It's been a really long time!!!

It's been a really long time sense I wrote on here!!! So maybe I will just start back with today!!! I love productive days like today... All the laundry is finished, painted a bench in the entryway. My sweet nephews Matt and Trey came over and cut some pallet down for me. So i can finish the project for under Alex's bed. This week kinda stinks on the parenting side of life.... I so wish I didn't have to yell at my kids so much about their grades.... Alex is still grounded, Joshua is having a friend sleepover and Madyson is off to a Birthday sleepover... Let the weekend begin of business!!!

Weekend here we come!!!

My sweet husband drove to Houston yesterday and back! He left at 2:30 in the morning and was home at 8:00pm. Yes he was exhausted. I just love him so much! He could have gone the night before or even stayed the night last night, but he didn't. I love it that he wants to be home as much as he can!!
Kris and I hit a book sale yesterday, it was great to get out and go with just my friend!! If course I could have done without my kids calling me tattling on each other every 10 minutes, but never-the-less i enjoyed it!
Today I hope to get everything done that I am not going to have time to get done this weekend!! All the boring stuff like laundry and cleaning and BLAH BLAH BLAH
This is going to be a full weekend of baseball! Good thing I like it!!! Saturday Alex plays in Euless at 8am and noon. Joshua plays in Grapevine at 2pm and 4pm.
My Alex will be 12 on Monday!!! WOW 12~!~!~!

what a day so far...

Daniell had to get up at 230 this morning and drive to Houston, so of course it was early to bed for the Gage house. As it goes tossing and turning thinking he has to get up soon and should REALLY go to sleep... he does about 1:00am, up at 2:15 out the door by 2:45 and in Houston by 6:30... That means he drove really fast! :(
So that left me to get the kids up and to school - which my sweet husband usually takes care of - (this is where is gets bad)
I get Madyson and Joshua up, all is good... until we are about to leave and Madyson says "o mom can you please sign my planner" and guess what... 2 papers with bad grades!!! Of course she planned this! Not showing my the planner the night before so she would not get in trouble. So instead of dealing with it last night, now we get to deal with it this morning and all evening tonight! And I HATE fussing at my kids first thing in the morning! Makes for a BAD day!!!! Hopefully it will get better, but I hate this part of parenting...

Let Me Try to get back into blogging...

Well the last month has been a whirl-wind!!! Daniell was out of town every week for the last four weeks. Hopefully he will be home for a while, with of course the emergency that took him to Houston yesterday!! But he is such an amazon guy, he left at 6am and was back home by 8pm. Drove to Houston, took care of the problem, and drove back! I so love him!!! My sweet Madyson just finished the play Snow White... We now will have a break from the theater, just in time for baseball to kick into high gear. Both the boys play select baseball. Joshua is on the Flower Mound Dawgs and Alex is still on the Flower Mound Hunters. Both teams will become like family between now and the end of July!!! This is a fun and crazy time of year!!! I hope to keep the my blog up to date as much as possible!!!

Getting Excited.....

Tomorrow is my anniversary!!! Daniell has a great afternoon and evening planned. Not sure what we are doing, but he always does this kind of thing right!!! My sweet friend Kris is coming over to stay with the kiddos all night.(Thank you Kris) So we are leaving tomorrow about 2 and don't have to be back until the kids get out of school on Thursday!!!
Tonight Joshua has his batting trainer and baseball practice and Alex has his conditioning group. I am going to get a manicure and pedicure :) !!! The weather is actually a little chilly today, I love it. Sure beats the 95 degrees it was yesterday!!! Have a great day!!!

