My little sister's Prom

While we were gone, ND had their prom. Anyways my Aunt Linda was so nice in sharing some pics of my sister's big day. I can't believe that she is old enough for prom... Anyways she looks beautiful in her pics and I wanted to share them with everyone.

Molli Wise
Caleb Beckman and Molli

Caleb and Molli

Caleb and Molli

Trying to Catch Up

Wow, when your gone for a week it takes awhile to get caught up on things. Makes me feel like I am out of the loop but trying to get back in. Ha ha. I have enjoyed reading all the blogs that I have missed and trying to catch up on Facebook. Hopefully I will be back on track soon.
Not to much going on here today. We have to run to Bloomington for Jesse's CDL physical. Fun Fun. Then we are headed to the pet store to find something for our turtles to climb on to get out of the water. All these animals are about to drive me crazy. We have to go get our rabbit from my neighbors today, and then Zeke (our dog) will be returning home tonight. The kids are so ready for him to be home and they miss him greatly. I have got caught up on laundry... YAY! It helped having a washer / dryer in our condo. I kept up on the laundry there. The kids are working at getting back on schedule, however I know that Monday is going to be hard. Austin will have to start back at his schooling but he only has about 15 days left of the school year. Awesome. Jesse will go back to work on Monday and that is going to be hard on all of us. It has been nice with him being home, an extra set of hands is always needed. Hailee has been clingy and wanting her daddy.
What can I say, we have just been here relaxing and trying to get caught up on rest from our long drive. Well I better go for now, need to get the kids ready. Til next time...

We are back

We left on Friday for our vacation to Panama City Beach, FL. It was a long drive but we made it there Saturday morning. The kids did super sleeping in the car and were very good for that long of a trip. When we got there Saturday morning we went straight to the ocean and waited on our condo to be ready. I will just sum up our vacation... IT WAS AMAZING!! Our condo was super nice, seriously! It had a kid bunk room, kid bathroom, kitchen with stove, dishwasher, refridge, a washer and dryer, living room, dining room table, balcony of ocean view, master bedroom, master bathtub. AMAZING. The whole week was so nice. We enjoyed going to the Gulf Marine Park and seeing a varitey of animals like dolphins, sea lions, sting rays, turtles, birds, ect. we enjoyed an evening of put put golf, enjoyed shopping (they have like and outlet mall in pier park :) (April I thought of you the whole time!! ha ha. We enjoyed dinner at Jimmy Buffet Margarittaville ~ well Jesse enjoyed the Margaritta's while I watched him. Preggo couldn't have one... We also ate at Pineapple Willy's which was really good. We hung out at the ocean, laid out in the sun, spent time by the pool. Wow! It was great. We enjoyed it so much that we were not ready to come back to Indiana... Jesse has already said we will go back there next year for vacation! Yay!! Here are just a few pics that I took, if you want to view all my pics just send me your email address so I can add you to my Kodak Gallery and you can view all the pics. I also posted most of them on Facebook.
Hope you all had a great week!

Austin at the pool!
Hailee and daddy in the pool

Discussing the waves at the beach

Building Sand Castles

Today is the day...

While Jesse is at work today, I am in charge of finishing loading the car~ a trip to WalMart to get some food for the road and acessories~ putting a hold on the mail~ printing out stuff~ and the list goes on... We are leaving when he gets home and showers. So our plan is to be pulling out of Martinsville by 4:30... Yeah well see. The kids have been major drama because our dog left to go visit my sister for a week. I met my brother in Worthington to drop off Zeke and Hailee cried almost the whole way home... She kept saying "I want Zekee Poo" who would think it would be this hard to go on vacation.
Jesse asked me last night how I was going to survive a week without my computer. I said really I don't know, but I do have his phone so I can check my email~facebook~ and myspace. Ha ha.
So this is my last post til we get back, talk to you all in a week!! Love to all!

Happy Birthday Colin Brown

This post is dedicated to my nephew Colin Brown... HAPPY BIRTHDAY COLIN! I hope you have a wonderful day and birthday weekend. Uncle Jesse, Aunt Sarah, Austin and Hailee send you lots of hugs :)

Colin Brown!!

DRAMA

So my day started out with DRAMA... Austin had a loose tooth, and it was seriously hanging by a thread. It has been loose for awhile but today it was ready to come out. Austin gets all worked up over loosing teeth. Okay so he has lost teeth before and we have to go through this everytime. He kept telling me, "mom you don't understand the pain.." Like I haven't lost a tooth before. Wow. Of course he lets no one touch it. He would push it back with his tongue and I could already see the new tooth coming through.
Well at supper he bit into a cheeseburger and out came the tooth. Thank Goodness! Yeah, no more drama over that tooth. It is his upper front left tooth :)
Enough about that~ we had a very good soccer practice this evening. The weather turned out to be nice so that was a plus. When we got home Jesse mowed the yard one last time before vacation, then we took our rabbit, turtle, and fish down to my neighbor Shae's. Going on vacation is alot of work when you have animals. I feel like I have had to find childcare for them all.... Zeke (our boxer dog) will be leaving tomorrow evening to go to Odon. Thank goodness my sister Lindsey said she would watch him. I am sure he will be mad but will get over it once he see's Dakota and Coltyn.
All is coming together nice:) Can't wait to be on the beach!

Crazy Week

This week is a crazy one around our house. On Monday, we had homeschool group at the Library and I was in charge... I had decided to do something to celebrate EARTH DAY which is celebrated on the 22nd. I had handouts about ways to keep the Earth clean and safe. It really worked out good. I also brought in water bottles, spoons, and bird feed to make bird feeders. I had got the idea from April (my sis in law). They turned out so cute and the kids had fun. For snack, well I made dirt pudding and stuck gummy worms in them. Yum!

Austin workin hard on his papers!
Hailee Brooke with her bird feeder!

Today I worked on packing the kids for vacation. I have gotten alot packed, which is nice. Jesse packed when he got home. I also have these list of everything that needs to go with us and stuff I need to get. We are looking forward to this trip.

Tomorrow we have soccer practice, I really hope the weather is nice. I feel lost because we will be missing a game on Saturday and practice next week. Austin was mad about that but he really wants to go to FL so I am sure he will not even think about it.

Thursday I have an appt to get our car checked out and oil changed, hair appt, and a run to WalMart.

Then Friday we are pulling out of Martinsville at 4pm. Or at least that is our plan:)

Please keep us in your prayers for a safe drive there and a safe return home. Oh and dont worry I am sure there will be plenty of pics!!