Father's Day Camp Trip!

We went camping on Father's Day weekend. Matt, Landon, Brooklyn, Jasmine, and I all went up on Friday and set up our camp. The kids were SO excited to go camping! I was excited to spend some quality time together as well. It seemed like it was a busy camp trip because Jasmine is at the age where it is still hard to walk on the crooked ground, so she would fall down and get her hands dirty...and well she doesn't like dirty hands! Then you have to worry about her falling in the fire and what not, and the nights were VERY cold. Luckily Matt looked it up before hand and we packed a lot of warm clothes for everyone...but still 30 is pretty darn cold at night! We got a new tent...I call it our mansion. It is a 12 person tent, with a dome light, and "automatic" roll up windows. It is really perfect for our family and we all LOVED it! We decided this is our vacation for the summer, so we are hoping to make it camping a few more times.

My Dad and Mandy came up on Saturday morning and set up camp next to us. We went fishing, and Landon thought that since Daddy and Grandpa were in the water he could walk in too. He didn't realized they had on waders...so he ended up in the lake in just his underwear. I think the grossest thing was when Landon came out and we had to pull 6 leeches out of him. YUCK! (He was in boy heavennthough).

Brooklyn had fun walking around the lake and taking Mandy's dogs on a walk. Jasmine had fun trying to eat the M and M's through the zip lock baggie. Jasmine is a candy'acholic.

We had a better night sleep the second night, however, it was very windy...but we were safe in our tent. The next morning we got up and drove over to go fishing again, but it was too windy for the kids and the flyfisherman. We decided to go shoot the guns instead. The kids thought it was great because they got to ride in the back of Grandpa's pick up truck since we were out on the dirt road and up in the moutains. Jasmine wanted to ride in the back so badly, that I decided to sit back with her and enjoy the ride. It was quite fun. The boy's started shooting their guns at some pop cans, and the girls went on a walk, but it didn't last long until the rain came and we had to drive back to our campground. We got back and packed eveything. It was going great until we had just pulled the rain tarp off the tent and were packing everything in the car and the rain started POORING and HAILING! Luckly the kids were already in the car, and most of our stuff. We were just SOAKING and had to reset up the tent and clean it and dry it out when we got home.

It was very nice to be up in the mountains. I am so blessed to have been able to spend Father's Day, not only with the Father of my kids, but my Dad as well. I am so greatful for both of them and the influence they have been on me and my kids lives. I love you both!

Graduation

Grandma JoJo, with Jasmine and Brooklyn waiting for the program to begin!

Landon and Miss Elaine...the best preschool teacher!

Landon holding hands with Hailey and Morgan....he loves girls what can I say!

Patiently waitng for everyone to arrive so that the program can begin! (Sorry these aren't any any order I couldn't figure out how to move the pictures around).

Landon graduated from preschool on Friday May 22nd, 2009. Crazy how the time flies by. I have to tell you, he is so grown up these last few weeks. It is amazing to me how big he looks and how ready for Kindergarten he is. I am excited for him. I am scared for him. I will MISS him, but I know that he will LOVE school. He is going to FULL day kindergarten and will be gone for 7 hours out of the day. Part of me wishes I could keep him home and protect him forever, but I know that he will do good. He is such a spirited little guy. He loves to make others happy and has such a kind heart. Not only that, but he is such a smart little boy. He says things to me sometimes and I am like, wow, where did you learn that.

I was SO proud of him at his graduation. He had the BEST preschool teacher..Miss Elaine. They did a cute program with lots of songs, and boy did he sing his little heart out. He has no fear of performing in front of others. In fact he loves music and loves to perform for all. Miss Elaine made an awesome scrapbook of a bunch of pictures she took throughout the year. It was so fun to get and I will treasure it forever. I LOVE my Little Man. I can't wait to see what he becomes. According to his preschool book...he is going to be a Mail Carrier...according to him when I asked...he is going to be a Baseball Player. I know he will do good in whatever he decides to do. Way to go Landon!!!

Happy May!

We have had a busy May already! It seems like everyday has been jam packed, and although I will miss preschool..I must say, I am excited for Summer to be able to just do whatever, whenever and not worry about other obligations. I am going to try and enjoy this summer to the fullest, since Landon will be starting up all day kindergarten in August. I am feeling excited and sad all at the same time, but for now, I am just going to forget about it and enjoy.

I have been working hard in my garden the last 2 days, and really don't have a ton to show for it. I do have a few BIG bags full of weeds and my planters are getting closer to being ready to plant. I was going to work outside again today, but it is windy, and I REALLY don't like the wind. So, it will have to wait.

