So here I am again, sitting at the computer while my chatter box children eat their lunch, :~) Mommy made their favorite lunch today, simple really but a child pleaser... mini bagels, pizza sauce topped with mozzarella cheese, cooked in the oven till toasty brown and cheese all melted. Yep, bagel pizzas, this mom's saving grace when my kids are being picky eaters, which luckily they are not very often.

We have an accepted offer on the house!! YAY. It has been a long 5 almost 6 week wait, waiting for the bank to decide if our offer was a fair one in this real estate market. So if all goes well, we should be closing escrow in 30-45 days...of course we have to get through inspections and such, fingers crossed!!

Amelia has yet another ear infection, grrrr. My sweet baby girl is such a trooper, she takes it all in stride, she truly is amazing. I just got a call from the hospital, she is scheduled for her tubes next Tuesday morning. We are so lucky to have pediatricians who are pro-active and listen to us. Gosh, if I had been able to get tubes put in Kyle and Ashley's ears this early. So knock on wood, our ear problems will be over in a matter of days!

UPDATE: Well, now another house we had put an offer in on that we really liked but never heard from the bank on has come back on the market...so now we are contemplating which house...?hmmmm?

Prom

April 24, 2009 was Kyle's Sr. Prom and Ashley's Jr. Prom.

Both kids had a fantastic, great time, and neither one of them wanted the night to end. Kyle's date was a good friend of his named Brittany and Ashley's date was one of her best friends, a guy on the track team named Adrianne. As you can see both kids and their dates looked AWESOME!!!

Spring Break was awesome!! We rented a cabin and headed with all 5 kids to Tahoe. We were there from April 10-15th, and got to have Easter and my birthday in Tahoe. This is probably our last Spring Break as an entire family...Kyle graduates from high school in just a few weeks and will be a college freshman. Watching the kids hunt for eggs in Tahoe was quite a hoot I must say! John and I even drove over to South Lake Tahoe one night and did a little gambling at Harrah's. I won $140.00! The first 2 days we were there it was sunny and warm. Then a storm moved in, we were even sitting in the hot tub one night as snow was coming down, now that's what I call great. Oh how we miss the snow. Sometimes I wish we had never left New Hampshire, I miss the snow, the White Mountains, the Atlantic Ocean at Rye Beach...Anyway back to Spring Break, it was truly a great time, spent with our kids walking on the beach, playing in the snow, sight seeing, relaxing, watching movies. Time is moving so fast, my kids are changing by the moment. If I have learned anything since Kyle was born, is cherish each and every moment, time slips by so fast.

It's been quite a while since I updated the blog, so I figured I had better get my booty in gear and do an update! A lot has happened in the Hunter house and our little town of Tracy.

I guess I will start with the case of Sandra Cantu. Unless you live with your head in the sand, you have heard of Sandra Cantu. Sandra was a beautiful, sweet, intelligent 8 year old little girl who was taken from this life way to soon. An arrest has been made in the case, a woman named Melissa Huckaby. As a mother, I cannot fathom a mother hurting a child in such a way. When Sandra came up missing, everyone assumed it was an opportunist who knew the area, maybe visiting someone in the park (you have to know the area to find that mobile home park...it's not visible from the road or the highway), then hopped on the highway and was gone. To find out it was a neighbor, the mother of one of Sandra's friends.....how? why? just sickening. Now to find out the autopsy results have been sealed to prevent community outrage. John, Kyle, Ashley, Cassidy, Aidan, Amelia and I spent many hours at the vigils praying for her safe return, taping up fliers. I think we knew what the outcome would be, but the reality was crushing.