Down Time

Things have been crazy sense school started. Alex is doing great adjusting to Middle School. Madyson and Joshua have great teachers this year.... Madyson has the same teacher Alex had last year and Joshua had the same teacher Madyson had two years ago, so I know what to expect and what is expected out of them! Love them both!
Joshua is playing both baseball and soccer this fall season and Alex is playing baseball. We have not had any games and not too many practices because of all the rain. It is kinda bitter sweet. The rain is great for Daniell's business, but not so great for the kids. Not only do they not get to play their sports they get a little stir-crazy being inside!!!
I started a new business. I am a authorized dealer for Team Work Athletics. They sell all kinds of sport uniforms and also do custom orders. Check out the website www.teamworkathletics.com Let me know if I can place an order for you! Still working at RepTrax and having a great time. Also the book business is going really well right now! Keeping busy. Daniell is traveling alot so that leaves me to juggle getting the kiddos to school and all the places they want/need to go and get my jobs done! I don't think I would have it any other way. Staying busy is much better than sitting doing nothing!
Daniell and I had a great date last night. Madyson slept over at a friends house and the boys went to Saturday Night Out and then slept over with The Kinko's. We had dinner with some great friends then chilled at home ALL ALONE!!! That NEVER happens.
Today the boys both had baseball practice (the rain finally stopped) and I have been cleaning up and doing laundry and of course watching a little football in between. Daniell is off to the first Dallas game at the new stadium - I think it is going to be crazy, but I bet he will have a great time. Off to help Alex get his homework finished, do more laundry, figure out what's for dinner, Alex to his batting lesson, and at some point go to bed!!!!

It's been a long time!!!!

Summer Time is almost over!!!! Boys has it been a busy summer!! I have been working, book shopping, helping my sweet friend make purses, trying to keep the kids from being "bored", keeping the house somewhat picked up and now getting ready for BACK TO SCHOOL!!!!

Both Alex and Joshua made Select Baseball Teams. Alex's is the Flower Mound Hunter's and Johsua's is the Flower Mound Dawgs. Check out there web sites if you like... during the season you can track their games and stuff going on with the teams!!!

http://www.leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?url=fmhunters

http://www.eteamz.com/dawgs2/

We got teacher information in the mail yesterday for Madyson and Joshua. They are both VERY excited about the teacher they have for next year! I am happy about it too. But I learned about 4 years ago, that God knows exactly who he is placing my kiddos with!
Alex starts Middle School this year - WOW 6th grade! He is so excited!

I have tons to get finished before tomorrow at 5pm.... Daniell left this morning on business and will not be back until Sunday! Headed to San Angelo Thursday.
i need to....
work, organize the books I just bought last night, finish laundry that my sweet sweet hubby started, get my nails done, pack the kids and I, get Joshua to his batting instructor at 3:30 then to practice at 5:30 (O i also forgot I am Team Mom for Joshua's team - that's because I need something else to do LOL)... I don't even want to think about what else needs to be done. Have a great day - I'm going back to work!!!!

Summer can begin now!!!

Madyson is back from several weeks at my moms. She had a great time. I only had a few tear-filled phone calls wanting to come home. If you asked her right now, she would want to go back. I think she liked being an only child!!! I am sure glad to have her home. The boys won't admit it, but I think they are too!!!

Saturday ended the week long AAYBA World Series baseball tournament. Joshua's All-Star team placed 3rd in the Silver Division. They had some tough competition, some select teams that have been together for a while. His team has only been together for 7 weeks. It was a great experience ~ The boys were great, the parents were great, and the coaches were fantastic!!!
Alex's team placed 10th in the Diamond division - they did a great job - It was HOT!!!! As much as I love to watch my boys play baseball, I am glad it is over for a little while!!!

Amazing what can get accomplished around the house when I don't have to be a taxi to three kiddos. Today in just one hour the downstairs has been cleaned - dishwasher unloaded and loaded, counters cleaned off, floors swept/mopped/vacuumed, desk cleaned off and organized..... I should keep the ball rolling, instead I am sitting here posting!! (i deserve the break, right? lol)

In comparison, this week will not be that busy.... I think the only plans I have to take the kids to six-flags on Tuesday (yes it will be 104 degrees, stupid I know) and get caught up on the house work.... I need a list!!! Maybe I will take them to the pool at Lifetime one day - wander how much work I can get out of them, bribery!!! I hope everyone stays cool!!!!

