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2011 was not a good blogging year for me...I kept forgetting and then when I did remember I felt like it was too late to even start back up. However, this year I hope to be improve.
The past couple of weeks I've been researching Project Life by Becky Higgins and have seriously wanted to do this for 2 years, but its a HUGE commitment. I hate publicly admitting that I don't always follow through with the commitment's I make...so I hope if anyone is reading this blog that you will hold me accountable - and if no one reads it...well then I have to hold myself accountable. I obviously do NOT have the time to take a picture everyday for one year, so I'm going to try and do this on a weekly basis. I'm going to do this digitally using the Shutterfly pre-made scrapbook by Project Life, so hopefully at the end of year I'll have a year in review book to print for my kids :)
DISCLAIMER: I may fall behind (why am I even saying may...I will fall behind) but I really really really want to do this and I promise to try and keep up.
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
July (Holiday, Injury, Birthday & Vacation)
Everyone finally seems to be healing from all the sickness we had in June - thank goodness! However, there is more to come...
Mason - his cheek/nose healed nicely and he only had a little shiner...he looked adorable though. He did however, manage to get a sty - a HUGE one. It was so big you could see across the room protruding from his eye.
Don - he finally passed his kidney stones with no problem :) However, Don called me again from work and said he was on his way to Urgent Care because he could move his arm or raise it above his head. Urgent Care told him he had a torn rotators cuff and put him in a sling. Fabulous...this man's job requires 2 arms. Thankfully his work kept him working on light duty. We later find out that he has tendinitis - whew...I was really happy that he didn't have to have surgery :)
Zach - he continued to stay healthy and play summer ball! Oh and he turned 15 - I can't believe my baby is 15...where did the time go. We enjoyed a nice dinner with family and friends at Outback Steakhouse.
Me - I'm still healthy :)
July 4th was a good weekend. Don, Mason and I went to Grandview and watched the fireworks and then bolted afterwards - no traffic :) Zach was too tired so he stayed in bed (such a party pooper)! Over the weekend we went to Jerry's - he had family and friends over to watch the WJ fireworks, which turned out to be really good. I'll have to watch next year.
Don and I decided to take vacation the week of July 25 - the boys went camping with Dad for a few days and then Don and I joined them for 2 days as well. Don and I hung around the house and then went to the Columbus Zoo and I got to see the polar bears - love them! Camping was a bit miserable - it was extremely hot, which reminded me why I hate camping. I stuck it out though because the kids loved having us there.
Don, Zach and I went to the Cincinnati Reds game and OMG loved our seats - 3 rows up from the Reds dugout. I got to see my favorite player JOEY VOTTO! Sweet!
Busy month, but totally enjoyed it!
Mason - his cheek/nose healed nicely and he only had a little shiner...he looked adorable though. He did however, manage to get a sty - a HUGE one. It was so big you could see across the room protruding from his eye.
Don - he finally passed his kidney stones with no problem :) However, Don called me again from work and said he was on his way to Urgent Care because he could move his arm or raise it above his head. Urgent Care told him he had a torn rotators cuff and put him in a sling. Fabulous...this man's job requires 2 arms. Thankfully his work kept him working on light duty. We later find out that he has tendinitis - whew...I was really happy that he didn't have to have surgery :)
Zach - he continued to stay healthy and play summer ball! Oh and he turned 15 - I can't believe my baby is 15...where did the time go. We enjoyed a nice dinner with family and friends at Outback Steakhouse.
Me - I'm still healthy :)
July 4th was a good weekend. Don, Mason and I went to Grandview and watched the fireworks and then bolted afterwards - no traffic :) Zach was too tired so he stayed in bed (such a party pooper)! Over the weekend we went to Jerry's - he had family and friends over to watch the WJ fireworks, which turned out to be really good. I'll have to watch next year.
Don and I decided to take vacation the week of July 25 - the boys went camping with Dad for a few days and then Don and I joined them for 2 days as well. Don and I hung around the house and then went to the Columbus Zoo and I got to see the polar bears - love them! Camping was a bit miserable - it was extremely hot, which reminded me why I hate camping. I stuck it out though because the kids loved having us there.
Don, Zach and I went to the Cincinnati Reds game and OMG loved our seats - 3 rows up from the Reds dugout. I got to see my favorite player JOEY VOTTO! Sweet!
Busy month, but totally enjoyed it!
June (Full of Sickness)
For some reason I'm having a hard time blogging, I guess 2 busy kids keep Don and I very busy too. So I decided to recap the last couple of months so I don't forget.
