Chris and Gregg Watkins

Tomorrow is a friend from way, way back's funeral. He and his brother both died in a car accident last week. I really wish I could take the day off work and attend the funeral but this is not even an option for reasons I will not go into here. :(

I met Chris on my 16th birthday when a group of my friends and I were celebrating at this little place called the Lariat Lounge. He was instantly in love with one of my BFF's, Jessica. (LOL!!)

Chris was a confident, outspoken, and energetic fellow who became fast friends with everyone. I am just sorry I won't be able to pay my respects tomorrow but I do hope that his family has the strength to make it through this tough time. They lost 2 of their 3 kids in one quick accident.

Chris's brother, Gregg was engaged to be married in June and had a 3 month old boy. I can't even imagine. What a horrible situation.

All about my nasty Monday (and a spring break recap)

Today was the worst. day. ever......

Okay, so I am being a bit dramatic but it still sucked.

I should have know it would be judging by the simple fact that I didn't sleep well last night. I also should have known when I got out of bed this morning to find a sick kid in bed with us. Wouldn't you know that she had ALL WEEK off last week and on the day they were to go back from Spring break she has another fever. For a split second I though about sending her knowing that the nurse would call me to come and get her about mid-day. (isn't that awful!) I now wish I would have skipped the horrible day at work and stayed home with her.

Todd ended up taking the day off and sleeping in with Karley. I do think he enjoyed it---just the two of them relaxing. I called him to check in on Karley and give him updates on my day and he was very supportive. I don't want to go into details on what happened those of you who know me can probably guess what happened. Let's just say it involved a lot of yelling, spinning and throwing and I cried. Enough said.

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Spring break started off with a bang....Karley spent 2 days at my moms (while I was working) and I literally had to pry her out of my mom's house she was having so much fun. On Wednesday night we left for Kansas City. Our plans were to go to the Coco Cay indoor water park and we let Karley take along Ameila (the neighborhood friend) so she could have someone there to play with. We made it down there with no problems, got settled in at Jamie's and in the morning I woke the girls up. We headed off to our destination and about half way there Ameila starts crying in the back of the car telling me she doesn't feel so good. We had about 5 minutes from that and she was throwing up all over the place. ICK!!!

I called her mom and had her meet us at Legends shopping center to pick her up which was a good idea since she threw up the whole way home also! FANTASTIC!

We still wanted to do something fun with Karley so we took her to build a bear and let her pick our her very own high school musical bear complete with the outfit and all. Later that night we headed back to Jamie's where we hung out playing and watching basketball. Aside from the car vomiting incident, it was a really nice break.

On the way home on Saturday night, Karley came down with a fever and she fell asleep on the ride home. I should have known then!!!!

So, as of right now, Karley has a fever of 101.5 so she will spend another day at home but this time it will be with me. Oh what her teacher must think!

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I took Karley outside tonight so she could let the wind try and blow her over....it's just a little game I came up with to try and get some fresh air into her system. The neighbor kids came down to play for about 10 minutes. I hear they are calling for some pretty nasty storms tonight.....I will beleive it when I see it! The sky does look pretty cool though!

Is this not the coolest shirt you have ever seen? It says "smart girls rock" I bought them at libby lu before they went out of business. They did have some pretty cute things there! Alright...that's enough for tonight! I am off to bed!

Belle Plaine

It was princess Madison's 4th birthday this weekend so we made a short trip to Belle Plaine to go to her party. Here is a photo of Karley and Maddie eating the cupcakes.

They live a few blocks away from the school so we took the kids down to play on the playground. Here is the girls playing hopscotch and hanging from the bars on the jungle gym.

And, I couldn't resist getting one of Daddy and karley and then one of Karley and I before we left for dinner.

On Sunday, we met our good, good friend, Sunni in Wellington for lunch. Karley was so excited to see her. She adores Sunni! It was nice to catch up with her!

That's all I have for you right now. We are headed to Kansas City this week to do some fun things there for spring break so I will have plenty of new photos after that!

Have a great week!

The Ceiling is done......almost.

It's time for a basement update.

Todd worked ALL weekend on the ceiling and got most of it done. We still have the bedroom to go but have had a minor setback with the ceiling fan that I will not go into details about. It just involved a small temper tantrum and a few cuss words from Todd but, after a little sleep, I think he is ready to try again. Cross your fingers....I would really enjoy not having a hole in the sheetrock!

First though, we got some new furniture for upstairs.... We moved the sectional downstairs and took possession of my parents "old" (yeah right) stuff.... It's wonderful and matches my blue wall perfect and I love, love, love it. Thanks mom and dad.

Now for the basement. We still have the baseboards (which todd ordered last week) and the doors and carpet/hardwood to finish up with but I thought I would post some of the ceiling he worked so hard on. I am very impressed and It looks SOOOO good!

We also have to cover those black poles. Hmmmm. I am not sure what he is using for that. Needless to say, we are completely sick of this project and can't wait until it is O-V-E-R. We are looking for a bed for the bedroom downstairs so if anyone knows of one, please let me know.

Have a great week!!