Our Busy Days

After Shayle's Graduation

Jacob having fun camping out

Shayle enjoying a rare treat, caffeine and a smore!

Pay Pay inside the tent

Everyone was still asleep as I went to get into my own bed at 6:30 am

Payton just after her dance recital

Of course every ballerina deserves flowers!

It has been a busy few weeks here in the Pierce household, not leaving much time for blogging haven't even had time to post about my first Mother's Day with Shayle and as a mom of five.

Darrel put up our large 10 man tent last Sunday evening and we all camped out in it on our land. We had smores, popcorn & a movie. The stars were out everywhere and it was nice to gaze upon more of God's creation. The kids really enjoyed it and Shayle thought it was lot's of fun.

This week four of us have had strep, including myself again! I am now taking my 3rd round of antibiotics and Shayle is taking her 2nd round. I have figured out this time, Shayle was the one who had it first, we just didn't know it. She then passed it on to Arron, Payton and myself. What I have realized is that this poor baby has hurt for so many years in her mouth, from her decayed teeth, ear aches, palate surgery and now strep that she didn't know any different. No wonder she had no appetite. She didn't complain of a sore throat and had no fever, I would have never guessed she was sick with strep. We just went ahead and tested her after three of us tested positive. After just one day on the antibiotic, she began eating so much better. More than she has eaten in a very long time. Anyway, hopefully we will all get well as we are flying to Disney World soon for a week with Mickey and the princesses. Shayle is so excited!

Throughout all the sickness over the past week, I managed to stay on task for all that the kids were involved in. We had three playing spring soccer which half of the games were cancelled due to rain earlier this month. Well, this last week we made them all up. We had a total of 11 games in one week with all of them being on the past two Saturdays except for one. That was enough to keep us busy, but Darrel is the coach to two of the teams. Also, Arron has been taking drivers ed and had class six times this past week for 2-3 hours/night. Thank goodness for car pools! Then Payton's dance recital was today, in which she had practice for the past three days. She also is one of the soccer players. Soccer was supposed to end last weekend and we thought we would have only the dance recital this weekend. Well, all I can say is that kids keep us very busy and God has a sense of Humor when we think we have everything planned out.

Shayle also graduated from Pre-K on Friday 5/22. She is excited to be home with mom for the summer!