Things and such

At the library sitting on the Indian statue
After playing with the trains and puzzles


A storm knocked down half of our back fence last week.


My sunflowers are growing!


Baby girl is growing and we are thinking about names.
Maybe something that starts with K?
Austin got to hear baby sister's hearbeat at the dr.
My mom did, too.


Potty training is going really well - thank you Jesus!!

Fever free Saturday!

Austin didn't take a nap at school Wednesday so he went to bed at 7:30p.m.  He woke up at 8:10 the next morning (which is late!) with a fever and missed his Easter egg hunt and party at school, but we had a good time at home.

He has been fever free since Friday morning and has found a new love for sidewalk chalk.  He always draws or colors in straight lines.





You can see the patches of straight lines that turn into one big color blob.  It doesn't end with the driveway.  He has drawn on his zebra and the flower pots and the front porch.  This is why we don't have a chalkboard in the house. :)

We are loving the weather and loving being outside.  If only we can teach him to stay out of the street.  We went this morning to get flowers at Home Depot.  After I put him in the cart I thought, "How am I going to do this?"  Every flower I wanted to get he said, "I want to hold it."  We came home with flowers and vegetables and soil all in one piece.

Happy Tuesday

Austin's doing better at listening these days.  He's also being sweet at school this week.  Before school we always talk about listening to your teachers, sweet hands, sweet feet.  Stay with your teacher.  This afternoon we played outside because the weather was awesome.  He held my hand and we walked down the street and back to our house.  I like holding his hand and he likes holding mine.  He had to sit on the step because he went into the street instead of playing in the yard.  We have a crazy old man who drives fast on our street like it's NASCAR:(   Lecee came to visit and he wanted to sit in her car so they left.  Hoping Keith and I can get some yummy dinner somewhere...if he'll just come on home!

My little boy is so cute!

 

Updated to add:  I ate a yummy burger at Five Guys tonight with Keith.  Thank you morning sickness for easing up so I could chow down at dinner.  It was good!

Lately

Happy Monday!

 

It's raining today.

We're having potato soup for dinner.

We had life group last night.

Keith ate himself silly with hamburgers and hotdogs on the grill.

We also shared a piece of homemade cheesecake & listened to stories.

Austin took a long Sunday nap.

I had to go in his room and get him up to take him to Lecee's before LifeGroup.

He was awake and laying down.

He slept late this morning, too.

I think he likes sleeping in a dark room with rain outside.

Both my boys are congested.  I wish I could snap my fingers and

make all that snot go away.

 

 

 

 

Tuesday

 Although I'm a big fan of smaller classes

I'm also a fan of well-respected schools in our city

As long as everything goes well this afternoon

That's his new school next Monday.

After visiting another daycare

We went to the park

Ate lunch and played with the ball

A huge, old lab joined us, too

Fun times with my Little Buddy



Wednesday

This morning I treated myself to a Skinny Vanilla Latte & a blueberry muffin at Starbucks in Target.
I also got a sparkly tank top on sale.
I got things ready for Arty Pants.
I hope little ones and their parents come because we have cute things to make!
A & I went to the playground for a few minutes after MMO because the weather is so nice.
Hoping  for a good nap for him then it's church time.
Looking forward the the Finale of Big Brother 14 tonight!

Yesterday I turned in my paperwork to get certified in AL.
I also applied for a job, but that's nothing new.
I've applied for many 'o job in my town's school system and nothing.
Crickets. Beuller. 
Hello? Don't they know I was a fun, great art teacher who loves teaching? Hello? Anybody?
Yeah...We'll see.

Wet & Wild

I left A's car seat in the carport last night.  We woke up to rain this morning and around 9a.m. I remembered it was out there getting wet.  I brought it in, wiped it off and put it ontop of one of our vents.  Mama was not happy.

We had to get out of the house around 11.  A would have no more of playing in this house.  Wet carseat - with towels - we loaded up and dropped off the recycling.  We headed to the ROC to run off some energy.  I brought his zebra (pictures to come) and thought he would ride it on the walking track.

He did!

It was fun!

And then he didn't want to play with anymore balls so we went outside and rode the zebra all over our church's parking lot.

It's the little things.

Rain

We watched the rain

and then someone showed up....

