9/30/15 Last night for the kids to sleep over. Their mom and dad got home late tonight so I will take them to school and they will pick them up from school tomorrow.

Love this cute picture Vikki took of these two sweeties.

Isaac and Peyton were so sweet today.  They each made me a birthday cake and candles with floam and each sand Happy Birthday to me, first Isaac and then Peyton.  Please Note:  It isn't my birthday and I am not older.  This was just pretend.  They were so precious.

Max sure has fun with legos and is so creative

Hailey and her team

Poor Jack had to have breathing treatments because of his Asthma and allergies.  He sure is good about it and he sure felt better afterward.  

9/29/15 Really good day for Max

Max was so excited about all the kids writing one word that describes each kid in his class.  These are words kids wrote about him.  

Marie's Birthday!

Made a birthday cake for Marie and Kay's birthday for care group.   Last birthdays we had in care group I bought a cake for.  Decided this was a money saver to make it!

Love all of these beautiful pictures of Bruce and Melissa while they are in Chicago!

I got up at 6 and got ready then got the kids up at 6:30.  These kiddos get us so good.  Just one wake up call and they are up and at em.  Kenzie has always done the 5 more minutes routine and I would have to do the ants are marching song to get her awake, so I thought I might have to do that with Hailey, Max and Jack.  Nice surprise, even though I do have good memories of singing that to Kenzie.  We got to school 10 minutes early.  Hailey got out with her book bag and then I told the boys to get their book bags and they looked at me and said, we forgot our book bags.  I told them to go in and I would bring their book bags.  I headed home the expressway route so I was back at school by 8:20 delivering their book bags to the office.  Tonight the book bags are in the car ha ha.  Went to breakfast after that.   We had a good turn out for that.  Came home and cleaned for Bible Study.  Made a cake for Marie and Kay's birthdays.  Picked the boys up from school and took them to McDonald's and got them chocolate shakes.  They were pretty happy.  Max was so excited about school and his day.  He is a chapel buddy now and his buddy's name is Max too.  He is in Evan's class.  He was also excited about all the nice things kids wrote about him.  He told me he did most of his work and did extra credit too.  On the way home I told them when we had Bible Study they could watch a movie if they had their homework done.  I took a while getting in the house as I had to get things out of the car and by the time I got in the house Max had his homework out and was at the table doing it all on his own.  He only had about 10 minutes worth of homework.  He's doing amazing.  People came for Bible Study and I gave the boys birthday cake and we all anointed Jack and prayed for him.  Then the boys went upstairs, got their pjs on and brushed their teeth.  I turned the tv and started the dvd for them in the green bedroom.  They were so good.  I went up when it was done and gave Jack his breathing treatment while I listened to Max's prayers and prayed over him and tucked him in.  Then did the same with Jack once he was finished with his treatment.  Bible study went great with very good discussion from everybody.  The boys fell asleep right away.  When everyone left, I went and picked up Hailey.  Took her to McDonald's to get a caramel sundae for her.  Got home and listened to her prayers, prayed over her and tucked her in.  Amazing kiddos!
When I got home, Bill had everything cleaned up, all the dishes loaded and the extra cups put away, coffee pot empty and cleaned and everything put away.  I was so happy!

9/28/15 Hailey had a volleyball game at Holy Crtoss

The boys got right at their homework and finished it fast.

Hailey did great at her volleyball game!

Here she is in action.  She just hit the ball over

Thought it was cute that the three girls in this row had the same kind of shoes.

Hailey sounded so good when she practiced.

Jack having his snack

Max having his snack

Got up at 5:30 so I could be sure to get the kids to school on time.  The got ready so fast, they had a half our to sit and wait.  We practiced memory work then and again on the way to school.  Went to Vikki's after I dropped them off and visited with her a few minutes.  I ran Evan to school for her and took him into his room.  Went back to Vikki's and she, Kenzie and I had breakfast burritos that she had made and froze.  They were so good.  I will be making some of those.  Thanks Vikki.
Came home and got some stuff done.  Then dad and I did our care group lesson and also I did my Wednesday night lesson.  Went to Penney's and then to get the kids. We got home and they had a snack and then started their homework right away.  Did  it petty quickly and then we ate and headed to Vikki's.  She watched them while I went to talk and pray with the Elder's wives.  Went back to pick them up.  Came home had another snack, read the Bible, Prayed and tucked the boys in.  Hailey and I stayed up and I helped her with her knitting.  Then I tucked her in.

9/27/15

Picture Juaquin took while watching at the planetarium

Loved getting to see Isaac and Evan today

Love this cute pic of Vikki's

Hailey holding Abby, Me holding Mocha and Isaac

Hailey and I were happy to see our doggies.  Peyton wanted to be in the picture and then Isaac got in the other one and she got out.

Picked up Mocha and she loved sitting in Jack's booster seat ha ha

Made chilliy and the kids are loving it and eating really good.  So easy too!

There was a blood moon tonight.  It was cloudy, but the clouds moved out just in time to watch the whole thing.  The kids were excited to see the beginning of it.  I asked them if they wanted me to wake them up to see it when it looked orange and they all said yes.  Well it was impossible to wake Max and Jack.  They were sleeping so sound I couldn't believe it.  Hailey woke up, looked out the window fast and then fell back asleep.  She didn't even remember it in the morning ha ha!

Loved having Hailey, Max and Jack.  We went to church then came home and they watched a movie while I made chili.  We had some nachos and my homemade salsa as a snack to hold us over.  Then we ate.  Hailey and I went to pick up Mocha while Bill watched the boys.  When we got home the boys and Hailey played outside and jumped in the trampoline.  Can't believe I didn't take any pictures.  Hailey remembered to put her tooth under her pillow tonight.  She forgot last night because it was so late when we got home.  We watched another movie tonight and had popcorn.  Read the Bible, then the three kids read a book where they all took turns with parts.  Loved tucking them in and listening to their prayers.  Max did a great job memorizing his memory verse today and did excellent on his spelling. Only missed 3 words of 20 and didn't even study them.  Now he's got the other ones down.

9/26/15

Hailey on the ride to Comerica Park to see the Tigers play

Max on the ride there!

Max and Papa at Applebee's.  We tried to go to Bob Evans on the other end of town but the power was out so everything was closed.  This was a mile the other direction and we were happy to see it was open

Hailey and Nana at Applebee's in Royal Oak

Max loved all the tigers all over the stadium

There was a big line to get pictures here.  It was finally our turn and none of us noticed this kid running to get in the picture until we looked at the pictures.  I should have turned the camera but I was hurting and didn't notice I wasn't getting the whole head in there.

Here's our extra boy in the picture with us...Love the picture of Papa, Max and Hailey

Waiting to ride the baseball ferris wheel

This is what the ferris wheel looks like

Hailey and Max...we were getting close to getting on the ride

Hailey right before we got on

Love these expressions once we were in

Max, Papa and Hailey

Hailey...we were at the top here.  The buildings around are very high

Love this picture of my Hailey girl!

Max and Papa at the top

                                             Hailey, Max and Papa in their seats.  They were nice and had little tables in front of us for our stuff.  Padded seats too!

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Nana, Hailey and Max.  See the little tables.

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Hailey lost her tooth eating a milky way at the game.  It broke in two.  She looses her teeth in some interesting places.

Nice night view

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Our favorite player, Miguel Cabrera, number 24

It was beautiful weather, still in the 70's at 9:30.  We had so much fun and Hailey and Max were so good.  They loved the snack hole as Kenzie calls it in the backseat that goes to the trunk.  I put lots of snacks in there for them.