New Bedding

After hunting for months and months for new bedding.... I finally found what I was after. I had seen this bedding that I loved at B,B,B (this same coverlet Chrysanthemum made by DKNY in charcoal for $320.00. I just couldn't do it! That would be crazy! Then each sham was $69. So I left the store with my head hanging low and kept searching, and searching, and searching. Finally one day, I happened to stop in Tuesday Morning and there it was! Not in charcoal, but in this light aqua color that I also love. The deal of the century. I got the coverlet for $65, and each aqua sham for $14.99! For that price, I then grabbed the cream shams for $9.99 ea. and found the bed skirt and throw pillows at TJMaxx for ($9.99-$14.99). So thrilled and happy. Sleeping much better now that we are back into a King( we slept in a Queen for over a year while transitioning from our old house to this house). The Sleep Number Bed is the way to go!

Goodbye top the Williams

Not long after school started this year we had to say Goodbye to our dear friends the Williams. It was a very sad, sad day for us(hence Alexa's red teary eyes) We have come to love this family that will never be forgotten! Jody, Wendy, Jake, Alexa, Audrey & Wyatt are off to bigger adventures in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Girls forst Day opf school 2011

It's been a while since I have updated. I can't even remember the actual date of the first day of school and honestly too lazy to look it up. Let's just say Aug. 2011, good enough.

Meg is in 3rd grade again with Michelle Bogart. Having her good and bad days. Much less stressed this year in general, but still very anxious when it's test time. She is involved in a program twice a week after school called "Girls on the Run", that is a self-esteem booster, and training to run a 5k in Nov.

Madeline has adjusted much better to Middle school than I could have ever imagined. She likes going, and is doing well. After 5 years at elementary struggling through Math, she would up being in Honors Math this year because of the end of year MAP test last year. She is doing great! She is involved in a after school program called 5 Star that she likes and is fun for her.

Morgan the "Big Dog on campus" this year is busier than ever keeping up her straight A's, Honor Society standing, and now Social Life!

Oh and they all still compete in gymnastics that keeps me running to the gym 6 days a week(sometimes several trips in one day)!

Meg's Baptism

Meg's Special day was full of fun things. Dinner with the girls at Hacienda while Daddy was gone was a treat. She even got a sombrero. Grandma Linda and Grandma Rudy came for the Big Event. Standing room only at the baptism. Lots of special friends came to share the special day with us. Daddy was sure excited to baptize his baby, but sad too! We have so many dear friends, and are grateful for our Indiana family.

July 4th, 2011

July 4th at the Williams was super fun! Cupcakes to celebrate Meg's Bday, Boche ball, badmitton. So fun!

Disneyworld 2011

Fun, Fun, Fun!!!

We took about 150 photo's. I just picked a few to highlight. The pool at our resort was very nice and boy did we get good use out of it. We caught lots of characters. Especially at our character breakfast with Pooh and friends. That was amazing having them all at one place. Right outside our room at the Animal Kingdom was tons of animals. Our favorite were the giraffes! The tiny green frog was at the pool croaking. We had to investigate and find the little guy, but it was only about 2 in. long. Thanks Mama for an amazing time with you!

Animal Kingdom

Entry to the Animal Kingdom. Gorgeous resort! So much fun.

Snack drawer

Grandma was amazing packing an additional suitcase filled with just snacks. Boy was it great. We didn't quite eat it all over the week, but we came pretty close.

Tink

The girls main goal to this entire trip was to find TinkerBell. We did just that! And she was darling. Spent so much time with us. Meg was thrilled!

June 2011,

What an amazing Grandma we have! We were so fortunate this past June to go on a family trip to Florida... Our very first trip to Disney world. We took so many incredible pictures that I couldn't possibly blog all of them. We did have some super amazing times though, that I will blog about then at the end I will just post some random pictures. How lucky we are to have the best Grandma ever who took us all on the best trip ever!!!

Farewell to Larsen's 6/20/11

This summer has been an emotional one for me. So many good good friends leaving Granger. I guess because we were also supposed to be included in that group... it makes it even harder. First the Jeppsen's, Jacobson's, now Larsen's. I took Becca out for lunch at Panera on Monday, then later that night we met the Larsen's and Hurst's at Chubby Trout for a farewell sushi date. What an experience. We arrived at 6:30, then waited outside for 1 1/2 hours (even ordered, so that when we got inside they would already have our order) .Once we were seated, we had to re-order because they never put our order through. By the time we actually got our food it was after 9:00. We will not be re-visiting Chubby Trout!!! But I was very glad to spend a little more time with my dear friend Becca. We have served together for years in YW, before we were both released in Dec. I will miss her! They are moving to Harriman Utah, where Clint will join his Father's Podiatry Practice. While we were at our marathon dinner, Madeline was baby-sitting for there 3 little ones Braden,Natalie,and Rylee. Her first gig, which she pulled off without a hitch!

