NY Times

About a month ago a NY Times reporter came to Andrews office and did an article on what they do. The article is in the June 12th issue titled Door to Door as Missionaries, Then as Salesmen. Here's the link
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/us/12coldcalls.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper

Don't forget to check out the other pics with the article right under the main pic.

Lil Miss Jokester

So you may not find this joke as funny as I do. Maybe it was just because Kami came up with it all by herself that made it so funny to me. But here you go.
She asked "What do you do when you have 14 kids...."
What?
She replied "You sell them to other people"
ha ha ha.
It still makes me laugh!

FINALLY!!!!!

Oh you have no idea how happy I am that I am finally caught up on my blogging. I recently just posted seven new posts. So enjoy all my catching up! Hopefully that won't happen again.

Morton Arboretum

We are in Chicago now doing the summer thing. So far its been great. The apartments are decent..some of the better ones we've been in. It's been nice coming back to a familiar area instead of something completely new. I haven't had to find all the necessities...Target, the mall, Walmart. And what makes it even better is we are out here with some really good friends. For me that is a summer make or break. Its nice to always have someone that wants to go to the park, mall, take a walk, just to pass the time. And comforting having someone that can relate with me about this job. They are my extended family because we get so close. Anyways. The other day we took all the kids to the Morton Arboretum. It has lots of fun outdoor activities for the kids. Playgrounds, a little stream to play in, ponds, walking trails, a maze. Just a really fun place. We spent the majority of our time at the stream. The kids loved playing in the water and moving the rocks. The pond had hundreds of little tadpoles and Kami wanted to try to catch some. She got right in there and she actually caught one. I love the picture I got of her with it because it shows just how excited she was that she did it. It was a good day!

Mothers Day Program

Genna and Mrs. Wright


Genna and her class. Notice anything....she was the only girl in her class.

She's so sweet.

Kameryn and Mrs. Hathorne

They learned sign language with their songs

Kami and her class

I went to their Mothers Day program which was also for my girls the last day of school. It was so fun to watch them sing the songs they learned and they did sign language as well. The only hard part was they are in different classes and doing the program at the same time so I had to keep running back and forth. But they did so good and it was so cute! They all gave the moms a plant which my mom adopted and hopefully the girls don't remember them when we get home in Sept. my mom doesn't think they'll survive. My girls and I have really enjoyed this preschool. It has been such a great experience and I can't wait for them to go back in the Fall. They loved the teachers and the activities and both of them have learned so much. Thanks Learning Dynamics!

A first for the girls

I had a dentist appointment scheduled before we left for the summer and my mom is the office manager so she scheduled the girls to see if they would let him do anything on them. On the way over I told the girls that the dentist wanted to look at their teeth and count them, thats all they tried to do the last time. Kami wouldn't even let them near her. Kami said that she would try to let them count her teeth this time but if she didn't like it she would tell them to stop. I went first and when it was the girls turn Kami was really brave and let Genna go first. hahaha. Debbie let Kami help her put the bib on genna and let her help get things ready. It was really cute. Then she helped Genna climb onto chair. It was really cute Genna was trying to climb up and Kami helped her by pushing her butt til she basically fell into the chair. Debbie laughed and told my mom that she was going to start helping all the patients that way. Dr Drake came in and gave her a mirror so she could watch and he counted her teeth. He then told her he was going to tickle her teeth with the toothbrush. I was so surprised that she let him clean her teeth. She laid there and let him do whatever he needed to do. I was so happy. Then it was Kamis turn, I thought for sure she'd freak and wouldn't let him do anything, but sure enough he counted her teeth and then she let him clean them. She was a bit apprehensive but she let him finish. I was proud of them. I know its a little weird to be so proud of a teeth cleaning, but some little things are big things to a mom and I was really proud of how brave they were.

Our new tree

We had planted a tree here before but Andrew and I are horrible at yard work and with us being gone during the summers our yard always suffers and the poor tree died. But this year before Andrew left we did a ton of yard work. We pulled out our rose bushes, I loved the roses but they were taking over our front porch and we added more cement. We pulled out all the bushes front and back and took out our curbing and replaced it all with grass. And even though grass should be fool proof we still kill it but at least now we won't have dead grass, dead bushes and weeds. It should look somewhat better this year. The girls loved going and picking out a tree and helping dad planting a new one. They were very proud of their hard work.