June 2011
The last week of school I realized that I had sent Mason to school with pink eye - I just thought he had a cold in his eye (I now know that is pink eye - thanks to Christy). Mason, Christy and I went to Bob Evans for dinner and she looked at Mason said he has pink eye. I panic of course because he had been at school for 3 days now, so I was feeling like a horrible parent - so we rush our dinner and head straight to the Minute Clinic. He didn't just have 1 pink eye, he had 2! Oh did I feel horrible. He missed a baseball game, which he didn't seem to be concerned about.
The next week, he had his first game back from pink eye and wham...he got his in the face with a baseball. A medic at the field said we should take him to the ER because his nose is definitely broken. Thankfully, I was not there because the thought of it made me pass out. So Don takes him to the ER and finally after my nausua feeling went away I headed in to see what he looked like - it was horrible and I felt really bad for him. Every nurse that saw him said its broken - but the x-ray said otherwise - YAY! Thanksfully the way it hit him was more on his check bone...so his nose and cheek looked like one. He didn't get a black eye like we thought he would so he was very lucky.
And to top it off, he still has his plantars warts on the bottom of his foot and continues to limp. This kid has been a hot mess.
So on to Zach - of course, he was enjoying the first few weeks of summer and baseball...but wait...he starts complaining that he can't hear. Great! We take him to the Take Care Clinic and he has clogged ears. The nurse and Don said it was absolutely disgusting what she pulled out of his ear. Zach immediately said, "I can hear" and the nurse said, "I bet you can!"
A week later...Don calls me and said he is on his way to the ER. He was having abdominal pain and could hardly stand up. So we head over to the Dublin Methodist Hosptial (which is really nice) and find out he has kidney stones - possible to big to pass. Fabulous! So of course he has to see a Urologist and have Lithotripsy.
I was the only one healthy for the entire month of June!
June 2011
The last week of school I realized that I had sent Mason to school with pink eye - I just thought he had a cold in his eye (I now know that is pink eye - thanks to Christy). Mason, Christy and I went to Bob Evans for dinner and she looked at Mason said he has pink eye. I panic of course because he had been at school for 3 days now, so I was feeling like a horrible parent - so we rush our dinner and head straight to the Minute Clinic. He didn't just have 1 pink eye, he had 2! Oh did I feel horrible. He missed a baseball game, which he didn't seem to be concerned about.
The next week, he had his first game back from pink eye and wham...he got his in the face with a baseball. A medic at the field said we should take him to the ER because his nose is definitely broken. Thankfully, I was not there because the thought of it made me pass out. So Don takes him to the ER and finally after my nausua feeling went away I headed in to see what he looked like - it was horrible and I felt really bad for him. Every nurse that saw him said its broken - but the x-ray said otherwise - YAY! Thanksfully the way it hit him was more on his check bone...so his nose and cheek looked like one. He didn't get a black eye like we thought he would so he was very lucky.
And to top it off, he still has his plantars warts on the bottom of his foot and continues to limp. This kid has been a hot mess.
So on to Zach - of course, he was enjoying the first few weeks of summer and baseball...but wait...he starts complaining that he can't hear. Great! We take him to the Take Care Clinic and he has clogged ears. The nurse and Don said it was absolutely disgusting what she pulled out of his ear. Zach immediately said, "I can hear" and the nurse said, "I bet you can!"
A week later...Don calls me and said he is on his way to the ER. He was having abdominal pain and could hardly stand up. So we head over to the Dublin Methodist Hosptial (which is really nice) and find out he has kidney stones - possible to big to pass. Fabulous! So of course he has to see a Urologist and have Lithotripsy.
I was the only one healthy for the entire month of June!
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
I've been busy...
Gheesh...February since I last posted...that's a long time. Time has flown...since February I have been doing a lot which doesn't leave a lot of personal time for me. Here's what I've been doing:
1. Taking classes each quarter - this totally consumes a lot of my time.
2. Bradley High School - Zach made the freshman team - it was a very rainy season with lots of changes in the schedule which left us scrambling to get the kids where they needed to be.
3. Mason started baseball too and had baseball practice, so while I was taking one kid to a practice or game Don was taking the other.
4. I've been traveling a bit more for work :(
5. I had to plan Mason's birthday, which I'm not a party person at all!
6. Mason and I have both been very sick.
7. End of school year stuff has been so busy that I couldn't even keep track of where I needed to be at what time.
I'm going to try and post some pics soon and blog better :) Michelle - I know I've been bad at blogging.
