2017 :: 12/52

Monday was mom's birthday! after nap we drove up to the cities to surprise her at bowling and then stayed at her house until Wednesday morning. Tuesday morning after breakfast, trevor and I went shopping and then met Tula and Maren at the indoor playground in woodbury. the kids had fun and then we went to lunch at Panera with them. back to mom's for nap and then we had mom's birthday party at her house with unc-o. Wednesday morning T and I drove up to meg's house to see her, summer, ty and skye and all their animals since the kids were on spring break. they now have chicks and baby ducks along with 2 dogs, 1 cat, gerbils, a bunny, rats, and tons of fish/tanks. we had fun and trevor loved playing with summer as usual. we left about 11 so we could make it home for lunch and nap.

Wednesday night, I dropped trevor off with jake and kade while I went to Jodi's usbourne book party where Kassie came also. I picked him up just after 8, after a good book party where I spent way too much money and could have spent a lot more. he ate a good supper, played with kade well, went potty and watched a movie. he was in bed by 9 and was out right away (we're still trying to make up sleep from the waterpark weekend).

Thursday morning, we went to the indoor sports center play time with Thaeden, baby Wesley and Melissa. Trevor and Thaeden really have a good time together. they went in the bouncy houses, played with trains and ran around chasing each other. then home for lunch and nap. Al got a migraine right when he woke up so he slept the whole day. trevor and I went over to Jodi's house after nap, played for a bit, then hopped in the van with Jodi and the kids. we met matt at cancun for supper and then went to target.

Friday morning I finally got things put away and some cleaning done. then we ran out to get Trevor's hair cut and run to menards, but we didn't go in to menards because we forgot everything we needed in order to by the shingles and garden stuff we needed.... I ran to the grocery store while Al put T down for nap. then mom came down! Al and I ran back to menards while mom stayed with T; we got shingles and all the stuff we needed to build our raised garden beds. Friday night Al started the garden beds and trevor's ground sand box while mom, T and I got out his sand table and put the sand in it. mom and I also started clearing out the rocks for where his big ground sandbox will go.

Saturday morning, mom, T and I ran to shopko and joann then came back and helped Al continue with the gardens and sandbox. Al also drilled holes to make my jar hangings and mom and I decided to make flower holder ones. so while T napped, mom and I ran back to joann, to menards and then to the shed. we got a lot of projects done over the weekend: Al completed both garden beds (just needs to dig out the spots they'll go), he completed the sandbox with seats and I painted it with outdoor paint, we completed my bathroom jar holder and 4 flower jar holders, and some other little projects around the house!

sunday morning mom left after breakfast. trevor and I worked downstairs a bit and then during naptime, Al put Trevor's new shelf together while I started the process to hang my gallery wall. after nap, Trevor and I went over to matt and Jodi's house for supper and to watch the original beauty and the beast while Al went to work.

Monday morning Trevor and I ran some errands then went to Jodi's house to play.

 pretending to be sleeping :)

 watching the summer with the chicks and ducklings

 at target

 waiting to get his hair cut

 sand table

 Al's construction area (far back is garden bed, leaning is T's sandbox, and Al's working on my bathroom jar holder)

 he randomly learned to cross his fingers and does it all the time now

 our flower jar holders

 watching beauty and the beast

 riding the school bus :)

2017 :: 11/52

Monday thru Wednesday of this week we nannied Eva and Elouise. Monday I had all 3 kids and then tues & Wed had to get Eva to and from school then just El and T during the day. it went by so fast! Monday it had snowed so we hung out inside until just before lunch when we went outside for a bit to shovel. it was sunny but cold so we didn't stay out long. Elouise napped, trevor tried and eva had quiet time. that night at mom's house trevor wet the bed in the middle of the night for the first time.

Tuesday we dropped Eva off at school at 9 then went to the savage indoor sports center and met Maren and Tula there. they had 3 bouncy houses that Trevor and Elouise went back and forth between the whole time. then back to manda's for nap (although T didn't nap again). then we picked up eva from school.

