Ellie and Avarie summer 08

Here are some cute summer pic's of the girls. I just discovered how to do the slideshow thing, so i will try to get more pic's on.

It's has been way too long..

What's new though? I am such a blogging loser. So what's new with us? Not much. We are addicted to the Wii. And each night Blaine and I find ourselves cussing at eachother and the tv while playing Mario Kart. You know husband and wife bonding... But we love it and so do the kids. We have also found ourselves searching and preparing for our new little boy! (2 months left) We started painting his room and just finished changing Ellie into a Queen bed! What! She is one spoiled 4 year old. I need to post a picture though, it's very cute. Ellie has been spending a lot of time in the back with their new pool and she is as tan as a little indian. If Indians have blonde hair. HUH? Um.... nevermind you get the point. We have been attending the zoo trying to take advantage of the free movies at the theatre and soon we will be able to go to the Y which for those of you who don't know what that is. It's a huge recreation center with a gym and pools and a splash park. Although that didn't come easy. Blaine somehow decided that a Y pass was going to be money well spent after I hired a cleaning lady for the house. As some of you may know Blaine was not down with that, but that's all it took. I hired her. And Blaine was in a frenzy. In fact the next night he cleaned the kids bathroom and now does the dishes more often. A threat was all it took. I fired her already. So then I bought a steam mop for the floors which I love so sososo...... much. And it's so much easier then filling up the bucket, wearing gloves, getting on your hands and knees, and an hour later wow you think it's clean but is it? Well after steaming my floors the cloths were black. And I would of kept going but I only have two cloths. So money well invested. It only took me 30 mins. to mop over the floor twice. Ok enough of that I sound like an info commercial. So enough ranting and raving. That's all I have for now. Happy 4th of July.

Two Words....

Rascal Flatts

Last night we got to experience the concert of a lifetime. Ok, I know it sounds way over exaggerated but, OH MY GOSH! I loved them before a lot. Now I am amazed.

The show started off with Kelly Pickler who is suprisingly really good. I thought she would be obnoxious but she wasn't at all. So I was sitting there thinking even if was just her I would go home happy. But then they announced Rascal Flatts are coming out the whole stage lit up. it was so neat there were fireworks and everything. I honestly did not move for 2 1/2 hours. I loved it.

Other than that the great news is we are having a BOY! Yea!

We found out on Friday and the boy part was right there for all the world to see.

We are very excited!

Ellie said she knew it was a boy. Well what's new that's her thing lately.

So that's the Dart's exciting news for the week.

Happy Mothers Day everyone!!

I should of thought before I opened my mouth...

So the other night we were talking with our neighbors and we started talking about this one night we went out to dinner with them and my family doctor. And as we were finished with dinner we were all coming back to our house to hang out and talk. Anyways, as we were walking out there was this HUGE dodge truck, you know the kind with the four yellow lights on the top and the quad tires in the back just a big huge hick truck. Ok so Melissa my neighbor says, "Hey Randy ( her husband) there's your truck!" And I looked and said," Randy that's a HILLBILLY Truck!" Well little did I know the driver of the trucks wife was standing right in front of me this 5'2" little old lady waiting for her nice old fashioned farmer husband to pick her up curbside. OH my Gosh can you believe this oh it get's even better. So she proceeds to say " That's my Hillbilly truck!"
I said " a-a-a-a-aaa I like hillbilly trucks."
And then she looks at me and yells as she's getting in " DO YOU WANT THE HILLBILLY PAYMENT!"
At that time Blaine was like Sum shut-UP and let's get into the car. My doctor and his wife took off the opposite way. Randy and Melissa were stuck walking and riding with us. Hillarious huh?? That's what I get for speaking before I think...

A Great Weekend!

Our weekend turned out to be not to bad after all. On Saturday we hung out with our good friends Randy and Melissa. This pic is old from Halloween (obviously) but it's cute. So Saturday we went over there and had a BBQ. We have come to love Randy's foil packet potatoes and onions. And so we bring a side or meat and they provide what we don't anyways it's way fun and the closest thing to family in Fort Wayne that we have.

So after dinner Saturday, Blaine and Randy decided to go to the "MAN STORE" which is also know as Lowe's and they came home with a chiminea which is a fire thingy for outside and some plants for our yard. That was Sweet!

