a week in the life {7.30.11.} saturday

I don't remember what time we awoke this morning, let alone what time I finally fell asleep (being so freezing cold ALL night long), but after a nature walk with a local native, a beautiful sunny day at the beach is all we needed! We really didn't keep time and spent the rest of the evening listening to music while the kiddos rode bikes and climbed trees doing the usual "camping things" (camp fire, smores, etc...).

a week in the life {7.29.11} friday

8:00 am good morning to day off (for both Chris & I) and the beginning to our long awaited camping trip with friends. 9:00 last day of dance camp for Paige and demonstration for parents at 10:30. Meanwhile in between trips to the grocery store and camping supplies store last minute necessities. 11:30 lunch for kiddos. Piper off to dance camp at noon with demonstration at 2:30. Chris and I straighten up house, make beds, wash linens, load car, etc... 5:00ish leave for camping trip to South Whidbey State Park; girls in our car, boys in the "Jed Clampett"! Quick stop at Subway in Burlington and then off to our destination, roughly arriving at 7:45 pm. Just enough time to put up the camp site, tent, and start a bonfire. 10:30ish bedtime.

a week in the life {7.28.11} thursday

4:00 am up and adam for conference in Seattle. ROAD TRIP 5:10 to 6:45 am, arrive a little early (thanks to good traffic, and GPS). 7:30 Conference at Seattle Renaissance Hotel starts with a great breakfast and lots of coffee! 8:00 to 12:00 pm-lecture. 12:00 to 1:00 pm Lunch-another great meal catered by the hotel. 1:00 Heart dissection...mmm right after lunch! 3:30 pm conference ends "a little early", but stuck in parking garage because of issue of validation with my parking ticket. 3:45ish finally get a hold of someone to let me out of the underground parking garage (pretty scary), only to have to find somewhere to park on Madison St. to run into the hotel to pay for parking (should have just drove off). 4:00 pm wait in line at the Renaissance for 20minutes, finally the concierges tell me to "forget about it" (again, should have just drove off). 4:30ish enter downtown Seattle traffic...the rest is self explanatory. 6:00 pm finally out of Everett traffic, only to run into CONSTRUCTION northbound to B'ham...great (again, should have just drove off)! 6:30ish arrive at home. Mexican takeout food thanks to hubbie. Pick up house. Start packing for camping trip. 9:00 Relax on the couch, resting my feet on my favorite rug...exhausted!!!

a week in the life {7.27.11} wednesday

I believe it was 8 something when us girls decided to wake up (no work today...yippee)! And to top that, a great friend said she would drive Paige to dance camp giving me some time to pick up the house and get ready myself. 11:00 am time to pick up Paige and her friend. Come home and start to fix lunch while Piper gets ready for dance camp. Drop her off at 12:00 and come home to friend and finished lunch while the younger girls have a play date. 1:30-2:45 pick up house, dishes, and sit down to check out new website Pinterest (awesome and very addictive, by the way). Go pick up Piper from camp. Time for 10 minute nap before dad gets home from work. Leftovers for dinner. Neighborhood girl comes over to play outside, Dad to Costco and me to cleaning all bathrooms. 9:00ish time for bed for big conference tomorrow!!

a week in the life {7.26.11} tuesday

Not many pictures today as you can see this is what time I got up...and 2nd picture is what time I got home from work (8:30pm). TIRED. Not much else to say!

a week in the life {7.25.11} monday

Well, here goes. Monday morning 5 am comes real fast after 2 fun birthday celebrations over the weekend (momma and Piper)! Regular bowl of Special K with red berries and milk, coffee filled to the brim (using only 1 Kerig pod twice) and a dash of creamer for flavor starts my day. Shower, toothbrush, blow dry, makeup and straightener (with lots of hair product) prior to leaving the house at 6:10 am. Work. Finish my work day a little early at 2:00 pm, making it so that I can pick up Piper from dance camp (Paige went this morning with the sitter) and run to Haggens for dinner. Only in B'ham can you make chili and cornbread for dinner during the summer(totally forgetting that we will also have it this weekend camping...good thing the Schweigert family LOVES it!). Await for daddy to get home. Dinner. Dishes. Daddy and girls run to camping store for supplies for the upcoming trip. Me to my bubble bath and book. 7:30 pm collapse in bed with two little girls that have been "keeping it warm" waiting for me. Somewhere in between 7:30 and 8:30 pm-fall asleep, only to be awaken by our window screen (falling 2 stories) and fan hanging by the cord kindly removed by Paige to "let the ladybugs out"???

