DAY 120

Casey's birthday party with friends and family.   Casey's best friend and a good friend came to her party.  Another good friend couldn't come.. she got so sick and was sad that she couldn't come. :(  Poor Cheyenne!  
All the kids loved the bounce house and they play marching band.   Casey, her brother, baby sister, two boy cousins and 2 friends from school played different instruments and marched around the bounce house. 
We opened gifts, did the pinata and had cake.  We had homemade beans, rice from the packets, chips, dips, tacos/burritos from Taco Bell.   Good eating!


imikimi - sharing creativity Birthday girl!


imikimi - sharing creativityBounce house, food, fun, music, family, and friends!


imikimi - sharing creativity  The kids playing different instruments.. and they all had a blast.   They gave the adults a show.  I did a few videos.

 

I took 4 videos and 3 of them are the best ones.. i think.

imikimi - sharing creativity  Opening gifts!


imikimi - sharing creativity  more, more gifts.


imikimi - sharing creativity Loving the gifts


imikimi - sharing creativity last of the gifts :)

 
imikimi - sharing creativity  Pinata time!  Everyone had a turn to hit but the only child I didn't take was Alexandria (sorry baby!).  Here is a unhappy story which turned out to be happy at the end.  Alexandria's turn was after Brooklynn but before Kevin's..according to age and size.  Anyhow, Alexandria hit the pinata open with 3 or 4 hits.. not sure how many.   The kids ran to get candies and Kevin and Casey started crying.  Because Kev Kev did not get a turn so I made everyone stop and go back and let Kevin have a turn and all was fine in their world.  Everyone got a fair share of candies I think. :) with parents helping too.  Most of the candies went in the plants by the window so Gabriel and Stan (my brother) helped look for the candies.  One thing we learned from our fist experience with pinata is not use chocolate.


imikimi - sharing creativity  Casey's Tinker Bell Cake.. She loved it!  She blew the candles out herself. 

DAY 119

Happy 6th Birthday, Casey!!


Gabriel and I took cupcakes to her class while my mom watched the younger two. 



imikimi - sharing creativity  Left to right... Casey's best friend, Brooklynn... Casey and Javier with the decoration hats from the cupcakes on their heads.... Haley, a classmate of Casey's.  let me see if i can blow up the picture of Casey and Javier and show you the little hats on their heads..  Look below of Casey's. :)


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DAY 118

No pictures....busy trying to get ready for Casey's birthday party Saturday and Gabriel, helping my mom,with stuff. 

Here is a poem I wrote for a friend who died 17 years ago to suicide (April 17, 1994).   He was a roommate of a boyfriend I was with that year.  His name was Jaime.   Sorry don't have any pictures of him except for the newspaper that I learned of his death.
It was dated April 28, 1994--exactly 17 yrs ago.

~Jaime~

my precious friend

you are so special to me

Losing you to suicide is a great shock

Being the same will never

be the same

Saying bye to you will be hard

The tears represent the loss

The memories represent the happy times

The grief  means to me

the hurt in my heart

Meeting friends of yours

will be joy in my life

Having you near my

heart will be forever

DAY 117

Didn't take much picture We all went to my mom's for hamburgers and get more stuff from her place. 

Here is Casey in her bed with her sleeper on the bed too.


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DAY 116

The Marching Band!  They were playing a few minutes before I took a picture of them and 2 videos.. not the best but enjoy!

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imikimi - sharing creativity  the kids had lollipops from their Easter baskets... Kaleb's is blue, Casey's is orange and Kai is red.. :)


imikimi - sharing creativity  The kids were already bathed and dressed for bed when Kai was in the bathroom, putting shampoo in her hair.  (not sure what GAbe and I were doing.. i am sure we were busy doing something) and I had to rinse her off and put clean, dry pajamas on.

DAY 115

Casey goes back to school after a week long Spring Break!


imikimi - sharing creativity  Monday morning, Kai had fun putting stickers on herself. :) :D


imikimi - sharing creativity  Daddy finally went out to get 2 books and some candies for the baskets.   I hid them outside before Casey got home from school and Kai wakes up from her nap.



imikimi - sharing creativity  Gabriel puts his fingers in his ears because he does not want to listen to My love will go on when a couple from dancing with the stars dance to this song.

DAY 114

HAPPY EASTER TO THOSE THAT CELEBRATE THIS HOLIDAY!


imikimi - sharing creativity  Took this picture before having the kids go in their Sunday School classes (took 2 pictures--look at the scrap below).  Glad that I did because they were messy from head to toe. @@ and didn't get a family picture I wanted.  Oh well!


imikimi - sharing creativity  I was going to put khaki pants on Kaleb but he wanted to wear his shorts.  It was raining after we got out of church and the boy was fine. :)  The girls and Kaleb loved their outfits. 

imikimi - sharing creativity we haven't given the kids their Easter baskets.. didn't get a chance to get a few more for them.  I will hide the baskets tomorrow and the kids can look for them once Casey gets home from school.   The eggs in Gabriel's hands are from the kids' grandmother and grandfather (Gabriel's parents).