Because now we can have fires any night of the week. And actually tonight we had another BBQ with them and roasted marshmallows and made smores.

It was a lot of fun and tomorrow we are having another BBQ with Nikki and Lynn some friends of ours that moved to Vegas that are in town this weekend. So it's officially BBQ season. I love BBQ!! Especially because that means I don't have cook, maybe just make a salad or something.:)

So I guess I shouldn't complain about such a boring life. I am glad we have a few good friends here.

Such an interesting life.....

This week has been a blast! haha Not really. My week started with having to say goodbye to my wonderful, helpful, patient, loving, amazing in-laws. I hate goodbyes and certainly treasure the moments I have when our family comes to visit. So we took them to the airport Monday night. Then I got to read all my good friends blogs about our stay in Arizona.

Tuesday, I watch Payton and Gillian which has become quite the experience. Gillian is 7 months old and is a very high maintenence baby. She is adorable though. And then there is Payton who as time goes on he is getting more comfortable with ignoring me and the things I say. Like it was time for lunch and I said," Payton come and eat." I must have said it a thousand times finally I told him that if he didn't come eat it was time out. Well he just stood there and looked at me like you are not going to do this. Well it sucks to put somebody elses kids in timeout. But what else could I do he would not respond. So he cried the whole two minutes.
By the time 5:30 pm Tuesday night hits I have absolutely had it. So your all probably wondering why are you doing this still. Well because the extra spending that I don't have to justify is great! BOTTOM LINE. I might have to quit shopping! hahahaha that's a joke.

Wednesday night is young womens. Which happened to be spending time at Walmart trying to help the girls pick out fabric for the YW camps pajama pants. I really enjoy the YW.

Thursday we played outside in the beautiful weather. And then found some trees to plant. Oh I need to post more pictures. I will when the yard gets more put together.


OH the post is horrible and boring but just nothing funny or remotely interesting happened this week.

ARIZONA here we come..........

Our very first vacation together was wonderful. Thanks to our great friends the Mear's and Tuttles. Thanks again.... I was very worried about how the kids would do. And come to find out there was nothing to worry about. The kids did great! And they were great for Mark and Karen.

So our first flight out of Cleveland was fine. But, then we got on our plane to Pheonix. It was going to be a 4 hour flight and as we are getting on the plane Blaine is looking ahead to guess who we might to get to squeeze next to. Oh well, I was lucky enough to sit in between Blaine and this other man that was bigger than Blaine. I thought i was going to lose it. By the end of the flight I was freaking out and hyperventilating (spelling?). On top of that the guy had the nastiest breath ever and he kept breathing deeply towards my face. Ok enough of that.

We arrived at our hotel and it was gorgeous. I am so thankful that we were able to stay at a place like that. The place was huge. So Blaine was attending a conference there and I got to hang out with our friends and it was so much fun it's a good thing we knew people there. I was able to enjoy a morning at the spa with a massage and a pedicure which was amazing! The best part of our vacation was when we all me at the Cheesecake Factory. The Kings were able to come and we sat and talked and ate for 2 1/2 hours. It was so fun for all of us to be together again.

We had so much fun and thanks to the Tuttles to introducing us to Guitar Hero which is the funnest thing ever. I gotta get one. And for all the driving you all did.

So now we are home and I was so excited to see the kids. They were just as excited. Karen had dinner in the crockpot and we rested a lot. It's so nice to be home. Even though we enjoyed our time alone. Mark and Karen leave tomorrow and then what? It's been so much fun. And hopefully I can keep this blog updated more often.

It's Friday!

