Orange Leaf

Today Bella, Bennett, and I spent the day with Jessica, Haley, Grace, Maryann, and Grandma Tomlinson. We went to the mall, McDonalds, and our favorite place....Orange Leaf!!! We Had fun spending the day with them since both of our families are busy these days and we don't spent much time together anymore. After that we picked Emma up from school and went to gymnastics, of course Emma was upset to find out she missed out on the fun. I agreed that we could go to dinner with the Dehmer's to smooth things over with Emma.




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Valentines night

We ended tonight with Ben bringing the girls flowers at dance. He also bought me my favorite wine, Stella Rosa. Ben and I ordered take out from John and Nicks and I made the girls Mac and cheese as requested by them. I had too much wine, chocolate and good food. Hopefully weigh in at weight watchers this weekend won't be too bad :)



This is a pic from the father daughter dance Ben took the girls to this last weekend. They had so much fun dancing with Grace Dehmer.


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I am back!!!

Here we go again, I am making another go at writing on this blog!! I am not going to try and fill in the gaps because I would be writing for over a year, so I am starting with today. Happy valentines day. Bella just got home from her party and got plenty of loot that should hype her up for many hours. Emma is at school right now almost ready for her first real school valentines party, I still can't believe she is in school, sniff, sniff. Bennett is telling me it is time for a nap so I better get going.


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Church members

I sent Ben and the girls to Monkey Joe's for the afternoon, so I have some time to catch up. Today we finally joined St. Boniface catholic church in Waukee. We have been going there sporadically in the 2 years that we have lived here, but never have joined. It is finally time to make that commitment for our girls to be raised going to church and to start Sunday school when old enough. What better time to join then during the first Sunday of Lent. Our priest said to do something for Lent that we could continue after Lent, and this is what I have decided is the best is to make sure I get my kids to church and become involved.

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Ears pierced

Yesterday Emma decided she wanted her ears pierced. So Ben and I decided to let her. We went to the mall to have lunch then went to the store to get it done. There was a 6 month old little girl was having her ears pierced and really screamed and cried when it was done. This made Emma not want to get it done, but I ended up talking her into getting it done. She did not scream, but she had tears and wanted to take them out as soon as it was done. It took about an hour for her to be happy she did it. She is now excited for the 8 weeks is up so she can go buy new ones to put in she saw a ton of earrings she wanted to get while we were waiting yesterday!


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Winter is back!!

Tonight we are getting some snow and we have went back to the cold weather we know for Feb in Iowa. During the warm weather the girls were very confused. They both asked if we could go to Marks to swim and they wanted to go camping. Little too early for both of those, but summer will be here before we know it.
Last week I stayed up until midnight to sign the girls up for swim lessons at the YMCA. I signed them up for both spring sessions, so hopefully they are ready for lots of swimming this summer. I will also be signing them up for summer swim lessons at Glen Oaks. With all the time we spend in the water in the summer I believe they need to be good swimmers.
Last night Ben and I went to a meeting at Van Meter school for Kindergarden. This makes the reality of Emma going to Kindergarden in the fall much too real for me. They welcomed the parents of the class of 2024! Wow, we certainly did not need to hear that. As sad as I will be to send her to school for the first time, this meeting really made me happy with our decision to send her to a small school. They are more like a family and the older kids look out for the little ones. I am very excited to become active in the school and meeting more members of the community! We also met a parent last night who open enrolls from Waukee. If the gas prices get much higher we may have to talk to her about car pooling :) The 1 thing that shocked me was that the first day of school is on August 15, this just makes our summer so much shorter and she has to start school during my beloved Iowa State Fair. I guess we will have to cram a couple visits to the fair before the first day of school!


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