Brooklyn had her 4th Birthday on Saturday! I can't believe my little Brooklyn is growing up so fast. It is hard to believe that she will be doing preschool 3 days next year. I will be down to just Jasmine at home for 3 hours, 3 times a week. Kind of weird how fast this has happened. Brooklyn had a wonderful birthday. She actually had a dance recital on Friday, it was so precious! She did two dances and got to put on big girl make-up and even chance outfits. She had lots of people come and support her. Grandma Jojo, Grammie, Great-grandma Hartman, Aunt Marla, Emily (her cousin), Mallory, Josh, Miss Elaine, Landon, Jasmine, Dad, and Mom of course! Then the following day she had a little party with 3 of her little girlfriends. This year it was a my little pony party! She had a ball and got SPOILED with all of her grandma's, great-grandma, aunt, and friends. I don't ever remember seeing so much PINK! She is a sweet little princess for sure!

What a wonderful busy May it has been. I look forward to the rest of May and all that it will bring!

Sweet Phoebe

Very early this morning is the day that one year ago, Rebecca gave birth to her sweet angle Rebecca Phoebe Michel. It was such a heart wrenching time for all of the Michel family, especially Martin and Rebecca. Phoebe was a full term stillborn. She was so perfect, that she didn't even need to stay here on this earth. It is so sad and seems so unfair at times, and my heart aches for Martin and Rebecca. This is something that no parent ever wants to have to endure. It makes me realize how precious life really is. I have been thinking a lot about them and one year ago. I know that their hearts will never fully be healed and that Phoebe will always be missed. The one thing I always think of when I think how unfair and hard this is, is what amazing people Rebecca and Martin are to be able to have been chosen to carry, for 9 months, such an amazing and special spirit. I know that one day they will be together again in Heaven. I love their family, I love Phoebe, and I love my Heavenly Father. Families are Forever!

Has it really been that long!

Well, I had good intentions of doing a March Maddness blog, but that never seemed to happen. Now I realized that April is already more than half way over, I thought, forget the pictures and just type something! So, we are doing pretty good. We continue to be stressed with the times, and can't wait to get 5th Street sold in Berthoud, but first need to finish it off. Hopefully we will be closing on another one of our houses in May, and then have the funds to finish up the 5th street house.

We had a very busy, but fun Easter. We spent the night at my Mom's house and went to church with her. It was fun, but Landon woke up...right as the Easter Bunny was going to bed, because he had to go potty, then he realized that the Easter Bunny had come and he was WAY to excited to go back to sleep. Poor little guy, I laid in the middle of Landon and Brooklyn all night long, and Landon I think finally feel asleep around 2:30am. Needless to say, it was a long, but really a very short night of sleep for me. However, it was lots of fun on Easter and the kids had a great time!

Rookie of the Year!

Some of you have already heard, but I was so proud of my husband last night! He found out a couple weeks ago, that he was going to be awarded with Rookie of the Year. He was actually quite surprised at this, but very excited. Last night we got to get all fancied up and go to the Keller Williams Gala at the Marriott in the Denver Tech Center. It was for all of the Colorado Keller Williams agents. It was so fun to see everyone all dressed up in their fancy clothes. I think there were about 10 Rookie of the Year awards given out for all of the Colorado Keller Williams agents, and I think they said there were 2,974 agents or something like that. Matt looked so handsome as he made his way up to the stage to collect his award. This is an award that you can only get during your first full calendar year of being a Realtor. I have to say, that it has been hard going off and starting up a business and doing Real Estate...but my husband does an amazing job at it! It was so neat to be able to be there with the owner of his Keller Williams branch and those others over him and see how impressed they were with him and just the true belief that he is going to go so far in Real Estate. Matt makes a great agent because he really understands that purchasing a home is a big deal in peoples lives. He is so compassionate and concerned with everyone and I think that is a very good quality in him. I am so proud of him that even though we feel like we are on a roller coaster with ups and downs, he is really working hard for our family, and I know that we will be blessed for it. If he can do this in these economical times, just think of the agent he will be when Real Estate is up and running at it's fullest again! Good job honey, I love you!

Not much

I realized that it has been a long time since I have posted on here..so I thought I would tell you all that I am still alive. It seems like life has been busy lately. I guess that is what happens when you have 3 kiddos. Lots of fun, but busy. We are still hoping and praying that someone will go under contract on our house we have been remodeling in Berthoud. It is a BEAUTIFUL home, I wish that we didn't have to sell it. It would be perfect for us, but we are hoping that it will be perfect for someone else as well!
I will try and get some more pictures of us up and running soon. I am looking forward to the nice weather we are suppose to be having this week. Maybe I can get our garage all cleaned out, and organized as well as some of our other things. It makes me want to do a spring cleaning!