Long time!!   Well lot’s of things have happened and lots of things ARE GOING to happen before summer is over!!  Just to recap since Mother’s Day.   NOT MUCH!!! LOL Just been getting warmer and warmer, now it’s gotten into the 80′s.  OH and we’ve aquired a Red Eared Slider. 

We haven’t figured out if it’s a she or a he yet and we probably wont ever know for sure.  Connor has named it Turtle!! LOL He has gotten so cute about a few things since he started school, which yesterday was the last day of and today is the first day of summer vacation!!

Which leads me to summer activities that are coming up in our life this summer.  There’s a lot so here ya go.  Enjoy.

First we will be celebrating my oldest sons fourth birthday, you can read about the birth here.  He has asked for a Power Wheel Four Wheeler, a slip and slide, shirts and shorts along with a few other things that I’ve forgotten at the moment.  Daddy wrote it all down when he asked Connor what he would like for his birthday.   Daddy will also be decorating the cake as a drag strip and placing Mustangs on it because that what Connor asked for.

Second there’s our trip to Michigan for, a family reunion, my moms side of the family.  We will be there hopefully a WHOLE SEVEN DAYS!!!  This will be the first LONG trip both boys will have been on. Connor, my oldest went up with myself and my parents when he was twelve months old and I was four months pregnant with James.  So this trip will definitely be a different experience now that they will be four and two and a half.

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Then there will be the little trips to areas near us until school starts back up in August.  Such as the Louisville Zoo and/or the Cincinnati Zoo, one or both of the science museums, then of course the plentiful trips to the park along with some trips to the movies especially on those really HOT days.

So what are your plans for this summer, I’d like to hear about them.

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I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter this past Sunday.  I know we did.  So here are a few pictures of my boys.

I’ve been somewhat busy the last couple of days. Of course Sunday was Easter and I had the family over for lunch then we did an egg hunt with eggs we decorated Friday.  Monday was just a normal Monday, dropped Connor off at school and went to work.  Tuesday the samething. Today, Wednesday I just went to work!!  And the first day I went to the tanning bed since 2003!!! OMG! WOW I didn’t think it was that long ago since I had been.

Friday I have off so I can spot clean my house before Saturday when I have my Thirty One Purse party.  It’s also the day I get my hair cut. I’m still debating on what I want to do with it. Go figure. 

Sorry I haven’t been around much to everyone’s blog but without internet at  my house I only get about two hours on a computer with internet.  I promise I’m not negelecting I’m just not able to read as much as before.

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It’s been a few weeks since we had gone but I figured it’s been awhile since I last really posted so here’s pictures from the event.

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Before he got a haircut.                             

After his haircut.

So going back three and a half years ago when I was pregnant with my oldest, Connor.  My first.  The romance baby.  I was heaven.  I’m getting a little ahead of myself here though.  So on with the birth story that I never got around to typing or writing down anywhere after he was born.

The midwife checked me and noticed his head was crowning.  So she tells me, “When I tell you I need you to push.  And now, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, and relax.”  I did that two more times after the first.  Connor’s head came out along with making me have a stinging/burning sensation at 12:12 am on June 17th.  My midwife suctioned Connor’s nose and mouth then tells me to push one last time.  The rest of him was out.