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So Saturday turned out really good I think. Seemed like a lot of people got fired up to do something from it. Several people did not want it to “end” on Saturday and wanted something to come from it. Which is pretty cool. Lexi ended up with a nap. Yay! Why I worry about these things, I’m not sure. I took Lexi with me for the morning but found out MIL stayed home with the Emma and Skyler. So I asked her to meet me at my house and stay there while Lexi napped. Which Lexi actually went down as soon as we got home and before MIL got there with the kids so that really worked out. What I found out when I got back to the church is SIL heard some of us talking about going to AI and she felt left out because no one invited her. Which I did feel bad because she felt left out but I sort of didn’t in a way because she has never said one word about the show, whether liking it or not. I had no clue I even needed to ask her. Anyway, I think that is smoothed over.

Sunday I left after Sunday school and got Lexi a short nap. We went to Dora Live. It was a pretty cute show but I wasn’t prepared for how short it would be. It started a few minutes after 2 and by 2:30 we were taking a “potty break”. But Lexi stayed in my lap the whole time and was a little angel. So was Emma. All the girls were good. Made for a very stress-free afternoon. Emma seemed to like when Diego came out and when Swiper said Ah, Man! I think Swiper was actually the closest-to-real-cartoon-life character.

I accidentally double-booked myself for this evening. I forgot I had bible study tonight and then invited the youth pastor and his family over for dinner. It could have worked out because he had to leave for a meeting and I could have just been a little late but then he said he wanted to meet with Scott about youth camp instead of going to his meeting. So now I don’t have anyone to watch the girls while I go to bible study.

D&D moved this weekend to D’s grandmother’s old house. They are going to re-do the whole house and end up with more land and in a good school district. It just seems surreal to me that they are not living in their old house and are now living in a 2 bd 1 bath 50 year old house. I know the house will be SO awesome when they get it done but gosh, it will take some umph to get through the construction.

Wow, in two more days I’ll be headed up to Maryland. Yay, vacation!! I really am looking forward to it, especially after this busy weekend.

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It’s 12:46 and very unlike me to be up. Tonight we had our planning meeting for the Place training we’re doing tomorrow. We were there for over 3 hours and it was actually a really good time. We had dinner at one of the leaders houses and then went over the schedule and material. I realized once again how well I get along with our youth pastor’s wife. We got on the topic of American Idol and realized how we are both addicted to Chris Daughtry who strangely reminds us of her husband who looks a little like Chris and also formerly was a “rocker”. Needless to say we have really good music at church which has nothing to do with the fact that he looks like Chris Daughtry only the fact that he was formerly a musician. Ok, it is really late isn’t it cause I’m kind of just spewing at the mouth at the moment. ANYWAY. Scott graciously stayed home with the very tired kids. Got them a bath and everything. Emma did go spend the night with MIL. Word is she may be a no-show for the training tomorrow. Which may be a bad thing or a good thing. Bad because I really want everyone that signed up to come and good because that means she may be able to stay with Lexi while she naps tomorrow. That is the ONLY thing I’m worried about for tomorrow and I don’t know why I’m so anal about my kids getting naps. I mean, if she’s sleepy, she’ll nap at the church right? You would think. I guess we’ll see if MIL doesn’t end up keeping her.

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I officially am going to the AI concert on August 1!!! J, D, C, and Heather are all going with me. The seats are not as great as I had hoped. Stupid, stupid me cancelled the first set of tickets it reserved for me thinking there were better ones out there. I could have been two sections away on the side of the stage but now we’re in the section directly in front of the stage, but way back behind all the floor seats. But, we’re on row L so not too far back. I hope we can actually see something. I really hope we can have cameras there or else I’ll be buying a new cell phone. I realize how almost childish this is to actually be going to this concert. I will be in a sea of screaming girly teenagers but I’m looking for to it strangely. Does anyone know if the winner will be on the tour? I’ll be super disappointed if not.

