When our house was remodeled this was the ohhhhh soooo AWESOME craft room addition. THE MOST ADORABLE WINDOW. I always had this little room that was adjacent to the laundry room and it is about 8 feet by 5 feet. Very small room. I rarely used it because it made me so claustrophobic in there! So when the remodel happened it just so happened to be Mothers Day week so I was able to squeeze a nice cute window and the counter you see out of my very cool husband. The window absolutely makes the room. It gives this space a very warm feeling. I had to completely get rid of all the clutter and excess scrap crap to really make the room perfect! However, now I have the most happening scrap room I could have ever asked for. These cute letters are my first creation for the room and I love love love them. Thanks to Ronny and Julie for the late night we had to finish these great projects. ( Julie's teacher gifts too.)

This is a great pic added by Wilma Otherwise Known as Grandma. This is one of the biggest reasons why I love that my kids get to go there! Look at all those kids. They are My three and then three out of the four cousins that live there in the bay area. Its just too bad we do not live closer so that we could have more times like these where they can all just hang together.

MADYSON'S FIRST DAY OF PRESCHOOL

I can't believe she is already old enough to go to preschool. Her teacher is Mrs. Christi. Hunter had changed to her preschool in January (after we had a hard time with his previous school) so she was a bit familiar with who she was. Last week I had enrolled her in dance and it just didn't work. She cried and said" you just left me there". We tried one more week and that ended with her stuck to my leg and not budging! I decided to quit dance until she was a bit older. So with that being said I was very apprehensive to take her to school and see what was going to happen.Her teacher was offering a art literature class over the summer that was a shorter amount of time and only 2 days a week rather than 3. We decided to try that as a transition to her going in the fall. The final result is she LOVED LOVED LOVED it! She can not wait to go back and is asking if it Thursday yet about 2o times in one day. I was having a bit of a hard time sending her but my mother in law put it a good way, I already trust this woman so its not quite as hard as I thought it was going to be but still hard for me. If you know me well you know I have a hard time with leaving my kids and having a small attachment to them hahaha. Another point my mother in law made "you have the problem not the kids". Ok so I admit it here for all to read but hey I can think of thousands of worse things for my kids!

1st day at grandma's

This is a pic within the very few moments of them being at grandma's. (read her comments in the post from her picture)

The Trio Is Off To "Camp"

They are officially there! I took them to the airport this morning and they have called and they have landed in Ca. We had to tell Hunter they were going to camp because he has been asking "Is it Grandma day?" everyday for about two months. We thought it would be bad to tell him that his siblings were going before him. However, he is a bit smarter than we thought. He said to me this am "Where are they going?" I answered that they were going to camp and his reply was "No they are not I am too big they are going to Grandma's" I guess we couldn't fool him.

Here are a few pictures from the airport. The first one was before Christopher could realize I was taking a picture. The one of Christopher alone is when he realized what I was doing. He said I do not want you to take my picture you will probably put it on that "STUPID" blog! So here it is my 13 year old and yes I put him on my blog.

Grandma Santos

So here is a picture of Grandma Santos so everyone who read the earlier post now has a visual as to who I am talking about.

Getting ready for Grandma's

When Christopher was five Grandma Santos started a tradition (sorry grandma it is a tradition now) for him to go to her house for a week over the summer. It then moved on that each child would be able go when they turned five. After a few years a week turned into two and even three at times. This year is Hunter's first time so he will be there one week and the others will be going for 16 days! So they leave tomorrow and Hunter will follow in a week. The kids are SO excited. They are trying to pack as if they are going forever. Today I have to deal with the giddy, excited kids but tomorrow I have three less so I guess that is a trade off! Steve's entire side of the family live there including Great Grandma, great Aunt, uncles, Grandpa and cousins too. I am ever so thankful to Grandma Santos for both providing them with this great opportunity to spend time with their family as well as giving me a bit of a break. I miss them so much every time they go! Well I am off to go check all the bags to find what crazy items they have tried to slip in there!