Today we’ve learned…

what two angry, tired, grouchy, tired, squeally, tired babies sound like cooped up in their carseats in a moving vehicle.  At 10am.  What a day it’s been!!  Thankfully we “borrowed” grandmother and granddaddies motor home for lunch again, and let the dynamic duo roam around while eating lunch.  That burnt off at least a little steam.  After a bit of a nap this afternoon they started becoming squeally again, so I suggested milk shakes.  I was hoping it would buy us 30 minutes of silence…..they both finished them within about 3 mins!  WOW!  How they didn’t get brain freeze I’m not really sure! lol!  Now, not only are they tired, but they are hyped up on milkshakes! :P

 

It’s 4:10 on day 3.  By this time tomorrow we will be settled into mom and dad’s place, and the kids can run their little legs off!  We’re going to stop shortly and let them race around with the soccer ball for a few mins, and then it’s around 2 hrs until we get to the hotel!  Hopefully they’ll stay kinda settled down until we get there!

 

Tomorrow is the last day of this leg of our adventure, we keep reminding ourselves that they will never be this little again, and the trip will never be this stressful again.  Over all the kids have done fantastic, minus a few twin meltdown’s, so I really can’t complain about them.  But I will be looking forward to next trip, when they’ll be more entertained by movies, and toys, and coloring books and such!!

Day two of our journey.

Well it was a super duper early morning this morning, started off with the alarm clocking BLARINGLY loud this morning!  Forgot to adjust the volume, the last person to set it must have been deaf!  But nevertheless, at 5:15 am the alarm went off and we began our second day of driving!

 

To back it up a bit, last night when got to my best friend’s house at about 5pm or so.  We had SUCH fun visiting!  I finally got to meet her phantom hubby (haha), and her bro, sis-in-law and their adorable little girl came over for supper and cake as well!  The kids had a blast playing with her 2 kids and her niece, and the twins had fun racing around her house and climbing her stairs!  What a great stress relief after a long day!

 

Back to today, so far everyone is tolerating the trip well.  The babies have been a little fussy, mostly tired I think.  Rylee just fell asleep, and I’m hoping Liam follows suite soon.  We’ve already stopped to play at one playground today, LOVE the rest area’s with playground’s, whoever thought of that idea must have had children on a long car trip before!  Here’s to hoping the rest of today continues smoothly, and that tonight everyone gets a better night’s sleep so we aren’t quite so grouchy for day 3!

On the road again!

So it’s been awhile since I updated!  But today is  now July 3rd, 4pm, 2010….and we are ON THE ROAD TO CANADA!!!  Woot!!  The last month or so has flown by!  It’s been a whirlwind of David working overtime, Sean on vacation from school, Sean and Kaelyn going to VBS at First Baptist Church, and the babies both being sick!  But we managed to get everything together, get a few things bought, get everything cleaned at the house, all the laundry washed/dried/folded (mostly, minus our clean clothes folded), and everything packed into the yukon!!

 

We left bright and early at 6am this morning!  Ugh!  It took us about an hour to get everyone up, dressed, and out the door!  So far everyone has done fantastic!  The twins have had a couple fussy periods, but otherwise it’s been a great drive!  The inlaws are with us, they are just behind us in their “holiday inn on wheels”.  Boy are they in for a shock when they see how wide open and non-commercialized Lipton, Saskatchewan is! lol!

 

We still have 3 days of driving, but today is the longest day of the drive.  We planned it specifically to make a pit stop at my bff’s house in Indiana!  Beautiful lady is going to cook us some supper and save our sanity by letting my fearsome foursome run around with her kidlets and niece!  I can’t wait to see her again!  We haven’t had a good visit in a year so I’m psyched!  T-1hr and counting!

 

In between times here, Sean and Kaelyn attended VBS and they had a blast!  Sean was so upset when it was over!  Kaelyn learned some new songs, specifically “Deep and Wide”, I’ll have to catch it on tape, it’s adorable!  The week before we left, both the twins got sick too!  Liam with a double ear infection, and Rylee with a sinus infection.  Carrying antibiotics on a trip is so much fun! @@  I’m just glad it’s working fast and both are doing much better today, all things considering.

 

Well I’ll likely be bored and have time to write up how our trip is going the next couple of days!  Hope the next three days go as smoothly as today has gone so far! <3

Hello blog-land!

