I am a little behind....

Well life is in full swing around the Shelley house. I have been so tired come Sunday evenings that I have just relaxed and enjoyed my couch.  Jaidon is loving baseball and is pitching a little bit.  He is doing great and is working hard on becoming more accurate.  Chad is helping coach, so I miss alot of what is going on chasing after Bres and Daxon.  He has also started taking tap and hip hop classes at the dance studio.  He is loving it and has made a couple good friends. He does make it clear that baseball is the most important and dance is just to pass time.
      Chase is playing soccer and really starting to understand what is going on.  During his first game he told me I need to get a piece of paper and write his name on it and put down how many goals he gets each game every time for the rest of his life! We are currently at game 1-2 goals, game 2- 2goals. I better keep track or I will be in big trouble! He is adjusting to school pretty well, but is still way tired.  Being so tired causes the issue of being grumpy and not talking so nice. We are really working on that one!  Chase has also started taking a "Just for Boys" dance class and loves it. He gets to tap and what ever else the teacher needs to do to keep thier attention! It is fun to see a class of all boys 5-8 years old learning to dance:) (We are lucky that our studio has a family plan. Which means that after a family has enrolled in 7 classes all others are free. Miki takes care of the 7 so the boys get to try it out for free. We like free!)
      Miki is as busy as ever.  She is doing great and loving life.  This girl loves her dance! She is taking a ton of classes and LOVES each one of them.  She auditioned for the Nutcracker yesterday. It was a long day of dancing. I dropped her off at the studio at 9:30 am and did not pick her up till 5:45. She then had a rehearsal today from 2:30 to 7, whew.  She was in bed early tonight! She has been cast as a mouse and a angel.  It is a neat experience for her because it is with a professional company out of California and they use locals for the "extras" So she gets to work with some AMAZING dancers. She also started having private percussion lessons through school this week.  They sure love her and think she is very talented.  I had fun listening to her teacher be amazed at her knowledge and skill level.  I think she is pretty dang amazing too, but not just for her musical abilities:)

      Breslynn and Daxon are just as silly as ever. I am having a lot of fun with them during the day.  I love watching them play together and imagine.  Two year olds are so much fun! I think back to my big kids and I have always loved this stage.  Daxon is truly all boy and is a disaster waiting to happen.  If this boy can make a mess he is all over it.  Bres is a girl after my heart, she absolutely LOVES shoes! She is such a little mommy and loves to look pretty. 
      Chad and I are just trying to keep sane in all the madness.  He was called the Bishopric a few weeks ago so we are all adjusting to the new things that brings with it.  Fun for us! No seriously, I have been thinking alot lately how truly blessed we are and how lucky I am to have my family.  I wouldn't change the craziness for anything.  I am exhausted a lot but it is all worth it. There is a update..........

xxxooo's

Jaidon turns 9!

Jaidon turned 9 this month! I just love this kid.  He LOVES baseball, driving Mom nuts, spending time with Dad, ice cream, steaks, shrimp, bugging his big (bossy) sister, cuddling with Mom :), naughty words, hunting, being outside, GIRLS (hot ones), and being an awesome kid.  He is so fun to be around.  I love his laugh and am so glad that he hasn't out grown it.  I am so lucky to be his mom. 

My Daxon

This what happens when you leave a brand new jar of peanut butter on the counter with Daxon around.

The Storm

Well here is why it was back to school-sort of. We had a crazy storm last night that did some real damage around town. It knocked out power for a lot of people. Amber is still without power tonight. We are lucky that ours only flickered. School was canceled due to no power. Nothing like having school canceled on the 2nd day! Next week is going to be a long hard week for them. Poor Chase will have the hardest time. All day kindergarten and a bus that picks them up at 7:08 makes for a long day.
Here is our damage form the storm:( I loved this tree. It was weakened in a storm last year and we lost part of it. This time not much survived. Chad and the boys are having fun using the chainsaw on a positive note. I just wish it would of taken out the tree next to it, I don't like that one. No such luck.
Last night before the storm Jaidon had a practice game for baseball. They had him PITCH! What! I think they are trying to give me a heartattack! I guess he is pretty accurate and with a little practice could be a pretty good pitcher. Chad is helping coach this season so I better make sure he knows that I may not be able to handle it! I don't think he really cares.:)
As I write this there is thunder and lighting going on outside....hope it is not like last night!

