VACA

Maggie says "It's vacation time!!"

Catch up with you on Sunday!!!

Celebrating 6 Years!!

After 6 years of marriage, and being 10 years out of high school, this is what my life has come to!! :)

Toilet Paper and Diapers!!

With 2 kids in diapers, I seriously buy them every time I go to town.  

Anyways, Jason and I celebrated our 6th wedding anniversary this past Sunday. He took me to my favorite place, Olive Garden, on Saturday night, and we got his favorite dessert, SNO CONES!!! 

He has been wanting a suit, like a real dress suit, so I got him that. He hasn't even tried it on yet.  It doesn't hurt my feelings though.  Jason really isn't that lovey dovey about things; I'm thinking you could have guessed that.  We went to a few places in town to look at a new dining room table.  I'm really wanting one, but don't want to buy one right now.  So, he offered to get me an IPAD instead!! Maybe I'll get one over the next week or so!!  Yeah!! 

Guess what I can do???

Besides making mean faces, 

I can grab my toes, and roll over the hard way!!!

YEAH!!!!!

VBS & a Funny Story

We enjoyed having VBS at our church this past weekend.  It was about Daniel being taken into captivity.  

Here is Maggie hanging out in the Kings' Palace!

Ashpenaz

Jason played, Daniel.

Kylee doing the motions to a song.  She still is kind of young for VBS, but she had fun. 

During the VBS, all the kids would come together for "Palace Time" and Daniel (Jason) and Ashpenaz would do a skit, and act out the story.  I had to leave VBS early on Saturday, and the story was about when Ashpenaz came to arrest Daniel to throw him into the lion's den.  

Kylee started crying and screaming, and she got up and was even hitting Ashpenaz because he was arresting HER DADDY!! Everyone said it was so funny,and then it got kind of sad.  :( They took Daniel out of the room, and Kylee kept screaming for him, so Brianne had to go up and get her, and take her to see "Jason" so she could see he was okay.  Poor thing. 

We tell her to believe the Bible, and then we tell her it was just pretend.  She probably doesn't know what to think. 

We had a great VBS!!!

I'd Stay up and think of......

It's that time of the year when I go into full party mode, and my laundry room becomes full chaos with party stuff, and Jason gets tired of me spouting ideas off to him!! :)

Jaxon's party is in August, Kylee's party is in September, my niece and nephew's party is in July, and in August I get real busy with Awana stuff at church.  So, that is why I have to start early.  

Please, please tell me, you know what this is going to be!!!

Yes, it is going to be a burlap sock monkey for the front door for Jaxon's party. I could look at them all day on etsy.  

I need more brown paint; he looks a little sketchy, and I dropped a dot of red paint on him, but other than that I think he is going to turn out okay.  

I started making a football for mom's door at school too; we shall see how it turns out (making a perfect oval for a football is hard)!!!

I've ordered a couple of signs for both parties with their themes!!

The other party is an ice cream party, so I am working on painting a canopy, and I am painting a board to hang with Maggie's name on it for their room. That's all my projects for now. 

I've been doing a lot of this lately.......

"Late at night when all the world is sleeping, I'd stay up and think of party ideas!!!"

Bye, Bye Crib!!

Since Saturday, Jaxon has been sleeping in his BIG boy bed. And he hasn't gotten out once.  I anticipate it will happen, but for now, we are enjoying it.  

I love how his room turned out with his new twin bed, and rearranging some things.  

Can you tell which spindle was replaced?? I think it looks fine.  

I ran into Hastings on Saturday to buy Jason, C.S. Lewis "The Abolition of Man" for Father's Day, and I saw this kids book on sale called, "Bye, Bye Crib",  so I bought it to read to Jaxon.  It was kind of funny, kind of weird. 

I am really pleased with the color of the bed, and how it all turned out!!! Yeah!!

SSSSSOOOOOO, that means the crib moved into the Girls' room!! It is a tight fit, but everything is working out really nice.  

I got out all of Kylee's bumper pad, bed skirt, and sheets.  Maggie has not moved to her bed yet. During the day, I am fine with the idea of moving her all the way across the house, and then when night time comes, and it is dark, I sort of freak out.  It's my 3rd one; why do I still freak out??? 

Still need to hang a few things, but getting all my ideas together. 

Kylee's bed!! Mom is finishing her pillow sham for her bed.  Everything in the girls' room is VERY matchy, matchy, but I kind of like it.  When we build a house, they won't share rooms, so I am going to enjoy them sharing everything for now.  

Bobs

I've been looking at some TOMS for the kids, and then on zulily today they have these BOBS.  And, the point is I think I want them for the 4th!!!

