OUR GREAT WEEKEND IN PHOTOS

It's officially summer once we buy new bathing suits and get the hose out. I love doing this each year with the kids, not sure how many years are left of them playing in the hose. They were excited Friday night and came right home to change and play though, soooo happy for this. Our long weekend was filled with lots of hose time, water balloon fights, laughs, staying up late, cool and HOT HOT temps, time with family and thru it all the kids were good. Sam was extra good and was still going strong till last night before bed. Hoping he wakes up today on the right side again, he has field day at school today and we are both very excited about this big event!!  I also get to babysit today after almost 3 weeks off and I can't wait to have these little munchkins over again and get some hugs and tickles with them.
This weekend had me going back in time and remembering when the kids were little and we did all the same things only they were younger and it was even cuter, like playing in the hose. Their little giggles and Sam being my little boy, oh how I missed those days this weekend but I slowed down and treasured this age and phase right now and want to hold onto these memories tightly. They are growing up so fast and it seems like yesterday they were all in elementary school together. So here's our weekend in photos.

These two ate about 10 popicles a day and constantly played outside together

my dad helping Sam tie the water balloons, LOVE THIS!!

first time to YMCA pool this year, we have been coming since they were in the baby pool and now of course we are in the BIG pool and they do their own thing while I just sit and watch them.

She's afraid of the sparkler, so funny this girl

Summer had the idea for them to catch marshmallows, this was so funny to see them trying to catch them. Renee had the hardest time and one time Rich even fell backwards. LOVE LOVE THESE!!

back to the YMCA pool with cousins and family

It was a good weekend from start to end, hooray for summer time !!!

PROJECT LIFE-3 WEEKS CAUGHT UP

Hooray PL finally caught up, feels good again. So much to love about these pages, click on the image to read/see better. Since there's 3 weeks worth, I'm just showing one photo of the whole spread and not close ups so I can write this fast before the kids need me, lol

This week started off with Mother's day and my getting sick. To be honest I just wanted to skip this week, it sat here empty then with photos only, the words are still to hard to write for me. I've been very emotional this week and just want to hold on to this life/family of mine so tight and never let go. So I sat last night and finally did some writing and pictures, made some collages. The ones of Kristin and kids are my favorite, love that she did this for me. I hardly got any photos this week of her home, too tired and just loopy to do it. There is an added page protector here and this is the front of it.

this is the back of the PP and the right side of pages. The bottom right is for when I will write what happened to me and I stuck my hospital band in there also. Love the one of them at the table. Always told Rich I want enough kids to fill up our dinner table, to me it means everything.  The left is about my adding some new pretty pink flowers to the bathroom, love making my own art. Glad to have this week done and thankful for these photos and for Kristin being home, LOVE YOU GUYS!!

I have a little bit of everything mixed into this week. My favorite is Sam and his pizza, he made it all on his own and ate all buy one slice. LOVE LOVE WHEN HE FINALLY EATS!! Due to the hot weather coming we got new suits and played lots in the hose, can't wait to get our pool up.  I took Lucky for his heartworm pills and he needed meds. so I included his reminder card since it fit .

Just have to say again PROJECT LIFE RULES, PROJECT LIFE ROCKS AND IS MY ALL TIME FAVORITE THING.  You might be tired of hearing it but it's soooo true. The one thing I kept going back to while laying in the hospital was THANK GOODNESS I HAVE MY PL AND THE KIDS WILL KNOW THEIR STORY AND HOW LOVED THEY WERE. IF FOR SOME REASON GOD DECIDED FOR ME NOT HAVE MADE IT, THEY WOULD HAVE THIS TREASURE SO FOR THAT PROJECT LIFE WILL ALWAYS BE IN MY LIFE. JUST HAVING THESE LITTLE BITS OF THEIR LIVES IN HERE MAKES ME OVERJOYED EACH WEEK. OK ENOUGH OF THE SAPPY STUFF!!  Let's get serious!!

Coming up this week I will share stories from our weekend which was 3 long happy days and I will be sharing our summer plan list (see Ali Edward's blog) for more info on that. Sorry no art to show really, haven't done to much of that. I hope everyone had a good weekend and want to say a special THANK YOU TO OUR VETERANS AND FOR THOSE THAT ARE FIGHING FOR US NOW. I NEVER FORGET WHY WE HAVE THIS DAY OFF AND AM THANKFUL FOR THIS COUNTRY WE LIVE IN. THANK YOU FOR VISITING AND FOR YOUR COMMENTS, I LOVE READING THEM. 6 MORE DAYS OF SCHOOL LEFT BY THE WAY, HOORAY!!

New Scrapbook Layouts!!! YEA!!!!

I love this layout for the photo, a sweet little pile of piglets about 2 weeks old. We kept trying to make noises and wake them up but they slept. Right when we went to leave suddenly this little runt poked his way thru the pile and came out running to his mama for a feeding. It was the sweetest thing, we all wanted to take him home.  The layout came together pretty quick for me, knew I wanted layers since they were all laying on top of each other, knew I wanted masking tape and different color ABC letters. So glad I made a banner, need to do this lots more!!! I had a 12x12 of burlap from Michaels and cut that down as one layer and a cream colored sketch paper, there is a tag to pull out under it with the number 9 on it to show how many piglets there were. I used the masking tape as the adhesive to hold the photo in place. I also used some strands of the burlap for the banner. You can click on the image to see better.

