Rock Around The World

Rock Around The World was Ellaree's Spring Concert this year.  Each class Kindergarten through fifth sang songs in different languages around the world.  It was great fun to watch and once again Ellaree put her heart and soul into her performance.

 

And here is a video of her singing Love Grows 1 by 1

You will notice half way through that I am not very steady with the camera.  Lorelai was trying to escape from me.  :)

Track and Field Day

I think I am going to have a hard time keeping up with Ellaree the rest of this week and next week.  Besides it being her birthday next week she has a ton of stuff going on at school that will keep me hopping.  By the time her birthday party is over next weekend I am going to be dragging I think. 

Tuesday she had Track and Field Day at school.  She had a blast and thanks to Grama (once again) I was able to go and watch Ellaree. 

In between races the kids were able to get their faces painted by the high school art students.  Ellaree got a butterfly and a flower on the other cheek.

Here is Ellaree with her BFF Carmyn.

Ellaree did the long jump, 50 yrd, 100 yd and 200 yd dash.  She is so serious when it comes to her racing.

Thankfully she had on a long sleeve white shirt and I was able to keep track of her from the stands.  Her gym teacher is telling them to run in a straight line therefore the reason they are all pointing forward for straight.

And she is off!

Each class was a different color.  This is great as they wear these shirts for field trips as well to keep track of the kids.  I love this rainbow idea.  You can see that Kindergarten (pink) is first.  Ellaree's teacher is on the left and peaking out from her is Ellaree.  Imagine that, Ellaree sitting my Ms. Johnson!

 

I have been blogging a lot about Ellaree lately because of all her stuff at school.  Here are some random pictures of the others as well.  

 

We got to see Uncle Greg and Aunt Alissa over Memorial Day weekend at the farm.  We had a great lunch after church with them and Papa Harry & Nonie.  Hung out, rode some tractors, played on the tire swing, etc.  We had a great time seeing them.

Mr. Harry driving to work like daddy!

Lorelai driving the lawn mower all by herself.

It rained a lot this last weekend and it was a cold rain but I could not keep the kids out of the rain...so might as well play right along with them.

Lorelai's back tire got stuck and Harry was helping her get out.  What a sweet boy!

 

Lots more pictures to come as events keep coming up!

 

Happy Memorial Day

We had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend.  Most people would say that it was not a very nice weekend with the weather but I say it was wonderful and it is not the weather that makes your day but the people you are with.  As you know Friday we went on Ellaree's field trip, Saturday Harry drove for Kwik Trip while me and the kids stayed at home and cleaned then we went to two graduation parties.  Sunday we went to church and hung out as a family.  Harry wouldn't even let me do one load of laundry.  We introduced the kids to Monopoly.  The two little ones of course lost interest but Ellaree is hooked!  She loved it until Daddy took all her money and properties. But it was lots of fun.  Yesterday the kids and I took Grama with us to our church's annual Memorial Day lunch.  Oh it was sooooo good!  I had to take a salad so we might as well stay and eat as well.  When we got home Daddy was out of the attic from wiring for another light in the kitchen, a light and fan in the office area and then he put up a beam to help support a false partition that we are putting up to give a divider from our kitchen into the office area.  Here are some pictures of our progress.

When we rearranged the cupboards we new that we would eventually have to repair or do something new to the ceiling in the kitchen.  We decided to take and remove the popcorn ceiling.  But with doing this we had to either remove all the popcorn ceiling in the kitchen, office, kids activity area and hallway or we needed to put up this false partition to define the room.  We decided that putting this false partition up would look nicer and a lot cheaper in the long run.  You can also see the extra light fixture wires in the ceiling for the kitchen.

Here is looking from the office to the kitchen.  You can kind of see in the left hand corner that Harry had to pull some of the boarder away to put up his partition.  This began a project for me as well.  We found out that it was not glued on very well and it came off with very little effort.  Therefore while Harry was mudding and finishing up the partition I went around the hallway and took down all the boarder.  As much as we didn't care for the boarder it sure looks bare now.

    

It is all mudded now.  Now to find the time to sand the partition and the kitchen ceiling.  Then we can start finishing the ceiling and I have decided to repaint the kitchen as I am not caring for the green on green look.  But I will keep the office green.  :)  I think I will also paint the kids activity area at the same time. 

Ellaree's 6 Year Pictures

Yes it is that time of year again.  I figured since it is rainy outside this afternoon and I have the time I would get Ellaree's pictures taken as the next couple of weeks are going to be hectic. 

Ellaree's theme for her birthday party is cowgirl all the way.  She is in love with horses and therefore she HAS to have everything cowgirl right now.  Do you see those fancy pink boots...that is all thanks to our fabulous friend Emily.  She gave these to Ellaree early so she would have them for her party.  Yup every chance that Mom will let her wear them she is on it.  She LOVES these boots.

Isn't she growing up to be such a beautiful young woman!  Love you my little Bugaboo!

Ellaree's Field Trip 2013

Yesterday Ellaree's class along with the preschool and first grade class headed to Madison to the Henry Vilas Zoo.  I rode with my friend Rachel and we met the bus there.  The two little ones hung out with Grama for the day. 

I believe Ellaree had her picture taken in each of these funny photo booths.  She loves these.

