Senior Prom

The first and only Prom dance Alexi has attended during his high school years. Heavena and Lex were so cute all matching and in black, of course... They started by taking a few pics, dinner at O'Charley, dance at the Sharonville Convention Center, and After Prom at their high school until 3:30am.

La premiere et seul "Prom" que Alexi a participe pendant ses annes de Lycee. Heavena et Lexi etaient tres mimi tout assorti et en noir biensur! Ils ont commence leur soiree avec petite seance photos, repas a O'Charley, dance a Sharonville, et Apres Prom enferme dans leur lycee jusqu'a 3:30 du matin.

I'm showering in the rain! Just showering in the rain! I'm happy again!

So today it rained really hard for about 10mn. 

Who was in his swimsuit taking a shower, with soap and all? 

He even used gutter water to get soap out of his eyes! 

We never know what crazy thing Laurent is going to do to make us laugh????

Aujourd'hui il a plus des cordes pendant 10mn, qui etait dehors a prendre une douche, 

avec le savon et shampoo? 

Il a meme utilise l'eau des egoutoire pour enlever le savon dans ses yeux!

On ne sas jamais ce que laurent va faire pour nous faire rire????

My Mother's Day...

Got breakfast in bed. Love the turnover that only had half of it on the plate :) My Honey forgot to spray the tray! He is not a big Cook...

Emric made me some eggs, his specialty!

Amelie made a mothers day card.

Justine gave me one of her great heartfelt hug.

Alexi mumbled Happy mother's day, after I reminded him what day it was.

Got to take a nap.

Spoke on the cam to my family in France.

Didn't need to cook.

Had dinner with not one, but two of our favorite families.

Cried a couple of times at church. I loved that our Bishop got up and spoke to us mothers after several talks on motherhood. He was so sensitive to our mixed feelings; we love being mothers, but often feel so imperfect and/or we fail too often in our roles, and/or compare ourselves with others. I heard once that we are so unfair to ourselves when we make comparisons, we take our greatest weaknesses and measure those against other women's strengths... it does us no good!

J'ai eu le petit dejeuner au lit. J'ai aime le fait qu'il manquait la moitie d'un des chauson aux pommes. Mon cheri a oublier le beurre pour pas que ca colle! :) c'est pas un grand cuisinier!

Emric m'a fait des oeux brouilles, sa specialite!

Amelie m'a fait une carte.

Justine m'a donner un de ces super gros calin...

Alexi m'a dit bonne fete (apres que je lui ai rappele quel jour on etait.

J'ai pu prendre une petite sieste cet apreme...

J'ai parler a ma famille en France sur la cam.

J'ai pas eu a cuisiner.

Nous avons mange avec pas une mais 2 de nos familles preferer.

J'ai pleure plusieur foisa l'eglise. J'ai beaucoup apprecie ce que notre bishop a dit a la fin des discours qui etait sur les roles des meres. Il a adresse le fait que le role de mere n'est pas toujours remplis de joie, que c'est dur, et que meme si on aime etre mere, cela ne veux pas dire que l'on n'a pas des moments ou on se sent faible, imparfaites et qu'on croit desfois qu'on échoue. On ne doit pas se comparer aux autres meres, quand on le fait on ne se fait pas justice car on compare nous faiblesses avec les forces des autres, on ne se donne pas de chance...

Freezer trouble!

I hate the feeling I get when I go down to the storage room in the basement, and see a puddle of nasty bloody liquid coming from my freezer... Since we have had that upright freezer, over the past 9 years, it must have happened at least 4 to 5 times.

I usually ignore it as long as I can... hopping it didn't happen.

I wish Mike was here to help, somehow he rarely is when this happens.

I survey the damage.

I get the kids to help carry things up stairs.

I call a friend, today Stephanie H rescued me! She took a lot of meet to cook at her house

Then I start cooking the meet, that takes hours.

I refreeze the cooked meet.

We are not sure what is wrong with it. Today, nothing got stuck in the door and no one left the door open ???? And it's working fine now????

My New Soul

In a effort to lower our monthly expenses, we sold our big Toyota Highlander, no more 7 seater. We got instead a little Kia Soul, with surprisingly lots of interior room and lots of character. I love zipping around town in it, it's a perfect car for me,just my size! My favorite feature is the trunk... so roomy, especially for Chloe and the groceries!

Dans un effort a reduire nos frais, nous avons vendu notre grosse Toyota Highlander, plus de voiture a 7 places. Nous avons achete a la place cette petite Kia Soul, qui a beaucoup de personalite et de place a l'interieur... J'adore me balader en ville avec, elle est parfaite pour moi et just ma taille! Ce que j'aime le plus, c'est le coffre, ya plein de place pour Chloe et les courses!