CRAZY BUSY!!!!

WOW!
We have been so busy around the Albers house.
We went to the circus thanks to Isaiah's "hospital dad", we have been planting vegetables, flowers, and herbs in our garden and yard. Dominique had to get glasses, I think he looks handsome but he does not agree...
Mother's Day was wonderful. Sometimes I am in awe as to why God chose me to be the mother of all these beautiful children. I am truly blessed.
I have several cake orders to fill in the next couple weeks, a ton of graduation open houses to attend, and all of the end of the year activities that go on with having elementary age children. Field trips and special days at the school, planning what to do next year, concerts and never forget Elijah and baseball!!!!
I am looking forward 12 days from now when school will be over and we can have some down time!

how does your garden grow?

We spent the entire day today planting our gardens and flowers! We had so much fun! I loved watching Elijah, he worked so hard digging his rows, fertilizing, planting his seeds, and then covering. He even watered everything for us when we were done! He would love farm life if we lived on one. Isaiah on the other hand would rather not be outdoors digging around because he hates bugs. All the kids pitched in and had a ton of fun. Isaiah and i went for a walk this evening and when we got home he said, "mom I think your tomatoes and peppers grew while we were gone" This is the fun part now, nurturing and watching how it all grows. If only I had thought to take pictures!

OFF TO SPIDERMAN

Dominique got tickets to the premier of Spiderman. He is so excited! 12:01 am. He will be tired but happy! Thanks gramma for the early b-day money to buy the tickets.

Walking with a nut!

Today Abbey had to go on a field trip with her daughter and couldn't walk with me. Scott was off today, he was supposed to go on a field trip with Isaiah but Isaiah has been sick since Tuesday after school. So, I asked Scott to walk with me...first of all he has a very intersting stretching routine he goes through, you wouldn't believe me if I told you, pictures would have been worth a million! Then he needs to change clothes, then it is too cold and he needs a jacket. FINALLY we get going. Are you gonna walk this fast the whole time? yup! ok....we fell into a workable groove, then the on-again-off-again mist that was falling when we left the house turned into a drizzle. So, we get up to the school, the 1 mile mark, and I tell him we either go for the 3.5 miles or turn around. He decided he would melt if we pushed on so we turned around and came home. We did have fairly good conversation I talked 3/4 of the walk and he grunted one to three word answers and laughed occassionally. I'll take what I can get...we were pretty wet by the time we got home but hey, 2 miles is better than sitting on the buttocks and letting it expand. Truth be known, it was kind of fun walking with Scott even if he is a little quirky about stuff.

May Day Surprise

We had the coolest May Day surprise ever! We were waiting for our home school supervising teacher to come yesterday. Yes, there was a little grumbling going on in the house...so this red van pulls in the drive and Madison says there is some lady in our drive...not being in a very good mood to begin with, my grumbling increases, because I know that our teacher is supposed to arrive at 1pm and it is now 12:45. Then I hear a car door close and Madison Squeels "it is Miss Pastor Lori!!!! " Isn't it funny how your attitude completely changes when you realize it is a friend and now instead of intruding on your last 15 minutes you find yourself hoping time will go slow enough to enjoy it?! Miss Pastor Lori delivered my kids an amazing may basket with lots of fun stickers and goodies in it. Thank you for bringing sunshine into our day and helping to change a mom's attitude!

please pray

My little friend Gabe who has been fighting cancer for several months now is having surgery today to try and remove the tumor that is growing in his little body. This is a long and scary surgery. Please pray that God will guide the hands of the surgeons and that God would hold Gabe in the palm of His hand all day today! Also pray for Gabe's family, as it is NOT EASY being the parents in the waiting room. Thank you to all of who will pray. Isaiah is proof that God hears our prayers!

WALKING

Guess what?? Today Abbey called me and told me she can't walk today. I am proud to say I walked alone anyway. YEAH ANGELA! I did not walk 3 miles like we have been but I did walk...I just had to pat myself on the back...

SPIDERMAN

I am so sad! I have been trying for 3 days to get advanced tickets for Dominique to see the premier of the new Spiderman movie at the IMAX theatre but they are all sold out, so I tried all the local theatres and can't find any available. I is looking forward to this so much and now it looks like he will miss out.