Wellington got out of the side gate

and came to our front door.

Thursday Morning

The Goal: Run off some of that energy

8:45a.m. Park - fun, but HOT!

9:20a.m. gym time

10:10 water hose

11:00 snack

Hello Giant Cactus Zinnias

Hello Pretty Zinnias

These are the ones I planted from seeds

back in mid March.

They are mostly in one pot.

Some are in the ground, too.

I am thankful for the storm last night

so that I don't have to water them so often.

So Pretty!

Our July 4th week at the beach

 We saw someone transporting a bell in PC.

 We got home from breakfast just in time for a thunderstorm.

 Mine and K's tan legs.

 Happy 4th to us!

 Enjoying watermelon that G cut up.

 Happy 4th to us!

 My mom's kitten she rescued.

Watching SuperWhy



Just Some Stuff

We had a really crazy lightning storm Monday night.  I don't think I've ever seen that much lightning.  Our dog Wellington is afraid of storms.  He starts shaking, panting, and cowers in a corner if he's not in his bed.  I really like it when it rains hard because I don't have to water my flowers.  It seems like I'm having to water twice a day now.

Like right now thunder is THUNDERING and thankfully it hasn't woken up A.  Wellington, however has knocked over the iron by freaking out in his bed.  Sheesh.

Little Man played really well this morning which makes for a great morning all around.  We stayed at home most of the morning, but took a drive to get gas, take recycling and watch the big water slide at Water World before lunch.  Little Man is really loving chicken nuggets for lunch.  I'm afraid he's going to be a big eater like his Daddy.  If we could just get him to eat anything...now that would be awesome.

I am looking into jobs for the fall with our school system here.  Hoping and lots of praying something great will work out like it did here.

2 cute owls by my Dallas 2nd graders

his name sake

on the way we passed
New Orleans
downtown Houston
lots of bridges
lots of water
lots of flat
some construction
Curious George on DVD
6 hours one day
6 hours the other
left our phone charger in Baton Rouge
6 hours on the road + rain in TX + K driving = white knuckles and pounding my head on the dashboard
purchased a huge bottle of Rudy's BBQ sauce
lots of TX flags
vegetable garden
Zilker Park train & playground
note to self: no jeans May-August - it's just too hot
walked with my hubby downtown

Monday

It's so hot today!
Looking for a pool to jump into - none to be found :(
Working up the courage to do water activities outside with A.
Courage found! Its wonderful what water hose fun we can find for an hour.
It's hubby's last late night!
Don't even get me started about the Wiggles on Sprout - MUTE

Smooth waves

The beach in Feb. - it was quiet and smooth - weird and cool.

The Birds

Little Man liked to chase the birds...and trash cans apparently.

Beach week

We had a fun beach week last week.  We went to the beach everyday!

Holy Cow

From this...to this...holy moly little A you are growing up tooo fast!

Your Lecee is up to no good posing you like that :)
Watching the Azalea Trail with your Lecee in the front yard on Tacoma Street after church today.

Missions gardening

This morning we went to an elderly couple's house to help in their garden.  It was fun.  The kiddos had fun and we figured we should do that more often.

These 3 had fun today!


We went home and A took a nap, I went to Publix.
When I got home we ate then tried to pick up my car.
They were closed...which means I can't pick it up until Monday. Grrrr

We went to Westgate and let A play with a ball and golf club.  We found a great place behind the softball fields.  We walked over to the BMX track and saw a family from our church.  All 3 of their boys are BMX bikers...even the 5 year old.  Never A, BMX is not for you!

We went home and we were all tired and stinky from the warm fun afternoon.  Showers for everyone and we made dinner.  Chicken, sweet potatoes, corn on the cob, cucumber...Yum!

Wellington gets antsy and stares at K all night long when he is out of bones...so a Dollar General run is in our future!

Flowers for summer

I just planted some zinnias and sunflowers in our front flowerbed.

I hope they grow like the do in TX.



This is one of my sunflowers in our backyard in TX.  We had to string it up because it was so top heavy!


I had to stick them in water to get all of the buggies off so we can enjoy them inside.


In TX I would call these trees!
My grandfather (Pappy) grew sunflowers.  I think I get this sunflower thumb from him.

Let's hope sunflowers grow this well is AL.