Wacky Hair Day, Birthdays, Weekends.....

So today was wacky hair day at school. Jackson decided this is what he wanted to do. His teacher said his hair was definitely the wackiest! My sister came over today and saw the pictures and was a little worried about what was happening at my house. She thought we bleached Jackson's hair.

Last week we went to dinner for Kory and Tatyana's birthdays. They chose a restaurant called Tuscarora Mills and it was really good. We all had a lot of fun.

Okay remember when weekends use to be so relaxing! What happened to those relaxing days....oh ya we had kids.
We went to a very fun Cinco de Mayo party at our friends Jonathan and Julie Linton's house Friday night. Great food Julie! Thanx! Forgot my camera or I would have taken some pictures...
FYI Jonathan is an amazing artist if you want to check out his work click here.... http://jonathanlinton.com/portrait.shtml
In between the three baseball games Sat. I finally finished mulching the yard...hurray! Man that is a lot of work. We ordered it and they dumped it in our driveway (of course in the wrong place) so we have this enormous pile of mulch blocking our walkway. When I got to the bottom I wanted to start crying I was so happy. That is a lot of dang work!
I was sore in very strange places on Sunday. Anyway I was thinking all weekend what it might be like to sleep in.....to go shopping.....get a pedicure.....oh well I am sure when my kids are big and I do have my weekends back I will miss the craziness.

My son Hunter....

So Hunter and his friends are really into making little clips and movies for YouTube.

Is this just a Ashburn thing or do any of your kids this age do it too? A lot of the kids out here do it.

So he and his friend Ryan  made this one at Ryan's house today. Just thought I would share.....

Allergies!

Oh my gosh anyone else having horrible allergies? I feel like I want to die! 

I never had allergies until I moved to the east coast.

It is miserable! I can't sleep. All day long I

 am sneezing, my eyes are like a stream of water...

my throat hurts, my head is pounding.... 

Am I a baby? Conwey and I were at dinner last night and he thinks I am being a bit of a baby about it.

(by the way we tried the new American Flatbread place

 that is all organic ...for you Ashburn girls who read this, and it was really good!)

He use to be the one that suffered so badly and then they just kind of stopped for him. 

Nothing works for me either. I can't take Benedryl or I will sleep through a train wreck. I tried Zyrtec. I take Claritin every day but I don't know if it is working. I feel like I need to take 2 of them but it says on the box only take one.

Anyone have any tricks? 

Poor Sienna she has them to. I think it must be the tree pollen because that is what is so high right now.

Okay thanks for listening to my little venting post. 

***Little update since I posted this. I went to the Dr. finally after so many years of suffering and I am wondering why I didn't do it sooner. Oh my gosh just in one day I feel so much better!

If any of you suffer with allergies go get a prescription! It makes a huge difference.

Sienna on the computer

So do I do too many posts with Sienna? I just have so much time with her while the boys are at school. Today I walked around the corner and found her typing away on the computer. She seemed to know exactly what she was doing. Is this telling me I may spend a little too much time on the computer? She talks (and talks and talks) like this pretty much from the moment she wakes up to the moment she falls asleep......did she get that from me too????

Sorry it's so dark. You might want to pause the music on the right......

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Sun worshipping...does it run in the family?

Sienna took a break from playing in the sprinkler today and I looked over and this is what I saw....
Is she my daughter or what?

And so it begins.....

Well Saturday it all started......or ended that is. My free time, my week nights, my Saturdays....
Baseball is here. It is now all I will be doing until June. If any of you are ever wondering where I am.....well I am either taking someone to baseball, or bringing someone home from baseball, sitting at multiple baseball games. Some times I might sit through 9 hours of baseball from the first baseball game on a Saturday to the last.
I really enjoy football season, and basketball season, and swim season, but baseball I am sorry to say bores me. The games are sooooo long, not very exciting, and I am usually chasing Sienna around trying to keep her from jumping in the mud.

So Saturday was the Opening Ceremonies and they have a big parade, throw out the first pitch and have all kinds of fun games and food.
The kids had a lot of fun walking with their teams in the parade.





Sienna wanted to get out and march in the parade too...Conwey was not able to stay because he had to go help coach Hunter's team. (Hunter is now in the older league so he didn't march in the parade)


Sienna was being a bit difficult so we were feeding her full of pretty much anything to keep her quite and entertained...



And after all the sugar she was dancing like crazy to the music they had playing.........

White Pants probably not the best idea.............

How about that....Sienna is finally letting me put a ponytale in her hair! I just kept trying and trying and then one day she didn't rip it out. Hurray!

The kids all had a blast on all the rides though. Cooper and his friend Dylan were such good sports and took Sienna in the moon bounce and up the slide.....we had a hard time getting her off the rides. This is Sienna coming down that big slide! She has no fear.

Gotta give her credit though she sure held her own in the moon bounce with all those big kids.


Cooper and Dylan

So after 6 hours and a few sun burns I finally got the kids out of there.....so I will see you all in June after baseball is over.....oh ya then swim team begins............

Ahhhh Spring Finally!

