Tit for Tat

My Italian neighbors just knocked on the door and brought me homemade linguine with white clam sauce, homemade fresh bread and homemade Tiramisu...I'm a happy lady! They moved here from Italy 10 years ago, and the mother has 4 kids, one grandaughter, and another grandchild on the way. We are doing a little exchange...she made me a delicous "real" Italian dinner and I'm going to take pictures of her little grandbaby, and of her other daughter's pregnant belly...nice trade! I can't wait to eat!!
Last night, my girlfriend "Ray" brought over her two kids and sat with Little wee one, well, Little wee one slept, while they watched movies, so we wouldn't have to keep her up late at the recital. In exchange, her and her husband get to have a date night on us :-)
Tit for Tat...it's a beautiful thing!

While I'm here, Big wee one is sleeping, and Little wee one is playing on her slide, eating a pickle and strawberries (nice combo right?!) She's starting to get more and more communicative. She nods her head yes, and now tells me when she has a boo-boo. If you ask her if she has any new teeth she nods her head yes and then opens her mouth wide to show you :-) She's funny. She just killed some more ants, poor things have no idea what's about to hit 'em.
She's trying to get me to get me to take a strap off a bucket and I told her no, she just stuck her lower lip out and really pouted...makes me laugh...faker!
Ok, she desperately needs my attention. She's pulling my hand...must go.

She's a Supa-Star

Big wee one's dance recital was great! Well, she was great! She did an amazing job and I am super proud of her (we all are!). She was so exhausted when it was all over, but can you really blame her?? I dropped her off in the dressing room, thanks for watching her Peanutbutter cup's Mom :-) around 5:45 and picked her up at the end of the show right around 10 pm. Late night for sure!

We couldn't video tape during the performance, so I taped the dress rehearsal. She's the second one in on the right (she's really doing some serious knee bops!)

Here are some pictures from last night...

I'll be updating soon with a lot of pictures from the past month. I have Big wee one's last day of "school", the girl's hanging outside and hanging with friends, the zoo and more! Enjoy the video and pics.

Oh, and Big wee one gets her zainy personality from me...I have several pics as a child that look like those below (right Mom :-) )

Settling in...

to my new tanned body :-)
Ha...don't be jealous, especially my Tejas friends. I know you all have been lounging by the pool for weeks now...WEEKS! Last week, I wore my thermals under my pants to Paul's final lax game so I wouldn't freeze my rear off...today, I wore a tank and I was sweating! Excuse me, glowing ;-) (I don't want to sound like a hog, I don't sweat like a pig, I glow like a lady!)
I sat out all morning, working the garage sale with "C" and got some sun. Ate a bowl full of the the BIGGEST strawberries EVER, and got some sun (did I already say that?). Tomorrow morning, I'll finish the garage sale and hopefully I won't get drenched. Peeps have been telling me that they've heard it's supposed to rain tomorrow...better not rain on my parade! I have crap to sell (see previous post...and then come buy my crap!). I need to raise a little extra funds to go see the new Sex in the City movie. Can't wait!
Toodles....for those locals...next weekend is the grand opening of the brewery. Buy your tickets and meet us there!!
Good night!

Yard Sale.

Be there.

Come buy all my crap.

Some of it is really good crap.

Some...not so good, but one man's crap is another man's treasure :-)

Friday morning. 7:30-noon...I'm hoping to make MILLIONS (in my best pinky to the mouth dr. evil voice.) I'll let you know how that goes selling all my 50 cent and dollar items...lol.

Tonight, was Big wee one's dress rehearsal for her big performace Saturday night. She did AWESOME! As soon as I figure out how to upload a video from my DVD recorder and or get the really bad, from far away video from my digital camera, I will post it for your viewing pleasure. She really did a great job! Especially considering she's one of the youngest ones in her class. A lot of the other little girls did the whole look around and roam thing, which, I can get. Those bright lights are really bright, and you haven't seen those cool decorations before...and heck, Big wee one didn't do a single dance move in her little 2 year old recital last year.

These pictures are from her in class dance recital last year.

See how she didn't dance, she just posed for me the whole time. Goof ball...it was sweet though, and she sure looked cute.

TGIF...Have a great weekend!

An Ant.

She's telling me it's an ant...do you hear it? Later, not on video, she smooshes one with her finger and then laughs...should I be worried??

Busy, busy, busy...

But finally slowing down.