1. Taking classes each quarter - this totally consumes a lot of my time.
2. Bradley High School - Zach made the freshman team - it was a very rainy season with lots of changes in the schedule which left us scrambling to get the kids where they needed to be.
3. Mason started baseball too and had baseball practice, so while I was taking one kid to a practice or game Don was taking the other.
4. I've been traveling a bit more for work :(
5. I had to plan Mason's birthday, which I'm not a party person at all!
6. Mason and I have both been very sick.
7. End of school year stuff has been so busy that I couldn't even keep track of where I needed to be at what time.
I'm going to try and post some pics soon and blog better :) Michelle - I know I've been bad at blogging.
Monday, February 21, 2011
Mr. and Mrs. Daylong (again)!
We had a great time in Vegas and were officially married on Feb 17, 2011 (15 years to the day we were married the first time)...more to come later...
Thursday, February 3, 2011
Planning for Vegas...
Well our plans didn't turn out like I thought they would...my sister is unable to go to Vegas so we won't be celebrating her 40th birthday...total bummer. However, Don and decided to go anyways because we had been saving up and already requested the time off.
In my last post, I mentioned that we were planning this trip a few months back and the entire trip was just for fun...but Don mentioned "hey while we are there we should just get married" I blew it off at first because I didn't think he was serious and I wasn't sure how I felt about getting married again. Then January rolled around and it was brought up again so I thought OK maybe Don and I should have a serious talk about this...well, the talk went well and we made it official - we were going to married in VEGAS (oh and on the same day we were married before Feb 17)! Now those of you that know me...know getting married in Vegas is NOT my style, but I need to live a little so I decided what the heck and the planning began.
I started looking online for chapels because I didn't want a cheesy Elvis chapel and little did I know that you really must plan to get married in Vegas if you want a good chapel and a certain time (what happened to just walking in and getting married?!). I found a really nice chapel called Mon Bel Ami Chapel - they are going to pick us up at the hotel in a limo, drive us to the chapel and then drive us to BOA; an extremely nice restaurant located in Caesars Palace. So I asked myself, what the heck should I wear? I've never been married in Vegas before and all the pictures I saw on the chapel websites were fancy wedding gowns - yea...not gonna happen for me...been there done that! My first thought was to wear a short white cocktail dress and I even found one that I ordered online, but when I tried it on...white was not my color. So Missy, Jerry (Missy's friend and mine too) and I headed out for some shopping...we went to David's Bridal...BIG mistake because when we walked in there were loads of people...I mean LOADS (the Bridal show was in Columbus the weekend before)...we were greeted at the front and asked "how can I help you?" I said, "just wanted to shop for a short dress because I'm getting married in Vegas." Another BIG mistake...they proceed to tell me that there is an 1 hour 45 minute wait for the dressing room and for a wedding consultant to help me. I said, 'No I don't need a wedding consultant just a dress over there (I pointed to the "prom" like dresses). I thought how in the world am I going to wait an hour and 45 minutes to even get in the dressing room...but Missy came to the rescue and asked some lady if we had to wait in line to try on the "prom" dresses...which we only had to wait for 15 minutes. So we grabbed lots of dresses and waiting...and once I got in the dressing room...I wanted to CRACK UP LAUGHING! I hate dresses and now I know why...I look horrible in them...but I found one...its red and I love it. Now we just need to find something for Don.
Planning this trip has been super fun and I can't wait to go...
Hotel - check
Chapel - check
Dress - check
Rings - check (love, love, love mine)
Airfare - check
Cirque Du Soleil (Mystere) - check
Spending Money - does someone want to send me a check? He He...
and I have to say...even though my family and friends won't be there with us (and I wish you all could)...my Mom will be smiling down on me and happy that I made this choice! (Gotta go now, I'm starting to cry).
In my last post, I mentioned that we were planning this trip a few months back and the entire trip was just for fun...but Don mentioned "hey while we are there we should just get married" I blew it off at first because I didn't think he was serious and I wasn't sure how I felt about getting married again. Then January rolled around and it was brought up again so I thought OK maybe Don and I should have a serious talk about this...well, the talk went well and we made it official - we were going to married in VEGAS (oh and on the same day we were married before Feb 17)! Now those of you that know me...know getting married in Vegas is NOT my style, but I need to live a little so I decided what the heck and the planning began.
