Hannah's 8!

Yesterday was Hannah's 8th b-day. I made chocolate muffins for breakfast for her. We spent most of the morning getting the garage cleaned and a quick trip to the grocery store. We went to Subway for lunch- Hannah's choice. Her party was at 2:00, out to Old Chicago with grandpa and grandma Meyer for supper, home and sleep- well try to sleep anyway, Hannah is usually asleep 2 minutes after laying down, but she had a lot of pop and candy throughout the afternoon so it took her a good hour to relax enough to sleep!

Here she is in her b-day outfit that we bought on Friday. Notice the green streaks in her hair?

This is the look you get when you are told to close your eyes for a present and when you open them, there is nothing to see! (Grandpa put the bike behind her!)

It has become almost tradition to have a pinata, the kids seem to have a lot of aggression to work out!

Getting a "lesson" on how to ride her new bike. This one has only hand brakes and now she has gears to change!

I think I have finally realized that no matter what I do, my kids are going to get older. Their birthdays used to depress me, but I really like watching them grow and can't wait to see the paths that they choose!

A morning with Hannah

I took the day off of work today so that I could spend some one on one time with Hannah for her birthday. It doesn't happen very often that she and I are together just the two of us. I made pedicure appointments for us at 9:00 this morning. I knew that she would enjoy it cuz she is my girly girl. She had a pretty big smile on the whole time we were there and we both ended up with pretty feet!

After our pedis, we went to the mall in search of a birthday outfit. It's always nice to wear a cute new outfit for your b-day party. Luckily we had just gotten a coupon for Justice in the mail, so that's where we headed. After finding the perfect outfit, we headed to Claire's. For some reason I decided to get my ear cartilage pierced today. I had it done a few years ago, but had to take out the earrring cuz it was always infected. Poor Hannah wouldn't even watch and when we were leaving she just kept saying "I can't believe you did that, you are so crazy!" I tried to explain that sometimes on a girls' day out you just have to do crazy spontaneous things. Someday she'll understand that!

We went to Panera for lunch cuz Hannah was in a "sandwich mood". I didn't know moods came in sandwiches, but, what the heck!

We rounded out the morning by going to Coldstone to pick up an ice cream cake for her party! All in all, a really great morning!

Where oh where has Wendy gone?

I keep meaning to post on here, really I do. There is just always laundry to be done, work to go to, soccer to watch or sleeping to catch up on. Besides, the most exciting thing going on lately has been trying to find the right dose of Miralax for Will. Hopefully we will get that figured out soon, I even had to shampoo carpets the other night due to uncontrolled poop! Eeewww!

So what has happened since my last post? I started a part time job cleaning a bank 3 nights a week. It pays crap, the cleaning is like a mini workout and the evening hours are hard to fit in with Scott's odd schedule, but they are the only place that called me out of all the part time jobs I applied for. It's not much, but I figure if I don't do anything then we are not going to get ahead for sure.

Scott turned 33. No big party, just had the fam over for some cheesecake. Scott got a new helicopter and he took Will fishing, so all in all I think he had a pretty good day!

What else? I still have my job at Sanford, they are still making cuts every couple of weeks. Mostly it has been medical records and transcriptionists. Electronic records are great, but it does eliminate the need for some positions. Hopefully my job will be safe, we have been pretty busy lately, which is not good for the patients that are coming in, but makes me feel safer.

I can't think of anything else that might be of any interest, so I suppose I should get ready for work. Hopefully I will find the time to post more often!