St Patrick's Day already?

The boys like to show off their Scot-Irish heritage, so they helped me put the flags out tonight. Although I didn't get to it earlier in the evening, I have attempted to take a few new photos with the new camera.



I'll take a few photos during the day so they show up better and you can see their other flags.

Have a great evening.

Holli

Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day to all who celebrate.

Scott & I joke about this day and as much as one says they don't care, deep down we all do. I admit, I'm one of those. This year, I had to help with the boys get their valentine's all ready for school, I bought a couple of little things for them, they loved it.

Scott was sick. We originally planned to go to the Chicago Auto Show and out for a nice lunch with the boys. The boys and I ran errands to stay out of the house for Scott so he could sleep.

Today, Scott was better. We went to the auto show and had an early dinner. The boys were thrilled. Their entire dinner consisted of bread and calamari. Whatever...as long as they eat.

I'm very excited because after dinner we stopped in to Best Buy and I lucked out. Was able to purchase a really nice Sony camera that was marked down and because it was an open ticket item with no manual, they knocked off more money. This Friday we leave for Disney. They boys have no idea. I will be able to use my camera. I'm so excited.

Have a great week.

Holli

Bain Boys, Papa & the Hospital

God Bless the small miracles through modern medicine. Isn't it amazing how the medical world continues to evolve and improve almost on a daily basis? I find it extremely fansinating.

Last night, Papa (Bill, my father in law) went to the ER. As a family, we rallied in support of being there to show our love and devotion to Papa. Logan & Coulson were amazing! I am so proud of them! They handled themselves so well as they witnessed Papa being hooked up to the various monitors as well as watching him receive blood and medicine via IV. They asked a lot of questions but fully understood their roles as little people in the room.

Coulson told the RN, Ida that he was an artist and showed her a pictured he colored for Papa so he could have something happy to look at.

Logan was very serious and asked all kinds of questions to make sure that Ida wouldn't do anything wrong to hurt Papa.

As we stayed passed their bedtimes, Papa was transported to another area of the hospital, the boys were sad that they couldn't see where Papa was going next. We prayed for Papa many times last night and today. That seemed to help them a lot. It is very comforting knowing that our faith in God, will help us deal with ANYTHING!!!

God Bless you Papa! We hope you feel better and can come home soon!

We love You!

Holli, Scott, Logan & Coulson

Bain Boys & Cleaning...Toilets

How is it that guys can not seem to hit the rather large target of an inside of a toilet? I get so disgusted at the toilets that today, I made them clean all three toilets! One for the MOMMY!!! I think any mother who has boys hears me loud and clear.

Logan, "Ah, this is disgusting! It stinks!"

Mommy, "Yes, that's right Logan and this is how you are going to learn to pee in the pot."

He moaned but yet marveled at the amount of spots that they hit. Coulson was just excited to help clean, he could have cared less as to WHY he was cleaning the toilets. He is my party boy that I'm going to go insane over.

I hope that you are having as great of a Saturday as we are. It is amazing how the sunlight can have such an effect on you!

Well, I'm off to finish some tidying up as we're having Brad & Denise over for a Wii Throw Down and pizza.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Holli