Strep, Horses, and Bikinis!!

This week started out with Donnie having strep throat.  We quarantined him to his room and any time he left his room he had to wear a mask to prevent spreading germs!  When you have 3 kids, germs spread like wildfire!
Monday was a day off for us, so we just stayed in our pajamas all day! Emma groomed her horse and took him riding.  We don't have a real horse, but the next best thing is the arm of the recliner, of course.  She turned it into her horse.  She loves horses!

Emma wrote a paper in school this week about what she would do if she were president.  This is what she wrote.  It is written phonetically so I will interpret for you, "All people have to ride horses and drive mustangs" Mustangs, of course, because they have a horse emblem.

This past Christmas, we received a Wii from the grandparents.  I was looking forward to it, hopefully, getting used at least weekly or so.  What I didn't expect is the great family time we would have playing it, almost nightly.  Daddy bought a new bowling game this week and Donnie was told he could not play it until Daddy was able to play with him.  Well, needless to say, last night Donnie beat Daddy 3 times in a row and had a good time celebrating his victories until Daddy took him down!!  Daddy then gave him a lot of sweet kisses, which as you can tell, Donnie absolutely loved!

       

 Sissy (a.k.a. Cursten) babysat for us Thursday afternoon while I went to my hair appt., and then she spent the night with us Friday night.  We dressed JuJu up in her little bikini that she got for her birthday from Auntie Lynn and she looked so adorable!  Sissy did not want to be pictured in this blog, so she is being portrayed by the back of her head.

 

 

Finally, Terry and I have a date night planned for tonight!  I am super excited!  These don't happen often enough for us nowadays!  I have no idea where we are going!  He has planned it and will not give me any hints, because I always figure out surprises.  You will have to wait until next week's blog to see our date night pics!  Happy Saturday!

This week brought with it Valentine's Day.  If it were not for my hubby, my kids would not have gotten anything!  I was so busy making sure they had the valentines and everything ready for school, I had totally forgotten to get them anything!  Daddy to the rescue!  Speaking of dads, my daddy has a V-Day tradition that he has been carrying on for 12 or 13 years now.  Every V-Day eve, he leaves a rose in my car.  As Emma grew older, he began leaving one for her also, and eventually I'm sure Julia will be getting one every year.  This is so special!  Even when we lived 20 miles outside of town, he would drive all the way to my house and leave one for me!  I have to admit that one time, he did almost get shot.  Well, we had forgotten that he did it and all we knew was that someone was driving up into our yard in the middle of the night and Terry rushed outside ready to defend his territory...anyway, check out the pics below of the roses and how excited Emma was to get hers.

                                         

V-Day afternoon brought with it three sugared up kids.  Well, Julia did not start out that way, but when Emma spilled her Fun Dip on the floor and Julia crawled over to investigate, that was all it took for her to join the sugar madness!  Yes, she is licking the floor!  :)

Today, Emma had a GA thing to go to at church and she insisted on wearing her crown.  After we dropped her off, Julia and I headed to the country to join some of the rest of the family at target shooting.  F.Y.I., if you every shoot a handgun, don't forget the earplugs!  I never understood the saying "My ears are ringing" until today.  Yikes!!  Below is a pic of Sissy still standing upright after shooting one of the big guns!!