Adventure with dad

As we were leaving the park I noticed the van running funny. We had a flat tire. I had the Jack, the spare tire but no tire wrench. So I started to work the phone. My little brother, who is very handy and has helped me in situations like this before was able to bring an air compressor to me. As we started to fill up the tire we noticed the tire was fine. It was the valve stem that had come loose. I noticed that if I held the stem in one spot it stopped leaking. We had no string or duct tape but as many may know, I always carry band-aids in my wallet. We pumped up the tire, put a few band-aids on the stem and drove onto walmart. On the way I stuck my head out the door and the tire was doing fine, so we kept on driving to Discount Tire. (my fav tire store, and here's why. ..)

"No problem, we can fix that is less then 5 min".
"And I like the band-aid fix it job" said the tire man.

The cost was only $2.14 for a new valve stem, having a brother that can come help you, priceless.

#133

Reason #133 how I know I am married to the best husband in the world...

The kids and I had a late night on Sunday this past week, didn't get home until 11pm. After all that partying I knew I would have to just crash for the whole next day. Thankfully Steve was home during the day on Monday and not sleeping, so I knew he could help take care of the kids. But he did more than just "take care" of the kids. He took them out to the park for lunch and an adventure (look for that in a later blog post.) I was able to rest, real rest in a quiet house. Take a nap, not have to worry about meals for any one, and all around have a down day.

What a wonderful guy I have, he knew I needed some time, and he took time out of his day off to take care of me and our family.

Thank you sweetie!

happy birthday ellyn

For Ellyn's 7th birthday we had a party at Chuck E. Cheese with some friends. Ellyn got a ton of tickets and some fun prizes. I think the adults had fun too, Steve found a fun game that we all had to try and we could see that it could become very addicting.

We then had Ellyn's birthday dinner at Grandma Snyder's. Ellyn wanted to have pita pizzas and cup cakes with pink frosting.

The cousins enjoying the cup cakes (minus one Jordan Lucy who is living in Colorado right now.) You can see why I think we are having a girl, Andy is the only boy out of all the cousins.

keep her cool and happy

what do you do with a 7 1/2 month pregnant lady in the summer?
take her some where she can cool off and relax.
that is just what my wonderful family did for me this past week. we packed our bags and headed to Mesquite for a few days. our days were spent swimming, eating, swimming, eating, and more swimming. and when i got too hot, i headed up to the room to cool off and take a nap. steve was so great with the kids. he swam with them, played "monkey in the middle" in the pool, and even took us all to see Toy Story 3. great movie, but not sure whose idea it was to take the already emotionally unstable pregnant lady to a tear tearjerker movie, i must have cried for the last 45 minutes of the movie. steve was even patient with me when we had to make extra potty stops on the road. a fun time was had by all!

Joy and Ellyn in the pool, the only way to spend the summer days.

A wonderful pool at the Casablanca in Mesquite, this is why we always stay there.

Ellyn on the water slide. Last year she was too afraid to go down by herself, so I went with her. Finaly on the last day she went down all by herself with her little life jacket. This year she was too big for the life jacket, but I told her she could do it. She could touch the bottom of the pool when she came out of the slide, but it was still a no go. Then dad told her he would wait for her at the bottom and catch her, after that we couldn't get her off the slide.Steve and Andy getting some sun. Thankfully this trip no one got sunburned.