April 24...day 6

8:45-10:30 Usual Saturday morning starts with Daddy's homemade "eggie sandwich's" and OJ. Cleaning, bed making, etc, etc, etc, to follow.

10:30-12:30 Get ready. Organize computer and bookcase and move into living room (so girls can have their own space).

12:30-1:30 Mommy to get her hair cut (a little shorter because my beautiful beautician is going on maternity leave for 6-8 weeks), but I love it.

1:30-4:45 Move Piper's bed and remainder of her dressers into the old "computer room". While we tidy up Paige's room to make it her own (mind you she is VERY reluctant at this time and VERY clear that she will continue to sleep in Piper's bed with her).

4:45-6:15 To church. Paigey naps while Piper prays for the things she is NOT thankful for...including church and quiet time.

6:15-7:30 Harvest Dinner (yummy homemade sausage and sauerkraut recipe of my mom's).

7:30-10:00 Chris to a work birthday party while girls take bubble bath, crawl into mommy and daddy's bed for movie and go to bed.

10:00-12:00 Daddy and Mommy movie time. The Lovely Bones (book I read awhile back...movie not near as good).

April 23...day 5

8:10-10:00 Wake up. Breakfast. Finally a "plan free" day with my girls!! No motivation to work out :( Clean, clean, clean, and more clean (the girls help with dusting).

10:00-12:00 Shower and get ready for the day. Piper and Paige approach me with the idea of their own rooms... maybe a thought!

12:00-2:00 To Boomer's Drive In for lunch (girls want kids meals with suckers served in cool paper cars). Then off to Target and quick run to TJ Maxx (don't tell my husband).

2:00-5:00 After we get home and Paige runs into house (only to find she has locked Piper and I out while we get the mail). After some slide persuasion from Piper, Paigey finally opens the door. Watch some Max & Ruby, Dora the Explorer, and Backyardigans while I read my book.

5:00 Chris home from work.

5:30 To sushi for happy hour "creamy things" (Bellingham & California rolls).

7:00-9:00 Home to rearrange the living room to fit the computer and book shelf so we can move the girls into their own rooms.

9:00 To bed (missed bath tonight).

April 22...day 4

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7:00 Half awake...look over to pager, did not go off during the night...turn it off...go back to bed.

8:00-9:00 Wake up. Coffee. Breakfast. Pretend tea party with the girls. Find "N" lettered things for the letter can. Look for pet caterpillar with the girls.

9:00-9:45 Shower and get ready for the day.

9:45-10:30 Off to dance class. Paige goes first, while Piper has her weekly hot chocolate and chocolate granola cookie (some healthy in that, right?), I hang out with a good friend (Jen) for much needed adult conversation during dance class.

10:30-11:30 Us girlies go to lunch with same friend and her daughter!!

11:30-1:30 Paige to same friends house for play date (thank you, by the way). Quickly clean house (dishes, beds, etc...). Run Piper to dance. Get ready for work. Pick Paige up from play date. Pick Piper up from Dance. Meet Katie at the house.

1:30-8:30 Work. Finish a little early.

8:30-9:30 Go to Pier One and Barnes & Nobles for recommended book Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris (with Kelly).

9:30 Home (to messy house and dishes in the sink) and wonderful home made brownies brought over from a friend. To bed, to read my new book find!!

April 21...day 3

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• "Early to bed, early to rise...", blah, blah, blah...
  


• 7:00-8:00 Up earlier than usual afraid I might miss the garbage man. Work out. Check blog. Walk Chris to the door.



• 8:00-8:45 Wake up girls. Get them both fed, dressed, brushed and out the door.



• 9:00-10:45 Chaparone preschool field trip to the bird museum with my friend Kelly. Run to Starbucks with sad Paige (because the feildtrip was just for the older kids). Avoid 2 parking tickets (no change in my change purse...figure that).



• 10:45-11:30 Drop kids back off at preschool. To Good Will for drop off, and Hagen's for toilet paper.



• 11:30 Back to preschool. Another child was showing all the kids his baby calf (for show and tell).



• 11:30-12:00 Home. Lunch.



• 12:00-1:00 Make beds. Clean dishes. Shower and get ready for work.