The Flohr's have been soooo busy the past two weeks! I don't think I've seen my eyelids before midnight in about two weeks. Luckily though, this long weekend should be the start to the lazy days of summer (YEA right!)

Two weekends ago, I drove the girls to West Virginia to celebrate my grandmother's 80th birthday with my WHOLE family (minus Paul, he had senior night and a tournament that weekend) and my brother's...Uncle N. & Aunt J. moved to Texas and Uncle E. is in the deep blue, sea, sea, sea (somewhere??).

My wonderful cousin Mel drove into C-burg to ride the girls and I, I was so happy I didn't have to make the 4-5 hour trip by myself. The girls were pretty good the whole time we were away. Big wee one was sick. The day we got there (Friday afternoon) she broke out a fever and pretty much had it all weekend. No other symptoms of anything except for a fever. I would give her tylenol and she was fine, when the tylenol wore off she would literally fall asleep/lay down wherever we were standing at the moment. Poor thing.

Big wee one's last day of "school" was yesterday...I cannot believe how quickly this year has gone by! The girls will now go to their babysitter for two weeks and then "K" will start watching them after h.s. graduation.

The lax team had an awesome season this year! They ended up being 13-5 (I'm pretty sure that's right) and went to the playoffs. That game was last night. They lost, which was a bummer, but I'm secretly glad to have Paul back home again. Tonight was the first night we all had dinner together (minus Sunday's) in MONTHS! I'll miss the games, and the stories, but it's nice to have our family back :-)
Paul mentioned tonight that the lax banquet is on June 3rd...the same night as the Downtown Business Council's Annual Meeting. I'm extremely bummed, but am hoping that I can make it to the banquet before it's over. :-( I really want to be there to see the seniors (we've become attached to a few of them) and hear Paul talk. We shall see....

Looking ahead: Big wee one's dance recital is next weekend. I'm getting excited about that, she has no clue. This weekend we are going to take the girls to the zoo...I know they both will LOVE it! I can't wait to see their faces, especially Little wee one, she is really into birds and dogs, any animal really, she'll really get a kick out of it all. We are hoping to meet some friends that we haven't seen in ages this weekend as well. Look, I say that this weekend is the start to our lives slowing down, but I already have a million things planned (on top of everything else the college lax finals are on t.v., and we need to price and go through more stuff for our garage sale). Have a wonderful long weekend. Here are some pics from the past few weeks.

I took these photos of"K" and her boyfriend before Sr. Prom.

I've Been Tagged

I've been tagged by Ro. And so I guess you're going to find out more about me. The rules state that I must do the following:
1. Link your tagger and list these rules on your blog

2. Share 7 facts about yourself on your blog, some random, some weird.

3. Tag 7 people at the end of your post by leaving their names as well as links to their blogs.

4. Let them know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their blog.

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1. The first thing that attracted me to my husband were his muscular legs...then his amazing blue eyes. He ran past me while playing in a lacrosse game, his legs were so muscular, and then we locked eyes, he doesn't remember this, but I do...and basically that's all that counts right :-)


2. I HATE folding laundry and putting it away! I don't mind transporting it to the washer then to the dryer, but actually folding it and putting it away is a whole nother story. Don't ask Paul about it, that's probably #1 on his list of things that drives him crazy about me...can't help he's a folding machine! We interviewed and sent in a tape to be on the Rachael Ray show for his folding speed!


3. I LOVE LOVE LOVE to scrap! And within the past year I have fallen in LOVE with digi scrapping! I'm quite proud to say that I've been published twice in Memory Maker's Magazine with 2 differnt digi layouts.


4. Sometimes, when Paul is out of town or he won't be home late, I'll let Big wee one sleep with me :-) She's a good snuggler...or on the even more rare occasion we'll take a nap together.


5. When Little wee one was born, we had a scare with her foot. It was turned in, and we had to have x-rays done when she was just hours old and then sent to Hershey Medical Center to have it examined, thinking it might be Club Foot. It ended up just being the way she was positioned in my womb...little stinker :-)


6. My grandfather owned a couple of railroads when I was growing up. That's a random little fact, who owns railroads?? My Grandpa that's who... :-)


7. Let's see....what can the last one be?? hmmmmm...my favorite drink is a margarita on the rocks with no salt. My favorite beer is Foster's or Blue Moon...and I'm thinking one of the beers from the new brewery opening soon will go into this list, they have a summer citrus ale and a watermelon beer....sounds good to me :-)

Now I need to tag 7 people...I'll poast that tomorrow...I'm tired :-) Good Night!