Step One......start with today???

I dunno it just sounds good. I am feeling some major guilt about not keeping up with my blog. I feel like a real loser that my promises to myself from the beginning of the year have not been kept. OH WELL! Not gonna be to hard on myself, then I would be breaking yet another promise! LOL! I have thought so many times over the last 2 months about how I needed to "blog this" or "blog that" and just never committed to doing it! HUGE BUMMER! Things have been chaotic as always ( hence the title of my blog ) and we are just treadin along lovin life! As I mentioned in my last entry, so many things have happened since the last time I was on here that it would take forever and ever to write it all out so yet again, I am going to just throw in a few bullet points! In five, ten, fifteen years when I read this, it will be just enough to bring me back! :)

*911 We have a "Break" in the Otto house!
Carson is the first family member in our house to be sportin a cast! He was playing basketball at recess and rolled his foot just the right way to break a couple of bones! HUGE BUMMER!
Poor kid had just started his La Crosse season and it has now quickly come to an end. 8 weeks and 2 casts later he is now fully healed (**knock on wood**) and ready for a busy Summer!

*Peityn Turns 12! 4~30~1997
No way is my lil Lou Lou 12 years old! It honestly seems like it was yesterday that I was holding this little tiny princess in my arms. Every single detail of the day Peityn was born is still so fresh in my mind, it seems impossible that so many years have passed.
Every year on the kids birthday's we let them choose where they would like to go for dinner, this year Peityn chose Olive Garden, we had a great time. Every birthday since Peityn was born, I have bought her a beautiful bouquet of Hot Pink Tulips.....here is #12

After a long discussion on the appropriate age to end the birthday party fiasco's, Peityn and I decided that this would be her last big HOO-RAH! We agreed that she would invite 12 girlfriends over for a sleepover Luau.....17 girls later we were having a blast! (**small sense of sarcasm in my voice**)
*Go Reds!

Peityn decided that she would like to play softball this year so, we signed her up! Here are a couple picks from her first game!

I will be the first to admit, her skills blew me away! My lil 2 left foot princess is pretty darn good!

*First Camping Trip of the year

Memorial Day Weekend was our first camping trip of the year. Only thing missing was Lou. She decided to stay back home to spend some time with her cousins that were in town from AZ. Justin had a race weekend at Millville and we had a blast! Justin has just a couple things in his life that he is madly in love with and he puts all of his efforts into maintaining and nurturing these things on a daily basis.

a) His Family

b) His Dog

c) His Dirtbike
Not sure if that is the order or not but..... you get the picture :) I bought Justin a new dirtbike back in April, it was really exciting to watch him enjoy this crazy a$$ sport!

Daddy and his pit crew....I am sure that Carson is giving Justin the statistics in the picture above.

*Kaedin's First Track Meet

The first of many more to come! Kaedin had his first track meet! The Kindergarten track meets are run quite differently than the older grades. The kids had a blast and all went home with 1st Place ribbons!


*Class of 2021
My baby isn't so much of a baby anymore.....he is now a BIG 1st Grader! September will be a HUGE change of pace for me with all of my kids in school full time. What oh what will I do?
Man this year flew by! It seemed like just yesterday that I was moping around my house, tears flowing down my cheeks because my last baby just got on the bus for his first day of school!

Getting his diploma from Mr. Town! What a Big Boy!

*Double Digits For The "C-Man" 6~7~1999
Carson turned 10! June 7th was Carson's Birthday and unfortunately I was caught in an airport all day!

Daddy made up for it by taking the kids to a movie to pass the time! Carson's restaurant of choice was Jakes where he feasted on his favorite.....chicken wings!

Carson was spoiled this year...daddy was in charge of getting his gifts. He was showered with a new bike, golf clubs and bag, a baseball mit and a putting mat! Now he wants dad to buy his gifts every year!

God Bless & Warm Regards,

Jessica

xoxox