I started looking online for chapels because I didn't want a cheesy Elvis chapel and little did I know that you really must plan to get married in Vegas if you want a good chapel and a certain time (what happened to just walking in and getting married?!). I found a really nice chapel called Mon Bel Ami Chapel - they are going to pick us up at the hotel in a limo, drive us to the chapel and then drive us to BOA; an extremely nice restaurant located in Caesars Palace. So I asked myself, what the heck should I wear? I've never been married in Vegas before and all the pictures I saw on the chapel websites were fancy wedding gowns - yea...not gonna happen for me...been there done that! My first thought was to wear a short white cocktail dress and I even found one that I ordered online, but when I tried it on...white was not my color. So Missy, Jerry (Missy's friend and mine too) and I headed out for some shopping...we went to David's Bridal...BIG mistake because when we walked in there were loads of people...I mean LOADS (the Bridal show was in Columbus the weekend before)...we were greeted at the front and asked "how can I help you?" I said, "just wanted to shop for a short dress because I'm getting married in Vegas." Another BIG mistake...they proceed to tell me that there is an 1 hour 45 minute wait for the dressing room and for a wedding consultant to help me. I said, 'No I don't need a wedding consultant just a dress over there (I pointed to the "prom" like dresses). I thought how in the world am I going to wait an hour and 45 minutes to even get in the dressing room...but Missy came to the rescue and asked some lady if we had to wait in line to try on the "prom" dresses...which we only had to wait for 15 minutes. So we grabbed lots of dresses and waiting...and once I got in the dressing room...I wanted to CRACK UP LAUGHING! I hate dresses and now I know why...I look horrible in them...but I found one...its red and I love it. Now we just need to find something for Don.
Planning this trip has been super fun and I can't wait to go...
Hotel - check
Chapel - check
Dress - check
Rings - check (love, love, love mine)
Airfare - check
Cirque Du Soleil (Mystere) - check
Spending Money - does someone want to send me a check? He He...
and I have to say...even though my family and friends won't be there with us (and I wish you all could)...my Mom will be smiling down on me and happy that I made this choice! (Gotta go now, I'm starting to cry).
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Recap of my December...
Every year I say I really want to enjoy the holidays and this time I actually did. I had a lot of shopping done early so I was able to bake cookies (a lot of cookies), take time wrapping my presents and scrapbook.
My sister and I started to seriously plan our trip to Vegas (we were planning on celebrating her 40th birthday - more on that later) and we spent every weekend doing something which was a lot of fun.
My Mom's birthday was Dec 10. - she would have been 61. As I am getting older I find myself thinking of how much I am like her and how I'm starting to act like her. There are things that I might do or say that she would have said and it makes me feel really good and connected to her which I really need.
I had a wonderful Christmas, Don surprised me with and iPad - I totally wasn't expecting it and I still can't believe it. The kids had a wonderful Christmas too, they bots lots of stuff as usual but they are worth it :).
Zach and Alexis got back together and they seem really happy and they are super cute together. He spent a lot of Christmas break with his friends which was nice. Mason played his video games most of the time and only stopped to eat, sleep and shower.
I got to take some time off as well which was usual since Bob usually doesn't let me, but now that Justin works with us he actually let's me take some time off.
For New Years Eve we went to dinner at Montogomery Inn with Melissa and John and then met my Dad and Jeanette for a night of bowling. We had a wonderful time celebrating John's 40th birthday as well.
More exciting stuff coming soon, but I'm tired and need to go to bed.
My sister and I started to seriously plan our trip to Vegas (we were planning on celebrating her 40th birthday - more on that later) and we spent every weekend doing something which was a lot of fun.
My Mom's birthday was Dec 10. - she would have been 61. As I am getting older I find myself thinking of how much I am like her and how I'm starting to act like her. There are things that I might do or say that she would have said and it makes me feel really good and connected to her which I really need.
I had a wonderful Christmas, Don surprised me with and iPad - I totally wasn't expecting it and I still can't believe it. The kids had a wonderful Christmas too, they bots lots of stuff as usual but they are worth it :).
Zach and Alexis got back together and they seem really happy and they are super cute together. He spent a lot of Christmas break with his friends which was nice. Mason played his video games most of the time and only stopped to eat, sleep and shower.
I got to take some time off as well which was usual since Bob usually doesn't let me, but now that Justin works with us he actually let's me take some time off.
For New Years Eve we went to dinner at Montogomery Inn with Melissa and John and then met my Dad and Jeanette for a night of bowling. We had a wonderful time celebrating John's 40th birthday as well.
More exciting stuff coming soon, but I'm tired and need to go to bed.
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