So we have had a long cold winter. At least I feel like it has been a long cold winter.
I have been so ready for spring. Well today it finally came!
75 glorious degrees today. I even got a little sunburn. :)
Remi called and invited us over for lunch and fun in the sun. So we got out the jog stroller and headed over of course singing popcorn popping all the way there. Sienna had a blast playing with Sophie, Brooke, and Craig. Sophie sure had her laughing on the swing! I feel a little bad for Sienna because we got rid of all the back yard toys and play set when we moved and she LOVES to swing and go down the slide. She kept going down the slide today saying wee..this is fun! I might have to break down and get her something for the backyard.








Then the boys got home and were so excited to do a Lemonade Stand. They had been talking about it since they got on the bus....gotta give them credit they sit out there for a long time yelling to every car that goes by....how can they pass by these faces?


I have to say I find it so endearing that people actually stop their cars...men in suits on their way home from work, tired and I am sure anxious to get home...but they stop, get out of their cars, and buy a cup of lemonade from the two eager money earners on the side of the road.

Popcorn Popping

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Growing up on the west coast I never understood the song popcorn popping on the apricot tree.
It wasn't until I moved to Virginia that I got it.
It is now Sienna's favorite song to sing and we sing it every morning on the way to the gym about 8 times.
As soon as she sees the trees it reminds her.
I have to admit I love the "popcorn trees" I always get sad when they turn green.

Boys and Dirt.....

Okay I was reading on a friends blog the other day about her frustrating day for many reasons...but one was that she had a million kids at her house playing and her house was just cleaned and the juice boxes dripping juice...all the little feet coming through.....anyway I think I wrote a comment about how great it is to be the house all the kids want to play at, that way you can always keep a eye and ear on them..... well I am eating my words now.
Yesterday was my day that there were a million kids over here coming in and out....I went downstairs last night and this is what I saw (it looks ALOT worse in real life too I just couldn't get a picture that showed how bad it is)








Yep that mud goes all the way around!
I kept remembering Shawni's blog post and trying to keep my cool wondering how in the world all the mud is going to come out...I wanted to ring my kids necks. Then thank heavens for this blog...I thought I am going to document this mud.... so I went down and started taking pictures.
Hunter says to me "mom Ryan thinks your crazy taking pictures of the mud..." well Ryan it's better that I am taking pictures of the mud than ringing your necks don't you think????
I guess it comes with having three boys...I'll have to write about the sleep over I got talked into letting them have last night at a later date....seriously why why WHY do I do that to myself????

Sienna Singing

Today Sienna was down in the guest room singing and dancing away (like she always does) and I just happened to catch her and got a little on camera. She LOVES the song No One by Alicia Keys....she sings it ALL the time. (sorry it's sideways though)
Here is a little glimpse of life with Sienna. She makes us laugh.

Costco

Okay is it just me or do we spend a lot of money at Costco?
Today I went in there for a few things and come out 300.00 dollars later.
Are they really good deals? I mean I think I have gotten a lot better at getting things I know I will use all of. I hate it when I buy a mega pack of something and then end up throwing it away because it went bad, so I try to stick with paper products, trashbags, soaps...etc. etc.
They always seem to suck me in though. They always have cool stuff. It might be beach towels, or chairs, or it might be some cute work out shorts....pajamas for Sienna....books....movies....
cool bowls or glasses.....or just something they are sampling that we walk by and taste.
And why does it seem like such a good deal when it's at Costco when if I saw the same thing at the grocery store I would think it seemed expensive?
Am I the only one that does this? I really try to go only when I am out of toilet paper and paper towels. Hmmmmm I wonder if this is what Costco planned when they thought of the store. I guess they know what they are doing.

Easter

Easter was so early this year it was hard for me to get into it.....
I feel like I am still recovering from Christmas.
My boys LOVE to color Easter eggs...it always makes me laugh to watch how "pretty" they
try and make them. It's cute.

They think Easter is almost as exciting as Christmas.....
They come down stairs to find their baskets and then get to look for eggs which the Easter Bunny hid inside this year because it was a bit too chilly outside.
Sienna thought she has died and gone to heaven with all the candy...every egg she opened had candy....she couldn't believe her eyes.

Looking for Easter Eggs......

Isn't Sienna so pretty in her new dress up clothes.....
Then we made a big breakfast. I thought it might be a good idea to remember the real meaning of Easter so we all watched a movie about Jesus and his resurrection....it always makes me cry.
Then we went to church and I forgot to get pictures of them all dressed up of course.
We rushed down to Conwey's parents for dinner and had a great dinner. Rach and Jimmy came too.


Conwey's sister Jayne is here visiting with her kids too. It is always so fun to have them here. The kids all love to be together so much. All and all it was a nice Easter.

Good mom points....

So a few of my girlfriends talk about the good mom points they may have earned with their kids doing fun kid things or maybe something outside their comfort level...such as camping or something.

Well today I feel I earned my good mom points....at least I hope I did.

Today I decided it was going to be a fun boys day. So we loaded up the car and went first to the Batting Cages...

Then we went to the driving range to hit golf balls.....

Then we had a big basketball game with their cousins......

Then we headed over to Fuddruckers for some food.....

Now I am tired and I have been sitting here thinking about how nice it will be to have a girls day with Sienna when she is older....


You get the picture........