Whew!

What a week! We made it, though!

Last Sunday, Father's Day, we were up early to take Tony and Karyn (my sister) to the airport for their trip to Washington DC with some of Tony's students. It also happened to be Tony's and my 6th wedding anniversary! (WOW...6 YEARS!)

That night, the kids and I went with my parents to dinner with my grandparents for Father's Day. We went to Kruse and Muer in Rochester Hills...we had such a good time! We sat outside on the patio and both kids were wonderful and we just had a wonderful time talking and enjoying each other's company! My grandparents just love seeing the kids, and I love the fact that my kids will know their great-grandparents, just like I remember mine!!

Our air conditioner was broken (of course!), so the kids stayed out at Tony's parents' house during the week. I went to work during the day and then out to their house in the evening to see my lovely children! They were in the pool and outside all week, so both of the have some very nice tans! Bradlee's hair is even more blonde (if that's even possible!) and Emma's got some pretty good tan lines where her swimsuit hits!! They just love the pool...

On Tuesday I took Emma to see "Up" at the theater, then we went and got ice cream! After ice cream, we went to Target and picked out a birthday present for her friend, Maddy. We both really enjoyed the movie...it was very cute. She remembered several things from the movie and would repeat them throughout the week...we had a nice time, just the two of us! Here's a picture I took of her pointing to our movie!!

The rest of the week I spent getting ready for our Relay for Life in Davison. Not only was I the Accounting/Registration chairwoman, but I was team captain for our team "The Family". I must say, I was very pleased with the fundraising we did. Overall, we raised over $1600 for our team, and helped the American Cancer Society raise over $101,000 for our entire Relay!! I didn't get to spend much time with the team and the kids, which I had anticipated, so we "hired" two of Tony's students (well, one is a current student, one is a former student...they are sisters) to help us out and watch the kids. The reason I put "hired" in quotes, is because when we asked them how much they would want for the entire day, their response was, "That's okay, just take whatever you would pay us and donate it to the American Cancer Society!" How awesome is that? They were not only AWESOME babysitters, but we had so many compliments on how wonderful they were with the kids!!! Here are some pictures of our fun times at Relay (I'll post some more when I get them from Emily, one of the babysitters!)!!! Our theme was "Cancer doesn't take a holiday!"....so we had different themed laps.....ENJOY!

Bradlee kicked off our themed lap of "Happy New Year!" by being Baby New Year! He had a sparkly red, white and blue hat on as well, but that didn't last too long!

Emma got to dress up as a firecracker for the "4th of July" lap!! She got to spend the night with us and had a BALL!!!!!

So the theme of this lap was "Pilgrims, Turkeys and Indians, Oh My!"...so My mom wore the "piligrim" hat Emma made in school this past fall, carried the stuffed Beanie Baby turkey that my sister, Karyn, had, and then had on her CMU ** CHIPPEWAS ** sweatshirt!! She stayed up the entire 24 hours to help our team....we seriously would not have been able to do as well as we did without her!!!!

This is our friend, and resident SURVIVOR, Deb! She helped me out in the banking area and on our way to one of our drops, she looked down and said, "Oh, I have my shirt on backwards!" LOL So I had to take a picture...especially because it was 7am and we had been up for a LONG time!

We haven't set a date for next year's Relay yet, but if you are interested in joining our team next year, we would love to have you! We really have a great time...and the best part is that we are helping in the fight against cancer!!!

Hope you all have a great week! This weekend should be fun, since we're going to see the DSO (Detroit Symphony Orchestra) at Greenfield Village (it'll be our 4th anniversary of going!)!! Will post pics soon!!!