Daddy!!!

 Daddy's pain has become to much for him to bear and is now pretty much bed ridden.  We've been trying to make the most of it and still spending time with daddy.  Andrew and Daddy's favorite activity together is playing video games, so Andrew is now bringing the games to daddy and laying in bed with him while they spend time together.

The kids also made daddy a picture that we could place on the wall next to where daddy is in bed.  It gives daddy something fun to look at and the kids know how special it is for daddy!

Daddy's birthday party!!!

 This year I decided to have a birthday party for Chris.  With his cancer getting so much worse, I thought this would be a good time to celebrate and let everyone come and see Chris.  I thought it might also put a smile on Chris' face.  I think it worked as Chris had a great time and we had a huge turnout with so many people coming to see Chris.  I think he had close to 100 close friends celebrating with him!

Unfortunately I forgot to take very many pictures, but these are the few I did take.  It was a huge success and it was great to see a smile on Chris' face!!!

Daddy's birthday!!!!

 This year was a very important year for daddy's birthday.  He was recently diagnosed to stage 4 melanoma cancer and we were unsure if this might be his last year.  We wanted to make it as special as we could for daddy.  So like we do every year, the kids and I planned a surprise party for daddy.  We made some decorations and a yummy cake then headed out and bought daddy lots of presents.  It worked, daddy was surprised and LOVED all his gifts!  It was so good to see a smile on daddy's face!!!!

Happy 36th birthday to best daddy ever!!!!  We all love you soooo much!!!!!

Worst day of my life!

Today is a day that no one should ever have to go through! I went in to the doctor with Chris expecting bad news, but I had not prepared for what I was told! It felt like I was punched as hard as possible in the chest and actually got the wind knocked out of me.
Chris was my first and only love. We went on our first date when I was 14 and he was 15. He is the only person I have ever loved and it rips my guts out thinking he might be taken from me!
He is 35! He should not have to talk to his wife about where he is going to be buried at! I'm so mad right now I just want to yell and punch something!
How in the world would someone ever be able to look at the three most beautiful people in the world and tell them their daddy might now be around. I wonder if my three year old will ever remember him and what a great daddy he is!
It makes me so mad that people like Michael Devlin and Chris Coleman can rot away in jail being healthy, when someone who is a great husband and daddy have to go through this!
How is it that the world goes on carefree and laughing when mine is falling apart!
Its not fair! I try to sleep and wake up hyperventalating from the pain!
I just wish the pain would stop, that I could sleep again! That my husband and best friend would not have to go through this!
I'm just so MAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pony Club!

 This week in Pony Club they decided to move all of the kids outside for a lesson.  This is the first time Adriana has been out in the open without an arena so she was a bit nervous, but they made sure someone had ahold of the lead rope to keep her safe.

Here is my big girl leading Irish around.

Now checking her equipment and getting it ready to start riding.

 The older pony club kids checking over her equipment to make sure it is safe.

 Doing her exercises on the horse.

 Practing her 2 point for posting while trotting.

 Adriana, Jonathon, and Shea all ready to do a race together.

Adriana really enjoyed being outside and made lots of improvements with her riding!

Strawberry picking!

I am so excited summer is finally here! I'm not a cold weather kind of girl and love the heat! So to start off summer we headed to Windridge Farm for some strawberry picking. We picked a cool over cast day and it was perfect! The kids have so much fun picking different fruit and are excited to eat it after.
Here is a few pictures of the strawberry picking.....






So we ended up with quit a bit of yummy strawberries!


My happy strawberry pickers and their stash!

They were also able to play a little while I paid for the strawberries.

After we got done picking strawberries we headed over to MeMaw's house to make some strawberry jam. With our strawberries costing just under $10, we were able to make 15 jars of strawberry jam and 3 bags of strawberries to freeze up. Unfortunately I don't have any pictures of us canning the strawberry jam, but I can guarantee that I have enough strawberry jam to eat for the rest of the year!
So here is to the start of summer!!!