Still Around

Hey Folks! I have sooo been on a blogging hiatus. We have had such a busy month. We had the best trip home to Texas ever! I was all prepared to give a full rundown on all that we did, but now enough time has passed that it all seems blurry. I wilil share some highlights, however. Oh- and a new keyboard for my laptop has been ordered and will be here next week some time. So then all my crazy typos should be much better! (smile).

Okay, our trip began on a really BAD note. Jamie was THAT kid on the flight out. He screamed, cried,kicked and was an all ouot devil-child the entire flight. I ended up sitting on the floor in the back of the plane with a really nice flight attendant for most of our journey. I cried as much as Jamie did for a solid two hours...and I am not a cryer! It was so terrible. So we made an appointment with our much loved pediatrician, Dr. Harpavat and she prescribed a heavy duty antihistamine for the ride home. He was seriously drunk and slept or was nicely subdued for that flight, thank goodness (synonym for Dr. Harpavat!).

It was so fun to sleep in the room that I slept in before I was married in my parents houose. I felt like a kid again in that regard. The kids had so much fun seeing all their G'parents and Aunts and Uncles and of course Sweet cousins!!!!! I got lots of pics, but haven't downloaded the software for my new camera yet so I can't share them just yet. My dad made the kids a sandbox to play in and it was a BIG hit! Perfect thing to keep them busy during our brief periods of nothing going on/planned. I got to have a couple of grownup nights including wine...woo hoo! It was just the best trip ever. Total family trip. We spent all of our time with family. Carla and Jack took each of the kiddoes for a night by themselves and had all of them one night together. We took all six of the cousins and had their pictures done and they came out so dang cute! They are the sweetest things!

One night we stayed at the hotel where Queeny works. It is called The Great Wolf Lodge. Oh my stars!!!! What a place!!! It has an indoor ginormous waterpark and all kid themed activities. We had so much fun. I was so grateful that Jackie came with us to the park, because Cooper wanted to go one way and Jamie was set on going where he wanted to. We split up and he she followed Coop and I went with the Jamie Pie. He was fearless! After we were all water logged we went to our suite, which was beyond awesome. It had two queen sized beds then a sitting area with a fold out couch and an upstairs with another bed and bathroom. Talk about perfect! Jamie was begging to go to bed after all the water fun so I put him down and the big boys headed out in the hotel to play the MAgiQuest game. It is a scavenger hunt type of game where the kids have to use a magic wand and a special map to search through the hotel and accomlish tasks on a mission...so Austen's cup of tea! Coop was finished around 8pm so Aussie brought him back to me and went out on his own to continue his quest. He came back to the room at 11:30 and told me he just had to use the restroom and then was going back out. I had to tell him no it was so late, but he was up at the crack of dawn the next day and out the door. So funny! There was a big tree that tells stories and a story time in the evening along with a show in the lobby. Honestly...the coolest place to take kids!

When we got home Chris was gone on a business trip and he finally came home last Friday. We were only together for 36 hours between March 6 and April 11...Yuck!!

So now things are getting back to normal. We like normal! (smile). Asuten has had a big week at school and Cooper has been enjoying the beautiful weather and playing outside as much as I will allow (which is a lot). Jamie turned two while we were in Texas. We had an Easter/B'day party with the whole family. His birthday cake was our Easter bunny cake that Pat Price has made a tradition with us. Like I said, I have pics, just not yet.

The Office is going to start so I am going to sign off for now, but we have stuff going on in the next few days that I am eager to share so I will be posting. Have a great night! kc