WOW - IT WAS HOT THIS WEEKEND

Both my boys played in tournaments this weekend.....

12 hours in the heat on Saturday and Sunday, between the two of them!!! They both placed 3rd place. I of course think they did well, but Daniell said third place is like kissing your sister!!! (LOL)

Alex got hit with a ball in the jaw while he was playing as the catcher.... I think I did very well - I stayed off the field and let the coaches and the umpires take care of things (it helps that Daniell is a coach, otherwise I think I would have been on the field!) He is ok and no damage done, except to my heart to see my boy crying because he was HURT!!! But he is a trooper and kept playing!!! I honestly don't know how they do it sometimes!!! Of course when the game was over I had to look him over with my own eyes and make sure he was okay!!!

We start the AAYBA tournament this weekend.. It is a week long tournament that lasts from Saturday to Saturday!!! This will be it until the Fall!!! :)

Joshua's coach has requested us mom's to play our boys in a scrimmage on Tuesday!!! I think we are going to get it handed to us!!!! But it will be fun - wish me luck tomorrow!!!

i have 10 minutes...

well to say the least my life has been crazy for the last few weeks

i have a new job and LOVE it!!! very flexible hours and very close to home!

madyson is spending a few weeks at my moms and she is having a great time, only a couple of tears so far! i keep reminding her if she were here she would be very bored!!!
alex and johsua are keeping me crazy busy! we have something to do with baseball everyday except on monday's!!!
joshua's all star baseball team is doing great. they have place 2nd place once and a couple of times have placed third in the tournaments they have played. alex's team is doing great too! daniell has been traveling every week for the past three weeks - i am ready for him to be home for a little while... i'm exhausted!!!! both boys have tournaments this weekend - joshua is in McKinney and I think alex should be closer to home - but of course they can never play at the same place!!! they will both play in the AAYBA which is a world series tournament that lasts the entire week starting July 4th! it will be so much fun!!! HOT but fun!!!

hopefully i will be able to post more later!!! i have to take alex to the batting trainer---

Finally Posting

So much has been going on...
Joshua made the Flower Mound All-Star Blue team. This team plays in just tournaments for about the next 8 weeks. He is so excited. He did a great job. He had to make it through two try-outs. Out of about 100 kids they were choosing 30 kids to make 3 teams. He made the second team. This last weekend he had his first tournament, after only 2 practices as this new team. They did a great job. They played in Denton and Alex played in Irving... So Daniell and I had to split up( I'm sure there will be lots of that this summer!)
I started my new job on Monday. I think I am really going to like it. My last day at Fellowship is on Thursday. I have working there for 9 years!! It is really strange to leave.
My nephew Trey dislocated his shoulder last week, had a MRI on Friday and found out yesterday he will have to have surgery on Friday!! My poor sister... she is trying to get things ready for Kyle to graduate, work full-time, and get through the last two weeks of school, and now surgery!! She is kinda nervous about the anesthesia part so please keep her and Trey in your prayers!!
Speaking of the last two weeks of school! WOW!! Summer is almost here!! I hope it is a fun one!!!

WOW!!! My Life is Busy!!

