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I posted two new things on etsy today. Take a look. buy if you like! Tell a friend if you really like! I am going to try and post more tomorrow.

Fun Summer Memories

So this weekend was busy as always. Kennedy had her last soccer game. I was actually able to go because I was not teaching any classes! Here is Kennedy with her trophy, she was so proud!

Afterwards they had a pizza party (always fun for my lactose intolerant children!) and we finished off the day by going to a friends BBQ. The BBQ was lots of fun. We had an outdoor movie night. I highly recommend this for anyone with children. Actually for anyone cause the adults all had fun too. We made caramel popcorn, laid out blankets on the grass and projected Peter Pan on a sheet. The kids did not move the while time. Not only that but Josh, our friends son, who is three, spooned Kennedy during the movie. Is this okay? We were laughing about it and decided as long as they do it now and not when they get older! Here they are watching the movie...

Today was Muffin with Mom day at preschool. It was one of those bittersweet moments in life. The school put together a slide show of the kids from all the activities during the school year. We got to watch it with our children and then the director of the school told us thank you for sharing our children and good luck in kindergarten. I am not okay with this! My baby is going to kindergarten. I am so proud of her though. During the slide show the kids were talking and playing with each other. Not my daughter. She was sitting politely with her legs crossed watching the show. After the show we went to her classroom and had muffins and juice and her teacher gave out pictures of the kids and said thank you to everyone. It was funny because she started to cry when she was talking which made the moms cry and the kids are sitting on the floor talking and laughing together. Anyway we are at school together...

It makes me so proud when I go to activities like this with Kennedy. I am amazed at the girl she is becoming. She is so polite and kind to everyone. I know I keep going on and on but today was on e of those proud Momma days.

Enough of my babbling.

On a funny note, Brendan and I were driving in the car today and "
Don't rock the juke box" came on. Brendan loves to sing along in the car and he kept asking me "Momma, where's the juice box?" I tried to explain they weren't singing about a juice box but to no avail. So next time you here the song remember it's "Don't rock the juice box"!

Hope everyone is having a great day!

My Mini Me

Scott's lifting weights in the garage
Kennedy comes out
(big sigh) (big eye roll) "Really. Do you have to do that right now?" (another sigh with eye roll)
scary!

Fun day with my boy

Kennedy had school today so Brendan and I went out and about. I have had the itch to thrift so we went to downtown Riverside where the Mission Inn is. So beautiful down there. I ended up going in two antique stores and coming out with nothing because of course I picked the ones that had $2500 light fixtures. Brendan and I had more fun wandering around and taking pictures of the old buildings. Here's our day...












Brendan loved the fountain, it was his favorite part of the day and we had to go see it twice.





I loved the painting on the building and couldn't help but take a picture of it.



Okay on a frivolous side note, does anyone watch "So you think you can dance' ? I don't know why but I find myself coming back to it. I think it's addictive like American Idol and Dancing With the Stars. No really, does anyone else watch it or am I the only one?
Happy friday!

Birthdays, birthdays,birthdays

that is all we have done this week so far. Sunday was my mother-in-laws birthday. We went out to dinner on Monday night to celebrate. Yesterday was my grandma's birthday and we went to dinner again. Here is a picture of Grandma after she blew out her candle...

Brendan entertained all as usual.

I have to share a picture of my hydrangeas becasue they are in bloom and I heart them so much! They are so beautiful to look at when I look out the back door...

Not much else to say today, I 'll write more later.

Rudeness

Okay, so we live in a town home. We own it but our neighbors next door are renting. We share a wall with them and they are THE MOST INCONSIDERATE PEOPLE I have ever met! They turn their music up so loud our walls and furniture vibrate. Scott has asked them to turn it down before but for some reason it keeps happening. Last night I came home and the music was going so I went over and politely asked them to turn it down. Of course the woman was extremely rude but they turned it down enough that our furniture wasn't shaking anymore. We are so tired of they lack of manners but I was exhausted and managed to fall asleep anyway. My husband was not so lucky last night. Finally at 3 in the morning he went over and asked them to turn it down. Things didn't go so well and the guy tried to follow Scott. He ended up telling Scott to call the police if it really bothered us and told Scott we must be listening at the wall. So from now on I guess we will just be calling the police. It seems so petty to call for something like that but I feel I should not have to live in my house that I own and have my walls and furniture shaking all hours of the night. If they want to act like that they should move to an apartment or into some slum area where no one cares how they act. Can you tell I am a little upset! I didn't realize how much this upsets me until I started typing. They are so trashy! Not only that but they have kids! They must be fabulous parents! Oh yeah and when Scott went over at 3 the guy reeked of alcohol. Even better! My stomach is in knots and when we came home from my parents tonight I had a stomach ache because I was so worried they would have the music on and we would have to take care of it by calling the police. Okay I need to change the subject cause I am getting all worked up right now.
Other than the obnoxiousness that lives next door we did have a good weekend. Saturday night after i was done teaching my Mom and I went to the Taste of Corona. We had a really good time and saw so many people we knew. We were laughing because we couldn't walk 5 feet without knowing someone. The food was fabulous and I don't get many nights out without the kids so it was relaxing not having to worry about cutting up their food before I ate (mine always get cold before i get to eat it) and where they were at every moment. Today Scott took the kids the the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes game (Angels Minor League team). They all had a great time, especially Brendan the baseball obsessed child. It was his first real game and when I called Scott I could hear Brendan yelling in the background "hit the ball!". I hope everyone had a great weekend! We have a busy week of birthday parties coming up so I will talk more later. Oh yeah, I start back to school tomorrow so my free time will become non-existent again!

