Day 123/365 - May 3

My sweet girl loves to read. Sometimes more than others of course! She is trying to reach 50 AR (accelerated reader) points before the end of the school year.

This is where I found her this evening after her bath. Curled up on the couch deep into a Judy Moody book.

That series is really much to easy for her, but she is enjoying it and so I'm just letting her read. That's the important part, right?

Day 122/365 - May 2

Avery and Lilly had a great time playing today. They rode bikes and scooters, spent time on the playset, and played in the backyard. It's so nice to have friends that aren't afraid of the dogs!

Lilly stayed until mid afternoon which let me spend some time on the computer scrapbooking since it was interNational Scrapbooking Day (which really translates into an entire weekend).

Also, I will warn you now that I may be MIA a good bit over the coming weeks because of this little contest at ScrapMatters.

I have absolutely NO shot at winning, but if it gets me back to scrapping again then I'm happy. I've been in a slump for months now and haven't found anything to make it any better. Will this work? Only time will tell. I can tell ya that I've scrapped 4 pages this weekend which is more than I've scrapped in the past several months combined!

Day 121/365 - May 1

Whew, what a day we had today!

Avery had a 9:00 ballgame and it was obvious that loss Tuesday night kicked them into gear. They came out strong and played hard today finishing with a 21-5 win over a solid team!

Avery left the ballfield with her NaNa and they headed to The Flimp Festival which is a huge art fair held at The Shakespeare Festival/Museum of Fine Arts.  Avery had a wonderful time and was lucky enough to participate in several art projects as well.

She made a big, floppy hat for herself, a beautiful tile for Wes, and a gorgeous braided heart that I am going to hang at work.

Carol brought her home just in time for us to head out the door to a birthday party for a friend from softball. It was a swimming party and the girls had a blast! We ended up inviting Lilly to come spend the night, so her parents brought her over about an hour later.

This was the first time Lilly had been over and they got along SO well - not one bit of bickering or any cross words. It was heavenly!!  They asked to stay up and watch the end of a show until 10:00 and I agreed. I noticed that the TV was still on around 10:30, so I headed into her room only to find them both fast asleep.

Day 120/365 - April 30

Well, it's official...I've made it through two full weeks of 4:30 a.m. workouts!!

This is where I go to torture myself each and every morning.

I must say that it's gotten easier to get up and I really do look forward to it. I'm quite proud of myself and have even noticed that I am eating better as a result.

I'm not nearly as tired as when I first started and I can actually stay up past 9:00 at night now! Maybe I'll be able to scrapbook sometime soon!!!

Day 119/365 - April 29

Avery had practice tonight, but I decided to go to the grocery store and work on some things around the house.

When I arrived home from the store, I noticed bread crumbled in the driveway and it didn't take me long to see why. There were these two ducks waddling back and forth between our yard and the neighbor's yard enjoying it!

Luckily I had my point and shoot camera and was able to snap a few pictures before they got scared away.

We may not have a pond in our neighborhood, but we do have some ducks :)

Day 118/365 - April 28

Nothing too exciting today. 

If you recall a week or so back, I mentioned that one of our shutters had fallen off the house. After the horrible storms last weekend, we were down another shutter!

This is what I found today.

Now we have no shutters at all.

Wes got tired of them falling, couldn't get them stay, and took them all down.

Day 117/365 - April 27

After Princess decided to use one of our leather chairs as a climbing post over the weekend, Wes decided it was time for a visit to the vet. I talked over the various options with them and we decided to get her spayed and declawed which meant an overnight stay. Avery was so worried and upset that Princess would be scared and worried. She cried and cried all morning long.

I pulled out of the driveway heading to the vet with Princess and left Avery slumped over the fence in tears. To say it was pitiful would be an understatement.

We had a ballgame tonight against the AUM Bulldogs (friends from our old church). The girls just didn't really seem "on" tonight and ended up with their first loss of the season with a final score of 6-4. It was a super close game, but you can't expect to win when you leave 10 runners on base!

One funny thing did happen during the game though.  While Avery was on deck, she asked me how many walks the pitcher had.  See, in this league the pitcher gets 4 walks before the coach comes in to finish up the inning and it starts back over each inning.  Avery wanted her Dad to pitch to her. I thought it was pretty sweet, but I think it may have irritated Wes a little. He wants her to feel confident hitting off any pitcher - she CAN do it.