Happy 8th Birthday Devin!

Devin turned 8 on April 16th! Devin and Landon both have birthdays in April and we had asked them do you each want a birthday party or do you want to go to the water park instead? So they picked water park. We actually went to the Dundee Water Park over spring break, it was a blast. I will post pictures soon. So on Devin's actual birthday he picked Fat Boys Pizza for dinner that night, his choc. cake, and we asked our neighbor to stay for dinner.
He actually lost his 3rd tooth on his birthday...opps..the tooth feiry still has yet to come..she must be pretty busy and he must have forgot..LOL good thing..I am bad like that! It is funny that he is 8 and only lost his 3rd tooth..the dentist says he is a year behind in his age on his teeth..


I always forget details on things..so luckily I could find at least 2 candles for his birthday..they burned so fast it almost started the cake on fire..LOL

Kenny, our neighbor and Devin.

Since it is a Black Week at GM

They layed 2 people off in Jim's department today. It is now late in the afternoon and Jim has next been texting me or calling me..so I am waiting to hear how his 1:30pm meeting went with his department after they did the lay off's this morning....no word....I am staying calm...

I have been on the phone with my dad and asking him about life on the farm if Jim does happen to loss his job. Dad came up with a plan that I think I like that thought of! He said we could move into their house (my childhood house that my parents built brand new when I was born) it is a large 4 bedroom with an unfinished basement that we could finish and maybe turn into another bedroom so each boy could have their own rooms! It has 2 1/2 baths and a 2 car garage plus it sits on 40 acres! I think I would enjoy living where I grew up. So then my parents would build a house on my grandparents farm in the middle of the woods (it has always been my mom's dream to live in a log cabin in the woods). We could all work together and develop my dad's current organic cow business he has been working on for a few years. I love marketing so it would be fun for me to market his business! Jim would be so happy he could deer hunt whenever he wanted, during deer season. I would be happy to have Jim home with me a lot and the boys would go to school where I went to school in good ole hickville as we call it..LOL

So with that said..it is good to have a back up plan just in case Jim were to come home today or another day and tell me he lost his job at GM. :)

I am realizing I am behind in my post. 3 weeks ago Kirstin, Jim's neice (mine too of course)this would be his brother, Tim's daugther, called us during her spring break and asked if she could stay with us. Jim met Lori, her mom half way and she stayed from Wednesday night til Saturday. We loved having her here. She was an amazing help! She is 11 years old. It was a really fun week too. I took her and Landon, Ian and Nolan to see the Easter Bunny. I really can not stand the whole bunny thing but my friend called me to take them so I agreed and met her at the mall. I thought the pictures were so funny! Nolan did not know what to think of this huge bunny thing..and it was actually Landon's first time ever sitting on the bunny's lap..he is almost 5. LOL
We also took Kirstin and the boys to the Y swimming one night, and Kirstin was able to attend a pizza party at Landon's school on that Friday. She had a great time. She then talked me into renting movies for her and the boys..it did not take much to twist my arm....We love you Kirstin and thanks for all your help being such a great mommy's helper. We hope you had fun!




I was with Landon on the egg hunt while Jim took Ian and Nolan so that left Devin on his own, being almost 8 inside the church he can handle it..so I went on a mission to find Devin after the hunt was done..this is what I found..him eating all his candy as fast as he could before mom found him..LOL

Look how many eggs Kirstin found that day!

Tim and Kirstin

Our first Easter Egg Hunt!

I had around 16 kids here this afternoon along with their mom's. I loved it. Landon said to me after it was all done "thanks mom for the Easter egg hunt" and he hugged me...awe it was totally worth all the cleaning and prepping.. :)







This is a typical Nolan look...did I tell you he is known as Brutas or the Brut in our house..He has the strongest will out of all our boys..we have a lot of will to break in this child..LOL