First Waves...

So, the first wave of familiy arrived here at our hosue yesterday at around 3ish after frequenting the grocery store :) Everyone was so happy to be able to sit down and rest finally and the kids were all so excited to see MaMa, PaPa, G-PaPa and Baby Faith! I made everyone dinner and we had a rather relaxing evening. I also got to do some more gardening, Yipee!! I planted most of the plants that Grandma Marcia brought over on Wednesday. Only 3 pots left.... and I am still pondering where I want to put them :)

Today is going to be busy..... I have a Chiropractor appointment this morning at 9, and Jason's Mom (MaMa) is going to go with so that we can go grocery shopping for their week here after that... Hopefully it won't take too long. Tonight we are all going our separate ways, as we have a potluck for our last day meeting with the "10 Great Dates" crew. It should be lots of fun, and they have requested my "Mona Salad" as usual :) It's my Mona Salad cause a good friend that we met while living in Yuba City, CA made it for us one night and then gave us the recipe.... Who knows what it's actually called, but I called it "Mona Salad" from then on to remind me of the awesome woman that made it for us :)

VBS went great this week, the last day I brought bubble stuff so that we could take the nursery kiddos out to do bubbles. They LOVED that and made such a great mess with the bubbles, in their hair, on their clothes, in the grass.... I think that there is going to be a spot that "bubbles" every time someone waters that spot of grass!! My kids all had a great time, and the Johnston girls had a great time the one day that they were able to go. Poor things.... Kourtney was sick on Tuesday, and Brittney and Mom were sick Thursday and Friday!! I really am hoping that the sick season will come to a grinding halt now, so that everyone can enjoy summer!!!

Gotta go, not sure how often I will get to blog while we have family in town. 8 extra peoples to play with you know :) And the kids have been DYING to see Max and Keira!! I will try to get a few good pictures to put up here.

I know we are having the Potluck tonight and are BBQing tomorrow with who's here already and family that lives in town :) After that we haven't really planned, other than a wenie roast at the beach for 4th of July!

Ugh! it's Ten O'Clock!!

So I have been cleaning up a storm lately, trying to get the house back up to par....my par, very confusing, but don't mess with the par or you'll get sent to your room! hehe!! Anyways..... We have a bunch of family coming into town for the Holiday week coming up. Jason's parents will be here tomorrow, along with Baby Faith and Jason's Grandpa. Jason picks them up from the airport tomorrow afternoon. My parents and my younger Brother and Sister will be here either Sunday or Monday, they are driving up and camping along the way :) Everyone will be here till next weekend sometime. The Fourth will be a blast as usual. If you have never been up here for the Fireworks, you have to try to make it sometime. I don't know where else in the country that they let you buy as many kinds of fireworks as they let you buy here, most people get them from the Indian reservation, things like bottle rockets, mortars, roman candles etc.... and everything but the firecrackers and bottle rockets, I believe, is legal!! zit makes for a wacko shoe down at the water beginning around 9 and then things really start to pick up around 10:30 when it finally gets darker.... and keeps going well into the morning hours.... and then it starts getting light here around 3ish. so they stop and wait for the next night! Hehe....

The kids have had VBS this week and I was assigned to the nursery for baby duty, which made Sarah Rose really happy cause she hates it when I try to leave her in there. But now, she's getting used to me staying the whole time, so who knows how it will make the situation after VBS??!!

Well, it's getting late and I have one more VBS day left, taking 6 kiddos to and from, and working in the nursery during. And then when I get home I think we are having lunch with Kristy and her girls and I hope to get to work out in the yard a bit to plant all the wonderful goodies that Grandma Marcia brought me yesterday :) TTFN

Oh yeah, and I have another Chiropractor appt on Saturday :) And I sold 3 of my pieces at the Farmers Market last Sunday! Yipee!! I got to go buy some groceries! (a few Papa Murphy's Pizza's just fell into my front seat *wink**wink*)

Yeah! I see an end!!

I am so happy! This week has been going fairly well considering it has been Assessment week. Cayleb has been working, mostly, very hard on getting his Semester Assessments done for school, and after that we are done!! The only subject that we will be working on after tomorrow is Spelling because there is really no way to work ahead in that one, he really needs 4-5 days to work on each set of words (usually between 23-25 words.) He took his Science Assessment a while ago so that we could work on his Science experiment on Geotropism which he is still finishing up. He finished his Language Skills Assessments (2 parts) yesterday, finished the Literature assessment today and we have the review and assessment for Math tomorrow. History he Finished a while ago as well, as his presentation on Tall Ships of the World was considered his assessment. And Art has been incorperated into our Science lately because he is doing lots of decorating on his Science presentation. He has been having lots of fun with that lately. I decided to have him "Note Book" his results so he's doing a different page for each day that he had an entry, as well as a few other pages describing what his project was about etc.

I am also happy this week because I finally went to see a Chiropractor. First time I have ever seen a Chiropractor, just as a note. It went well, and I am hoping that we will be able to resolve my problems regarding that over the next few weeks. I'm going back on Saturday, and then she wants me to come in twice next week as well. My symptoms, you may be wondering, are waking up to my arm feeling like it is ON FIRE and FROZEN IN A BLOCK OF ICE at the same time. Yeah, your telling me, what a strange feeling that is. My guess was that it is a pinched nerve of some kind, and it's been going on off and on for about 5-6 years. It never really got bad enough for long enough to make me want to go in and see someone about it.... I consider myself to have a pretty high threshold for pain, so I think that some people would have gone in long ago about it, but I hate Dr. Appt.'s! Last night was better, but not good. So, I am telling myself that nothing can happen instantly, and it's been getting worse for 6 years, I can't expect it to get better in one trip to a chiropractor! So, I'll keep going. At least this way is a natural way to deal with the problem, I am not being "treated" with a prescription for Ibprofin or something, it's actually going to deal with the cause, the root persay, instead of trying to mask something. Anyway, I am too young to feel this dang old! Hehe.... yes, the Garth Brooks Song is now rolling through my head! Won't my friend April be proud of me!

Ahh my Konos is supposed to be here tomorrow!! I can't wait!! I created a database with my Konos Schedule for next year and put in on our Yahoo group. Birch Bay Konos Krusaders
Yeah, I know, I am a nut because I've already created a "schedule" for a Curriculum that I don't even have yet for the next 2 years!!