Well, yesterday was a very stressful day!! It started with Daniell heading out of town until Saturday! I had a conference with Alex's teacher - I just SO love her!! That lady is doing exactly what she was called to do. She is AWESOME and so loves the kids! Even 5th grade kids, which most of the time is really hard to do!!
Then I went to work and turned in my two week notice. I have worked this at my current job for almost 9 years! Well I am starting a new adventure and with that I hope to grow my 'home business'!!! So that too was real hard to quit my job, but I did!!! All is well and I will work out my two weeks and hopefully put in some training at the new place in the mean time.
Last Friday evening Joshua went to the FMYSA All Star tryouts. There were 70+ kids there, they cut the group down and called back 50. He was one of the 50 - so last night we went to the 'callback'. He did a great job and had a fabulous time!!! This morning I got a phone call from the one of the coaches and he said Joshua had made his team!!! WOOOOHOOOO
He asked me not to tell Joshua!!!! WHAT??? REALLY???? That is the first thing I want to do when I pick him up from school!!! But the coach wants to call and tell him!! So I guess I will just have to scream it here!! And probably on Facebook too!!!
With that comes MORE practices and now tournaments for Joshua til around mid July!! Alex has practice tonight and now I have a parent meeting to go to for Joshua's new team, and of course like I said before Daniell is out of town!!! So looks like another busy evening in the Gage house!! O yes and the season ending GREY'S!!! Thank goodness for the DVR!!! Hopefully my "grey's girls" will be able to come watch after the kiddos go to bed tonight!!!!

Well Let Me Try Today

I started to blog yesterday and something pulled me away and I never got back to finish.... so I will just start over! We had a great weekend... No baseball, everything was rained out. I love to go to my boys games, but every once in a while it is fun just to hang around! The boys had Hunter and Brandon over on Saturday, I took 6 kids to Walmart ( i might be a little crazy), all the boys got airsoft guns~~ O-my did they have a fun time!! And they still are having a great time with the new guns!!! Joshua had a game last night. They pulled out a win in the bottom of the last inning!! They kinda looked like the Bad News Bears for a little while! Joshua did hit a triple his last at bat. So that was a great way to end! Below are some pictures of the game last night.

Ahh MISSED the ball - went right between his legs!!

This is sweet Anna - her brother Scott was up to bat!!

Bad case of the Monday's....

I am sleepy this morning!! I was up until 11:45 helping Alex get his book report finished that was due TODAY!!! Of course this was assigned SEVERAL weeks ago!!!
We had a great weekend - My mom came in town - It was great to visit with her and James
Alex had practice on Saturday and my good friends, The Duncans took Alex because Daniell was out of town. He got hit was a ball in the eye! Of course the coach calls Daniell (not sure why they did not call me) then Daniell calls me - I then call the only mom that was at the practice - she said the bleeding had stopped and they got it all cleaned up and patched! He wanted to continue with practice - so we let him!! Today his eye is swollen, black and blue! But he is fine - he probably thinks I'm crazy because all evening Saturday I was asking him if if felt ok, if he had a headache, was he seeing OK??? I think I was driving him crazy!!
Saturday night David made burgers, Daniell got back in town just in time for dinner! After we had a nice visit with my mom and James we headed home before the storms!! OOOOO we also verified that a tow hitch is NOT a standard item on Ford F150!! HaHa!!! That's for you dad!! HaHa!!
Yesterday we praised God for Jesus - had a great family day (excluding the book report) - Daniell made a GREAT dinner -
This week looks just as busy as any - Joshua has games Mon and Thurs - Alex has a tournament this coming weekend!

We had a so-so weekend~~~ Alex had two games on Saturday, they won one and lost won... So we played at 11:00 on Sunday. It was a very close game. We went into extra innings, but ended up losing by 2 runs! Alex hit a double, which I was very proud of him!!
Friday night I started tearing down wallpaper in the front entry way of my house, with the help of Kris and 5 kiddos. Kids are great at destruction!!! I started to texture the walls on Sunday evening, while listening to the boys play some "shoot em up" video game with a couple of friends!
Last night Joshua had a game, they were not doing very well. Then at the very end of the game Joshua hit an in-the-park home run!!! Mayson had a friend come to the game with her, that was nice so then she had someone to play with. It was really windy and cold!!!
I started on our taxes last night ~ ARRGGGG ~ nothing like waiting til the last minute.....

more pics

Great catch at first - got the out!! :)

Another batter out!! WOOO HOOO

Getting ready for a GREAT hit!!!

