tried to pretend i was camping to make myself feel better....haha

 joey napped some of the drive!

 ellie watched movies

 nate too!

monday around 2 we made it to the farm in ontario!  this is muetti and vati's back yard!

 we hit up some of the trails that are in the back yard!!!!  and of course joey wore her "joey boots!"

 more back yard pics!

 going for another walk

 hearing the birds singing

 on one of my trips to town i found this guy parked beside me. ha. we were in amish country

 muetti got a mini pool for the girls to splash around in

 ellie swinging on the ginormous swing!

 joey! wet and wearing her boots! ha

 grrrrrrrr

 no worries, its just nate. ha

 joey pushing her birthday gift. i love this stroller, SO cute! 

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Posted by mel at 6:40 PM

our tree! pt 2!

 the ontario weather caused joey to get the same curls are ellie!  awe, i love me some curls

 nate beside the johana bridge.  ellie saw the bridge and then created her own ellie and nate bridge down by the wild coffee. now all we need is a sign to go along with it

 more farm scenery

 my boy!

 taking a walk with his mama

 the men relaxing after working on the wild coffee house

 chris and i took the kids to our tree. the one we got engaged under. we had all the kids walk in the sweltering heat for 15 mins to get there

 joey on the run

 ellie peeking at the river

 nate leading the troops

 joey having a peek

 hitching a ride with dad

 the tree from the bridge

 having a science lesson on wheat. haha

 daddy leading the way after a lesson on how to walk in farmers fields

 there's the tree!

 ellie made a fort

 joey walked around

 beautiful ellie

 who would have thought i'd bring 2 more girls to visit the tree. the last time we were there nate was 4 and an only child. SOOOOO grateful to have had the girls!

playing

 my kids!

 i was there too. haha

 ellie then played in the dirt. cause thats what you do when you see dirt!

 nate made a fort

 joey ate dirt

 playing

its always nice to visit the place that started it all.  who would have thought 13 yrs later....we have come so far....i cant wait to revisit in the yrs to come 0 comments

Posted by mel at 6:40 PM