Can you belive it is going to be May this weekend?

Wow, Lilah is going to be 9 in less than a month (May 21). Am I getting old, or what! She is getting to be so grown up. She has been such a great big sister and helper. She is enjoying baby Miles. The other day she asked if she could get him dressed. She changed his diaper and dressed him up in a cute outfit. She did a good job. She is getting better about doing her homeschooling and is on lesson 122 of 170. She should be able to finish by July. She'll have about 6 weeks off before she starts 4th grade mid August. Alex and Kai will join her in the homeschooling this fall. Even though Kai won't be old enough to officially do Kindergarten, I think he will enjoy it, so I am going to teach both of them. We are planning to do homeschooling for only this upcoming school year, and then after that We plan of sending them to the Rock Academy.

For Lilah's Birthday we are going to take her and a friend or two to Disneyland while Melissa watches the Boys. It should be a lot of fun. We are going to pick up her friends from school on Wednesday and have the cake and let her open her present and then go to bed at a reasonable hour (with giggling school girls that is anything earlier than midnight). We hope to get to Disneyland by the time they open at 9am, so we'll have to leave our house by 7am.

This won't be the first time Melissa has watched the kids. I was canceled a day last week and at the last minute I called Melissa and she came over and Steve and I got to go out without the kids for the first time in almost a year. We went and saw the movie 17 again. It was really cute and funny. After the movie we went and took a nice long walk on the beach. We walked for about an hour and just talked and made each other laugh. It was wonderful. Even after we got home around 1230 am we weren't ready to go to bed and let the evening end, so after bidding Melissa goodnight and sending her home, we watched another movie on TV.

Well I hope everyone is having a great week,
God Bless You,
Suzanne

Did I work this week? Hmmmm.......

Well as I sat down to fill out my time card I realized that I only worked 2 of the last 5 days. At first I was thinking that, wow, I have hardly worked and have had so many days off, then I realized that since I am working tonight, that makes three shifts this week and that is a normal work week for most of my fellow RN's. Wow, won't it be grand when I have all my bills paid off and I only work 2-3 days a week. I have done so many fun things with the kids this week. Today we went to the YMCA and swam in the pool there. The water was nice and warm and even Miles enjoyed the water. I think this might have been Miles' first time in a pool. He was a little nervous at first, but he didn't cry and slowly he relaxed. Within a few minutes he was kicking and splashing around. Ethan had so much fun in the water that he screamed like the almost 2 year old that he is when we took him out of the pool. Alex and Kai were scolded several times by the lifeguard for running, but the really, overall, were well behaved. Lilah , the fish, also had a great time in the pool, as she always does. After all the splish splashing in the pool, we moved out to the playground and the kids played pirates and firemen(woman) and used their imaginations to the fullest. After the kids tired themselves out, we went to Chili's for a late lunch/early dinner. The southwest egg rolls they have there are the best. I think that they must put something in them, because I crave them all the time. A coworker brought them into work a few weeks ago and I haven't been able to get rid of the craving since then, so now that I have had them, hopefully it will pass.

God Bless,
Suzanne

Happy Easter 2009!

Happy Easter everyone, I hope you all had an excellent day in remembrance of Jesus' Resurrection. We had a lot of fun today with the kids. I had originally planned on coloring eggs with the kids, but when I got home from work this morning I was so exhausted that I asked Steve to do it with them while I slept. It seemed weird to the kids, Lilah especially not to have Matthew here for Easter. He has been able to celebrate the last few Easters with us, and his absence was definitely noted today. Though we are happy things are working out great for him in New Mexico we miss him a lot.
So I woke up around 3pm and while the boys were still napping, put together their baskets. Aunt Tiffany had sent some plastic eggs filled with candy for the kids so we hid those as well as the baskets. If you want to check out the hunt in our living room for Easter goodies, you can check out the YouTube video. Steve is posting it as I type this. (search for yangfamilysd) This is the first year that Ethan was able to participate, I got him a really cute polar bear basket and within minutes of finding it, he dug into the candy and drooled chocolate all over the beautiful white basket. He sure enjoyed it though. After the goodies were enjoyed we went to church. Another wonderful sermon and worship music. At church Alex said "Happy Easter Day" to nearly everyone he saw. I am so happy that my kids enjoy going to church.
So the only other new thing going on is that we decided on a housekeeper. Her name is Melissa and she is a young Navy wife. She brings her 14month old daughter Lilyanne with her and she does a great job keeping our house clean and the laundry done, that it has allowed me so much more free time with the kids and Steve I think is a lot less stressed.

Well I have gone on and on, I again say Happy Easter.