Wednesday after dropping off Eva at school, we met kris and colton at the mcdonald's playland and had lunch there. then back to manda's for nap when T actually napped and so did El! I had to wake him up to go get eva from school. once manda was home from work, we had dinner at mom's house then drove home to see Al and sleep in our own beds. Al was off Wed-Sunday this week!

Thursday morning T and I went to Jodi's to play until lunch while Al ran to the grocery store. during nap I ran some errands and packed for our weekend at the waterpark with matt, Jodi, cam and chloe!

Friday (St Patrick's Day) was more prep and packing for the weekend, lunch, a movie and then we left for warrens Wisconsin (a little over an hour away) at about 2. we rented out a cabin/villa that we shared with the neighb's and then Jodi's parents for Saturday night too. we stopped at the gas station, then not even 5 minutes into the drive and trevor fell asleep!!! he slept the whole way! we checked in and then found our cabin; it was huge!! it had a garage and tons of space and beds. we got unpacked, helped the neighb's unpack and got settled in a bit as the waterpark didn't open until 5. we fed the kids a little bit then got ready and drove to the waterpark; it wasn't too far from our cabin, maybe a block or so but too cold to walk. we had a blast at the waterpark, ordered food from the restaurant for supper, went back to change, the boys picked up supper and we ate. kids watched a movie then went to bed, and al, matt, Jodi, & I stayed up for a couple hours playing cards.

Saturday morning we had breakfast and relaxed a bit waiting for Jodi's parents, nana Debbie & papa dan-o as well as Kassie and Kade to get there. K & K just stayed for the day. once they got there we fed the kids a little lunch and headed out to the water park. the waterpark had a kids area for littler kids (trevor's age) which had 3 different levels/sizes of water slides (by the end of the weekend trevor was doing all of them by himself; where'd my baby go?), then had a 3-4 foot deep pool with basketball hoops in it, it had a wave pool that created waves every 15 minutes and that connected to the lazy river. it then had 2 big body water slides and 2 big tube water slides. we loved the tube slides! I went down many times with Jodi and matt and once with Camdyn. they also had 2 hot tubs, one of which had half of it outside (so cool!). we did all if many times!

we were back to the cabin by 130 Saturday afternoon to watch the badger basketball game while the kids watched a movie. I didn't sleep well so I was super tired and out of it and trevor was tired too. so after the badger game at about 4ish, everyone but us 3 went back to the water park. trevor ended up napping while I got some rest too. then they all came back and went to dinner at the attached restaurant; Al went with them but I was full and felt like T and I still needed some down time, so we had dinner at the cabin and watched a movie. we just hung out for a bit once everyone was back (Kass and Kade headed home) and then all went to bed by 1030.

sunday morning we had breakfast and some down time; Jodi's parents left and we slowly got packed up and cleaned up. then we went to check out and to the water park. trevor and chloe went down the 2 biggest slides in the kids area about 100 times! :) we finished in the outdoor hot tub then showered in the locker rooms before heading out to drive home. we stopped at foster, about 15 minutes from home, to have pizza for lunch with the neighb's. then home for a nap for T and Al while Jodi and I ran to our favorite store, the shed quick. it was a great, although exhausting weekend with great friends! lots of laughs!

sunday night was just movie night so we could rest and relax. then Monday morning our insurance inspector finally came to look at our roof but we won't know the results until later this week. Trevor and I went to Jodi's house to play outside with the kids for a bit then home for nap.

 he learned how to play some new games from E & E

 leprechaun crafts

 he's obsessed with guns lately, thank goodness he doesn't care if they don't have darts/don't actually shoot anything.

 learned a new game: war

 after our first time at the water park

 Chloe doing some yoga with me

the kids loved running down the long hallways that we had to go down to get from the parking ramp to the waterpark.