OH WHERE TO BEGIN!

It's almost time for the weekend again! My life is just flying before my eyes. The ride is going fast and I can't jump off! Last weekend was full of work and some fun. I really wanted to do something "fun" but we had so much work to do. And as I explained to the kids - if we do this work now - then we don't have to deal with it all summer and it will be more time for fun.

The garage sale is tomorrow and Saturday. I CAN NOT WAIT! I have all the crap out of our bedroom and out of the house - so at least that feels good but now all that crap (plus some of my friends) is in my garage! I really am ready for this whole event to be over. We cleaned out our garage last weekend so we could make sure if there were things to be sold we found them. I am selling alot of my baby stuff. Which, some of that is hard to do. I have good memories of this stuff. But man I AM WAY TO OLD to have another one. I can't imagine being pregnant and chasing after Piper. I thought I was tired when I was pregnant with her.....NO WAY MAN - that would be tired - being pregnant and chasing her!

They are suppose to install our new pool liner starting tomorrow. I can not wait. It will be nice to go swimming - plus to have our back yard looking nice. Then next weekend we are putting up our new fence and damn is it going to be looking fine then. I will have to post some pics after it gets all done! I have one flower garden left to work in and then all the gardens will be looking pretty good.

I love daylight savings time but at the same time - it kills me. Last night after getting home at 8:30 and then putting Piper to bed I was outside working in the gardens. It's great - to be able to stay out until 9:40 and do work - except at the same time - I didn't get much down time before it was time to go to bed. I asked Steve at 9:30 if he was about done working on his bike and he said yes. And then by time we both wrapped out what we were working on and made it inside it was at least 9:40! We both have the mindset if it's still daylight we can still be out working and that just isn't going to work every night!

We did get our Wii Fit on Monday. It is cool! Thanks for watching Aunt Jill. She didn't hold it for us.... they can't hold electronics at Target for all of you crazies that call there! She just let us know they had some in stock. Monday night Steve started up his Mii to get fit! Tuesday night I started up my Mii to get fit...... hello..... they tell you your BMI and then when it's figured....they FATTEN up your Mii - It was freakin' funny. There is my skinny little Mii and then once it weighed me - my height, etc..... it figured my BMI as obese - yes I already knew that.... and then it made my Mii FAT! Boy that helps with the self esteem! Actually I was too busy laughing my ass off to care. I did several of the excercises. Some I just laughed thru! It is a pretty cool gadget and I can see us using the crap out of it in the winter. (which seems to last forever in the state of Indiana!)

On Steve's blog he has pretty pictures posted of some things around Ft. Wayne and a link to a blog/website to click on. What a great website - with beautiful pictures of Ft. Wayne. I really encourage you to check it out. I was surprised how many of the places in the pictures we as a family have been to. But still more out there to explore. But with looking at that blog - there was pictures of the Memorial Day parade and then the guilt sets in....... on Monday we went out to Target to get the Wii Fit and on the way back across town we ran in to the blocking of the streets for the parade. And I even thought then we should've gone. But no guilt till I saw the pictures. We should've gone. Seeing some of the veterans being pushed in the wheelchairs missing legs, and some just walking in the parade. That is why I have that day off work - to honor those that have served our country and here I am out at Target shopping. We should've went to the parade. It didn't look like too many people attended the parade and it's wrong. Next year - we are going.

Last night Ashley had her choir concert...... let's just say they start with the 6 grade(bad), move on to the 7th grade (better) and then the 8th grade goes (best). It is just kinda cool to see that the kids get better with age. Ashley was very nervous. I am sure she would say she wasn't - but trust me she was. She called me at work all worried about what to wear....funny..... she wears a robe to sing so who cares what you have on underneath it.... But I was SO GLAD she cared.( I have been trying to instill caring about what you look like to her for YEARS!) So I tried to remember what clothes she took home from our house this weekend....(a whole separate story) and helped her make an outfit. She looked so grown up it just about broke my heart. We did take our camcorder and got most of the concert recorded(thanks Mandy for not putting in a new dvd - DUH) but now we will be able to watch it on our family movie night later this year. I try to remember to record some things each month or when things happen because I think it will be cool to look back over the year and see how much each of the kids have grown up - since that is happening right before our eyes!