LUCKY GIRL and buddy : )

If you look close you can see HOW ROUND her belly is (she is the black one) - the pictures don't really due her belly justice : ) we are in a holding pattern now....... everytime I walk in the door I expect to see more than just TWO dogs.......it is just a matter of time now before she is a proud MOMMA : ) OF FIVE !!

UNPLANNED PREGNANCY : )

OK - I guess it is time for everyone to know. We have yet another unplanned pregancy in our family. No, NO NOT me : ) It's our little hot dog "LUCKY" (well she is not so little anymore) We are about 52 days along. We went to the vet today because I really wanted to get a head count to be prepared for the birth. I am posting the picture and will let everybody give their guesses. My guess before the dr visit was FOUR but it seems that my number was LOW : )

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL and Tropical storm FAY

Ok so I don't think I am the only one behind the times, trying to catch up with the present day that I have not had a chance to post first day back to school (1st for Nick and 5th for Christopher). It was an exciting week even after the first day of school bc of Tropical Storm FAY - so we went on Monday Aug 18 then no school on tuesday then back on wednesday and thursday just to have FAY turn around and come back so no school on FRIDAY : ) boy what a week - and boy did we get alot of rain to boot and we did need it. The pictures above are of the water level in the lake behind our house this morning.

HAPPY 4th of JULY !!

Happy 4th of July !! we just arrived home after NINE days in the Beaches resort at Turks and Caicos - everyone had funny but we are all happy to be home and the boys will be happier when we get Buddy and Lucky tommorrow from the boarding place : )

LAST DAY OF SCHOOL and maybe my SANITY : )

ok so today marked the last day of school - first day of summer - last day of my sanity : )

i am hoping to keep the boys occupied with more QUALITY mommy and boys time since i don't think they get enough of the QUALITY from me lately - just because i am always able to be around does not mean that they are getting what they might be needing from me and i am sometimes to busy for - not sure how some can do it when i have two and think that is hard to give enough and think about adding one more and wonder if i can do that and be good at it - truly good at it - we will see what adventures the summer holds i hope good ones, good memories, and good OL' fashioned quality time : )

TAKE ME TO SEE THE CELTICS

After weeks of promising if they went this far - Sean was going to take his oldest (and the one most likely to appreciate it : ) Christpoher to BOSTON to see the celtics (sean's all time favortie basketball team) during the playoffs - if they make it to the final four he also got tickets to that (we wont even talk about that cost) I was so excited for them to go and maybe a little jealous that I didn't : ) but I know it is a memory that christopher (the memory sponge) will NEVER soon forget - he even got on the teleprompter THREE times - i taped the game (which they WON) so now its 3-2 celtics - so tonight came home a VERY tired boy trying to talk me in to missing one more day of school (not going to happen : ) they only have four days left and are only going to be there for TWO of those so tonight i hope christopher has sweet dreams of his unforgettable trip with daddy.

Christopher and Lucky

I have to say "THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH" to my cousin Sandy because she has this way of encouraging me to do things that I have a feeling will one day be VERY meaningful to me and my children. I am still getting the hang of this DIGITAL scrapbooking thing and wanted to post a creation - sandy let me "scraplift" her paper - I think I am supposed to give credit to those who created the paper but figure that is good enough after all I am strictly using this for personal reasons only. This is my oldest son and his hot dog - the one he wanted for SO LONG : ) Her name is "LUCKY" she will be 3 years old this august - I guess I should also let you in on why we named her lucky - you will probably want to see a picutre of this also. Remember in the movie Finding Nemo how he had what his dad so cleverly called a "LUCKY" fin - well our little girl has a crooked tail, apparently she was born that way, so we knew of all the dogs there she was the one for us with her "LUCKY" tail : )