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OK, first a short lesson. This (Dawson pulling all the tissues out of the box one at a time) is good April fool's joke. This (My dad in the ER with 4 broken ribs and sprained shoulder) is not a good April Fool's joke. And by the way, he's not smiling, he's gritting his teeth together due to the pain. And I have no idea why my mom looks so happy in the background. :-) OK, moving on, there's this story of an April Fool's day where I shouldn't have even gotten out of bed. I'll pick that story up in a second. If I wasn't absolutely positive that God was in control and that all things work together for good, then I might think I had some bad mojo going on today. Then if that were the case, I would have to change the name of my blog to badmojomama instead. There's the joke for the day. :-) Anyway, back to the story... 9am-Get the kids loaded in the van & try to leave to go to a friend's house. Well the kids had left a light on in the van, so t...

Wow, I have alot to catch you all up on after yesterday's April fools day. But that will have to wait until later, so for now I wanted to post my latest project, which I just adore. So when I walk down the hallway to go to the bathroom or any bedroom, there I am just walking & staring at this blank white, boring wall. So here's the before picture. So I thought & I thought, what would really make it look nice & be pleasant to my eyes every time I go down the hallway. I wanted to spruce it up & try something new. Not just hang a picture of something. The after picture. Then I got this great idea & here is the finished results. I know, I know,gorgeous, stunning, all those wonderful things you're thinking. Tim says it looks like something that would be in a restaurant . I think that's a compliment. :-) So I traced & then taped off the outline of the metal candle holder , then painted everything else & then hung the candle holder back up. We...

I really wanted to use my husband's tagline from his blog, which is: my thoughts about life and love and other mysteries. But I decided not to, just to mention it, because he's so witty to come up with stuff like that. So anyway, I went to the Optometrist today. My eye dr . is actually a good friend of ours. His family is in our homeschool group & he helps out as one of my Sparks leaders in Awana sometimes. Anyway, it's just cool to go there & have conversations about praising the Lord for different things. Their church (the Presbyterian church in town), finally got a pastor and he was telling me all about that. Then we did talk about if he saw people with weird eyes, like 2 different colors & stuff. He said yes, there's one lady that has one blue eye & one hazel-brownish eye. Weird. On a different subject, Tim & I along with my sister & her husband are all in a March Madness league, where you pick your teams & get points for each correct ...

Starting at 3:00pm we had our Family March Get together at our house. Once again a great use for the bouncing castle. We celebrated the following birthdays: Candice (2/20), Mom (3/4), Savannah again (3/11), Cherri (3/28) and Kayleigh (4/6). So there were lots of gifts to open & fun and noise. Kayleigh is always so animated...I just love it! Mom got everything she asked for...what more could a woman want?!

Savannah's Birthday Party! My little princess celebrates her 6 th birthday. It was such an occasion also that one of her little friends ( KJ Brown) lost his very first tooth during the party. There were lots of gifts to open. We got Savannah a princess jumping castle. That's what she wanted & we had it the whole day & it sure did get used & enjoyed by lots of kids & adults. I think at one point there were like 15 kids on it at once, but it was a very big jumping castle. And, of course the Candy Land cake was a big hit! Thanks once again to Aunt Teddi & her amazing cake creations.

I asked Savannah what she wanted to do for dinner on her birthday, I offered to make her whatever she picked, take her to a restaurant she picked, or even have someone over. She promptly decided that she wanted to go to someones house & that someone was Emily. So I had to call Teddi & tell her that she won the Penick jackpot & we would all like to come over for dinner on the 11 th . She was so gracious to agree & made us a delectable dinner. We took chocolate cupcakes for dessert that Savannah made that morning. Here is Savannah just after we've sung Happy Birthday to her & that's Uncle Philip's hand grabbing the candle out. Needless to say, the kids really enjoyed the cupcakes. Here's some of the mentionable faces from that night. The winner of "best fu -man- chu ". Emily wins First Place "Best Mexican Goatee". And then all around "Messiest"!

Well today we went back to the park over in mission Royale , that's by the water park. Anyway, this time I did take the camera & got some pretty good shots of this monstrous toy place. There are 2 different rock walls to climb. It's 3 different levels high. Dawson of course loves to go up... up the steps... Up the ladders... All the way to the top level. He can go down the very fast slides by himself, but doesn't mind company either. Here's one of Jenny & Ana even having fun on it. And one of me climbing up the wall. Here's looking down the ladder(s) from the top level. Can you see Savannah down there? You all look like little ants from way up here! And when the babies get tired & start crying, then we load them all up & go home for the day.