Back to School-sort of

Another school year has begun. I can not believe that my Chase is in kindergarten!!!! He is ready to be in school but I will sure miss our time together during the day. I love that boy! We found out last Thursday who Chase has, Mrs McNorton. We are very excited for him. He is way excited because his friend Will is in his class. Will and Chase had preschool together last year and have become best buddies. On Tuesday we were able to find out who Miki and Jaidon have. Miki has Mrs. Walker. She is happy because "Micheal"(insert big sigh here) is in her class, but sad that her other friends Reagan and Shelby are not. Miki is so positive and will love it just because it is school. Jaidon has Mrs. Green, I don't know who was more bummed, him or mom & dad. We really wanted him to get Mrs Turner, Miki had her and we loved her. To add salt to our wounds his to best buddies Creed and Jack are in her class:( Oh well! Jaidon will do great and came home from school raving about his teacher. He will do great! They only had a half day and it was wierd just having Bres and Dax at home. I didn't have Koen until 1:30 so I really got a taste of just us three at home. I am sad summer is over but greatful to get back on a routine. I am horrible of keeping one in the summer. I am so lucky that they love school and really look forward to it starting again. I think Miki starts counting down the days till it starts again the first day of vacation!

Willy Wonka

I am so proud of Mikinzie and Jaidon. They did AWESOME! It was so much fun to watch them. Mikinzie is hooked! She wants to be on stage all the time, we already knew that but she made sure we still were aware that it hadn't changed. Jaidon did a great job and was an fabolus Grandpa Jack. He was put it at the last min. and did great. Everyone that they worked with said how much they loved them. It never gets old hearing how great your kids are!:) I think all the staff wanted to take Jaidon home! I did explain that he is always better for everyone but me, but hey at least he behaves for others! LOL

Is it really the end of July!

Well things have been busy as usual. I have been so wiped out come Sunday the last few weeks I have slacked on my blogging. We have been doing alot of play practice and dance. Jaidon decided to make life even crazier by doing a baseball and football camp in the evenings. So basically I have spent most of my time being a taxi driver:) We did head down to the Peterson's last Saturday and had a blast hanging with our friends. We even broke out the scrapbooks to see the picks from all those years ago when we were at Carolynn's birthday party. It was so fun to see our "big" kids not so BIG. We are so lucky to have such great friends!On Tuesday Miki decided that Bres was ready to be done with her binky. I was sitting on the couch and I could hear them talking. They inform me that they are mailing her binkies to Cinderella. Bres was all excited and they took them out to the mail box. I then see Miki discretely putting them in the trash. Waooooo wait a sec. get those out and hide them unless you want to sit up with her in the middle of the night was my response. I know I am a big wuss when it comes to things like this. Well she did great and no more binkies at our house:)

Sari is here!

We are so lucky to have Sari come stay for a few weeks this summer. She came in town on Tuesday. We are loving having her here and this time we get to spend with her, she is such a sweet heart! In other VERY exciting news......we have a Ooompa Loompa and Veruca in our house! We are so excited to see them preform Willy Wonka the end of the month. Miki is way happy because she will have a solo and gets to speak with a British accent:)They are both loving the time that they are in class learning the play which awesome since they have to get up and go by 8am in the SUMMER! We have also got to watch Jaidon play in the All-Star tournament. Is team ended up taking third place. They did really well. It was sooo stinking hot though, heat index of 111 degrees! YUCKY! We were all so nasty sweaty and we weren't even doing anything!
Daxon LOVES to play ball and will run the bases like a champ. It is soooo funny! Baseball is done for now. This is a good thing so I can get caught up on all my laundry and house work(which for the moment I am blaming on baseball, I don't think that I will ever get caught up till everyone moves out!)

4th of July

We had a great 4th! We went to our ward barbque to start the day off and enjoyed good company. We then went and bought a small arsenal to set off that night. To help the kids not drive us crazy waiting for it to get dark I took the 3 older ones to see Cars 2. It was a cute movie and they really seemed to enjoy it. We had a great time setting of fireworks and enjoying the neighbors as well. Poor Breslynn didn't like them at first, then Amber and Koen came and she started to have fun:)

A week of Baseball

Well another fun and exciting week has come and gone. Jaidon was able to try out for the All Star Team for baseball to start the week off. He did really well and we found out that he made a Team!!! Way to go! He will play in an All Star tournament next weekend which should be really fun to watch. I took Bres and Dax to the tryouts with me and they crashed:) It was rather nice. It was sooo stinking HOT and humid, but that is what I get for living in Missouri.

Along with tryouts Jaidon had 3 games and Chase had 2 t-ball games. Thankfully none of them were at the same time. They both played really well. Chase had his games cut short because of the extreme heat....see I wasn't kidding about it being HOT! Then we were off to Jaidons. He is such a good ball player and has loves playing first base. This is a picture of how we kept the twins entertained at the games.... CANDY! Yeah Mom wasn't so thrilled, but it worked. LOL! Look at those blue eyes, oh yeah the matching tongue too!