Amazing Discovery

So our yard here at Arrowhead Circle continues to amaze me. First the peonies popped up, and I enjoyed them for a very short 2 week period, then they were gone. Much too quick if you ask me. They were gorgeous! Beauty keeps popping up everywhere I look. So much color. I just love it. Most recently our by our mailbox, these beauties emerged. Have no idea what they are called, but I am enjoying them while I have them. You can see they are already starting to shrivel at the bottom. They just bloomed about 1 week ago. They soon will be gone I'm sure.

Father's Day 2011

This year we had the Lee's, Kennard's, and William's over to help us celebrate our Daddy's. It was a super hot day of grilling, eating, playing of the dock, and yummy desserts! It was a fun time. Next time we'll have to do it on a Sat. maybe so we can also swim. Mariah got the award for" most sourcrout eaten", and I think Coleman definetly got the double award for "drinking the most pop's that weren't his" and "driving his mom absolutely crazy"! It was a fun time in the Lasley's new pad.

Madeline's Up-Do

So one rainy day last week, Madeline and Morgan were upstairs for hours together ( I didn't know what they were doing, and didn't care... they weren't arguing, and I heard no yelling), sort of a miracle. Well out of Madeline's room emerged this beauty queen. Morgan had done her first up-do. Not bad I thought. The next day, I took the girls for a trim, and Nancy cut off about 3 inches too many off Madeline's hair. She was less than thrilled!

Chuck's 40th Birthday

We had some surprises in store for Daddy this year. The day started off at Veldman's Gas Station... We had a fundraiser for Gymnastics selling Port-a-Pit chicken for 3 hours.. Just what Chuck wanted to do on his Birthday! Well we got thru that then he stopped and bought a new trimmer for the yard, and did his second favorite thing, yard work for another 3 hours. We had planned on going to dinner that night with the Snelson's. (Little did he know I had a surprise waiting for him). The Snelson's never showed, they were in Fort Wayne for a tournament, but waiting at the Restaurant were the Lee's and Hurst's. It was a fun surprise, and delicious dinner! We followed it up of course with Cold Stone ice cream. Yum!!

Beauty on Arrowhead

I don't know what kind of flowers these are... But we have a whole bush of them in our yard! I have never spent so much time in the yard as I do now at this house. We had a big yard in Covington Shores, but mostly grass and a few shrubs. Almost all green and yellow. Not alot of color. In our yard now, we have just about every color you can imagine. Beautiful varieties that I have never seen before. I'm not much for roses, but we also have some real pretty ones! Hopefully I can keep everything trimmed and looking pretty all summer.

Banquet 2011

ESA Banquet 2011 was at Knollwood Country Club this year. I think the girls had fun. Dinner was good, and the usual awards were given out. Meg received Best in Sportmanship this year(pictured at far bottom right).

Traverse City Trip 6/11

I can't believe I was gone for 5 days with Chuck for this trip, and these are the only pictures I took! I haven't been able to go on a business trip with Chuck since Madeline was about 3 mo. old. That's about 11 years ago. So he had a Dealer meeting up in Traverse City Michigan at this resort called the Grand Traverse Resort. We had to drive this coach up, just the two of us on Monday. Chuck had meetings during the mornings, (my plan was to read by the pool, but it was too cold, it only got up to about 65 degrees). In the afternoons we had to entertain customers either in town or at the resort. Chuck treated me to a day in the spa on the second day... I had a manicure,pedicure,facial,and massage! It was amazing!! In the evenings we had to be with everyone at the fancy dinners. A couple nights at the resort, then a dinner cruise one night and a night at the winery. Lots of talking, smiling, and hopefully sales happening. Girls were at home with Jessie Richardson for three days, then Karlee Worthen 2 days. House was intact, and girls did fine.

Jeppsen Jacobson Goodbye Dinner

We had to squeeze in just one more dinner with our Dear Jacobson's and Jeppsen's before they went off and left us. The Jeppsen's are moving to Nashville, and the Jacobson's to Italy. We will miss they all !

Oh how we will miss the Jeppsen's!!! We have had so many fun times with Matt, Janaye, Emma, Brandon, Caitlyn and Parker! Towards the end of the school year, we played with them, took these cute pictures so we could send them off with pictures of the Lasley girls in cute frames, so they wouldn't forget us! They also planned a skate party for lots of their friends from church and school. That was a super fun time filled with Matt showing us all up on his speed skates, and dozens and dozens of doughnuts! Litterally dozens! Janaye bought 15 dozen doughnuts and got chewed out by the walmart lady! Fun,Fun,Fun! We will miss but never forget the Jeppsen's!