Shake your booby

Yes... you read it correctly. That's what my son was yelling in the cart at Target tonight. As he was yelling, a lady walked by and said "how cute!" Not so cute, did she understand what he was saying? I guess it's still better than "Mommy I found my butt crack!"

Oh where does the time go?

Does it seem like it was just Valentine's Day? I can't believe tomorrow is the start of June! My baby only has a couple of weeks left and then she will be done with preschool forever. How is that possible? Didn't she just begin. I really feel like it was just last week when Scott and I dropped her off for the first time. She did blow us off though. I do remember that vividly. I didn't want her to cry but she could have at least waved or something. TOTALLY blew us off. Oh well, she is my independent girl. Wonder where she learned that from. One could never guess!
On to the next topic. Tuesday I took the kids to see Shrek 3. Kennedy was so excited and she loved the part where the princess' "got tough" (as she calls it). Brendan made it 1/3 of the way through the movie when he started saying "Okay I done watch Shwek free. Wet''s go. Awl done. No more Shwek free Momma."That went on until the end of the movie until Shrek adn Fiona had babies. Now this is where Brendan is definetely like his daddy. The babies started to have gas and Brendan started laughing. The whole movie goes by and the only part he finds funny is babies passing gas. Awesome!
My excitement for the week was working in the yard yesterday. I trimmed the 2 big trees in our yard and the one that hangs over in our yard from the neighbors house. I ended up with 8 bags of branches and leaves. As I was working in the yard, Brendan played in the sand box. I looked over at him as he was dumping sand in his diaper. That was fun to clean up let me tell ya!
Oh yeah, do you know what his favorite new saying is....
"Mommy I found my butt crack"
Where did he learn that? Followed by...
"Mommy, I tickle my butt crack"
Fabulous! Hopefully he'll say it really loud and only when we are in public!
All right, time to wrap up. Kennedy's awake so that means homework time!

Long Weekends

Did everyone have a good memorial day weekend? We did at the Keen house. I did teach Saturday and Sunday but we still managed to squeeze in lots of activities. Yesterday we had the family over for a BBQ. Scott and I were excited because we bought new patio furniture yesterday. Not exciting for everyone but it was for Scott and I. I think Kennedy loves it the most though. she was sitting out there all night even if she was by herself. We are one step closer to having the backyard finished! YEA! Scott and Mike (brother-in-law) were happy men last night. Well, it would have been the perfect night but the angles got their rear's handed to them. Our house was loud and raucous and you probably heard them when the Ducks won.

It was very exciting although I don't know if our neighbors could agree with that! So everyone had full belly's after we stuffed ourselves with burgers, hot dogs, fruit, fresh green beans, baked beans and corn on the cob. Of course we had to finish off the night with smores because it is considered the Summer season now and what would summer be without smores! What did everyone else do for Memorial Day this weekend? Post it up and let us know, we'd love to hear about every one's weekend!

Soccer Star!!

Kennedy is officially a soccer star! On Saturday, she scored 3 goals! It was her first time scoring a goal in a game and she was so proud. She was telling everyone "I am so proud of myself." I didn't get to see them because I was teaching scrapbook classes. I was so sad. So we will see what she does next week now that she knows she can do it!
Last night we went to Kennedy's best friend's house for a BBQ. Her parents are so fun, we feel very lucky that Kennedy became friends with someone that has parents we like to hang out with. We had carne asada and smores for dessert. Does it get any better than that? Well, ya know the red wine we drank helped everything along (Didn't feel so hot this morning!).
Oh yeah, before I forget, I am so excited because Glen Ivy asked me to come back and teach the scrapbook class for two more weeks. So it ends up being 6 weekends total that I am teaching this class. I have had ladies ask me about doing private parties as well. Cross your fingers that they call to set something up! I have pictures to add to this post but my camera is downstairs and I am too tired to go get it so I will post them next time... I promise.