I'm loving the kraft!! I rubbed chalk on the background to feel sandy. This was from last summer and it was one of my favorite times at the beach. I used a PL journal card cut in half and added a tag.

This is for my sweetie, he loves when I make layouts about his garden

I love this photo of baby Colt, so sweet. Filled it with lots of hearts and love!!

I was happy to scrap the last 3 layouts on mother's day and the piglet one is from yesterday. With me being sick last week, my goal of one l/o a day didn't happen. I'm determined to keep it up best as I can. My last 2 weeks of PL are almost done and will maybe just post them on Tuesday as usual. That whole week kinda thru me off and I don't have much to say or put into the pages.                              

The latest update on my health and what to do next is on hold till next month, my tests didn't come out clear enough to make a good decision the doctor says. For now I'm resting and feeling MUCH MUCH BETTER THEN LAST WEEK AT THIS TIME...HOORAY!!!  Happy Weekend!!          

p.s. thanks sooooo much for all the comments on my last post, loved reading them.!!!

MY MOTHER'S DAY

Dressed up a little for church, see the braclet Sam made me that last Mother's Day!!

                                               I made this card for my mom!! She loved it

                                Rich was excited to plant flowers for me with Summer's help

I finally added new things to the bathroom, PINK!!

I had 3 big chalk messages made by the kids

All the flowers are in, they are tiny but will grow in no time

My sweetie and me!!

So cute these two are, they were watching basketball

I did some scrapbooking, HOORAY

All my kids at the dinner table, LOVE THIS!!

The last Desperate Housewives, saving this tape

Perfect ending to a perfect day

Illness update the problem and solution

I'm soooo lucky to have the best readers in the world. Thanks again for the prayers and thoughts. It worked just in time.
At my doc. appt. Friday morning they took some blood and tested it and to my surprise it was in the danger zone, very very low. I went straight to the hospital so they could start a blood transfusion. All those systoms during the week was my body telling me something was wrong but I didn't get it, NOW I DO!! By friday morning I couldn't walk up the stairs, shower, walk to the car without being wiped out, never felt this tired in my life. My mom stayed with me all day and helped get me settled in and take care of the kids. Lucky to have my oldest home this week to be with me also. After a whole day and night of transfusions they released me today, I have color in my face, the ringing in my head is gone and I have some energy. Will be taking it easy still though, no overdoing it.
Next week I will go in for a ultrasound and talk about my options so that this doesn't happen again. Will prob. try to do something soon before kids are home on vacation, I can rest during the day while they at school.
Please learn from my lesson and all of you take care of yourselves, listen to your bodies, see your doctor for exams and do what you need to be healthy, I never want to go thru this scare again and don't want that for any of you either. I wish we all lived closer also, we could sit and craft or just put our feet up and drink some lemonade, thank you for all the love and prayers that helped me get thru this safely and quickly. I will be on the couch again this week but feel my spirit with you and I will try to read blogs next week.
LOVE AND HUGS AND A THANKFUL HEART!!
Dawn
p.s.  I didn't want to get into the gory details too much but this is from a bad period over the last two weeks. This was hard enough to write already, just want you to be aware for yourselves.

news on illness & thank you sweet friends

hello ladies, thank you thank you for all the feel good wishes. I need them so please keep them coming and your prayers. i saw my docotr who subrscribed 3 meds for my head, oh man is it wiping me out. within 45 mts i'm down for a loooong nap. then another nap few hours later and an everning nap before bed. so of course i haven't slept thru the night in long time. it's messing up my whole schedule and keeping rich awake, he is finally going to sleep on the couch tonight so i won't keep waking him.

i have my next appt. in the morning to see about my pms which has never been this bad, two weeks of heavy flow which is leaving me very weak and pale. sorry to be so honest just want you to know and pray and send healthy wishes please, can't take much more of this. i will keep you updated on what they find.

in the meantime, nothing fun is going on, napping and laying and no chores or fun for me. my oldest and and mom and sister has been helping me. annie would help if she lived closer.
thanks again for your sweet comments. just typing this has winded me.

enjoy your friday and weekend.
back when i can.
hugs and love

PROJECT LIFE AND ILLNESS

Hello there, just a quick post of my PL photos for last week. They are in the album but the journaling is not done yet. Seems that mother nature is playing a cruel game with me by sending me severe PMS symptoms and starting on mother's day a bad inner ear infection/head/sinus thingy going on. The walls are spinning, my ears keep ringing and my head is pounding. This is not fun at all, spent the day on the couch yesterday and going to again today. Just wanted to let you know I will me MIA this week while I get better. Have a wonderful week and hope everyone's mothere's day went well. My oldest is home for the week, HOORAY will be spending time with her and just soaking it up while we can. The kids are sooooo excited to see her and be with her. Take care and will be back over the weekend or next week!!

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