Eminey, as we sometimes call my friend Emily at work, celebrated her 25th birthday with all of us crazy gals!! Pink & white streamers & lots of "birthday girl" signs were all over her work area! She was so suprised when she came to work that morning & had to walk through a curtain of streamers! We got her an entire basket full of tons of pedicure supplies - with some really awesome toe nail polish! Chocolate cheesecake for dessert - YUMMY! Thanks for having a birthday Emily!
Well, all the people were hanging out on this porch, yelling out at us that we had a flat. 
We slowly crept up the road, looking for a gas station to pull over - thinking that we were going to be sitting there a while waiting for roadside assistance - but Nope - we were right around the corner & there was a tire repair shop! Had that flat fixed in under 30 minutes & we were back on the road!
The kids LOVED the museum! Aunt Chrissy came up with the idea, so we headed on down to Dallas. There were multiple little areas for the kids to experiment: bubbles, trains, dinosaurs, creeks/lakes, farming, school house, dentistry, wind tunnels/tornados & even some live animals...and I think that's it. We did ALL of it. Plus, we even took in an IMAX Coral Reef movie - which made me sick the entire time I was in there ( had to sit through most of the movie with my eyes closed). Eric hated it & Sissy wanted to run up & down the stairs....Man...told you there are no boring moments with a bebe Bruce kids!
where he came from & even Eric asked his friend who works for the animal control if there had been anybody reporting a lost dog & he said no...A sign? Who knows but we are thrilled to have Roscoe! He's been so great! The kids are so excited to get home to play with him everyday after school. Here is our new Roscoe :)
Mother's Day weekend was,very relaxing & pretty uneventful. The kids got me a DVD of one of my favorite movies, Walk the Line...I think Tristan likes it as much as I do cuz she wants to watch "Johnny Cash" every day when we get home! She loves to sing all the songs & will stand with her microphone, on her stage (which happens to be her night stand) and sing the songs word for word. She is definitely my little "artist." She even says that when she gets bigger, after she is a cheerleader, she will be on American Idol!! She is a girl after my own heart. So...Sophie spent the night with her bio-mom Akami on Sat night & since Sophie was going to get to go spend the night somewhere - Spencer & Tristan were bound & determined that they were going to spend the night somewhere too! Aunt Jennifer & Aunt Chrissy were coming over Sat night for a visit & Spencer decided - That was his chance! He packed up his 4 Wal-Mart sacks of stuff - basically consisting of nothing that he really needed or clothes that matched & he was ready to go. 
Tristan was not going to be left behind... She ran & got her boots on (2 sizes too big since they used to be Sophie's), her baby & her purse! She goes no where without her Baby or purse! She had it filled with the essentials to stay the night - her dress up shoes!! Funny kids! And great sports they are - Jennifer & Chrissy for taking them for the night, even though it wasn't planned! 
One other event that happened was that our stray cat, Murphy, who we adopted several months ago, gave birth on Friday night. We went looking for her when we got home & Dad was mowing the lawn & I started pulling weeds - Murphy hadn't come out of her hiding place...So, we went on a hunt. We found her behind the air conditioning unit on the side of the house & she had 3 babies. Unfortunately, by Saturday afternoon, 2 of them had died. So, Murphy with her 1 baby are pictured here with Sissy "mothering" them. Tuesday morning, we found Murphy under my van, very badly beaten & mangled & her baby was no where to be found. She had been attacked in the night by some other stray & very mean animal. We had to call Animal Control to come get her so they could put her down. Her injuries were so severe, there was no way she could make it. Rest in Peace Two Murphys! We will miss you!
The yearly tradition of Muffins with Mom was today @ Will Rogers and I was so excited to get to spend some special time with Spencer. He didn't even mind having to go to school earlier than usual...We had to be there between 7:30 - 7:45. Tristan, however, was more than irritated that she was not getting to go with us to Bubba's school. But, since she will be in school there next year, I will get to do it with both of them! Today was also the last day for Spencer's teacher, Mrs. McElhiney. Although she will return next year (and be Tristan's teacher YEAH), she is taking the rest of the school year off in order to take care of some medical needs. She has done such a great job with Spencer this year & regularly compliments at how smart he is. I am very proud to say that we had a great year with her this year! 