I’m thinking I could get used to this blogging without logging in! lol!

 

So it’s been awhile again, life sure is busy with 4 kids at home!  Sean is 8, he’s going into 3rd grade this fall.  He’s out for summer now, and is enjoying playing with the little kids, for the most part!  He’s going into the “gifted and talented” program at school this fall, he’ll be taking extra classes one day a week!  He’s pretty excited to get back to school, he misses his friends already!

 

Kaelyn is 3.5, going on 4.  She’s loving having Sean at home to play with, and I love having someone to help occupy her and the twins! lol  Her and Sean are both in VBS at First Baptist Church this week and they are having a blast, they don’t want tomorrow to be their last day!

 

The twins are 15 months old now!  At their 15 month appt, Rylee was 23.4 lbs and 31 in long, and Liam was 21.4 lbs and 31 in long!  Both doing fantastic!  Starting to talk more, and get into more trouble too!  Liam is running pretty good now, Rylee tries to run but has to keep her arms up for balance still!  Their favorite game is patty cake, and dumping toys out of the toy bins so they can sit in them!

 

David’s  busy working a ton of overtime, in preparation for our Canada trip!  2 wks and 2 days until we leave!  I think we’ve got everything bought that we need, and now it’s crunch time to get everything packed and the house cleaned up so when we come home it’s not a disaster.  The inlaws are making the trip with us in their motorhome….should be an interesting vacation!

 

And me, I’m busy trying to keep my household semi-clean and sane this summer!  I’ve started a new cleaning regime that’s working pretty good, for the first time in years I’ve kept the dishes done and the dining room clean for 5 consecutive days! lol!  Next step, the laundry folding backlog!

 

I’m going to do my ever loving best to blog more, I really need to document my kids lives more before they grow up and I run out of stuff to talk about it!  I hope I can remember to take the time each day to jot down what new and amazing things they are doing! <3

Testing……

One of the “new” and “cool” features to this new laptop is apparently a “Blogging Button”, where I don’t have to load my blog on Firefox to update it!  I’m just setting it up and testing it out right now!  Hopefully this will help me keep up with my blogging adventures! 

The tv battle!

So this week liam has learned how to turn the tv off! Forget the little plastic shield, he sticks his little fingers behind it and pushes the buttons! Not sure how to prevent that....mommy brain needs to do some major thinking!

Today I ran to walmart with the 3 little ones to pick out something for Sean's teachers! It's Teacher Appreciation Week this week! We've done flower pots with herbs for his teachers the last couple years and it seems to go over well! I found some yummy smelling oregano and parsley, both easy to care for but very versatile to use! I hope his teachers like it!

It's been around 85+ degrees outside lately, I'm not sure I was ready for summer yet! But regardless, it's here, and here for several more months!

To rain or not to rain....

That seemed to be the question of the day today! When we first got up it was cloudy out, so I figured it would rain for sure! Later on, the sun came out, and I contemplated taking everyone outside by myself! Then after the babies nap, it was cloudy again! I really didn't feel like hauling everyone outside only to have to turn around and come back in if it started storming! So we spent a lazy day inside, playing, watching tv/movies, and snacking! :D

Just a quick note: Keebler Gripz Chips Deluxe these are the BEST snacks ever! The kids love them, they are small enough for the twins to eat, but they don't make a mushy mess like big cookies do! And they really are tasty! :D

Tomorrow is sunday, and I hate we have to miss church every second weekend! David's working hard this weekend, the start of the 7 day stretch always sucks!

While he was off thursday and friday we played outside, went to 2 ball games, bought a few more flowers for my last pot, set up the small wading pool for the kids, David cut grass and burnt some burgers on the grill! All in all a productive yet fun couple of days off!

The countdown has begun for our Canada trip! Sean has 4 weeks left of school, it's 8 weeks until we leave for Canada, and when we get back it's only a couple weeks until Sean and Kaelyn both start school again! Sean will be in 3rd grade, and Kaelyn will start 3yr preschool 3 mornings a week! I think she's going to have so much fun! It'll also give me a chance to focus on the twins a bit, and give her the opportunity to do more "big girl things", stuff I can't see to get done with her with 2 little monkeys toddling around!