Ellaree with her teacher Ms. Johnson....she so loves her!

It would not be a completed day without a picture of mommy and Ellaree on our day out

Here is a picture of the Turgasen and Young group!

On our ride home.  Ellaree was the leader the day before and she was so excited both days that she was up very early.  So on the way home she was wiped out.

We stopped on the way home at the Spring Green Culver's and had ice cream!  What a great day.

Happy Mother's Day!

On Saturday and Sunday it was cold and very windy.  But after church on Sunday we still went out and planted our flowers in our pots that we received from Grammy's.  We thought there was no better way to celebrate Mother's Day then to plant flowers in honor of a wonderful woman.  Each kid has their own pot.  They got to put the dirt in, pick out and plant their own flowers and take care of them.  We call them Grammy's Flowers and they are so proud of them.

I received many many many hugs and kisses on Sunday.  Ellaree brought home a boatload of gifts for me.  She planted a pumpkin seed and a zinnia seed in cups.  And these great gifts as well...

This is a card but I hung it up on the cupboards in the kitchen with the rest of her creations.

A flower....if you can't read it all here is what each pedal says starting with the dark blue one up top...

 

I love Mommy

She Feeds my family

She feeds Harry

Mom feeds my Lorelai

She feeds my daddy

I feed her

Feeds Me

 

I am guessing that she loves the fact that I feed my family.  Or I am a good cook.  When I asked her she just smiled and shrugged her shoulders. 

Her heart

 

This picture was hilarious.  The picture is of a horse, mommy and Ellaree

 

This si a picture of my mom.

She is 32 years old.

Her favorite thing to do

is kiss my horse.

She is very good

at feeding my horse.

 

So not sure why I am good at these things since we don't even have a horse but maybe she is looking into her future.

 

Even with Harry having to go out on a Planter Service Call on Sunday (which I was not too thrilled about) we had a wonderful day together.  We pulled the sofa out into a bed and watched a movie together as a family and just hung out together.  I couldn't ask for much more.  I asked for a bird feeder and instead of buying me one Harry is making it.  I am excited to see how it turns out.

 

Other things we have been up to...

Ellaree got her first lawn mower driving lesson on Saturday.

Ellaree rode the bus home to Aunt Laura's with Cole & Karlee.  She loved riding the bus and it was the first time I have been around to see her get off the bus.  It was so much fun to see her. She is growing up so fast.

We have found some great places for Ellaree to read lately.  Here is one.  I took our fitted sheet from our bed and put it on her headboard and footboard to make a castle out of her bed.  The kids loved it as you can see.

Today was a great day to be outside so we were cleaning up some of the outside toys.  Harry and Lorelai decided the dandelions needed watered.  They took great pleasure in doing so and kept them occupied for a very long time.  My hosta bed got weeded in the meantime.  Gotta love water!

Last weekend we had the fun priveledge of having a family BBQ baby shower for my brother and sister-in-laws first baby girl.  She is due June 8th and we are so excited. 

More Glamour!

So it seems that Ellaree is making more and more glamour decisions on her own these days.  First her haircut and then she comes to me about two weeks ago and says "mommy I want my ears pierced" way out of the blue.  I never have brought this subject up as I want this to be the girls decision to do so.  So I explained the process and what would happen.  Then I looked into how long before swimming lessons as I new I didn't want new earrings in with chlorine.  I counted it out and decided that if we did it this week or next week that we would be just fine.  I told her that this could be her birthday present from her dad and me and she agreed.  Next was getting Harry home early from the shop to watch the lil ones.  Well with this wonderful weather we are having he was able to last night.  I had two choices one was to go to Biederman Jewelers and have each ear done one at a time or go to Walmart where they assured me they could do both ears at the same time.  We opted to go with Walmart.  When we got there I was told they only had one lady there to do it but Ellaree had her heart set on the fact she was getting them done that night...so we went with it. 

We brought Rapunzel Bear with for special help.  She was so excited about doing this.  She picked out her own earrings that were a flower and each pedal is a different color.  So Ellaree!

She was a little nervous with the young lady getting things ready.

And the nervousness really kicked in at this point...and then after the first hole it was all over.  She wanted to get the other hole done but was so scared.  For 2 hours I tried to compromised, bribe, talk to her, talk at her and finally after 2 hours she finally did it.  During this time I felt like the worse mom ever as people were walking by staring.  I actually had one old lady circling us and shaking her head at me like I was forcing her to do this.  I was so frustrated as I was hoping this would be a wonderful mother/daughter experience and it felt to me like a horrible one. 

The minute she finally got her second earring done she was so proud of herself.  She said through tears "I did it! I actually did it!"  She had to rush home to show Daddy, Lorelai and Harry.

 

But unfortunately we had a very rough night as she had nightmares throughout the night.  Holding her hand over her ear and and telling she didn't want anymore earrings.  Poor thing will have a hard time with this for a while I think.  I let her sleep in and be late to school this morning, something I don't do but she was so exhausted after this whole ordeal I figured being a couple minutes or hours late was not the end of the world.  Needless to say coffee is mommy's best friend today.

 

We had to wear our hair up in a headband so that all could see her earrings :)  She will be fine.  Deep breath all is done and she is happy!