Scott and I took the girls to KFC and Target. We were so stressed by the end. Almost laughing it was so much work. Lexi threw a FIT in KFC when I wouldn’t let her drink anymore of my Mountain Dew. Scott ended up having to take her out to the van and wait for Emma and I to finish eating. Then in Target she was doing fine until she found an empty cart which she really wanted to ride in but was broken. I kept trying to carry her away from it but she kept slithering out of my arms and going back. Scott finally pulled her away. She was super tired and went to bed soon after we got home. Emma stayed with Mom last night and I dropped Lexi off with her this morning. I think I’m going to meet them somewhere for lunch. So I have the house to myself right now and of course I want to clean. I know with our busy weekend I probably won’t have much of a chance.

Have I mentioned we are going to see Dora Live on Sunday?? I bought a ticket for Lexi so it should be interesting to see how it goes. I’m hoping she does into her “Dora zone” like she does when she watches the videos and stays still so I can enjoy it too instead of running around after her somewhere if she decides it’s not enough to entertain her.

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Ya’ll, I didn’t want Elliott to leave. Not after they showed that video of him at home. I felt so bad for him. It so should have been Elliott leaving tonight leaving Chris and Taylor in the finals. Ugh. But in good news, D, J, C and Heather and I are going to see the tour in Charlotte! Whoo Hoo! Girls night out!

I did a little cleaning yesterday evening before picking up the girls from MILs and after going to visit J&W. Then settled in watching America’s Top Model finale and AI.

Emma’s very last day of preschool was today. It wasn’t her normal day to go but they welcomed all the kids on the last day. She has learned a lot this year and I’m so glad I took her. Most importantly to me she became more independent when I have to leave her at nursery at church. She made best friends at school which is SO cute. Jules is her best friend and they ALWAYS have to check out Colby because he ALWAYS gets sick. You can not wipe the grin off her face when she’s talking about that. She learned the Bumble Bee song and several others. She learned about Jonah and the whale and how Mary washed Jesus’s feet. She learned that plants need water and sun to grow. She made countless crafts and little books and she had FUN. Fun that sometimes I just don’t have the time to do during the day. I’ve got her signed up for 3 days next year which I might change to 4 and Lexi starts at 2 days. I hope she does good because she does pretty well with nursery on Sundays but every once in a while she doesn’t want to go. I’m sure she’ll learn to love it just like Emma does. But you never know, kids can be different.

This weekend will be quite busy. Friday night we’re planning for Saturday’s PLACE training. Saturday is training from 10-5. Sunday is regular church stuff. Then I think we’re going to Maryland next Wednesday through Monday. Whoo! Vacation! I just wish Scott would be able to go but he has to work.

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I think I just watched a bird poop in mid air–anyway–sorry, that’s not really what I got here to talk about…

I just read some stuff about Grey’s from the writers….and supposedly Katharine Heigl was only signed on to the show for a year cause she’s wants to do movies. So, when the writers say they HAD to kill Denny it makes a little more sense. Even if she changes her mind and comes back I suppose the writers thought Katharine was not going to be on the show next season and they had to take care of the situation. Denny could have stayed around but what is Denny without Izzie?

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Ya’ll, I’m so unattached to AI right now. I watched last night. I don’t even have the umph to do a song by song review. Let’s just say I thought You Are So Beautiful was awesome and Kat did well with Over the Rainbow and Elliott is going home. Taylor is winning this thing, hands down.

Very sad news from this morning, J&W found out their second pregnancy is ending today. The baby is not growing. Poor thing. I feel so bad for her.

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So I never made it to bible study last night. Instead, I found myself at the Urgent Care center with Emma. She came running into our living room with her sleeping bag, tripped on it and landed very hard on our metal coffee table and hit her nose, on her right nostril, right at the crease with her cheek. It was bleeding pretty bad and of course she was really crying. We got her calmed down but it wouldn’t stop a steady leak of blood. We had tried to go to Scott’s aunt’s house who is a nurse but she never showed up from work. So I took her up to the urgent care center. He said no stitches but they did put Dermabond on it (super-glue for skin) which will stay on for 5 days and gave her some meds to keep her nostrils open seeing that it was swollen. I totally thank God for not letting that be worse. Cause it could have been really bad.

