Family Party and Back to work!!

My Brother, Yury came into town for a visit from Seattle, WA and while he was in town on business we got together for a family dinner and to celebrate Tate's Birthday :) HAPPY BIRTHDAY TATE!! It was really great to see everyone, even Chandy and Casey came up from Plain City to celebrate and see Yury. Chandy just had her Gaul Bladder out the week before the celebration so she wasn't quite 100% yet. Yury seemed to really be enjoying himself in Seattle and liked his new office and the people that he worked with. It seems like a really nice place to live and I wouldn't mind living there :)

Here's a picture of my mom getting the birthday cake ready for the kids



Here is my dad and Yury hanging out talking after dinner was over. It's so much fun just to sit around and talk with everyone, to laugh and tease each other. It really was a great night and we sure to miss Yury and Caryn and their kids!!

So back to work I goooooo... da da da.. it was really hard going back to work the first week.. and well, still is hard. It's hard to keep focus at work when all I want to do is know what's going on at home with the kids at night. We found a new babysitter, her name is Danielle. She has two twin boys that are 4 years old (Logan and Jayde) and then two older girls that are both in school all day 7 and 9 I believe. By the looks of their room they are really into Hannah Montana :) haha silly girls. I wonder what crazy thing Scarlett and Boston will be in when they get a little older.

The first day dropping Scarlett and Boston off was really hard.. My mom called me on the way to work and I almost lost my nerve.. turned around and said screw this madness!!! But I held my wits and got to work in one piece with only a few tears shed. Sad that you have to leave such little tiny things to be looked after by some stranger in hopes that all will go well and nothing horrible will happen while you're gone. But on the up side of things, I have a job and I have income coming in and I am grateful for that!! It was hard to go back to work, I have a new manager and a couple new members on the team. Things have of course changed a lot, including processes and policies. So needless to say, I am still catching up on some things, but other things came back to me really quickly and I was happy for that.

Here's Scarlett hanging out on her play mat.. she loves this thing to death!

Here's Scarlett and Boston - Boston just HAD to be in the picture with his sister and almost killed her trying to get under the play mat to be with her. Don't you love his goofy new smile.. hahah just kidding, I hate it .. grrr - this is how he will smile know even if you try to get him to show his teeth or just do a normal smile.. I don't know what his deal is, he must think that he looks cute doing this or maybe he thinks it's funny that mom gets mad at him when he does it.. grrr

Tato bug with BIG BIG eyes.. I don't know what she was looking at.. I think the blinds from the window across from her.. she digs horizontal lines :)

Once again... Boston butting in and giving me that AWESOME smile.. hahaha - as you can see from Scarlett's expression, she thinks he a pretty big dork too.