DAY 113

Saturday was working on going through boxes Gabriel got from our storage.  We are working on getting them into my mom's and just pay one storage unit and lower bills.

Taken early Saturday morning at about 4ish I took a picture of my kids in our bed and I went to Casey's bed to go back to sleep. Where is Gabe, you ask? He was upstairs on GG duty.


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DAY 112

Today is hair cut day.  My bestie's niece came over to give the kids and me haircuts.  Before they came over, i tried to nuke my frozen burritos and overnuke it. @@  It burned. So much for my breakfast. LOL  And had to open the door and window in the hallway connected to GG's place.   No pictures for that one.  But there are picture of the kids after their haircuts.  Forgot to do that before but you get an idea from pictures the last few days.  I will post pictures of me in a day or two. 


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imikimi - sharing creativity  This cute card is from my aunt maryanne wishing us a happy Easter.  got it in the mail today. :)

DAY 111

party game ideas....  i am thinking of printing out a page of tinkerbell and have the kids play pin the wings or pin the shadow.    Any other ideas?   Here are two tinkerbell poses..  I was looking for Tinkerbell showing her wings to pin on.   I will keep looking.. I would love to have any ideas from you.  :)  Party is not until April 30th so I have about a week.


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DAY 110

It's the middle of the week and Casey is enjoying her spring break.  The older two are going to Noni's for an overnight sleepover for one last time before she moves to Las Vegas.  The kids were having fun posing for pictures.  We went to my mom's for a bit and Kai, Gabe and I came home with Kai not being happy.  She cried pretty much the whole way home saying nana nana.   Gabriel grabbed some food for dinner. 
I took a few videos of Kai but i will have to try again another day.  

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DAY 109

The kids and I hung out in jammies today.  The only person that got dressed was gabriel but the kids did eventually get dressed so they can go outside.  Gabriel did not go to job club--he was hit with a bad headache last night and did not improve this morning. 
I worked in the kids' room and i got rid of some stuff and moved things around so I can get into Kai's dresser.  Need to finish it tomorrow. 
No pictures today.

DAY 108

Let's see it's Monday.. not my favorite day of the week but I don't work in the workforce but i do stay home and raise my 3 active kids.  Casey has this week off for Spring break.  Gabriel has to go back to job club so I did some dishes and done some laundry (still doing some as I type this).
No pictures of the kids today but i did take a picture of my dinner. :) :D



MY dinner.  Lean Cuisine pizza, salad consists of lettuce, tomatoes, kidney beans,
crotons and ranch dressing (low calories), diet non caffine pespi and yogurt.



DAY 107

Sunday was a nice day.. we went to church and Kai did great.. didn't cry or anything and went right to one of her caregiver but wanted him to hold her. :)  She was playing when we came back. 

Then we went to my mom's to get more stuff she gave us.  We had to go to the Good will's first to drop off stuff taht was in our car for a while.  Had lunch when we got back to mom's.  Hung out for a while before heading home.


imikimi - sharing creativity  Love the outfit Kaleb wore today.  WE bought him the shorts a few weeks ago when we were looking for his Easter outfit.  The girls had those dresses since Kai was 4 or 5 months old.  They wore those dresses on Kairi's baby dedication day. :)

DAY 106

Today was a pretty warm day.. heck yesterday was hotter. Blah!  Anyhow, we hung out at home in the morning before heading to the park for Megan's birthday party (Gabe's sister). 
We played the Wii and Kaleb lost his crown on the top so we will have to make an appt for him as well for his sisters.  Here are a few taken before we went to the party.


imikimi - sharing creativity  kids at home, playing the Wii.



imikimi - sharing creativity  Ed, the magic guy, did the show for Megan and her friends. My kids enjoyed it.  Everyone got balloons in whatever shape they wanted to be in.   I've seen him perform before at my MIL's church last Halloween.


imikimi - sharing creativity  Kids having fun, watching the margic show and getting balloons,  GG enjoyed herself. :)


imikimi - sharing creativity  Kaleb was bawling " i want a breakfast bar" and we told him no because dinner will be ready shortly and he would not stop.  Finally I had to put him in time out for not calming down and not listening.  Put the timer on for 4 1/2 minutes and got back to the computer ofr a minute and then realized that there were no sound coming from Kaleb.  Time out ws over and I went to talk to him and saw that he fell asleep.   So we just let him be but 10 minutes later, big sister woke him up. @@  Oh and he did eat his dinner.