Baseball ready!!!

pics from this weekend

Alex and Parker

Madyson and new friends - they were so cute playing together - hopefully they will get to again real soon!

Alex - check that ball going right in the glove!

Second year in a row CHAMPIONS!!!

Mid-Week....Right??

Well yesterday was non-stop! This is so typical Joshua.... His teacher sent me an email with the subject line said "our friend" (i just love his teacher) So, basically the email said that Joshua had some unfinished work (surprising -NOT) she kindly listed what he was going to need to finish as homework - three things. When he got home I asked for the first thing on her list - his response was " I didn't bring that home". On to number 2, his response was the same. And yes you guessed it same response for #3. I don't know what to do with him!!! He is going to drive me CRAZY!
Right after school Hunter and Brandon came over to play for the evening and gave Alex a birthday gift (I think he liked it better than ANYTHING else he got) ~ Those boys have such a great time together!!!! We all went to the library for Madysons weekly reading with Sampson - the boys played outside. The we grabbed pizza to eat in the car and went to Kendra's softball game. They won 11-6!!!! Home at about 8. The kiddos all played videos games, then it was the usual evening routine.... showers and bed!!!
This morning I woke up with a headache.... YUCK!!! I would like to know if the Scholastic Book fairs ever GO AWAY!!! My kids tell me this morning we need to go to the school early and "look" at the book fair breakfast!! So, of course they each got to pick out a book, they had a few mini muffins and off to school. And off to work for me!!!

My Big Boy is 11

O My Goodness I have an 11 year old!!!
Alex had his birthday Sunday.... Of course we were at the baseball field. He played Saturday and Sunday in a tournament. The team did great on Saturday, they won both their pool games. Then we are not real sure what happen on Sunday. The lost the first game, so that was it ~~ out of the tournament. Alex did a great job he played catcher the entire game and did fabulous (even Daniell said he did great and he is Alex's hardest critic). We had a great time. Daniell's friend Mark came out to all the games (even in 45 MPH winds on Saturday ~ what a baseball lover) ~~ He has three kiddos he brought with him on Sunday ~ two girls and a boy ~ Madyson had a great time playing with the girls. After the game they came over and hung out for a while.
The games on Saturday were, to say the least, not fun for the fans. And when I say fans, I mean two ~ me and another mom. It was FREEZING and the wind was blowing really hard. The boys did a great job enduring the weather. I think it took me about 3 hours to warm up and feel my toes again! Thanks to Kim I did not have to wake Madyson and Joshua out to the ball field at 7am on Saturday. They spent the night with her on Friday night and hung out on Saturday!! Thanks Kim your a life saver!
Daniell is leaving this morning ~~ gone until Saturday! We have a busy week ~ and I am solo ~ but also blessed to have many, many people to help out when he is gone!
Joshua has a game Wednesday night ~ 6:00 at Glenwick! Another tournament this weekend ~ and lots of things scheduled between now and this weekend!

Well, i can't believe that I have not posted all week.... Well I guess I can.... Work has been really busy this week.

Last weekend Alex's baseball team won the tournaments they played in!!! Kris and the boys came out for both the games on Sunday ~~ It is always nice to have friends come watch ~~ Thanks guys for coming!! We were so excited - #1!!! Of course after the 6pm Championship game, then the awards, we all went to Culver's for ice cream!!! Yep ice cream at 9:00pm on Sunday night!!
Joshua had his season opener on Monday ~~ They did not win the game, but Joshua earned the 'game ball'!! He had some great plays! It was terribly windy!!

Daniell has been in town this week~~ Thank goodness ~~

The boys have to go to the batting cages tonight ~~ Maybe Madyson and I will go do something special this evening!
Alex has another tournament this weekend in Grand Prairie - Saturday morning games at 8 and 10 in the morning!!
Joshua plays at 9:00am at Bakersfield!!