• 1:00-1:30 Look for missing pet caterpillar (no luck).



• 1:30PM-12:30AM Katie and Peter here to watch kids until Chris gets home from his day. WORK.



• 12:45AM Home. On Call. Tired (but can't sleep). Let Baxter outside for potty break, and what would you know...I found our pet caterpillar!!! Check email/facebook/blog/etc...



• 1:15AM To bed (hoping my pager doesn't go off tonight)!!!

April 20th...day 2

• ??? I plead the 5th...Tuesday's are us girlies sleep in day and I'm not telling what time we got up, but it was pouring rain!



• 9:20 Cinnamon and sugar toast for breakfast, cold cereal and coffee for mom and dog food for Baxter T.



• 9:30-11:00 Make beds, clean up dishes from breakfast, start laundry, and try to find a last minute babysitter so I can go in extra to work (no luck by the way).



• 11:00-11:20 Email/blog/facebook etc...



• 11:20 Hop in shower.



• 11:30 Hop out of shower only to find Paigey asking for "otter pops" for lunch (I guess it might be time to feed them).



• 12:00-12:45 Hagens run for needed necessities for lunch and dinner. Upon getting into my car I found that my oil light is still on and that we had a scheduled appointment today at 2:00pm (that I totally forgot about).



• 12:45-1:15 Lunch.



• 1:15-1:45 Clean up from lunch, watch a "little" Olivia, and talk to a friend on the phone.



• 1:45-2:30 Oil change in the car, decide to hangout in the waiting area (but should have brought change because the girls wanted a treat from the snack machine).



• 2:30-2:40 Stop a Dairy Queen for an ice cream cone, and drive home. Still raining outside.



• 3:15-5:30Bake "Pasty Pie" (from earlier blog post). Since I have the baking bug (rare, by the way) decide to make carmel corn for the kiddos.



• 5:30ish Chris home from work. Dinner. Clean up from dinner.



• 6:00-7:30 Cleaning party in the girls room...and guess who the "special guests" were??? (They didn't think that was too "special"!) But we got all their clothes put away and two bag fulls for a Good Will run tomorrow!



• 7:30 Bubble bath for the girls.



• 7:50 Orange and "coffey milk" for snack.



• 8:00 Girls to bed, me to my blog and Chris M.I.A (I think somewhere in the garage).



• 9:00 Off to read myself to sleep.

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**magnetic calendar from first photo can be found a Treasury of Memories**

April 19th...day 1

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• 7:35 Chris awakens me with a great smile to start the day!



• 7:40-8:10 30 minute workout on the elliptical.



• 8:10-8:15 Quick game plan with Chris over a cup of coffee before he leaves for work.



• 8:20Wake up girls and Baxter(aka lazy bones) to leftover doughnuts and milk (dog food for B).



• 8:45-9:00 Leave for preschool and arrive early enough to play on the playground.



• 9:05 Get Piper started on a painting art project and hugs and kisses goodbye.



• 9:15 Starbucks run...just Paige and I (TJ Maxx across the street doesn't open until 9:30).



• 9:32-10:15 TJ Maxx (awesome polka dot find..see above).



• 10:30-11:00 Car wash and vacuum.



• 11:30 Pick Piper up from p-school.



• 12:00 Lunch



• 12:30-1:30 Wash dishes, run load of laundry and make beds.



• 1:45 Play outside while I read a magazine (borrowed from a friend) and drink a cup of WAKE UP tea (I think it reach 73 degrees in B'ham today)!



• 2:20-3:00 Quick cat nap (trying to convince the girls that they also need one...no such luck)!



• 3:00 Pick up jeans at the alterations and stop for a smoothie.



• 4:15 Cut up veggies and chicken for fajitas.



• 5:00ish Chris arrives home from work...DINNER.



• 6:00 Clean up dinner dishes while Chris makes smores for the girls on the BBQ. I think this is when I stepped on the missing sewing needle from yesterday...ouch!!!



• 6:30ish Family walk (of which didn't last long because of my new owie).



• 7:10 Bubble bath for the girls.



• 7:30 Check on pet caterpillar, no chrysalis yet.



• 7:35 Bedtime snack: apples and "coffey milk".



• 8:00 Girls to bed, me to my blog and Chris some work he brought home.



• 9:00 Off to bed to either read The Shack (by WM. Paul Young) or finish first season of HBO's True Blood (on demand).