Grandpa turns 70!

*Grandpa's cake- he was in the Navy. * Grandpa with my girls. *Grandpa and Grandma.

*Wayne (Jeff's brother) and his 4 month old baby, Ryleigh. I have not met her yet. *Haley with Heather, her cousin that is a Jr. at Illinois State. She was our flower girl! *Haley with Heather's dog, Lucy. Lucy dressed up for the party and is wearing a dress. These pictures don't show all the people, there would have been about 20 people there, of just immediate family and then several couldn't come, like me. They had a really great time!!!

Jeff and the girls left Friday at noon to drive to Illinois for a surprise 70th birthday party for his dad. I didn't go because of needing to finish the day teaching and also because I am so behind on my accredidation tasks for school. They left at noon Friday. I got home at 4 Friday. I sat down on the couch with the laptop and told myself that I was going to do one small project and take a little break (a break-meaning-do laundry, clean the house a little), but that little project went into my big projects and I finally fell into bed exhausted at 1 a.m.!!! I ate while I worked. I got up at 7:30 and began working at 8. I worked til 9:30, left at 10 to do some errands. I got home around noon and began working, I worked until Jeff and the girls got home around 7 p.m. I calculated the hours and it was about 17 hours of work. That is just accredidation stuff. Now tonight, Sunday, I need to do some work on stuff that I need to get done so I can be prepared to teach this week.

I hate to shop on Sundays but today it is a necessity. I have to go out and buy Mikayla tap and ballet shoes so she doesn't have to go through another class without them. She said that her bare feet hurt her so bad last week... tapping and balleting on a hard cement floor. I had to rub her feet when we got home last Monday night! Anyway so we have to get that, and Haley needs ballet tights. I bought both the girls new ballet outfits, matching, about 3 weeks ago. Well since then they have played in them at home and we can not locate Haley's for 2 weeks now! We have looked high and low for it! Where can a little ballet outfit go? So she is having to wear another one that is a major hand me down from Jenna and has quite a few rips in it! Oh well, its a good lesson for her to keep track of her stuff! I also need to buy Jenna tennis shoes! I bought her a pair of Nike's this past Spring and they are still in wonderful condition, EXCEPT now that she is in volleyball they are giving her major blisters, on her arch of all places. The arch in the shoe comes up too high and rubs. So I have to buy that today too!! Jeff always wonders what I spend all my money on!!!! There is always something like this to buy with 3 girls!!!