March News

Oh, where to begin? First I would like to apologize for such a long delay in posting on here. I'm not sure if it's just been that I THINK am so busy, or if I really AM busy...but I will have to blame my lack of posting on at least one of those two excuses - that's my story, and I'm sticking to it! " )

I wrapped up one of my last two classes for the summer this week. WHEW! I am SO ready for a break! Escpecially since the weather is warming up and I am getting spring fever. My next class will start back up the end of April.

Speaking of April, we have two birthdays coming up!! Addison will turn the bit 0-5 in just 6 short days!! And I have yet to plan a party for the poor girl (sadly, I am not looking forward to it - how horrible is that??). What's worse is that Tyler will be turing 9 just 6 days later and I haven't planned his party either! My poor kids are so neglected (yeah, right!). Sunday we will throw all three kids a small birthday party while there grandma is here. Poor Jayce never gets to spend his special day with his grandma since his birthday isn't until May....hang in there Jayce....after a while you will learn to appreciate the fact that you don't have to share your birthday with anyone else!

So yes, my mom is here! She has been here for a week now and I am loving it! She has been such a great help with both the kids and the house. I came home from work yesterday to find the laundry done and the floors vacuumed - it was so nice!! I miss the days of a clean house. She has also been with the kids 24/7 for 7 days now and she isn't even complaining! She MUST be keeping it bottled up inside " ) We will continue to enjoy having mom here for another four days until we see her off. I wish she could stay longer.....

Ah...I got my first sunburn this past weekend. And BOY did it hurt!! I actually fell asleep in the beach - that'll teach me, huh? I couldn't help it, though....the kids were off playing with my mom and I don't know where Jim was (hmmmm......) but I sat down in my beach chair, closed my eyes, and listened to the gentle sounds of the waves running up onto the sand. It such a relaxing sound and atmosphere that I just fell right off to sleep! And when I realized I did fall asleep, I wanted to stretch out my legs...so I went and laid down on my towel...face down. Again, I fell off to sleep! At least I flipped, right?! As if looking like a candy cane isn't bad enough, at least I didn't burn only one side of myself.

I will post pictures soon! Stay tuned............

the last local beach club

we are #1!!

Jayce and the rest of the AWANAS Sparkies placed first of four teams in the AWANAS Olympics Saturday in Niceville, Florida. GO TEAM!!

road trip

The Eckert family decided to take a road trip to see my grandparents in Sarasota on one of our three day weekends....well, that was last weekend.

The trip started out just fine...we left at 6pm on Friday night and decided to drive about half way and then stop and get a hotel room. This idea was bright and full of hope at 10pm, but soon turned dim and hopeless as we tried four different cities/towns looking for hotels with vacancies, only to find "No Vacancy" signs posted all over the place!

After working all day and now driving for over five hours, Jim and I decided that we needed sleep and if we couldn't find a bed to sleep IN, we would find a rest stop to sleep AT. Looking back, we can laugh at it; but at the time Jim and I weren't very happy about it at all, especially since we had the kids and dogs with us. But the night turned out just fine. The kids were awesome under the circumstances and we were able to get a few winks of sleep, too : )

Here is Jim, Daisy, and Grandpa

(Jim, are you tired??? Did you sleep in the driver's seat last night or something?? : )

Enjoying some mini-golf with Grandma and Grandpa

The beaches in Sarasota are gorgeous....however, this day was very chilly and windy. And all of my Michigan friends and family know what chilly/windy feels like! Brrrrrrrrr......... I think we were on the beach a total of four minutes!

PIT STOP IN ST PETE

I have a friend in St Petersburg and it was just too darn close not to stop by and say hi! I haven't seen Kasie since I was pregnant with Tyler. We used to go camping at Hardy Dam all the time when we were teenagers (and younger, I think).

Addison & Skylar

Kasie and her other daughter McKenzie (and me!)

the new do

So here it is...Addison's new hair style!

cuts by Jayce

(sorry for the sideways pictures)

I don't know what to say about this subject..... I will just let the pictures speak for themselves....

Addison let Jayce give her a custom haircut. It's actually cute, except for spot of spiked hair on top! (well, cute after I cut the rest of her long hair off........)

I will post more pics after she gets a professional cut.........

(sigh)

my baby isn't such a baby anymore

Oh what an eye opener I had yesterday! I'm not new to the mother thing, but I have to tell you, I am new to having girls call my house looking for Tyler! Yes, apparently Tyler has a "study buddy", as he calls her. But the news around the classroom is that Tyler has a girlfriend!

Her name is Lexi and she is such a cutie as you will see here in Tyler's class picture - Lexi is in the blue jacket next to Tyler (taken in December at a class field trip - apparently they were fond of each other even back then, which is liken an eternity for eight year olds, I'm sure! : )