August 5, 2008 at 5:02 pm (Chayse, Tyler, holiday)
Okay, so it looks like I will be posting only once a month at the rate I have been going!! I really do have an excuse….and that would be it is summer time in Vegas and the only thing I want to do is NOTHING!! It’s even to hot to think! July and August are the months that are worst for me. I hate this time of year. As most of you know I do not get alone with the sun and have been avoiding it as much as possible. But, the down side to that is cooped up kids!! Not fun either. So, needless to say it has been an interesting summer so far.
Well lets see, Tyler was done with preschool on June 30th so I had both kids home all of July. We of course had the 4th of July right off the bat, which was quite fun. We hung out with our neighbors and had a mini block party. All the kids played, swam, ate, and later shot off fireworks. It was a really nice time. We also had our other neighbor, Jorie, give the kids swimming lessons. They both did an amazing job! Chayse has no problem putting her face in the water anymore and does a great job of climbing out the side of the pool. She still doesn’t try that hard to actually swim, but is doing much better. Tyler on the other hand is all out swimming!!! I can’t believe how much he has improved in such a short amount of time. The only other thing that has gotten us out of the house was free movies at the Rave Movie Theatre. Every Tuesday and Wednesday they offered a free movie at 10:00am. We went to all of the ones I thougt the kids would sit throught. It was definitely a nice break from our extremely busy schedule of hanging out at home!!
So, now we enter August….another month of way to hot temperatures well over 100!! Every day I think, “Is it October yet?????”
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June 26, 2008 at 6:07 pm (Tyler, family, holiday)
Has it REALLY been over a month since I have been on here? Man, time is going by so fast these days. This past month I have felt like every time I get one thing done three more pop up screaming to be done next! We have had a ton going on. The community we live in is called Southern Highlands and every year they have a big Memorial Day Celebration. This year instead of having just a carnival type area for the kids they had a “water play” area. It was great!! They had at least three different types of water slides, squirt gun mazes, dunk tank, and many other things for the kids to do. Chayse went on one slide, with a little help from her dad, and that is all she wanted! Tyler on the other hand had a blast!! He played with his friend TD as long as he could, then it was time for a Subway dinner. Once it started getting dark they had a huge fireworks show.
Next up was Tyler’s Spring Program at his preschool, Springstone. Each classroom had two songs that they performed. Ty’s class sang “Tootie Tot” and “Little help from my friends”. He did a great job! We also have said good-bye to soccer for now. The season ended May 31st with the Tigers winning 4-3! It is just way to HOT in Vegas for him to play during the summer session. We will be back in the fall though!
We were also able to have a great visit with most of my family. My brother, sister-in-law, and mom all came out the beginning of this month. Plus, Katie came home with her boyfriend Pete from New York, so I was finally able to meet him. He is an amazing person and all I’m going to say right now is I wish both of you all the love in the world!!! We all were able to spend some much needed and over do time together as well as celebrate Sheila’s 40th birthday!!! You look good old women!! 
Thank you to all of you for braving the Vegas heat to see little old us. I can’t wait to be able to do it again soon!!!
Coming up we have Tyler’s last day at Springstone, private swim lessons for the kids, and bridal show again……I will try to be more on top of things and post about these as they happen, not months after!!
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May 22, 2008 at 6:32 pm (Chayse, Mark, holiday, randomness)
Long time no post! When I started this blog I thought it would be so much easier for me to keep in touch with everyone on a more regular basis. I had the hardest time typing all these emails to each individual person saying the same thing over and over again. I would usually only get a few done and then stop; hence the main reason for this blog. Well, I am finding out I am just as bad about writing as I always was!!! Sorry! I will say I will try and get better, but please don’t hold me to that!
Okay, getting back to it. Let’s see….it has been what, like two weeks since I have posted. What has been going on these past two weeks? Well, my last post was right before Mother’s Day weekend. That Saturday was quite crazy. I had so many things to do I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to keep it straight. Let me see if I can recap the day….Chayse had her dance recital rehearsal at 10:00, Tyler had a birthday party to go to from 11:00 to 12:00 and then a soccer game at 12:30. PLUS, I was asked to make the birthday cake for the party. It was Connor’s 6th birthday and Lisa asked me to make him a Scooby Doo cake. I made the cake on Friday. Then Saturday morning I had to drop the cake and Ty off at Lisa’s house so Lisa could take Ty with her to the party, take Chayse to her rehearsal, then to the party, where we met up with Mark who had been at a conference that morning. We were there for only about 15 minutes and then had to leave to make it to Ty’s soccer game. By the time the game was over I was done! We grabbed some lunch with one of Ty’s team mates (Jake) and then Mark and the kids headed to Jake’s house to hang out and swim. I stayed home and caught up on my transcribing, watched some TV, and just chilled.
Mother’s Day was no relaxing day for me. I spend pretty much the whole day trying to finish painting Chayse’s bedroom. The good news is I finished it, but wow is it PINK! I still don’t think I am used to it, but Chayse loves it. I also want to thank Katie again for the most beautiful flowers she sent me for Mother’s Day!!
That next week Mark had to go out of town for work and wouldn’t you know it….the kids and I got sick. It ALWAYS happens! I should just start stocking the house with soup, Gatorade, crackers, etc. when Mark is getting ready to go out of town so I am ready! So, last week kind of sucked, but we are all good now. Actually, the timing could not have been better. We were better just in time for Chayse’s dance recital. I was so nerves, my stomach was all a mess, you would have thought I was the one in the show. She wanted nothing to do with the dance rehearsal, so I was SURE she was going to do the same thing at the show. But, I have to say she totally blew me away. She was GREAT!!! I am SO proud of her. She danced beautifully. She brought tears to my eyes! With that, I will leave you with a picture of my little girl!