Today was a very eventful day!! We had a YW presidency meeting at my house and one of the women have 3 children, 1 boy and 1 girl and a newborn. All the kids were upstairs playing and the little boy Jenson comes down completely naked and had been playing in Ellie's old tub water. It's was from last night. That's what I get for not supervising Ellie and tubtime. So then they were all clothed and the girls decided to play dress up well Ellie didn't need panties on just a jacket so she came running down naked next. I have to say it was really funny but i didn't let her know I thought that it was. Next, Jenson needed to potty well didn't quite make it and ended up peeing on Ellie's carpet. OH MY GOSH. WE ARE TRYING TO HAVE A MEETING HERE!!! So cleaned that up and they all flew downstairs and were all hungry. What else is new Ellie is hungry 24-7 and it's worse when she is entertaining guests. (Probably gets that from me!). So they had snacks and I sat down so we could get this meeting wrapped up. Well I hear silence and then the water on in the bathroom downstairs. I UNLOCK the door and all three kids are in there with the FAMILY size bag of cheetos nice huh?? So it was soooo... time to end this meeting. So that was the first part of the morning.
We went to lunch at Culver's with Angie and the kids.(Thanks for letting me pick, I am one hungry pregnant lady) Anyways, that was fun. Then Ellie started to complain that here tummy was hurting (this has been going on for a few weeks now ) so I called the doctors office and they let me come right then since they weren't that busy. Well they needed an X-ray, Blood work and a urine sample. OK! this should be great trying to take blood from a 4 year old that hate shots to begin with. Ellie turned out to be just fine and did great considering the took 4 tubes of blood. And luckily she needed to pee since we had been there and she remembered mommy having to pee in a cup when she was pregnant with Avarie so no biggie about the cup. Ellie is such a brave, good little girl. She teaches me so much every day and I love her very much.
So then after the doctors, we went to Old Navy and she got to pick 2 pairs of flip flops and a shirt for being such a brave girl. I of course loved that. So it was a fun day. And I love my crazy girls so much. I am so thankful for them everyday, as well as my wonderful husband who for some reason puts up with my attitude ( Thanks Blaine).
GOODNIGHT!

This week has flown by. It usually does with Monday and Tuesday being the day I watch Peyton and Gillian. And by Wednesday it's time to catch up on the things I just let go. You know like Laundry, Laundry and Laundry. It never ends I don't know how I end up doing 10-12 loads a week there is only four of us. Anyways, I can't start complaining now I've got a long ways to go.

To catch you up on the family Ellie, is going through the wanting to be naked, needing to argue, ( she is never wrong), doesn't need sleep to stay happy, not wanting to clean up because it takes way too long, She might miss an episode on Noggin, so she DVR's every freakin thing on there and it takes me 30 mins. to delete all her crap. She is such a determined little girl and she always tries to manipulate her way into getting what she wants. HMMM..... Sounds like someone I may know.???
Avarie is the sweetest little thing she started walking a few weeks ago finally. She is so good she loves to sit and the bookshelf and lay on her tummy and look at books. Then occasionally she'll get up to get into the Pantry and point at everything but she really wants cereal or cookies, or to get a drink of milk, or play in the toilet. That's my girl. She loves to say No No No to anyone who gets near anything she's holding or eating. Mostly to Ellie but sometimes to me. Especially if she doesn't want to take a nap.

Blaine has just been really busy with work and prepping for a trial at the end of the month but always seen to make plenty of time for us. Yesterday he came home to play out in the snow with Ellie. She even talked him into pushing her on the swing set with a foot of snow under them. The girls definitely have him wrapped around their fingers. The highlight of Ellie and Avarie's day is when they hear the garage open.
I am just hanging out. Feeling really tired, oh so very hungry. Never quite felt this way with the other pregnancies. I am otherwise feeling great. 9 weeks and counting. My first Dr's appointment is on April 14 th.

UNTIL NEXT TIME........

JUST DO IT!

I became a member of the blogger team in Oct last year. Haven't written since day one. But today my friend Amber inspired me to start again. I get so jealous of all these awsome blogs and so maybe i can JUST DO IT!

So some of you may not know this but we found out we are expecting our 3rd baby. Due in October hopefully sooner. It was definetely a huge suprise but we are so excited. Of course it's now time for a boy. But a girl would be easy cause i have all of that down.
It's funny because with Avarie Ellie had predicted that I was pregnant and I didn't even know yet. She told me that I have a baby girl named Kayla in my tummy (keep in mind Ellie was 3) what???@! So 3 weeks later I found out I really was. Then 4 months later I found out it was a little girl crazy huh? So with this one she was playing with Peyton and they both ran up to me and Ellie says, " You have a baby in your tummy!". Then they ran away. Ok freak! That's what i thought. But once again 3 weeks later it was true. FREAKY little Ellie. She hasn't revealed to me what the sex of the baby is yet. Maybe soon.... Anyways, how's that for a first blog. So Gripping!!! Stay tuned as you know we are a crazy family....