Buddies

Reading Buddies that is!!

We enjoyed the weekend with our buddies.  Can you believe we ALL (including Mags) got to go to the municipal pool AGAIN??? We loved it!!

Our twins. 

Then we hung out with our buddies again on Saturday night for some grilled burgers and s'mores!! 

We enjoyed a rib smackin' and shrimp eatin' Father's Day lunch at my parents.  And then laid around the house the rest of the day.  It was nice. So thankful for my dad and Jason. 

Our weekend was what summer's are made of!!

Daddy's Day!!

My dad is the hands on dad. He's there for Brianne and I through everything.  He drove us in the night to go between stockshows and basketball games.  During school days, if we forgot something at home, he would bring it to us.  He would take us to dentist appt.s and always get a candy bar and coke if we didn't have any cavities!! :) He brought the goat to school for elementary show and tell.  He would tell us stories at night about his childhood.  Always made us laugh.  

He's been the first one to the hospital BEFORE each of my babies was born.  Except for Jaxon, they made it just in time, and I still have the visual image of him making sure I was okay before I started to push, by peeking his head in the room. 

 He calls my sister every morning at 8:05, and me around 9:05. He buys us lunch, cooks us supper if we just don't feel like cooking.  I have those days a lot. 

He gives the kids 4-wheeler rides, horse rides.  Brought 2 baby cows home for them to feed, gives endless pushes on the swings.  Rocks babies to sleep (except Maggie, she cries every time).  

He gives his grandkids M&M's at the Wall Hawk football games.  Now, that ranks him as #1 in their books!!

Lord, thank you for my Daddy.

S'mores

We enjoyed some s'mores the other night, and it makes me laugh to think of the quote from Sandlot(the greatest movie ever) about s'mores!!

Ham: Hey, Smalls, you wanna s'more? 
Smalls: Some more of what? 
Ham: No, do you wanna s'more? 
Smalls: I haven't had anything yet, so how can I have some more of nothing? 
Ham: You're killing me Smalls! These are s'more's stuff! Ok, pay attention. First you take the graham, you stick the chocolate on the graham. Then you roast the 'mallow. When the 'mallows flaming... you stick it on the chocolate. Then cover with the other end. Then you scarf. Kind of messy, but good! Try some! 

 

Oh, Maggie!!

How I love you!!

After you have one child or even two, you sometimes think, can I love another? How silly. 

In the days before Maggie was born, voices in my head, kept saying, you can't handle 3 kids; you don't know how to hold a baby or take care of another baby.  

But, whatever bad thoughts those were, they have come to pass, and I have to say, "My life is greater, sweeter, harder, but so much better because of my Maggie." 

God put her in our little family for a reason, and I am thrilled to pieces she is with us.  

So many days, I catch myself praying, "Lord, please let me remember these times. Let me remember what my children looked like as babies. Don't let my mind fail me."

Oh, how I love her. 

She is past 3 months. 

She is perfect.  I am smitten over her. 

The mornings are the most peaceful time of day.  She normally eats around 5:30am or 6am, and then goes back to sleep.  Around 7:30, I start getting up, and all the kids are still sleeping in their bed.  It's quiet.  It's peaceful.  It's home.

She is wearing 0-3 months onesies, and size 1 diapers.  

Believe it or not, she has lost some hair around the sides, and in the back she has a bald spot.  Jason said, "we need to hold her more." :)

Has fussy times throughout the day; I really think it is gas.  And some really HAPPY times right after she eats.  

She rolls from her tummy to her back; usually on accident.  She manages tummy time, doesn't just love it. 

 Likes the pacifier, but loves chewing on her fists.  Nearly always has them in her mouth.  Takes a little apple juice throughout the day, and eats about every 4 hours.  Burps up quite a bit still.

Has been sitting in the exersaucer and really likes looking at her toys.  Still loves the swing.  And more than anything I think she loves the bath the most.  Sometimes in the evenings she is fussy, so we just put her in the bath tub, and immediately calms down.  After her bath, you can really see her "blonde" roots.  

She is such a fun baby.  She actually enjoys her toys unlike the others.  She looks at them, and tries to turn things or grab things.  

Oh, how I love you Maggie!!  

Splish Splash, we had a BLAST!!

We have been wanting to go to the "New and Improved" Municipal Pool, and our friends invited us to go on Saturday!! It was so much fun!!!

we splashed.

we yelled. 

we hung out. 

 we posed. 

we crawled. 

we ran.

we hung out some more. 

we relaxed. 

we ate popsicles AND

we want to go back!!