What a busy Friday!!

First off I got the 4 bigger kids off to school (yay Gman got to go back!!) and then I started in with doing laundry (I am so behind!!) and cutting out all the turkey's I need for Tuesday (Gman's school party and 60 suckers for the kid's class treats). But I hadn't been working for more then 20 minutes when Kim sent me a PM asking me (and a group) of ladies to lunch at the Thai restaurant!!! I really shouldn't have went because I had a ton of stuff to do, but I did need to run out and pick some stuff up so I went anyways, and I'm so glad I did!!! It was so good!!! It ended up just being me, C, Kim and Kim's friend Lori, but it was great company, great conversations and great food!!! I had this grilled pineapple with chicken, fried rice, veggies, cashews, raisins and scallions!!! But before we headed to lunch C and I got all our running done, we went o Dollar Tree to get some stuff and the Giant Eagle and got Little man's cake!! Came home and started working on projects/laundry again!! Kids started getting home at 3PM and then 4PM and we had to leave the house by 5PM so I made them egg in a cup and sausage for dinner and then we hit the road!! Got R dropped off at the Jr. High. Went the high school and hung out for about 20 minutes till S had to be inside. Then me and the 3 boys made a quick pit stop at Dollar General to find some ponchos (because it was RAINING!!!) and then we headed into town to find a parking spot!! We lucked out and found one in front of C's school (the first place we looked and the last one in that section) and then headed up to 7th Street to see/hear R!! Her and the Spirit Band were providing the music there!! So we listened to her for a bit, then roasted some marshmallows. Drank some hot chocolate and then listened to R some more!!!

Once she was done we headed down Philly to find a good spot to watch the parade!!! We watched and cheered for S when the band marched by, then the kids got lots of candy and finally when the parade was over we headed towards the van!!! 

We picked S up at the school and then I took the kids through Mickey's drive through and got them french fries!! Then it was home and to bed with everyone!! Poor C was so tired he'd already fell asleep in the van on the way to Mickey's!!! Daddy got home after 9PM and I'm going to bed to read for a bit and then to sleep!!

Happy Veteran's Day!!!

The kids are still off school and we had a busy morning!! We got up (daddy had to work) and the kids had cereal for breakfast! We messed around for a bit but had to be out of the house by 9:40AM to have S to the high school by 10AM. Well half way down the road I realized we didn't put the garbage out and I didn't grab my camera!! Boo!!! So we got S dropped off and then ran back to the house to get those two things done, then we headed into town to find a parking space. We found one and then headed to Philly street to get a great spot for the Veteran's parade!! We hung out on the sidewalk till the parade started and then we enjoyed watching it, the kids and I had no one around us and they got all the candy that was thrown to them!!! Then we booked it a few blocks over to see the band play at an old house here in town. Once she was done we headed to the high school to pick her up. We were going to head to lunch right away but S forgot to wear different shoes so we ran back home to get shoes for her and then we headed to Mickey's for lunch - it was delicious!!! Once we were back home the kids played Wii music and I scrapped (Totally got almost my whole Christmas Advent Countdown done!!), it was a nice relaxing afternoon!!

Daddy made it home just in time to get C out of the tub and put the kids to bed!! Then I spent the night catching up on project life scrapping (well I got one week done - two weeks left to catch up) and then did a bunch of "catch up" postings here to the blog!! Now I'm gonna hit publish on this and probably hit the hay!! Of course I drank a Dr Pepper while sitting here and now I'm kind of flying high!!! Hahaha!! Oh well....I need to SLEEP!!! ~Laters!!

It's Monday, again!!

Ugh another start to a work/school week had rolled around once again!! I did not like it when my alarm went off this morning, not one bit!!! T and I performed our usual school morning routine, breakfast making and lunch packing (kids took meat/cheese roll ups, energy bites and peaches to school today) and then we headed back to bed for a little bit. For the first time we kind of got up late for our "second shift", the boys didn't come in our room at all this morning and the next thing we knew it was 7:45AM. Eeep!!! Of course then we felt rushed the rest of the morning and I hate that!!! Once everyone left I finished cleaning the kitchen , then grabbed a quick shower and C and I headed out the door to story/craft time at the library (today it was the letters K & Z). Then we headed to Aldi's to pick up beef broth for dinner, but I had to get chicken broth because Aldi's didn't carry a gluten free beef broth (T has gone gluten free in hope to fix some of the things wrong with him), but it tasted fine and he actually said the soup was delicious!!! Then I spent the rest of the afternoon cutting some fall banners and finishing up the treat bags for C's class for Thursday. Then once everyone started coming home it was go go go time!! I had to have R and S to the Jr High at 5PM. Then the 3 boys and I came home and ate dinner (they refused to eat the soup and had chicken nuggets) and then we got ready to go to the Halloween parade, which actually turned out to be a joke!!! Hahaha!! But R had so much fun "marching" in it and was so proud to have marched in her first parade!! 

My boys waiting for the parade to start!

I just loved the way the sunset was hitting the building!!

I was super proud of her too!! Then it was done and we came home and got baths/showers. Daddy showed up at about 7:30PM and we put the boys to bed at 8PM and then I wrote this and I'm going to maybe make a grocery list and then I'm hitting the hay - I am beat for some reason!!! I need to post about what I started today but I want to do that in a separate post so look for that!!

Happy Saturday!!

Hooray for the weekend!! Today was busy day!! We got up and had breakfast and then we all had to get ready to leave because we needed to have S in town by 9AM for the IUP Homecoming parade!!! We got her dropped off and then went looking for a good parking place!!! We found one right in front of Grace Church!!! We put money in the meter and then set off for Philly street!! The parade didn't start till 10 am so we were super early, so we walked for a while and then found a good shady spot and took a seat!!

People were walking up and down the side walks handing out stuff, T took the kids across the street to get some balloons. Then they got mini footballs and we got pens!! The parade started and the kids were scrambling every time candy was thrown to get as much as they could!! Lots of people were also through bead necklaces and we ended up with about 20 of those!!! S got done and headed towards us, when we met up we headed towards the van and then we headed out to lunch!!

Daddy wanted Pizza Hut so we went and got the lunch bar and eat till our bellies were full!!! The rest of the day was spent just hanging out enjoying each other as a family!!!