Spencer loved his 1st muffin, blueberry with some apple juice. That just didn't cut it though, so we had to sneak into a new line to get seconds...SSSHHH - don't tell :). We got some orange juice & poppyseed muffins that round...yummy!
Mrs. Hunter, Principal of Will Rogers and Spencer! She is fantastic & really loves all the kids there. She knows each child by name & it is so impressive to see how great she runs the school. Will Rogers was voted a Great Expectations school this year! Good Job.
Mommy & Spencer - Isn't he sweet!
Saturday was full of fun for me & the kids...We started out at the Dollar Tree so we could get lots of yard tools; shovels, hand rakes & gloves...We even got a few garden "angels" that Spencer said we had to have so they could watch over our flowers! We landed a few new pots & some hanging baskets too and even 10 bags of potting soil! I love that store - EVERYTHING is $1.00. 
Then we were off to Desi's Veggies & Flowers in the mall parking lot. We got so many flowers that I didn't even know if we would have them too close together - but we made it! 4 flats & a few potatoe vines & even a couple ferns. We will be adding some iris bulbs this week (thanks to my friend Angela) to line the entire West side of the house that goes along the driveway. 
Eric is going to paint the railings on the front & back porch & we are in the market for a porch bench or 2 chairs. I will be hunting that down at garage sales & clearance furniture. I'm hoping to get the kids' fort/swings fixed for them soon too. The tornado winds tore it completely up & the wood to the swings was rotten so it just fell to pieces when we tried to fix it. Hopefully Eric can collect enough unused wood from his job sites that we can rebuild it for them! It is a work in progress but we should have our house looking really nice for this summer! The kids pool is the next big ticket item! YEAH!!
The new look...Blond Billiance! I did it last night...with the help of 2 small people (Spencer & Tristan). Sissy had to help me pull it through the cap & Bubba had to "paint" on the dye with the little painters brush. Quite the experience I must add. But, I am slowly on my way to being a blond beauty again, of which my husband is excited. He has always said that he loved my blond hair...so why did I go back to a natural brunette??? Oh Ya! I had kids & that took presendence LOL! 
This year Easter lasted about a week for the kids...Oh man did we have tons of eggs & candy! It started with Aunt Chrissy & Aunt Jennifer taking the kids to the night hunt @ Regional Park on the weekend before Easter. They had such a great time with that cuz it was like a kids carnival & egg hunt. Each of them got tons of prizes, which later were dumped out in Mom's bedroom floor - go figure! During the week before Easter, we had numerous egg hunts at "big" school for Spencer & Sophie & at daycare for all of them ( since Sophie & Spencer go to daycare for after school). On Good Friday the kids 
were out on break, so the daycare had tons of activities for them to all do, which they had such a blast & couldn't wait to get into all their Easter baskets when they got home. That night, we went to Aunt Sherry & Uncle Doug's for a cook-out of hamburgers & hotdogs & another night time hunt in an open lot beside their house. Aunt Sherry had bought prizes for each of the kids so when they each found their "special" egg - they got their prize. Sophie got a flower making set, Tristan got a new blue baby bunny & Spencer got a tool set. They were thrilled! Next, was the Michelin Easter egg hunt the next 
morning with Aunt Sherry & Ashton & pictures with the Easter bunny...then we were off to Aunt Chrissy & Aunt Jennifer's for egg coloring & lunch. They got more Easter baskets that were full of clothes, shoes & some toys for each of them. Even Mom got a basket full of pedicure products & my new PedEgg! LOVE IT!!! The kids stayed there for several hours with them while Mom went to take care of a few things....Then back I went to get them. We had family night & cook out (with Daddy too) that night & couldn't wait for Grandma to come over the next morning for her turn. She got to our house about lunch time with a whole load of presents. More clothes & more toys! These kids aren't spoiled or anything :) !! We had a great Easter week & are now getting geared up for Tristan's 4th birthday in May. 
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