So the rest of the evening was spent exclusively with Grey’s Anatomy! I even watched my TIVO’d version while the President talked. What a finale!!! OMG, I’m still freakin out. Where to begin??? One of the biggest storylines was Denny and Izzie of course. I didn’t think Bailey reacted quite like I thought she would. She actually ended up sticking up for them (ok, sort of, she was protecting herself and the hospital, but she could have ratted Izzie out when the Chief demanded it). I LOVED when the chief came looking for Yang and she says, I can’t, I’m in time-out. She was such a wuss last night. I get the whole fight or flight syndrome but couldn’t she have fought for Burke. And the whole ending scene did not redeem herself.
Weird twist with George apologizing to Meredith. But the good news is it seems like they can get along from now on. And I really didn’t like Callie this episode and not really cool they made out in the hall. But I did like what George said to give him time to mean it.
I almost want to save Denny for last in this just because it was so huge, but I have to wait to talk about Mer/Der in a sec. Denny proposed!!! OMG! Izzie was insano in this episode. The end was so sweet where she laid down with him and then Alex. Oh my. Alex. He really loves her. I will be rooting for them when she is all done grieving. But wait, will we actually get to see her again? Seeing that she QUIT!? I thought it was awesome how they all stepped up and blamed themselves for cutting the LVAD cord. I was wondering how they would get out of pinpointing Izzie for it. Of course, it was quite obvious who had done it, but at least they made it sort of work. So Denny’s really gone 🙁 I cried. I admit it. I’m gonna miss Denny.
So the Mer/Der of it all. They didn’t show them much. But, boy, what a scene when they did! He wanted so bad to not want her but he couldn’t help himself. Ahhh!!! And then, she has to choose. Finn or Derek. Does that mean Derek is willing to give up Addison. If she chooses Finn (which I think she does because he’s booked for 6 episodes in next season) does that mean Derek gives up Meredith forever and makes it work with Addison? Does Callie tell on them? Will Finn forgive her if he knows she slept with Derek on the night she was supposed to sleep with Finn for the first time? If she chooses Derek, does Derek give up Addison on the out and out or is it a secret affair again? Where does that leave Finn? To date Addison? Cause they looked comfy together at the prom.
Surprisingly, I feel a little closure at the end of this season. Like they cut it off at the right time. I don’t think I could have survived a cliffhanger with Denny and Izzie. I’m glad they gave us the news. Even though my poor heart could hardly handle Izzie losing her Denny.

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This weekend was so nice. I actually enjoyed myself and found a smile on my face lots yesterday. Friday night Mom watched the kids and we went out to eat with C&D. Emma stayed with MIL. Friday night I went to Heather’s and stayed until 12:30 working on a scrapbooking project for MIL’s present. That was fun. Heather has like a small scrapbook store at her house. Saturday we got up and I didn’t clean (very much anyway). Amazing. And it felt good–at least for the day. Not so much this morning when I want to finish cleaning. Anyway, we got out and got some more presents for Mother’s Day. Emma came home for a little while Saturday afternoon and then they watched the girls while Scott and I ran up to SouthPark to exchange some more clothes. Sunday we went to church, ate at MIL’s, came home for Lexi to nap and then spent a few hours at my Mom’s last evening. We had so much fun over there. We ate outside on a new patio set and the girls played on the new swing set and we jumped on the neighbor’s trampoline. Man, I haven’t done that for YEARS and it was SO much fun. I felt like a kid again. Scott bought me a shirt and some exercise clothes for my present. They are nice but a little, uh, clingy. So I might have to exchange them. But great weekend.

We had a ton of people sign up for the training I’m helping with at church on Saturday. We are still working on last minute details. Nursery might be a little issue. There are 20 kids signed up for nursery for 7 hours (with a lunch break). Hopefully we can find enough older youth to take care of them. I’m hoping either my mom or sister can come pick them up after work so Lexi can go home and get a nap.

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