Sentimental Mommy Moment

The crib came down tonight. We bunked the boys back in December but kind of put off bringing down the crib... we're having house guest this weekend and will use that room for them. Not sure how long the bunking will last. The boys are just at different stages and John likes his private time, to play in his 'way'. I almost cried. My boys are growing up so fast and I just pray that I cherish each and every precious moment with them, each little foot step on the hard wood, each little laugh when they don't know I'm listening, every 'Mom, I like you!', the flowers they pick me, their sweet, sweet smell. I know, I know... I'm being all sentimental but time just passes so quickly and we reach these milestones so fast - I don't want to forget those midnight feedings or standing over that crib and watching them sleep..it's forever stamped on my heart and it's gone in a blink.

Acting Debut

John's class performed a play for parents last week called 'The Goat That Couldn't Sneeze'. It was a short, adorable little play. John was the bee who at the end told the goat all he he needed was a bee in his bonnet to make him sneeze and he did...ARCHEW....... =)
Alex, in this picture is awaiting his big brother's acting debut. He's at that stage where he (most of the time) idolizes John. If John says he likes something Alex likes it, too. If John is hot/cold, Alex is, too. You get the idea. So, Alex could hardly wait for John to come out and get started with the play.

Narnia!

We planned today for Narnia - John and I have both been excited to see the 2nd movie. It did live up to our expectations! It was great. I had not planned to take Alex, thinking it would be too scary for him. He thought differently. When we were leaving he begged and begged to go. I explained that there may be parts of the movie that would scare him and he was OK with that. He LOVED it. He kept wanting to see 'the Lion' (Aslan) and toward the end he kept asking if it was over...it does get long. But he did like it and he kept telling me he was going to be Edmund (I think that's his name - the younger brother of Peter). At any rate it was great. John was very much enjoying the entire thing. Ashley joined us for our Narnia event.

If you hadn't plan to see it - it is a must see!

Mother's Day

This is what John made me at school...

My mom likes the color red.
On time most of the time. (He knows me well!) =)
Teaches me things.
Has fun with me.
Easy going with me.
Rare.

He also wrote beside it...Dear Mom, Happy Mother's Day. I love you. Love, John

I think I will treasure this more than any gift he could ever buy me!

Ft. Lauderdale/Bon Jovi

I know it's taken me awhile to post about my trip. When I came back I came down with a horrible upper respiratory infection and have just now gotten over that. I also had a very full week that week...I had committed myself to several events and on top of being sick it was busy! I had the SWUPYS (every heard of the ESPY's well we have the SWUPY's) I'll blog on that later... and then we had the Jr/Sr banquet that week as well and as the Jr class sponsor I had several (many) responsibilities with that. So...anyway. NOW about our trip...

My best friend, Jennifer and I had always planned to take a 30 year trip. We just got a little side tracked during our 30th year... I was expecting precious little Alex and she was planning a beautiful wedding. So..we delayed it a bit and this year seemed perfect as it coincided with the Bon Jovi 'Lost Highway' tour. We decided to go south as it was much cheaper to fly south rather than north and warmer, too. So to Ft. Lauderdale we went. It was great fun. We found a great deal on a hotel on the beach. Thursday we had no problems with our flight. We found a great place right on the beach to eat some seafood, had dinner and even made it back to the hotel in time to see Lost. Perfect! We slept in on Friday and then went out to Sawgrass Mills a huge outlet mall. We had lunch at the Cheesecake Factory (our favorite!) and then we shopped and I do mean shopped! We mostly bought for our kids...man how things change. We both added 10lbs to our luggage home from what we bought. I did buy 2 pairs of shoes at the Clark outlet. We shopped until about 9:30 then went back to the Cheesecake Factory for some appetizers to finish off our night. Couldn't have been a more perfect day for us. Saturday we had spa pedicures and then laid by the pool which was ocean side - absolutely perfect. We then got ready and headed back down to the ocean drive section and had dinner at this Italian place we had seen, it was great. We were then on our way to the Bank Atlantic Center for the concert. It was about a 30 minute drive from there. Traffic became thicker as we headed out that way. The center was directly across from the outlets so we were going to park at the outlet mall and walk over to the center to save money (it was $20.00 to park). We kept seeing people walking away from the center and we thought that was strange. Finally we found a park and started walking across. There were people standing everywhere and at first I just thought they hadn't opened the doors although it was 7:30 and it was supposed to start at 7:30. Jennifer asked someone what was going on and they said "There's been a bomb threat." Seriously, a bomb threat at a Bon Jovi concert!! What the heck. So thus began our long, long night...we waited and we waited and we waited. Finally, at 9:00 they decided they would let us in. It took forever for 20,000 fans to enter. I finally got in my seat at 10:00. We missed Daughtry, although later I heard he only played 3 songs. Bon Jovi was awesome. He thanked all the local police and EMS workers for what they had done to secure the building and he thanked us for our courage. It's sad that some coward tried to wreck the evening. Thus the times we live in.


My favorite of John!




Bank Atlantic Center

Waiting with the rest of the 20,000 fans...



After Dinner before the concert.


Ocean Drive




This is our hotel.

Now we begin planning for our 40 year trip...I'm thinking the West Coast!

In Memory

I will always remember this day.