Rain, Rain finally went away

We signed up for tball 2 1/2 months ago and counted down, all the way to the day of his first practice, but the rain beat us to it. It was cancelled and he was devastated. They rescheduled for last night an dhe had a crazy BLAST. He did great, he caught the ball, ran, hit the ball-he was adorable, I must have taken at least 50 pictures and it was only his first practice. He has a game tomorrow and we are super excited.

My neighbor has a rhubbarb plant that has been there since she bought the house 40 years. The stalks are bigger then the kids, Yahoo, super excited.

After much whinning from Josh's mom and myself he finally had the bump on his face looked at. The doctor cut it out right away and is testing it for cancer!! He will get a black eye the doc. said, too bad he doesn't have a mullet, a black eye and mullet would be adorable. We will keep you updated on the findings!!

For the record!

I am going to call this when my daughter is only five-she will be the craziest girlfriend/fiance/bride. She is obssesed with weddings. In the store while I am checking out she will find the bridal magazine and sit on the floor and read it. She LOVES watching "say yes to the dress" and just about any other bridal show on tv. She always talks about marrying her daddy, and today I found her...... Looking out the window across the street(we live across the street from a huge building that is now used for weddings and receptions.) and she was humming "HERE COMES THE BRIDE" while a wedding couple was taking pictures outside!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA it is way to funny! Lucky for us she won't even be able to date until she is 28 and then just group dates with her father and I!!

OUR HOUSE PICTURES!!

So I do think that our house is more yellow then I wanted(I wanted more of a very light tan) but I love it so much-it is beautiful!! We have changed tons about our house and not for a minute do I wish we hadn't bought this house, the house is perfect, we love our neighbors and the city!! It is all wonderful!!! My next project is to update the basement a little bit-I am not sure how or when but I will do it.

This is the front of our house
BEFORE


This is our house
AFTER


This is our deck BEFORE


This is our deck AFTER


This is our kitchen and unfortunatly I don't have a before picture but the wall by the window was bright white and the border around the whole kitchen was a really ugly orange and yellow, we took down the wallpaper(scraped and used a wallpaper steamer and it still took us 4+ hours) and I painted it all yellow. Before it was an old kitchen, now it still looks old but with a fresh coat of paint(hahaha.) This was never my favorite part of the house because of the size, but I absolutly love it-it is the most well thought out kitchen ever, it has everything, my kids even sit on the table and eat on the counter just like barstools. It is great.


A little while ago my sister in law made these pictures for me in black and red and it looked great in my old house but I thought that I could paint it brown and yellow and put all black and white pictures in it and use it in our kitchen, so I did and I love it!!


This is one of my many gardens, this is my vegetable garden, my rhubbarb and strawberry patch is next to the house, I have raspberries and melons in a garden that is connected to this one and I have an herb/flower garden in the back!!

Mother's Day

Grant was so excited to bring me breakfast in bed for Mother's Day-which was super since it was a bowl of special K(his favorite) at 5:45 in the morning. So I got breakfast in bed but didn't get to sleep in. He was excited. Then we took Murphy for a walk at a state park that is 5 minutes from home, we tossed some rocks in our neighbors dumpster(he said we could toss whatever in their)I picked some fresh rhubarb from my garden and made strawberry rhubbard pie, my sister and her kids came over for awhile to play. We are all exhausted now-but it was a great day the pictures are in no specific order!!

OVERALL I am so grateful to have such a wonderful family, I have two amazing children and a wonderful husband who loves me so much and has great patience with my projects!! I love them so!!!

This is Josh's favorite picture of Murphy!!

You did what??

At Grant's school he has a color system for behavior, on Friday he was on yellow(it goes green yellow red and purple.) Yellow is not acceptable so we asked him why he was on yellow. His answer was that him and two other boys were balking like chickens when it was quiet time. I tried so hard not to laugh but of course I did because it was hilarious but then I made him write an apology to his teacher. It said....

Lucie's Party!!

So my baby girl is turning five and we threw her a birthday party at my school. The kids had a blast, I made lucie a little 8x8 cake so she could blow out candles and then we made ice cream cone cupcakes for all of the kids to decorate their own. My mom made all of the girls who came tutu's and I made them matching hair flowers. Lucie had sooo much fun!!








Here is Lucie enjoying some of her presents.....

Time stood still and wasn't so important!!!

I had to work 7-3 today, come home 30 minutes to pick up 4 kids and drive another 45 minutes to go to a birthday party at Chuck E Cheese. I need to wake up at 4:30 tomorrow morning for work, the freeway I would normally take was shut down so I had to take a back road, I was enjoying the company of a friend, her son, my two kids and my sisters two kids, while the kids were singing in the back I came upon an intersection and I could see a firetruck, an ambulance and about 10 police cars. I thought what most people probably thought-OH GREAT HOW LONG WILL THIS SET ME BACK. We got closer and all of a sudden time didn't seem so important. Amongst the lights of all the emergency vehicles there was a lady sitting on the curb by a broken bicycle holding in her arms a small child while the rescue workers were bringing over a stretcher. It gave me goosebumps, made me want to cry and squeeze both my kids tight and never let go. My heart goes out to the family that doesn't wake at 4:30 to go to work but instead stays up all night in a hospital! Sometimes we take so much for granted, when the important things are right in front of us the whole time!