Where Have I Been?

Hello! Echo..Echo..Echo..

I know. It's been a ridiculous amount of time since I've blogged. Real life things have nearly had my head spinning so blogging got put on the back burner.

Somethings I missed blogging:

Meghan's 6th Birthday!

Meg right after having her hair trimmed.

Her Princess Celestia Cake

She got lots of presents! Mostly My Little Pony Stuff. I won't bore you with all the pics. I will show you her blowing out the candles picture. 

Meg got giggly over singing

A lot of effort =D

HALLOWEEN!

The adventures of Susie our Elf on the Shelf.

You can find all her adventures, I hope, on Pinterest.

Sean's 11th Birthday!

Christmas!

Kids got the normal clothes. Some video games and books. The girls each got American Girl Dolls and Sean got cash and lots of Legos.

Meg and Candy Cane

Bridge and Angel

Sean putting together one of many Lego Sets

Those are the biggest events. Keeping me from posting individually about that, was the fact that in October/November 2012, I took over as Leader of our GS Troop. Then topped that insanity by continuing to be the Cookie Chair/Mom. I had already committed to Cookie Chair. Taking over the Troop, pretty much blindsided by that.

So, I've been trying to get our Troop organized and such. Growing our Troop. Learning the necessary things. Doing the Cookie thing. It's pretty much been all I've done. Seriously. BUT I see progress! Our Troop has grown form 5 girls to 12! Daisies, Brownies, a Junior, and a Cadette! I've been working out plans for each of these groups to choose from. A few girls are even going to bridge to the next level so I've been learning requirements for that.

More recently, Sean has been preparing to leave Cub Scouts and got to Boy Scouts! Seems like only yesterday he was a Cub Scout Bear. The first year he joined and the first year we thought this could be good for him AND that he could do it. Before that, his and our struggles to understand all he was going through was just overwhelming.

We're pretty much on the adventure of life. I just hope I can stop and take time to enjoy it and maybe blog a bit.

Oh and I've been getting SPAM comments on this post. You won't see them cause they're not published but I thought it was funny. And worth a blurb of mention. =P

Who's 8?

So, the 14th was my Bridgette's 8th birthday. I have no idea where the years have gone.

Suddenly she is so big and smart and well, talented. She reads very well, just as she should. But what is more amazing to me is how well she draws and really, she always has. She started at about age 3 tracing her toy ponies. We just keep encouraging her in little ways. You know, by providing supplies to draw/color with or on. Hanging up her art work. (we actually hang up all the kids random art and replace it when they give us new ones) Last year for Christmas, I believe, we bought her a how to draw horses book. She's used it so much she's had to tape it. That's right, she taped it back together. I just randomly found it one day. Smart I tell ya.

Dragons are her new thing

We took her to Fudruckers on Friday for her Birthday Dinner. We gave our presents that night but forgot to take pictures of her opening them. So, I took pictures when we got home. I figured better to let her have something to open on her birthday and a few less things we would need to bring back from her party on Sunday.

Princess Cadance from My Little Pony Friendship is Magic

New NIV Bible cause the one she got when going into Kindergarten has been put up a little too well.  And hey! It has a horse on it. Perfect.

New bracelet w/a cross inside a butterfly.

Speaking of her party on Sunday. Hubs decided it needed to be at Chuck E Cheese. We usually just go to our local Peter Pipers where most of us agree the pizza is much better. So to Chuck E Cheese we went. Hadn't been there in years. Turns out they redesigned it. Too bad they didn't overhaul their craptastic pizza. BUT the kids all had fun, so that's really all that matters. Me being ill today from the pizza not agreeing with me, small price to pay. Though I did notice 2 of my 3 kids really didn't eat any pizza at all. So, on the ride home we stopped at McDs drive thru. Poor Meg was so wore out she insisted on being carried, I gave in. The whole way to McDs all we heard was Meg saying, "I'm tired. I'm thirsty. I'm hungry."

Bridge did a really good job of talking and playing with everyone. She didn't even flip out too much when Big Brother Sean decided to help her blow out her candles before she did. We just relit the candles and she blew them out. No big.

Waiting to blow out the candles

Brother did what?! He blew them out before she could. Relit them and went on.

Cake before candle lighting.

When opening presents she genuinely loved everything she got and took the time to read the cards! She also thanked everyone. I had little prodding to do to remind her to say thanks. That makes me so proud. Really.

Dream Lites that matches her Pillow Pet

Jewelry kit

Card she noticed after she took out the DVD.

Cool horse shirt w/bible verse on it

We <3 Veggie Tales!

A Doodle Book for Girls

A binder of how to draw various things w/plain paper put together for her by my BFF! She loved this! 

Fleecy blanket. No more stealing mine.

Lava Lamp = Super Cool!

Although, I would like to point out that letting your kid blow a whistle inside Chuck E Cheese is not a good idea. Hey! It's loud enough in their with kids playing, crying, screaming, and what not, we really don't need to hear an annoying whistle, too.

Big kudos and loves to my BFF and to Hubs who allowed B's fake snakes from the prize counter be lost/have some horrid unfortunate accident. Even Aunt Julia tried to talk her out of getting them. She and I think alike about those awful fake snakes. *shudder*