Everyone...Really?

I thought I'd take a little break from all of my on goings to write a bit. I've been busy getting ready for Joshua's birthday. I can't believe my baby will be 8 on Saturday! I just don't know where the time goes, I really don't. One minute you're at the hospital in labor, the next minute, they're playing baseball. We can't have his party on Saturday because he has a baseball game and ball pictures. I feel kind of bad that the whole baseball thing is going to suck up most of his birthday. He loves playing ball and never asks to skip practice or a game. He did ask this morning if he could skip the game on his birthday. Since he asked, we just might do that. He decided this year that he wants a dog party. We're having it at our house. It's only now that I think I've completely lost my mind. In our past experiences, I've found that when we send out invitations, typically about 1/2 of the kids come. I've also found in the past (in Texas) that if you have the party at your house rather than some other expensive place...ie: Funland, Chuck E Cheese, or a bowling alley that even less kids come. You can imagine my surprise when I discovered last night that every single mom of every kiddo that was invited has already called to RSVP. Most of them called Monday and Tuesday while I was out and about and Mike was at home teleworking. Every time I left the house and came back, there were notes left for me from people who called. Good thing they've all called because he told me when I got home last night that if anyone else called he was going to tell them he was sorry but we are at maximum capacity LOL!!! Too funny! I think it's hysterical myself, because I can handle all of these kids, but he already seems to be nervous. He should be. He has pinata and pin the nose on the doggie duty. Good luck! LOL!! I'm taking 2 other games. A dog and cat match game and a guess how many doggie bones are in the jar game. Joshua picked out his cake...it's actually 24 cupcakes arranged in the shape of a dog face. Super cute! For fun I bought everyone dog bowls to eat their ice cream out of. Too fun! I'm betting money some of them won't want to use a spoon. I'd bet a lot of money on that...lol. Today, I filled the pinata, made up all of the prize bags for the games, and counted out the dog bones and put them in the jar for the guess how many game. I'll work on some more birthday stuff on Friday. I've got some cleaning that I must get to here in a bit.

Tomorrow, the 5th grade is going on a field trip to Petersburg. I signed up to chaperone but so did everyone elses mom, so they had a drawing. Only two people were chosen per class, because there wasn't much room left on the bus. I didn't get picked, but I'm probably going anyway and taking my car. Sure, I have to pay for gas but honestly, I'd rather take my own car than ride in a bus filled with 5th graders....lol. I think Petersburg is about an hour and half south of here, past Richmond. I'm just waiting to hear from Mike if he can telework tomorrow. If he can, I'm going. If not, then I won't because I won't have anyone to take Joshua to school and pick him up. I hope I can though because Cassie starts middle school next year, and I have a feeling my days of going on field trips with her are numbered :(.

The flowers are blooming and they're so pretty! Here are some pictures of flowers that are in our yard. Not planted by me of course because if they were I can assure you that they wouldn't look like this LOL! I really am trying to turn my brown thumb in to a green one! I planted tons of petunias a few days ago. I planted a few last year and they did very very well. They were in bloom until late November.