Found a few more....

<---- My "sensory child" examining the pizza to make sure it's safe to eat.


















<------ VICTORY!!!!! Over what ?? No One knows!


















<----- Kylie and Isabella conquering the slide!















<--- Kylie, Isabella and some other girl. Kylie can spin all day on this tire swing and never get dizzy.... apparently the "other girl" has the opposite problem :p








<--- Me!!! Being silly for Ashley who is 10 and was taking "poppa rotzi" pictures... and No, those are NOT my gigantic glasses!

Pics from the weekend

<---- Kylie and her best friend Isabella at Kids Kove Park, Friday night after school. My 2 kids and my friend Lindsey's 3 kids played for 4 hours and we ordered pizza to be delivered to the park!

<-------- Saturday morning at MagiQuest. The kids spent 4 hours running up and down stairs click objects with their wands while on their Quests. Here is Kylie getting her first Quest. She is now a Jr Magi and is so proud to have more points then her older video game addicted brother.

<---- Chase getting his Quest.

<---- YAY! We found the red crystal!!!

<---- Chase battling the Dragon.

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Saturday night we went to The Cherry Bowl Drive In with Lindsey and 2 of her kids. Here is Kylie and Isabella trying to stay warm before the movie started.

Couldn't get a good picture of Chase and Brandon to share because they didn't hold still longer than 3 seconds and my camera just isn't that fast!

here comes the pictures!!!

OK, the pictures didn't load in the order I wanted but I'll just have to make it work :)



<------ Here Chase is in the Alpaca Field at the Farm we went to last weekend to purchase our Alpacas. Chase is so excited and wasn't intimidated at all. He just loves all animals

<------ This is The State Of Michigan, the Great Lakes Maritime Academy's training vessel. Drew's on this ship right now (and in the picture). The Ship is just leaving it's dock on West Grand Traverse Bay

<----- Sitting at the dock getting ready to leave for a 2 week tour.

<----- "Reggie" who Kylie has named "Cosmo". He's our 6 mo old Male Haucaya Alpaca and will be Kylie's 4H project next year. He looks brown but is actually Black and VERY soft and sweet.

<---- "Petey" who Chase has named "Anakin" is another 6 mo old male haucaya alpaca that we just purchased. He will be Chase's 4H project next year. Here he is standing with his mom, both boys will be weaned this week.

<----- "Camilla" is our 10 yr old female Haucaya Alpaca and she's pregnant and due in June. We just purchased her also ( she's the one sticking her head up). We will also be getting her Cria (baby). We will be picking all 4 up in August after we have moved and gotten the barn and fencing in order.

<------ Kylie is playing with her toys!!!! Seriously, I HAD to get a picture of this momentous occassion!!! Normally she is following 2 inches behind me saying " I'm bored, I don't know what to do!"

<---- Chase at Track Practice. He HAD to do Hurdles : ) He did make it over a few times :) He tries so hard, I just love him.

<--- First, I live in a real house and I have a real family and Dishes NEVER come first.. so excuse the dirty dishes in the sink :) Here's the story. We had just picked Yoda up a few days before this ( he looks so much healthier now) and all of a sudden I didn't know where he was. We were calling for him and calling for him and we looked under the beds and everything. Finally I caught a puffy little white blob out of the corner of my eye and found him.. He was walked across the back of the couch, on to the breakfast bar, across the stove, down the counter and fell into the kitchen sink and couldnt jump back out! Silly dog.... He thinks he's a cat!

<---- My parents brought this home for Chase, Because apparently we don't have enough animals to feed..... This is when we first got him, he's in a comfy tank and is well taken care of now.. he's a farm raised red ear slider baby and I think Chase named him "Bob"

bras?

Since when did 1st and 2nd graders wear Bras??? While at Target with Kylie the other day she informed me that 2 of her friends wore bras and that she thought that was cool. I at first said, "you mean undershirts?" and she said "No, bras!". Ok these are 7 and 8 yr olds! Kylie is still only 6 and she's of the thin/atheletic build side of things and her 2 friends are a little bigger than her but they are by no means preteens. Kylie acted like she wanted one but I told her she was too young for one and she didnt need one and when she was older she could get one. I dunno, something just feels wrong about letting a 1st grader wear a bra. I let her buy a new pack of camisole undershirts instead and some cool socks :) I'm not ready to let her grow up that fast!

why no updates???

Because my camera broke!!!!!!! And blogs are just boring with out pictures! I just have my camera phone and I'm not sure exactly how to link it up yet. Maybe I'll figure that all this weekend.

Quick boring pictureless update:

Drew left on a 2 week cruise aboard the State Of Michigan this morning.

We have decided to buy a few Alpacas and raise them when we move in a few months.

Chase is doing better at school now, now that the year is almost over! And he's been receiving private OT and PT and loves going to it. He's also running track at school right now and is doing fairly well.

Kylie had her private OT eval but we havent gotten the report back yet. She's socially doing well at school but is seriously struggling with writing... her reading how ever is catching up to grade level and she seems to like reading which is HUGE seeing our biggest battle with chase was that he hated it.

I'm still working and looking forward to summer vacation and being a stay at home mom again. I MISS MY KIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We havent given up on adopting but have put it off until late winter, still trying to conceive.. no luck.