DAY 105

Kaleb and Kai had fun skating.   Casey had an Easter party at school after lunch.  I went and volunteered to help out.  The Easter egg hunt was fun until after it was over.  Two of the kids, including mine, was not ahppy with the stash.  I think those two had the least amount of easter eggs. :/  A few of the kids had a bunch of eggs but thankfully some of them did share their eggs with Casey and Hector.


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The 2 K's skating!


imikimi - sharing creativity  The kids getting ready to look for plastic easter eggs filled with candies.


imikimi - sharing creativity  Before, during and after the Easter Egg Hunt.

DAY 104

Today was not a fun time... doing laundry, Gabe did dishes, take care of kids, Gabe took/picked up Casey to/from school.  Kids napped/rested.   Work around here is neverending.  Got the eggs done for the Easter Egg hunt for Casey's class at school (im volunteering).


imikimi - sharing creativity  Gabriel and I put 3 sweettarts (bunny, duck ad chick), 3 jelly beans and 3 speckled M&M's in each plastic egg.  23 eggs for 23 children. :)

DAY 103

Today is Wednesday and it was sort of a busy day but not really.  Gabriel is trying to do all the dishes and i am doing laundry (it's 10 pm right now) and only done 3 loads @@  so will do 2 more before bed.   Anyhow, Gabriel took the inviations and the money owed for the Spring pictures to the school.  Teacher passed them out to the class. :)  Invited the whole class which was better than jsut inviting a few.  One already rsvp'd.   Still need ot chekc my emails to see any others.   Tried ot eat dinner before going to the PTA meeting and some of us still needed ot change and get ready. LOL   Older two went to a classroom that had babysitters and Kai didn't want to stay there and went back 2nd time but a kid tried ot pick her up. :/ so back to the meeting she comes.    Here is Kai eating a chocolate chip cookie.  Only picture for the day.
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DAY 102

Tuesday Casey had her weekly Tae Kwon Do class after school.  Daddy took some pictures.


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DAY 101

A better invitation to send out to friends and relatives and C's classmates. :)  OH Casey loves it! 

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DAY 100

wow 100 days past now.. and no I am not going to do 100 pictures.  Anyhow, let's see it's Sunday.  we went to church.  Kai did great in her Sunday School class.. she went with no tears and was happy to see us when we came back.  Then we went to my mom's for a bit.  She gave us the table and a shelf for the kitchen.  There are more we are getting from my mom.  The shelf looks great there now in the kitchen. :)  I didn't take any pictures of anything.  The scrap is made up the pictures taken by Gabriel's uncle. Casey was not in any of the pictures because I was giving her a bath and getting her ready for bed. 


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DAY 99

Here is the invitation I made for Casey's party. I don't think i will use it but you have an idea. :) may change the color of the background or find a different one with Tinkerbell and maybe Peter Pan or Terrance.
oh no pictures today.. did not take any. it was a cold day today.. Brrrrrr!


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DAY 98

Friday Casey got her Spring school pictures back and daddy got her the school shirt to wear on Tuesdays during her afterschool class and on Fridays. :)  We will get Kaleb one for next year.  Anyhow, here are two pictures. I will take a picture of Casey's shirt with her school name on later and post it in Saturday's blog.

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Casey's school  Kinder Spring picture

DAY 97

Not much done Thursday but check out Kai in her outfit. I gave her the striped pants and put that on then she found her blue dress with purple flowers on them and wanted that one. :D and later that day she found Casey's headband and put that on.


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DAY 96

We went to Casey's school for open house. We checked out the pictures and school work/art work by the kindergartners. The kids had a blast running around an checking out pictures. We also checked out 3 1st grade classrooms to get an idea of what Casey will be doing next year. Wish we checked out the kindergarten classrooms for Kaleb. Just hope he gets Ms. Mayo next year. As we left the school, Casey had a melt down and daddy had to carry her while I push the stroller with Kai in it. Casey kept on saying, "I don't want to go". I think she was so tired. Kind of the same kind of melt down I encountered, dealing with Kaleb two weeks ago.

Kairi had fun running around Casey's classroom. :) Gabe and I took turns holding her at the beginning but she wanted down.

Kaleb was playing hide a seek with Casey and her friends. :


Casey with Brooklynn (pink top) and Andrew.


Besties! check out the pictures on the wall behind them. Their teacher took lots of pictures and put them up.. I took 2 pictures of the ones i liked. (look below). I wished i took more and also an art Casey did.


this was taken on pajamas day by her teacher.


this is also taken by her teacher. I think it was taken the Friday before thanksgiving week. She had the week off. :) Casey with her bestie, Brooklynn and good friend, Cheyenne. These 3 girls loves to be together and will most likely be seen together on school campus.