Mothers Day

I am retyping this post so some of you may have read it but oh well. Well my Mother's Day was a fun filled time in the car listening to my lovely little children fight over which movie to watch, where they had to sit, how much longer we were going to be in the car, And of course when are we going to eat. It was a 7 and a half hour drive form here to Charleston SC and it was not bad but I was not in the mood to be in the car. I was already tired from getting up early to get the rest of things done and get kids up and dressed and ready to walk out the door. James had got me a watch for Mothers day and I really liked the idea. I had told him I wanted a watch that tells your heart rate. So that is what he got me. But long story short. I never would have guessed that this watch would have cost so much and so I told James we are taking it back. Well while we were down in Charleston I knew I was going to the outlet malls. They are my favorite place to get things at. Well this one had a Coach store and so I went in just to look and really could not believe my eyes. They had a whole wall of already marked down prices on these purses another 40% off. I just could not believe it. So I really did start looking then. I told Bethannie to tell Daddy I really want one of these and she said OK. Well again long story short, we went back to the hotel and she told James and we went back later that night and he told me to pick one out and it could be my Mothers day present instead and we will take the watch back. So here is my new purse. Bethannie could not believe that I spent $100 on a purse but James told her that I deserved it and I am always spending our money on them and sometimes we can get things too. I thought that it was sweet. So my Mother's Day was full of the sounds every Mother hears every day. I love it though. Any how well I hope everyone had a great Mothers Day.

Where to start

Well we have had an eventful week neddless to say. SO I will start back at the rest of last Saturday. When we first got here to VA James had said he needed to go ahead and get a car because the base is 10 miles away and he did not want us to not have a car when he is doing duty. So back in Feb we bought a 02' Dodge Intrepid. Well we thought we got a good deal on it. We had NADA the price and found we had paid about $1200 less then it was valued and so that was good and so we liked the car. Well about 4 days before the warrenty was running out the check engine light come on. We take it in and end up dropping over $500 to get things fixed. That was 50% of the cost. Any how needless to say that the check engine light on that car just loved to shine, so we had to have 3 more things fixed and we forked out over $1000 in less then 3 months on the car. Well James decided enough was enough and we were trading it in and so after doing some looking and browsing we bought another car. We found a 2005 Ford Expedition. After our trade in we paid out a little over $5000 for it. Well The NADA for trading it in is over $17000. James and I just started laughing when we saw it. We thought there is no way this is what they really are going to let us have it for. BUt we LOVE it. I call it the beast becasue I am not loving to have to drive it becasue it is so big. I like my van that has no front end hardly. But oh well. So the car is fully loaded and made our trip to South Carolina not a bad one. Any how I told James that we are going to get used to such a nice car and how will we ever go back to normale for us. He said he did not know. HA HA HA. HE really likes it.

Saturday Breakfast

Well we have now started doing Waffles every Saturday for breakfast. James makes them every week and the kids gobble them all up. So I thought I would send you some numbers of what my kids eat. And pics of course. So Bethannie ate 6 waffles, James ate 4 waffles, and Mackenzie had 3. Now it is also not just waffles. We make whip cream and strawberries. They are so good and like I said the kids just love it. They look forward to Saturday breakfasts. James and I tell them that we will have to eat first so we get what we want because they just eat so many.

Well today we are going to be very busy packing the rest of our things for our trip. We are all looking forward to getting away for the week. I think it will be a lot of fun. Any how have a great week and I will post again when we get home and have lots of pics about our trip.

Fun with dad

So last night I had to run to the store to get some whipping cream for breakfast and so I took Bethannie with me and James and Mackenzie stayed at home with James. Well I guess they had fun being monsters. These are the pics I found on my camera today now. Aren't they so cute. They love to play monsters and so Mackenzie puts this mask on and runs around the house and tries to scare people. So fun.

Volleyball

Well I just got done playing volleyball at church for the first time. They just started playing last week and so I thought I would give it a try and see how well I do. Well I did not do bad but I do not play volleyball very good. But it was still a lot of fun and I got a good workout from it. Any how I am now looking forward to being able to do that every week. Maybe I will get better as time goes by. Time will tell.

Look at what a diva

OK another post about Mackenzie but I was going through all the hand me down and back to me clothes that my sister in law had and seeing what would fit Mackenzie for this summer. So I was making her try on all these clothes well this was what she picked to wear today when we were all done. So then she went and found these sunglasses of Bethannie's. They are so big on her but she still looked so cute. Any how she is so in love with the camera.

Bath time

Mackenzie loves baths. It is a word you totally understand from her. Bath and she will get herself totally undressed if she even hears you say something about taking a bath. I guess it is a good thing but sometimes not when I am not ready for her to do it. Any how James was washing Mackenzie's hair last night and kept making her hair stand up on top of her head. She was so funny looking. Any how so here are some cute pics of her in the bath.