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May 6, 2008 at 12:28 pm (Mark, Tyler, holiday)
Tyler is now enrolled in the Clark County School District full day kindergarten at Ries Elementary!! My little man is growing up and we are beginning the new journey of public school. We still do not know what teacher or track he will have yet, but he is at least enrolled. He got into the full day program, which here in Vegas cost $300 a month. Mark and I are not too happy about paying for “public” school, but we both feel it will be the best for Ty. He already goes to preschool 3 times a week from 9:00am to 3:30pm. We feel it would be a step backwards to have him go 5 days a week, but only half day, which is only 2 1/2 hours! I have heard good things about both teachers teaching full day, so I am not to worried. We will find out more information as the summer goes on, but we are ready!!!
I also have to gush about my husband today….after 8 years of marriage he is still so good to me….probably even better. Today is our 8 year wedding anniversary and he surprised me with breakfast in bed!!! Then for my gift (which is for both anniversary and mother’s day) he gave me an at&t Pantech Duo cell phone. I don’t have the actual phone yet, it’s on order, but in the picture it looks so cool! It has a full keyboard for easy texting. His main reason for getting it…..it will easier for me to text my sister and if she is moving away he knew I would want it even more! Gush, gush!! I love you Mark!!
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April 9, 2008 at 4:49 pm (Friends, holiday)
Okay, so it has taken me a long time to post again. Sorry! We had friends in town from California and I was not on the computer much at all. So, here I am, trying to catch y’all up on what has been going on since Easter! I ended last time with the egg hunt we had at our house. Well, after that we got ready and headed to the church service that was being held in one of the parks right down the street from us. See, our neighbors moved here last July from Florida to plant a Christian Church here in our community. They are great people and were having their first official church service on Easter. We wanted to be good, supportive neighbors, so we wanted to make sure and attend their service. It was very nice! The weather could not have been better and they actually ended up having way more people attend then they expected. After the service was over, they had an egg hunt for all the kids. It was very cute seeing all the kids dressed up, running around, finding eggs.
After the egg hunt, we headed back home to have a BBQ with some of our friends. The kids played in the back yard on the swing set, rode bikes/scooters, and ran around playing for hours!! Us grown-ups were able to hang out and talk, have a few drinks, and just enjoy watching the kids play. And yes, some of us had a few more drinks then others, but that’s all good!!! We were celebrating right? Besides, that is when you are truly friends with someone when you can act crazy around them and they still like you……maybe even like being friends with you more because of it! Which we do!!!! We love you guys….crazy husband and all!
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April 1, 2008 at 4:55 pm (Chayse, Friends, Tyler, holiday)
Okay, so I have been kind of missing in action lately. Sorry!! We have had a lot going on and I just have not had the time to sit down and write. Or, whenever I do try and sit down to write someone needs something and blogging just gets put aside. Well, I have the chance now since Mark and the kids are off on an adventure right now. So, to back track Happy Easter!!! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. We started off the holiday weekend with coloring Easter eggs on Saturday with our good friends Lee, Amanda, and Tyler David (oh, and we can’t forget about baby Noah!!) This was the first time EVER that the kids colored eggs! They has so much fun!!! But, I do have to say that understanding the concept of trying not to drop them took some time to sink in. Now worries though, they had a blast!
Easter day was a full one for us. First off, baskets from the Easter Bunny! Yeah!! Not over filled like most years since I was tring to keep down the candy content. Then came the egg hunt in the back yard. BUT, before we can get started the kids needed shoes and I went out to make sure everything was set to go. HOLD UP….one thing we completely forgot about was the dog. She had been outside while the kids were going through their baskets. She was having a field day “hunting eggs” herself….AND, tyring to bury them in the sand box!!! GROSS! So, I had to “find” all the eggs the dog had gotten to before the kids could start. Okay, that done the egg hunt begins. Now, remember this was the first time the kids had colored eggs so it was the first time they were hunting “real” eggs. We had half and half real eggs and plastic filled eggs. Well, every egg that they picked up they just tossed into their basket…..real ones…CRACK. Oh, and then here are the filled eggs….these are the ones we like! So, the separation began. If it didn’t shake it went back on the ground!!! Through this whole ordeal Mark and I were cracking up!! It was probably one of the funniest egg hunts I have seen.
Next up for the day: Easter Service in the park, egg hunt after, and then we had our friends coming over for a BBQ. I will got into those on the next post.
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February 17, 2008 at 10:18 am (Mark, birthday, holiday)
Mark and I went out last night to celebrate Valentine’s Day and my birthday (which is the 19th, man I’m getting old!!). Anyway, he usually combines the two since they are so close together and that’s fine with me because he usually does something really good. This year was no exception. He completely blew me away and got tickets for us to go and see Phantom at The Venetian! It was amazing!! I was excited to go and see the show, but was not sure what I was going to think. I had never seen Phantom of the Opera or the movie, but I did know the basic “story” of them. I have never been to see an opera before and was nervous that I wasn’t going to be able to follow the story line. But I have to say I totally got what was going on and found myself literally on the edge of my seat for most of the show. It was one of the best nights out we have had in a very long time!
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