Dance started up this week. Miki and I get to take a strength and stretch class together. I love that I get to spend some time with just her. She is growing up way to fast! I got my butt kicked and she didn't think it was hard. Go figure. I explained to her that my big butt hadn't been dancing hours and hours a day for along time and she just looked at me funny. I am starting to get used to those looks. I have to brag for a split sec. about myself. Ms. Marla is our teacher, she owns the studio, and she told me I have great turn out! LOL! Once again it doesn't take much to please me but I was so happy to receive that complement. Those of you who have danced understand my excitement over this. Chad just laughed at me. Jaidon is taking a hip hop class too! He is so funny! He loved it and his "girl friend" (more to come about her) is in the class. So the Mom taxi is driving up there 4 days a week for the next 5 weeks. We are still waiting to hear if Miki made the comp team again.

The above picture is my silly kids. Man do I love how they play together and have so much fun imagining. Apparently they are ninjas. I was cracking up so hard at them and their outfits. I asked Miki why she was in all pink and she said "cause I couldn't find all black and it has to be all the same color" Oh OK that makes sense. LOL!
Jaidon got glasses/contacts. He wasn't to sure he would like glasses but secretly I think he loves them. In all the craziness we were able to pick them up before his last game on Thursday. Umm yeah they helped. He hit a home run and hit each time up on the 2 or 3rd pitch. He was a good little hitter before but now it will be fun to see how well he does. Feeling kind of bad that I drug my feet getting this taken care of. I was waiting to see if the school nurse did an end of the year screening and then I just never made the appointment. Oh well taken care of now.

Ok so more on this "girl friend" Jaidon was invited to go to dinner and a movie with her fam. Apparently she spent her own money and bought a dress for this "date" I am all for them being friends, but I think the Dad is in love with my son! LOL Not in a creepy way, he just really thinks Jaidon is a riot. I can't blame him we think he is pretty dang awesome too, but I find it a little funny that this dad is so thrilled that my son likes his daughter. I know Chad would feel a little different about things if the tables were turned and it was Miki. Look at how suave he is! I told him I wanted a picture and he just put his arm around her! I think we are in trouble. He told his sister that he would be smooching on Friday night after we got the call. WHAT! How old are you! What a nut! Let me clarify that there was no smooching on Friday night for him thank goodness!


We were also able to go swimming with Amber and Koen on Thursday. We had a lot of fun. Amber brought her camera so I will have to steal some of the pics from her. Can I just say how much I love having them out here. I get to love on Koen all most every day and she my sister too! Doesn't get much better than that. We had fun coloring each others hair on Tuesday night. We are pros! I love her:)

Ok so that is the main high lights from the week. Man life is crazy....love it though!


xxxxoooo's

Go T-Bones!

Chads office got everyone tickets to a baseball game on Friday night. We had fun and the kids got to eat tons of sugar. Chad, Mikinzie, Chase, Breslynn and Daxon headed down and where able to meet Sizzle "the tow(cow) as Breslynn calls him. There are no pictures of this because I was watching Jaidon play ball and his team won 25-11. Way to go boys! Jaidon and I then left headed down after his game and made it there about the 3rd inning, so we still got to watch a lot of ball.

Alot of fun!

This week was busy! We had a lot going on, ok I was able to do a lot of fun things:) We started the week off by heading to the orthodontist for Miki. She no longer has a mouth full of plastic!! She is happy about the new appliance because there is more room in her mouth and we don't get after her to close her mouth all the time now when she eats. Miki is also excited that she can talk normal too! (I snapped this pic real quick....man she is beautiful!!!!)

Miki also had auditions for the dance team at her studio on Tuesday. We are crossing our fingers and hoping that she makes it again. It has been said that they are taking fewer this year and changing things up a little. She feels really good about her audition so no matter what we know she did her best!
Wednesday night Chad and I got a REAL date night! We didn't even go to the movies. Crazy huh! Our friend had a birthday and she likes to go to World's of Fun in Kansas City. We had so much fun riding all the rides and could not of asked for better weather. Some how we ended up doing a ride called Rip Cord. They take you up 180 feet and let you free fall. I have no idea why I didn't stop and think for 2 seconds and realize that I would be CRAZY to do this. I lived. I had fun. Don't need to do it again, for awhile:)

Thursday night I got to go down to Star Light Theatre and see 9 to 5. Chad gave me season tickets for the Broadway plays. I must say I am rather enjoying them. It was a fun play, I had good company, and I am looking forward to going again in 2 weeks for Guys and Dolls. I think I am hooked! It is nice to know that I have a night out every 2 weeks this summer. They really have good shows this season.
I had to be a mean mom and set down some solid rules with consequences this week. It is not that there hasn't been rules, but something had to change for my sanity. I am a big meany and only give 1 warning before they get to choose a job from the jar. I have got walls, windows, and mirrors washed. The car has been cleaned and the floors swept and mopped to name a few things. I am liking the extra jobs, kids not so much. It seems to really have helped and I am thinking it won't be long before the jobs become fewer and fewer. We haven't made it past the job on the list so something must be working. I am blessed to have good kids that really don't cause to much trouble.