Summer baseball and horrible mommy!

Time for t-ball! For the 3rd year in a row, I'm one of the coaches! Last night was our first game. We are the Dodgers! Hunter played pitcher for our first game, and even though there is no actual pitching since it is t-ball, he did a great job. He managed to get 4 or 5 outs, I lost track!

Kudos to Stacey for the pics, because I obviously was just a tad bit busy to take pictures. I also had a picture e-mailed to me that I'd love to figure out how to pull off my e-mail and put on here. Any words of wisdom from anyone on how to do that? I played with it a bit, and couldn't figure out if there was any way to do that. On another note, I get a huge "L" on my forehead and the worst mommy in world award tonight. Janae had a birthday invitation come last week for one of her very best friends in the world, for a swimming party. When I looked at it, I "saw" Friday on the invitation, told mom Janae was coming. Just a few minutes ago, I looked at it again to check the times and saw that it was TONIGHT!! Of course it ended at 7:30, and I saw it at 7:25. I feel absolutely horrible. There are no words to describe how bad I feel. Janae cried when I told her, and I actually got teary eyed along with her. (I'm soooo sorry, Laurie!!) So, we're going to try to have her friend spend the night tomorrow night. I am usually so organized, have everything down with no problems, and I've never done anything like this! Hopefully, I never will again!

Future Farmer?

This would be my son on the tractor with his Uncle Jerry.

He had the time of his life. Jerry lives around alot of brush and land that hasn't been cleared out, that's what they are doing in this last picture. Hunt is helping to clear out some of the trees, brush, and whatever else might be lurking in there. He was able to lower and lift the front bucket thing, whatever it's called! :) This was also his first driving experience, and for a 6 year old, he did a really good job.

Twin time...

I had to laugh at the wondering of which twin is which! To me, they look like brothers, but not twins. There are only certain times that it really hits me how much they can look alike. If John is swimming, and when he comes up for air with his hair all plastered down, he looks like Jerry. That's about it. When I was about to meet Jerry for the first time (10 years ago) I was really worried. What if I couldn't tell them apart??? No worries, I've never had any bit of a problem. But in the picture, Jerry is on the left, in the red shirt, John on the right in the white shirt. Just wanted to clarify!! I'll be back with pictures of dinosaurs soon!

Fun Times...

I'm back!! After taking almost two weeks off from blogging, which absolutely flew by, I'm back. I have alot of material and tons of pictures, all of which everyone will probably get sick of. On Wednesday, we headed out to Glen Rose, which is a suburb of Ft. Worth. John's twin brother lives out there, and their aunt and cousin, who live in Idaho, were out visiting, so we went to see everyone. Jerry is the twin, he lives out in the middle of absolutely nowhere, and the kids had a blast out there. They went looking for "fossils", rocks, animals, and whatever else you can imagine. Uncle Jerry was kind enough to give Hunter a couple of deer head skeltons. You should have seen this boy's eyes light up as soon as this shed door opened, and there were probably 10 out there. We let him pick two to bring home. He had such a hard time deciding, but was sure that he wanted one with the head (skull) still attached.

So, here are his picks, and of course as soon as we got home, they had to be hung. Dad thought it'd be a great idea to hang it above Hunt's door on the outside of his room. WRONG! Mom had to veto that right quick. So the first one is hanging on the inside of the door just above it.

The other one is just on one of the walls in his room. Janae is throughly disgusted by the whole idea, but I have to realize that I have a boy, and I need to let him be a boy, so GO HUNT, enjoy those heads and antlers.

This is John and Jerry, identical twins. Jerry is 10 minutes older. We also went to Dinosaur World while we were there, and Hunter helped Jerry drive a tractor. More pictures to come in the next couple of days.

Happy Memorial Day

Today, of course, is Memorial Day. We didn't do much, just had a day off from school. (With only 4 more days to go!) I took the kids out to Legacy Play Village this morning, and they absolutely had a blast! They ran all over the place, and I just followed them from a distance. It's so nice that they are big enough that I can just pick a bench to hold down, and keep an eye on them. I don't have to follow every step they take! We stayed there about an hour, then went to another park for about an hour. We had to get out of the house so Dad could have some quiet while he slept. This afternoon, they got to play on the trampoline with the sprinklers on. They love that, but I'm so afraid that they're going to slip and break an arm or a leg up there.

Duchess likes to "play" in the sprinklers also. She tries to eat the sprinkler head while it's shooting out water.

This is what happens while she's trying to eat it......

It just came unscrewed, thank goodness! Next time, she will be locked safely in the house while we water! I'd hate to have to call the sprinkler guy over because of this giant dog eating the head off!!

Happy Memorial Day! Many thanks and much gratitude to all who are serving or who have served. Especially my cousin, Brandon, a Captain in the USMC!! He's been to Iraq twice, and it sure hits home and makes you appreciate all of these men and women, past and present, for all they have done for us. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.

Awards and Graduation Days

Hunter's kindergarten graduation was on Wednesday last week. He has officially "passed" kindergarten. Bittersweet, it went so fast, and he is growing up waaaaay too fast for me! John is ready to just have another one and start over, but I on the other hand, am not! I have loved every age that they have gone through, and I just can't be sad while I'm watching them grow and learn daily, but the time is sure flying by!! Here he is with his wonderful teacher, Mrs. Haggard. I wouldn't trade his year with her for anything. Principal Mr. Smith and assistant principal Mrs. Davis. Mr. Smith is going to the new Frenship school that we are going to. Exciting!!

Close up shot from far away during graduation. It was so funny, every one of those kids sat there yawning during the entire thing, and it started at 9am! They did so good, and had the cutest little songs. I would put one on here to show, but right now, I'm just to lazy to get up and get the video camera out to figure all that out!!

Onto Janae. Like how dressed up she was?? I sent extra clothes, her awards were in the afternoon, and I thought she might want to change, but doesn't look like it. She's here with her teacher, Mrs. Downing, and assistant principal. She got an award for perfect attendance, A honor roll, her art piece that was in the art show, outstanding citizenship (character), and reading 100 AR points this year. We'd been trying for perfect attendance every year, and every year she'd end up being sick one day in the last 6 weeks. We made it this year!! Woo-hoo!

By the way, her teacher has been AWESOME as well. I absolutely love her, she's been wonderful for Janae. Every year, I think that she has just the best teacher and really hate to lose them, (except Kindergarten for Janae :( ), but the next year, we've always gotten someone else who is just wonderful, and is making an impact on her life. I cannot say enough about Frenship teachers. This is Mrs. Davis again, assistant principal helping with awards.

Well, I suppose that we've just about made it through another year, just have end of the year parties to go to on Friday!! Last day of school will be this coming Friday, and usual I will be sniffing when it's time to say good-bye to the teachers!!!

Cardboard Testimonies Video

Cardboard Testimonies Video


I just found this "You Tube" video on someone else's blog, and decided to put it on mine. It's what we did at church for Easter. It was so incredibly powerful to sit there and watch. I had tears in my eyes the whole time. Sometimes you need a reminder that God's still in charge and on his throne. It's about 6 minutes long, watch it!


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