MOTLEY CRUE

As they have been dubbed by Andre. Today Shelley wasn't feeling well
and asked if I could bring Zoe and Braden home. As I had Mimi, Cal,
Halli, Zoe and Braden with me already, what's a couple of more kids?
So I asked Andre. If he and his kids Olivia and Jack would like to
join us. At the same time Rachel and her brother Evan came along too
as they live on the same street ad Zoe. There you have it, the Motley
Crue.

WON'T YOU PLAY WITH ME????

A DAY AT THE PARK

As usual our plate is full this weekend and I love it. This morning started off with sleeping in for me. Finally got out of bed at 8:30 this morning and for me that is sleeping in. Usually I get out of bed at 7:00. Around 9 was when Blake called asking if Mimi could come over and play. She kind of hemmed and hawed about it which I thought was quite unusual for her. Normally she bolts out the door like lightening. But today was a bit different. She wanted him to come to our house and he wanted her to go over to his. Finally she said ok, got dressed, ate breakfast and headed over to Blake's. Meanwhile the light bulb came on in my head and I thought to myself "hmmmm, dad and I could go on a hot date for breakfast". So off to Testy Chef we went. Then dad had an appointment to get his hair cut. We arrived home about 12 and I called for Mimi to come home while dad went out to do his errands.

I can be a little devil at times and told Mimi that we went to Testy Chef without her. "DAD!!!! yelled the girl. Thinking that it was his idea to go. Oh well, you snooze you lose. It was then I received the message from Andre stating that he had the kids today and was taking them down to Lake Wilderness. It is about a one hour walk from our house. So Mimi, Butch and myself met with Andre, Olivia and Jack (Jackie as he is known to us) at the lake. I drove the car. The kids had oodles and oodles of fun together.

Next thing I knew they were all huddled together looking into the lake. Apparently they saw what they thought was a dead fish. Yep, it was a dead fish that is used for bait. Every year the lake gets filled with fish, Trout I think.

Then it was time to head for home but just before leaving we saw a woman walk/run her 3 Alpacas. It is unusual but not surprising as there are several Alpaca farms out here in the country. Mimi walked with Andre and the kids while Butch and I drove home.

Andre just called and so I will have to go get the child and bring her home as she has a wet tucus from slipping in the mud at the park.

THIS MORNING'S CONSTITUTIONAL

Before the rains came that is. Don't you just love the greenery? I
realized today why I hate the gym. Toooo boring. I love being outside.
There are so many trails for Butch and I to explore.

SNOW?????

NOT! It's hale instead. We have seen it all this week. Now it is rainning with the sun shinning outside. I found that it is hard to drive when the hale is dumping on your windshield. It is almost as if the ice rocks are scrapping across the whole front window and it sounds like fingernails on chalkboard. Ekkk!

FUNDRAISERS

Woo Hoo! It's that time of year folks when the Girl Scouts are selling the cookies, Mimi's school is gearing up for the Raffle Basket/Silent Auction night at school on the 28th of April and Summit Gymnastics is having their annual plant sale.

I am in the middle of them all. Although Mimi is not a Girl Scout but her friends are we bought several boxes from them. I am in the middle of trying to get our local businesses to donate their goods for the silent auction. It's been tough as many of the businesses are just trying to keep their heads above water. Then there is the plant sale for the gymnatic team.

This was our morning conversation in regards to the plant sale.

Mimi: Mom, why are we having a plant sale?
Mom: So the gym can make some money to pay the coaches.
Mimi: Why???
Mom: Because the coaches need to make money so that they can eat and have a roof over their heads and plus some of the money is used to buy new equiptment like the new trampoline you got last year. Equiptment is very expensive (the new trampoline cost the gym $10,000.00).
Mimi: (her eyes got real big) I know! I've been looking in my gymnastic magazine and in the back they show the equiptment. Some of them are over $20.00!!!

I just had to smile :-)

WILD WINTER

While watching my baby walk to school this morning, I realized that we have been having such a wild winter weather. The other day Mimi was walking to school with Halli and it was a huge down pour of snow. Today it the wild winds and rain. I love watching Mimi walk to school from our kitchen window. The sad part my baby is growing up way too fast for me.

Talked with Norman yesterday and he just repeated what we already know. The cut off day is June 9th and we are June 14th. He says that he is 95% sure that we will get our referal this month. In the meantime, we are still waiting for our INS clearance. I hate waiting more than ever now.