Who is with me???

I found Mom’s Toolbox through Homeschool Creations.

Over at Mom’s Toolbox they are beginning the 90 Day Bible Study on July 5.

I have tried this once before and would love to try it again.  I feel like I have enough going on around here, but never enough of the one true important thing, Jesus.  So, as we travel over the coming weeks I will try and take advantage of this 5 day lead :)

Who’s going to join me???

Maggie’s Party

I am posting this a bit backward, but that’s what I get for waiting so long to post everything.  We have lots of stuff going on and I want to post & keep up. We’ll see if I can do it this time.

We celebrated Maggie’s 2nd birthday here at her home. It was a VERY warm day. She had a great time with her cousins, grandparents & aunts & uncles.  She fell asleep half way through and we had to nudge the life of the party back to life to enjoy her ice cream sandwich cake and presents. 

   

Maggie Turns 2….And Aaron’s 6th Father’s Day….

June 20, 2008

June 20, 2009

June 20, 2010

What a glorious day Sunday was for us.  We celebrated Aaron’s 6th Father’s Day. We celebrated our Maggie’s 2nd birthday.  It was great just to be with us…the 5 of us.  We started the morning off at church. Maggie drew me a picture or 2. She loves scribbling & I love that she is beginning to understand the difference between my table & walls and good ol’ coloring paper. 

After church, we headed to the zoo for a Father’s Day brunch and birthday celebration. When we finally left the zoo, exhausted, we headed to Applebee’s for a special 2nd birthday treat.  They gave Maggie that huge sundae just for turning 2. 

     

Love love love my Sweet Maggie Grace!

Happy 2nd Baby Girl!!!

What the…..???

Oh, our Miss Molly….

About a week ago, the kids received a few bucks from Great-Gramma to spend at the Dollar Store. The next day we headed out for the kids to search out the perfect dollar gift for themselves.  They found these inflatable kickboard things.  Molly’s was princess theme, of course.  We go home and the kids wanted to get the pool out and immediately blow up their new treasures.   The kids had a great time. Jumping in and out of our kiddie pool. Molly attempting to actually try and use her kickboard the correct way in the aforementioned kiddie pool. I was using the time to read and enjoying the spare minutes to get through a page or two.  Molly and everything sweet about her, comes over with her kickboard to chat with me for a few minutes.  I couldn’t tell you what she was chatting about, but whatever it was she was into it.  The next second, the wind picks up and blows the kickboard out of her hand and lands on the patio next to her.  She looks down at it, looks back at me and with a puzzled look on her face says,

“What the hell?”

As soon as the words left her mouth & she saw the look on my face, she came back with, “I’m  sorry. I’m so sorry. I meant ‘What the heck?’  I then turned my head and had to smile…not because of what she said, but the look on her face when she watched the kickboard blow from her hand and land on the ground.  HILARIOUS!!!

LOVE THAT GIRL!!!!

First Day of School & Last Day of School

August 3, 2009                     

 

June 8, 2010 (although our last day of school was May 27, 2010)

Max's 3rd season of t-ball...

MAN, I LOVE THIS KID!!! Can't believe we have started our 3rd year of t-ball.
He is doing great & loves his baseball. My favorite thing about watching him is seeing him get so excited when he does something great & not getting down on himself when he misses a grounder. I am hoping to get a picture of this spirit soon, but until then let me try and paint you a picture.
Tonight, a grounder came right to him. He called out, "I got it! I got it!" He squatted, put his mitt out, fielded the ball. Then he wound up, kicked out that leg like his daddy taught him & then he threw it to first. He then put his arms up in the air & jumped up and down with a huge smile on his face. MAN, I LOVE THAT KID!!!


May 22, 2010

May 16, 2009

May 24, 2008

Forgot this one...

Back on April 16th, the kids had their first ehub production. They did fantastic. Max hid behind one of his taller friends for his first class, but he had a huge smile on his face the whole time.

The kids had their regular classes in the a.m. and then the production went until after 4 that afternoon. Right before leaving the parking lot Max mentioned that he had to go potty. Aaron told him that he would take him and then Max changed his mind. He said that he could hold it. I didn't doubt that he could. The last time he had an accident was when he was potty training. So we kissed Aaron good-bye and told him that we would see him soon. Of course, traffic at 4:30 on a Friday afternoon in a construction filled city...I would have lost control of my bladder. At first Max was just sort of hopping around in his seat. Then it began to get a bit more serious. There was no where to turn into the mall. They had all of the entrances closed off on the road we were on. And of course, we were on a boulevard type road so we couldn't turn around. I tried to get him to pee in the empty water bottle. No way, no how. He was not doing that. Can't say that I blame him :) So by the time we got out of that jam Max was crying, "Momma, I think I went a little bit. I'm so sorry. I should have listened to daddy when he told me to go." I felt just awful. I told him that it was alright and that momma should have taken him. Then I asked him if he went to the bathroom at all while in Miss Ashley's class. He said no. I said, "Honey, did you go potty this morning when you woke up?"

"No."

My jaw dropped. To this day, I am still hoping that he did in fact go potty that morning and truly didn't go from the night of the 15th to the afternoon of the 16th without using the restroom. Mom of the year....right here! :(

So...after all of the traffic jams and potty mishaps, we finally pull up to Stacy's house (we were dropping the kids off right after the production b/c Aaron and I had a date night). The kids and I arrived before Stacy and the kids so we just hung out in the van for a bit and Max changed his clothes. :)

Then this happened:

Max: Momma, I love legos. I love legos even more than Mario. Me: Stunned. Really, even more than Mario. Max: Yep, but you, You I love more than anything Momma. Me: Instant tears and thinking that he will NEVER leave me and get married!