"Easter 2013"

 Newport Oregon. Easter Weekend. Tyler stayed with Grandma and Grandpa Mary in their motorhome and we drove over for the day for some beach action and Sunday/Easter Brunch.

 Tyler took a friend and they had fun and chilled out and had a campfire and ate lots of food and couldn't wait to get down to the beach!

 Their favorite things to do........Metal detector and digging holes............

 LeRoy and I carried our chairs down so they could dig and have fun and we could sit and relax. LeRoy decided to make his chair a sand chair. I laughed so hard once I realized what happened and why he was trying to take me down with him!

 It was a beautiful sunny (but windy) day.......

 Went for a walk down on the peir. Had a terrible Sunday brunch at one of the hotels. I ate $2 worth of food! Would have rather had a bowl of chowder somewhere!

 Beautiful sunset!

"Tyler is still a baller..................."

 I love it!!!!!!!

"Happy 18th Birthday Nicole!!!"

 My baby girl turned 18 (last month. ha!! I'm just now getting pics posted)! Just yesterday it seemed like she was a little girl playing dress up and dancing and singing and giving me all her loves. Now she is 18. Independent and I hardly ever see her! She is a busy young lady. School, college courses, working and has a social life.

 Her sweet friend Hannah had her 18th birthday a few days before Nicole. They decorated her mom's mini van (ha ha!) and put streamers and banners and bumper signs on it, declared it the "party van" and bought tierra's and a group of girls headed to Portland. I followed their instagram photos and looked like they had a great time. Dinner, Voodoo donuts, some shopping and who knows what else. She was still on crutches so she probably slowed them down a little. ha! Gorgeous girls that are now officially adults!!

 And I'm not sure what her curfew was but obviously I was texting her at 12:01 a.m. wishing her a Happy 18th birthday!

 We went to Block 15 restaurant in Covallis for dinner with Gma and Gpa Mary. Her birthday was pretty low key. Had cake and ice cream about 3 days later.

 Food was good. Was nice to go relax and enjoy my family.

 And I love that Gpa embarrassed her a little.....................

 Gotta love it................

"A trip to the ER........."

 Got a call last Sunday afternoon from a co-worker of Nicole's that they were taking her to the emergency room. What?! Why, what happened???? She dislocated her knee cap (Thank goodness she didn't totally dislocate her knee!)

 She did good until we got into the ER room. Her knee cap was totally dislocated (as you can see!) and she was in a lot of pain. She is tough and only cried a little. They started her an IV and gave her some happy meds and reset her knee. She doesn't remember that part. And was happy she wasn't wearing a good pair of jeans because they had to cut them off in the ER.  Now she has to wear a huge knee imobilizer brace for about 3 weeks.

 We went and saw an orthopedic doctor and thank goodness she doesn't have to have surgery. Just rehab and restrengthen her muscles and tendons. X-rays show bones and everything is back where it's supposed to be.

 I've been taking care of my "adult-baby" for the last week. Helping her shower and driving her around. Cooking for her and being her assistant. I'm exhausted!

 She will be on crutches until she can put full weight on her leg. The crutches are slowing her down and she hates them! Yesterday we let her start driving again. It's been over a week and she thinks she can handle it. Good thing it was her left leg and she drives an automatic.Things are slowly getting back to normal around here. Bummer she has her 18th birthday on Saturday and she is still on crutches. Guess she can't get into too much trouble. ha!

She is a trooper and her youth and being fit will help her recovery. She is going crazy not being able to work but at least she is driving again. So glad it wasn't more serious. The good part is how much time I have gotten to spend with her! ha!

"Big T is a baller.................."

 Ahhhhhh....basketball season! How I love it. Tyler only has a few games left and has had a good season. He has had some great 3 point shots (that went in!!) and has been aggressive and a good leader at point guard.

 He is #8 green shirt. Shooting a 3 pointer! (Did it go in????)

 Great rebound!

 Another outside shot.

His team won. He is talking about playing spring basketball. I hope he does. I love to go watch him play.

"Happy Valentine's Day!!!!!"

 Happy Valentine's Day! I love Valentine's Day. Maybe because everything is pink and pretty and romantic (in theory!). My Hubs got me pretty flowers and baked a cake! So sweet.

 We needed another craft day so I could get my Valentines Day stuff ready. Donna, me, Amber and Tina had a great day of crafting and eating. (last weekend)

 I made simple, yet adorable Valentines for my kids and Hubs.

 You can't go wrong with M&M's and Dove chocolates! And in a mason jar it's just perfect!!

 We may have "tried" a new sangria recipe............

 I bought fun little treats for LeRoy every day and made tags with cute little sayings and left them on his desk every morning' so before he left for work he would find them.

 So fun!! He loved them all.

 We did make yummy drinks for craft day................had to get our projects done!

 I bought myself a Valentines gift last week. ha! I got it in the mail on craft day. What a great day!!

 More cute treats for the hubs.........

Somehow got Nicole to myself for an afternoon! The only way I get to spend time with my girl is if I somehow contain her. ha! She got her hair done and a pedicure all in one day. Put some fun red lowlights in her hair and a fab haircut.

 I can't keep her attention for very long.

 So I just sat under the other dryer and hung out with her. We went to lunch and picked up her brother from school. Good day with my kids......

And today was actually Valentines day. Busy day. Worked. Came home and made homemade pizza and chocolate covered strawberries. Went to Coltons game. Took Nicole and the girls treats to work. Had lots of company this evening. (Gpa and Gma Mary stopped by and Gunner and his new GIRLFRIEND stopped by!) I'm exhausted and ready for bed!!

"It's the little things........................."

It's the little things that matter most.
I worked a long day. Still needed to figure out dinner. Tyler had basketball practice. Nicole had left for work. The hubs and I decided to go together to take Tyler to practice. With busy schedules, if "car time" is the only time we can find to be together...........than I will take that. We decided to run by Hasty real quick to get a soda and visit my girl.
All we got was 2 sodas.
She wrote on mine. So sweet. Kind gesture. Made me smile. I told her when she got home from work that small things like that go a long ways and totally made my day. (She kind of looked at me like I was crazy. ha!!) Something so small sometimes means so much........