Daycare House

My mother-in-law retired from over 20-years of daycare.  She had a house in town that she used, it belonged to her mom, so essentially she had two of lots of things and lots of toys that need to be sent to the dump.  The house was not only home to a daycare but it stored things of her moms, her sister stored items there, as well as her son.  On my first full day there, Sunday, we were at the daycare house not to clean but to hangout before the pot luck dinner.  I thought while I was there I would start going threw the toys.  I made a quick call to uncle marv and asked about bring over a trailer for trash.  I also started taking pictures of all the big furniture knowing that for us to be able to clean we needed some space and the furniture need to go like a week ago.  My thought was to get the prep work done, make sure the trailer for trash was their, load pictures on the garage sale sites, and maybe figure out what and how this would all happen and quickly.

I uploaded the pictures online went out to great Marv and then it started.  Marv started grabbing all the trash toys out of the back yard.  With the free help I joined in, he then opened the garage and kept throwing stuff away.  Hey, when you have a free willing helper you don't stop it you just go with it.  As we were finishing up Sheila said my phone was going crazy.  I went in to check and my Facebook messages were blowing up.  I warned Sheila this may go faster then you intimated, are you ok with that, she gave me the ok and I was off.  I had prayed for a quick turnover and God provided.  It was a success! {insert dancing girl here} Day 1~ 1 over-flowing trailer, 2 twin beds, 2 baby beds, 1 high chair, baby swings, and a plastic play set all sold and out of the house. This does not include all the toys Sheila threw out.

By tuesday afternoon the trailer was overflowing with trash for the dump.  Now I just want to be sure that I don't mean the trash man is coming I mean we have to drive all this stuff and unloaded into the dump, yes seriously.  It was smelly and actually fun to just throw stuff down the dump hill.

 a vey FULL load

the metal pile

where the washer & dryer went to die

Below are just a few shots of some of my favorite things...

My MIL looked at this and said what is that?? And I started laughing she 

thought it was a remote to a tv.  My daughter will have no idea what this is in a few years.

 I have never seen this closet empty

the stuff left belongs to a family member

I only left 1 cabinet for sheila for sunday lunches 

which I moved to the cabinet to the right but 

basically nothing, I was very proud of all that she let go.

A lot of the family came into town to go thru their mom's stuff. We loaded a couple car loads full of stuff to take to the farm.  A lot of items were things like blenders and pans that she was going to keep and get ride of what she had at home so once we got to the farm we emptied boxes and then loaded them up with stuff to get rid of.  I know there was more that came out of the farm to go to the sale pile so that was exciting.  I know it was not fun for a summer activity but come August first this will all be done and she can enjoy and not worry about getting it all done.

random may

enjoy!

 Nolan's first trip to the ER for nursemaid elbow

 my hubby

 the kids enjoying a little movie

lots of learning going on 

milk does a flower good, right mom...

all nolan 

 an original Gracie design

 in bed selfie but the light was so bright we all closed our eyes

 my love and i

The girls and I hit up pitch perfect 2 at the new theatre with lounge chairs 

nolan trying to sleep 

chair redo sorry no pics of it finished 

Gracie & Dede playing on Memorial Day weekend 

 time with Micah &Kathrina

 fun snack for the kids

 them posing

 some style right there

yum mom 

 my crazy nolan love this kid!

finally picked my christmas gift;)

Cincinnati Graduation

We headed to Cincinnati for a short weekend trip for my brother Taylor's Graduation that included a load of events.  Lots of fun but we were tired when it was all over.

 grabbing a bit to eat before going to our hotel

 hitting a reds game

play land at the reds game was crazy 

 terrible family selfie

 kids showing off

 gracie wearing nana's glasses

School Days

It is officially summer and school is over.  My little Gracie is not so little anymore.  She has completed Kindergarten and ready for first grade.  Here are a few pictures of her last day.

 Hat Day

 Mismatch Day

last day of school

Gracie has changed and learned so much since day 1.  Besides the growth of knowledge she has also gotten taller and lost 4 teeth in her first year of school.

First Recital

Gracie finally completed her first year of tap and ballet. She did a great job and we were all so proud of her and thankful all she learned.  And I had to learn how to do a child's make-up and hair for a recital;)

 Gracie doing ballet

 then tap

 the big finish they all pretended to play and guitar, gracie was into it

her sweet friend, classmate, and toothless bud Lillian 

Below is the funniest clips of there true personalities...

 excited to be done

receiving flowers 

 why thank you

kiss

no way 

 something fun

gets funnier 

 and funnier

hilarious...this is normal

hmmm I think laugh resembles someone:) 

 nice and windy

so proud of our little lady!