Breakfast with Grandparents

Monday evening my mom came in to town. She is staying all week and will go back home this weekend. The girls were SO excited to see her. She brought them some goodies. They each got Halloween shirts, they both got Snackeez cups and some snacks to go in their new cups

Tuesday was Breakfast with Grandparents at school. That's one of the reasons why she came down this week. My dad came last year but decided to stay home this time so my uncle went with them.

They had a choice of breakfast pizza or Trix cereal, mmmmmm, lol

Tonight we went and ate at Cheddars and then stopped at Freddie's to get ice cream, the girls favorite. The girls have been enjoying their time with Mimi here!

Church Choir

This morning the girls and I headed off to church. Jolee usually goes to the nursery but had a wild screaming fit when I tried to drop her off so I thought I would give it a try and let her go to big church with Jaina and me. Well that was a huge mistake....She acted even worse in big church, scattering books everywhere, whispering loudly, laying all over the bench and then to top it off Jaina started crying saying she wanted to go home. I was so upset with both of them by the time we left. Both girls had to come home and go to their room and be still.

 

Then this evening Jaina started Sunday evening kids choir. I had mentioned it to her a few weeks ago and she said "Oh mom, I would love to go" so tonight was her fist night. There's not many sports and things she will say yes to but to music she said yes! And I may be biased but I've caught her singing a few times thinking that no one could hear her and I thought she had a pretty good singing voice. It's an hour class. I signed her in and she received her own personal black binder with sheet music in it. While she was in class Jolee played on the church play ground. When Jaina was done with class I asked her if she liked it and she said "oh I really like it"!

The girls must have been worn out because when I put them to bed tonight neither one made a peep and when I went to check on them this is how I found Jolee, lol

Jaina has been doing pretty good in all her classes on her grades

But Im sad to report that she got her first yellow mark on behavior. I asked what happened because she normally has always received green for good behavior. She said the teacher got really mad at the class for talking and gave everyone a yellow for behavior that day. I said "oh man, I guess your teacher was having a bad day and took it out on yall" lol

 

And she received her first progress report for the year. I'm very proud of her and all the hard work she does in school!

Saturday in Austin

This weekend I'm off from worked and wanted to plan something fun to do with the girls so I came up with an entire day of fun for them. Justin was at work so my uncle tagged along. We left early this morning and our first stop was to get breakfast at RoundRock Donuts.

This placed was jammed pack with a line all the way out the building. RoundRock donuts are different and unique compared to regular icing donuts. They are very popular here in central Texas. They make their donuts with an orange color icing and you can even buy this giant donut if you have a big appetite!

The girls both got a pink donut with sprinkles and some donuts holes

Our next stop was to Kiddie Acres. We have never been before so it was new to us. It is a cool little vintage amusement park down in Austin. Its all kiddie rides. They have about 10 rides plus pony rides

Of course my girls wanted to ride the ponies first

I love this little picture of Jolee watching sissy ride

They were loving it!

 

Then they got to ride the big Farris Wheel

It was just their size

Next up was the Airplane ride.

Jolee really liked this one.

This one flew out and the propeller spun around

None of the rides went to high, all had seat belts and  was very impressed at how long each ride was

Here they are going around on the boat ride

Jolee also loved the car ride

Then Jaina's favorite the train that went not only once but twice around the entire park

And of course they had a Carousel

It wouldn't be complete with out a carousel ride

They had such a fun time

And we had just enough tickets left to ride the white pony

 

After our adventure at Kiddie Acres we headed to Peter Pan Putt-Putt Golf

We all played a round of 18 hole golf but I will have to say by this time it was hot and my allergies had kicked in, I was sneezing, nose blowing and eyes watering. So it made it a bit miserable

Plus Jolee quit half way through the game and none of us were taking it very seriously

But it was fun because Ive always wanted to take them to play at this location

After our round of golf we headed to Southside Flying Pizza and had an awesome salad with some awesome pizza.

We were all pooped afterwards so we decided to head home. We had a great day in Austin and loved it all!

A trip to say goodbye

Monday we got a call from Justin's grandma Pat that his Great-Aunt Neva had passed away. The girls and I were going to stay home but Justin wanted us to go along so we left Tuesday after Jaina got out of school

I was a loooooong drive. Its 4-5 hours depending if you stop and eat and driving at night always seems like it takes longer

There's not much to look at between Temple and Wichita when driving through the country instead of the interstate

But Jaina was able to keep herself entertained as you can see, lol

We finally made it and were glad to see Granny Pat and Pops. The girls had just enough time to watch a movie before bed

The next morning we sat outside with Pops and drank coffee while the girls played in the front yard

Then I realized I was having a severe allergy attack to the ragweed that had blown in that night. Oh my word was I sick, sneezing and itchy all over. It was awful

I sped off to Walgreens to get some Zicam which helped a little. I was mostly strung out on Benaryl the entire time I was there or in bed :(

Not fun.

Wednesday I didn't catch a picture of the girls dressed up but we had a nice big lunch at Pops house with a bunch of relatives the girls and I have never met before and then we headed off to the funeral home. I thought Neva looked just like herself, so pretty and petite

Thursday we woke up and relaxed a little before the funeral.

As you can see Jolee was super relaxed next to Pops, LOL

The it was time to get ready.

The girls looked so cute in their dresses

We headed to the church for a big lunch reception before the funeral

 They even had a big giant indoor playground for the kids to play on before the service started

Justin was really worried about Jolee during the service but she did really good, she fell asleep right when it started and never made a peep. What a blessing that was!

We came back to Pops house to change after the service was over. We stayed awhile and ate dinner before headed home. We got home super late and were dog tired when our heads hit the pillow

This morning we got Jaina off to school and then a very special surprise package arrived for me in the mail. I have been dieing to order some Young Living and Justin's step mom Diane happens to sell it so Justin bought me the package I wanted as an early birthday present. I was so excited to see it this morning.

Young Living is 100% pure and natural essential oil. Jolee suffers from bad constipation and was searching for an answer on how to help her go when a friend of mine at church recommend the Digize that comes in this package so desperately I bought some. Jolee was in such pain at that time I was desperate to try anything especially something natural. I put it on her and it works! It works every time I need her to take a bowel movement I rub it on her belly and the next day she has to go! I was amazed. It also worked on me when I got a case of food poisoning back in the spring I rubbed it on my belly and never once cramped! Even though I start threw up it made food poisoning a lot tolerable. I also us Digize for my heartburn. Ive suffered from reflux since I was in Jr. High. I get it even when I stress out. I usually have it every night when I go to sleep. I rub it on my neck and wa-la. Gone :)

I'm a firm believer!

These are the oils that came in my premium package. Ive already tested them out and LOVE them!

This morning I had a million errands to run with this cutie in tow

She drove, lol

We even managed to take a quick look in the pet store only because she said "please, mommy can we go in the pet store" :) Melted my heart, of course we can!

While we were at Aunt Neva's funeral Jaina was "hustling" for money. Lol At both the visitation and funeral lunch Jaina "worked", she was handing out plates, napkins, and silverware and when people were done she gladly threw it away for them. Then people started paying her for her hard work, a dollar here a dollar there and by the end of the 2 days she earned 23.00!

 She was beyond excited and couldn't wait to go to the toy store today. Since she's not allowed a hamster she got a toy one for her and her sister. She had her first glimpse at what hard work is and how it pays off. She wants to thank everyone who contributed to her hard work!

Thank you!